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-->--The parody version of the JustForFun/AtheistProfessorCopypasta.

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->''The geatures of the actors playing malevolent Jews are exaggerated through makeup, lighting, and angle of photography. They sway and gesture and whine and argue just as Jews would in the antisemitic imagination; they are, of course, caricatures, physically repulsive and morally corrupt. Even {{Satan}} (Rosalinda Celentano) is a much more attractive figure than these spiteful creeps. One would need to make a single change in their manner of speech, body language, or physical features to paste them into any scene from ''Jew Süss.

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->''The geatures features of the actors playing malevolent Jews are exaggerated through makeup, lighting, and angle of photography. They sway and gesture and whine and argue just as Jews would in the antisemitic imagination; they are, of course, caricatures, physically repulsive and morally corrupt. Even {{Satan}} (Rosalinda Celentano) is a much more attractive figure than these spiteful creeps. One would need to make a single change in their manner of speech, body language, or physical features to paste them into any scene from ''Jew Süss.
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-->--[[https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/768/074/962.png Anonymous]] Copypasta from Website/FourChan, known as the "Navy Seal Copypasta".

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->[[CondescendingCompassion Dear Sub-Human Filth]],\\\

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Sincerely, -Ayru_

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Sincerely, -Ayru_-Ayru''

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-->--[[https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/768/074/962.png Anonymous]] Copypasta from Website/FourChan.

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-->--[[https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/768/074/962.png Anonymous]] Copypasta from Website/FourChan.
Website/FourChan, known as the "Navy Seal Copypasta".



The religion which you hold closely, greatly believe in, and which brings you comfort--you are wrong because I'm smarter than you and I'm telling you so. It is one of the many reasons why you are stupid and I'm better than you.
You see, us Democrats want a system which helps everyone in the world. Our system is designed around love and kindness to everyone. If you don't agree, I hate you.\\\

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The religion which you hold closely, greatly believe in, and which brings you comfort--you are wrong because I'm smarter than you and I'm telling you so. It is one of the many reasons why you are stupid and I'm better than you.
you.\\\
You see, us Democrats want a system which helps everyone in the world. Our system is designed around love and kindness to everyone. [[ImmediateSelfContradiction If you don't agree, I hate you.you]].\\\

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->[[CondescendingCompassion Dear Sub-Human Filth]],\\\
I'm appealing to all of you stupid idiots to vote Democrat in 2018. That is if you have the basic education enough to read a ballot, anyway. I understand the majority of you racist rednecks can't even read this post, though. But those who can, please pass my message on to the rest of your inbred family.\\\
We Democrats are morally, culturally and intellectually superior to you in every way. I will qualify myself by noting that I have a Liberal Arts degree from a college, which you obviously have never been to, if you even know what one is. I also have a black friend. I have been told by several professors that everything you hold dear is terrible. Therefore you, personally, are also terrible.\\\
I don't know you, but I know that you're racist. I also know that you hate gay people and still get scared during lightning storms.\\\
The religion which you hold closely, greatly believe in, and which brings you comfort--you are wrong because I'm smarter than you and I'm telling you so. It is one of the many reasons why you are stupid and I'm better than you.
You see, us Democrats want a system which helps everyone in the world. Our system is designed around love and kindness to everyone. If you don't agree, I hate you.\\\
It's not too late to change. If you knew your history, which of course you don't, you'll remember a time in America when Indians were dragged away from their homes and forced to assimilate into white society. Well, we want to change that kind of behaviour (sorry for my spelling, as I'm not from your country) [[{{Irony}} by making sure you go to college and have a small apartment in a big, busy coastal city, where you belong. That will help you rid yourselves of your backward, incorrect culture and way of thinking]]. We'll do everything we can to make sure you agree with us and say all the right things and not be brainwashed against thinking the same way we do.\\\
All of you stupid, backward, redneck, racist, homophobic, uneducated yokels need to realize we're trying to build a classless society where we all get to live in harmony with each other, where we're all equal. If you only understood that you wouldn't be so much worse of a person than I am.\\\
So please vote Democrat. Help me help you, you worthless motherfuckers.\\\
Sincerely, -Ayru_
-->--The "Dear Sub-Human Filth" copypasta[[note]]Likely [[https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/7w3xkd/dear_subhuman_filth/ originally]] from Website/{{Reddit}} but also [[https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/156621332/ possibly]] fron Website/FourChan.[[/note]]
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->''A [[StrawCharacter liberal muslim homosexual ACLU]] [[EvilLawyerJoke lawyer]] [[StrawCharacter professor]] and abortion doctor was teaching a class on Creator/KarlMarx, known atheist\\
"Before the class begins, you must get on your knees and worship Marx and accept that he was the most highly-evolved being the world has ever known, [[BlasphemousBoast even greater than Jesus Christ!"]]\\
At this moment, [[GodModeSue a brave, patriotic, pro-life Navy SEAL champion]] who had served 1500 tours of duty and understood the necessity of war and fully supported all military decision made by the United States stood up and held up a rock.\\
"How old is this rock, pinhead?"\\
The arrogant professor [[GreedyJew smirked quite Jewishly]] and smugly replied "4.6 billion years, you stupid Christian"\\
"Wrong. It's been 5,000 years since God created it. If it was 4.6 billion years old and evolution, as you say, is real... [[ChewbaccaDefense then it should be an animal now]]"\\
The professor was visibly shaken, [[PuffOfLogic and dropped his chalk and copy of Origin of the Species]]. He stormed out of the room crying those liberal crocodile tears. The same tears liberals cry for the "poor" (who today live in such luxury that most own refrigerators) when they jealously try to claw justly earned wealth from the deserving job creators. There is no doubt that at this point our professor, [=DeShawn Washington=], wished he had pulled himself up by his bootstraps and become more than a sophist liberal professor. He wished so much that he had a gun to shoot himself from embarrassment, [[{{Anvilicious}} but he himself had petitioned against them!]]\\
The students applauded and all registered Republican that day and accepted Jesus as their lord and savior. An eagle named "Small Government" flew into the room and perched atop the American Flag and shed a tear on the chalk. The pledge of allegiance was read several times, and {{God}} himself showed up and enacted a flat tax rate across the country.\\
The professor lost his tenure and was fired the next day. [[BuryYourGays He died of the gay plague AIDS]] and was tossed into the lake of fire for all eternity.\\
Semper Fi.''

