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  1. In Topic: JPK's Classics Read

    17 September 2025 - 08:22 PM

    Got nothing smart to say, but do any of y'all ever pronounce his name "Flo-bert"? Like gogurt.

  2. In Topic: The USA Politics Thread

    15 September 2025 - 06:42 AM

    Wait, the USA is doing what now?

  3. In Topic: The USA Politics Thread

    13 September 2025 - 07:48 AM

    View Postamphibian, on 13 September 2025 - 12:43 AM, said:

    The reactions and the changeover of who Kirk was is all class based solidarity. A wealthy predominantly white and white wanna bes of wealthy white wanna bes does not want anyone to be able to touch them with violence or fatal violence. This is a one way street only in their minds.

    Removing the mass capability to shoot people is too difficult to do because it's removing something too many people have based their identity and in particular class identity on. Gun control is sorely needed and I find myself thinking this is bizarre when a scared right wing person tells me the right as a whole is now scared - they've been scared this whole time. White replacement, going after immigrants, brutalizing people, oppressing women and LGBRQIA+, and more doesn't come from a place of happy security.


    For sure. We can mention that the same billionaires who flood our politics with dark money (largely in favor of the GOP) own all our major newspapers and other media. They're installing Bari Weiss to de-fang CBS News, as minimally fanged as it already was. The same publications doing Kirk hagiographies today were doing the same for Richard Spencer and other well-dressed Nazi's just a few years ago. They made Kyle Rittenhouse an avatar -- which is appropriate because he's both a tough-talking gun-toting murderer and a sniveling chickenshit. This stuff isn't complex like rocket science, but it is complicated because it's so entrenched and asymmetrically powerful.

  4. In Topic: The USA Politics Thread

    12 September 2025 - 04:01 PM

    View PostAbyss, on 12 September 2025 - 03:35 PM, said:

    The level of lionization and praise for Kirk is pretty wild. I suspect it's just zeitgeist/socmed reaction right now and won't last much past the funeral, but wow!


    I think you're right -- though to the question earlier of whether Kirk was on the same level as all the other far right talking heads, it's essentially true that he started that way and as a minor media figure was in that group. But he's the one person among them who actually built an organization that gets conservative male Gen Z kids to vote, so he was valuable to the conservative project in a way the others aren't, at least as individuals. They all contribute to the ambiance, and are all replaceable, but he was specifically useful.
    That doesn't mean the big dog isn't already kinda over it though:
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  5. In Topic: The USA Politics Thread

    12 September 2025 - 02:48 PM

    Groypers are the specific brand of uber-online Nazis who follow Nick Fuentes. This claim about the shooter seems to be based on the fact that he dressed up as a Pepe the Frog meme for Halloween in 2018, which I don't think is conclusive.

    The stuff that was found written on the unspent bullet casings does suggest that he was highly online-poisoned though -- there's some anti-fascist phrases but also some gamer stuff, some "you are gay LMAO" stuff, something about spotting bulges "OwO" [Maark can probably decipher that particular term]..So I don't know if there's coherent politics here so much as 4chan (or equivalent) nonsense.

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    Tsundoku 

    13 Jan 2025 - 12:40
    cheers big ears ;)
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    Tsundoku 

    13 Jan 2025 - 05:16
    where=were, me bad English, that's unpossible :P
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    Tsundoku 

    13 Jan 2025 - 05:15
    On further reflection, maybe not so much "jolly good" as "the whole situation sucks but I'm very glad you and yours are safe and I'm sorry to hear that people you know where impacted, but again I'm glad they are safe".
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    Tsundoku 

    10 Jan 2025 - 13:08
    Jolly good then :)
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    Tsundoku 

    10 Jan 2025 - 07:16
    hey mate, I know you're in a vast sandy wasteland but I hope you and yours are OK during these fires. I note some aren't that far away from you. Take care.
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    Tsundoku 

    16 Dec 2024 - 12:23
    Bloody hell, did we get to that time of the year again so fast? Happy birthday anyway Barstowvian. Hope it's a good one and not too cold. Or sandy.
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    Tsundoku 

    22 Apr 2024 - 23:22
    Not too bad thanks. A couple of days off, could be worse.
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    Tsundoku 

    22 Apr 2024 - 09:58
    heyo Wuzza, what's the latest?
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    Tsundoku 

    15 Dec 2023 - 23:49
    That time of the year again, happy birthday mate. Hope it's a good one.
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    Tsundoku 

    16 Dec 2022 - 12:39
    Stop living in the past, man ...
    ;)
    Hope it was a good one.
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    Tsundoku 

    15 Dec 2022 - 14:07
    Happy birthday Tusken Raider dude
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    Tsundoku 

    26 Jan 2022 - 01:17
    Hah, western north south west. Nice. Hadn't thought of it that way.
    Sometimes us from regional New South Wales refer to NSW as Newcastle Sydney Wollongong - the main metro areas that get all the attention from govt and the media, the rest of the state being "here be dragons" as far as they are concerned. :P
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    Tsundoku 

    21 Dec 2021 - 14:10
    If it's all the same to you, I'd like 2022 to be very low on surprises ...
    Except the lottery-winning kind. I'd like at least a big pleasant surprise there.
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    Tsundoku 

    15 Dec 2021 - 20:20
    Well my call about a much better 2021 was a bit off :(
    Still, hope you had a good one, happy birthday.
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    Tsundoku 

    07 Feb 2021 - 09:01
    Yes mate, so far so good thanks. Don't want to say more as I'd rather not tempt fate.
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