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wvParticipantI dunno about Chappelle. There are times i love his humor and there are times,
I dont.Yeah I agree. Some things just aren’t funny.
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I just have a gut-feeling comics sometimes just want to stretch the boundaries and prove that ‘anything’ has a funny side. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesnt.
Like i know numerous Jews who make Holocaust jokes. The sing holocaust songs, in the car, etc. Dark humor. But it comes from an authentic place. And it works, at least for them.
But then sometimes i think it doesnt really come from an authentic place. Sometimes i think it just comes from a comic’s ego. And it doesnt work. At least for me.
Like if a sex-abuse-survivor does a bit about sex-abuse, maybe it works for me. I dunno. Tricky ground, imho. For me it has somethin ta do with what i’m labeling authenticity. But dont ask me what that means.
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vwvParticipantI dunno about Chappelle. There are times i love his humor and there are times,
I dont.Some of this stuff, i cant say i like. I noticed Louie CK going in directions like this many years ago and I didnt like it from him, either. Sometimes i think comedians feel a need to push-the-envelope or somethin. Just for the sake of pushing the envelope.
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wvParticipantwvParticipantWell…..based on that clip, i have a bad feeling about it. Looks like another version of the Avengers.
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vMy question is, what do sandworms eat.
They are really big and there can’t be a whole lot of foodstuffs wandering around out on the desert.
At least on earth blue whales have krill.
That’s a cruel trick of evolution–to make you this gigantic creature who lives in desert sands, where nothing edible would venture.
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Ya know. There’s this thing called the Internet. You can search “what do worms eat?”“Types of Foods for Composting Worms
“…worms love fruits and vegetables from your kitchen and garden. Save your left-over, spoilt organic matter, peelings, and cores for the worms. They also like tea bags, bread, pasta, grains, shredded black print newspaper, coffee grounds, and hair”w
vwvParticipantWell…..based on that clip, i have a bad feeling about it. Looks like another version of the Avengers.
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vwvParticipant“…Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence at the time. Mr. Coats himself was haunted by the president’s Twitter feed and believed that Mr. Trump’s gentle approach to Russia reflected something more sinister….”
=============This to me — and i know others here disagree — but this to me, is part of the mega-problem. This CIA-murderer is upset at Trump, NOT because trump has interfered in left-leaning nations, or that Trump has bombed Syria or that Trump has embraced dictators in Saudi Arabia, or that Trump is destroying the biosphere with his insane enviro-policies — no. The spook is upset because Trump is not hostile enough towards Russia. Like Hillary would have been.
This is exactly why people like me, and bill moyers and glenn greenwald and chris hedges and cornell west are not averse to the ‘deep state’ term.
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vwvParticipantThis was one of the replies to that angela vang, meme about npr:
“npr: are enough of our drone pilots women? we speak to the young woman in charge of Signature Strike Operations about her “more teats in the seats” campaign to train more women drone operators.”
===========the right: npr is a radical left organization
npr: does everyone deserve housing? we discuss with a landlord
— angela vang (@angvaj) September 4, 2020
wvParticipantBelieve it or not, i tend to agree with Sagaar on a lot of this. And yall know what i think of Trump. But the Atlantic piece struck me as mainly a political-hit-piece by the Dem-CIA-War-Machine.
And like Sagaar, I think its more than likely Trump did indeed say something along the lines of whats been reported. I’m SURE he’s said a LOT worse in the last four years. But the Timing of the story AND the agenda of The Atlantic/NYT/Wash-Post/MSNBC etc has NEVER been simply to ‘tell the truth.’ Its the Thomas Friedman agenda. I often call it the deep-state, but its basically just the Imperialism-Agenda if that term is less problematic.
Am i the onliest one who agrees with Sagaar?
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All i know is, if Cornell looked like Denzel or Billy Dee Williams, Fox would never have him on. Fox loves Cornell’s look.
I wonder if Noam has ever been asked to be on Fox News? Someone should ask him that.
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“If you want a vision of the bleak, bland capitalist future, go to Hudson Yards in New York City, the new, billion-dollar complex of gleaming skyscrapers. It’s a lifeless shopping mall for luxury goods, intensely policed and surveilled, where every aspect of life is curated by a corporation… This is the city for the winners. The losers will be in homeless encampments outside the city gates.