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->''A [[StrawCharacter liberal muslim homosexual ACLU]] [[EvilLawyerJoke lawyer]] [[StrawCharacter professor]] and abortion doctor was teaching a class on Creator/KarlMarx, known atheist\\
atheist\\\
"Before the class begins, you must get on your knees and worship Marx and accept that he was the most highly-evolved being the world has ever known, [[BlasphemousBoast even greater than Jesus Christ!"]]\\
Christ!"]]\\\
At this moment, [[GodModeSue a brave, patriotic, pro-life Navy SEAL champion]] who had served 1500 tours of duty and understood the necessity of war and fully supported all military decision made by the United States stood up and held up a rock.\\
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"How old is this rock, pinhead?"\\
pinhead?"\\\
The arrogant professor [[GreedyJew smirked quite Jewishly]] and smugly replied "4.6 billion years, you stupid Christian"\\
Christian"\\\
"Wrong. It's been 5,000 years since God created it. If it was 4.6 billion years old and evolution, as you say, is real... [[ChewbaccaDefense then it should be an animal now]]"\\
now]]"\\\
The professor was visibly shaken, [[PuffOfLogic and dropped his chalk and copy of Origin of the Species]]. He stormed out of the room crying those liberal crocodile tears. The same tears liberals cry for the "poor" (who today live in such luxury that most own refrigerators) when they jealously try to claw justly earned wealth from the deserving job creators. There is no doubt that at this point our professor, [=DeShawn Washington=], wished he had pulled himself up by his bootstraps and become more than a sophist liberal professor. He wished so much that he had a gun to shoot himself from embarrassment, [[{{Anvilicious}} but he himself had petitioned against them!]]\\
them!]]\\\
The students applauded and all registered Republican that day and accepted Jesus as their lord and savior. An eagle named "Small Government" flew into the room and perched atop the American Flag and shed a tear on the chalk. The pledge of allegiance was read several times, and {{God}} himself showed up and enacted a flat tax rate across the country.\\
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The professor lost his tenure and was fired the next day. [[BuryYourGays He died of the gay plague AIDS]] and was tossed into the lake of fire for all eternity.\\
Semper Fi.
\\\
SemperFi.
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->''A liberal muslim homosexual ACLU lawyer professor and abortion doctor was teaching a class on Creator/KarlMarx, known atheist\\\
"Before the class begins, you must get on your knees and worship Marx and accept that he was the most highly-evolved being the world has ever known, [[BlasphemousBoast even greater than Jesus Christ!"]]\\\
At this moment, [[GodModeSue a brave, patriotic, pro-life Navy SEAL champion]] who had served 1500 tours of duty and understood the necessity of war and fully supported all military decision made by the United States stood up and held up a rock.\\\
"How old is this rock, pinhead?"\\\
The arrogant professor [[GreedyJew smirked quite Jewishly]] and smugly replied "4.6 billion years, you stupid Christian"\\\
"Wrong. It's been 5,000 years since God created it. If it was 4.6 billion years old and evolution, as you say, is real... [[ChewbaccaDefense then it should be an animal now]]"\\\
The professor was visibly shaken, [[PuffOfLogic and dropped his chalk and copy of Origin of the Species]]. He stormed out of the room crying those liberal crocodile tears. The same tears liberals cry for the "poor" (who today live in such luxury that most own refrigerators) when they jealously try to claw justly earned wealth from the deserving job creators. There is no doubt that at this point our professor, [=DeShawn Washington=], wished he had pulled himself up by his bootstraps and become more than a sophist liberal professor. He wished so much that he had a gun to shoot himself from embarrassment, [[{{Anvilicious}} but he himself had petitioned against them!]]\\\
The students applauded and all registered Republican that day and accepted Jesus as their lord and savior. An eagle named "Small Government" flew into the room and perched atop the American Flag and shed a tear on the chalk. The pledge of allegiance was read several times, and {{God}} himself showed up and enacted a flat tax rate across the country.\\\
The professor lost his tenure and was fired the next day. [[BuryYourGays He died of the gay plague AIDS]] and was tossed into the lake of fire for all eternity.\\\

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->''A [[StrawCharacter liberal muslim homosexual ACLU lawyer professor ACLU]] [[EvilLawyerJoke lawyer]] [[StrawCharacter professor]] and abortion doctor was teaching a class on Creator/KarlMarx, known atheist\\\
atheist\\
"Before the class begins, you must get on your knees and worship Marx and accept that he was the most highly-evolved being the world has ever known, [[BlasphemousBoast even greater than Jesus Christ!"]]\\\
Christ!"]]\\
At this moment, [[GodModeSue a brave, patriotic, pro-life Navy SEAL champion]] who had served 1500 tours of duty and understood the necessity of war and fully supported all military decision made by the United States stood up and held up a rock.\\\
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"How old is this rock, pinhead?"\\\
pinhead?"\\
The arrogant professor [[GreedyJew smirked quite Jewishly]] and smugly replied "4.6 billion years, you stupid Christian"\\\
Christian"\\
"Wrong. It's been 5,000 years since God created it. If it was 4.6 billion years old and evolution, as you say, is real... [[ChewbaccaDefense then it should be an animal now]]"\\\
now]]"\\
The professor was visibly shaken, [[PuffOfLogic and dropped his chalk and copy of Origin of the Species]]. He stormed out of the room crying those liberal crocodile tears. The same tears liberals cry for the "poor" (who today live in such luxury that most own refrigerators) when they jealously try to claw justly earned wealth from the deserving job creators. There is no doubt that at this point our professor, [=DeShawn Washington=], wished he had pulled himself up by his bootstraps and become more than a sophist liberal professor. He wished so much that he had a gun to shoot himself from embarrassment, [[{{Anvilicious}} but he himself had petitioned against them!]]\\\
them!]]\\
The students applauded and all registered Republican that day and accepted Jesus as their lord and savior. An eagle named "Small Government" flew into the room and perched atop the American Flag and shed a tear on the chalk. The pledge of allegiance was read several times, and {{God}} himself showed up and enacted a flat tax rate across the country.\\\
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The professor lost his tenure and was fired the next day. [[BuryYourGays He died of the gay plague AIDS]] and was tossed into the lake of fire for all eternity.\\\\\
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->"Makes ya think. Who are the ''real'' sexists? Answer: ''[[{{Film/Ghostbusters2016}} These women.]]'' Look how ''happy they are'' to have ''jobs''. [='=]''You are parasites on other people creativity!''[='=] [[YouMakeMeSic And their grammar,]] apparently."

