Wasn't Weinstein also the thundercunt who defended ol' pedo Polanski very vocally? Maybe Hollywood should tune it down on the rape culture a bit, lest they lose their liberal street cred.

The problem is the GOP as constructed is already the minority party at least nationally. Since 1992, they've won the popular vote once in presidential races. Demographics favor voting blocs that track for Democrats. If the GOP splits into a moderate party and Tea Party, that is the effective end of the GOP, and the Tea Party would also be politically castrated. The people who built the Tea Party understood that the way to gain influence was as an insurrection within the GOP, not as a third party. For the Tea Party, it was a smart move. They've gained massive influence nationally compared to their numbers. But it is a cancer to the Republican Party that they've proven they're completely unable to control.

Every single problem or mistake you've listed is all due to one common thread - there are too many supporters of the GOP that are too radical. Why did McCain pick Palin? He was too moderate for the base, so he needed to up his conservative street creds, and he needed a minority splash to combat Obama being black. Combine those two, and you can't get Olympia Snow or Susan Collins, but you could get to either of them if you drop the "needs to be hard right conservative". Why did McCain move to the right in the first place? The base demanded it.

Why can't Obama do anything right according to no one in the GOP pretty much? Base is too rabid and demands it. Why did Romney shift to the right? Base.

You can blame the party for catering to the extreme too much, but the problem is the extreme makes up so much of what they have for support, they have no choice. Tea Party organizers astutely realized that, radicalized their supporters to threaten to not turn out for moderate candidates, and even to primary challenge even guys like Eric Cantor for compromising too much.

I mean this sincerely - the GOP party leadership is not at fault. Blame the original Tea Party organizers. Blame Tea Party candidates. Blame the media environment for increasingly favoring more radical candidates by creating partisan bubbles to carefully dissimenate information that suites partisan goals. Blame an electorate too stupid and/or apathetic to understand that neither conservative nor liberal ideology solves every problem (which is so painfully obvious that I can prove that in about 5 minutes), so you need to learn about each issue, and use those ideologies to form options, and then choose the one that's more likely to work, regardless of its ideological foundation. Yeah, that actually takes work and critical thinking, but you'll actually solve problems!

But that ain't happening, so it's time to sit back and watch the slow decline of the GOP as it eats itself alive, and Democrats will increasingly win because we'll keep being presented more with GOP candidates a majority of candidates can't stomach, and hope like heck the Democrats nominate at least someone semi-competent for office, because that's pretty much all we got.

I couldn't stomach voting for a single GOP nominee for president since George Bush, Sr. It's gotten worse because I couldn't stomach my choice for VA governor last year either. I had to choose between a batsh1t insane Cuccinelli or political sleeze in McAulliffe, and it was both the fastest choice to make for me, yet I was the least happy about having to make it for McAulliffe.

And just when I thought you couldn't get much lower from the GOP, they're on the doorstep of nominating Trump or Cruz for president of the entire country.

Yeah I thought the same. I stopped short of saying so b/c I also think "wtf was this guy even filming? A convenience store opening up? And he's pretending like it opened because he showed up so he can get wut? street cred? Sounds like bullshit."

BUT the reason I stopped short is b/c I can confirm, people ARE really this stupid and boring in real life. Getting stuck on that point makes it hard for me to believe one way or the other that this isn't real.

While it's a complicated issue, there's one facet of this that I feel is worth pointing out: What happens when the government creates a welfare state, by giving financial support to single mothers? Well, for one thing, it removes the incentives for those single mothers to pursue stable and responsible men with whom to raise their children, thereby making the less responsible (read: thug, gang-banger, "pretty boy") more desirable. As a result, men feel less motivated to become stable and responsible (thinking, what's the point if all women want is a dude with "street-cred?"), thus perpetuating a cycle in which boys are raised with few male role models outside of those they meet on the street.

>> ^pumkinandstorm:
If I'm expected to not use sources such as reddit to find videos and rely solely on videos from youtube channels I subscribe to, then you would all be enjoying a lot of banal cat video submissions from me. Which would you prefer?



You post videos without cats (or car accidents) ???


One thing that has always been true of videosift is that posters with more "street cred" than others can get their submissions sifted more often. I've used a number of sources like recent videos on break or liveleak to snag what I think (and often is) a top 15 video to get a bit of street cred now and then. It's really amazing how consistently that works. I've posted a fair amount of obscure videos from time to time, and invariably the weird stuff gets sifted if I've recently posted something more popular or widely accepted. I don't think there's anything different from sifting from redtits than snagging the latest "New Rules" from Bill Maher, or any of the Daily Show or Colbert vids, or most recent from College Humor, or grabbing Yahtzee's latest review.

I get what you mean about aggregators, but videosift is its own community - somewhat more focused.

Awwww c'mon! you telling me that Obama's ride doesn't have hydraulics?
..somebody just lost his presidential street cred.

I understand all the excitement going around but I just can't imagine that killing Osama now has made any difference. I personally doubt that he had anything to do with the 9/11 attacks besides claiming responsibility for them to try and gain some sort of Jihad-street-cred. The way that competent military organizations work, he certainly (as a figurehead) wouldn't have had anything to do with the planning.

