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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: TVC15 on December 19, 2008, 10:16:22 PM

Title: And my night is capped: I just heard libertarians on the radio
Post by: TVC15 on December 19, 2008, 10:16:22 PM: I turned off my Zune and checked out the radio to see what the landscape looks like. I believe that one cannot be properly "plugged in" to society without at least minimal exposure to the lowest common denominator traits of our gross and collapsing capitalist society, so I make sure I stay up to date on radio ads and what gets airpaly and the like.

Seeing it was almost 7, I turned on KIRO, hoping to catch some Too Beautiful to Live, but there was instead this insane ranting libertopian dude talking about how some billionaire businessman needs to rise up and form a defacto third party, eschewing the current US political system and going completely rogue, buying up lots of TV time in all 50 states and all sorts of nonsense. He even went on to compare this idealized character to BRUCE WAYNE, which was also hilarious. I think he may have seriously been a bit drunk; either that or some sort of hillbilly. He later forgave some of John McCain's faux pas (particularly the "Obama has said a lot of bad things about the people in PA, and, well, I AGREE" one which was awesome) because he was a POW. I'm not kidding.

And then I turned on The End and they were playing some song called Backdoor Santa or something by Jet. I silently prayed to Putin or whatever one of his puppets controls this things and wished for the USSR to rain nuclear fire on the United States. We deserve it, we really do.
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Post by: Himu on December 19, 2008, 10:18:13 PM: What's Too Beautiful to Live about?
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Post by: Van Cruncheon on December 19, 2008, 10:28:51 PM: it's about being an ennui-addled seattlite
Title: Re: And my night is capped: I just heard libertarians on the radio
Post by: FlameOfCallandor on December 20, 2008, 01:01:21 AM: Quote from: Himuro on December 19, 2008, 10:18:13 PM
What's Too Beautiful to Live about?

I dont know but it sounds emo.

Libertarians > Emos
Title: Re: And my night is capped: I just heard libertarians on the radio
Post by: drohne on December 20, 2008, 01:06:18 AM: jet is even worse than lolbertarian batmanolators
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Post by: Robo on December 20, 2008, 01:06:40 AM: Jet is from Australia, don't put that shit on us.
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Post by: drohne on December 20, 2008, 01:08:47 AM: isn't christopher nolan australian too? i think we need to nuke australia. after ferrying cut copy and clive james to safety

edit: no, i guess he's english. AUSTRALIA TEMPORARILY REPRIEVED FROM NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST
Title: Re: And my night is capped: I just heard libertarians on the radio
Post by: FlameOfCallandor on December 20, 2008, 01:09:04 AM: In his defense Batman is THE libertarian of the super hero universe. He's also the most popular super hero.

Coincidence? I think not.
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Post by: drohne on December 20, 2008, 01:12:56 AM: batman is all about violating individual liberty. end of dkr, ridiculous cellphone sonar thing in tdk, etc

oh god i cant believe im having this conversation
Title: Re: And my night is capped: I just heard libertarians on the radio
Post by: TVC15 on December 20, 2008, 01:13:02 AM: Too bad superheros are for children and, well, manchildren, which would explain why foolish idealism such as libertarianism has a home there.
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Post by: FlameOfCallandor on December 20, 2008, 01:18:11 AM: Quote from: TVC 15 on December 20, 2008, 01:13:02 AM
Too bad superheros are for children and, well, manchildren, which would explain why foolish idealism such as libertarianism has a home there.

How much money did dark knight make?

Also arent you a self proclaimed libertarian?
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Post by: patrickula on December 20, 2008, 01:20:34 AM: If Batman was a Libertarian wouldn't he stop helping people who are too weak protect themselves?
Title: Re: And my night is capped: I just heard libertarians on the radio
Post by: TVC15 on December 20, 2008, 01:21:32 AM: What does money have to do with it?

I'm libertarian on some positions, but I'm liberal in others, and if I followed my own foolish ideals, I'd be some flavor of anarchist.
Title: Re: And my night is capped: I just heard libertarians on the radio
Post by: FlameOfCallandor on December 20, 2008, 01:24:04 AM: Quote from: patrickula on December 20, 2008, 01:20:34 AM
If Batman was a Libertarian wouldn't he stop helping people who are too weak protect themselves?

No. Because he enjoys it.
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Post by: Eel O'Brian on December 20, 2008, 01:27:13 AM: golden age batman is awesome

he smiled all the time, that's pretty fucking creepy
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Post by: Van Cruncheon on December 20, 2008, 01:34:53 AM: hell, i'm libertarian on most social positions, if you get right down to it.
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Post by: Eel O'Brian on December 20, 2008, 01:35:50 AM: i really don't know what i am

i think i'm sort of a man without a country
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Post by: TVC15 on December 20, 2008, 01:39:34 AM: Quote from: Professor Prole on December 20, 2008, 01:34:53 AM
hell, i'm libertarian on most social positions, if you get right down to it.

I think I should be able to buy guns and any drugs I want. I think there are far too many laws.

