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Anonymous Mon 08 Aug 22:09:16 2016 No.85284290 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>85287165 >>85289500 >>85290003 >>85295087 >>85297023 >>85298244 >>85298898 >>85301679 >>85303847 >>85304751 >>85304768 >>85304911 >>85304960 >>85307653 >>85313731 >>85320344 >>85327382

Wow, really makes you think. I'm glad there's still a webcomic out there for intelligent readers.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 Aug 2016 23:35:26 No.85287165 Report

Quoted By: >>85300077 >>85320369

>>85284290
I just want you to know I'm glad your thread failed

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 Aug 2016 23:37:07 No.85287227 Report

Quoted By: >>85289442 >>85302006

>the complains are the same, so that means the effects the technology have will be too!

This has got to be a fallacy.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 00:38:33 No.85289398 Report

Quoted By: >>85294760

What if it's been more than two centuries? What if there's something he forgot to mention further off the left side of the page?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 00:39:42 No.85289442 Report

Quoted By: >>85299679 >>85313968

>>85287227
its the "COME ON IT'S 2016" fallacy

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 00:41:29 No.85289500 Report

Quoted By: >>85290052

>>85284290
The pony tail and lazy boy existed in the mid 19th century?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 00:57:46 No.85290003 Report

Quoted By: >>85301762

>>85284290
Thing is, the smartphone is the only one of those that can actually replace (partially) actual social interaction. Also >IT'S CURRENT_YEAR PEOPLE I MEAN, LIKE, COME ON, LIKE, UGH I JUST CAN'T, I LITERALLY CAN'T.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 00:59:13 No.85290052 Report

Quoted By: >>85293819

>>85289500
Men stopped wearing ponytails in the early 19th century and women didn't start wearing them until like the mid-20th century

so no

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 02:09:58 No.85292521 Report

Quoted By: >>85293876 >>85293960 >>85295499 >>85295952 >>85297376 >>85304718 >>85304782 >>85308953 >>85310995 >>85311821

1, 2, 3, and 5 never happened. No one complained about books or magazines. And people weren't complaining about isolation from Walkmans, they were complaining that idiots weren't watching the world around them and walking into fucking traffic. Plus 4 is a shit argument, even moreso since studies have shown a massive increase in obesity since the rise of TV. 6 isn't even the complaint being made. People are complaining that millennials won't stay OFF their phones for longer than 15 minutes. No one is complaining that they aren't being engaged by annoying millennials, most are happy with that outcome.

I see XKCD has given up on trying to seem intelligent, and is now just resorting to strawman arguments. Sad.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 02:45:32 No.85293819 Report

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>>85290052
early 20th*

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 02:46:37 No.85293876 Report

Quoted By: >>85298542 >>85299260 >>85305890 >>85311022

>>85292521
>No one complained about books or magazines.
They did though
>obesity since the rise of TV
no. the rise in obesity came with the internet (and, y'know, ritalin). people were ACTIVE while watching tv, but you have to sit in place to type.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 02:48:19 No.85293960 Report

Quoted By: >>85306194 >>85311097

>>85292521
>I see XKCD has given up on trying to seem intelligent, and is now just resorting to strawman arguments.

XKCD was always a circlejerk of fedora-tipping STEM faggots.

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Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 03:01:44 No.85294470 Report

Quoted By: >>85294846 >>85295129 >>85295384 >>85295556 >>85302356 >>85303540 >>85307653 >>85310797

This is not a hobby. This is not anything close to what a hobby is. This ruins the credibility and potential humor of re-using the "My hobby" label on this. Why couldn't it just be label just be "Something I did as a prank:"?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 03:08:56 No.85294760 Report

Quoted By: >>85310253

>>85289398
Technically the first panel should be Plato bitching about how literacy will destroy humanity's capability to remember things.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 03:11:09 No.85294846 Report

Quoted By: >>85294985 >>85311968

>>85294470
It doesn't even make sense. Do they know how pokemon go works?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 03:14:12 No.85294985 Report

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>>85294846
>he sees the Pokemon on the ground first, THEN checks his phone

...huh. That is pretty stupid.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 03:16:47 No.85295087 Report

Quoted By: >>85303012 >>85303540 >>85303956 >>85304768 >>85304809

>>85284290
Frankly while smartphones have more morphed than destroyed social communication, they've absolutely fucked any chance I had of making relationships with normies as a total autist.

Just when I got the hang of "It's small talk, people don't really care that you asked how their day was but it relaxes them that you're not a serial killer for standing in the room saying nothing for half an hour and provides hooks to other conversation" people started posting how their day went on Twitter and feel miffed that I didn't follow that and instead asked them. Nobody cares how your day was. I care about avoiding awkward silences.

Which is to say nothing of the effect it's had on the culture of autism hives online. There is nowhere I can be at peace, but it's too late for me to go out and befriend normies too because they're all online as well.

Not to mention that the arguments being presented are NOT fungible. "Nobody looks at the world anymore!" and "Television is destroying family communication!" are two different arguments. One is about experience and the other communication.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 03:17:46 No.85295129 Report

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>>85294470
Is this supposed to be a joke because it's so convoluted all I feel is second hand embarassment for randy for writing something like this

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 03:24:22 No.85295384 Report

Quoted By: >>85301011

>>85294470
I have a friend in japan who messes with people who play pokemon go by switching up her bike gears when in parks, peddling real fast and looking at her phone when she notices someone playing the game and then zooming past them.

I'm not surprised Randy doesn't understand that to properly fuck with pokemon go players you can't build stupid toys or put his oh so very important higher education to use, you need basic understanding of human psychology and a piece of transportation that also serves as a prop for your prank so you can avoid interaction with your quarry.

If nothing else over the years Randy has displayed complete and utter contempt for other human viewpoints in his comic and all I can think is that the dude was really crap at small talk and normal social interaction since he seems more interested in selling himself as intelligent and interesting than telling a joke.

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Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 03:27:49 No.85295499 Report

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>>85292521
Oh yes they did.

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Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 03:28:38 No.85295524 Report

Quoted By: >>85295558 >>85295596 >>85295633 >>85299016 >>85304401 >>85310029

Since the thread is up, I'm just gonna post the two XKCD comics I find particularly aggravating,.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 03:29:41 No.85295556 Report

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>>85294470
>Actual person: Hey, some loser kid left their pokemon toy laying around. Mine now!

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Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 03:29:43 No.85295558 Report

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>>85295524

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Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 03:30:52 No.85295596 Report

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>>85295524
>I'm too much of a bitch to confront someone who shit talks my friends when they're not around
>alternatively I'm not comfortable enough with myself to admit that like everyone else I have a petty side and shit talking people who aren't around is normal social interaction even if it is kind of a shitty thing to do

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 03:31:50 No.85295633 Report

Quoted By: >>85295660 >>85295830 >>85305759

>>85295524
can normal people do this
can you just randomly join a conversation

wouldn't that just weird people out

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 03:32:07 No.85295639 Report

>>85295558
I've actually wondered this.

I had a beer a month ago and it tasted horrible. I don't get why it's so popular. I just figured it was either just me, or if everyone is just "taught" to like beer because that's what society says you should do.

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Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 03:32:12 No.85295640 Report

Quoted By: >>85295774 >>85295933 >>85297131 >>85298148 >>85298244 >>85299572 >>85300761 >>85301826 >>85303886 >>85303920 >>85304799

Really makes you think.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 03:32:32 No.85295653 Report

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>>85295558
>I have never experimented with drinking alcoholic beverages and have no knowledge of the rather expansive history of beer and human civilization
>I probably don't know any useful tricks like making cheap wine taste better with the application of a little fruit juice

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 03:32:47 No.85295660 Report

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>>85295633

It's fine, they're VERY quirky.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 03:34:08 No.85295696 Report

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>>85295639
Like any addictive substance, you have to drink it for a while until it becomes indispensable

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 03:34:14 No.85295702 Report

Quoted By: >>85323161

>>85295639
>or if everyone is just "taught" to like beer because that's what society says you should do.

I'm personally of the opinion that this is the case, but I'm not a humongous faggot about it. Also, some brews are better than others.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 03:34:37 No.85295708 Report

Quoted By: >>85296840 >>85301275 >>85302703

>>85295639

People will deny it, but anything you have to 'acquire' a taste for actually doesn't taste good.

Just because you have convinced yourself you are refined for enjoying such things, doesn't mean you are.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 03:35:23 No.85295741 Report

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>>85295558
I agree with the point it's making only beer I can drink is bud, and that's because I can't really taste anything at all. I don't like the way he makes it.

>>85295639
I think most beer's probably horrible, at least until you're in your 30s or so (your tastes may change or whatever. apparently the same is true for wine)

However beer seems to make me less hung-over than mixed drinks and also seems slightly more socially acceptable in a casual "I need alcohol to relax and talk to you, but I want to appear casual instead of borderline dependent" way, so it does have some advantages over less awful tasting things.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 03:35:37 No.85295753 Report

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>>85295639
what kind? If it's mass marketed beer it usually tastes like crap. More expensive ones taste better, homebrewed ones taste the best. The primary point of beer in the modern sense is getting drunk.

Historically drinking water was unsafe but the alcohol content of beer kept harmful substances from thriving in it and the relatively low alcohol content made it possible to drink without becoming intoxicated too quickly.

I like coffee and tea, I drink the former black and take the latter with honey. Plenty of people drink tea without sugar. Why does the notion of people acquiring a taste for beer puzzle you so much?

Might as well ask if anyone actually enjoys Dark Souls because you can't git gud

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 03:35:38 No.85295755 Report

Quoted By: >>85295795

>>85295639

Mix of both. Going out and chugging my first beers tasted pretty terrible, and made me queasy. I used to drink ciders in between, which I can't stand nowadays.

Anyhow, tastes change - it grows on you, and proper beers can be pretty great.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 03:36:03 No.85295768 Report

Quoted By: >>85303908 >>85306226 >>85311593

>>85295558
he's right
anybody who drinks alcohol for the taste or in general should be stoned in public

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 03:36:18 No.85295774 Report

Quoted By: >>85295824 >>85322645

>>85295640

But we don't live in the Republic of Indians, we live in America.

Those savages lost, no one complains that most of Europe doesn't speak Roman. They lost the land, they have no right to complain.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 03:36:49 No.85295795 Report

Quoted By: >>85295900 >>85297268 >>85301275

>>85295755
>it grows on you

translation: if you ingest enough of it, you'll learn to love the taste of shit in your mouth

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 03:37:37 No.85295824 Report

Quoted By:

>>85295774
Yea, but, White People, amirite?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 03:37:47 No.85295830 Report

Quoted By:

>>85295633
social context varies. If I'm at work and people are on break I can walk up to guys sipping their coffee or whatever and say 'what's up' and we can chat for the next five minutes but it's a very relaxed atmosphere.

context is important.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 03:38:04 No.85295838 Report

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>>85295639
you've only had one beer?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 03:39:40 No.85295900 Report

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>>85295795

That's a very hard line you're drawing there, for no real reason.

