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Post by Joseph Joestar on May 2, 2016 13:47:01 GMT -5
The one year they have a good speaker/award winner on the Daytime Emmys (Frank Welker, classic voice actor), and it's the time they decide not to televise it. Fuck.
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Post by GamerL on May 2, 2016 18:00:31 GMT -5
Looking at photographs and footage of the anti-Trump rally in San Fran is like seeing the opening credits to some near future dystopian thriller ala Escape From New York or something.
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Post by Joseph Joestar on May 2, 2016 18:18:10 GMT -5
Looking at photographs and footage of the anti-Trump rally in San Fran is like seeing the opening credits to some near future dystopian thriller ala Escape From New York or something. Someone should film stuff like this and make a movie. 2016 Bronx Warriors.
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Post by Joseph Joestar on May 2, 2016 18:18:32 GMT -5
On that note... alllllllrriiiiiiiiight! Not banned yet.
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Post by X-pert74 on May 2, 2016 19:06:38 GMT -5
I'm happy to see this chat return.
Aside from that, I'm going to be busy with school for the next few weeks, it seems. I'll finally be working more on the play that I'm running the projector for, Man of La Mancha. I hope it turns out well.
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Post by GamerL on May 2, 2016 22:21:09 GMT -5
Looking at photographs and footage of the anti-Trump rally in San Fran is like seeing the opening credits to some near future dystopian thriller ala Escape From New York or something. Someone should film stuff like this and make a movie. 2016 Bronx Warriors. In all seriousness America is a country that has a big problem and that problem is the fact that we are basically two completely different countries rolled into one. This all came to a head in the Civil War, but it started to come to a head again 50 years ago with the start of the "culture wars" and what I see going on today is again the country fundamentally coming apart at the seams.
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Post by Allie on May 2, 2016 22:45:13 GMT -5
Can we not turn a "Generic Chat" thread into "Tropes vs. Sexual Politics" this time around?
This goes for both sides.
People who think that LGBT is the most important issue of our time, and people who want Sexual Activists to STFU...
All of y'all stop pushing your poop in the other side's face and find a reason to talk about ANYTHING ELSE.
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Post by Maciej Miszczyk on May 3, 2016 1:49:59 GMT -5
Looking at photographs and footage of the anti-Trump rally in San Fran is like seeing the opening credits to some near future dystopian thriller ala Escape From New York or something. my internal desire to laugh at anti-Trump protesters and everything they stand for clashes with my internal desire to laugh at Trump and eveything stands for (or pretends to). I'd say American politics is fucking stupid but then I look at my country and its politics are becoming more and more like a low-budget ripoff of American politics with a few things changed around but the general stupidity intact.
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Post by GamerL on May 3, 2016 4:48:49 GMT -5
What's unsettling to me is the level of discontent in American culture nowadays, whether you're black, white or Hispanic or liberal or conservative, there's something for you to be mad as hell about.
Normally the way things go is depending on whoever is in office, one side of the country is usually pretty ok with how things are going, for example conservatives were comfy as hell during the Reagan 80's, but pissed off during the Clinton 90's while meanwhile liberals were comfy as hell.
But increasingly no one is comfy in the 2010s, despite Obama being in office liberals are mad as hell nowadays and conservatives are getting pissed off to an increasingly scary degree too (though the media doesn't cover it much, right wing terrorist attacks are on the upswing, for example in 2014 there was a young couple who were present at the Cliven Bundy ranch stand off who later shot up a Las Vegas police station), there's just a ton of anger going around.
And I really can't emphasize enough how upsetting the racial situation in modern America is, any ideas towards multiculturalism are fading fast, Americans are less and less seeing themselves as just "people" and more and more by their race before anything else, Donald Trump has taken a lot of the stigma off white supremacy and I don't mean to create a false equivalency with white supremacists and stuff like Black Lives Matter, but nevertheless a lot of black people are mad as hell at white people right now (I'll leave it to you decide how much of that is justified), the point is we are seeing the races divide in modern America, that is a very depressing situation.
To be frank, I blame the internet, it may sound silly but I'm dead serious, more and more people are reading stuff on the net, some of it true, a lot of it just conspiracy theory misinformation, that is getting them worked up, traditional mass media had a way of controlling the narrative for the American public, look at the 80's for example, what was the image that was presented? Wealth, even though for most of Americans they were struggling the media nevertheless presented the image that the American economy was booming, the whole "new morning in America" thing.
But the internet has put an end to mass media being able to shape the way people think and people are increasingly waking up to the lie (or buying into new ones) and it's like acid destroying the glue holding society together, we are living in the information age and all of this information is drowning society as we knew it.
What's funny is Metal Gear Solid 2 predicted this.
EDIT: By the way, I don't mean to demonize the internet too much, I mean a lot of this is good, people being able to get info beyond the mainstream media and learn the sometimes ugly truth is not always a bad thing, but there are downsides to all this information and big changes are coming as a result of it.
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Post by X-pert74 on May 3, 2016 18:04:23 GMT -5
My life would be so much less fulfilling if it weren't for the internet. I might still be unaware of what being trans even is, if I didn't have it.
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Post by Weasel on May 3, 2016 18:47:09 GMT -5
The internet is a wonderful thing that helps people like me reach out to people that I might otherwise never have the chance to meet. At the same time, though, I am occasionally disappointed by a portion of those people. Oh well.
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Post by GamerL on May 3, 2016 19:54:53 GMT -5
Like I said, in many ways the internet is a wonderful thing, it's just that there are downsides as well.
For example all the conspiracy theory stuff you can find, most of which is false, such as the "vaccines cause autism" thing, people still read this stuff and they still believe it, any idiot can say anything on the net and there's plenty of idiots who will believe it.
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Post by Maciej Miszczyk on May 3, 2016 23:17:19 GMT -5
actually, anti-vaccine bullshit spreads in a very oldschool way: through celebrities who belive it and use their fame to broadcast this stupidity. people don't hear about it from the internet, they hear about it from Jenny McCarthy, Jim Carrey and Donald Trump. IMHO internet makes it easier to find solid evidence that those people are wrong.
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Post by GamerL on May 3, 2016 23:40:56 GMT -5
But where did Jenny McCarthy, Jim Carrey and Donald Trump hear about it? I'm willing to bet the internet.
But of course it goes way further than that of course, there's a ton of different conspiracy theories that have propagated thanks to the net, not just anti-vaccination, there's also Sandy Hook "truthers", Obama is secretly a Muslim, 9/11 was an inside job, chemtrails etc
Stuff that used to be a fringe underground thing is now easily accessible by anyone with Google and a lot of people who read it, believe it.
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Post by The Great Klaid on May 4, 2016 1:42:59 GMT -5
So I might be getting a new job soon. Something that uses my degree even.
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