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->"Makes ya think. Who are the ''real'' sexists? Answer: ''[[{{Film/Ghostbusters2016}} These women.]]'' Look how ''happy they are'' to have ''jobs''. [='=]''You are parasites on other people creativity!''[='=] [[YouMakeMeSic [[GrammarCorrectionGag And their grammar,]] apparently."
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->''"I gotta say, if your argument only works when you’re comparing best possible case to highly specific, intentionally derogatory, worst-case-scenarios, you’ve probably already lost the argument."''
-->--'''[=KeithInc.=]''' on homophobes, [[https://fstdt.com/7JLSPX7BPT6FF#107106 Fundies Say the Darndest Things]]
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->''Maybe Creator/{{Ubisoft}} is just catering to normal, boring, unattractive people who like'' Franchise/FarCry ''just fine as it is but could go for seconds. The thing is, hypothetical speaker, that if it’s just'' Far Cry ''you want, then'' VideoGame/FarCry3 ''has yet to be topped and hasn’t gone anywhere. It’s even got quite a good plot and the occasional titty. So there’s got to be some shriveled part of you that expects novelty or they wouldn’t need to keep bringing out new ones in different settings. There, I win the argument, now piss off, you’re getting straw all over the place!''
-->--'''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation''', review of ''VideoGame/FarCryPrimal''
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-->--'''[[https://www.gq.com/story/least-influential-people-2015 Drew Magary]]''' on Curt Schilling, "The Least Influential People of 2015"

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-->--'''[[https://www.gq.com/story/least-influential-people-2015 Drew Magary]]''' on Curt Schilling, "The Worst People of 2015"

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->"Makes ya think. Who are the ''real'' sexists? Answer: ''[[{{Film/Ghostbusters2016}} These women.]]'' Look how ''happy they are'' to have ''jobs''. [='=]''You are parasites on other people creativity!''[='=] [[YouMakeMeSic And their grammar,]] apparently."
-->--'''WebVideo/HBomberGuy''' on [=Thunderf00t=]
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->''If a {{Website/Facebook}} meme includes three different typefaces, a picture of the twin towers exploding, a rebel flag, a caption that begins “Let me get this straight…,” and ANY mention of Hitler anywhere, that goes right into Curt’s timeline.''
-->--'''[[https://www.gq.com/story/least-influential-people-2015 Drew Magary]]''' on Curt Schilling, "The Worst People of 2015"
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-->--'''''Joseph Schumpeter''''', ''History of Economic Analysis'', p. 86.

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-->--'''''Joseph Schumpeter''''', -->--'''Joseph Schumpeter''', ''History of Economic Analysis'', p. 86.
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->''The geatures of the actors playing malevolent Jews are exaggerated through makeup, lighting, and angle of photography. They sway and gesture and whine and argue just as Jews would in the antisemitic imagination; they are, of course, caricatures, physically repulsive and morally corrupt. Even {{Satan}} (Rosalinda Celentano) is a much more attractive figure than these spiteful creeps. One would need to make a single change in their manner of speech, body language, or physical features to paste them into any scene from ''Jew Süss''.

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->''The geatures of the actors playing malevolent Jews are exaggerated through makeup, lighting, and angle of photography. They sway and gesture and whine and argue just as Jews would in the antisemitic imagination; they are, of course, caricatures, physically repulsive and morally corrupt. Even {{Satan}} (Rosalinda Celentano) is a much more attractive figure than these spiteful creeps. One would need to make a single change in their manner of speech, body language, or physical features to paste them into any scene from ''Jew Süss''.Süss.
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->''The geatures of the actors playing malevolent Jews are exaggerated through makeup, lighting, and angle of photography. They sway and gesture and whine and argue just as Jews would in the antisemitic imagination; they are, of course, caricatures, physically repulsive and morally corrupt. Even {{Satan}} (Rosalinda Celentano) is a much more attractive figure than these spiteful creeps. One would need to make a single change in their manner of speech, body language, or physical features to paste them into any scene from ''Jew Süss''.
-->-- '''Omer Bartov''' on ''Film/ThePassionOfTheChrist'', ''The "Jew" in Cinema'': Introduction xiv.
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->''"When on my first appearing in episcopal gaiters in a drawing-room I cried out in a voice of thunder, 'Down! down! presumptuous human reason!' they found out in some way that [[BadHabits I was not a bishop at all.]] I was nabbed at once. Then I made up as a millionaire; but [[RichInDollarsPoorInSense I defended Capital with so much intelligence that a fool could see that I was quite poor.]] Then I tried being a major. Now I am a humanitarian myself, but I have, I hope, enough intellectual breadth to understand the position of those who, like [[Creator/FriedrichNietzsche Nietzsche]], admire violence — the proud, mad war of Nature and all that, you know. I threw myself into the major. [[GeneralRipper I drew my sword and waved it constantly.]] I called out 'Blood!' abstractedly, like a man calling for wine. I often said, 'Let the weak perish; it is the Law.' Well, well, it seems majors don't do this. I was nabbed again."''

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->''"When on my first appearing in episcopal gaiters in a drawing-room I cried out in a voice of thunder, 'Down! down! presumptuous human reason!' they found out in some way that [[BadHabits I was not a bishop at all.]] I was nabbed at once. Then I made up as a millionaire; but [[RichInDollarsPoorInSense I defended Capital with so much intelligence that a fool could see that I was quite poor.]] Then I tried being a major. Now I am a humanitarian myself, but I have, I hope, enough intellectual breadth to understand the position of those who, like [[Creator/FriedrichNietzsche Nietzsche]], admire violence — the proud, mad war of Nature and all that, you know. I threw myself into the major. [[GeneralRipper I drew my sword and waved it constantly.]] I called out 'Blood!' abstractedly, like a man calling for wine. I often said, [[StrawNihilist 'Let the weak perish; it is the Law.' ']] Well, well, it seems majors don't do this. I was nabbed again."''
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->''As a [[UseflNotes/TheNineties Gen-Xer,]] I am a neutral party in the raging war between Baby Boomers and Millennials, and I hereby declare that ''Dustin'' is really shitty in its treatment of young people! Like surely there is humor to be mined from this conflict of worldviews but instead we get things like today, “Ha ha, youths can’t hold down a job because they just spontaneously fall asleep all the time! Meanwhile, the ADULTS who MADE THIS COUNTRY WHAT IT IS TODAY are going to enjoy some LEGITIMATE HIGHBROW CULTURE.”''