The left’s city of the future looks very different. It is a Star Trek world, where we can travel through space together and meet aliens. It is public libraries and free colleges, where all can come and learn without worrying about money. It is Mardis Gras in New Orleans, where everyone expresses their individuality through art and costume without any regard for profit or commerce. It is camping trips and cookouts, book clubs and street cafes. It is the theory that life is meant to be enjoyed, and that nobody should lack the basic ingredients for a decent existence. It is, above all, the conviction that we’re here to help each other through this thing, whatever it is.”
― Nathan J. Robinson, Why You Should Be a SocialistSeptember 7, 2020 at 9:57 pm in reply to: Discuss game one! Dallas at Rams, Sunday 9/13 … 8:20 et, 5:20 pt #120596wvParticipantAfter the beat-down last year, its understandable the Rams would be dogs.
Looks like its about the second-most interesting game on the NFL schedule in week one. I would think Brady vs the Saints will be the most-watched game.
I went ahead and let GamePass sign me up for another year. I was leaning against it, but I went ahead and let the corporate-weasels automatically sign me up.
This has to be the strangest NFL year of all time. The Covid-Year. The year piped-in-fake-fan/noise was added to the telecast. Empty stadiums.The super-bowl could be played in any empty stadium. Think about that.
Random players will be getting Covid, every week. Think about that.
Weird-Football in the midst of the civil-war-Election-of-the-century.
All the players will be kneeling this time. Cept Kaepernik is nowhere on the field.What a strange trip.
Go Rams. I guess.
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vwvParticipant58 Days to the Election.
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Pa:https://www.monmouth.edu/polling-institute/reports/monmouthpoll_pa_090220/
September 2nd.Pennsylvania
“… Among likely voters, the race is a tight 1 to 3 points, depending on the expected turnout level. This shift from Biden’s larger lead just over six weeks ago is due to declining support for the challenger among men, voters under age 50, and voters in key swing counties…”wvParticipantYour Labor Day moment of Zen:
Trump going down.
You’re welcome… pic.twitter.com/KwSRtHd7Mh
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) September 7, 2020
wvParticipant“It will be rigged, but not in the way you think”
September 7, 2020 at 11:25 am in reply to: Rams sign RB, Raymond Calais off TBay’s Practice Squad #120556wvParticipantIs he a Trung?
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vwvParticipantwvParticipantwvParticipantwvParticipantwvParticipant….I agree that that benefits Trump at this point.
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Well, I am WORRIED that it will benefit Trump. I am worried because in many places, including America, all through history, a perception that chaos/riots are spreading very very often SCARES the bourgeoisie into leaning to the Right.
But…i dunno. America is a strange place today. Maybe things will be different this time. There are some encouraging signs, some encouraging polls. But who knows.
I just wish Mississipi, Alabama, Texas, South Carolina and Florida would secede and form their own RightWing-Evangelical-Libertarian country. Really. If the Kurds deserve a homeland, then the South deserves one too.
Abe Lincoln was wrong. Let’em go. Otherwise they are gonna drag us all to Hell.
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I dunno.I think W is right to be concerned about it. ANY violence by the ‘protesters’ is gonna fit nicely into a rightwing frame of Dem-equals-soft-on-crime.
Doesnt matter how big a pile of bullshit it is — Americans swallow shovels full of bull-shit everyday.
Having said that, it is what it is. The protests are not gonna stop. The pieces are in play. The die is cast. The protesters have…um…crossed the Rubicon. The game is afoot.
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wvParticipantThe “Trump said fallen soldiers were losers” thing sounds like a Dem-Smear tactic to me. Cut into Trump’s military following. Part of his base.
Wait a second….is it even possible to ‘smear’ Trump?
Surreal times.
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vwvParticipantI live in a city in the outskirts of the Philly suburbs and I can tell you that if anyone here has any enthusiasm for Joe Biden at all,it isn’t showing. This city is mostly Latino and the Democrats are failing somewhat miserably in engaging them at all…
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Good to see you again, PA.