I'm not trying to judge anyone, but it seems pretty amazing to me that we all get excited about killing this guy when it's not really a solution to any of our current problems.

Oh, and peace to our sons and daughters fighting halfway around the world in places who's names they can't pronounce.

Right...I mean, wrong. By the time you get your crown you're basically this. You're probably going to get beat up. More often.

In reply to this comment by Fusionaut:
Thanks, KP! But at least I get more street cred, right? Right?
In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
I demand a church wedding! It's off; it's all off.

Congrats on the big D. Notice how you get no additional privileges. Kind of a gyp, really. It also puts you in the same class as rottenseed. Maybe killing a few videos right now would be a good idea.

In reply to this comment by Fusionaut:
Your vote for my Planxty video gave me a diamond. I accept your proposal but only if the wedding can be in a garden.

Thanks, KP! But at least I get more street cred, right? Right?
In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
I demand a church wedding! It's off; it's all off.

Congrats on the big D. Notice how you get no additional privileges. Kind of a gyp, really. It also puts you in the same class as rottenseed. Maybe killing a few videos right now would be a good idea.

In reply to this comment by Fusionaut:
Your vote for my Planxty video gave me a diamond. I accept your proposal but only if the wedding can be in a garden.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

Anime is a huge area of art - saying it's "shit" is like saying all impressionists painters are "shit" - completely useless statement that indicates that you are not qualified to have a meaningful opinion on this.

I wouldn't classify myself as an Anime fan- but I recoginize art when I see it - some good, some bad.

I've said it before- but at the moment it's very cool to hate on Anime- buecause it was so red-hot over an extended period of time- and now we're on the downward side of that spike- so faux-hipsters attempt street cred by proclaiming their eternal hatred for it. Fashionistas bore the hell out of me.


>> ^dannym3141:

But anime is shit... doesn't matter how many japanophiles downvote this comment, it's still shit.
OMG will mikichan and pikichan get tikichan and tatusan out of the evil clutches of lord motochan?! OHNOES.
That is the exact plot of every anime, don't even deny it!

One thing that is clearly missing in the demo is animated objects. It's all static data, only the camera is moving. Also if they want some street cred they need to submit it to the next Siggraph, like this guy.

Wait a minute... People keep going back to porn because it "isn't working"? It doesn't "actually satisfy"? Ahh yes, as opposed to intimate sex with a loving partner, which you engage in one time and then you're completely satisfied and set for the rest of your life. ...Oh wait, she didn't intend to imply that? I don't think that porn viewing and a healthy mutually respectful and loving relationship with an actual human being are by any means mutually exclusive.

I hit puberty just as dialup internet was becoming available in my hometown. My family were early adopters and got internet service pretty much as soon as it was available. As you might imagine, I grew up with rather free and easy access to internet porn, and I browsed for quite a lot of it. However, I think that in examining my own experience as objectively as possible, I believe that I was able to self-police or direct my exposure away from the sorts of porn that I would agree are potentially damaging; for example violence, rape, or demeaning behavior (although definitions of each of those vary a lot). But in any case, I think that the reason that I was able to achieve this self-direction was though good parenting. If these things concern you, talk to your kids about it, and explain why. Provide them with the framework they need, and you'll probably be surprised at how well they react.


And just for one more anecdote, I thought I'd contribute a story that exposes just how much of a nerd I am. When I was a sophomore in High School, I was into math. I was taking trigonometry with mostly seniors and a few juniors. I had a complex graphing calculator, a Texas Instruments TI-85, with a roughly 2.5 inch by 3.5 inch screen. On the internet, you could download programs that would overwrite the basic "operating system" of the calculator, and allow you to load programs that people coded up in assembly language compatible with the machine's Z80 processor.

One such program was an image viewer. The calculator normally just had a 2-color liquid crystal screen; each pixel was either ON (black) or OFF (white). This viewer program allowed the screen to be treated as grayscale by adjusting the contrast/brightness values sent to individual pixels, as opposed the the screen as a whole as per usual.

What did I do with this program? I loaded it up with porn, of course. All softcore nudes, mostly Pamela Anderson as I recall. So, with the correct button presses to get into the assembly loader, I had a very low-resolution porn image browser. Being a sophomore, I thought that I could gain some "street cred" with the upperclassmen by showing off my porn. And, as you can probably guess, they immediately turned me in to the teacher just because it would be fun to watch me squirm. Fortunately, my teacher was very cool about it. He said: "I don't want to see it, I don't want to know about it, and if I ever hear anything about it again in the future, I'll be highly displeased". That was enough to get me to delete the program from the calculator.

The segment about porn on (the oh-so ubiquitous) cellphones brought that episode to mind.

>> ^Xax:
Is there an advantage to a forkless design that isn't apparent to me?


Hipster street cred.

Presumably your economic beliefs are good for something - aside from pride, ego, online street cred etc...right?

How are your investments, job, finances, etc. doing?