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Larkmarn Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Hello, I love you
#7226: Jul 5th 2018 at 8:13:35 AM

[up] I don't need to know the status of your boner.

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#7227: Jul 6th 2018 at 3:56:59 AM

It pretty much devolved into Pictotales long ago.

For Facebook, I never really went heavily political there. Mostly went there for video games (video game news, not those hack Facebook games) and seeing what friends were up to.

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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
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#7228: Jul 18th 2018 at 10:43:47 PM

Why It Was Always Dumb To Worship Elon Musk As A Savior

The article makes several points showing that him and Donald Trump are Not So Different, using the same playbook that protects powerful rich assholes from criticism.

And Musk is an asshole. His latest tirade on Twitter where he called a guy a pedophile was just the latest example of Musk being an asshole. And I doubt it will be the last.

Edited by M84 on Jul 19th 2018 at 1:44:26 AM

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Nightwire Since: Feb, 2010
#7229: Jul 18th 2018 at 11:02:18 PM

Sillicon Valley tech-bros are not your friends.

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
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#7230: Jul 18th 2018 at 11:08:23 PM

As someone from Silicon Valley, I concur. The Musks, the Thiels, the Zuckerbergs, the Kalanicks...these are not the saviors of the future.

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Ultimatum Disasturbator from The Wiggle Room (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
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#7231: Jul 19th 2018 at 4:05:48 AM

I've heard of everyone but the Kalanicks,to Google!

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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
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#7232: Jul 19th 2018 at 8:05:34 PM

That's a reference to Travis Kalanick, former Uber CEO.

Edited by M84 on Jul 19th 2018 at 11:05:12 PM

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VampireBuddha Calendar enthusiast from Ireland (Wise, aged troper) Relationship Status: Complex: I'm real, they are imaginary
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#7233: Aug 1st 2018 at 10:46:34 PM

So I got second place in Ways America is Weird Compared to Other Countries, which means I was third best.

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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
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#7234: Aug 17th 2018 at 12:08:48 AM

4 Internet Startups That Are Plain Evil

Some of these are past tense since they thankfully aren't around anymore. Shit like this is why I've grown to despise SV culture.

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#7235: Aug 17th 2018 at 5:15:56 AM

A bunch of libertarians really want to make their own country. Maybe that could be San Francisco? Like, set up a program where everybody living in SF can swap job and home with a libertarian somewhere else, and when it's finished, declare SF to be an independent city-state.

That way all the libertarians get to live in a libertarian society like they want, and the rest of ye get to live in a society without any libertarians. Everybody wins! (I mean, the libertarians will soon lose as a result of living in a libertarian society, but it will be something they chose for themselves).

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AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
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#7236: Aug 21st 2018 at 3:02:22 PM

Meanwhile...in Rapture City...

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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
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#7237: Aug 26th 2018 at 1:31:06 AM

5 Myths About The Nazis People Still Believe Today

  • Myth: Jewish people not having guns led to the Holocaust

  • Myth: Nazis were Socialists.

  • Myth: The Nazis were trying to use occult magic

  • Myth: Nazis saved Germany's economy

  • Myth: The Treaty of Versailles made Germans run into Hitler's arms

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AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
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#7238: Aug 26th 2018 at 6:43:26 AM

  1. is pretty stupid when the general German population wouldn't lift a finger to help the Jewish citizens against the Reich. So armed or not, they'd be screwed regardless simply because they don't have any sort of support.

  2. Only the most disingenuous dickhead would say something like that with a straight face and still would require massive amounts of cherry picking, outright ignorance towards history and overall ignoring the disparity between speech and practice.

  3. it is pretty much Hollywood fodder to movie plots. But while they did indeed travel the world doing archaeological work, their job was to "discover" evidence of Aryan superiority while dismissing other cultures as subhuman bozos. They would, for example, claim they discovered proof that ancient Aryans lived in territories which, in a staggering coincidence, Hitler was demanding be handed over to the Reich. Kinda reminds me the constant claims the Chinese are making in the South China sea over ancestral lands.

  4. This one really needs to die. Nazi Germany's economy was a mess and one of the reasons for Hitler's expansion in WWII was exactly to plunder and loot as many resources on foreign soil to sustain it. Hardly, the German efficiency myth being parroted by every fucking closet Nazi Wehrboo who thinks Germany did an economic miracle before WWII started.

  5. Versailles was a propaganda tool for the Nazi party to tap on the humiliation Germany suffered in WWI, it wouldn't have mattered if it was hard, soft or not enforced at all, it is the loser's treaty and regardless of the reality, it still easily exploited by demagogues appealing to scapegoats and nationalistic pride.

Edited by AngelusNox on Aug 26th 2018 at 10:45:58 AM

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Ultimatum Disasturbator from The Wiggle Room (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
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#7239: Aug 26th 2018 at 9:01:11 AM

It doesn't help that the Nazi party was literally called "The National Socialist German Workers' Party",that's where the confusion lies

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AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
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#7240: Aug 26th 2018 at 10:53:47 AM

Ask explained by some other commenters, the Nazis having Socialism on the name, has about the same relevance as the Democratic Republic of Korea when it comes to republics and democracy.

