They're big strong magnets, they pull your knives so hard they slap onto it. Also kind of hard to pull them off, I don't like them for that reason.

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Oh, so the artist didn't mean JBP? That means they're wrong. So get in those threads and abuse them like you did me. Go on, git.

I should have realized from the beginning about the whole lobster thing. All I did was focus on the dog and have an emotional reaction to an animal in pain. I promise to be more insensitive and less caring in the future. Oh, and be more online so I won't fail to recognize the lobster = JPB memes when they occur. Honestly I kind of forget the man exists today.

Oh. This is some Jordan Peterson thing. I see from the other comments.

Well excuse the fuck out of me for having an emotional reaction to a piece of art. And immediately going to the defense of literal animals in pain. No, let's do the normal thing which is to ask the artist what he meant! That always gets a free pass.

Since when does the artist's intention ever matter? Jesus, do you even art?

I dunno man, I didn't have those experiences at all. Sure there were some cookies or chips around the house, but not like that. I remember going to this man's house to play board games and he opened this cabinet and there was a full suite of snack foods in there. I was impressed. He had everything. Up to and including several 2-liters of unopened unchilled cokes for backup in case we needed them. I selected a box of Wheat Thins and poured myself a Dr. Pepper. 10 minutes later I was full and kind of sick from all the coke, and I closed the box. He was a bit put out and wanted me to eat more. No thanks, I'd just like to keep playing Merchant of Venus. It was my first introduction to this world.

No, I'm reacting with feeling to an artwork, which is what you're supposed to do when you view art, fuckass.

It's showing an animal in pain. Hoo hoo ha ha, that's a hilarious topic for a painting!

Oh look, white man painted a scene of animal cruelty! How entertaining! It is very suitable that this is in the National Gallery of Australia. I can think of no better place for it. Other than an incinerator.

We had the internet before 2022, and it didn't make anyone go pro-nuclear war.

Now, is it possible to like a thing religious weirdos also like without exposing a deep deficit within you? Of course! I’m sure many of them like pizza because pizza is fucking awesome. Shit, Donald Trump loves shiny shit, and so do I. But if you’ve just entered a room, and you find yourself surrounded by religious weirdos, you should probably ask yourself how you got there and what you need to do to leave.

(Unless, of course, you’re there on purpose. In which case, congrats on finding your tribe.)

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So, the non-crazy way to think about it is that JFK was killed for three reasons, one of which was the last straw for what chuds call the “deep state”, i.e. the intelligence agencies and federal bureaucracies that actually rule us. He tried to stop the war in Vietnam, he tried to take the ability to issue US currency away from the Federal Reserve, and he tried to disband the CIA. “Shatter into a thousand pieces” or somesuch, it was the password to open one of the Wikileaks archives.

Trying to stop the Vietnam war was obviously bad, they had great plans for that war and they weren’t going to let an elected President get in the way. Disbanding the CIA was obviously a non-starter. The assassination was just self-defense, totally justified in the CIA’s own eyes. But what about the money thing?

Everyone knows US currency is issued by the Federal Reserve. Despite the government-sounding name, it’s a private corporation just like Facebook or Twitter. They print our money and sell it back to us at a profit. (It’s what France does with their francs in Africa[1].) JFK had the idea to cut them out, and issued United States Notes, which were legal tender just like Federal Reserve Notes. You can still buy them from currency collectors.

The problem is as soon as you say any one of these three, either you get shouted down for being a nutso Alex Jones fan, or right wing nutbags start shouting, “Yes, I’ve been saying this for thirty years!” and attach themselves to you. Both are killers and nobody will take you seriously.

LBJ ended all three as soon as he was in office.

[1] Libya’s Khadaffy was killed for the same thing, trying to start a new currency, the gold-backed dinar, thus depriving France of its profit from controlling Africa’s currency.

