if someone could do a quick explainer on my the tankies are pro-assad, that would be great, it's totally confusing to me
― gbx, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 01:36 (six years ago) link
what I've seen has not been pro-assad so much as countering the narrative that the US has not been involved and needs to do more
― ogmor, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 08:37 (six years ago) link
a lot of tankies are reflexively ant-NATO/the west when it comes to foreign policy. so for instance they will defend or minimize serbian war crimes during the yugoslavian civil war because serbia was backed by russia and bombed by NATO.
in Syria were the opposition forces have been western funded jihadists http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/15/world/middleeast/jihadists-receiving-most-arms-sent-to-syrian-rebels.html?mtrref=www.google.ca&gwh=F89CC97711B83E8283EE22C80058A4E3&gwt=pay, western funded YPG https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20180130-what-is-behind-the-us-support-of-the-ypg/ and the regime is backed by russia, and iran, for a lot of tankies this is basically a manichaean good vs bad, imperialism vs anti-imperialism sort of situation. as obtuse as that may sound
― Louis Jägermeister (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 16:28 (six years ago) link
of course tankies literally think that stalinism was good and that the dprk has a good system of government
― Louis Jägermeister (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 16:32 (six years ago) link
This should be good
Journalist @sarahljaffe and labor historian @gabrielwinant on the WV strike and the coming Supreme Court ruling on Janus. https://t.co/UcYgIDupwH— Jacobin (@jacobinmag) March 14, 2018
― Simon H., Wednesday, 14 March 2018 17:45 (six years ago) link
this is amazing
lmao dasha rules @nobody_stop_me pic.twitter.com/mRf9awWm6c— darcie wilder (@333333333433333) March 13, 2018
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 18:10 (six years ago) link
damn anime daria got owned
― sleepingbag, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 18:23 (six years ago) link
her actual answers were mostly not great (mostly because people tend to freeze up when faced with bullshit "gotcha" framings which is why they get used) but her delivery/outfit combo more than make up for it
― Simon H., Wednesday, 14 March 2018 18:30 (six years ago) link
honestly tho the correct response when faced with 1nfowars / rebel med1a assholes is to walk away
― Simon H., Wednesday, 14 March 2018 18:31 (six years ago) link
yeah IW will run this as a "win" all day long. just tell em to OD on BRAIN FORCE and fuck off
― constitutional crises they fly at u face (will), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 18:33 (six years ago) link
dasha won
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 18:37 (six years ago) link
'anime daria' gtfo
the fash have no respect for sailor mercury it seems
― Simon H., Wednesday, 14 March 2018 18:39 (six years ago) link
In my experience, best way to handle Infowars creeps is to just reply "that's what THEY want you to believe" to anything they say and if they ask you to clarify mumble about the deep state.
xpost flappy bird no need to dignify the 'bag with an answer
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 18:39 (six years ago) link
dasha calling her 'honey,' looking at her phone the whole time, and the last exchange - "what question? / healthcare / free healthcare" - she wins
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 18:46 (six years ago) link
oh yeah wait lmao how could i forget "you people have worms in your brain"
is this the same dasha thats dating adam?
― flippy bard (Will M.), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 18:49 (six years ago) link
yeah
she's really great in a new movie called Wobble Palace, that's why she was at SXSW
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 18:50 (six years ago) link
she's very charming
dating that damn bug tho lol
― Louis Jägermeister (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 18:55 (six years ago) link
The best thing about the actress drinking iced coffee is that she’s repeating chapo memes on camera so I end up not seeing her as an elite.
― Nerdstrom Poindexter, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 20:01 (six years ago) link
given that the de facto leader of chapo is a native manhattanite son of a new yorker editor i don't think they really lend a non-elite cred? nor is that the appeal of the show?