I mean, I hated cheese as a kid, now I think it's fine. There are things I hate that I got used to and now love, acquired tastes and all that. I frankly don't care if beer is one of them, why are you so autistic about this one specific thing?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 03:40:30 No.85295933 Report

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>>85295640
It's a shame people approach this on a national level.

Further steps should be taken to cement English as an *international* language, if we're going to do so at all. It's already the language of aviation and large parts of business, for example.

even as I type this I have my doubts whether I really want this since it would be another advantage on my part against people who'll work far cheaper removed. "Speaks English" is about all I have going for me.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 03:41:04 No.85295952 Report

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>>85292521
Large amounts of complained about every single thing that ever happened in human history.

"UNGA BUNGA ROCKSTOP" isn't just a meme, you know.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 03:59:38 No.85296557 Report

Quoted By: >>85297363

>>85295639
What the fuck? Have a can of shitty Keystone or BudLite and then have a Shiner Bock and tell me they taste the same.

Of course shitty beer tastes the same, Bud and Coors and all that garbage is watered down to be cheap so fratboys can buy it in bulk.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 04:01:20 No.85296612 Report

Quoted By: >>85296793

>>85295558
Is he legitimately autistic?
People like things you don't holy shit!

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Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 04:07:23 No.85296793 Report

Quoted By: >>85297009 >>85311616 >>85326978 >>85329740

>>85296612
>Guys what are jokes?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 04:07:54 No.85296817 Report

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>>85295639
Stop drinking swill
Stuff like corona, Budweiser,miller,papst,etc is terrible and people only drink it because it's cheap, experiment with some microbrews or ask a bartender/brewmaster to recommend you something.

Alcholic beverages are an acquired taste because they don't really taste like anything else but they do go great with certain foods.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 04:08:56 No.85296840 Report

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>>85295708
>People will deny it, but anything you have to 'acquire' a taste for actually doesn't taste good.
I guess everything that isn't candy doesn't taste good then.
Everything is an acquired taste.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 04:14:01 No.85297009 Report

Quoted By:

>>85296793
a foreign concept to Randy Pitchford

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 04:14:40 No.85297023 Report

Quoted By: >>85298118

>>85284290

The creator of XKCD is generally optimistic about the future. This makes him morally suspect and untrustworthy as far as I'm concerned.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 04:18:11 No.85297131 Report

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>>85295640
Hardly anyone speaks cherokee and historically it was only ever spoken in a specific part of the country, you may as well say the national language of everywhere in the west should be latin since the romans used to rule there.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 04:23:17 No.85297268 Report

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>>85295795
I didn't like vegetables as a kid, but that doesn't mean that every adult who enjoys a salad is living a lie.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 04:25:58 No.85297350 Report

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https://goatkcd.com/random/

it's weird how often these actually REALLY work

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 04:26:22 No.85297363 Report

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>>85296557
Thanks for reminding me Anon, I still have some Shiner in the fridge.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 04:26:59 No.85297376 Report

Quoted By: >>85297512 >>85297569 >>85318457

>>85292521
Plato complained about people writing shit down, people complained about books being mass produced, people complained that books were too elitist during the early modernist period and then complained that books were being catered to the lowest common denominator ('best seller' used to be a derogatory term).

Just because something seems stupid to you doesn't mean that hundreds, if not thousands of years ago, people weren't just as retarded as they are now.

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Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 04:27:57 No.85297404 Report

Quoted By: >>85297549 >>85298387 >>85303930 >>85304451 >>85310864

I know we all hate XKCD but bash this one, I dare you.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 04:28:10 No.85297408 Report

Quoted By: >>85297488

ITT: /co/ tries to out circlejerk /mu/, both still unable to be as circlejerky as /asp/

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 04:30:52 No.85297488 Report

Quoted By: >>85297609 >>85297878

>>85297408
I don't really know what you're trying to prove by calling hating on a bad comic a circlejerk

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 04:31:55 No.85297512 Report

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>>85297376
>used
I've got news for you.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 04:33:01 No.85297549 Report

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>>85297404
he has moments of genuine insight fairly regularly

makes the fact that they're usually so stupid even worse, though, in a way

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 04:33:40 No.85297569 Report

Quoted By: >>85303971

>>85297376
best sellers only advertise their best-selling status because they have no other merits

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 04:35:02 No.85297609 Report

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>>85297488
Deny, deny my friend, makes the circlejerk jerk round.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 04:44:34 No.85297878 Report

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>>85297488

I think he means that it's like going to /pol/ and make a thread about le ess jay dobyoos or about le trump or shillary, it's obvious what kind of response you will get. Preaching to the choir.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 04:54:17 No.85298118 Report

Quoted By: >>85298615

>>85297023
Why?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 04:55:04 No.85298148 Report

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>>85295640
>because our countrymen wrested control of the land from natives hundreds of years ago, we shouldn't designate our nation's current most spoken language as the national standard for our country in the modern day
>language is the gateway to culture, and not learning the language if you live here tends to limit you to remaining in isolated communities based around your origin nation, where others will speak your language and congregate for community and support
>this makes integrating with the exiating citizens difficult, reducing your economic opportunities, makes it harder to deal with educational, medical or legal systems if they don't have an interpreter or accomodations, and remaining "outsiders" to the rest of the nation

Yeah, lets fuck the current immigrants over so we can mock other whites for something the current generation had no part or say in!

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 04:58:12 No.85298244 Report

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>>85284290
>>85295640
Back to >>>/pol/ with your shitty meme

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 05:03:58 No.85298387 Report

Quoted By: >>85298952

>>85297404
It just further reinforces that the author is an autistic spaz who sucks at relating to people if he actually thinks most people think this way.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 05:11:15 No.85298542 Report

Quoted By: >>85299694 >>85305716

>>85293876
>people were ACTIVE while watching tv
Does that explain why the term "couch potato" was coined in 2002?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 05:14:26 No.85298615 Report

Quoted By: >>85298718 >>85301322 >>85306220

>>85298118

We've been on a downward track for 15 years. Things are clearly getting harder, and I find the values of modern man absurd, hypocritical and self-contradictory.

Then I see XKCD comics about how things are fine. Everything is fine. People are fine. Society is fine, and if you're not on-board with the direction civilization is headed, well then there's the door.

He's basically the "This is fine" dog.

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Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 05:18:06 No.85298718 Report

Quoted By: >>85299192

>>85298615
even the "This is fine" dog isn't the "This is fine" dog anymore

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 05:25:50 No.85298898 Report

Quoted By: >>85299238

>>85284290
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1601:_Isolation

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 05:28:14 No.85298952 Report

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>>85298387
Look at this sheeple.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 05:31:26 No.85299016 Report

Quoted By: >>85299196

>>85295524
>the COOL people sit on the ground, wear berets, and talk about quirky things like giant squids

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Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 05:41:06 No.85299192 Report

Quoted By: >>85299359 >>85299520 >>85309577 >>85310686 >>85310903

>>85298718

I know, it's the ultimate irony. Even the symbol of casual obliviousness has broken character. Meanwhile... XKCD continues to tout the "EVERYTHING IS FINE! DO NOT WORRY!" line.

I mean, here's the ALT text for THIS comic.

"People aren't going to change, for better or for worse. Technology's going to be so cool. All in all, the future will be okay! Except climate; we fucked that one up."

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 05:41:11 No.85299196 Report

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>>85299016
Well, those kind of people exist. I wouldn't say they're cool, but they do exist.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 05:43:58 No.85299238 Report

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>>85298898
This is some next level 'tism.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 05:44:59 No.85299260 Report

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>>85293876
Have you even watched a TV? Sit down to a few episodes of The Simpsons and educate yourself.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 05:49:36 No.85299323 Report

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>>85295639
some beers do taste better than others but in general they're still all kinda gross

i get weird looks for saying i only drink beer to get inebriated but i don't drink it for the taste

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 05:51:28 No.85299356 Report

Quoted By: >>85299448

>kids in this thread don't like beer

As you get older, you start to like diifferent tastes. I didn't used to like balsamic vinegar dressing or dijon mustard, but now I do. And I can barely drink a whole soda can now.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 05:51:33 No.85299359 Report

Quoted By: >>85299435

>>85299192

i am optimistic but for some reason i just get mad at him

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 05:54:55 No.85299401 Report

Quoted By: >>85299462 >>85299510

There's nothing wrong with optimism really.
Human technology will probably reach amazing places sooner than any of us think.
The XKCD guy just has an obnoxious tone

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Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 05:56:55 No.85299435 Report

Quoted By: >>85299520 >>85299541 >>85299550 >>85306260 >>85306329 >>85315141

>>85299359

Is it because of the implication that anyone whose views are not in sync with the majority is a social leper who is to be expelled from polite society where they may wander the desert wastes yelling at clouds?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 05:58:02 No.85299448 Report

Quoted By: >>85309612

>>85299356
beer tastes bad but we're still gonna drink it

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 05:59:19 No.85299462 Report

Quoted By: >>85299506

>>85299401

>There's nothing wrong with optimism really.
>Human technology will probably reach amazing places sooner than any of us think.

What does that have to do with anything? We have the technology to solve all of our problems right now. Like, right now.

Clearly the roots of the problem lie deeper.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 06:01:55 No.85299506 Report

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>>85299462
>What does that have to do with anything? We have the technology to solve all of our problems right now. Like, right now.
No we really don't
We have the technology to fix most, not even all, basic needs for the average human
But we don't have the technology to fix all problems

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 06:02:21 No.85299510 Report

Quoted By: >>85301356

>>85299401
Unless we run out of oil without properly preparing an alternative. Then we're all fucked.

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Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 06:02:53 No.85299520 Report

Quoted By: >>85299549 >>85299550 >>85304843 >>85311870

>>85299192

I dunno, he's not terribly far off from the truth. Technological process is linear, but societal progress is generally cyclical, more or less. Acting like everything is getting worse is kind of silly, but acting like society doesn't periodically have declining phases is equally retarded.