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->''As a [[UseflNotes/TheNineties [[UsefulNotes/TheNineties Gen-Xer,]] I am a neutral party in the raging war between Baby Boomers and Millennials, and I hereby declare that ''Dustin'' is really shitty in its treatment of young people! Like surely there is humor to be mined from this conflict of worldviews but instead we get things like today, “Ha ha, youths can’t hold down a job because they just spontaneously fall asleep all the time! Meanwhile, the ADULTS who MADE THIS COUNTRY WHAT IT IS TODAY are going to enjoy some LEGITIMATE HIGHBROW CULTURE.”''

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->''"When first I became one of the New Anarchists I tried all kinds of respectable disguises. I dressed up as a bishop. I read up all about bishops in our anarchist pamphlets, in Superstition the Vampire and Priests of Prey. I certainly understood from them that bishops are strange and terrible old men keeping a cruel secret from mankind. I was misinformed. When on my first appearing in episcopal gaiters in a drawing-room I cried out in a voice of thunder, 'Down! down! presumptuous human reason!' they found out in some way that I was not a bishop at all. I was nabbed at once. Then I made up as a millionaire; but I defended Capital with so much intelligence that a fool could see that I was quite poor. Then I tried being a major. Now I am a humanitarian myself, but I have, I hope, enough intellectual breadth to understand the position of those who, like Nietzsche, admire violence — the proud, mad war of Nature and all that, you know. I threw myself into the major. I drew my sword and waved it constantly. I called out 'Blood!' abstractedly, like a man calling for wine. I often said, 'Let the weak perish; it is the Law.' Well, well, it seems majors don't do this. I was nabbed again."''
-->-- '''Gregory''', explaining his [[PaperThinDisguise failed attempts]] to go undercover, ''Literature/TheManWhoWasThursday''.

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->''As a [[UseflNotes/TheNineties Gen-Xer,]] I am a neutral party in the raging war between Baby Boomers and Millennials, and I hereby declare that ''Dustin'' is really shitty in its treatment of young people! Like surely there is humor to be mined from this conflict of worldviews but instead we get things like today, “Ha ha, youths can’t hold down a job because they just spontaneously fall asleep all the time! Meanwhile, the ADULTS who MADE THIS COUNTRY WHAT IT IS TODAY are going to enjoy some LEGITIMATE HIGHBROW CULTURE.”''
-->--'''''Blog/TheComicsCurmudgeon''''', [[https://joshreads.com/2019/01/these-kids-watched-too-many-ninja-turtle-cartoons-and-now-their-brains-cant-maintain-consciousness/ "These kids watched TOO MANY NINJA TURTLE CARTOONS and now their BRAINS can’t MAINTAIN CONSCIOUSNESS"]]

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->''"When first I became one of the New Anarchists I tried all kinds of respectable disguises. I dressed up as a bishop. I read up all about bishops in our anarchist pamphlets, in Superstition the Vampire and Priests of Prey. I certainly understood from them that bishops are strange and terrible old men keeping a cruel secret from mankind. I was misinformed. When on my first appearing in episcopal gaiters in a drawing-room I cried out in a voice of thunder, 'Down! down! presumptuous human reason!' they found out in some way that [[BadHabits I was not a bishop at all. all.]] I was nabbed at once. Then I made up as a millionaire; but [[RichInDollarsPoorInSense I defended Capital with so much intelligence that a fool could see that I was quite poor. poor.]] Then I tried being a major. Now I am a humanitarian myself, but I have, I hope, enough intellectual breadth to understand the position of those who, like Nietzsche, [[Creator/FriedrichNietzsche Nietzsche]], admire violence — the proud, mad war of Nature and all that, you know. I threw myself into the major. [[GeneralRipper I drew my sword and waved it constantly. constantly.]] I called out 'Blood!' abstractedly, like a man calling for wine. I often said, 'Let the weak perish; it is the Law.' Well, well, it seems majors don't do this. I was nabbed again."''
-->-- '''Gregory''', explaining his [[PaperThinDisguise failed attempts]] to go undercover, ''Literature/TheManWhoWasThursday''.

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Semper Fi.-]"

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->''"Oh yeah, keep religion far, far away from wrestling. You’d think it would just be common sense, just like it is common sense to keep church and state separate. While there is often debate on exactly how separate they should be, the fact is that here in America, everyone pretty much has the right to worship whatever god they want, so long as they aren’t hanging up kidnapped victims on homemade crosses or cutting them open and extracting blood. Both of which, we’d like to note, have happened in [[Wrestling/MinistryOfDarkness pro wrestling’s version of religion.]]"''

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->''"Oh ->''Oh yeah, keep religion far, far away from wrestling. You’d think it would just be common sense, just like it is common sense to keep church and state separate. While there is often debate on exactly how separate they should be, the fact is that here in America, everyone pretty much has the right to worship whatever god they want, so long as they aren’t hanging up kidnapped victims on homemade crosses or cutting them open and extracting blood. Both of which, we’d like to note, have happened in [[Wrestling/MinistryOfDarkness pro wrestling’s version of religion.]]"'']]''



->''"Essential Viewing: ''[[{{Music/Nirvana}} Kurt]] and [[Music/CourtneyLove Courtney]]''. I like documentaries that are IN NO WAY objective."''
-->--'''[[http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/see-what-were-really-missing-here-is-the-vaccine-truth-1641735183 Drew Magary]]'''

->''"Zucker doesn't stop at [[Creator/MichaelMoore Moore]]/Malone for pointed mockery; ''Carol'' also tackles loathsome American poxes such as college educations ([[DirtyCommunists the damn hippies are indoctrinating your kids]], people!), exercising [[OnlyBadGuysCallTheirLawyers constitutional rights]], and questioning leadership. [[TheEvilsOfFreeWill The horror]]. The ACLU also gets a spanking (imagined as [[TheQuisling zombies enabling terrorists]])."''

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->''"Essential Viewing: ''[[{{Music/Nirvana}} Kurt]] and [[Music/CourtneyLove Courtney]]''. I like documentaries that are IN NO WAY objective."''
-->--'''[[http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/see-what-were-really-missing-here-is-the-vaccine-truth-1641735183 Drew Magary]]'''

->''"Zucker
->''Zucker doesn't stop at [[Creator/MichaelMoore Moore]]/Malone for pointed mockery; ''Carol'' also tackles loathsome American poxes such as college educations ([[DirtyCommunists the damn hippies are indoctrinating your kids]], people!), exercising [[OnlyBadGuysCallTheirLawyers constitutional rights]], and questioning leadership. [[TheEvilsOfFreeWill The horror]].horror. The ACLU also gets a spanking (imagined as [[TheQuisling zombies enabling terrorists]])."''''