Where I am not rationally libertarian is that I believe in social programs (including "entitlement" programs) and I think big businesses need to be regulated to a degree. I'm also anti-lobbyist. That shit should just be banned outright if it's going to basically be mainline corruption and purchased influence.
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Post by: Van Cruncheon on December 20, 2008, 01:41:29 AM: can't disagree there!

mmmm, guns and drugs.
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Post by: Eel O'Brian on December 20, 2008, 01:43:37 AM: i think drugs should be legalized to a degree

i would never support the legalization of heroin, for instance

but i think pot and lsd are fairly harmless (well, no more harmful than tobacco or alcohol)

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Title: Re: And my night is capped: I just heard libertarians on the radio
Post by: Crushed on December 20, 2008, 01:44:40 AM: batman isn't a libertarian, but most libertarians have batman fantasies about gearing up and dealing vigilante justice to some negroes
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Post by: Eel O'Brian on December 20, 2008, 01:46:09 AM: if you read comics in the early 80s every street thug was a white dude with a purple mohawk
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Post by: Crushed on December 20, 2008, 01:47:10 AM: that's because that's an accurate representation of the eighties: mohawks, leather, and mutants roaming post-apocalyptic urban wastelands, waiting to be beaten with pipes by men with bleach-blond mullets and sleeveless t-shirts
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Post by: TVC15 on December 20, 2008, 01:48:02 AM: Man, the 80s were awesome. Except in regards to music and movies and TV and shit.
Title: Re: And my night is capped: I just heard libertarians on the radio
Post by: drew on December 20, 2008, 01:50:01 AM: alien > caligula

stealth edit: oh wait alien was made in 1979 my bad no wonder its so good!
Title: Re: And my night is capped: I just heard libertarians on the radio
Post by: TVC15 on December 20, 2008, 01:51:17 AM: I have no idea why you'd expect me to argue that point. I love Caligula, but it is a bad, bad wreck of a movie.
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Post by: Eel O'Brian on December 20, 2008, 01:51:49 AM: the 80s weren't so awesome to live through, though

not because of politics or anything like that

the culture as a whole was slightly embarrassing, even at the time
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Post by: drew on December 20, 2008, 01:52:03 AM: eh
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Post by: TVC15 on December 20, 2008, 01:54:48 AM: Quote from: Eel O'Brian on December 20, 2008, 01:51:49 AM
the culture as a whole was slightly embarrassing, even at the time

That's what I was getting at. I guess my "cultural awakening" was probably in 91 or 92, but even then, as a youngin, I remember being kind of astounded that 80sish things were ever popular or accepted.
Title: abrader batsignal
Post by: drew on December 20, 2008, 01:55:40 AM: :drudge
Title: Re: And my night is capped: I just heard libertarians on the radio
Post by: Eel O'Brian on December 20, 2008, 02:01:09 AM: i remember girls on the school bus dressed as "Durannies" (Duran-Duran fans) and Madonna wannabes

i remember this one girl playing "Planet Rock" over and over again on her handheld tape recorder

i remember Fangoria magazine

i remember reading Elektra Assassin and Stray Toasters, and being completely blown away by Bill Sienkiewicz's art

i have lots of memories set to tunes by Oingo Boingo, The Outfield, and Howard Jones

yeah, the 80s were pretty awesome
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Post by: TVC15 on December 20, 2008, 02:02:37 AM: :tauntaun :hump Duran Duran :hump :tauntaun
Title: Re: And my night is capped: I just heard libertarians on the radio
Post by: Eel O'Brian on December 20, 2008, 02:06:56 AM: i sort of wish i could go back there
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Post by: drew on December 20, 2008, 02:07:34 AM: looks like hes not coming

lets shut er down boys
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Post by: Rman on December 20, 2008, 02:08:06 AM: I liked the 80s a lot. Too bad I was kid in the 80s.

Fave 80s icons: PeeWee's Playhouse, cheesy action flicks, chemistry sets--remember those what the heck happened to those, Gremlins, yada yada yada
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Post by: drew on December 20, 2008, 02:08:44 AM: yes, you missed out on an awesome 90's childhood
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Post by: Brehvolution on December 20, 2008, 02:12:07 AM: I grew up in the 80's too and I'm just happy we didn't all die.
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Post by: Rman on December 20, 2008, 02:14:35 AM: Quote from: Drewsy on December 20, 2008, 02:08:44 AM
yes, you missed out on an awesome 90's childhood
meh. I hated the 90s. Not because of the artistic output, but because it was a depressing time for me.
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Post by: Eel O'Brian on December 20, 2008, 02:16:08 AM: Quote from: Zero Hero on December 20, 2008, 02:12:07 AM
I grew up in the 80's too and I'm just happy we didn't all die.

we weren't gonna die, it was all hyperbole

we just didn't have an internet to filter out all the bullshit

i envy you younger people

my friends and i used to dream about making low-budget movies, and comics, and art

it's so easy nowadays, and costs so little

you had to have $$$$$$$$$$$$$$ to do anything when i was coming up
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Post by: TVC15 on December 20, 2008, 02:21:08 AM: Best things from the 80s:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuezNswtRfo

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlvyK_awFkE

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdXUDqlDkEM

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and everything the smiths ever recorded
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