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The Batlord 01-14-2019 03:38 PM

Holy **** though I'd hit it so hard her innie would become an outtie nawmsayin?

https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/asse...xlarge-169.jpg

Zhanteimi 01-14-2019 03:51 PM

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Originally Posted by [MERIT] (Post 2033616)
Okay MusicBanter, enjoy your OccultHawk show. It's been a fun 14 years. Deuces.

Goodbye, Meeeerrriiiiiit! It's time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again!

Frownland 01-14-2019 05:15 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor (Post 2033697)
I think particularly sons of violent men are at risk of becoming the same person ironically often in their defiance of it

What seems to be common is that they'll reject a couple of abusive behaviours and participate in several others without recognizing them as abusive. Or they'll be comparatively less abusive while still tipping the scale and congratulating themselves on being a better father than theirs was.

The Batlord 01-14-2019 05:18 PM

But what it really comes down to is I want to see less ugly children with better phones than I have.

Frownland 01-14-2019 05:20 PM

Phew, I thought you caught the typo.

The Batlord 01-14-2019 05:25 PM

*typhus

OccultHawk 01-14-2019 05:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 2033734)
What seems to be common is that they'll reject a couple of abusive behaviours and participate in several others without recognizing them as abusive. Or they'll be comparatively less abusive while still tipping the scale and congratulating themselves on being a better father than theirs was.

Yes. That’s why I didn’t breed.

The Batlord 01-14-2019 05:36 PM

I thought it was cause priests can't get pregnant.

WWWP 01-14-2019 06:59 PM

Can someone please tl;dr the Magnitsky Act and why it keeps coming up re: Khashoggi? I swear this is not for homework.

WWWP 01-14-2019 07:05 PM

Nvm it's pretty straightforward

windsock 01-14-2019 08:22 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor (Post 2033718)
I don't think that's what's really going on here

I'm not sure

he said criticisms directed at YOU, as in at a person

is he referring to frown being called pretentious?

genuinely I can not gather from the posts before me

I dunno. "You" can be used pretty generally so maybe he was referring to the 'hypothetical individual' which can be applied to everyone. As for what's really going on I have no idea, at least what he means by it.

The Batlord 01-14-2019 08:51 PM

Nobody cares.

Lucem Ferre 01-14-2019 11:15 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2033611)
Now I have something in common with your son.

Holy hell man. I thought the mods were supposed to deescalate this ****.

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Originally Posted by elphenor (Post 2033800)
the mystery continues

will we ever know what's really going on

He hit he nail on the head. At least you slipped in a 'usually'.

Sorry, but I just can't respect these pompous declarations.

Lucem Ferre 01-14-2019 11:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 2033734)
What seems to be common is that they'll reject a couple of abusive behaviours and participate in several others without recognizing them as abusive. Or they'll be comparatively less abusive while still tipping the scale and congratulating themselves on being a better father than theirs was.

If anything I think it's people don't commonly resolve their issues prior to having kids so it gets unintentionally projected on to them.

MicShazam 01-14-2019 11:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Dharma & Greg (Post 2033639)
You wouldn't still be here without these.

I'm not denying that there's a certain moth-to-the-flame thing going on with the drama that happens here with regular intervals.

Lucem Ferre 01-14-2019 11:34 PM

What's sad is that this was some of the most obvious baiting I've ever seen and they still got em.

I know that bringing his son into everything is despicable and low, but it's hard to feel bad when he acts like such an 'alpha' douche and they're funny.

Oriphiel 01-15-2019 02:34 AM

I'm gonna miss his weird inability to argue with people without trying to e x p o s e them as being "gay LOL".

Lisnaholic 01-15-2019 05:23 AM

^ But [MERIT] isn't leaving us, is he?

I for one have no reason to doubt that he's anything but a good father. That stuff about tucking them into bed each night is obviously the best case scenario, but it's also a scene out of Hollywood that doesn't always happen irl. Something else about being a good father is hanging in there when things don't go to plan; showing support and continuity in difficult circumstances. If you're doing it right, which I assume [MERIT] is, kids can actually learn something about life - that it can be rocky, but some ties/relationships are strong enough to survive under pressure.
(End of sermon.)

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Originally Posted by MicShazam (Post 2033623)


^ :clap: + :laughing: Very insightful,MicShazam!

Anteater 01-15-2019 06:52 PM

I don't think the ultimate difference in money between what he's talking about and how marginal tax rates actually work means much in the end. It's still too much.

OccultHawk 01-15-2019 06:59 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor (Post 2034142)
wow I can't believe how many Republicans don't know what a marginal tax rate is


no, Scott Walker, that is not what a 70% marginal tax rate means, jesus christ

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/...ht/2583038002/

and he's not the only Republican politician to say something like this!