->''"In the post ''Civil War'' Universe, [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]], the leader on the side of government registration of known superheroes, was portrayed as kind of [[CharacterDerailment a giant prick]], as was every hero on the registration side, regardless of whether or not they [[InformedWrongness actually had a point.]] Meanwhile all the heroes on the side of those against hero registration were painted as cool rebels."''

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->''"In ->''In the post ''Civil War'' Universe, [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]], the leader on the side of government registration of known superheroes, was portrayed as kind of [[CharacterDerailment a giant prick]], as was every hero on the registration side, regardless of whether or not they [[InformedWrongness actually had a point.]] Meanwhile all the heroes on the side of those against hero registration were painted as cool rebels."''''



->''"Libertarians believe that the one-dimensional scale of the political "left-right" is insufficient to describe the many philosophies held by the general public. They introduced the Nolan Chart, which measures two dimensions of political opinion instead, conveniently placing themselves at the top, [[GodwinsLaw opposite Hitler.]]"''

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->''"Bullshit! Using such tactics to “restore trust” in the vaccine program is akin to showing flaming car crashes and dead victims in order to “restore trust’ in automobile safety."''

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->''"Bullshit! Using ->''Using such tactics to “restore trust” in the vaccine program is akin to showing flaming car crashes and dead victims in order to “restore trust’ in automobile safety."''''



->''"Creator/{{Fox News|Channel}} is not a news channel, nor is it even really a propaganda channel. What it is is terrible {{professional wrestling}}. I mean, the [[BlackAndWhiteMorality black and white]] framing, with good guys and bad guys who you are telegraphed to cheer or boo depending on what faction they belong to. Moves that are so telegraphed, they can be used to call for mayday. Random taunting and {{trash talk}}ing of enemies. Random repeating of {{catchphrase}}s and 'hit words of the day'. And let’s not even get started on the random [[BlondeRepublicanSexKitten “bikini babes” or the professional fembots]]. It’s like WWE’s slower, dumber cousin."''

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->''"Creator/{{Fox ->''Creator/{{Fox News|Channel}} is not a news channel, nor is it even really a propaganda channel. What it is is terrible {{professional wrestling}}. I mean, the [[BlackAndWhiteMorality black and white]] framing, with good guys and bad guys who you are telegraphed to cheer or boo depending on what faction they belong to. Moves that are so telegraphed, they can be used to call for mayday. Random taunting and {{trash talk}}ing of enemies. Random repeating of {{catchphrase}}s and 'hit words of the day'. And let’s not even get started on the random [[BlondeRepublicanSexKitten “bikini babes” or the professional fembots]]. It’s like WWE’s slower, dumber cousin."''''



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->The man would walk right past her. He'd be alert, but not ''that'' alert. A slash would be better than a stab. Yes, a good swipe at head height would be...
-> ''...some mother's son, some sister's brother, some lad who'd followed the drum for a shilling and his first new suit. If only she'd been trained, if only she'd had a few weeks stabbing straw men until she could believe that all men were made of straw...''
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->''"Zucker doesn't stop at [[MichaelMoore Moore]]/Malone for pointed mockery; ''Carol'' also tackles loathsome American poxes such as college educations ([[DirtyCommunists the damn hippies are indoctrinating your kids]], people!), exercising [[OnlyBadGuysCallTheirLawyers constitutional rights]], and questioning leadership. [[TheEvilsOfFreeWill The horror]]. The ACLU also gets a spanking (imagined as [[TheQuisling zombies enabling terrorists]])."''

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->''"…in science as elsewhere, we fight for and against not men and things as they are, but for and against the caricatures we make of them."''
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->"[-[[DastardlyWhiplash A liberal muslim homosexual ACLU lawyer professor and abortion doctor]] was teaching a class on Creator/KarlMarx, known atheist\\\
"Before the class begins, you must get on your knees and worship Marx and accept that he was the most highly-evolved being the world has ever known, [[BlasphemousBoast even greater than Jesus Christ!"]]\\\
At this moment, [[GodModeSue a brave, patriotic, pro-life Navy SEAL champion]] who had served 1500 tours of duty and understood the necessity of war and fully supported all military decision made by the United States stood up and held up a rock.\\\
"How old is this rock, pinhead?"\\\
The arrogant professor [[GreedyJew smirked quite Jewishly]] and smugly replied "4.6 billion years, you stupid Christian"\\\
"Wrong. It's been 5,000 years since God created it. If it was 4.6 billion years old and evolution, as you say, is real... [[ChewbaccaDefense then it should be an animal now]]"\\\
The professor was visibly shaken, [[PuffOfLogic and dropped his chalk and copy of Origin of the Species]]. He stormed out of the room crying those liberal crocodile tears. The same tears liberals cry for the "poor" (who today live in such luxury that most own refrigerators) when they jealously try to claw justly earned wealth from the deserving job creators. There is no doubt that at this point our professor, [=DeShawn Washington=], wished he had pulled himself up by his bootstraps and become more than a sophist liberal professor. He wished so much that he had a gun to shoot himself from embarrassment, [[{{Anvilicious}} but he himself had petitioned against them!]]\\\
The students applauded and all registered Republican that day and accepted Jesus as their lord and savior. An eagle named "Small Government" flew into the room and perched atop the American Flag and shed a tear on the chalk. The pledge of allegiance was read several times, and {{God}} himself showed up and enacted a flat tax rate across the country.\\\
The professor lost his tenure and was fired the next day. [[BuryYourGays He died of the gay plague AIDS]] and was tossed into the lake of fire for all eternity.\\\
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-->--'''''Joseph Schumpeter''''', ''History of Economic Analysis'', p. 86.
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->''"I’m honestly curious about what the backstory is on today’s ''Herb and Jamaal'', in which Herb has charged into Rev. Croom’s office [[HollywoodAtheist to angrily challenge his entire belief system.]] Is this happening after yet another Sunday service that Herb’s family dragged him to, and something in the sermon finally pushed him over the edge until he couldn’t stay quiet anymore? Or was he just sitting at work, [[FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence stewing over Croom’s unshakeable faith in the unprovable]], until eventually he just barged into the Reverend’s office hours (do clergy have office hours? seems like a thing they’d have) demanding that he make room in his mental universe for doubt? At any rate, the final panel proves that Herb is helpless before [[IceCreamKoan the power of wordplay.]]"''
-->--'''''Blog/TheComicsCurmudgeon''''' [[http://joshreads.com/?p=21636 on]] ''Herb and Jamaal''



