the alt-right

i may not agree with your smirk but i will defend to the death half-heartedly online your right to make it

make a smirker great again

could be the shape of his skull

What we really should be talking about is L'il Ben Shapiro delivering his March for Life speech as a podcast episode and reading live advertisements to the attending crowd. And then losing advertisers.

yes IO is otm -- the kid needs work, but the society that produced him needs an overhaul

At the time, Nintendo of America had strict censorship policies concerning what sort of content could be depicted or referenced in any game published for a Nintendo system. In the original Japanese version, the DREK "empire" is actually the resurrected Nazi regime, but this was changed so as to fit the prohibition against political advocacy, racial and or ethnic stereotyping.

Yet, some of the changes were more complete than others. The final boss, Smirk, is clearly a cyborg version of Adolf Hitler and a file retrieved by Togo during a base infiltration in Greece retains a swastika on it, which is visible in the player's inventory area. Nintendo required that Golgo had his profession changed to spy rather than assassin, per its prohibition on graphic violence and gore.

NOA's smirk

just sharing the Light of the Lord

Newest video to surface of the Covington kids shows one of them yelling to a group of girls “IT’S NOT RAPE IF YOU ENJOY IT!” Fuck anyone who is still defending them. Catholic Schools in the south like Covington are incubators for vile racism and misogyny.pic.twitter.com/j65KhqWeaG

— Andrew Wortman (@AmoneyResists) January 22, 2019

I hope no-one is planning to single out the poor child who shouted “IT’S NOT RAPE IF YOU ENJOY IT!” for any special attention - that would be disgraceful.

One thing after another

please single out that child so you can demonstrate you understand the difference between a smirk and verbal abuse

this has been one of the most pointless ilx clusterfucks in quite some time

We could spend the rest of our lives watching footage of stupid teenagers saying and doing stupid things tbh.

this has been one of the most pointless ilx clusterfucks in quite some time

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 18:25 (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ah cmon theres been fuck all competition!

Make ILX Clusterfuck Again

the crowd of schoolkids as a whole were being rowdy and obnoxious, this particular kid who ppl are enthusiastically turning into an emblem of everything bad in Trump's America is almost certainly an asshole, but I no-one deserves this

― soref, Monday, January 21, 2019 11:01 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

For Sandmann and his colleagues, their actual intentions and motivations seem vital to any account of what took place. But not only can we never really know what those were, they also don’t matter once the original video has been shot and shared. That short clip shows a young man with a smirk, wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat, appearing to stare down a Native elder: Simply describing the scene, at this political and cultural moment, suggests a racist threat.

That’s not just because the internet makes it easy to come to simple and quick conclusions, and to spread those answers as truth before verification. It’s also because such an edit almost seems purpose-built to service that conclusion. It juxtaposes an almost perfect avatar for apparent white nationalism, maga hat and all, with the apparent cultural frailty of a brown-skinned victim carrying out an act of indigenous humility. Whether Sandmann and Phillips are telling the truth or not matters only marginally—the image and the clip take on a life of their own, reproducing a conflict that viewers have already been primed to seek out by the overall political situation and their place in it.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/01/viral-clash-students-and-native-americans-explained/580906/

make a smirker great again

NOA's smirk

they're going to WH to meet with Trump

Trump loves a pointless distraction that outrages the libtards

amazing how the internet always takes the bait

EXCLUSIVE on the new #LauraIngrahamPodcast — the Covington Catholic students threatened by the leftist internet mob will be meeting with @realDonaldTrump at the White House as early as tomorrow. @iTunes @PodcastOne

— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) January 22, 2019

keep that outrage about some totally insignificant bullshit going everybody! not like there are any more important things to worry about or anything

I think I referenced this on the other thread, but twitter and using anonymous avatars as a newssource/barometer of sentiment is just bad bad bad.

https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2019/01/17/takedown-gillette-advert-backlash-fascinating-take-media-works/?fbclid=IwAR24OyZygP7lZlTSJBY0TkNkToUzLduTLQv_OYBsWB92-OrQwsO30cqAEps

Jesus Christ. One more strike and you’re out deems
― gray say nah to me (wins), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 18:42 (eighteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the fuck are u to judge me maannnnn

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/01/22/why-trump-is-overjoyed-covington-student-controversy/?utm_term=.8776c88832ea

let that be a lesson to all the young people out there, if you wanna meet the President of the United States all you gotta do is bully an elderly Native American man

thats p consistent with yr historical ideals tbf

look at him, so destroyed

Sitting down with Nicholas Sandmann - the student at the center of the protest controversy at the Lincoln Memorial. Airs tomorrow on @TODAYshow pic.twitter.com/oSb8ljunQN

— Savannah Guthrie (@SavannahGuthrie) January 22, 2019

keep that outrage about some totally insignificant bullshit going everybody! not like there are any more important things to worry about or anything

― Οὖτις

this constant bickering about what it's appropriate to be outraged about is one of the main reasons i don't go near the big us politics threads

the other reason being, oddly enough, a constant focus on insignificant minutae

seriously i can't even remember the last time i cared about how trump and his supporters think or feel

The smirk works.

