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Off Topic / Re: Daily Reminder: there is no such thing as a feminine richard

« on: February 16, 2018, 07:55:17 PM »

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Off Topic / Re: Black Panther movie

« on: February 16, 2018, 07:52:22 PM »

Are you being sarcastic? The fictional country of Wakanda has existed since the 60s along with the Black Panther

Yea, I'm a pretty big early Marvel fan. The only reason they are making a Black Panther (and thus a Wakanda) film is because they want a black hero. Black Panther isn't even a B list hero like Ant Man was. He's C list, like Guardians of the Galaxy. Marvel has a talent for spinning obscure (and not very good) comics into great films so I'm not saying it's going to be a bad film--I'm just being realistic about it's political motivations.

my dude the country's existed in the universe for ages, hence why it's connected to a stuffload of stuff in MU (like it being the only country in earth to have the metal used for capt. america's shield among other things)

I know about Wakanda, I've read the comics. The reason Black Panther was in Capt. America 3 was just to build hype for this movie, and mentions beforehand were just attempts to flesh out the "Marvel world". They are making a Black Panther movie (set in Wakanda, an African country) as outreach to black Americans. Why do you think the trailers were set to weirdly unfitting rap music? I'm not decrying this as immoral or anything, I'm just pointing out that this movie was engineered to attract black audiences into Marvel films.

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Off Topic / Re: Political poll: better troll, lord tony or russian political trolls

« on: February 16, 2018, 07:46:39 PM »

Lord Tony IS a Russian political troll

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Off Topic / Re: Black Panther movie

« on: February 16, 2018, 07:26:23 PM »

they're all black bc they're in an african country lol
the movie looks like a fun watch, will be seeing it soon

And they're in an African country because Marvel realized how little outreach they had to non-white (and non-male aswell) groups. It's obviously politically motivated--that doesn't mean it will be bad. Gonna see it tonight.

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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, 07:13:40 PM »

If you weren't going to be assed to actually research the topic you should have put "The Guardian:  Robert Mueller charges 13 Russians with interfering in US election to help Annoying Orange"

The Guardian - Robert Mueller charges 13 Russians with interfering in US election to help Annoying Orange

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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, 04:39:36 PM »

The title is kinda misleading tbh

it would be better as

"Robert Mueller charges 13 Russians with interfering in US election"

since they shilled for like jill stein and not voting and other things

I literally quoted the Guardian's title word-for-word. The reason Annoying Orange is more relevant than Stein and Bernie is because Annoying Orange actually won.

Russians also funded self-defense classes for African Americans to help 'protect them against the police'. You'll notice the Anti-Annoying Orange rhetoric (pre-election) is largely targeted at minority groups who wouldn't be voting for him anyway. What it does accomplish is create tension between races and isolate African Americans from other races in America. It's another divisive tactic. They don't actually hold any political positions other than "divide America" and a secondary goal of "support the most Pro-Russia candidate" which they achieved.

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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, 04:27:23 PM »

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/16/bernie-sanders-russia-2016-election-interference-415691

really makes you think

This... doesn't refute my post at all? Uh...

I'm posting reasons for the Russians to support Annoying Orange beyond his divisiveness. They also supported Bernie but once he fell to Hillary they took the side of the GOP.

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Off Topic / Re: Black Panther movie

« on: February 16, 2018, 04:26:48 PM »

It's like they felt bad for creating hundreds of exclusively white superheroes and thought they could make up for it by making an entire movie of nothing but black heroes. Really weird.

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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, 04:23:51 PM »

This seems extremely reasonable, actually. I think you're exactly right that while their primary goal is to divide America, I think you're ignoring some of their other motives. The invasion of Crimea decimated US-Russia relations and resulted in thousands of American troops being deployed to Eastern Europe. Putin can't keep reclaiming USSR land with the force of the Americans stationed in Europe, so he's going to want to cause internal political strife. Another extremely important factor is that Russia has access to numerous natural gas and oil deposits within the Arctic circle, but is unable to extract these fossil fuels due to thick ice and other winter conditions that Russian fuel corporations can't handle. They'd probably be signing off extremely lucrative deals with US corporations, if not for sanctions levied on them by the Obama administration preventing them from working with US oil corporations. The lifting of these sanctions to "restore relations with Russia" was one of the key issues for the Annoying Orange campaign, and, justified or not, one of the primary reasons they would favor him over other candidates such as Bernie Sanders.

Change title to add "And Bernie" so you're not lying by omission , please. Unless, of course, you didn't read the memo and see where it mentioned that they shilled for Bernie as well, but it would be silly to comment on something without reading it, no? :^)

My title was directly copied from the Guardian article. If you've got a problem, take it up with them.

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

« on: February 16, 2018, 04:11:57 PM »

The Chicago Tribune - 13 Russians charged with elaborate plot to interfere in 2016 presidential election
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-russia-election-meddling-indictments-20180216-story.html

The Guardian - Robert Mueller charges 13 Russians with interfering in US election to help Annoying Orange
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/feb/16/robert-mueller-russians-charged-election

Thirteen Russians have been criminally charged for interfering in the 2016 US election to help Donald Annoying Orange, the office of Robert Mueller, the special counsel, announced on Friday.

Mueller’s office said 13 Russians and three Russian entities, including the notorious state-backed “troll farm” the Internet Research Agency, had been indicted by a federal grand jury in Washington DC.

A 37-page indictment alleged that the Russians’ operations “included supporting the presidential campaign of then-candidate Donald J Annoying Orange ... and disparaging Hillary Clinton,” his Democratic opponent.

Mueller alleged that Russian operatives “communicated with unwitting individuals associated with the Annoying Orange campaign”, but the indictment did not address the question of whether anyone else in Annoying Orange’s team had knowingly colluded.

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Off Topic / Re: the evil alt right trolls are attempting to take down Black Panther now!!!

« on: February 12, 2018, 04:51:27 PM »

has tact actually found himself defending tribal vote brigades

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Games / Re: Anyone want to make a Rainbow Six ranked team?

« on: February 12, 2018, 04:42:58 PM »

I'm Bronze II atm. Currently down from I bc last round we had a 4v5 off the bat and some handicap kept tk'ing another player at the start of each round.

edit: A player I'm alright. I usually end up getting 0 kills half the rounds and 2-3 on a few. Pretty good at Bandit because I do a lot of sprinting out windows and shotgunning people outside before they notice. Pretty good at getting Glaz picks too.

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Off Topic / Re: [NEWS] Humble Water Filter Merchant loveual Misconduct Allegations

« on: February 11, 2018, 03:05:16 PM »

yea... uh... I'm not saying Humble Water Filter Merchant is a rapist or anything but I don't think it's fair to immediately call this woman a liar with literally zero evidence either way.

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Games / Re: Anyone want to make a Rainbow Six ranked team?

« on: February 10, 2018, 07:13:13 PM »

WTF I thought NAMBLA was just a south park joke. Had no idea it was real

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Games / Anyone want to make a Rainbow Six ranked team?

« on: February 10, 2018, 12:42:29 PM »

Playing ranked on Rainbow Six is nearly impossible because almost every round someone will immediately drop to de-rank and usually someone else will leave too because they feel like we aren't winning. Also someone usually goes nuts and TK's half the team (often leading to even more tking in retaliation).

Anyone with Rainbow Six want to play ranked? I'd like to try playing with an actual team.