War Room Lounge v135: Accidental Meme Thread Click

[JDragon]

But why are the rabbits so violent?!

 

[Deleted member 539235]

Is that why I have more likes than you with less posts in the same amount of time?

 

[skysolo]

 

[curryjunkie]

But why are the rabbits so violent?!

id say the monks hated rabbits cos they were constantly chasing them out of the gardens at the monastery, they got a thing for snails as well.

 

[luckyshot]

Latest Reuters poll has Biden ahead 48-35.

Relative to his performance against Hillary, Trump is losing support to Biden among key constituencies that carried him in 2016: 65+, whites w/o degrees, Evangelicals, and Catholics. He is getting absolutely trounced in demographic that gave Dems a big House win in 2018: suburban women.

Trump won his four key states by a total of 70,000 votes in 2016... that means that if even ONE of the above trends carries through to November, Trump is likely done.

I know that his voters don't like to hear it, and I know Democrats are traumatized from 2016, but the math simply is not looking feasible for Trump at this point. There is no sign of "hidden Trump support" coming out of the woodwork, and there are far less "undecided" voters at this point than there were in summer of 2016 (undecided voters broke heavily for Trump after the Comey letter). Finally, recent data shows that the more voters learn about Biden and his life story, the more they like him; opinions about Trump, on the other hand, are almost completely set by this point.

* All of this is said with the caveat that November is a LONG way off and something could change drastically between now and then. But without some change to the fundamentals of the election (ie. economy having unprecedented bounce back, Caronavirus magically disappearing, unforeseen "black swan" event) Trump is likely done.

 

[Andy Capp]

Latest Reuters poll has Biden ahead 48-35.

Relative to his performance against Hillary, Trump is losing support to Biden among key constituencies that carried him in 2016: 65+, whites w/o degrees, Evangelicals, and Catholics. He is getting absolutely trounced in demographic that gave Dems a big House win in 2018: suburban women.

Trump won his four key states by a total of 70,000 votes in 2016... that means that if even ONE of the above trends carries through to November, Trump is likely done.

I know that his voters don't like to hear it, and I know Democrats are traumatized from 2016, but the math simply is not looking feasible for Trump at this point. There is no sign of "hidden Trump support" coming out of the woodwork, and there are far less "undecided" voters at this point than there were in summer of 2016 (undecided voters broke heavily for Trump after the Comey letter). Finally, recent data shows that the more voters learn about Biden and his life story, the more they like him; opinions about Trump, on the other hand, are almost completely set by this point.

* All of this is said with the caveat that November is a LONG way off and something could change drastically between now and then. But without some change to the fundamentals of the election (ie. economy having unprecedented bounce back, Caronavirus magically disappearing, unforeseen "black swan" event) Trump is likely done.

We can hope. I think the issue this time around will be disenfranchisement in the name of public health.

 

[Rational Poster]

Another day, another post by a senior moderator whinging about marxists.

 

[Andy Capp]

But why are the rabbits so violent?!

As I understand it, it was just for humor. They found it hilarious for humans to be dominated physically and sexually by little animals apparently.

Speaking of which, I don't know how effective this advertisement is but it's funny as hell:

A step up from "this is your brain on drugs"?

 

[ToxicShocker]

 

[Andy Capp]

i was listening to a radio programme about the crazy shit monks put into the margins on medieval manuscripts, theres a specific name for them but i cant recall it

Thanks to google image search, I found some references. Drollery was the term we were both forgetting. @Fawlty Elizabeth as I thought, it's the reversal of fortunes between the animals and people that they found so funny, apparently.

"In all the kingdom of nature, does any creature threaten us less than the gentle rabbit? Though the question may sound entirely rhetorical today, our medieval ancestors took it more seriously — especially if they could read illuminated manuscripts, and even more so if they drew in the margins of those manuscripts themselves. "Often, in medieval manuscripts’ marginalia we find odd images with all sorts of monsters, half man-beasts, monkeys, and more," writes Sexy Codicology's Marjolein de Vos. "Even in religious books the margins sometimes have drawings that simply are making fun of monks, nuns and bishops." And then there are the killer bunnies."

"Jon Kaneko-James explains further: "The usual imagery of the rabbit in Medieval art is that of purity and helplessness – that’s why some Medieval portrayals of Christ have marginal art portraying a veritable petting zoo of innocent, nonviolent, little white and brown bunnies going about their business in a field." But the creators of this particular type of humorous marginalia, known as drollery, saw things differently."

Source

I love this one,

 

[Rational Poster]

But why are the rabbits so violent?!

They're Marxist rabbits.

 

[HockeyBjj]

Horrible video. Poor kid will never recover

 

[Amerikuracana]

As I understand it, it was just for humor. They found it hilarious for humans to be dominated physically and sexually by little animals apparently.


Speaking of which, I don't know how effective this advertisement is but it's funny as hell:

A step up from "this is your brain on drugs"?

If he’s in good shape when he gets older, girls will expect him to “get right to it.”

 

[Fawlty]

They're Marxist rabbits.

Staging fake beheadings no doubt

 

[AnGrYcRoW]

Another day, another post by a senior moderator whinging about marxists.

He's out of control

 

[Higus]

Thanks to google image search, I found some references. Drollery was the term, apparently. @Fawlty Elizabeth as I thought, it's the reversal of fortunes between the animals and people that they found so funny, apparently.

"In all the kingdom of nature, does any creature threaten us less than the gentle rabbit? Though the question may sound entirely rhetorical today, our medieval ancestors took it more seriously — especially if they could read illuminated manuscripts, and even more so if they drew in the margins of those manuscripts themselves. "Often, in medieval manuscripts’ marginalia we find odd images with all sorts of monsters, half man-beasts, monkeys, and more," writes Sexy Codicology's Marjolein de Vos. "Even in religious books the margins sometimes have drawings that simply are making fun of monks, nuns and bishops." And then there are the killer bunnies."

"Jon Kaneko-James explains further: "The usual imagery of the rabbit in Medieval art is that of purity and helplessness – that’s why some Medieval portrayals of Christ have marginal art portraying a veritable petting zoo of innocent, nonviolent, little white and brown bunnies going about their business in a field." But the creators of this particular type of humorous marginalia, known as drollery, saw things differently."

Source

I love this one,

You could probably draw a straight line connecting these to Monty Python

 

[Higus]

Is it @PolishHeadlock2 or @Falsedawn that is in infosec?

https://www.technologyreview.com/20...ter-surveillance-tool-of-extraordinary-scope/

The Trump 2020 app is dystopian.

 

[Andy Capp]

You could probably draw a straight line connecting these to Monty Python

Indeed, ahem, the sourced article suggests it.

Anyway, I'd say it's likely one or more of them would know a lot about these illustrations. Those guys were highly educated for the most part so it's no surprise they'd be familiar with such a subject. All of them went to Oxford or Cambridge except for the American animator, Terry Gilliam.

 

[Andy Capp]

Is it @PolishHeadlock2 or @Falsedawn that is in infosec?

https://www.technologyreview.com/20...ter-surveillance-tool-of-extraordinary-scope/

The Trump 2020 app is dystopian.

What in the flying fuck do you need an app for anyway?

 

[weed]

I just found this via google. forgot I made it haha

@Clippy