>>85299435

I prefer Pax Dickinson's version of this.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 06:04:19 No.85299541 Report

Quoted By: >>85299733

>>85299435
I'd say he comes across as disingenuous. Just kind of a snarky dick for someone with nothing but progress and hope in mind

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 06:04:41 No.85299549 Report

Quoted By: >>85299559 >>85299671

>>85299520

it's fun reading about 60s america and 30s germany rn

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Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 06:04:44 No.85299550 Report

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>>85299435
>>85299520
this strip always reminds me of this

actually this comic ruined the phrase "showing you the door" for me

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 06:05:18 No.85299559 Report

Quoted By: >>85299671

>>85299549
>le hitler maymay

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 06:06:45 No.85299572 Report

Quoted By: >>85299657

>>85295640
>le "conquest is the same as immigration" meme

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 06:13:22 No.85299657 Report

Quoted By:

>>85299572
to be fair isn't it in a sense? Are obnoxious enabling liberals and nonassimilating immigrants protected by the same "fuck you I won" mentality as conquistadors?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 06:14:26 No.85299671 Report

Quoted By: >>85299701 >>85301576 >>85302193 >>85325678

>>85299549
>>85299559

I'd say we're more at a 1968 point than we are 1933. The country is highly divided, we've seen a massive uptick in political and racial tension, and there's even been outbursts of violence. The progressive base of the left has radicalized and become even more demanding of an establishment that doesn't want to cater to it. Meanwhile, the right is causing a massive political realignment by appealing to traditionally democratic groups via capitalizing on their discontent with the current state of the nation. Likewise, the antagonistic relationship between the right and the American press has reached a fever point, with press outlets acting as de facto PR people for the left.

If you're getting upset Anon, I'd like to remind you that Nixon was a much better president than history makes him out to be:

>Brought forth detente and cold war deescalation
>Put an end to the Vietnam war
>Founded the EPA
>Pulled off the Miracle of Chile

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 06:14:50 No.85299679 Report

Quoted By:

>>85289442
MEMES IN 2016 LUL

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 06:15:55 No.85299694 Report

Quoted By:

>>85298542
>in 2002

Half of me hopes that was meant to be the joke, the other half is cynical enough to risk ruining the joke by questioning it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 06:15:56 No.85299695 Report

Quoted By: >>85299794 >>85307287

I hate this comic and the message it preaches so I'm going to trivialize it by saying "Really makes you think" despite the fact that it actually brings up a good point, even if it isnt exactly original.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 06:16:03 No.85299701 Report

Quoted By: >>85299914 >>85301576 >>85306365 >>85309647

>>85299671
the right is devouring its own tail before our eyes

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 06:17:36 No.85299733 Report

Quoted By: >>85299914

>>85299541

It's because people who believe in "Progress" can't imagine that someone might have a rational disagreement with them. As far as they're concerned, there are only progressives and reactionaries.

And if you're not a one of them (i.e. a progressive) well then you must be a retrograde reactionary.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 06:20:56 No.85299794 Report

Quoted By: >>85307287

>>85299695
it's just another "screw you, dad!"-type thing

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 06:27:15 No.85299914 Report

Quoted By: >>85300039 >>85301404 >>85301631 >>85320918

>>85299701

Not really. It's a long overdue correction and adaptation. Despite 8 years in power, the Bush years sucked, and Bush's legacy will never really be salvaged. That means that the american right needs to move away from Bush-ism and build a new image for itself. What we saw in Cleveland was the rebirth of the GOP as organized by Donald Trump. Just like how the Southern Strategy helped breathe new life into a dying party, Trump's Americanism is revitalizing a party that looked like it was on the verge of extinction after the disasters in 2008 and 2012. Indeed, look at everyone who's jumping ship and doubling down on #NeverTrump- all failed holdovers from the Bush era, architects of the Iraq disaster and the financial collapse. The latest NT candidate is ex-CIA and worked at Goldman fucking Sachs for christ's sake. The old and useless are being ushered out to make room for the young and ready.

>>85299733

The Whig View of History is essentially spiritual dogma for the contemporary liberal. I highly recommend checking out Unqualified Reservations for more on the topic, particularly with relation to the Ultracalvinist Hypothesis.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 06:34:05 No.85300039 Report

Quoted By: >>85300104 >>85300299

>>85299914
>young people
>Republicans
I'm sure that will work out

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 06:36:51 No.85300077 Report

Quoted By: >>85302267

>>85287165
>100 repliez later

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 06:38:26 No.85300104 Report

Quoted By: >>85300299

>>85300039

"Young" is a flexible term. But when you look at youth engagement in the GOP primaries, I'm pretty sure Trump has the best numbers outside of maybe Rand Paul. And Trump's social media outreach is much, MUCH better than Clinton's by miles. What young people there are in the GOP, those young people are on board with Trump and Americanism, not the stodgy old conservatism of Buckley and friends.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 06:50:05 No.85300299 Report

Quoted By: >>85300465 >>85300594 >>85312451 >>85321012

>>85300104
>>85300039
Trump is a loudmouth prick.

He's also the most secular, pro-choice, pro-gay rights, anti-corporate, pro-labor, anti-war candidate, if not in Republican history, then at least in half a century.

If you're going to vote for the Democrat anyway then vote for the Democrat but I take anyone who won't acknowledge that Trump is 100,000 times better than shitshows like Cruz or Santorum because he says mean things on Twitter as a complete fucking tool.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 06:55:55 No.85300419 Report

Quoted By: >>85300465 >>85314769 >>85325881

I don't want to talk about it

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 06:58:00 No.85300465 Report

Quoted By: >>85300502 >>85321012

>>85300299

>He's also the most secular, pro-choice, pro-gay rights, anti-corporate, pro-labor, anti-war candidate, if not in Republican history, then at least in half a century.

This is basically why I'm a huge shill for Trump, but don't tell /pol/.

>>85300419

>I don't want to talk about it but I did make a comic about it

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 06:59:42 No.85300502 Report

Quoted By:

>>85300465
not Randal

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 07:04:28 No.85300594 Report

Quoted By:

>>85300299
Trump is running on foreign policy and trade. He does not give a single shit about gays or abortion, but cares more about America's world-presence. He likes the Republican model on those issues better, so he will just focus on that while allowing whatever conservative issues the Republican congress wants, while Obama sought to oppose them. He never fucking brings up abortion unless someone else does first.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 07:14:25 No.85300761 Report

Quoted By:

>>85295640
>People rarely try to make this argument about coffee
>Or tea
>Or cheese
>Y'know, the thing some groups can't eat without vomiting or shitting their asshole out

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 07:27:21 No.85301011 Report

Quoted By: >>85302254 >>85305975

>>85295384
>I have a friend in japan who messes with people who play pokemon go by switching up her bike gears when in parks, peddling real fast and looking at her phone when she notices someone playing the game and then zooming past them.
How exactly does his mess with anyone?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 07:41:31 No.85301275 Report

Quoted By: >>85323190

The best way to tell if someone is an autistic manchild is if he complains about the taste of beer.

Like these kissless virgins:
>>85295639
>>85295708
>>85295795

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 07:44:02 No.85301322 Report

Quoted By: >>85303826 >>85320920 >>85323438

>>85298615
>and I find the values of modern man absurd, hypocritical and self-contradictory

Evola pls go.

I'm of the current view that we are genuinely in a rough spot since around 2008 (and the causes can be traced further), but I'm not entirely convinced we're completely fucked long-term. Maybe a few decades at worst, if Cold War 2: NatzBol Boogaloo gets worse. Ultimately it all boils down to how the economy does, it always does.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 07:46:07 No.85301356 Report

Quoted By:

>>85299510
I'm pro-nuclear in the shortish term, with solar/wind/biofuels augmenting things (I also think biofuels will pick up for vehicles until batteries REALLY get good).

Long-term, here's hoping we pull off net positive fusion.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 07:49:01 No.85301404 Report

Quoted By:

>>85299914
>Trump's Americanism
OK time to go

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 07:59:08 No.85301576 Report

Quoted By:

>>85299671
My personal hunch is a mixture of 1968 and the 70's-80's transition (everybody gets tired of trying to save the world and goes greedy).

>>85299701
Bush fucked up so bad he basically took American conservatism (fusionism) with him I'm from a family of hardcore Dems who hated Bush during 9/11, you have no idea how smug we were in 2008.

The fusionist alliance between social conservatives, market libertarians (of varying degrees of purity), and hawks is collapsing. The latter got BTFO with how hard we fucked up Iraq and how the GOP ended up with the Dems, and the first two were something of a non-sequitur in retrospect. That can be seen at an extreme on /pol/, who used to worship Paul but now consider libertarians cucks.

I remember reading some article about how Trump was basically repeating Pat Buchanan and Sam Francis, and thinking "fucking called it."

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 08:02:37 No.85301631 Report

Quoted By: >>85314247 >>85319126 >>85320715 >>85320761

>>85299914
>the Bush years sucked

The Bush years were like crashing your car, snorting a bunch of amphetamines, doing stupid shit while high, and then crashing and dealing with all the stupid shit you just did. 2001-2005 actually felt kinda awesome, but that's because we were culturally high as fuck (hell, even if you hated Bush the high from hating him was supreme; it gave us pic related and pretty much 2000's comedy).

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 08:05:22 No.85301679 Report

Quoted By: >>85321162

>>85284290
Is only the complaining guy immortal, or is the woman arguing with him immortal as well?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 08:12:29 No.85301762 Report

Quoted By:

>>85290003
>IT'S CURRENT_YEAR PEOPLE I MEAN, LIKE, COME ON, LIKE, UGH I JUST CAN'T, I LITERALLY CAN'T.
I don't think this comic's doing that "current year &..." schtick the same way as a lot of faggots are.
This one's having a go at the same complaint being made for about 200 years, while that other bollocks is usually some weird presumption about how some aspect of the world's supposed to be super backward

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 08:17:04 No.85301826 Report

Quoted By:

>>85295640
Too bad that most tribes had different dialects and, you know, died on mass.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 08:29:07 No.85302006 Report

Quoted By:

>>85287227
Fucking Teleology bullshit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 08:42:04 No.85302193 Report

Quoted By:

>>85299671
yeah and he rode the coat tails of McCarthy's witch hunt which had no business existing frankly. A country with organizations dedicated to rooting out spies should leave that to the aniti-intelligence agencies not ambitious politicians who want to look like strongmen. On top of that Nixon was bluntly incapable of winning a fair campaign, every campaign he ever won was won with sleaze tactics. He was cynical, dishonest, possibly a pathological liar, and a literal criminal.

