War Room Lounge v136: I Have No Mouth And I Must Ooof

[Jack V Savage]

I think we've had this conversation before a while back, but you're making my point as much as Trots did. There's no way someone like you would say "hmm I see lots of liberal bias" in the media, just like some others flying Red would never say "wow lots of conservative bias in the media". Mainstream tv bias is as blatant as it's ever been. The reasons are debatable, but it's overly present. The conversation has removed from why things have regressed and is pretty much a form of finger pointing now.

I understand what you're saying, but I'm saying that your approach determines your conclusion. If you assume that it's all narratives and truth doesn't exist, and that there are two dimensions only, you're going to conclude that drawing accusations of bias from both sides is proof that an organization is not biased. There's no other possible conclusion if that's how you're looking at it. But I'm saying that that's not a reasonable way to look at it. If you assume that there are claims that are truer than others in an objective sense, then you have to do the work of figuring out what it is, and you identify bias by any systematic deviation from that truth. And I'd argue then (for example), that reporting that suggests that deficits are always bad (and that politicians who complain about deficits when they're out of power are sincere), is biased even if when it's politically neutral (though that's an issue that at least from 2008 to 2016, wasn't even covered in a neutral way by the MSM).

For an obvious to observe example, there is little difference in Don Lemon's CNN show vs Sean Hannity's FOX show, yet the liberal or conservative viewer refuses to denounce "their show" due to that exact bias I am referring to, while blasting the other show.

Again, if you assume that there's little difference and that they're exactly as skewed in their approach (both opinion shows, of course), then, yes, anyone who thinks one is less biased than the other is himself biased (and note then that your "conclusion" is really just an assumption). If you accept the possibility that one could be less biased than the other, then you have to look into it, and find that maybe that possibility is realized, maybe it isn't.

 

[ToxicShocker]

 

[MMAisGod]

Have you ever ha-ha laughed at some idiot doing something stupid and he gets hurt in public?

I've got a funny one for that. When I was in college in NYC a few of my friends and I were in Central Park hanging around. We were near that statue water thing whatever it's called, and there was this couple in front of it, but we were watching one of those street magic shows. Anyway, one of those romantic horse looking things somehow was inside the park area and went to the couple. So the horse guy gives the dude this thing, and then he gets down on one knee and proposes. She listens, starts crying, and runs off like the stuff you see in the movies. Guy starts yelling her name and then just stands there with the saddest look you've ever seen in your life. Shamelessly, my friends and I exploded in laughter, and then he looks at us and then starts crying and runs off too.

Man, story is much more sad now that I'm older, but at the time it was stomach pain inducing laughs. Bad youth we were.

 

[Gandhi]

Or you can come home wasted and just eat a block of raw tofu right out of the wrapper like a chocolate bar.

Jesus !!!!! That’s hardcore.

 

[tonni]

"Hello Jocko sir how do I fix my broken car?"

Jocko does his half-a-smirk face: "Don't. Ever. Stop fixing your broken car. Don't you dare."

 

[Sketch]

you ok, dude? your posts are extra manic this morning.

Must be this green tea.

 

[Sketch]

Do Finns ever laugh out loud?

Finns are an emotionless people. The way we ration likes here on Soydog, Finns ration laughing in real life.

 

[Gandhi]

It's hard for me to consider it anything but. With all due respect.

Again no beavers were hurt in the making of this film. They had like 5 dams taking up about 5 feet, we got one down and would get like 2 feet back. Their entrance to their home in the Marsh behind the lake remained submerged and the foxes stayed out.

 

[Prokofievian]

Do Finns ever laugh out loud?

 

[Prokofievian]

"Hello Jocko sir how do I fix my broken car?"

Jocko does his half-a-smirk face: "Don't. Ever. Stop fixing your broken car. Don't you dare."

That's not a bad skit idea.

 

[Sketch]

That man looks extremely Finnish. Is he Finnish?

 

[Gregolian]

"Hello Jocko sir how do I fix my broken car?"

Jocko does his half-a-smirk face: "Don't. Ever. Stop fixing your broken car. Don't you dare."

My roommate listens to his podcast non stop.

Like, there’s things about Jocko that I find interesting. Him talking with the other guy on his show about training BJJ and stuff like that. But a lot of the rest I’m indifferent on.

