Don't need to add the "sarcasm" check though. You, no, WE better mean every word of it.

I had a raging LMAO moment reading what BS that Hungary's Viktor Orban's said at Dallas' CPAC yesterday: "A Christian politician cannot be racist."

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62431415

Right.... it's exactly racists, far-right fanatics like these people that organized religions of any significant size should be eliminated in the eye of a decent person, reglious or not.

Even though the current Pope Francis (very progessive for a Catholic) recently came up here in Canada for a “penitential pilgrimage” to say "sorries" to the natives that were forced into boarding schools for decades that tried to erase their history, culture, language, ripping children away from their parents by force and caused thousands upon thousands of unrecorded deaths, his actions & tangible response for reparation & restoration amounted to very little. He didn't have the courage to call it a genocide in public, but caught saying so in a hot mic in his plane ride back to Italy... NOT GOOD ENOUGH.

Growing up near a place of Nazi pilgrimage, I always found comfort in the "knowledge" that a) it was just a regional/national problem and b) it'll sort of die down over the following years.

Two decades later, that particular area is almost rid of these knuckle draggers, yet the likes of Golden Dawn and the EDL are popping up all over the place. I had hoped to see the demise of this ideology, not to see it flame up again...

I'm Black and I don't have much interest in where my ancestors came from. My brother & sisters don't either (& I mean my actual brother & sisters). I can't think of any of my black friends who have any interest in a pilgrimage to their homeland. Some of them pop back to see the relatives sometimes, but that's about it.

However if I go to any big city over here in Europe it's brimming with, mainly American, people who've come to the old country to trace their roots. And I've met people of many shades and nationalities who've arrived here to do that. It's not the bastion of any one race. Don't take a common human impulse you've observed in people who by coincidence are black and tag it to them alone to form part of a 'but black people is weird innit' narrative. This kind of thing makes me sleepy.


>> ^wraith:

A question that always bothered me and that has almost nothing to do with this video: Why do so many African Americans think they have to go to Africa to find their roots? In Europe, in all countries except France, 99% of African people are really first or second generation immigrants from one of the dozens of Nations in Africa.
They have relatives living there.
I understand that.
African Americans have their roots as much in "Africa", as I have my roots in....I don't even know...Germany? France? Russia? Hungary?
I don't even know where my ancestors lived three hundred years ago.
And I don't care.
I don't get it.

Hey blankfist ..
I've made my yearly pilgrimage / promote to your lil pimpin video:
http://videosift.com/video/Little-Pimpin
and noticed the embed sucks (weirdly cropped and doesn't allow full screen etc)
here's a better one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQVuCX0-2JI

I just like how they throw in gerrymandering at the end. They tried to do this in Utah last year to keep democratic winners at a minimum.

If you wish to know why: Salt Lake City, it's northern neighbor city, Ogden, and the city that had most of the Olympic events, Park City, all vote democratic. However, the farther south of Salt lake City the more republicans you find. The only reason they vote Republican is for some reason we've yet to figure out in the main valley is why they vote Republican. These are typically good 'ol church going or listening to Rush/Beck type people and have a LARGE tendency of group-think and block voting.

In other words we always get screwed over (even in the suburbs) by this demographic. It's the same demographic that screwed over California on prop 8. The block or: "your religion wants you to vote this way" (which I see as a huge state versus religion debate that should be brought up) works VERY well. It's very tiring to watch it happen in EVERY election, but people are getting smarter as the cities, specifically, along the Wasatch Front (the western edge of the Rocky Mountains end in a huge corridor that runs N/S from southern Idaho to Southern Utah--close to Las Vegas) that are natural valleys that form every 40-70 miles and end with the mountain ranges on both sides "cutting off" the metropolitan areas forming about six major areas, and then some cities off to the east of the mountains (not many, some of them are: Moab, Tooele, Price, Vernal, etc...). Most of the populace lives in this area and it distinctly follows I-15 which runs straight into Los Angeles.