The fact that he was a half decent president despite all that doesn't speak highly of that office.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 08:47:13 No.85302254 Report

Quoted By: >>85305975 >>85310847

>>85301011
>Person on bike is cruising along and notices someone fucking with their phone, probably playing pokemon go
>take out phone, pretend to notice something, mess with bike gears and put on show of exertion along with various gestures to pretend you're captyuring a pokemon
>zoom off
>pokemon go nerds will think that something just happened and spend a couple minutes trying to figure it out while you're long gone

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 08:48:33 No.85302267 Report

Quoted By:

>>85300077
story of my life

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 08:55:46 No.85302356 Report

Quoted By:

>>85294470
He seriously did not even mother to see how the game works to begin with?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 08:58:20 No.85302382 Report

Quoted By:

>>85295558
I don't like beer, never have.
Not a single alcoholic drink I have found tasteful.
I get it, but you don't have to be a fucking cunt. How far up his ass is his head? just say "No thank you", there is literally no need for that shit.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 09:09:54 No.85302474 Report

Quoted By: >>85302521 >>85302767 >>85304725

>you now realize you think just like XKCD
>most of the shit he makes is written and drawn like something you would
>follow very similar ideals and manage to fuck up just as bad
A-Am i fucked? I don't want to become some autist who makes hit or miss shitty comics because i failed society 101

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 09:13:34 No.85302521 Report

Quoted By: >>85302574

>>85302474
munroe does pretty well for himself anon

how's your ability to draw overcomplicated diagrams?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 09:18:30 No.85302574 Report

Quoted By:

>>85302521
Never did that unless its very self explanatory, i usually like to take the "i am silly" approach but in a modified way, giving the reader the illusion that the comic/strip will defend whatever he believes in just to end in a twist that exposes his own hypocrisy or any obvious fallacies on his argument, but still trying to knowledge a flawed opposition (if there is one) so it won't just be a strawman comic

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 09:33:14 No.85302703 Report

Quoted By:

>>85295708
>anything you have to 'acquire' a taste for actually doesn't taste good
>this nigga's never seen an iranian soldier try to eat mac and cheese
you should get out of your basement and do some traveling. the army can help you with that.

it'll help with that gut of yours, too.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 09:40:24 No.85302767 Report

Quoted By: >>85302941

>>85302474
Honestly you're fine until you start being a judgemental high-horse cunt who treats others rudely without even realizing it because you're oh-so-clever.

XKCD is usually nothing to get mad about until he starts doing comics about how stupid or horrible "other people" are while failing to notice he's the one acting like a prick. Typical autistic arrogance.

The fact that you have enough awareness to see it in yourself and actually care enough to not want to be that guy means you'll probably be okay.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 09:55:09 No.85302941 Report

Quoted By: >>85303072

>>85302767
thanks anon, you have no idea of how much i needed this

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 10:00:24 No.85303012 Report

Quoted By:

>>85295087
It's all about new mediums replacing older forms of social contact.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 10:04:07 No.85303072 Report

Quoted By:

>>85302941
Go in peace, my son.
And remember these words: Don't be that guy.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 10:48:28 No.85303540 Report

Quoted By: >>85321926

>>85294470
>>85295087
That's the joke. You are fools.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 11:14:07 No.85303826 Report

Quoted By: >>85320814

>>85301322

The economy goes up and down, but I've known people who are completely destitute that kept their dignity, and we've all met rich assholes.

Modern man cannot endure a real depression. We no longer have the strength. Not all of us. Things aren't even *that* bad right now and everyone's already in panic mode. Looking for someone to blame.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 11:16:05 No.85303847 Report

Quoted By:

>>85284290
.....what's YOUR problem?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 11:19:35 No.85303886 Report

Quoted By:

>>85295640
That last panel would be more on point if it demonstrated how few english-speaking expatriates bother to pick up the local language.

I know English is the mercantile language of the world, but I honestly believe if you don't take steps to learn the local language of wherever you're working over a few years you're a pretty shitty person.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 11:21:37 No.85303908 Report

Quoted By:

>>85295768
>He doesn't enjoy a good Cider or pale Ale after a hard days work.

It's like I am talking to American teenagers.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 11:22:44 No.85303920 Report

Quoted By:

>>85295640
AHA!

He fucked up there. The Cherokee were given payment for their land by the British, and in turn were given reservations in Canada after the American Civil War.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 11:23:45 No.85303930 Report

Quoted By:

>>85297404
I'll bash it because it Ironically reflects on his own comic and shows how much of a tool he is.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 11:25:29 No.85303956 Report

Quoted By: >>85306453 >>85307287 >>85319223

>>85295087
There is no way to read this post that doesn't make you sound like someone who knits flesh suits from the skin of your victims.

Jesus Chris, anon...

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 11:26:56 No.85303971 Report

Quoted By:

>>85297569
>reading comprehension

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 11:29:58 No.85304020 Report

Quoted By:

I don't get why XKCD gets as much hate here as it does. Cause it's legitimately what the creator thinks is funny or witty, it's not just an appeal to a crowd because he clearly understands the content to some degree.

It really does feel like at times, people don't understand the strip and then proceed to tear it down for pandering to the Reddit-PopSci crowd when it really isn't.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 11:44:50 No.85304156 Report

Quoted By:

>>85295639
I've drank all sorts of light beers and never once found one I liked that didn't have some additive like honey in it
However, stouts and other dark beers are fucking delicious and i could drink them all night if they weren't so filling
There's lots of different kinds of beer, try spending a saturday at a bar trying some out.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 12:12:05 No.85304401 Report

Quoted By:

>>85295524
He's inadvertently doing exactly what he says he's against by making this comic.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 12:13:09 No.85304409 Report

Quoted By:

>>85295558
>dude if you don't like beer, stop fucking wasting my supply

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 12:17:26 No.85304451 Report

Quoted By:

>>85297404
This man has clearly never been on public transportation before. There is always one person at least who is clearly operating at the level of a frog.

Minifig !!3kTkiqN0Gwz

Minifig !!3kTkiqN0Gwz Tue 09 Aug 2016 12:42:58 No.85304718 Report

Quoted By:

>>85292521
>they were complaining that idiots weren't watching the world around them and walking into fucking traffic
And now we've had the same shit for the past decade with people too busy looking at smartphones or listening to mp3 players.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 12:43:25 No.85304725 Report

Quoted By:

>>85302474
GOOMHR

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 12:46:00 No.85304751 Report

Quoted By:

>>85284290
>implying none of those aren't true

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 12:47:07 No.85304768 Report

Quoted By:

>>85284290
I think you could have chosen a better strip to convey your point, because that one is actually kind of decent.

Lots of people itt memeing about IT'S THE CURRENT YEAR.

>>85295087
>Just when I got the hang of "It's small talk, people don't really care that you asked how their day was but it relaxes them that you're not a serial killer for standing in the room saying nothing for half an hour and provides hooks to other conversation" people started posting how their day went on Twitter and feel miffed that I didn't follow that and instead asked them.
Nobody actually expects you to check up on their Twitter what are you talking about.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 12:48:52 No.85304782 Report

Quoted By: >>85308322

>>85292521
>No one complained about books or magazines.
Objectively false.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 12:50:05 No.85304799 Report

Quoted By:

>>85295640
but what if i don't live in any injun reservation?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 12:50:13 No.85304800 Report

Quoted By:

>>85295639
There's different kinds of beers and they all taste different.

I love Sakara beer for example and I'm glad there are some places in America that serve it.

But I tried this American beer that was like, from a silver can with a number in its name, it felt like drinking piss and I had a headache for the rest of the night.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 12:51:38 No.85304809 Report

Quoted By:

>>85295087
>it's too late for me to go out and befriend normies

What? No. Go outside.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 12:54:40 No.85304843 Report

Quoted By: >>85304901

>>85299520
>Trumpfags saying it's okay to have rotten food thrown at you
Unless you're a white Trump girl of course, then having eggs thrown at you is a national tragedy .

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 13:00:17 No.85304901 Report

Quoted By: >>85308454

>>85304843
i it's the opposite anon.
the artist is an anti-trump shill

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 13:00:46 No.85304911 Report

Quoted By:

>>85284290
I loathe xkcd like everybody else, but it does have a point: people ever continue to look for reasons to isolate from one another; socializing is a necessity, but the moment something better appears, we flock to it so we can stop pretending we really care about other people.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 13:05:26 No.85304960 Report

Quoted By:

>>85284290
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRFDA_oV4xM

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 14:02:00 No.85305716 Report

Quoted By: >>85312183

>>85298542
>television began its rise in 1955
>a term for a lazy slob was coined in 2002, after the introduction of the internet, cable, and ritalin
uwot?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 14:04:54 No.85305759 Report

Quoted By:

>>85295633
really depends on context. if I'm at my LCS and I see two people chatting about something, I can walk up and join in.

if I see two people alone in a coffee shop, it would be creepy as shit to do the same.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 14:07:13 No.85305794 Report

Quoted By:

>>85295639
I think it's really a case of shitty beers and good beers, though I personally dislike both. I've had expensive beer and cheap beer, and I disliked both.

the same way, I'm not a huge wine fan, but I've had different types, and some I could see myself drinking a glass of and others I've wanted to spit out from just a sip.

I stick to liqueurs and mixed drinks when I have alcohol most of the time. captain and coke a best.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 14:14:30 No.85305890 Report

Quoted By:

>>85293876
Obesity rates started skyrocketing in the 80s when deregulation was the norm. If they'd stop fucking with out food, they'd most likely go down.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 14:21:25 No.85305975 Report

Quoted By:

>>85302254
>>85301011
I assumed it was just to throw them off balance.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 14:37:57 No.85306194 Report

Quoted By: >>85310906 >>85311097

>>85293960
STEM majors don't read XKCD. Only Humanities majors who want to pretend they're not completely retarded read XKCD.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 14:39:38 No.85306220 Report

Quoted By: >>85307287 >>85313890

>>85298615
>We've been on a downward track for 15 years
people have been worrying how - things are going worse and civilization is going to be destroyed and in the past it was better there was a golden age- for centuries, in fact since the beginning of civilization.
In fact this is the point of the first comic. As soon as something new was introduced that influenced society there were people getting into moral panics about how society was coming undone.
Things haven't gotten worse in the last 15 years. YOU are not a child without a care in the world anymore and now YOU have a lot more things to worry about and you confuse that for the general trend of the world.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 14:40:17 No.85306226 Report

Quoted By:

>>85295768
Cool story Mohammad.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 14:42:07 No.85306260 Report

Quoted By: >>85307287 >>85314271

>>85299435
you are free to tell someone that you think their mom is a whore who sucks cock, but don't be surprised if they don't want you to hang out with you anymore.
Or do you think that freedom of speech means others should be forced to liten to you and to respect you regardless of what you say?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 14:46:59 No.85306329 Report

Quoted By: >>85313944 >>85315147

>>85299435
I bet people like this would be pretty mad if someone was pushing them out of public platforms. Imagine if traditionalists made a comeback and social media and broadcasters would start banning gay enablers or whatever? Would they feel the same?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 14:49:42 No.85306365 Report

Quoted By: >>85314517

>>85299701
Did you even watch the "Democratic" convention? Scat porn was less of a shit show.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 14:55:08 No.85306453 Report

Quoted By:

>>85303956
you sound really paranoid

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 15:42:56 No.85307287 Report

Quoted By: >>85311572

>>85299695
>>85299794
Lel@butthurt progressives

>>85303956
Lel@scared little girls

>>85306220
Not even remotely the case, but thanks for playing. Shit's far better for me now than when I was a kid. Still disturbed by certain societal trends.