->''"The problem is that 'Emanations' feels downright reactionary in its portrayal of [[SuicideIsPainless euthanasia]]. It feels like something of a strawman argument -- the Vhnori are a culture fashioned from the most hyperbolic of arguments against the practice. It’s a world where euthanasia has become a cultural norm. It’s something that [[PlanetOfHats the entire culture is built around]]. Neria tells Harry that there are 'thousands' of facilities like this scattered across the planet.\\\
It’s interesting that none of those seeking suicide are in extreme physical pain. Hatil has a damaged leg and a limp – but he’s healthy enough that [[InformedAttribute running off to the mountains]] is a viable option. Ptera makes no mention of physical discomfort or loss of dignity (or even debilitation) as a result of the '[[BeautyIsNeverTarnished tumorous lesion]]' on her brain. Hatil and Ptera both seem to be relatively healthy individuals with afflictions that aren’t causing immediate agony or serious loss of dignity. Instead, this is a world where social and familial pressure exists to ''force'' people to [[TheSocialDarwinist volunteer for euthanasia]]."''
-->--'''[[http://them0vieblog.com/2014/10/03/star-trek-voyager-emanations-review/ Darren Mooney]]''' on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', "Emanations"

->''"This is implicit even in the structure of the plot -- the Doctor defaults to spending his time with the humans, and while he pushes them to save the Gangers as well, the result is still a story in which saving the humans appears to be the primary goal. Even the title is working against the Gangers, relegating them to the status of 'almost' people.\\\
So what we have is a story that’s trying to [[{{Deconstruction}} smartly update]] the [[ProtectThisHouse old base under siege]] story, but that ultimately just reaffirms its underlying paranoia and ethos while muddling about without doing much of anything."''
-->--'''Dr. Phil Sandifer''' [[http://www.philipsandifer.com/ on]] ''Series/DoctorWho'' ([[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS32E6TheAlmostPeople}} "The Almost People"]]).



->''"In response to the It Gets Better campaign, Adams wrote a piece about eight heterosexual kids who were hounded into suicide by homosexuals to [[ChewbaccaDefense provide some balance]] to the claims that homosexual students are bullied. Except that none of the heterosexual kids really committed suicide. In every case described, the kid in question really [[NeverMyFault sued someone instead]]."''
-->--''[[http://americanloons.blogspot.com/2013/02/436-mike-s-adams.html Encyclopedia of American Loons]] on Prof. Mike S. Adams



->''"A conservative wiki with articles that always somehow end up either blaming Liberals and non-Christians for some reason or another. It also seems to strongly imply one's religious beliefs has a connection to ones capability of doing certain things (e.g. violence)...some examples of bias/lies/inaccuracies on conservapedia:"''
## socialism - we see a picture of Hitler on the top of the page.
## Creator/FriedrichNietzsche - the first section is calling him crazy. (WTF?! they didn't even explain what his philosophical views are and he's declared crazy right at the beginning?!)
## Islam - "the most violent religion"
## UsefulNotes/BillClinton - all the credits of economic success should belong to Republicans (really? please explain why public opinion favored him during the government shutdown and impeachment)
## ''Franchise/GrandTheftAuto'' - I don't even know where to begin on this
-->--'''''WebSite/UrbanDictionary''''' on Wiki/{{Conservapedia}}




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->Iden announces that his [[CharacterDerailment character assassination]]--I mean, ''development'' has now begun: he's creating a new religion about '''[[AGodAmI himself]]''', a transformation that appears out of nowhere... [[AssPull He just decides between scenes]] that he's Holo-Jesus now; the beginning of his descent into "monster" without clear cause.
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->'''Outrage:'''\\
Any anger, no matter how legitimate, I do not personally feel.\\\
'''Censorship:'''\\
Criticism, no matter how legitimate, of anything from which I derive pleasure.\\\
'''Balance:'''\\
You agreeing with me.\\\
'''Discussion:'''\\
Me shouting. You listening.
-->--[[http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/columnists/a-guide-to-the-ideas-and-words-of-gamergate/article21146512/ Tabatha Southey]], "A guide to the ideas and words of Gamergate"

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->'''Outrage:'''\\
Any anger, no matter how legitimate, I do not personally feel.\\\
'''Censorship:'''\\
Criticism, no matter how legitimate, of anything from which I derive pleasure.\\\
'''Balance:'''\\
You agreeing with me.\\\
'''Discussion:'''\\
Me shouting. You listening.
-->--[[http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/columnists/a-guide-to-the-ideas-and-words-of-gamergate/article21146512/ Tabatha Southey]], "A guide to the ideas and words of Gamergate"

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->''"Oh yeah, keep religion far, far away from wrestling. You’d think it would just be common sense, just like it is common sense to keep church and state separate. While there is often debate on exactly how separate they should be, the fact is that here in America, everyone pretty much has the right to worship whatever god they want, so long as they aren’t [[ReligionOfEvil hanging up kidnapped victims on homemade crosses or cutting them open and extracting blood.]] Both of which, we’d like to note, have happened in [[Wrestling/MinistryOfDarkness pro wrestling’s version of religion.]]"''

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->''"Oh yeah, keep religion far, far away from wrestling. You’d think it would just be common sense, just like it is common sense to keep church and state separate. While there is often debate on exactly how separate they should be, the fact is that here in America, everyone pretty much has the right to worship whatever god they want, so long as they aren’t [[ReligionOfEvil hanging up kidnapped victims on homemade crosses or cutting them open and extracting blood.]] blood. Both of which, we’d like to note, have happened in [[Wrestling/MinistryOfDarkness pro wrestling’s version of religion.]]"''



