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Post by fhdkweig »

saintfire wrote: post #210
ryandrake wrote: post #186

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Imagine having a lot of people you once admired and looked up to as role models, from actors all the way to even your parents, suddenly all within a decade or so take their masks off and reveal that they are actually villains.

Is it revelatory that human beings having a quality you admire aren't the ideal person you projected them to be? I'd reckon you'd be hard pressed to find a single person that matches every quality/belief you imagined them to have.

Fred Rogers was the same kind, thoughtful person in everyday life as he was when he acted on his show. You can watch the congressional tapes of him testifying on increased funding to PBS and also testifying on not making VCRs illegal.

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Post by parrellel »

ryandrake wrote: post #231
saintfire wrote: post #210

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Is it revelatory that human beings having a quality you admire aren't the ideal person you projected them to be? I'd reckon you'd be hard pressed to find a single person that matches every quality/belief you imagined them to have.

I don’t think this is about nit picking some small detail that causes them to fail a quality/belief checklist. It’s not like finding out your hero picks his nose or doesn’t like chocolate ice cream. When someone goes mask-off as MAGA, they are revealing fundamental core beliefs and values that totally flip the kind of person you might have thought they were. I have friends and family who I never thought had a hateful…

"Good People" suddenly going all in on racist rants and hard-core misogyny is never going to stop being disturbing.

Some of them taught me how to behave!? Did they just not believe any of those things?

MAGA is a horrifying movement.

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Post by frogperson »

boca_honey wrote: post #216
amjnsx wrote: post #102

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He was openly maga and a homophobe and a transphobe. I wouldn’t consider these qualities for a role model.

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Anyone not ashamed to be MAGA is a psychopath. It absolutely is a shameful, hateful stance to embrace.

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Post by wyldfire »

boca_honey wrote: post #216
amjnsx wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He was openly maga and a homophobe and a transphobe. I wouldn’t consider these qualities for a role model.

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MAGA isn't a political platform, it's a cult of personality.

Witness the abrupt reversal in public opinion on foreign wars in the last month.

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Post by UncleOxidant »

petcat wrote: post #86
MBCook wrote: post #70

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It was so funny how that whole thing happened. For the first time in over a decade he was suddenly relevant in a way. People remembered he existed, and they were playing off his tough guy image. And what did he do? Try and shut it down and start suing people. Stupid. It took him a couple of years to come around to it. If it wasn’t for those jokes would he be remembered anywhere as well? Or would he be a much more obs…

> would he be remembered anywhere as well? You underestimate how popular Walker, Texas Ranger was. It wasn't pulling ratings like Seinfeld, ER, or Friends, but it was a solid primetime staple for almost a decade. I never watched it myself, but the 50+ demo loved it.

The only time I ever saw Walker,Texas Ranger was when I was living in Italy for a few months in the aughts. It was dubbed in Italian. Apparently it was popular there.

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Post by boca_honey »

cthalupa wrote: post #278
braincat31415 wrote: post #244

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What part about Chuck was a great role model for real men? The homophobia? The racism? The infidelity? The conspiracy theories? Or just because he was a martial artist and actor that had a bunch of low effort memes?

Just out of curiosity, could you (or anyone else) give a couple of examples of what you would consider "great role models for real men"? Or "good role models for well-adapted men", if you'd rather use less inflammatory language.

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Post by frogperson »

boca_honey wrote: post #267
ErroneousBosh wrote: post #225

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> You say "openly MAGA" as if it were a crime or something to be ashamed of Can you explain why it's not something to be ashamed of?

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You have a very narrow and rose colored view of what maga is. To us living in the US, maga stands for pedophilia, misogyny, racism, fascism, homophobia, transphobia, corroption and much more.

It absolutely has nothing to do with putting america first, it has everything to do with putting trump first. Im afraid you have made the mistake of listening to a politicians words instead of watching his actions. Every word from his mouth is a lie.

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Post by mindslight »

willio58 wrote: post #31

There was a period of like 2 years when I was a kid where chuck Norris jokes were all the rage on the playground and I made an iPhone app that listed them all. Jokes like “Chuck Norris is able to slam a revolving door.” Anyway, I “built” this stupid app when I was like 13, copy-pasted like 300 jokes in there and a random one would show every time you tapped the screen. Chuck Norris’s estate blocked the app from going…

> Chuck Norris’s estate blocked the app from going live. I wish I had printed that rejection out and framed it.

Seeing the youthful spirit run headfirst into the corprocracy of locked down devices and app stores is depressing. Twenty years ago you would have made a webapp or flash animation, most likely avoided scrutiny and not even been shaken down. Thirty years ago you would have made a QBasic program and floppy/email/dcc it to your friends, completely illegible to the corprocracy. But these days simply trying to publish through the common channels, and you're immediately subject to restrictions made for businesses.

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Post by amelius »

MBCook wrote: post #70
willio58 wrote: post #31

There was a period of like 2 years when I was a kid where chuck Norris jokes were all the rage on the playground and I made an iPhone app that listed them all. Jokes like “Chuck Norris is able to slam a revolving door.” Anyway, I “built” this stupid app when I was like 13, copy-pasted like 300 jokes in there and a random one would show every time you tapped the screen. Chuck Norris’s estate blocked the app from going…

It was so funny how that whole thing happened. For the first time in over a decade he was suddenly relevant in a way. People remembered he existed, and they were playing off his tough guy image. And what did he do? Try and shut it down and start suing people. Stupid. It took him a couple of years to come around to it. If it wasn’t for those jokes would he be remembered anywhere as well? Or would he be a much more obs…

> And what did he do? Try and shut it down and start suing people. Stupid.

Isn't that an obligation when you own a trademark? That you sue people, or else you may lose the trademark?

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