>>85306260
Without the right to reply, any public platform under the current system will quickly slide into pure propaganda.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 15:54:01 No.85307513 Report

Quoted By:

>>85295639
I don't know what's wrong with me but I love those $2 malt 40s but expensive high quality beer makes me want to puke

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 16:00:44 No.85307653 Report

Quoted By:

>>85284290
This makes a fair point (though in typically condescending Randall Munroe style)

>>85294470
This is actually cringy XKCD shit; trying way too hard to be quirky

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 16:35:13 No.85308322 Report

Quoted By: >>85308953

>>85304782
Show me some proof then, homo.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 16:40:34 No.85308454 Report

Quoted By:

>>85304901

Not really, this is Pax Dickinson, the same absolute madman who pulled off this: https://storify.com/weev/duck-enlightenment-s-final-tweet-spree

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 16:42:54 No.85308510 Report

Quoted By:

>>85295558
>amerilards

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 16:58:17 No.85308953 Report

Quoted By:

>>85292521
>No one complained about books or magazines.
>>85308322

“our modern family gathering, silent around the fire, each individual with his head buried in his favorite magazine, is the somewhat natural outcome of the banishment of colloquy from the school.”
Journal of Education, Volume 29, page 288.

https://books.google.com/books?id=bxwnAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=snippet&q=%22silent%20around%22&f=false

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 17:17:42 No.85309438 Report

Quoted By:

>>85295639
I absolutely love beer which pisses me off because I'm trying to lose weight and keep fit and beer is very calorific.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 17:20:41 No.85309524 Report

Quoted By:

>>85295558
>Yeah, you don't really like this. You're just saying you like this.

I love good beer. I can't stand shitty beer. A pint of good ale, stout or bitter is a joy. Tastes great, makes you feel relaxed and is just pleasure.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 17:22:34 No.85309577 Report

Quoted By: >>85311411

>>85299192
Ironically climate's actually looking better than ever.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 17:23:37 No.85309612 Report

Quoted By:

>>85299448
Beer doesn't taste bad. Bad beers or beers you don't like taste bad.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 17:24:38 No.85309647 Report

Quoted By:

>>85299701
Sure it is, Comrade Corbyn.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 17:30:21 No.85309814 Report

Quoted By: >>85309838 >>85310362

LOL

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 17:31:10 No.85309838 Report

Quoted By: >>85309873 >>85310837 >>85310872

>>85309814
LOL

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 17:32:43 No.85309873 Report

Quoted By:

>>85309838
LOL

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 17:38:33 No.85310029 Report

Quoted By:

>>85295524
Nigga you doing the same goddamn thing just with stick figures

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 17:44:38 No.85310192 Report

Quoted By: >>85311190

>>85295639
Maybe you just don't like it, anon.

I don't like broccoli, doesn't mean everyone who likes the taste is living a lie.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 17:46:53 No.85310253 Report

Quoted By:

>>85294760
It kinda did.

Also, the first panel could very well be "ooga booga cave painting bad, no hunt, no food, destroy society"

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 17:51:08 No.85310362 Report

Quoted By:

>>85309814
The baby is black, isn't it?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 18:04:24 No.85310686 Report

Quoted By: >>85329664

>>85299192
Damn Bro! He totally owned that guy who's dialogue was specifically written to be easy to refute, EPIC! Man it would be even COOLER if that actually happened in real life!

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 18:08:57 No.85310797 Report

Quoted By: >>85310886 >>85311743

>>85294470
That one was easily the worst
it's like he knew he just had to comment on the hot new thing but didn't actually have a joke for it
he managed to push the shit out though

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 18:09:59 No.85310823 Report

Quoted By:

>>85295639
Most of the time I drink beer just to get drunk, it should be inoffensive and cheap.
Once in a while I buy a pack of my favorite just to taste because there's nothing else like it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 18:10:20 No.85310837 Report

Quoted By:

>>85309838
Wow, just, wow, so fucking quirky, goddamn. God I bet these people have a whole room in their house that's a BK PlayPlace ball pit, I bet they have a pet platypus, can you imagine?

Damn bro people can't act like that haha, the only thing more quirky than this is a vaguely exotic, brown, slightly chubby austismfu

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 18:10:45 No.85310847 Report

Quoted By:

>>85302254
That Japanon has no idea how Pokemon Go works then. No one is going to be fooled by that when you can see on the fucking screen when Pokemon are near.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 18:11:38 No.85310864 Report

Quoted By:

>>85297404
>i'm fourteen and i just figured out life man just put it in perspective
Is that what he's trying to say? Everybody past adolescence has had that epiphany, that other people exist and are just like you. It's not a big fucking deal and not worth making a comic over

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 18:11:54 No.85310872 Report

Quoted By:

>>85309838
we don't have tgi fridays in my country

does that play into the joke somehow or is it literally just "lol public indecency"

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 18:12:17 No.85310886 Report

Quoted By: >>85311044

>>85310797
does anyone actually consistently keep AR mode on?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 18:12:59 No.85310903 Report

Quoted By: >>85311070 >>85311114

>>85299192
The shittiest part of this guy is how he tries to tell you what women like, as if he's figured it out and is a gentlesir.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 18:13:04 No.85310906 Report

Quoted By: >>85311097

>>85306194
Common mistake, Humanities scholars don't actually think STEM monkeys are smart.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 18:16:33 No.85310995 Report

Quoted By:

>>85292521
Pretty sure these are literal quotations from the respective eras

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 18:17:35 No.85311022 Report

Quoted By:

>>85293876
>Ritalin
>an appetite suppressant
>playing into the rise of obesity
U wot

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 18:18:29 No.85311044 Report

Quoted By:

>>85310886
The better question is, why would you think a pokemon toy on the ground in one in Pokemon go when you're not even looking at you're phone?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 18:19:38 No.85311070 Report

Quoted By:

>>85310903
he's basically the origin of the fedora tip "m'lady" meme

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 18:20:00 No.85311080 Report

Quoted By:

>>85295639
It's weird, you know?? It's almost like different people enjoy different things anon.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 18:20:36 No.85311097 Report

Quoted By: >>85311350

>>85310906
>>85306194
>>85293960
The only STEM majors I've met who act elitist are physicists, computer scientists and engineers, for some reason.

Never had the issue with biology or chemistry students.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 18:21:20 No.85311114 Report

Quoted By:

>>85310903
I hope he read these and thinks about them and can't go to sleep over them.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 18:24:10 No.85311190 Report

Quoted By: >>85311400

>>85310192
>I don't like broccoli

Have you had good broccoli or did your mom cook you something that looks like pic related? A lot of parents really fuck this vegetable up for some reason.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 18:28:29 No.85311288 Report

Quoted By:

>>85295558
I love beer. The taste was bad but damnit I needed a drink after work. Years later the taste has 'changed' and I enjoy the familiar tastes. We all have a food or drink we dislike and a lot of people grow and learn to like things they didn't before. This is no exception, if you don't like beer that's fine, but it doesn't persist on peer pressure, there are too many people I know who have sunk deep into drinking that have far better reasons than keeping status quo.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 18:31:12 No.85311350 Report

Quoted By:

>>85311097
Bio and chem students are probably pre-med so they're just too tired to act elitist

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 18:33:17 No.85311400 Report

Quoted By: >>85311793 >>85311826

>>85311190
Nah, my mum made me the good shit.

It just never took for me. It's a shame, because it's part of a lot of dishes that look really nice.

Ah well, I can keep trying it and hoping that one day my tastebuds decide they like it, I guess.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 18:33:43 No.85311411 Report

Quoted By: >>85311758 >>85315071

>>85309577
>Ironically climate's actually looking better than ever
Every year is hotter than the last
The heat is bleaching coral reefs
Deserts are expanding
Ice caps are melting
>Better than ever

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 18:40:39 No.85311572 Report

Quoted By:

>>85307287
Autism.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 18:41:35 No.85311593 Report

Quoted By:

>>85295768
Fucking Muslims

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 18:42:35 No.85311616 Report

Quoted By:

>>85296793
>LOL I HATE BEER AND THINK ANYONE WHO DRINKS IT IS A FAGGOT I'M HILARIOUSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 18:47:46 No.85311743 Report

Quoted By: >>85320293

>>85310797
Hey, that Penny Arcade one isn't too bad. It's a shitty joke about. . . gainz? But at least they're not making some stupid claim about how the game works like the other two.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 18:48:39 No.85311758 Report

Quoted By: >>85311895

>>85311411
fuck off envirotard

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 18:50:11 No.85311793 Report

Quoted By:

>>85311400
You could do the American public school thing and try eating it with mac and cheese. I've never seen anyone turn that down before.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 18:51:34 No.85311821 Report

Quoted By:

>>85292521
1, 2, 3, and 5 are quotes from the time stamp he put on their
Nothing is new under the sun anon.
new advancements will always be seen as a threat to that generation.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 18:51:47 No.85311826 Report

Quoted By:

>>85311400
it doesn't taste as bad as it can smell, which is weird. I like mine soft and with lemon juice/lemon pepper

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 18:53:09 No.85311870 Report

Quoted By: >>85311941

>>85299520
>Technological process is linear

No, it isn't. It's massively exponential. Think about it for a minute.

You invent agriculture, you can now produce far more food. Now less of your people spend time producing food, and more time thinking creatively. Research increases.

You invent an abacus, thinkers can now think better and faster, research increases.

You invent a computer, thinkers can now think better and faster, research increases.