Ive had several young college-students ask me if I thot there was going to be a ‘civil war’ soon. What do you think happened in the last ten years or so?
I guess we’ve always had this blue/red divide but somethin seems different now.w
vwvParticipantI share your concern W, but ‘activist’ covers a LOT of ground.
Also, ‘activists’ are not going to stop anytime soon. Whether its Neo-Nazi activists or Antifa-activists or BLM-activists or whatever.
If the polls are right, you and i can stop worry about the activists.
wvParticipantwvParticipantI think his main point is that making the election about Trump is a losing strategy. It should be about policy.
I agree that Biden should be crushing Trump in the polls. .
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Well, maybe in Portugal. Or Finland.
Not in Corporate-Capitalism-Central.
The System made too many Red-State versions of Idiots and Blue-State versions of idiots.
How could there be a landslide by either side on the planet-of-the-apes?
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vwvParticipantThis was an interesting race. Saagar’s question was interesting.
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wvParticipantI’m not sure this blog post belongs here, but..
—-In Donald Trump’s interview with Laura Ingraham last week, he talked about the “shadow people” he believes lurk behind Joe Biden:
INGRAHAM: Who do you think is pulling Biden’s strings? Is it former Obama officials?
TRUMP: People that you’ve never heard of. People that are in the dark shadows.Fifteen years ago, the Fox News personality was likely to be the one pushing the conspiratorial envelope. Glenn Beck playing with rubber frogs while railing about assassination plots or spinning elaborate tales connecting Barack Obama to both Hitler and Stalin represented the outward edge of crazy in mainstream discourse.
Today the Fox anchor is the voice of restraint, pleading with the President of the United States to stay on planet earth while cameras roll:
INGRAHAM: What does that mean? That sounds like conspiracy theory.
TRUMP: No, people that you haven’t heard of. They’re people that are on the streets. They’re people that are controlling the streets…
We’ve been living with Trump for so long, we’ve gotten out of the habit of asking the basic questions we normally ask, when a famous person says something odd. What is he thinking? Is he being serious? …
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Well see, this is where i part company with a Lot of people, including Taibbi, who i like as you know.
I dont think there is anything weird about Trump’s comment. I dont think its crazy-conspiratorial. I think its intelligent-conspiratorial.
There ARE mega-rich-corporate weasels behind Biden. As there were with Obama, and Clinton, and Reagan, and Bush, and on and on. There’s actually plenty of quotes about this BY past Presidents going all the way back to Jefferson.
There’s always the Politician-Front-Man, and then there’s the Money-People behind the scenes. Why does Taibbi think thats crazy-conspiratorial?
Isnt it also true about Trump? I dunno. Trump’s a billionaire-Narcissist-Ass-Clown. So, ironically, he may be the first President its NOT true of. I dunno.
This is all a minor point, but its just a thing with me. I hate it when MSM-types or Taibbi-types act like ALL talk of shadow-government-power is crazy talk. I wanna tell them grow up. Of COURSE there’s mega-money people in the shadows. Duh.
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vwvParticipantI assume this just means americans have other things on their minds. Or to restate that, they’ve had other things put into their minds.
—The federal budget deficit grew from $779.1 billion at the end of fiscal 2018 to $2.8 trillion at the end of July. Over roughly that same period, the share of U.S. adults calling the deficit a "very big problem" fell from 55% to 47%. https://t.co/mgvIIVuY9r pic.twitter.com/S25C8YWGjp
— Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) September 4, 2020
wvParticipantGaffigan is very well-known. He’s been posted here, numerous times, I’m sure.
wvParticipantSpent the week in a cabin near Ohiopyle Pennsylvania. Rural western Pennsylvania. Looks a lot like WV. Mountains, Pickup Trucks, curvy-roads, hunters, fishermen, pies, pitch-forks.
Saw five-gazillion Trump signs.
Not one single solitary Biden sign. I looked for em. It became a game. Find Biden Sign.
I’m not making too much of it, though. I’m sure there’s plenty of western pa folks who will vote for Biden. But they aint excited about him, apparently. Not excited enuff to put up a sign.
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