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Post by Emblematic Wolfblade on Dec 28, 2020 18:18:39 GMT -5
I'm surprised it's remained open this long. Now we can go back to pretending all this wasn't just said by some people and live in perfect harmony, harmony like an awkward family Thanksgiving/Christmas dinner with the obviously racist uncle. unsurprising tbh. I was shocked when it lasted 10 pages, let alone the nearly 20 it made it to. It was kinda interesting to see all the people clutching their pearls about silencing fascists and kicking them out of the hobby than condemning and worrying about the actual fascists invading the hobby.
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Post by semipotentwalrus on Dec 28, 2020 21:14:54 GMT -5
"It's not a Totenkopf, it's just a skull depicted in a three-quarter profile almost unique to the Totenkopf symbol! The card says 'moops'!"
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Post by adurot on Dec 29, 2020 2:49:42 GMT -5
Now we can go back to pretending all this wasn't just said by some people and live in perfect harmony, harmony like an awkward family Thanksgiving/Christmas dinner with the obviously racist uncle. unsurprising tbh. I was shocked when it lasted 10 pages, let alone the nearly 20 it made it to. It was kinda interesting to see all the people clutching their pearls about silencing fascists and kicking them out of the hobby than condemning and worrying about the actual fascists invading the hobby. Geesus, it was at eight the last I saw.
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Post by semipotentwalrus on Dec 29, 2020 4:02:11 GMT -5
"Why do you care if it doesn't affect you directly anyway?"
Man, I'm gonna have snark-material for months. Have another one on the house:
"What's wrong about being Rhodesian?"
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Post by Emblematic Wolfblade on Dec 29, 2020 4:05:53 GMT -5
"Why do you care if it doesn't affect you directly anyway?" Man, I'm gonna have snark-material for months. Have another one on the house: "What's wrong about being Rhodesian?" That "Karol" (iirc) person sure was something...
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Post by Disciple of Fate on Dec 29, 2020 5:00:02 GMT -5
How about SolarCross pretending that fascists haven't existed since the 70's? And if they still do its the fault of communists? Or just maybe we're on team commie, using imaginary fascists to conduct "psyops" inside the hobby?
What does preserving these people contribute to Dakka? As long as they're polite they get to derail topic after topic with their (beyond) warped sense of reality? Have fun on the new politics forum with the likes of them...
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Post by semipotentwalrus on Dec 29, 2020 7:56:58 GMT -5
I'm currently rewatching World at War (which is still the seminal WW2 Documentary in my opinion, sorry Indy Neidell, good effort!) and there's a segment where Laurence Olivier narrates how the RAF dropped leaflets rather than bombs at the start of the war because they didn't want to "provoke" the Germans into retaliating and because they figured that "surely any sane person can see that Germany going to war is self-defeating?"...
Chamberlain and von Papen are strange historical figures to emulate when one has the benefit of hindsight.
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Post by tannhauser42 on Dec 29, 2020 14:48:23 GMT -5
So, is anybody truly surprised that McConnell has blocked the stimulus payment increase? This way, he gets all the blame and none of the GOP senators will have to stick their necks out over it.
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Post by A Town Called Malus on Dec 29, 2020 15:27:05 GMT -5
So, is anybody truly surprised that McConnell has blocked the stimulus payment increase? This way, he gets all the blame and none of the GOP senators will have to stick their necks out over it. This is actually a situation where that strategy might not pay off. If the republicans don't win the seats in Georgia then McConnell isn't majority leader anymore. Which means that those races can be framed as a direct way to get rid of McConnell.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2020 16:07:20 GMT -5
Whatever you guys are linking to appears to be gone. Fill me in?
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Post by Disciple of Fate on Dec 29, 2020 16:36:39 GMT -5
This is actually a situation where that strategy might not pay off. If the republicans don't win the seats in Georgia then McConnell isn't majority leader anymore. Which means that those races can he framed as a direct way to get rid of McConnell. If it works to rally voters. A lot of things were predicted to end election chances of other Republican senators in November, which sadly failed.
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Post by Disciple of Fate on Dec 29, 2020 16:39:56 GMT -5
Whatever you guys are linking to appears to be gone. Fill me in? It was a discussion if 40K attracts fascists. It boiled down to one side saying it does and as a result they exist in the community, while the other side strawmanned it as blaming the hobby itself and/or saying fascists should be accepted because anything else was being fascistic itself (GW should shut up and sell models). Of course, as was joked about here, there were some distinctly fascist sounding remarks such as pro-Rhodesia statements and blaming the communists/Marxists as the ultimate and worse evil.
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Post by whemblycthulhu on Dec 29, 2020 18:20:20 GMT -5
So, is anybody truly surprised that McConnell has blocked the stimulus payment increase? This way, he gets all the blame and none of the GOP senators will have to stick their necks out over it. I'm surprised. Truly a dumb stance to take when his majority seat is at stake with the upcoming two Georgia Senate elections. Furthermore, he said he's going to wrap the increased stimulus with the following: -that massive NDAA military budget (which has its own problems) -special funding (blue ribbon committee?) for investigating election irregularities -repeal section 230 Which means, he'll need a super majority (67+ senate support) for all of this because the NDAA military budget need to overcome Trump's veto. Looks like he's going to poison pill the entire thing, as I don't see near enough support to repeal 230 nor interest to election investigations. Cocaine Mitch seems to be fucking up here... The smart play, is to vote on each as a separate bill.
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Post by whemblycthulhu on Dec 29, 2020 18:21:51 GMT -5
Whatever you guys are linking to appears to be gone. Fill me in? It was a discussion if 40K attracts fascists. It boiled down to one side saying it does and as a result they exist in the community, while the other side strawmanned it as blaming the hobby itself and/or saying fascists should be accepted because anything else was being fascistic itself (GW should shut up and sell models). Of course, as was joked about here, there were some distinctly fascist sounding remarks such as pro-Rhodesia statements and blaming the communists/Marxists as the ultimate and worse evil. Ye gods, glad I missed that one.
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Post by dabbler on Dec 29, 2020 23:14:06 GMT -5
It was a discussion if 40K attracts fascists. It boiled down to one side saying it does and as a result they exist in the community, while the other side strawmanned it as blaming the hobby itself and/or saying fascists should be accepted because anything else was being fascistic itself (GW should shut up and sell models). Of course, as was joked about here, there were some distinctly fascist sounding remarks such as pro-Rhodesia statements and blaming the communists/Marxists as the ultimate and worse evil. Ye gods, glad I missed that one. Yeah you might have accidentally outed yourself Oops too late on that one
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