JFC @ the today show thing

🎶 Hello, darkness, my old friend 🎶 pic.twitter.com/QHq3TFfRB6

— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) January 22, 2019

the fuck are u to judge me maannnnn

the young smirks

Shakey, I'd say if we collectively only had the capacity to focus on any one thing at a time (which may be true on a case-by-case basis) that this nonsense is an inconsequential distraction compared to bigger and more impactful issues. But, well...it's massively fucked up and gross and I hope everyone involved in venerating abject villainy like its some kind of all-American aspiration just like fucking spontaneously melts into a protoplasmic ooze and runs down a storm drain.

this is an inconsequential distraction compared to almost anything else one could care to mention including other extremely trivial distractions!

Smirkers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chins.

why focus on this culture war bullshit when we can focus on every minute tidbit of information - real and imagined - from the mueller investigation?

xxpost I disagree inasmuch as being a shitbag and having Daddy pull out his checkbook to fix your shitbaggery is completely pedestrian and inconsequential but then subsequently getting to go on the Today Show and win a free trip to the WH just seems to be a hard nudge towards widespread acceptance of sociopathy as a way of life.

does anyone here want a visit to this WH

If someone has insider knowledge on the precise moment that Trump chokes to death on a wingbone, then yes.

Seriously, fuck that kid. Need anymore proof that he's an asshole?

what's insanely maddening about this to me is that every day the government remains closed trump's base support erodes. the left has important agendas (climate, economic) that it could easily win broad popular support for but instead it engages in these trivial worthless battles that can accomplish nothing but galvanize the opposition. this culture wars bullshit has been going on since i was a child. ok obv there's only so much you can do bc the right can generate outrage over anything even without a dance party but to willingly become a dance partner in this suggests total psychosis. it's almost as if (could it be) that the left is equally about tribal politics as the right and instituting an agenda with broad consensus is not as excited or worthwhile as trying to win online victories over your cultural opponents. i would not be surprised if the twitter account that initially leaked this story was a pro-right wing op meant to change the conversation. and of course us bunch of idiots couldn't help but bite bc we see a catholic white male smirking at a native american and we lose our fucking minds. nb that i don't expect fred to understand this so plz don't reply with whatever you're revving up - i know you think prosecuting identity politics is the most important part of a society. but if you have other major issues the attention paid to this bullshit can't help but be frustrating.

I don't think this has "changed the narrative" at all. The news is still focused on the shutdown and (vaguely) the SOTU speech. It's social media that's freaked out about this.

i hope you're right. i almost but forgot to include a caveat that i hope this is all overblown and the real issues (the shutdown, the fundamental issues facing our economy, environment, etc) would continue to take centerstage. otoh the right has been using bullshit culture war wedges to peel off support for their other regressive agendas for so long and it always works. it's hard to pitch ppl your ideas that are meant to help them if they don't believe you have their best interests in mind and the culture wars stuff is designed to poison that well.

... and ILX. (xp) By the way, over here, I've seen absolutely no sign of this story on FB.

xp...idk about TV but the lead story on cnn.com this morning was basically bragging about having tipped off Twitter to the account where an abbreviated clip of the incident initially spread like wildfire and how Twitter subsequently suspended the account, which was totally insane.

the left has important agendas (climate, economic) that it could easily win broad popular support for but instead it engages in these trivial worthless battles that can accomplish nothing but galvanize the opposition.

this x 10000

xxp Wow, really? My feed is packed with it, like every post.

A writer that I like has been sorting through what the actual goal is with this incident/battle. And what are people achieving when they defend or minimize it. We don't want this kid, kids like this on the Supreme Court, in Congress, in power. But generally, we can't win any battle when people are still telling us we don't know what racial intimidation that white supremacy created looks like. It gives me pause because saying it's 'just a smirk' is in sharp contrast to intuition that tells people not to accept that drink, not to follow them himstairs, not to get into that car...

But whatever, we only have 2 more days of it until it's a 2025 jeopardy question.