Social WR Lounge v274: Cheap Beer and BBQ Edition

Best combination of cheap beer and meat on the grill/smoker?

  • Miller High Life

  • Rolling Rock

  • Budweiser

  • Pabst Blue Ribbon

  • Corona

  • Natural Lite

  • Coors Light

  • Tecate

  • Moosehead

  • Chicken

  • Pork Ribs

  • Beef Ribs

  • Burgers

  • Hot Dogs

  • Pork Tenderloin

  • Filet Mignon

  • Ribeye

  • Steak (Other)

  • Polish Dogs

  • Beef Tri Tip

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Khabib Khanate said:
It shows the hypocrisy of those on the right who cry about censorship but it also touches on a shift among the right over the last few years

Reminds me of the dispute between David French and Sohrab Ahmari over the direction of the conservative movement going forward.

For a while I've been thinking about making a thread framed around this issue, of which approach is best for conservatives to get a feel for how some of the right wing posters feel. I get the feeling most posters here on the right are more sympathetic to Ahmari's view but most of them aren't really consciously thinking it through, its just that their reactionary tendencies lead them in that direction. Arguing for it out loud though tends to be bad optics so most won't actually articulate their view in the aggressive way that Ahmari does.

@Denter is the one exception of the top of my head, he's seems willing and able to espouse the kind of argument Ahmari is here without much care for the optics which is what makes him stand out. Tbh I sort of get it on some level, Ahmari's point that some progressives view it that way seems true based on my anecdotal experience. I've seen certain online spaces for left wing content creators where you have tankies who deny and obfuscate on the Uighur issue but G-d forbid you're socially conservative, that's a bridge too far and you must be deplatformed.
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Yeah the GOP has clearly moved away from the likes of David French.

I still like French a lot and have a lot of respect for him.

Make the thread
 
PolishHeadlock2 said:
Yeah his articles are very easy to read on complex issues. Extremely talented writer
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His essay “the cruelty is the point” was one of the defining pieces on Trumpism.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/the-cruelty-is-the-point/572104/

“The cruelty of the Trump administration’s policies, and the ritual rhetorical flaying of his targets before his supporters, are intimately connected. As Lili Loofbourow wrote of the Kavanaugh incident in Slate, adolescent male cruelty toward women is a bonding mechanism, a vehicle for intimacy through contempt. The white men in the lynching photos are smiling not merely because of what they have done, but because they have done it together.

We can hear the spectacle of cruel laughter throughout the Trump era. There were the border-patrol agents cracking up at the crying immigrant children separated from their families, and the Trump adviser who delighted white supremacists when he mocked a child with Down syndrome who was separated from her mother. There were the police who laughed uproariously when the president encouraged them to abuse suspects, and the Fox News hosts mocking a survivor of the Pulse Nightclub massacre (and in the process inundating him with threats), the survivors of sexual assault protesting to Senator Jeff Flake, the women who said the president had sexually assaulted them, and the teen survivors of the Parkland school shooting. There was the president mocking Puerto Rican accents shortly after thousands were killed and tens of thousands displaced by Hurricane Maria, the black athletes protestingunjustified killings by the police, the women of the #MeToo movement who have come forward with stories of sexual abuse, and the disabled reporter whose crime was reporting on Trump truthfully. It is not just that the perpetrators of this cruelty enjoy it; it is that they enjoy it with one another. Their shared laughter at the suffering of others is an adhesive that binds them to one another, and to Trump.”
 
PolishHeadlock2 said:
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Japan seems like a deeply sick society, just completely starved of intimacy. I don't even follow anime or J-pop culture much anymore but I have noticed a worrying trend of stories about female office workers in their late 20s and early 30s falling in love with young teen boys. In two of those cases I actually thought the subject matter was handled with subtlety and overall done well(the most intimate the characters got was a passionate hug).

But there's a J-drama on Netlfix called Love and Fortune and holy fuck this 31 yr old lady gives this 15 yr old kid a blowjob on their first date. A shame because overall the show is done well and I love watching Japanese urban spaces but man its a bit too graphic for my taste. Which is weird because for all the outrage about Cuties somehow this show has flown under the radar.

Anyway my point here is that when we think of "incels" we almost always think of men but in Japan the problem seems to be getting serious enough that its even affecting women.
 
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Khabib Khanate said:
Japan seems like a deeply sick society, just completely starved of intimacy. I don't even follow anime of J-pop culture much anymore but I have noticed a worrying trend of stories about female office workers in their late 20s and early 30s falling in love with young teen boys. In two of those cases I actually thought the subject matter was handled with subtlety and overall done well(the most intimate the characters got was a passionate hug).

But there's a J-drama on Netlfix called Love and Fortune and holy fuck this 31 yr old lady gives this 15 yr old kid a blowjob on their first date. A shame because overall the show is done well and I love watching Japanese urban spaces but man its a bit too graphic for my taste. Which is weird because for all the outrage about Cuties somehow this show has flown under the radar.

Anyway my point here is that when we think of "incels" we almost always think of men but in Japan the problem seems to be getting serious enough that its even affecting women.
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Japan is the saddest country on the planet, a people so robotic and intelligent they have evolved past the need for human interaction. Which is hilariously insane, because as smart as they are, they are like the rest of us, walking talking apes on a floating rock in space. That intimacy cannot be replaced by anything. Japan is one of the only places on the planet, women are legit incels. Attractive ones too. Fucking insane.
 
Khabib Khanate said:
I feel a bit alienated by some of these Lounge polls, would definitely prefer to vote for my favorite primate over alcohol.
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I voted for two meats.

A vegan like @BEER could vote for two beers.

A vegan who doesn’t drink would be sool tho. I didn’t vote in a couple of the last polls
 
Khabib Khanate said:
Japan seems like a deeply sick society, just completely starved of intimacy. I don't even follow anime of J-pop culture much anymore but I have noticed a worrying trend of stories about female office workers in their late 20s and early 30s falling in love with young teen boys. In two of those cases I actually thought the subject matter was handled with subtlety and overall done well(the most intimate the characters got was a passionate hug).

But there's a J-drama on Netlfix called Love and Fortune and holy fuck this 31 yr old lady gives this 15 yr old kid a blowjob on their first date. A shame because overall the show is done well and I love watching Japanese urban spaces but man its a bit too graphic for my taste. Which is weird because for all the outrage about Cuties somehow this show has flown under the radar.

Anyway my point here is that when we think of "incels" we almost always think of men but in Japan the problem seems to be getting serious enough that its even affecting women.
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I don't know much about the problem but I believe their government knows the problem exists and is trying to address it correct?

I only half joke when I say the world does need bullies
 
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