->''"Zucker doesn't stop at [[MichaelMoore Moore]]/Malone for pointed mockery; ''Carol'' also tackles loathsome American poxes such as college educations ([[DirtyCommunists the damn hippies are indoctrinating your kids]], people!), exercising [[OnlyBadGuysCallTheirLawyers constitutional rights]], and questioning leadership. [[AndThatsTerrible The horror]]. The ACLU also gets a spanking (imagined as [[TheQuisling zombies enabling terrorists]])... ''Carol'' is created with a specific agenda to support the American armed forces, using the Washington and Patton characters (along with John Kennedy) to remind the audience that diplomacy is second only to [[HobbesWasRight a strong military hand]]. The ghosts show Malone (in full "Christmas Carol" fashion) the results of an America without the sacrifice of war, exploring how [[HitlerAteSugar slavery still exists and visiting a nuked Detroit]]. Of course, with ''Carol'' being a zany comedy and all, there's even a sobering moment spent at the smoldering ruins of 9/11... Shhh, don't tell Zucker, but [[DudeNotFunny I don't think 9/11 is funny anymore.]]\\\
Besides, of all filmmakers in the world to beat Zucker to the terrorist comedy punch, Uwe Boll danced the same tasteless tango earlier this year with the blindingly awful ''{{Film/Postal}}''."''

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->''"Zucker doesn't stop at [[MichaelMoore Moore]]/Malone for pointed mockery; ''Carol'' also tackles loathsome American poxes such as college educations ([[DirtyCommunists the damn hippies are indoctrinating your kids]], people!), exercising [[OnlyBadGuysCallTheirLawyers constitutional rights]], and questioning leadership. [[AndThatsTerrible [[TheEvilsOfFreeWill The horror]]. The ACLU also gets a spanking (imagined as [[TheQuisling zombies enabling terrorists]])... ''Carol'' is created with a specific agenda to support the American armed forces, using the Washington and Patton characters (along with John Kennedy) to remind the audience that diplomacy is second only to [[HobbesWasRight a strong military hand]]. The ghosts show Malone (in full "Christmas Carol" fashion) the results of an America without the sacrifice of war, exploring how [[HitlerAteSugar slavery still exists and visiting a nuked Detroit]]. Of course, with ''Carol'' being a zany comedy and all, there's even a sobering moment spent at the smoldering ruins of 9/11... Shhh, don't tell Zucker, but [[DudeNotFunny I don't think 9/11 is funny anymore.]]\\\
Besides, of all filmmakers in the world to beat Zucker to the terrorist comedy punch, Uwe Boll danced the same tasteless tango earlier this year with the blindingly awful ''{{Film/Postal}}''.
terrorists]])."''



->''"Marvel's 2006 event mini series ''ComicBook/CivilWar'' was a pretty damn good read from writer Creator/MarkMillar and artist Steve [=McNiven=]. It created a scenario that had hero vs hero [[GreyAndGreyMorality without a definite 'bad guy']] to root against, and managed to invoke modern real-world politics and issues regarding what we as a society are willing to do in the name of safety and security...But as cool as the initial mini series was, the fallout and status quo change in the Marvel Universe [[ArcFatigue went on for years]], arguably at the very least two years too long. In the post ''Civil War'' Universe, [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]], the leader on the side of government registration of known superheroes, was portrayed as kind of [[CharacterDerailment a giant prick]], as was every hero on the registration side, regardless of whether or not they [[InformedWrongness actually had a point.]] Meanwhile all the heroes on the side of those against hero registration were painted as cool rebels."''

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->''"Marvel's 2006 event mini series ''ComicBook/CivilWar'' was a pretty damn good read from writer Creator/MarkMillar and artist Steve [=McNiven=]. It created a scenario that had hero vs hero [[GreyAndGreyMorality without a definite 'bad guy']] to root against, and managed to invoke modern real-world politics and issues regarding what we as a society are willing to do in the name of safety and security...But as cool as the initial mini series was, the fallout and status quo change in the Marvel Universe [[ArcFatigue went on for years]], arguably at the very least two years too long. In ->''"In the post ''Civil War'' Universe, [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]], the leader on the side of government registration of known superheroes, was portrayed as kind of [[CharacterDerailment a giant prick]], as was every hero on the registration side, regardless of whether or not they [[InformedWrongness actually had a point.]] Meanwhile all the heroes on the side of those against hero registration were painted as cool rebels."''



->''"[[SuicideIsPainless Euthanasia]] was a hot-button issue at the time, an example of ''Voyager'' trying to put its finger on the cultural pulse. In 1994, Oregon had legalised selected forms of euthanasia, which generated no shortage of controversy...The problem is that 'Emanations' feels downright reactionary in its portrayal of euthanasia. It feels like something of a strawman argument – the Vhnori are a culture fashioned from the most hyperbolic of arguments against the practice. It’s a world where euthanasia has become a cultural norm. It’s something that [[PlanetOfHats the entire culture is built around]]. Neria tells Harry that there are 'thousands' of facilities like this scattered across the planet.\\\

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->''"[[SuicideIsPainless Euthanasia]] was a hot-button issue at the time, an example of ''Voyager'' trying to put its finger on the cultural pulse. In 1994, Oregon had legalised selected forms of euthanasia, which generated no shortage of controversy...The ->''"The problem is that 'Emanations' feels downright reactionary in its portrayal of euthanasia. [[SuicideIsPainless euthanasia]]. It feels like something of a strawman argument -- the Vhnori are a culture fashioned from the most hyperbolic of arguments against the practice. It’s a world where euthanasia has become a cultural norm. It’s something that [[PlanetOfHats the entire culture is built around]]. Neria tells Harry that there are 'thousands' of facilities like this scattered across the planet.\\\



->''"So much of the [[ProtectThisHouse base under siege]] subgenre is based on paranoia about the boundary between the inside and outside. And the Gangers push this boundary interestingly...the tension is not merely 'how are we going to keep the monsters out,' but rather 'wait a moment, [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman what is and isn’t a monster anyway?]]'\\\
Or, at least, it tries. The problem is that ultimately, it still ends up siding with the humans. The basic fact that the Gangers have to do double duty as 'they’re people the same as us' and [[MonsterOfTheWeek they’re monstrous]]' undermines things. On a fundamental level, there’s a real problem with the fact that the only outright villain the story has is a Ganger. It’s the usual problem that stories of this sort have -- on the one hand, The Rebel Flesh/The Almost People wants to sympathize utterly with the Ganger’s cause, and on the other it wants to make sure it shuts down the possibility that their oppression justifies any sort of revolutionary act. And so the entrenched structures of power -- the humans -- are ultimately given priority. This is implicit even in the structure of the plot -- the Doctor defaults to spending his time with the humans, and while he pushes them to save the Gangers as well, the result is still a story in which saving the humans appears to be the primary goal. Even the title is working against the Gangers, relegating them to the status of 'almost' people.\\\
So what we have is a story that’s trying to smartly update the old base under siege story, but that ultimately just reaffirms its underlying paranoia and ethos while muddling about [[ShaggyDogStory without doing much of anything.]]"''