Technology is always built on top of previous technology, concepts stacking on top of other concepts creating a tree of super-sets and sub-sets. The speed at which we advance increases massively depending on how many of these technologies we have already to help us, and the advancement of our society enables more of us to spend more time researching.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 18:53:48 No.85311895 Report

Quoted By: >>85312030

>>85311758
>>make a claim
>present facts counter to this claim
>>FUCK OFF
lmfao

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 18:55:22 No.85311941 Report

Quoted By:

>>85311870
I don't think that's what he meant by linear, anon
Get your algebra nerd shit out of here

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 18:55:54 No.85311968 Report

Quoted By: >>85312738 >>85320076 >>85329693

>>85294846
>Unironically knowing how Pokemon go works.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 18:58:16 No.85312030 Report

Quoted By:

>>85311895
It's the neocon way

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 19:04:17 No.85312183 Report

Quoted By:

>>85305716
Are you really this dense?

Of course it fucking wasn't. He was making a rebuttal to the claim that people were active while watching television, when that term was coined in the 1970s to describe people who sat around doing nothing but watch television.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 19:12:48 No.85312451 Report

Quoted By: >>85312488

>>85300299
>Secular, pro choice, pro gay rights
>most christian, anti gay VP in years
Nope

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 19:14:08 No.85312488 Report

Quoted By: >>85312514 >>85314195

>>85312451
>Trump
>Most Christian

I really dislike the guy but he isn't particularly Christian, anon.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 19:14:52 No.85312514 Report

Quoted By:

>>85312488
Anon was talking about Pence

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 19:22:29 No.85312738 Report

Quoted By: >>85313427

>>85311968
Wait, hold the phone...

How do you ironically know how something works?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 19:48:25 No.85313427 Report

Quoted By: >>85313643

>>85312738
With detachment, assumptions, and second hand information.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 19:55:34 No.85313643 Report

Quoted By:

>>85313427
>All this time I ironically read comic books.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 19:58:43 No.85313731 Report

Quoted By: >>85313774 >>85313805 >>85313836

>>85284290
Is it wrong? People don't change, even if technology does. Also, shouldn't that say "social isolation" or "being anti-social and isolated"?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 20:00:18 No.85313774 Report

Quoted By:

>>85313731
Yes but Randy isn't very good at the finer points of the English language

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 20:01:29 No.85313805 Report

Quoted By:

>>85313731
asocial as in not social
not anti-social like a menace

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 20:02:20 No.85313836 Report

Quoted By:

>>85313731
People may not change, but stimuli do. And people might react to new stimuli with new and odd way. Or may not.

I mean, if people changed, they'd adapt to new things seamlessly. They do not. People are not up to pace to easily acceptable calories and become obese. People aren't up to pace to new entertainment and become sedimentary with all associated problems, etc.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 20:04:50 No.85313890 Report

Quoted By: >>85320938

>>85306220

Yeah Yeah Yeah. People thought the world was going great in the early 20th century, and then World War One broke out and slaughtered a generation, and then it sequel got their children killed.

Sometimes things really are getting worse. You don't have to believe in a golden age to know that's the truth.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 20:07:27 No.85313944 Report

Quoted By:

>>85306329

They wouldn't even realize their hypocrisy. It is literally outside their comprehension.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 20:08:30 No.85313968 Report

Quoted By:

>>85289442
Current millenium

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 20:10:28 No.85314015 Report

Quoted By:

I can't wait until trumpcucks get blown the fuck to oblivion in November so this place can go back to normal.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 20:16:59 No.85314195 Report

Quoted By:

>>85312488
>VP
>VP
>VP
>VP
>VP

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 20:19:06 No.85314247 Report

Quoted By: >>85314490 >>85318527

>>85301631
Since his presidency Bush has been learning to paint. he likes to paint dogs. His paintings are actually really good.

And now he is making level headed comments on TV....

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 20:19:56 No.85314271 Report

Quoted By:

>>85306260

I'm ok with making enemies. I'm fine with that. I'm not here to make everybody my friend. But I despise witch-hunts, and mob mentality, and I have many, MANY unpopular opinions.

The kind of opinions that have gotten people beat up by angry mobs in the past.

I don't think it's unfair to ask that I not be cast outside the city walls for having a different perspective on the world.

In other words, I ain't going through that door, Randall Munroe. I ain't leaving. You're going to have to throw me out if you want to be rid of me.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 20:21:17 No.85314307 Report

Quoted By:

>>85295639
The buzz is what's important, not how you get it.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 20:28:30 No.85314466 Report

Quoted By:

LOL

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 20:29:19 No.85314490 Report

Quoted By:

>>85314247
Certain people you can judge who they are and what they did separately, and Bush is one of them. He's the kind of guy you wouldn't mind being a neighbor to, which is one of the reasons he got elected twice, and he seems satisfied being done with politics.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 20:30:24 No.85314517 Report

Quoted By:

>>85306365
lol are you actually comparing the Democratic convention to the Republican one? The Dems made a good show of having a unified message. The RNC was held together by glue and halfassed "endorsements" (Paul Ryan clearly gave no shits, not a single one)

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 20:40:32 No.85314769 Report

Quoted By:

>>85300419
Is this Loss

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 20:49:37 No.85315071 Report

Quoted By: >>85320315 >>85324902

>>85311411
>I believe what I see on the news

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 20:51:37 No.85315141 Report

Quoted By: >>85317415

>>85299435
>free speech is literally the 1st amendment of the american constitution and nothing else

I fucking hate this. If someone is actively censoring a forum of discussion, that isn't illegal true, but if someone points out that it's a bullshit thing to do the answer is always: "hurf durf free speech is only that the american government cannot censor you". Never responding to the fact that you cannot have a good discussion if someone is allowed to just remove arguments they don't like.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 20:51:44 No.85315147 Report

Quoted By:

>>85306329
This is what will happen if these people keep acting the way they are, people are already starting to get fed up.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 22:07:16 No.85317415 Report

Quoted By:

>>85315141

It's more of a problem that social media operates on a scale where attention has to be commodified. Internet fora are almost by definition not free because someone other than the user is paying operating costs and has taken the loss to build up the notoriety of the platform to a point where it is notable enough to have a commodified userbase.

Attention is literally bought and sold, and until better systems develop to fund the internet your precious eyeball-seconds are the most valuable thing you have, and it's your prerogative not only to rescind response but to rescind your present and future attention, because those things have tangible value.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 22:46:20 No.85318379 Report

Quoted By:

>>85295639

Part of it is because it's relatively cheap and socially acceptable.

Another part is that there are just so many kinds of beer out there that it is possible to find a beer you like.

And some beers legitimately go very well with many foods.

And a cold beer can be legitimately refreshing.

I used to hate beer. Then I tried a bunch and found some I honestly like, but even then, I don't drink it all the time, just like I don't drink soda or orange juice or grape fruit juice, or wine, or >insert drink here< all the time.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 22:49:27 No.85318457 Report

Quoted By:

>>85297376
Plato was famous for trying to start shit just to argue. It was the philosophy of his teacher, Socrates, and of his contemporary Aristotle.

Plato also argued that the perfect democracy was one controlled utterly by philosopher kings who were perfect in every way. That doesn't mean he actually believed it, he was just making a point, like with his continually misused argument about books.

Why not try reading The Republic or Gorgias instead of reblogging some XKCD comic and surreptitiously proving Plato right?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 22:52:34 No.85318527 Report

Quoted By: >>85318614

>>85314247

I never thought Bush was a bad guy. I disagreed with him on a lot of points, but I could always understand his reasoning, never found it particularly offensive/hateful, understood that he occasionally misspoke, and I never thought it was fair how people always painted him as stupid/malevolent. I thought it was enough to just not vote for the guy.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 22:55:56 No.85318614 Report

Quoted By: >>85326189

>>85318527
No, anon, you must hate anyone who is different from the established political norm and compare them to simians or else you're a secret right-wing terrorist who wants to slit gay people's throats and suck off corporate billionaires.

American politics is fucked.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 23:14:40 No.85319126 Report

Quoted By:

>>85301631
>even if you hated Bush the high from hating him was supreme; it gave us pic related and pretty much 2000's comedy
The worst, most laziest comedy ever. No point constructing an elaborate punchline, just blindly fumble your way towards a tired old rehash of vaguely negative comments about Bush. One thing that would upset me about Trump becoming president is that it would mean comedy would return to this godawful state again.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 23:18:01 No.85319223 Report

Quoted By:

>>85303956
>he doesn't knit flesh suits from the skin of his victims.
You don't belong here.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 23:47:57 No.85320076 Report

Quoted By:

>>85311968
Haha, look at this anon, KNOWING things. What an idiot.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 23:54:27 No.85320293 Report

Quoted By:

>>85311743
The Whomp one makes perfect sense. The kid was using AR mode, found a Pikachu, and started casting about to find where it was. It was beside Ronnie's ugly, furious mug.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 23:55:28 No.85320315 Report

Quoted By: >>85320448

>>85315071
The Earth isn't flat. I just want you to know that.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 23:56:21 No.85320344 Report

Quoted By:

>>85284290
this is quality humor for sure

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Aug 2016 23:57:12 No.85320369 Report

Quoted By:

>>85287165
>260+ replies later
Should've saged

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 00:00:08 No.85320448 Report

Quoted By:

>>85320315
>Earth
>Round

Pick one.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 00:09:25 No.85320715 Report

Quoted By: >>85324936 >>85324995

>>85301631
>pic related
Loud suckers who criticized the war only after it became the popular thing to do and made money from it?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 00:11:05 No.85320761 Report

Quoted By: >>85320807

>>85301631
>The Bush years were like crashing your car, snorting a bunch of amphetamines, doing stupid shit while high, and then crashing and dealing with all the stupid shit you just did

Isn't that literally what the Bush twins did during the Bush years?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 00:12:28 No.85320807 Report

Quoted By: >>85320977 >>85321052

>>85320761
Who gives a shit? Like seriously, who? What does Bush 1 and Bush 2 partying have anything to do with their dad as the President?

Some idiots did the same thing when one of Obama's daughters was seen clubbing and drinking and dancing. I mean holy shit, you fucking people.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 00:12:44 No.85320814 Report

Quoted By:

>>85303826
Over the course of a real depression, we'd eventually normalize it and adjust. It's periods of extreme change and uncertainty that create the desperation. Once things are either consistently better or worse, people tend to get on with finding a solution though sometimes just the APPEARANCE of one or stop trying and rationalize the current state as "just the way things are."

