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DwnWthVwls 02-02-2020 08:18 AM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 2103326)
Today co-worker was making food for an Asian(s) and said we should institute a no-Chinese policy for Burger King and she cited the coronavirus as the reason rather than just being a lazy racist.

Sounds like something you would say, followed by, "its just a joke".

Frownland 02-02-2020 08:55 AM

*it's

The Batlord 02-02-2020 12:04 PM

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Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls (Post 2103474)
Sounds like something you would say, followed by, "its just a joke".

No I'd just say it.

WWWP 02-02-2020 12:08 PM

Yeah seriously Asia let your people die of measles and polio like a real first world country

OccultHawk 02-02-2020 01:11 PM

Today is 02/02/2020
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The Batlord 02-03-2020 05:02 PM

I mean his damage has already been done and conservative media doesn't need him anymore but I still hope he dies painfully.

Rush Limbaugh Discloses Treatment for Advanced Lung Cancer

Frownland 02-05-2020 06:34 AM

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Today, February 4, 2020, one of Africa's most outstanding performers, the exceptional kora player from Mali, Ballaké Sissoko has just had his cherished, custom made kora completely destroyed by USA Customs, without any justification.

Ballaké is a highly acclaimed, distinguished performer who travels around the world with his kora for concerts at top venues. His reputation is impeccable as both artist and human being. He has no criminal record. He is just a brilliant musician, a pacifist, a kind and gentle person, a magnificent and creative performer who manages to give African tradition a contemporary voice with total integrity. The kora is a fragile, hand-crafted instrument, and Ballake's kora is tailor made to his own specifications. It is an intrinsic part of his very special sound. The neck of the kora has been removed. The strings, bridge and entire, delicate and complex sound system of amplification have been taken apart. The kora is in pieces. Even if all the components that have been dissembled were intact, it takes weeks before a kora of this calibre can return to its previous state of resonance. These kinds of custom-made koras are simply impossible to replace. They are certainly not available in shops.

Ballaké had just finished a two-week successful tour of the USA (LA, Berkeley, Miami, Chicago and NY) with his group 3MA, an innovative and unique trio that brings together string instruments from Mali, Morocco and Madagascar. Ballaké boarded his Air France plane to Paris on his way home from their final concert in New York. He checked in his kora, in its hard case, with its state-of-the-art amplification system, specially designed by sound engineer Julian Cooper.

It was a night flight arriving in Paris the next morning - today, Feb 4. At the airport, Ballaké picked up his kora case, went back to his flat and slept. But when he woke up and opened the kora case, he was shocked and dismayed to find his kora in many pieces, with only a note from US customs - in Spanish, with the unfortunate motto: "Intelligent security saves time".

In Mali, the jihadists threaten to destroy musical instruments, cut the tongues out of singers, and to silence Mali's great musical heritage. And yet, ironically, it is the USA Customs that have in their own way managed to do this.

jwb 02-05-2020 10:52 AM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 2103597)
I mean his damage has already been done and conservative media doesn't need him anymore but I still hope he dies painfully.

Rush Limbaugh Discloses Treatment for Advanced Lung Cancer

isn't he stage 4? I think that's a death sentence.

OccultHawk 02-05-2020 01:49 PM

Why no link Frown ?

Frownland 02-05-2020 02:16 PM

It came from a Facebook post from one of his family members, wouldn't be mad if I saw it hit a publication.

The Batlord 02-05-2020 02:48 PM

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Originally Posted by jwb (Post 2103721)
isn't he stage 4? I think that's a death sentence.

*masturbates*

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2103753)
Why no link Frown ?

I know you ain't talkin.

OccultHawk 02-05-2020 02:49 PM

The lame ass pigs at customs.

Out of every country I’ve been to America is by far the rudest most arrogant **** ****s.

I mean there’s no comparison. America is the worst by so far. And ****ing us embassies? Unbelievable. You wouldn’t believe the ****heads they have working in Tokyo. Rude ****ing *******s.

Ignorant ****s destroy the man’s instrument. Disgusting. **** them.

grindy 02-05-2020 11:15 PM

And that's why we need four more years of Trump. America does not deserve any misleading air of respectability.

OccultHawk 02-05-2020 11:21 PM

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Originally Posted by grindy (Post 2103830)
And that's why we need four more years of Trump. America does not deserve any misleading air of respectability.

That’s a very valid perspective.

The Batlord 02-06-2020 04:10 AM

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Originally Posted by grindy (Post 2103830)
And that's why we need four more years of Trump. America does not deserve any misleading air of respectability.

You elected Hitler yet you're allowed to have Angela Merkin?

grindy 02-06-2020 04:25 AM

Germany learned its lesson. Somewhat.
Now America needs to be ostracized and humbled. (Possibly ****ing destroyed.)
Then perhaps, on the ashes, something worthwhile can be built.
Also: **** Merkel.
Also: I don't know which "you" you are talking about. My Jewish ancestors in Ukraine sure didn't elect Hitler.

The Batlord 02-06-2020 05:02 AM

Lol nobody learns lessons from history. They just get shy for a few generations.

grindy 02-06-2020 05:10 AM

Duh.
And America and Americans need to get made shy asap.

OccultHawk 02-06-2020 04:09 PM

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Originally Posted by grindy (Post 2103840)
Now America needs to be ostracized and humbled. (Possibly ****ing destroyed.)
Then perhaps, on the ashes, something worthwhile can be built.

