How does the World view America these days?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qukPLN1kFws

10 years old but still just as powerful:

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  On 8/5/2015 at 11:00 PM, Nebraska said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qukPLN1kFws

couldn't even finish it...

  On 8/5/2015 at 10:16 PM, juiceciuj said:

movie theatres should install seats like these: http://guardianchair.com/

LOL, that's an amazing con job. Snake oil for the bullet age.

How sad is this country

  On 8/5/2015 at 9:24 PM, LimpyLoo said:

fuck yea i want one

  On 8/6/2015 at 6:53 AM, ambermonk said:

 

  On 8/5/2015 at 9:24 PM, LimpyLoo said:

fuck yea i want one

 

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da fuq

A really depressing read on Jon Stewart's 17-year career as host of The Daily Show. What strikes me most, is the two most important monologues he ever gave were: the day after the 2000 US Presidential Election, and the week after 9/11. It blows my mind that 15 years later we've learned nothing. How one man (Osama Bin Laden) could irreversibly change the course of this planet, for who knows how long? Decades? Centuries? Will we eventually end up in the 8th Crusade he always wanted? It's mind numbing. As tainted as his family's name is now, they still exist in a rich luxurious lifestyle. Their connection to the Saudi Royal Commission and various Princes keeps them in the loop for lucrative government contracts. We're trying to change that in my company, they built the substandard apartments I live in (but have been blacklisted since), shitty part-time working elevators, mold infected air ducts, no earthquake resistant engineering, substandard materials that break down at the earliest convenience. It really is a travesty.

I veered off on a tangent, but that man may end up being the most influential figure of the 21st Century, even though he's dead now. What's the end game? The Republicans have basically declared war on Islam, and where will it end? Will we end up causing more damage to ourselves with our insane gun culture than external extremists ever could? We distract ourselves with comic book movies, pop music, porn etc. which I'm guilty of promoting I admit. It seems like Stewart got more than he signed up for, he became the liberal moral compass of this country for a lot of people, but what happens now? The Republicans are more insane than ever, but have a lot of support from scared white Americans, told they will have their guns or their rights taken away, SCOTUS has approved unlimited corporate contributions to elections. The Class warfare is more blatant than ever; the haves are scared to shit they will lose to the have-nots. It makes me sad to no end, especially viewing the US from afar, most of its citizens don't even realize what's happening.

http://io9.com/bingewatching-history-i-relived-16-depressing-years-of-1722320764

  On 8/6/2015 at 10:18 AM, Rubin Farr said:

 

Will we end up causing more damage to ourselves with our insane gun culture than external extremists ever could?

Yep.

What do you mean "will we end up"? I thought the US reached that point many moons ago.

And why the obsession with end games? Is that a US thing? Having a never ending end game?

  On 8/6/2015 at 10:18 AM, Rubin Farr said:

A really depressing read on Jon Stewart's 17-year career as host of The Daily Show. What strikes me most, is the two most important monologues he ever gave were: the day after the 2000 US Presidential Election, and the week after 9/11. It blows my mind that 15 years later we've learned nothing. How one man (Osama Bin Laden) could irreversibly change the course of this planet, for who knows how long? Decades? Centuries? Will we eventually end up in the 8th Crusade he always wanted? It's mind numbing. As tainted as his family's name is now, they still exist in a rich luxurious lifestyle. Their connection to the Saudi Royal Commission and various Princes keeps them in the loop for lucrative government contracts. We're trying to change that in my company, they built the substandard apartments I live in (but have been blacklisted since), shitty part-time working elevators, mold infected air ducts, no earthquake resistant engineering, substandard materials that break down at the earliest convenience. It really is a travesty.

 

I veered off on a tangent, but that man may end up being the most influential figure of the 21st Century, even though he's dead now. What's the end game? The Republicans have basically declared war on Islam, and where will it end? Will we end up causing more damage to ourselves with our insane gun culture than external extremists ever could? We distract ourselves with comic book movies, pop music, porn etc. which I'm guilty of promoting I admit. It seems like Stewart got more than he signed up for, he became the liberal moral compass of this country for a lot of people, but what happens now? The Republicans are more insane than ever, but have a lot of support from scared white Americans, told they will have their guns or their rights taken away, SCOTUS has approved unlimited corporate contributions to elections. The Class warfare is more blatant than ever; the haves are scared to shit they will lose to the have-nots. It makes me sad to no end, especially viewing the US from afar, most of its citizens don't even realize what's happening.