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 00:13:25 No.85320832 Report

Quoted By:

XKCD is awful, but people thinking the world was unironically better in the past is deluded.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 00:15:57 No.85320918 Report

Quoted By: >>85320961

>>85299914
Trump is polling worse than McCain and R. Money ever did yet his policies are the exact same as any other random republican's. He is a garbage candidate, signifying the end of the GOP.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 00:16:01 No.85320920 Report

Quoted By:

>>85301322
It's not just Evolaist conservatives who feel that way. Cursory analysis of Marxist, leftist, and even radical centrist thought also indicate a similar feeling, though they may have come to it at a much later date.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 00:16:29 No.85320935 Report

Quoted By:

I wish his art wasn't so fucking lazy. His highschool doodles were better than this.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 00:16:35 No.85320938 Report

Quoted By: >>85321981

>>85313890
Things get better for stints and then worse for stints, because those are relative terms and we don't live in a constant state of homeostasis. Things are currently worse now than they have been for a couple decades in the developed, western world... But only by certain measures. Technology has improved, lifespans are still pretty dang good, crime per capita is down over all. Things aren't really all that bleak. Political trust, racial and religious harmony, geopolitical stability, and income equality are down, admittedly.

We'll see if it holds up, improves, or declines, and in what areas, but we're not on the brink of anything catastrophic.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 00:17:11 No.85320961 Report

Quoted By: >>85321081

>>85320918
>his policies are the exact same as any random republican

>moving job sourcing to inner cities
>raising taxes on the upper class

I think you need to switch off the television, anon.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 00:17:42 No.85320977 Report

Quoted By:

>>85320807
I don't actually care, I was just making jokes.

But you know who does care? Tabloids. Because stupid people eat this shit up.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 00:18:49 No.85321012 Report

Quoted By: >>85321109

>>85300299
>>85300465
>Trump
>anti-corporate
Did you stupid mouth-breathing retards even read his economic plan? Trump is trying hard as fuck slurping on that Wall Street cum so that they donate to his crumbling campaign. No man that wants to abolish estate tax, the most logical and sensible tax, can position himself as a champion of the people.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 00:20:16 No.85321052 Report

Quoted By:

>>85320807

I always thought it was funny as it's pretty much what so many other parents go through when their daughters have their little rebellious stage. People always put the president and his family up on a pedestal, but they shit and fart and pick their noses just like everyone else.

But honestly, this is the first time in like 9 years I even thought about them,

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 00:20:57 No.85321081 Report

Quoted By: >>85321291

>>85320961
>raising taxes on the upper class
It's actually a huge tax cut on the upper class, specially shit like the abolition of the estate tax.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 00:21:49 No.85321109 Report

Quoted By: >>85321126 >>85321272 >>85321288

>>85321012
>estate tax, the most logical and sensible tax
Marx pls go

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 00:22:29 No.85321126 Report

Quoted By: >>85321354 >>85321450

>>85321109
Dynastic wealth isn't healthy for society or the economy.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 00:23:36 No.85321162 Report

Quoted By:

>>85301679
I think that's the only way this can transform from
>whinging meta commentary about blah blah blah
to
>immortal old man yells at clouds, constantly grousing through the ages

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 00:24:39 No.85321203 Report

Quoted By: >>85321309

>deluded Trumplets parading "trickle-down 2, the trickle-downer" as some sort of anti-corporate, pro-people plan
>Trump shills trying to misinform people about his economic and tax plans, which overwhelmingly benefit the rich

Thank God he has a nearly 20 point deficit on Clinton.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 00:26:48 No.85321272 Report

Quoted By: >>85321354

>>85321109
Who says you're entitled to all your parents' money?
They do?
They're fucking dead.
Earn your own.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 00:27:18 No.85321288 Report

Quoted By: >>85321433

>>85321109
You've been memed into supporting cutting a tax that only affects .2% of the populace but has huge benefits.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 00:27:25 No.85321291 Report

Quoted By: >>85321341

>>85321081
The estate tax is an unethical tax, anon. That's just how it is.

And it's not a huge tax cut. He's moving it from 39 to 33. 6 percent. That's only 2 more than the Bush cuts, which even Obama extended.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 00:27:51 No.85321309 Report

Quoted By: >>85321378 >>85326293 >>85327553

>>85321203
Know what else was losing in the polls? The Brexit "leave" vote.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 00:28:52 No.85321341 Report

Quoted By: >>85321433

>>85321291
>unethical
the fuck is this

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 00:29:12 No.85321354 Report

Quoted By:

>>85321126
Wealth earned is wealth kept. It is not owed to the state upon death. If all applicable taxes have been paid and no outstanding loans are left, whatever sum remains is the property of whichever beneficiary the owner determines.

>>85321272
If I am a benficiary, yes. You have a right to control your money and your property. That right does not end with your death.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 00:29:54 No.85321378 Report

Quoted By: >>85321827 >>85323523

>>85321309
Going after a veteran's mom for no real reason really hurt him

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 00:31:30 No.85321433 Report

Quoted By: >>85321448

>>85321288
You've been memed into accepting unethical laws that make you feel good.

>>85321341
"Unethical." It means "morally wrong."

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 00:32:16 No.85321448 Report

Quoted By: >>85321516

>>85321433
Why is it morally wrong to tax a dead person?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 00:32:17 No.85321450 Report

Quoted By:

>>85321126
Only if you're in an entirely specie economy whose specie never changes, is non-renewable, nor has any alternatives, and the wealth is permanently removed from the economy.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 00:34:26 No.85321516 Report

Quoted By: >>85321598

>>85321448
You are not taxing the dead person, you are taxing their money for the sole reason that they are dead. It's no different than taxing someone because they become pregnant, you're using an unavoidable fact of nature as an excuse for taxation.

Your property is your property, period. If you have a plan for that property, it is only lawful and ethical that the plan you prescribe be followed.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 00:37:13 No.85321598 Report

Quoted By: >>85321667 >>85323523

>>85321516
The estate tax exists to prevent the creation of a second aristocracy in which the only way to move up is by having rich parents.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 00:39:20 No.85321667 Report

Quoted By: >>85321706 >>85321716 >>85322036

>>85321598
No it doesn't, anon. It's a completely arbitrary punitive tax which encourages aristocratic classes to hide their wealth.

Why wait until death to increase taxes in the first place? It's backwards logic at its very worst. You're using a stupid excuse to enlarge a stupid tax. If you're an advocate for higher taxes on the wealthy, then advocate higher taxes on the wealthy. Don't wait until they die to target them.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 00:40:27 No.85321706 Report

Quoted By: >>85321801

>>85321667
I'm pretty sure people who advocate for a higher estate tax also advocate for a higher tax on rich people while they're alive

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 00:40:43 No.85321716 Report

Quoted By: >>85321801

>>85321667
The tax has a pretty clear social meaning, bro. EARN YOUR OWN MONEY.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 00:43:36 No.85321801 Report

Quoted By:

>>85321706
They advocate for confiscation of property upon death, which is unethical. Higher taxes are fine.

>>85321716
Wrong. The tax punishes people for unavoidable biological imperatives. It is no different than a tax on pregnancy or a tax on illness. It ensures nothing other than the wealthy moving their wealth to untaxable assets.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 00:44:18 No.85321827 Report

Quoted By: >>85321846

>>85321378
To be fair they've said that about almost everything he's said.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 00:45:11 No.85321846 Report

Quoted By:

>>85321827
I mean yeah but this time it has numbers to back it up

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 00:47:16 No.85321926 Report

Quoted By:

>>85303540
Fuck off n....r

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 00:48:59 No.85321981 Report

Quoted By:

>>85320938
>racial and religious harmony... are down, admittedly.

Meh, I don't think there's any effective difference in that regard. A decade or two or three ago people had way more discriminatory views against Muslims, tensions between the west and Muslim countries was even higher (any deal with Iran would have been unthinkable and Al Queda was getting big at this time), the relationship between black people and cops was about the same, gay people were dealing with the aids crisis, etc.

Just because the discussions (and arguments) are getting more media time doesn't mean actual instances have gone up. They were always there, but certain people just weren't talking about it on TV.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 00:50:57 No.85322036 Report

Quoted By: >>85322157

>>85321667
>No it doesn't, anon. It's a completely arbitrary punitive tax which encourages aristocratic classes to hide their wealth.

Then you try to hold them accountable. The solution isn't, "You hide your money? Well then we'll just stop asking for it."

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 00:55:40 No.85322157 Report

Quoted By: >>85323247 >>85323320

>>85322036
>Try to hold them accountable
Which is only possible if they are alive. Again, the estate tax defeats its own purpose.

The solution is to close avenues for corporate tax dodging, such as fraudulent subsidiaries and decreased taxes on foreign earnings. Those two alone would inject billions of tax dollars back into the American economy with no one's property unethically confiscated.

But no one will actually talk about any practical solution because we have to operate in the left-right paradigm.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 01:13:32 No.85322645 Report

Quoted By:

>>85295774
best post

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 01:31:47 No.85323161 Report

Quoted By:

>>85295702
That's my opinion too. I can admit that some are better then others but I really believe nobody would be drinking it if it didn't give you a buzz.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 01:32:51 No.85323190 Report

Quoted By:

>>85301275
Aka "we all know we're just drinking it to get drunk don't remind us we feel like alcoholics"

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 01:34:42 No.85323247 Report

Quoted By:

>>85322157
>If you let us get rid of the estate tax I PROMISE we'll get around to closing tax loopholes to even things out!

Well, I'm convinced.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 01:36:54 No.85323320 Report

Quoted By:

>>85322157
I don't know why you think the two are mutually exclusive

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 01:40:49 No.85323438 Report

Quoted By:

>>85301322
The technology sector is a miserable little puddle of nightmares for the future.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 01:43:15 No.85323523 Report

Quoted By: >>85323878

>>85321378

I don't understand the big deal. Kazir Khan is an immigration lawyer whose firm works to bring muslims into the US. He has a vested interest in opposing Trump. Likewise, he was using his son's death for explicitly political purposes. How does this make him beyond reproach?

>>85321598

So in other words, it's institutionalized class warfare designed to target the wealthy for the "crime" of being wealthy.

Of course, this is all in theory. In practice the wealthy simply hide that wealth in offshore tax havens while the estate tax proceeds to primarily affect the lower classes, hurting the people it was designed to benefit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 01:54:33 No.85323878 Report

Quoted By: >>85324171

>>85323523
Trump's comments weren't about any of that. He just attacked them because they criticized him by >implying that the mother wasn't allowed to speak because lolMuslimsamirite

the man can't take criticism at all

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 02:03:50 No.85324171 Report

Quoted By: >>85324485

>>85323878

Does it matter what Trump said? The media would attack him no matter what- even if he didn't respond, they'd say that the Khans finally shut him up. The media has all but admitted they are against Trump- the NYT just put out a piece recently admitting that the press is supposed to highlight threats to the status quo, which de facto puts them against Trump.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 02:13:16 No.85324485 Report

Quoted By: >>85325137 >>85325726

>>85324171
Yes it matters. This is a dead American soldier's family, and he went after them with an attack based on their faith. It's like how he says a judge is unable to try the Trump University case because he's of Mexican heritage, for the crime of refusing to throw out the case wholesale. It doesn't really matter what the media says afterwards, because there's really no way to spin it where he comes out looking good.