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Explaining marginal taxes to a far-right former Governor:

Imagine if you did chores for abuela & she gave you $10. When you got home, you got to keep it, because it’s only $10.
I can’t help it. I love her. She’ll turn to **** but right now when I see her I’m like please save us. It’s going to suck when she sells out and I’ll have to hate her, too. Pelosi putting oil industry sellouts on that alternative energy committee that I think OC has agreed to be on is probably the first of many ****ty compromises until she’s just another Hillary. Maybe she’ll stand her ground but I doubt it.

OccultHawk 01-15-2019 07:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Anteater (Post 2034152)
I don't think the ultimate difference in money between what he's talking about and how marginal tax rates actually work means much in the end. It's still too little.

ftfy

Anteater 01-15-2019 07:15 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2034161)
ftfy

Sorry, but I don't believe in taxing the middle class the way they do in Europe. And that's before the ridiculous property taxes and business-related taxes.

Zhanteimi 01-15-2019 07:18 PM

Kill the rich!

[MERIT] 01-15-2019 08:10 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor (Post 2033713)
Tulsi Gabbard announced she's running

her comments on torture at about 16:25 is disqualifying in my eyes

in a 2014 post-Bush world still thinking torture can be on the table


Already reported. But I agree, violence begets violence.

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Originally Posted by [MERIT] (Post 2033312)

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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 2033135)
Several injured in gas explosion at a Paris bakery

Good thing they suspended the gas tax or the owners would really be ****ed.

The bakery owner is curious as to how this happened, as all of his appliances are electric. Some people think it was a car bomb or drone strike, but I haven't heard any realistic reason as to why someone would target that bakery, or evidence to support such a theory.


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Zhanteimi 01-15-2019 08:30 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor (Post 2034194)
maybe but everyone scrolls past your links because it looks like spam

^tbh

[MERIT] 01-15-2019 08:34 PM

The way I post news links is efficient. We've had this conversation. If you don't know how the internet works, then so be it.

Frownland 01-15-2019 08:36 PM

TFW you're repeatedly told that you don't know how the internet works, so everyone else is the idiot.

Anteater 01-15-2019 08:49 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor (Post 2034197)
the marginal tax rates being proposed have nothing to do with the middle class

where as your boy Yang actually does want to tax the middle class and poor with a VATS very similar to some European countries

Yeah but if you actually read a little deeper, he's also discussed a Financial Transaction Tax as an alternative what you just mentioned.

The Batlord 01-15-2019 09:13 PM

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Originally Posted by [MERIT] (Post 2034198)
The way I post news links is efficient. We've had this conversation. If you don't know how the internet works, then so be it.

Not one single person on this site has praised you for your link aesthetics. Are there people from elsewhere who actually have? Or are you just congratulating yourself on an accomplishment you decided without any input?

DwnWthVwls 01-15-2019 09:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Dharma & Greg (Post 2034236)
Not one single person on this site has praised you for your link aesthetics. Are there people from elsewhere who actually have? Or are you just congratulating yourself on an accomplishment you decided without any input?


Actually I can appreciate the effort of a well edited post. You guys just like to hate out of boredom.

The Batlord 01-15-2019 09:23 PM

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Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls (Post 2034243)
Actually I can appreciate the effort of a well edited post. You guys just like to hate out of boredom.

The effort, not the actual aesthetics. You'd give him a participation trophy essentially.

OccultHawk 01-15-2019 09:23 PM

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Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls (Post 2034243)
Actually I can appreciate the effort of a well edited post. You guys just like to hate out of boredom.

How often do you click his links?

Zhanteimi 01-15-2019 09:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Dharma & Greg (Post 2034248)
You'd give him a participation trophy essentially.

Make it his avatar!

OccultHawk 01-15-2019 09:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Zhanteimi (Post 2034252)
Make it his avatar!

With the Star of David on it.

The Batlord 01-15-2019 09:26 PM

With Alex Jones' face on it.

DwnWthVwls 01-15-2019 09:26 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2034249)
How often do you click his links?

Never. I don't click anyones links about news though unless its in the environmental thread. Idgaf about any of those other topics.

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Originally Posted by Dharma & Greg (Post 2034248)
The effort, not the actual aesthetics. You'd give him a participation trophy essentially.

I mean if I was going to put that much effort I'd make them look different but that's just a matter of taste. He makes the things he wants you to recognize stand out, which is the point of his editing. He does it in other sections too with his music posts. I don't find it particularly valuable as a forum posting style, but I can appreciate the attention to detail. If this was a more formal setting, I'd do the same.

Zhanteimi 01-15-2019 09:27 PM

The star of David burned into Alex Jones' forehead.

The Batlord 01-15-2019 09:29 PM

irl merit


Frownland 01-15-2019 09:31 PM

Shhhh....he's going to figure out that we're aliens.

windsock 01-15-2019 09:31 PM

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Originally Posted by WWWP (Post 2034212)
Baiting is against the rules on this forum.

lmao


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