Strangely enough the more people that live in more urban type environments with lots of people, these people tend to have a democratic or atleast a very moderate republican stance. The smaller cities ALL vote republican. In other words, Salt Lake City is held hostage by Utah's small cities and developing cities along the I-15 corridor or cities that are not located next to I-15 and of course Utah County, just south of Salt Lake City or Salt Lake County (which has many cities, Provo being the biggest; but more importantly it has BYU; hence it's almost inane voting standard).

The politicians wish to divide Salt Lake County into an area unable to vote democratically as they would group us with just enough "typical republican voters" as to make our votes worthless. This got shot down last year, but I have no idea about this year. With our new law passed I can't even look to see if they're trying to do this--which is probably why they wanted to do this anyway.

Lots of these politicians were going to get kicked out in the next election cycle, some did. But, they got replaced by a worse setup: Tea Party or Glenn Beck followers that hide behind the all magical (R). The populace loving their block voting voted these idiots right in and of course the laws this year are inane. Mike Lee would be an example of this.

It should also be known that the LDS/Mormon church owns quite a bit of media in and around this area (the biggest is called Deseret, but there are a few more). The reach of this media reaches a lot of areas in the Intermountain West or Intermountain Region (which is HUGE): Utah, Wyoming, Nevada, Colorado, Arizona, California, Oregon, Idaho and Washington--there may be more, but the largest stronghold is Wyoming, Utah, California (around the Sierra Nevada and north), and Idaho. KSL (at KSL.com) is the LDS churches right arm in Utah and in the regions I listed above; it's also the churches direct feed to their semi-annual conferences that are followed by members voraciously. Many people consider coming to Utah to see the conferences much like a pilgrimage you see in other religions.

Wyoming and Idaho, as they do not have major news/media stations (or atleast in the past they didn't-this is still true for western Wyoming), KSL fills that void, as the church and the members have more than enough money to make this a very far reaching media outlet for the Intermountain West/Region. KSL plays it's role well when it comes to group-think and spreading the ideas created by the church and even LDS politicians, along with the churches run newspaper "Deseret News"; with the "satanic" or democratic/moderately conservative and more level headed news publication provided by "The Salt Lake Tribune" which is a very good newspaper. Even if you're a republican and not LDS, you'll find it to be a good source for news for anyone that isn't a "Republican Mormon"; they are very centrist in their opinions and provide a VERY MUCH needed counterweight in the region. KSL tends to follow Deseret News or likewise, Deseret News follows KSL--obviously following the LDS churches thoughts and opinions on subjects. Though they tend to do fine as long as they're ONLY reporting the news, like a breaking story...

Anything that has time to become an op-ed becomes an obvious religiously slanted opinion and more annoyingly, lately (the last decade or so), it has a politically charged republican view. Recently some Tea Party views have crept in. The LDS church doesn't seem to like or hate the tea party and I've never heard an opinion making their stance on that issue official at any level; but, at the same time I know a lot of Mormons that love Glenn Beck and Rush, so that situation to me seems "fuzzy" at best. As the church has never reprimanded Glenn Beck (as far as I know). If I said some of the same things that Glenn Beck has, would most certainly be incurring a disfellowship or even a excommunication. I'm an atheist, so if I made that known I'd certainly get the excommunication. But, you may need to go to the meeting to see that happen; which I wouldn't--I'd have to ask someone more "in the know" to get an idea what would happen as even when I was a Mormon no one ever talked about these meetings, they were taboo. Anyway...

Typically the Intermountain West or Intermountain Region is the "Mountain States or the Sierra Nevada, Cascades, and the Rocky Mountains" and the "Great Basin or Intermontane Plateaus and Colorado Plateau". Which is VERY large.

So that is my experience with church vs. state and the members of said faith trying to hoodwink others by using gerrymandering or other unscrupulous ways to change the vote in their favor. These people should be the excommunicated ones... But, since they aren't it makes me think MUCH less of the LDS church (but, since Proposition 8 I've had little faith that they were anything, but another religion trying to force people to see things there way--there is no middle ground). So if you live in "The Intermountain West", which is a huge region, make sure you find out who is behind your media. You may be surprised.

I think that should cover everything I wanted to say.