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DrunkenNordmann from Exile Since: May, 2015
#7241: Aug 26th 2018 at 4:30:41 PM

'Socialist' I define from the word 'social; meaning in the main ‘social equity’. A Socialist is one who serves the common good without giving up his individuality or personality or the product of his personal efficiency. Our adopted term 'Socialist' has nothing to do with Marxian Socialism. Marxism is anti-property; true socialism is not. Marxism places no value on the individual, or individual effort, of efficiency; true Socialism values the individual and encourages him in individual efficiency, at the same time holding that his interests as an individual must be in consonance with those of the community. All great inventions, discoveries, achievements were first the product of an individual brain. It is charged against me that I am against property, that I am an atheist. Both charges are false.
- Speech given on December 28, 1938, qouted in The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922-August 1939 pg. 93

Socialism is the science of dealing with the common weal. Communism is not Socialism. Marxism is not Socialism. The Marxians have stolen the term and confused its meaning. I shall take Socialism away from the Socialists. Socialism is an ancient Aryan, Germanic institution. Our German ancestors held certain lands in common. They cultivated the idea of the common weal. Marxism has no right to disguise itself as socialism. Socialism, unlike Marxism, does not repudiate private property. Unlike Marxism, it involves no negation of personality, and unlike Marxism, it is patriotic. We might have called ourselves the Liberal Party. We chose to call ourselves the National Socialists. We are not internationalists. Our socialism is national. We demand the fulfilment of the just claims of the productive classes by the state on the basis of race solidarity. To us state and race are one.
- Hitler in an interview with George Sylvester Viereck, 1923

Long story short: National Socialism is only socialism if you completely ignore what socialism actually MEANS and apply a completely different meaning to it. So you basically have to call a tomato a grapefruit.

Edited by DrunkenNordmann on Aug 27th 2018 at 9:24:36 PM

We learn from history that we do not learn from history
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
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#7242: Aug 26th 2018 at 8:00:04 PM

A racist grapefruit at that.

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#7243: Sep 25th 2018 at 7:27:25 PM

5 Big Companies Who Went Insane Trying To Get Ahead

  • One Of The UK's Biggest Brewers Tried To Poison Their Rival's Cider

  • A Student Loan Company Created A Fake Journalist To Promote Their Loans

  • Black Berry Hired Women To Flirt With Guys In Bars

  • Air Canada Proved West Jet Was Hacking Them (By Going Through West Jet's Trash)

  • Ringling Bros. Had A Secret Spy Agency

I suddenly don't feel too bad about Ringling Bros. shutting down last year.

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#7244: Sep 25th 2018 at 11:02:53 PM

I once pitched an article which didn't get picked up about people who perverted science in the name of money. One thing I dug up is that Wyeth published fake medical journals to extol the virtues of their own drugs. This primarily happened in Australia, and was largely advertising for antivenoms, which as you may be aware are rather important in that country.

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lalalei2001 Since: Oct, 2009
#7245: Oct 7th 2018 at 9:17:59 PM

I don't normally get angry at photoplasties but Infuriating Video Game Moments That Made You Delete The Game did because a lot of people quit at the coolest or most iconic parts of the game.

the rocket launcher one is funny, though, as were the autosave-before-death and the GTA Hilary race—I never played the game, but read a story about someone who re-enacted the Tortoise and the Hare fable during that mission.

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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
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#7246: Oct 7th 2018 at 9:47:38 PM

Eh, I liked some of those games on the list, but at the same time I couldn't blame anyone for getting frustrated with the bits mentioned. Even the best games have flawed game design, and no game will suit everyone.

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Wispy Since: Feb, 2017
#7247: Oct 7th 2018 at 10:52:47 PM

I see an salty Genji main in that OW example

Ultimatum Disasturbator from The Wiggle Room (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
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#7248: Oct 8th 2018 at 5:17:47 AM

Reminds me of Unnoun snapping a disc over a fishing mini game

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dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
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#7249: Jan 11th 2019 at 11:23:26 PM

5 Surprising Sings that Indicate You might be Psychopath.

Apparently you are possibly a psychopath if:

  • You Like Bitter Drinks
  • You're A Night Owl
  • You REALLY Like Thinking And Talking About Food
  • You're Creative
  • You're Friends With Your Ex

So according to these signs, I'm a full blown psychopath. Yup, seems tooooootally legit.

I love this comment:

Being a night owl and being creative are also signs of high intelligence. So you may be a supervillain.

Hah.

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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
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#7250: Jan 12th 2019 at 12:46:10 AM

[up]Hmm, I fit four out of five of the above. And the only reason I'm not friends with an ex is because I've never had a romantic relationship in my life (I might be aromantic).

So apparently I'm a psychopath.

...Yeah, I guess that's fair.

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