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Speaking as a bisexual lurker who does like to suck dick on occasion, I just want to point out the key element that always gets missed when these type of issues flare up, which is that what gives the joke/insult/risque comment its power is the simple fact that you're levelling an accusation at the joke's recipient which they are particularly disinclined to hear because it represents an affront to their self-image. You're not saying 'lol you're gay and it's funny because it's a bad thing to be gay'; the comedy resides in the incongruity of the situation and in the extent to which you know hearing that jars with the person's self-perception.

I don't know whether Colbert meant it in this way, but that's the way I thought of it. Your target is a homophobe, so telling him he likes to perform homosexual acts is a personal insult to him without actually signing on to the notion that there is anything wrong with homosexuality. And it's funny knowing that it would make that person uncomfortable/mad.

05-03-2017 , 02:21 PM

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bobman0330

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SpaceX is planning a low-latency, gigabit-speed satellite internet network that will use 3x as many satellites as are currently in earth orbit!

https://arstechnica.com/information-...nd-satellites/

05-03-2017 , 02:23 PM

#128

zikzak

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You're all a bunch of cock holsters for having this stupid argument.

05-03-2017 , 02:29 PM

#129

2/325Falcon

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Quote:

Originally Posted by DVaut1

Hotter take: you saw fit to reply here because I hit a little too close to home once you sobered up and remembered that, for the reasons I mentioned here, you took Uber home from Fenway instead of the Green Line after you got ejected for chucking peanuts at Adam Jones.

What happens if I get Ubered by a brown guy, tho?

05-03-2017 , 02:31 PM

#130

FlyWf

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Money2Burn

That is absolutely correct, and the joke literally is funny. It's a decent bit.

There's nothing these insufferable insincere pendants hate more than Double Standards, but they don't ever ****ing abide by any consistency themselves.

The response here isn't to defend the joke as A Value Neutral Commentary on the word "holster", but to just say "yep I called Trump a ***, which was wrong. I did it anyway because I thought it would hurt his feelings and also because he's gay for Putin"

05-03-2017 , 02:38 PM

#131

FlyWf

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson

I know how I can derail this blowjob conversation:

*ducks*

Something we're going to have to deal with after, you know, the fascists, is that liberal inclusiveness and desire to constantly cheerlead has let some truly ****ing stupid ideas achieve prominence.

This tweet is obviously mostly funny because a professional film critic has never heard of Murder on the Orient Express, but the ****ing slavish worship of tokenism by these idiots is an idea that will need to be stomped out.

05-03-2017 , 02:42 PM

#132

kerowo

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Quote:

Originally Posted by bobman0330

SpaceX is planning a low-latency, gigabit-speed satellite internet network that will use 3x as many satellites as are currently in earth orbit!

https://arstechnica.com/information-...nd-satellites/

Speed of light isn't just a good idea, "low-latency" is going to be the clean coal of the internet.

05-03-2017 , 02:54 PM

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Trolly McTrollson

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You'd think anyone under the age of 70 would at least Google "Orient Express" before firing off a tweet.

05-03-2017 , 02:55 PM

#134

suzzer99

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All's well that ends well.

05-03-2017 , 03:03 PM

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SuperUberBob

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson

You'd think anyone under the age of 70 would at least Google "Orient Express" before firing off a tweet.

That was a tag team in WWF over 20 years ago.

I mean they were actually Asian wrestlers. It wasn't like two Mickey Rooneys wrestling. But still that was the name.

I don't remember the outrage over them but there was probably some about this guy.

Imagine if Tatanka was a new wrestler in WWE. I mean yeah he is Native American in real life. But even so the WWE would be taken to task these days.

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05-03-2017 , 03:32 PM

#136

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Re: Orient Express

Isn't her tweet a joke?

Edit: Looked up her feed. It isn't. Facepalm.jpg

05-03-2017 , 03:48 PM

#137

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Quote:

Originally Posted by AllTheCheese

Re: Orient Express

Isn't her tweet a joke?

