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Post by Ulythium on Jun 24, 2024 15:39:03 GMT
M.I.A. hasn't been on speaking terms with reality for quite some time.
Edit: Or what Chopsen said! That'll teach me to refresh the page before posting.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jun 24, 2024 15:43:18 GMT
A lot of her stuff seemed to stem from her pathological inability to admit that she wasn't always the smartest person in the room (she never was) and her total inability to admit that she may ever wrong about something. It's a potent combination.
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Post by gamingdave on Jun 24, 2024 15:46:05 GMT
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Post by Ulythium on Jun 24, 2024 15:46:48 GMT
Jambowayoh Agreed. She was cosying up to RFK Jr. recently, who seems to fit into a similar mould from what (little) I know of him.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jun 24, 2024 15:50:25 GMT
We'll ignore the sheer whiplash of irony from a company going on about protecting your data advertising their product through Instagram. A Meta owned product.
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Post by otto on Jun 24, 2024 15:57:20 GMT
Are we cross-posting from the film opinions thread now?
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Post by Chopsen on Jun 24, 2024 16:09:37 GMT
There's a weird "get out of jail free" card that people who have peddle alternative/complimentary medicine and quackery can get away with. It's always carefully worded to *look* like it's claiming something, but on careful parsing doesn't. "Our new magic pants *are believed* to help penis growth." It's never clarified who believes it or on what basis.
I used to have quite a benign view on a lot of alternative medicine and the like, thinking they're not harming abody and yeah whatever you believe what you like. I've changed my mind on that a bit. There's some very harmful beliefs out there, such as vaccine rejection, and even for those that aren't actively harmful they're often weaponised as a part of a belief system that is used to shore up frankly cult like behaviour. Look at Alex Jones' line of "supplements." In isolation, yeah whatever, a fool and his money. In the context of what he's doing in frankly settling up a cult of personality around himself though? Different kettle of fish. It's a model a lot of modern day "Gurus" have adopted.
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Post by gamingdave on Jun 24, 2024 16:14:40 GMT
Seems like a pretty direct claim to me...
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Post by Onny on Jun 24, 2024 16:23:22 GMT
It seems a lifetime ago when people thought the information superhighway would provide so much valuable information and make us smarter. It remains weird to me that Kojima basically predicted mass misinformation via the Internet in MGS2.
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Post by JuniorFE on Jun 24, 2024 16:56:15 GMT
It seems a lifetime ago when people thought the information superhighway would provide so much valuable information and make us smarter. It remains weird to me that Kojima basically predicted mass misinformation via the Internet in MGS2. And then again in Revengeance
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Post by Psiloc on Jun 24, 2024 17:05:40 GMT
Kind of wish I’d come up with that tin foil bucket hat though. I’d take that money with glee
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Post by cubby on Jun 24, 2024 17:08:51 GMT
It seems a lifetime ago when people thought the information superhighway would provide so much valuable information and make us smarter. It remains weird to me that Kojima basically predicted mass misinformation via the Internet in MGS2. And the world went wtf is this 2 hour conspiracy theory cut scene bs??
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Post by elstoof on Jun 24, 2024 17:17:51 GMT
Those boxer shorts are for amateurs, real men stick our nuts in an actual faraday cage
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Post by mothercruncher on Jun 24, 2024 17:44:53 GMT
Fuck’s sake, what’s she got against EMF?
Unbelievable.
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Post by technoish on Jun 24, 2024 17:46:20 GMT
Are we cross-posting from the film opinions thread now? Isn't this Teletubby land?
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Post by elstoof on Jun 24, 2024 17:49:06 GMT
I’m pretty sure Jas Mann wore those boxers in the video for Babylon Zoo’s “Spaceman”
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Post by zephro on Jun 24, 2024 17:51:48 GMT
I've really come to appreciate how horseshoe theory is really a thing in recent years. You go far enough to the left or the right and and you end up in the same space. I've really gone against it lately on the basis that people are more than points on a single dimensional right/left line and the idea it loops back on itself is just a sign that you're trying to make the 1 dimensional shape fit reality. It's sort of like phlogiston. Though the absolute mad-shit seems to be more personality types + lack of critical faculties. Like the politics barely matter, people just react to being told they're wrong in fucking weird ways. Like MIA. Bring the Noize is still a banger though.