The most annoying is my roommate goes on and on about being disciplined in like diet and he works out like every day and shit because “that’s what Jocko does”.... but then he lets his 4 year old run around screaming facing zero consequences for acting like a little shit.

How are you actually taking anything the guy says and implementing it then?

 

[Fawlty]

"Hello Jocko sir how do I fix my broken car?"

Jocko does his half-a-smirk face: "Don't. Ever. Stop fixing your broken car. Don't you dare."

You jest, but I just had a troublesome pistachio. Now, normally I would discard it and not bother trying to open it. But after listening to Jocko, I looked at my poorly-split nut and said, "good." I grabbed my toenail clippers and began to pry it apart. It wasn't working very well. Good. I accidentally ran the file into my thumbnail, damaging the nail. Good. I fixed that with the toenail clipper. Then I turned my attention back to the pistachio. It partly cracked, but not enough to pull it open. Good. I kept at it, man. I was still breathing. My hands still worked. I still had fight left in me. So I clipped and pried at that pistachio shell until finally the nut came out, and rolled onto my carpet that hasn't been vacuumed this week. There was a hair on it. Good. I wiped off the hair and whatever else had stuck to the pistachio, and do you know what I did? I ate it. It was...good.

 

[Jack V Savage]

The super unsenile Trump in response to "what are your top priority items for a second term?":

Well, one of the things that will be really great, you know the word experience is still good. I always say talent is more important than experience. I’ve always said that. But the word experience is a very important word. It’s an — a very important meaning.

I never did this before. I never slept over in Washington. I was in Washington, I think, 17 times. All of a sudden, I’m president of the United States. You know the story. I’m riding down Pennsylvania Avenue with our First Lady and I say, ‘This is great. But I didn’t know very many people in Washington. It wasn’t my thing. I was from Manhattan, from New York. Now I know everybody, and I have great people in the administration.”

You make some mistakes. Like, you know, an idiot like Bolton. All he wanted to do was drop bombs on everybody. You don’t have to drop bombs on everybody. You don’t have to kill people.

I can see why people think he's going to turn his campaign around with great debate performances.

 

[Trotsky]

Texas re shuts down bars and inside dining

It's really, really disappointing that there isn't a way to catalog and deny medical services to the people who openly refused to obey lockdown restrictions because muh freedom and hoax. It was always going to end up being those morons who disproportionately got sick first, took up medical resources, and then endangered persons who did take precautions but were later infected.

 

[tonni]

That's not a bad skit idea.

I could go full Jocko for at least a whole day.

 

[Wet Blanket]

That man looks extremely Finnish. Is he Finnish?

I'm a let you Finnish.

 

[tonni]

You jest, but I just had a troublesome pistachio. Now, normally I would discard it and not bother trying to open it. But after listening to Jocko, I looked at my poorly-split nut and said, "good." I grabbed my toenail clippers and began to pry it apart. It wasn't working very well. Good. I accidentally ran the file into my thumbnail, damaging the nail. Good. I fixed that with the toenail clipper. Then I turned my attention back to the pistachio. It partly cracked, but not enough to pull it open. Good. I kept at it, man. I was still breathing. My hands still worked. I still had fight left in me. So I clipped and pried at that pistachio shell until finally the nut came out, and rolled onto my carpet that hasn't been vacuumed this week. There was a hair on it. Good. I wiped off the hair and whatever else had stuck to the pistachio, and do you know what I did? I ate it. It was...good.

Are you taking unnecessary pauses and looking intensely at your conversational partner? Cue angsty rock music.

 

[tonni]

My roommate listens to his podcast non stop.

Like, there’s things about Jocko that I find interesting. Him talking with the other guy on his show about training BJJ and stuff like that. But a lot of the rest I’m indifferent on.

The most annoying is my roommate goes on and on about being disciplined in like diet and he works out like every day and shit because “that’s what Jocko does”.... but then he lets his 4 year old run around screaming facing zero consequences for acting like a little shit.

How are you actually taking anything the guy says and implementing it then?

Here's how to raise your child: apply. educational. techniques. It's all your fault

 

[tonni]

That man looks extremely Finnish. Is he Finnish?

His eyes are almost on the side of his face, so yes.