I'm a fucking saint. "Saint That-guy-in-the-bushes-with-a-trenchcoat-and-huge-glasses" aka Saint Valentine. I even have a day, where people go around raping each other. Sure, they butter each other up with candy and hearts and all that junk, but that's only until they can get their prey to their rapist vans.. or so I've been told.

I mean, he seemed like such a nice guy with candy and stuff...

In reply to this comment by rottenseed:
1) Great detective work
2) That's fucking crazy. You could've never predicted this site's popularity would be based on a graphic rape scene...although you could predict who would've posted such a scene...HAHA jokes, gwiz is good people.
3) The creepiest part of this all, is the crazy comments this video attracted. It's like the destination-spot in a pilgrimage for creeps.


In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
In case you're interested, I think I accidentally figured out this mystery. After you pointed it out I kept noticing "rape" in the recent searches. Well earlier today I also saw "Monica Bellucci" in the recent searches. I thought that was an odd one, because I've seen next to no videos with her in them here, especially nothing in recent months, maybe even years. Anyway I clicked the Monica Bellucci tag and saw this video at the top. Lo and behold, it's a video about rape too. So I decided to read the comments, because I thought there surely must be some remarks about how controversial both this movie and this scene were, and I noticed this comment in particular. BINGO! He's right; people are coming here in search of a movie rape scene. "Rape" is a major source of searched-based traffic for VS.

So how about that? Think about what kind of lurkers we have? Makes me want to load a gun and wear a biohazard suit whenever I log in now.

It really wasn't good detective work - more like lucky Sift surfing. But isn't that some crazy shit? Jesus, law enforcement agencies all over the country could probably solve a lot of rape cases by looking at all the Facebook members who 'like' VideoSift.

VideoSift©: Quality rape videos.
In reply to this comment by rottenseed:
1) Great detective work
2) That's fucking crazy. You could've never predicted this site's popularity would be based on a graphic rape scene...although you could predict who would've posted such a scene...HAHA jokes, gwiz is good people.
3) The creepiest part of this all, is the crazy comments this video attracted. It's like the destination-spot in a pilgrimage for creeps.


In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
In case you're interested, I think I accidentally figured out this mystery. After you pointed it out I kept noticing "rape" in the recent searches. Well earlier today I also saw "Monica Bellucci" in the recent searches. I thought that was an odd one, because I've seen next to no videos with her in them here, especially nothing in recent months, maybe even years. Anyway I clicked the Monica Bellucci tag and saw this video at the top. Lo and behold, it's a video about rape too. So I decided to read the comments, because I thought there surely must be some remarks about how controversial both this movie and this scene were, and I noticed this comment in particular. BINGO! He's right; people are coming here in search of a movie rape scene. "Rape" is a major source of searched-based traffic for VS.

So how about that? Think about what kind of lurkers we have. Makes me want to load a gun and wear a biohazard suit whenever I log in now.

1) Great detective work
2) That's fucking crazy. You could've never predicted this site's popularity would be based on a graphic rape scene...although you could predict who would've posted such a scene...HAHA jokes, gwiz is good people.
3) The creepiest part of this all, is the crazy comments this video attracted. It's like the destination-spot in a pilgrimage for creeps.


In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
In case you're interested, I think I accidentally figured out this mystery. After you pointed it out I kept noticing "rape" in the recent searches. Well earlier today I also saw "Monica Bellucci" in the recent searches. I thought that was an odd one, because I've seen next to no videos with her in them here, especially nothing in recent months, maybe even years. Anyway I clicked the Monica Bellucci tag and saw this video at the top. Lo and behold, it's a video about rape too. So I decided to read the comments, because I thought there surely must be some remarks about how controversial both this movie and this scene were, and I noticed this comment in particular. BINGO! He's right; people are coming here in search of a movie rape scene. "Rape" is a major source of searched-based traffic for VS.

So how about that? Think about what kind of lurkers we have? Makes me want to load a gun and wear a biohazard suit whenever I log in now.

Kind of a roundabout way of saying a guy doing an impersonation of someone reading/reciting XYZ.

