The Political Satire/Meme Thread

[Dennisch]

 

[Danoff]

Hah!

As if it weren't all the countries except the UK (via the EU) causing Brexit to be difficult.

 

[UKMikey]

 

[Liquid]

 

[UKMikey]

Once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump. I said, "Don't do it!" He said, "Nobody loves me." I said, "God loves you. Do you believe in God?"

He said, "Yes." I said, "Are you a Christian or a Jew?" He said, "A Christian." I said, "Me, too! Protestant or Catholic?" He said, "Protestant." I said, "Me, too! What franchise?" He said, "Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Baptist or Southern Baptist?" He said, "Northern Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist or Northern Liberal Baptist?"

He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region, or Northern Conservative Baptist Eastern Region?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region." I said, "Me, too!"

Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879, or Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912." I said, "Die, heretic!" And I pushed him over the side.

 

[ryzno]

Heh...

There's only one other here who would delight me more by dismissing comments from probably the biggest critic of Trump impeachment proceedings on the hill as hypocrisy, and he hasn't been chiming in much lately. I'll take it!

Glad to see you miss me.

 

[TexRex]

I suspect I'm not the only one who read that and heard Emo's inflections.

 

[ryzno]

I suspect I'm not the only one who read that and heard Emo's inflections.

Care to elaborate? Like you, at times, I don't get the joke...

 

[UKMikey]

Care to elaborate? Like you, at times, I don't get the joke...

I believe @TexRex is referring to my post above yours. I'm not even sure his previous post was about you in the first place and may have been referring to a right wing Canadian member who is a staunch defender of The Donald.

 

[Rallywagon]

Im just wondering if he means Emo, as in the subculture, or if he missed a letter and meant Elmo. Honestly, reading it in either manner is pretty humorous...

 

[TexRex]

Im just wondering if he means Emo, as in the subculture, or if he missed a letter and meant Elmo. Honestly, reading it in either manner is pretty humorous...

Do those of the emo subculture have a, um...particular...way of speaking? Emo Philips does. Come to think of it, there's actually a little bit of Elmo in there.

 

[Rallywagon]

Do those of the emo subculture have a, um...particular...way of speaking? Emo Philips does. Come to think of it, there's actually a little bit of Elmo in there.

They sure do....

Spoiler: Emo talk

 

[Sander 001]

 

[Rallywagon]

Has he really had the same profile pic since 2012?

 

[Dennisch]

 

[UKMikey]

Im just wondering if he means Emo, as in the subculture, or if he missed a letter and meant Elmo. Honestly, reading it in either manner is pretty humorous...

I'm pretty sure Emo predates emo (if not Elmo). He was on Miami Vice.

Unless emo is just a rebranding of goth, in which case... okay.

 

[Rallywagon]

I'm pretty sure Emo predates emo (if not Elmo). He was on Miami Vice.

Unless emo is just a rebranding of goth, in which case... okay.

Yeah, it pretty much is. Or, maybe it's more appropriate to say, it's a rebranded darker version of grunge with more self pity

 

[UKMikey]

Yeah, it pretty much is. Or, maybe it's more appropriate to say, it's a rebranded darker version of grunge with more self pity

I hope not, because grunge didn't emerge until the nineties.

Is Weezer's Pinkerton album emo?

[EDIT] I'm completely wrong and grunge was around in 1983.

 

[Rallywagon]

I hope not, because grunge didn't emerge until the nineties.

Is Weezer's Pinkerton album emo?

[EDIT] I'm completely wrong and grunge was around in 1983.

Idk. Didnt listen to it. Weezer definitely isnt emo though. Think more like My chemical romance or paramore. The whiner the better in that genre.

 

[TexRex]

While it's still Halloween...

 

[UKMikey]

Weezer definitely isnt emo though.

Not these days, no.

20 Years Ago: Weezer’s ‘Pinkerton’ Redefines the Emo Genre

(Thank god for the green album.)

 

[Brett]

Idk. Didnt listen to it. Weezer definitely isnt emo though. Think more like My chemical romance or paramore. The whiner the better in that genre.

Not these days, no.

20 Years Ago: Weezer’s ‘Pinkerton’ Redefines the Emo Genre

(Thank god for the green album.)

I would say Weezer in general is not Emo. Pinkerton probably is.

 

[TexRex]

I'm pretty sure Emo predates emo (if not Elmo). He was on Miami Vice.

Hah! I forgot about that! I hadn't forgotten about who else appeared in that episode, though...

Unless emo is just a rebranding of goth, in which case... okay.

I don't think it is. Sure, the proponents of the two are similarly angsty and brooding, but there are precious few points of commonality musically.

Where emo came out of the hardcore [punk] scene and developed a more poppy sentimentality with acts like Jimmy Eat World and Dashboard Confessional (as well as Green Day and the aforementioned My Chemical Romance sticking more to the punk end of it but with a pop appeal), goth is deeply rooted in post-punk, and you can see its origins in Joy Division and Bauhaus (Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle can probably be thrown in, but they skew industrial) before you get into Sisters Of Mercy, Dead Can Dance and, to a lesser extent, The Cure. After that, you get NIN and Marilyn Manson.

I'm not sure where Weezer fits in. They may have selected works with an emo bent but I think they're pretty straight pop/rock.

 

[UKMikey]

^I would agree with all of the above including Philips's expression at being teamed with the other Philip. Goth and emo are different musically from what I've heard.

I think =w= hit their groove with the green album and never looked back. That last track on the (debut) blue album is a tearjerker though lol.

The only reason I brought them up was because I remember asking a guy on another forum who was a huge emo fan what he thought of the green album and he emotionally asserted that every track on Pinkerton blew away every track on green. Personally I disagree but I think they didn't really change musically between that point and the covers band of today.

Sorry to hijack the thread.

 

[TexRex]

It happens and it never seems to last long; I think people just want to have an occasional break from the fairly regular bickering and passive-aggressive partisan dumps. I thought about posting on the emo/goth bit last night and then thought better of it given its off-topic nature--plus I was more than a little buzzed from a fun holiday gathering--but this morning I thought it innocent enough.

Aaaaanyway...here's something atypically non-partisan for me regarding something about which I feel very strongly. It's easy to find very partisan cartoons but that would be dishonest.

 

[VolkswagenX]

 

[ROAD_DOGG33J]

Has he really had the same profile pic since 2012?

Generally profile pictures change everywhere once the picture is changed. The date of the post doesn't matter.

 

[ROAD_DOGG33J]

Has he really had the same profile pic since 2012?

Got curious and went to web.archive.org to do some digging. It turns out the answer is yes.

https://web.archive.org/web/20120829122132/https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/

 

[Sander 001]

 

[Dennisch]