And the media is absolutely in the right to be against Trump, he's unambiguously a bigot, and blatantly and woefully unqualified for the job even beyond that.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 02:23:29 No.85324792 Report

Quoted By: >>85325988 >>85327897

it's funny how hard Trump is being spun as some brilliant renegade tactician when in reality the republican base has just imploded to where they had to vote in what amounted to a joke candidate because their own party leadership refuses to run on their crazy demands

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 02:26:25 No.85324902 Report

Quoted By:

>>85315071
>I listen to the guy who would lose millions of something was true, especially when he says that thing isn't true. I'm not gullible like you sheep!
Disgraceful anon. Just shameful. You can b8 better.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 02:27:26 No.85324936 Report

Quoted By:

>>85320715
The American way...god bless us, every one.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 02:29:12 No.85324995 Report

Quoted By:

>>85320715
American Idiot came out in 2004, opinions on the war only started to turn after Bush got elected again and things started to fall apart

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 02:33:53 No.85325137 Report

Quoted By: >>85325885 >>85325931

>>85324485

So in your mind, the media should directly try to influence the electoral process? Doesn't that seem a little bit undemocratic to you?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 02:51:27 No.85325678 Report

Quoted By:

>>85299671
I want to like Nixon, but he ended Breton Woods and almost immediately wages became disconnected from productivity.

On the other hand, to be fair to him, Keynes predicted this and the blame really falls with US politicians in the 40s (who didn't want an international accounting system set up which would risk the USA's status as the world's largest creditor) and not Nixon who was basically pushed into such circumstances.

Still, what could've been: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bancor

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 02:53:15 No.85325726 Report

Quoted By:

>>85324485
You're shilling the wrong board paco.
Come with me, we have somewhere else to be
>>>/po/
THAT'S RIGHT, BRING YOUR FOLDING PAPER, BITCH

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 02:58:14 No.85325881 Report

Quoted By: >>85326039

>>85300419
>you're doing science and you're still alive
Is that a fucking portal reference
Are you fucking kidding me

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 02:58:23 No.85325885 Report

Quoted By: >>85325988

>>85325137
Dishonest maybe, but not undemocratic.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 02:59:41 No.85325931 Report

Quoted By:

>>85325137
Not especially. Media is just another voice, they may be louder. Ultimately it's their right to swing their big ugly influence dick everywhere

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 03:01:44 No.85325988 Report

Quoted By: >>85326032 >>85326100

>>85324792

When Trump is managing to channel the passion of the base while also winning over independents and moderates, maneuvering through an oversaturated field and keeping his popularity and relevance constant in the age of the 24 hour news cycle, I think it's safe to say that he's a damn good tactician.

>>85325885

What separates the media trying to manipulate the voting public from, say, a church?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 03:03:42 No.85326032 Report

Quoted By: >>85326119 >>85326126 >>85326203

>>85325988
Is he really winning over moderates and independents.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 03:03:50 No.85326039 Report

Quoted By: >>85326068

>>85325881
His wife had cancer man, he had trouble staying up to date

even though he already had made a joke about people being way behind on portal references

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 03:04:56 No.85326068 Report

Quoted By:

>>85326039
A portal reference would have been grossly inappropriate in 2007.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 03:06:07 No.85326100 Report

Quoted By: >>85326203

>>85325988
A church is more insular to a community, while a media outlet can be viewed by essentially anyone with an internet connection.

The media has been trying to sway voters for years.

On the subject of the media and Trump, many outlets are absolutely trying to use their opinion pieces (and for some their normal articles) to bash Trump, but even just articles that simply report what says would be damning enough. Trump makes too liberal a use of implication and it bites him in the ass. He needs to be more specific when he speaks.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 03:06:49 No.85326119 Report

Quoted By: >>85326408

>>85326032
He's confirmed to already have 32% of the Black vote, republicans only get around 19.

For all his rhetoric, it's been cited that his polling with Latinos is where John McCain and Romney were.

He's winning over blue collar democrats in a big way, thanks to Hilldorah the Smog Monster vowing on tv to shut down the coal industry.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 03:06:53 No.85326126 Report

Quoted By: >>85326203

>>85326032
Anecdotal, but I voted Obama and I'm planning on voting Trump PURELY because he's not Hillary fucking Clinton. Sanders was my first choice, but... well, look how that turned out.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 03:08:40 No.85326189 Report

Quoted By:

>>85318614
If I may fix something...
>politics is fucked
There we go, all better.
You think ours is bad, shit look below the border, you got politicians too lazy to try or too paid to care, or those bought off by cartels.
Up north you got your Britain-styled nannyisms tempered by our continental culture of being a rugged colony so long ago.
Across the Pond in the uk you've got the self-interested labor party finally being fucked up a bit, and Britain dabbling in American-style fuck-off-ery with the EU.
The eu itself went from a trade union to a mock UN for Europe, and is also finally falling apart.
Russia is...Russia.
Asia is...also a mess as usual.
Japan might be getting their military back soon, so kudos for them.
Shit anon, I don't think I can keep going, politics was, is, and always will be universally a fucking mess.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 03:09:20 No.85326203 Report

Quoted By:

>>85326032

May I direct you to >>85326126

There's a lot of embittered, angry anti-Hillary dems who Trump has been courting. The ones who aren't going to vote for him at the very least won't be voting against him either.

>>85326100

I'm curious: have you read Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 03:11:13 No.85326252 Report

Quoted By:

>>85295558

I thought like this too until I had a really good fucking beer for the first time in Southern Illinois. Blew all of the piss I'd been drinking before out of the water, and now I've learned to seek out good breweries.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 03:12:46 No.85326293 Report

Quoted By: >>85326499

>>85321309
Except unlike that trump isn't an exercise in independence from an encroaching Union, this election as a whole is a begrudging following-through with procedure. If we could reshuffle candidates and try again next year, I've no doubt more than half of this country would go for it. Trump and Hillary are two sides of the fuck-you coin.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 03:17:24 No.85326408 Report

Quoted By:

>>85326119
I don't know where you're pulling those numbers from besides your ass

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 03:21:36 No.85326499 Report

Quoted By: >>85326728 >>85326899

>>85326293

>Trump and Hillary are two sides of the fuck-you coin.

This has to be the most hilariously uniformed position I've see people put out consistently.

Trump is pushing for closed-borders American nationalism, an "America first" approach to trade and foreign policy, and an economic policy designed to spur growth in the manufacturing sector. Hillary is pushing for upholding the status quo WRT free trade and hawkish foreign policy, while also pushing heavily in favor of gun control, open borders, amnesty, and legitimization of black unrest.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 03:29:52 No.85326728 Report

Quoted By: >>85326817

>>85326499
>Trump is pushing for closed-borders American nationalism, an "America first" approach to trade and foreign policy, and an economic policy designed to spur growth in the manufacturing sector
ah ha ha oh wow

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 03:32:27 No.85326817 Report

Quoted By:

>>85326728

That's what he's advocating. Whether or not you think he'll actually do it is one thing, but the point is, that's what he's running on the promise of doing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 03:34:49 No.85326899 Report

Quoted By: >>85327040

>>85326499
I think the biggest piece of misinformation this cycle is Hilldawg wants completely open borders

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 03:37:19 No.85326978 Report

Quoted By:

>>85296793

DAMN I ACTUALLY GOT THAT, SRSLY GOOD ONE

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 03:39:05 No.85327040 Report

Quoted By:

>>85326899

I think "open borders" is an exaggeration, but the point is that Hillary wants the same or less restrictions on immigration, while Trump wants more.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 03:45:57 No.85327260 Report

Quoted By: >>85327347

Autism is the biggest fucking meme to ostracize people who go against the corrupt system

it is deigned to shut down your behavior and isolate you from "normies" who do the very same shit as you but can get away with it because they are connected and privileged

double standards

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 03:49:18 No.85327347 Report

Quoted By:

>>85327260

replace normies with Chad and Stacy and those who aspire to be like Chad and Stacy and then you are on point

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 03:50:40 No.85327382 Report

Quoted By:

>>85284290
Boy, this is shit bait.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 03:57:18 No.85327553 Report

Quoted By: >>85327675

>>85321309
They were pretty much neck-and-neck.

People read far too much into polls that give narrow margins to one side or another, and totally disregard the 2% margin of error.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 04:01:49 No.85327675 Report

Quoted By: >>85328114

>>85327553

And Trump and Clinton, for the most part, are neck-and-neck. An upset is incredibly feasible.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 04:10:23 No.85327897 Report

Quoted By:

>>85324792
He kind of reminds me of Corbyn in the UK, in the sense of an election where all the alternatives were shit.

Unfortunately this is commonly used as a genuine line of attack on Corbyn (with a view to replacing him with one of the aforementioned shit alternatives.)

not even a UK Labour supporter, but the way they've acted to get rid of him is shameful and "Third way" ideology (Blair/Clinton) needs to die.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 04:12:10 No.85327951 Report

Quoted By:

>>85295558
It was funnier when Skithouse did it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNd_NPNIXao

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 04:18:43 No.85328114 Report

Quoted By: >>85328363 >>85329147

>>85327675
Isn't he like down by 20 now? Maybe a few weeks ago it could've been up to error but now....

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 04:29:22 No.85328363 Report

Quoted By:

>>85328114
10 points. You'd know that if you used Google.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 05:00:29 No.85329147 Report

Quoted By:

>>85328114

longroom has them neck and neck

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 05:22:30 No.85329664 Report

Quoted By:

>>85310686
>the entirety of XKCD

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 05:23:31 No.85329693 Report

Quoted By: >>85329761

>>85311968
how can you ironically know something?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 05:26:06 No.85329740 Report

Quoted By:

>>85296793
something funny, unlike that comic

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 05:27:00 No.85329761 Report

Quoted By: >>85331640

>>85329693
like how people who don't read comics but watch the movies pretend to know things about the comics

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 05:30:20 No.85329828 Report

Quoted By: >>85330082

I'm still on /co/, right?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 05:42:51 No.85330082 Report

Quoted By:

>>85329828
>ctrl + f "cuck"
>2 results

Don't worry, it's still safe. An official leak usually start with 3 or more "cuck"s

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Aug 2016 06:57:44 No.85331640 Report

Quoted By:

>>85329761
what?

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