― Louis Jägermeister (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 20:02 (six years ago) link
but being an actor is obviously beyond the pale, as is drinking ice coffee
― Louis Jägermeister (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 20:03 (six years ago) link
havent you guys heard actors have really reliable and lucrative streams of income, it's like guaranteed $$$
― gbx, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 20:10 (six years ago) link
i put out a resume to be in the next marvel movies, fingers crossed :)
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 22:13 (six years ago) link
Hollywood dumped me, my family disowned me, religion is now a crime, and any sense of community has been completely corrupted. We have become a dog eat dog world. The less trust we have, the smaller our forces. And the more we feel alone, the less we are a threat.— Ashton Whitty (@ashtonbirdie) March 13, 2018
getting disowned by my family to own the libs
― louise ck (milo z), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 23:17 (six years ago) link
what chapo memes did dasha say? all she said was that health care should be free. and that infowars employees have worms in their brains
― flappy bird, Thursday, 15 March 2018 01:13 (six years ago) link
They bring up Venezuela like four times in the full clip
https://youtu.be/febVuHWGx5Y
― jmm, Thursday, 15 March 2018 01:19 (six years ago) link
venezuela isn't a chapo meme also dasha is only in like a minute of it
― flappy bird, Thursday, 15 March 2018 01:42 (six years ago) link
Oh, I didn't mean that in response to you. I just thought it was amusing that they kept bringing up Venezuela.('They' = the Infowars people)
― jmm, Thursday, 15 March 2018 01:49 (six years ago) link
o right
hell yea
― flappy bird, Thursday, 15 March 2018 04:22 (six years ago) link
did you know they eat rats for dinner there?
― flappy bird, Thursday, 15 March 2018 04:23 (six years ago) link
I agree her dismissiveness is the best way to handle an infowars gotcha thing and just laughing at/refusing to engage with the Venezuela questions as well is pretty much perfect. I think I was just seeing a lot of fawning on my twitter feed this morning.
― Nerdstrom Poindexter, Thursday, 15 March 2018 08:03 (six years ago) link
Her deadpan reactions remind me of this classic(from _thirty-two_ years ago, christ)
https://youtu.be/8ISil7IHzxc
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Thursday, 15 March 2018 19:10 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ISil7IHzxc
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Thursday, 15 March 2018 19:11 (six years ago) link
thingfish
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 16 March 2018 13:52 (six years ago) link
Fans of Adomian’s Gorka should check out the newest Comedy Bang Bang where he appears
― Mordy, Friday, 16 March 2018 15:12 (six years ago) link
The return of Frost/Christman
― louise ck (milo z), Thursday, 22 March 2018 20:07 (six years ago) link
Brendan James chronicles the decline of Ricky Gervais
https://thebaffler.com/latest/what-happened-to-ricky-gervais-james
― Simon H., Friday, 23 March 2018 00:36 (six years ago) link
Or, "Those of us who hated him since The 11 O'Clock Show Are Totally Vindicated."
Meanwhile, his previously neglected contemporaries have all risen up: Iannucci conquered America with Veep, Steve Coogan got an Oscar nomination for writing Philomena, and Chris Morris made the best comedy in twenty years with Four Lions.
Struggling to see how any of that trio were 'neglected' in any form?
― carson dial, Friday, 23 March 2018 01:36 (six years ago) link
I think he's speaking strictly from an American POV.
― Simon H., Friday, 23 March 2018 01:37 (six years ago) link
Yeah, at the height of Gervais' success Ianucci and Morris were definitley cool insider things to be into outside the UK (Coogan's profile a bit higher, I think).
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 23 March 2018 09:24 (six years ago) link
fwiw I had to Google Iannucci and I've watched 4 seasons of Veep and had never heard of Four Lions or Chris Morris before
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 23 March 2018 13:44 (six years ago) link
not to get all corny uk fuxx0r here but time spent catching up on the chris morris ouevre is time well spent
― playing in his high school band “The Velvet Pickle” (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 23 March 2018 13:45 (six years ago) link
even if the current hellscape of broadcast news makes brass eye look a bit redundant nowadays
― playing in his high school band “The Velvet Pickle” (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 23 March 2018 13:46 (six years ago) link
Brass Eye is essential viewing. (xp!)
― Simon H., Friday, 23 March 2018 13:46 (six years ago) link
blue jam is i think my favourite of his tv stuff, but four lions is the best thing he's ever done imo
― playing in his high school band “The Velvet Pickle” (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 23 March 2018 13:50 (six years ago) link
FL doesn't quiiiiite come together for me but I appreciate the effort to communicate how silliness and horror can coexist
― Simon H., Friday, 23 March 2018 13:51 (six years ago) link
I think I love the animals episode of <i>Brass Eye</i> best of all. It's an experience where you you're still processing one joke and another has already passed.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 23 March 2018 13:59 (six years ago) link
I honestly think the first time I saw the pyramids reveal is the hardest I've ever laughed at anything
― Simon H., Friday, 23 March 2018 14:10 (six years ago) link
had never heard of Four Lions or Chris Morris before
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, March 23, 2018 9:44 AM (thirty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
same. here in the US, Chris Morris is just a mediocre NBA player from the 90s.
― evol j, Friday, 23 March 2018 14:16 (six years ago) link