 

http://io9.com/bingewatching-history-i-relived-16-depressing-years-of-1722320764

Y'know, for some reason I'm actually quite optimistic about the future.

from chatmm: http://imgur.com/GXfTdKX

  On 8/6/2015 at 6:48 PM, LimpyLoo said:

 

  On 8/6/2015 at 10:18 AM, Rubin Farr said:

A really depressing read on Jon Stewart's 17-year career as host of The Daily Show. What strikes me most, is the two most important monologues he ever gave were: the day after the 2000 US Presidential Election, and the week after 9/11. It blows my mind that 15 years later we've learned nothing. How one man (Osama Bin Laden) could irreversibly change the course of this planet, for who knows how long? Decades? Centuries? Will we eventually end up in the 8th Crusade he always wanted? It's mind numbing. As tainted as his family's name is now, they still exist in a rich luxurious lifestyle. Their connection to the Saudi Royal Commission and various Princes keeps them in the loop for lucrative government contracts. We're trying to change that in my company, they built the substandard apartments I live in (but have been blacklisted since), shitty part-time working elevators, mold infected air ducts, no earthquake resistant engineering, substandard materials that break down at the earliest convenience. It really is a travesty.

 

I veered off on a tangent, but that man may end up being the most influential figure of the 21st Century, even though he's dead now. What's the end game? The Republicans have basically declared war on Islam, and where will it end? Will we end up causing more damage to ourselves with our insane gun culture than external extremists ever could? We distract ourselves with comic book movies, pop music, porn etc. which I'm guilty of promoting I admit. It seems like Stewart got more than he signed up for, he became the liberal moral compass of this country for a lot of people, but what happens now? The Republicans are more insane than ever, but have a lot of support from scared white Americans, told they will have their guns or their rights taken away, SCOTUS has approved unlimited corporate contributions to elections. The Class warfare is more blatant than ever; the haves are scared to shit they will lose to the have-nots. It makes me sad to no end, especially viewing the US from afar, most of its citizens don't even realize what's happening.

 

http://io9.com/bingewatching-history-i-relived-16-depressing-years-of-1722320764

 

Y'know, for some reason I'm actually quite optimistic about the future.

 

Why are you optimistic about the future? It might be my general pessimistic disposition, but I feel that things are going to get a lot worse before it would get better, if we even survive.

Mark Zuckerberg donates $1 billion to Planned Parenthood. Maybe he's not a total douche.

http://www.lifenews.com/2014/02/12/facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-donates-992-2-million-to-charity-funding-planned-parenthood/

  On 8/6/2015 at 8:54 PM, azatoth said:

Why are you optimistic about the future? It might be my general pessimistic disposition, but I feel that things are going to get a lot worse before it would get better, if we even survive.

+1

would also really love to know what gives you optimism (besides maybe just hoping the best for humanity) because i can't see how things can possibly get better (despite divine intervention of some kind)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNSyCqqEPAI

read a lot of history. things are getting better. we are very lucky. unless nukes go off

  On 8/7/2015 at 12:59 AM, marf said:

read a lot of history. things are getting better. we are very lucky. unless nukes go off

this. well, nukes or climate change. or a super volcano. or an asteroid. or a global pandemic. or an unfriendly super intelligent AI. but mostly we're grand.

Cop stalks neighborhood in his SUV with no probable cause, then pulls his gun on a man on his own driveway, because he doesn't like being filmed. Investigation is now under way.

http://youtu.be/4_AYicVLx40

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/s/cop-pulls-gun-man-filming-000610005.html

  On 8/6/2015 at 11:03 PM, Nebraska said:

 

  On 8/6/2015 at 8:54 PM, azatoth said:

Why are you optimistic about the future? It might be my general pessimistic disposition, but I feel that things are going to get a lot worse before it would get better, if we even survive.

 

+1

would also really love to know what gives you optimism (besides maybe just hoping the best for humanity) because i can't see how things can possibly get better (despite divine intervention of some kind)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNSyCqqEPAI

 

It would take a rather long post for me to make a convincing case.

But be assured that my view ISN'T that the world is gonna magically repair itself in the next 5 years or anything daft like that.

the republican primary debate ...

did they actually ask the candidates if any of them has talked to god yet?

what in the fucking fuckshitfuck

Woke up early and put on a stream of the GOP debate, and it was just awful stuff. Soundbytes with no substance whatsoever. Horrible ideas spewed by the candidates. I just can't wrap by head around that the election cycle is going to take like a year. What the hell. Here when there is a presidential or parliamentary election, it's maybe a month or so of campaigning and debates. But I guess the US needs to make a huge spectacle out of everything.

Is this really breaking news for Republicans?

  On 8/7/2015 at 10:22 AM, azatoth said:

Is this really breaking news for Republicans?

Yes.

I already knew the answer :(