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Off Topic / Re: hickok45 - Are Gun Channels in Jeopardy?

« on: February 27, 2018, 05:06:31 PM »

there's no loving benefit for an 18 year old legally getting a gun

it doesn't matter. The 2A is the assurance of the rest of the powers and rights held by the people. Without the force to resist oppression and abuse of authority, government grows too large and powerful.

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Off Topic / Re: [NEWS] Gun found in bag of Annoying Orange motorcade driver, Secret Service says

« on: February 20, 2018, 03:51:41 PM »

CNN: Annoying Orange plants gun on motorcade driver to fake own assassination attempt

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Off Topic / Re: POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD

« on: February 19, 2018, 01:08:56 PM »

Annoying Orange vs. The World: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Truly a most enlightened individual

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Off Topic / Re: My emoitions are annoying my mind

« on: February 18, 2018, 04:51:41 PM »

-snip-

mate, I understand how you feel. It can be difficult to feel lonely or like you're missing out on something, especially when you see the people around  you in relationships, living their lives, and from the outside, it looks like they're having a hell of a lot of fun.

It's natural to want that, too. But in the short-term, you are 16 years old, going through secondary school, and that window of time from about 12 or 13-18 can be one of the most challenging and confusing in your life. But it sounds like you've got a bit of depression and I can tell you from experience that the worst thing you can do when depressed is to put a focus on things outside of your own control. You can't feel entitled to or expect a relationship to come your way, or expect some sort of validation from the experience as if having a girlfriend would suddenly fix the dissatisfaction and sadness you're currently feeling.

You need to take care of yourself and your priorities before you can worry about yourself. As of this moment, this likely means school, work, and your own health. It's rough sometimes to stay focused through the stress, but at the same time (sorry for being blunt) you have an obligation to yourself to get your stuff together and fulfill your other obligations in life despite feeling upset, insecure, and frustrated. If you have an excessive amount of negative energy, I'd recommend trying to find a nearby gym, YMCA, community center, etc that has some sort of exercise equipment, I find it really helps physical health, mental health, and blows off a lot of steam if I get upset.

I'd really recommend watching some of Jordan Peterson's lectures about coping with depression, sorting out your life, and finding meaning.
They're really helpful and insightful, and I know personally they really help me when I'm at my worst.

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Off Topic / Re: POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD

« on: February 18, 2018, 12:58:43 AM »

The two party system is a bunch of bullstuff.

Dems and Reps are handicaps.

Time for revolution. forget this country.

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Off Topic / Re: POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD

« on: February 18, 2018, 12:48:04 AM »

The two party system is a bunch of bullstuff.

Dems and Reps are handicaps.

Time for revolution. forget this country.

A revolution to what? Don't be so naive, you realize that contemporary revolutions/coups almost always end in an authoritarian opportunist seizing power, right? Whenever a power vacuum is created (as in the collapse/overthrow of a government) there is a chance for a tyrant to rise.

Ex: Junta/AAA installing Pinochet in Chile, Chavez in Venezuela, Castro in Cuba, China/Soviet backed paramilitary forces installing the Kim regime in NK, etc etc.

If you think the two-party system is stuff, wait until you see a uniparty with the overt goal of loving over anyone in their way.

Look at what Stalin and his goons did in the USSR. They assassinated Trotsky, drove around in mobile gas-chambers to murder perceived enemies of the state, they murdered hundreds of thousands of people that they deemed to be threats to themselves through some combination of shooting, stabbing, hanging, and gassing. This isn't even mentioning the further millions they killed through incompetence.

Mao and the Red Guards got up to similar shenanigans in China, but they also destroyed irreplaceable pieces of their own history and heritage while they were at it, going so far as to drag the mummified bodies of past emperors out of tombs, nail them to trees, cut off their genitalia, and burn them along with the priceless artifacts from their burial sites.