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Post by Whizzo on Jun 24, 2024 17:53:03 GMT
Peter Jackson was wrong in not including the Scouring of Teletubbyland in the films.
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Post by Psiloc on Jun 24, 2024 18:10:54 GMT
I’m pretty sure Jas Mann wore those boxers in the video for Babylon Zoo’s “Spaceman” This band was local to me and it’s not rare to know someone who knows someone who was in it. Apparently the singer screws them all out of royalties
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jun 24, 2024 18:56:32 GMT
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Post by zephro on Jun 24, 2024 19:12:21 GMT
Why does he even work for the Guardian? www.theguardian.com/profile/simonjenkinsPylons are bad an "urbanise" the countryside Nonsense about "Beautiful" buildings, e.g. ones he can look at not ones people live in or something useful. D-Day blunder isn't the worst thing National Service good actually?
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Post by askew on Jun 24, 2024 19:19:12 GMT
Fellowship of the Noo-Noo
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Post by askew on Jun 24, 2024 19:21:26 GMT
Why does he even work for the Guardian? www.theguardian.com/profile/simonjenkinsPylons are bad an "urbanise" the countryside Nonsense about "Beautiful" buildings, e.g. ones he can look at not ones people live in or something useful. D-Day blunder isn't the worst thing National Service good actually? Gotta have a bit of balance
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Post by Chopsen on Jun 24, 2024 19:21:54 GMT
I've really come to appreciate how horseshoe theory is really a thing in recent years. You go far enough to the left or the right and and you end up in the same space. I've really gone against it lately on the basis that people are more than points on a single dimensional right/left line and the idea it loops back on itself is just a sign that you're trying to make the 1 dimensional shape fit reality. It's sort of like phlogiston. Though the absolute mad-shit seems to be more personality types + lack of critical faculties. Like the politics barely matter, people just react to being told they're wrong in fucking weird ways. Like MIA. Bring the Noize is still a banger though. The left/right single dimension is too simplistic, but I have also found that there are people on extremes who would hold views interchangeable with those that they would regard themselves in opposition too, and get more so at the more extreme they are. This is often per-issue, rather than being an across the board as a organised belief system.
Look at that batshit mental tree that got posted on the other page that started this. On the one hand, individualism (as defined by...er...magna carta) was held to be good, but on the bad side capitalism and personal choice around what you spend your money (globalism) was was held to be bad.
While people who are making money tend to be capitalist, once they make their money they tend to be reactionary and conservative as they don't want to lose their capital.
Those that want personal freedom (or even more typically, freedom of speech) often draw the line when that freedom is used to do something they don't like.
This horseshoe exists in non-Euclidean n-dimensional space, as a simple left/right scale is too reductionist
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Jun 24, 2024 20:02:46 GMT
A lot of her stuff seemed to stem from her pathological inability to admit that she wasn't always the smartest person in the room (she never was) and her total inability to admit that she may ever wrong about something. It's a potent combination. She married a billionaire and instead of becoming comic book evil like Holly Valance, instantly becoming ‘The Man’ just broke her brain.
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Post by Danno on Jun 24, 2024 20:16:24 GMT
He's such a cunt, doesn't even have the decency to write for the Telegraph.
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Post by elstoof on Jun 24, 2024 20:46:38 GMT
I fly like paper get high like plane I married into money and it broke my brain If you come around here I’ll be dribbling all day Tin foil balaclava block radio waves
all i wanna do is bang-bang-bang ker-ching and ah
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Post by Whizzo on Jun 24, 2024 20:53:56 GMT
As Sky can't show it I recommend anyone with the means to acquire a copy of Last Week Tonight from last night, John Oliver is in fine form calling the Tories cunts for about 30 minutes and it's rather enjoyable.
edit: not exactly sure Empire's James Dyer should have posted this but it's quite possible he got a nod from LWT themselves as he deals with HBO a fair amount but here's the very end of the show.
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Post by Whizzo on Jun 24, 2024 21:24:41 GMT
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Post by cubby on Jun 24, 2024 21:34:35 GMT
Wow, the Russians are even infiltrating the comments on that article. On a Salisbury local website.
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