Sengoku Strider wrote:Enh. It's one of those things that started as a "prank," except it was propagated by people who were getting off trying to undermine anti-racism advocates on social media in the first place. It wasn't a critique of any journalist or outlet, anyone who took the bait would do. By the time the Christchurch shooter flashed it in court, the symbol had long since taken on a life of its own. I'd have to think Santos knows what he's doing here, signalling to internet trolls with Joker avatars and their meatspace fellow travellers that he will be their spirit animal, if they'll have him.
Having (regrettably) read what some charitably call his manifesto, I don't put much stock in Tarrant's regurgitating. Even his atrocity was - sadly - boilerplate. The various murderous swine the imageboard cesspool has churned out over the last decade or so... it's like an ouroboros of shit that occasionally takes a breather to spew. Sick, sadistic cunts who should've done the world a favour somewhere quiet and dark.
Santos seems less like one of those gaping herpetic assholes, more an archetypally spineless worm who'll seek the path of least resistance/integrity. I suppose we'll see, but for what it's worth, MTG and the America First crowd despise one another at the moment, and the latter are political thalidomide, post-January 6th. I don't know if a classically grasping politician like Santos would go for that base. Kanye would!
(Anecdote Incoming!) Every time we play Scrabble, my grandma will, without fail, absentmindedly make the same gesture - with the addition of loudly
*click*ing her thumb and index fingernails. It drives me
fucking nuts, and I'm a tolerant dude who loves his grammy. Seriously crashes my train of
CRISS-CROSS WORDSing thought. I've gently asked her to stop doing it many dozens of times.
I'm probably being over-cautious and certainly a bit prideful here. Just seems a bit too incidental, with the maddening tendenciees of unoccupied hands to do things. Check out this dude throwing up the 1488 GangGang sign! No, the dude in front, about 3y/o.
orange808 wrote:Agreed.
Even better, that works on two levels, assuming you're not on holiday.
Coalition of the Willing.
You've mistaken me for British before, when I felt it'd be churlish to correct - a reticence, some would say cuckitude, which I suppose reflects my cultural links to once-proud Cuck Island.
Coalition of the Willing? More like Coalition of Blair Suckin Dubya's Dick Like They In Prison.
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These soft-as-shite twats could barely take back the Falklands from a bunch of upjumped Great Value Nazis. Poisoning a bloody swathe of the ME against the West for a couple generations, leaving a million dead civilians in their wake, and creating ISIS is a bit beyond their scope.
They'll arrest the
shit outta you for spicy memes though.
Why not bring up the Sykes-Picot Agreement? Now
there's a fuckup, perhaps of apocalyptic domino stature!
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