America was founded on a genocide, built through a holocaust, has led the world in environmental destruction, and is the greatest existential threat to humanity the world has ever known. Unlike Germany which has a culture that has a earned a place in the world through many centuries America has no justification for its existence. As a foreign person (to us) it’s kind of you to think maybe something worthy of existence could grow from our ashes but if it ever happens... no thanks.

The Batlord 02-06-2020 04:27 PM

And nothing America's checkered past has brought to the table will ever be as awesome as Hitler.

Anteater 02-06-2020 06:35 PM

Well, I love movies, the Internet, AOR and jazz, so God Bless America.

The Batlord 02-06-2020 06:50 PM

Hitler >>>

jwb 02-06-2020 07:47 PM

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Originally Posted by grindy (Post 2103840)
Germany learned its lesson. Somewhat.
Now America needs to be ostracized and humbled. (Possibly ****ing destroyed.)
Then perhaps, on the ashes, something worthwhile can be built.
Also: **** Merkel.
Also: I don't know which "you" you are talking about. My Jewish ancestors in Ukraine sure didn't elect Hitler.

eh... Your ancestors might not have supported him but they inspired others to. It's time you take your fair share of responsibility.

jwb 02-06-2020 07:50 PM

Also I'm done crying over the Indians. Those slackers were wasting a perfectly good continent.

The Batlord 02-06-2020 08:17 PM

And now we're using it to waste a perfectly good world. Weak minded white trash.

grindy 02-07-2020 12:27 AM

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Originally Posted by jwb (Post 2103922)
eh... Your ancestors might not have supported him but they inspired others to. It's time you take your fair share of responsibility.

Inspired, shminspired... People get awfully bitchy about a few poisoned wells and ritually sacrificed Christian babies.

OccultHawk 02-07-2020 01:11 AM

https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill...e-arrest%3famp

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New York man shot in face after interrupting ICE arrest
Stop the gestapo. Kill an ice agent.

jwb 02-07-2020 04:49 AM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 2103925)
And now we're using it to waste a perfectly good world. Weak minded white trash.

maybe if they spent less time in the drum circle and more time inventing the wheel they would've been the ones to discover the old world

jwb 02-07-2020 05:23 AM


jwb 02-07-2020 05:25 AM

Also 90+ % of Indians died off from disease.

Lisnaholic 02-07-2020 05:31 AM

I'd say that, like many countries, America, despite its faults, has a lot to be proud of. Not sure that Anteater has done an accurate job though:-

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Originally Posted by Anteater (Post 2103912)
Well, I love movies, the Internet, AOR and jazz, so God Bless America.

movies - came out of France with the Lumiére Bros and Georges Méliés
Internet - usually credited to this guy, though as befits the invention itself, many countries contributed to the prelim developments that made it possible:-

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Research at CERN in Switzerland by British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee in 1989-90 resulted in the World Wide Web, linking hypertext documents into an information system, accessible from any node on the network
but jazz, yes, blues, yes, rock'n'roll, yes.

Outside of music, one of America's virtues is the ability to throw money and resources at something. To me they deserve credit for helping out the Brits in WWII and then rebuilding Europe with The Marshall Plan. Plus the whole man-on-the-moon thing, which was a spectacular milestone, even if it didn't produce much obvious benefit.

Lisnaholic 02-07-2020 05:35 AM

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Originally Posted by jwb (Post 2103922)
eh... Your ancestors might not have supported him but they inspired others to. It's time you take your fair share of responsibility.

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Originally Posted by jwb (Post 2103924)
Also I'm done crying over the Indians. Those slackers were wasting a perfectly good continent.

^ Nice bit of victim-blaming, jwb! You forgot to post about how rape victims are asking for it.

The Batlord 02-07-2020 05:53 AM

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Originally Posted by jwb (Post 2103936)
maybe if they spent less time in the drum circle and more time inventing the wheel they would've been the ones to discover the old world

They did. Then they left. Seemed like the smart decision at the time I'm sure.

jwb 02-07-2020 06:12 AM

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Originally Posted by elphenor (Post 2103943)
oh you mean like smallpox...

among others, yea

The Batlord 02-07-2020 06:15 AM

jwb be like

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jwb 02-07-2020 06:16 AM

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Originally Posted by elphenor (Post 2103945)
natives were living sustainably

not long term

jwb 02-07-2020 06:18 AM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 2103948)

if you buy that it was a genocide via blankets you're a moron lol

The Batlord 02-07-2020 06:20 AM

Plenty of non-blanket genocide going around, Cletus.

The Batlord 02-07-2020 06:25 AM

He just likes to feel confident and manly cause he was raised by deep south rednecks.

Anteater 02-07-2020 06:42 AM

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Originally Posted by elphenor (Post 2103946)
no mention of the atrocities in which Jazz and Blues are born from in large part?

and The Marshall Plan? Yikes.

100% about crafting a world under US control where no country could fall to the pesky communists and their talk of self-determination

Lol stop being a little bitch. Circumstances aside, America still birthed jazz. As in, it wouldn't exist today without those circumstances. Did Europe or any other country have a jazz tradition before the U.S.? No.

I missed an obvious one a few pages back too - electricity. America <3


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