Uh, Doom was ground-breaking in a way that no game had ever been ground-breaking before. It was high-tech and it played on any crappy 386 with a VGA card. It was deliberately, over-the-top violent. It deliberately included demons and Satanic imagery as a "fuck you" to the no-fun crowd of the time.

Violent games are no longer pushing boundaries, they’re the status quo. That shit is boring now

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunny

There are certain works that you can safely assume most people have enjoyed. These shows were considered fantastic when they were released. Now, however, these have a Hype Backlash curse on them. Whenever we watch them, we'll cry, "That is so old" or "That is so overdone".

The sad irony? It wasn't old or overdone when they did it, because they were the first ones to do it. But the things it created were so brilliant and popular, they became woven into the fabric of that work's niche. They ended up being taken for granted, copied, and endlessly repeated. Although they often began by saying something new, they in turn became the new status quo. It's basically the inverse of a Grandfather Clause taken to a trope level: rather than being able to get away with something that is seen as overdone or out of style simply because it was the one that started it, people will unfairly disregard it because it got lost amidst its sea of imitations even though it paved the way for all those imitators. That is, a work retroactively becomes a Cliché Storm.

There may be a good reason for this. Whoever is first to do something isn't likely to be the best at it, simply because everyone that comes after is building on their predecessors' work.

Named after Seinfeld, which many people won't watch anymore because everything about it has been copied.

The whole "wholesome Alice in Wonderland, but she's a blood-soaked mass murderer" thing is so out of touch. It's not the 90s any more, man.

So, the non-crazy way to think about it is that JFK was killed for three reasons, one of which was the last straw for what chuds call the "deep state", i.e. the intelligence agencies and federal bureaucracies that actually rule us. He tried to stop the war in Vietnam, he tried to take the ability to issue US currency away from the Federal Reserve, and he tried to disband the CIA. "Shatter into a thousand pieces" or somesuch, it was the password to open one of the Wikileaks archives.

Trying to stop the Vietnam war was obviously bad, they had great plans for that war and they weren't going to let an elected President get in the way. Disbanding the CIA was obviously a non-starter. The assassination was just self-defense, totally justified in the CIA's own eyes. But what about the money thing?

Everyone knows US currency is issued by the Federal Reserve. Despite the government-sounding name, it's a private corporation just like Facebook or Twitter. They print our money and sell it back to us at a profit. (It's what France does with their francs in Africa[1].) JFK had the idea to cut them out, and issued United States Notes, which were legal tender just like Federal Reserve Notes. You can still buy them from currency collectors.

The problem is as soon as you say any one of these three, either you get shouted down for being a nutso Alex Jones fan, or right wing nutbags start shouting, "Yes, I've been saying this for thirty years!" and attach themselves to you. Both are killers and nobody will take you seriously.

LBJ ended all three as soon as he was in office.

[1] Libya's Khadaffy was killed for the same thing, trying to start a new currency, the gold-backed dinar, thus depriving France of its profit from controlling Africa's currency.

Everyone who is a private pilot who flies little planes should be removed from society. In addition to the tremendous waste of gasoline and rampant carbon emissions, if you have that much money it should be taken from you and spent on getting more immigrants here.

saying the no-no words=funny.

If you're not being transgressive, you're doing comedy wrong.

We all laughed our asses off at George Carlin's "seven words you can't say on TV" bit. Imagine if he'd stuck to G-rated material.

Remember when the Greens led Germany on a massive anti-nuke protest when Reagan visited? They made a human chain hundreds of miles long. It was something that all of Germany agreed on. American nuclear missiles needed to be withdrawn, immediately.

"Nuclear war is preferable to Russian victory in Ukraine"

Remember how up until about two years ago nuclear war was pretty much the one thing that all of us agreed on? From Hoxhaites all the way to the Proud Boys, nobody wanted a nuclear war, and definitely nobody wanted to die in one.

But now? These takes are, holy shit, common. What sorcery did they unleash on them to make them turn around like this?