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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: What was the last album you listened to? |
| roronoa79 |
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Posted: Yesterday, 9:22 am
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Replies: 16
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Vanilla Fudge, by Vanilla Fudge
An album of mostly slow-tempo covers of popular 60s songs. This stuff was straight mind-blowing. I never knew you could turn the Supremes into psychedelic proto-metal |
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Forum: Games and Video Games Topic: Your Latest Game Purchase |
| roronoa79 |
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Posted: Yesterday, 9:19 am
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Replies: 163
Views: 26,908
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Went to the local second-hand store, got:
Mirror's Edge (X360)
Kingdom Hearts 2.5 (PS3)
Ecco the Dolphin (Genesis/Mega Drive)
Bravely Default II (Switch) |
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Forum: Games and Video Games Topic: Cutest and most attractive/sexiest Nintendo characters |
| roronoa79 |
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Posted: Yesterday, 9:17 am
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Replies: 13
Views: 21,673
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ElmersTrueLove wrote: Is Wario allowed? 
Of course! Not my type, personally, but go for it! |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: RFK Jr. Announces that docs "found dead worm in my brain" |
| roronoa79 |
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Posted: Yesterday, 9:14 am
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Replies: 17
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funeralxempire wrote: RFK Jr: I had brainworms, they starved. 
Beat me to it!
Alternatively: "The worm took one bite and keeled over from all my rotten ideas" |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Louisiana putting 10 Commandments in School Classrooms |
| roronoa79 |
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Posted: 22 May 2024, 9:50 am
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Replies: 29
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| Huh? I thought it was Muslims who were trying to force their religion into law? Conservative Christians would surely never do something they so loudly condemn when others do it. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: If you swear to God and it's a lie, do you go to Hell? |
| roronoa79 |
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Posted: 21 May 2024, 11:03 am
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Replies: 33
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| I'm not a theologist, but I'm pretty sure God doesn't have a 1-strike-youre-out policy on damnation. Hell, there's examples in the Bible of people lying to God Himself, and I bet there's not many people who would argue that eg: Sarah should be in Hell for lying about laughing at God's statement that... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The American Dream Is Dead |
| roronoa79 |
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Posted: 20 May 2024, 8:57 am
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Replies: 82
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| the wikipedia version of the American dream is not time sensitive, In the 1800s it meant acres of arable land, stock animals and your own personal slaves In 1930 it mean't having food on the table as Americans were persevering through the great depression. In he 1950s it mean't having a small block... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The American Dream Is Dead |
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Posted: 20 May 2024, 8:54 am
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Replies: 82
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| The idea that the American Dream works or is good because it encourages self-reliance is absurd. . . . And yet, here I am! And yet where are those who worked just as hard as you--if not harder--yet do not enjoy your success? I'm sure some of the homeless people I see every day have worked harder th... |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: What's with preschool shows having pop culture references? |
| roronoa79 |
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Posted: 18 May 2024, 1:16 pm
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| For the benefit of the parents, yeah. I can go back and rewatch shows from my childhood like Rugrats and I'm sometimes more entertained than when I was a kid. Like the time grandpa was showing the kids the movies he rented from the store, then saying that he would save watching "Space Vixens&qu... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Name Your Top 10 Rock Albums |
| roronoa79 |
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Posted: 18 May 2024, 1:10 pm
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Replies: 16
Views: 1,207
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| Pink Floyd - Saucerful of Secrets YES. Imo their most underrated album that nobody talks about. There's a thing I don't really get about how people think of Pink Floyd, and it's a bit like them without Syd Barret (until Meddle or DSoM) = amateurish crap whereas DSoM = super band. It's kind of evide... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: 16 accuse David Copperfield Of Sexual Misconduct |
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Posted: 18 May 2024, 1:03 pm
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Replies: 8
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Fnord wrote: You may be an intellectual if: • Someone mentions the name "David Copperfield" and all you can think of is the Charles Dickens novel of the same name. 
It's good to see his victims coming forth to speak out 100 years after they all died of old age! |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Verified pro-Nazi X accounts flourish under Elon Musk |
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Posted: 18 May 2024, 1:02 pm
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Replies: 36
Views: 1,674
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| Calling for the extermination of innate groups is a Nazi thing, but political opponent groups are not. We have the word "authoritarian" to describe them. My problem with the overuse of Nazi comparisons is that it waters down both how bad Nazis were and are and those being compared to them... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The American Dream Is Dead |
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Posted: 18 May 2024, 12:53 pm
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Replies: 82
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| "The system works and has always worked perfectly fine. Even if it seems like it isn't working, it is actually working as well as possible, because this is the most ideal system possible. Any attempts to improve this ideal system end up making it worse! Again--just don't study history or study ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The American Dream Is Dead |
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Posted: 18 May 2024, 12:47 pm
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Replies: 82
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| The idea that the American Dream works or is good because it encourages self-reliance is absurd. No matter how hard you work, you are always at the mercy of those who pay you. You are at the mercy of macro- and microeconomics, shifting government policies, complex international relations, etc. The w... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Verified pro-Nazi X accounts flourish under Elon Musk |
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Posted: 17 May 2024, 6:16 pm
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Replies: 36
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| But as ronona79 said the idea that Jews have disproportionate influence has a long history of use by people who are prejudiced against Jews and have used the idea to harm Jews. Antisemitism is very different the most prejudices. Most bigotry is based on the notion that “they” are inferior. Modern a... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The American Dream Is Dead |
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Posted: 17 May 2024, 4:54 pm
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| Oh, so basically ableism? A combination of ableism, racism, sexism and corporate greed. Okay, first of all, America is a special snowflake country where we are the least racist, least ableist, and least sexist country in the universe. And greed is good?? See, those aren't real problems--Marxists ju... |
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