The way it's stated sounds as if they are implying this guy is not using his own voice to create this but lip syncing. If you look at his other videos, he has quite a few and a lot of them are pretty outrageously weird....that I doubt the real McKellen would record and not have the video of him doing so just for the comedic value of watching it.

It's a long the lines of the voice actor who does the Governator and calls into the Howard Stern show to have phone sex with porn stars.

>> ^bareboards2:

From Huffington Post. I don't know where they get their information from. But yeah, I think they are correct.
"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/20/ian-mckellen-does-dramati_n_583815.html
Okay, this is technically a guy doing Ian McKellen doing "The Fresh Prince." Got that? Sorry. We'll clarify. This is a guy doing Sir Ian McKellen doing "The Fresh Prince." There we go. The impression is pretty remarkable. As is the epic pilgrimage to Bel-Air."

From Huffington Post. I don't know where they get their information from. But yeah, I think they are correct.

"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/20/ian-mckellen-does-dramati_n_583815.html

Okay, this is technically a guy doing Ian McKellen doing "The Fresh Prince." Got that? Sorry. We'll clarify. This is a guy doing Sir Ian McKellen doing "The Fresh Prince." There we go. The impression is pretty remarkable. As is the epic pilgrimage to Bel-Air."

Jews will be flocking to Israel in the days and weeks and months ahead?!

There some kind of Chanukah pilgrimage only Alaskans know about?!

What an ignorant tard.

Cool vid, but I have to say that I'm not the biggest fan of Burning Man. Every person I've ever met that made a regular pilgrimage there was kind of a tool... While there is clearly a lot of creativity there, there seems to be an overwhelming douchebag trustafarian population as well.

ps. very cool cameo by the thunderdome... complete with the bungee thingies...

Actually, the quote from Pat Robertson was NOT about gay marriage, but rather about a hate-crime bill which would include sexual orientation. Basically Pat Robertson doesn't want homosexuals covered by hate-crimes and his take is that sexual orientation could be anything, including sex with ducks.

Man I can't wait for Pat to die. I'm going to make a pilgrimage to wherever they bury his rotten body and make a youtube video of me dancing on his grave.

Will I get banned if I self-post that? Maybe another sifter can help me so I can avoid bannination...

1. I dated Joe DiMaggios grand niece in high school

2. I have ben on a plane when it was struck by lightning

3. I shook Bill Clintons hand when he was president

4. I smuggled a machete onto a commercial flight as a kid

5. I did not get my drivers license until the age of 28

6. I have a ten inch scar on my belly from having my spleen removed

7. I had no idea how long the scar was until I measured it for this post

8. I went on a pilgrimage to Kurt Cobains house in Seattle a few months after his death

9. I once went to a school protest dressed as Frank N. Furter

10. I have climbed Mt. Warning for sunset on three different occasions

11. I have touched a dead person

12. I once threw confetti in Dieter Bohlens face at a party

13. I once jumped out of a cab because I couldn´t pay the fare

14. I had a backstage pass for a Michael Jackson concert, but was too young to know what it meant

15. I clung to a fence for three hours in the pouring rain at the same Michael Jackson concert so I could see better

16. I once applied for a boy band, but the application was returned unopened because of insufficient postage

17. I can´t sing

18. I can juggle

19. I design my own t-shirts

20. My mom drove me 400 miles to see Bruce Springsteen, interrupting my summer camp stay

21. My mom and I jumped a fence in 1987 to go see David Bowie at an open air concert in Hamburg

22. I have a cool mom

23. I skipped school once to go to a Garth Brooks concert in Frankfurt dressed as a cowboy

24. I don´t have a middle name

25. I registered an email account for my son on the day of his birth

26. I never know when to stop

Edit: Just thought another thing that really belong in this list (Just tells you 26. is really true!):

27. During my lifetime I have found three messages in a bottle.

>> ^imstellar28:
ancestor's tale is an awesome book, by the way.


It is, infact, Dawkins' best. And thats a strong field. It is probably one of the most fascinating books I have read and is ever going to read. To say that it is a must-read is an understatement. For those who do not enjoy the act of reading itself, there is an excellent Audiobook read by Richard and his wife, Lalla Ward