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->''"So much of the [[ProtectThisHouse base under siege]] subgenre is based on paranoia about the boundary between the inside and outside. And the Gangers push this boundary interestingly...the tension is not merely 'how are we going to keep the monsters out,' but rather 'wait a moment, [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman what is and isn’t a monster anyway?]]'\\\
Or, at least, it tries. The problem is that ultimately, it still ends up siding with the humans. The basic fact that the Gangers have to do double duty as 'they’re people the same as us' and [[MonsterOfTheWeek they’re monstrous]]' undermines things. On a fundamental level, there’s a real problem with the fact that the only outright villain the story has is a Ganger. It’s the usual problem that stories of this sort have -- on the one hand, The Rebel Flesh/The Almost People wants to sympathize utterly with the Ganger’s cause, and on the other it wants to make sure it shuts down the possibility that their oppression justifies any sort of revolutionary act. And so the entrenched structures of power -- the humans -- are ultimately given priority. This
->''"This is implicit even in the structure of the plot -- the Doctor defaults to spending his time with the humans, and while he pushes them to save the Gangers as well, the result is still a story in which saving the humans appears to be the primary goal. Even the title is working against the Gangers, relegating them to the status of 'almost' people.\\\
So what we have is a story that’s trying to [[{{Deconstruction}} smartly update update]] the [[ProtectThisHouse old base under siege siege]] story, but that ultimately just reaffirms its underlying paranoia and ethos while muddling about [[ShaggyDogStory without doing much of anything.]]"''"''



->''"In response to the It Gets Better campaign, Adams wrote a piece about eight heterosexual kids who were hounded into suicide by homosexuals to [[ChewbaccaDefense provide some balance]] to the claims that homosexual students are bullied. Except that none of the heterosexual kids really committed suicide. In every case described, the kid in question really sued someone instead....That, readers, was Adams’s “thoughtful” response to campaigns to stop the bullying of homosexual students. It surely [[NotHelpingYourCase hit the target like an intelligent bomb.]]"''

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->''"In response to the It Gets Better campaign, Adams wrote a piece about eight heterosexual kids who were hounded into suicide by homosexuals to [[ChewbaccaDefense provide some balance]] to the claims that homosexual students are bullied. Except that none of the heterosexual kids really committed suicide. In every case described, the kid in question really [[NeverMyFault sued someone instead....That, readers, was Adams’s “thoughtful” response to campaigns to stop the bullying of homosexual students. It surely [[NotHelpingYourCase hit the target like an intelligent bomb.]]"''instead]]."''



->''"Dr. Oz had as guests on his show [[ScienceIsBad antivaccine loon]] Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and his partner in crime against vaccine science, “[[{{Newspeak}} functional medicine]]” expert Dr. Robert Hyman, on his show in a credulous segment about the mercury-containing preservative thimerosal that buys into virtually every trope about mercury in vaccines promulgated by the antivaccine movement. The reason, of course, is because Kennedy and Hyman have a book out...One thing I do believe is the part where Dr. Oz described how he had polled his viewers with the question, “Do you trust that vaccines are safe?” and found that 65% of them said no. Given that this is a ''Dr. Oz'' audience, that’s not surprising at all, although it is still very depressing. This result led Dr. Oz to claim that the reason he did this segment on thimerosal is because he’s all about “restoring trust” in vaccines, as did Hyman, who says that he and RFK are all about getting people vaccinated and also restoring trust in vaccines, to which I say: Bullshit! Using such tactics to “restore trust” in the vaccine program is akin to showing flaming car crashes and dead victims in order to “restore trust’ in automobile safety."''

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->''"Dr. Oz had as guests on his show [[ScienceIsBad antivaccine loon]] Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and his partner in crime against vaccine science, “[[{{Newspeak}} functional medicine]]” expert Dr. Robert Hyman, on his show in a credulous segment about the mercury-containing preservative thimerosal that buys into virtually every trope about mercury in vaccines promulgated by the antivaccine movement. The reason, of course, is because Kennedy and Hyman have a book out...One thing I do believe is the part where Dr. Oz described how he had polled his viewers with the question, “Do you trust that vaccines are safe?” and found that 65% of them said no. Given that this is a ''Dr. Oz'' audience, that’s not surprising at all, although it is still very depressing. This result led Dr. Oz to claim that the reason he did this segment on thimerosal is because he’s all about “restoring trust” in vaccines, as did Hyman, who says that he and RFK are all about getting people vaccinated and also restoring trust in vaccines, to which I say: Bullshit! ->''"Bullshit! Using such tactics to “restore trust” in the vaccine program is akin to showing flaming car crashes and dead victims in order to “restore trust’ in automobile safety."''



->Janeway sees this creation of hers as "monsters", and rather than take the logical path of showing she's wrong, the story decides to justify it by turning Iden--and by extension, the identities of ''the rest'' of the holograms--into a "monster".\\\
It doesn't start this way; when the Hirogen show up, the holograms try to hide, scooting into a nebula...Iden announces that his [[CharacterDerailment character assassination]]--I mean, ''development'' has now begun: he's creating a new religion about '''[[AGodAmI himself]]''', a transformation that appears out of nowhere... And the episode doesn't even attribute this to some kinda malfunction--which would have been an annoyingly-cowardly way out of the "[[DebateAndSwitch dilemma]]", I admit; y'know, to have the problem just wipe ''itself'' away. But at least it would've been '''''SOMETHING!''''' Instead, [[AssPull he just decides between scenes]] that he's Holo-Jesus now; the beginning of his descent into "monster" without clear cause.

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->Janeway sees this creation of hers as "monsters", and rather than take the logical path of showing she's wrong, the story decides to justify it by turning Iden--and by extension, the identities of ''the rest'' of the holograms--into a "monster".\\\
It doesn't start this way; when the Hirogen show up, the holograms try to hide, scooting into a nebula...Iden
->Iden announces that his [[CharacterDerailment character assassination]]--I mean, ''development'' has now begun: he's creating a new religion about '''[[AGodAmI himself]]''', a transformation that appears out of nowhere... And the episode doesn't even attribute this to some kinda malfunction--which would have been an annoyingly-cowardly way out of the "[[DebateAndSwitch dilemma]]", I admit; y'know, to have the problem just wipe ''itself'' away. But at least it would've been '''''SOMETHING!''''' Instead, [[AssPull he He just decides between scenes]] that he's Holo-Jesus now; the beginning of his descent into "monster" without clear cause.

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