Edit: Looked up her feed. It isn't. Facepalm.jpg

I tried to look at her feed, but she seems to retweet things at the rate of about 1 every 5 seconds. Which makes her feed basically impossible to read.

05-03-2017 , 03:55 PM

#138

pvn

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yeah, sometimes I think about following someone on twitter then I see "TWEETS: 594k" and I'm like "nah, I'm fine."

05-03-2017 , 04:00 PM

#139

AllTheCheese

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Originally Posted by spidercrab

I tried to look at her feed, but she seems to retweet things at the rate of about 1 every 5 seconds. Which makes her feed basically impossible to read.

What you're missing is that she's still committed to her outrage over the lack of Asian cast members, even though she now understands that the Orient Express was a train line in Europe.

05-03-2017 , 04:12 PM

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zikzak

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Has she learned that it is a rather famous 80 year old mystery novel yet?

05-03-2017 , 04:20 PM

#141

Jules22

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Comey testimony indicated huma was forwarding emails to her husband disgraced former congressman and creep Anthony weiner to "print out" so shrillary could read them. I think that's quite enough blaming comey for the clinton campaign losing when really they were just being lazy dimwits. Who in the hell prints an email off to read on paper I would not want to be president like I hate president trump too but at least he can read words on a computer screen. For some reason this printed email thing tilts me super bad

05-03-2017 , 04:26 PM

#142

Jbrochu

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Why couldn't huma print them herself? (Assuming HRC for some reason can't figure out how to print ****.)

05-03-2017 , 04:26 PM

#143

Max Cut

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posting to sub

CHOTUS

05-03-2017 , 04:31 PM

#144

Jules22

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I think a sad takeaway from the post above is their is close to 2000 applebees like my god why

05-03-2017 , 04:32 PM

#145

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Jules22

Comey testimony indicated huma was forwarding emails to her husband disgraced former congressman and creep Anthony weiner to "print out" so shrillary could read them. I think that's quite enough blaming comey for the clinton campaign losing when really they were just being lazy dimwits. Who in the hell prints an email off to read on paper I would not want to be president like I hate president trump too but at least he can read words on a computer screen. For some reason this printed email thing tilts me super bad

wat?

First, 'shrillary' is a pretty sexist insult.

Second, trump is pretty famously known for refusing to use computers, so wtf are you talking about?

05-03-2017 , 04:33 PM

#146

Jules22

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Originally Posted by Noodle Wazlib

wat?

First, 'shrillary' is a pretty sexist insult.

Second, trump is pretty famously known for refusing to use computers, so wtf are you talking about?

I dont like trump so i dont want to get in a flame war defending him, but which is it hes addicted to twitter or refuses to use computers? #consistency

05-03-2017 , 04:35 PM

#147

microbet

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Trump doesn't read anything. That's a semi-joke, but I bet he doesn't read anything more than like three sentences long in a typical month.

05-03-2017 , 04:35 PM

#148

Jules22

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I dont like hilary clinton even slightly and i will continue to lob quasi sexist insults towards her whenever it pleases me, like its ok to use disparaging language like cock holster etc as long as you dont like the target and its coming for your team i assume?

05-03-2017 , 04:36 PM

#149

Loki

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I agree that cock holster is disparaging, but not to any vulnerable groups. It's neither sexist nor homophobic in the context of the joke.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jules22

I dont like trump so i dont want to get in a flame war defending him, but which is it hes addicted to twitter or refuses to use computers? #consistency

he's addicted to his phone, but doesn't use a computer

05-03-2017 , 04:36 PM

#150

Jules22

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Quote:

Originally Posted by microbet

Trump doesn't read anything. That's a semi-joke, but I bet he doesn't read anything more than like three sentences long in a typical month.

He does strike me as a "sound bite" kind of guy thats for sure brevity may be the soul of wit but it doesnt strike me as making for particularly good governance

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