But what of the people that helped these animals come to power? What happened to them? The more powerful among the revolutionaries were often lined up and shot, with the weaker and more controllable either being imprisoned in labor camps or sent back to the countryside to live in poverty and famine. 

Any sort of revolutionary in the modern era, especially marxists/socialists, don't loving realize that when the revolution happens, they will not be the ones in control. When they've outlived their usefulness the revolutionaries will be forced to dig their own graves, lined up, and slaughtered like hogs by the very regime they installed.

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Off Topic / Re: I'm legal now

« on: February 18, 2018, 12:12:00 AM »

congrats, I hope your first loveually explicit legal viewing was the TBL getting forgetin reamed by big richard Eddie "literally 47 saves" Lack and the Devs

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Off Topic / Re: was it ever established what happened to magick mage?

« on: February 17, 2018, 12:10:31 PM »

he was too pure for this cesspool

you're not wrong. He was one of the few truly good people ever to be here .

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Off Topic / Re: was it ever established what happened to magick mage?

« on: February 17, 2018, 12:30:55 AM »

Wasn't he going through the process of ordination to become a priest?

I'm guessing that he'd be pretty busy if that was the case. Running a church is a lot of work.

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Off Topic / Re: Robert Mueller charges 13 Russians with interfering in US election to help Annoying Orange

« on: February 16, 2018, 11:35:16 PM »

does this mean that the american far right and far left are sheeple following gopnik guidance

>implying gopniks are not secretly all bodhisattvas

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Off Topic / Re: post good music here

« on: February 16, 2018, 11:22:58 PM »

A few songs I've really enjoyed:

Shakey Graves - Late July
The Builders and the Butchers - Bringin' Home the Rain
Mandolin Orange - Darling Girl
Wolf Larsen - Kitchen Door
Iron & Wine - Time After Time (Cover of Cyndi Lauper)
Justin Vernon - A Song for a Lover of Long Ago
Passenger - Holocene (Cover of Bon Iver)
Sufjan Stevens - The Greatest Gift
S. Carey - Alpenglow
Noah Gundersen - Jesus, Jesus
The Woodlands - Long Lost Century
Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly - Mercury
Warning: Don't listen to the next few unless you want to be sad
Sufjan Stevens - Casimir Pulaski Day
Sufjan Stevens - John My Beloved
Bad Books - Pyotr


Just for fun:
Ramshackle Glory - Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of Your Fist
Andrew Jackson Jihad - Brave as a Noun

Based on how these threads usually go, this'll get buried by stuffposts but I'll put it here anyway on the off-chance someone is actually listening to the music suggestions :^)

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Off Topic / Re: why does rome get forgeted so much in history

« on: February 16, 2018, 10:52:27 PM »

truly the most sophisticated drink. lowly plebs can't even compete.

I know you're being sarcastic, but mercury tonics have been a thing for the wealthy for a long time. IIRC emperor Qin Shi Huang was buried in a tomb with a literal river of flowing mercury and he spent the later years of his life consuming it to, ironically, try to live forever.

Lead is still incredibly toxic but I don't know of instances where people were actively consuming it.

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Off Topic / Re: why does rome get forgeted so much in history

« on: February 16, 2018, 10:31:35 PM »

all the patricians were drinking water contaminated with heavy metals

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Games / Re: League of Legends - season ate

« on: February 16, 2018, 10:30:47 PM »

He's constantly like that all over the forums. Think he's just too high up on himself and doesn't bother to try and understand someone else's view, ever.

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Games / Re: League of Legends - season ate

« on: February 16, 2018, 09:44:56 PM »

ur channeling some seriously toxic attitude in your posts here and in the discord. you should be careful how you interpret other people’s messages and how aggressive you counter them. if you dont, i can see it being likely that you’ll get chatbanned at some point in the near future

^^^

being toxic is no way to deal with frustration. It's entirely possible to disagree with someone civilly without attacking or lashing out at them.