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USA Presidential Election 2016: Screams from My Father

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  • NyysjanNyysjan FinlandRegistered User regular
    My only real problem about graffiti is, that it is usually so shitty.
    Badly spelled swear words, swastikas or poorly drawn vaginas and dicks.
    I mean, really, have you people no taste (or writing skills)?

  • StericaSterica Yes Registered User, Moderator mod
    So what's going on with Trump's money?

    I find it extremely odd that there aren't at least a few PACs keeping him afloat. Did he decline public funding? There is something super weird going on.

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  • IronKnuckle's GhostIronKnuckle's Ghost This is also my fault Registered User regular
    The best graffiti I've ever seen was under a bridge in my home town, in black spray paint in all caps "KILL FASCISTS", to which another person later added in purple paint in the most fanciful style "with magic!" with a little star wand.

  • PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    I mentioned the case when it first hit the Supreme Court, but as a follow-up of sorts - Samantha Bee just did a segment on Dollar General vs. The Choctaw Nation

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD7TGp8XML4

    Scant details on the case itself (probably because it's difficult to get yucks out of child rape), but a pretty solid overview of tribal sovereignty and the erasure thereof. And the first time I've seen the case covered by anything even approaching a mainstream outlet

  • SnicketysnickSnicketysnick The Greatest Hype Man in WesterosRegistered User regular
    Well this is going to go down well...

    Mexican flags raised in view of Donald Trump's Scotland golf course
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    Two of Donald Trump’s keenest critics in Scotland have hoisted Mexican flags next to his Aberdeenshire golf course to show “solidarity” with the Mexican people during his visit later this week.

    The presumptive Republican presidential nominee flies into Scotland on Thursday to officially unveil his lavishly revamped hotel and championship golf course at Turnberry in Ayrshire. Trump says he has spent £200m ($293m) refurbishing the resort.

    Trump will then fly north to Aberdeenshire on Saturday to visit the far smaller course he opened there in 2012, after winning a bitterly fought battle to bulldoze coastal dunes which were legally protected because of their ecological value and rarity.

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  • Knight_Knight_ Dead Dead Dead Registered User regular
    So what's going on with Trump's money?

    I find it extremely odd that there aren't at least a few PACs keeping him afloat. Did he decline public funding? There is something super weird going on.

    Well, PACs can't keep a campaign afloat. Can keep it even on spending but the campaign can only spend it's own money on travel, staffers, etc. Also most of the GOP's donor class are wary of Trump since they already dunked some 200m in the primary and none of them got what they wanted.

    Per funding, I think public funding only happens once he's the actual nominee?

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  • TossrockTossrock too weird to live too rare to dieRegistered User regular
    ChicoBlue wrote: »
    Draper Sterling?

    He hired Mad Men characters?

    Hey, Draper's a creative genius. Remember Glo-coat? The man's a Clio winner!

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  • JarsJars Registered User regular
    So what's going on with Trump's money?

    I find it extremely odd that there aren't at least a few PACs keeping him afloat. Did he decline public funding? There is something super weird going on.

    no one even knows what pacs to give to

  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    As a rule I'm pretty much against graffiti in all forms

    But I can't lie and say I didn't chuckle at the video

  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    The best graffiti I've ever seen was under a bridge in my home town, in black spray paint in all caps "KILL FASCISTS", to which another person later added in purple paint in the most fanciful style "with magic!" with a little star wand.

    my favorite tag is this one that turns up all over Seattle

    it's just one word

    SHITbARF

    always all caps, with a little b

    you'll find it in buses, on trashcans, underpasses, everywhere

    I love it so much

  • TryCatcherTryCatcher Registered User regular
    Maximum wrote: »
    A Presidential campaign as a money laundering/graft scheme is the most Trump thing ever.

  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    I mentioned the case when it first hit the Supreme Court, but as a follow-up of sorts - Samantha Bee just did a segment on Dollar General vs. The Choctaw Nation

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD7TGp8XML4

    Scant details on the case itself (probably because it's difficult to get yucks out of child rape), but a pretty solid overview of tribal sovereignty and the erasure thereof. And the first time I've seen the case covered by anything even approaching a mainstream outlet

    goddamn that lady in the second half is somethin' else

  • MarathonMarathon Registered User regular
    I see a lot of graffiti on rail cars at my job, my favorite one of all time is whoever wrote

    Fart
    Barf

    On the side of one.

  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    TryCatcher wrote: »
    Maximum wrote: »
    A Presidential campaign as a money laundering/graft scheme is the most Trump thing ever.

    he's still losing more money bankrolling his campaign than he's managing to shoving back into his own companies, though. Which is ironically also a very Trump thing.

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  • JarsJars Registered User regular
    the entire republican party is one big grift. if you thought they were heinous before wait until you read this

    http://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-long-con

  • Desert LeviathanDesert Leviathan Registered User regular
    Train car graffiti always bums me out, because the transient nature of the medium seems to discourage the artists from doing anything more ambitious than a hasty tag. No community murals, no amusingly rude caricatures, no political slogans, just a cluster of illegible names crowding on top of each other.

    My favorite piece of local graffiti appeared on the rear wall of a local McDonald's, where someone had taken a set of stencils that looked like the official font for freeway signs, and written "poop, as from a butt." All lowercase, but the punctuation was right on. It's a daily struggle for me to keep from incorporating this phrase into my regular vocabulary.

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  • Der Waffle MousDer Waffle Mous Blame this on the misfortune of your birth. New Yark, New Yark.Registered User regular
    There's some stuff coming out about something Trump 20 years ago.

    I don't know the veracity of it, I haven't seen many news sites pick up on it.

    But holy fuck.

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  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    There's some stuff coming out about something Trump 20 years ago.

    I don't know the veracity of it, I haven't seen many news sites pick up on it.

    But holy fuck.

    such as?

  • TossrockTossrock too weird to live too rare to dieRegistered User regular
    You can't just say that and not link it

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  • Der Waffle MousDer Waffle Mous Blame this on the misfortune of your birth. New Yark, New Yark.Registered User regular
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  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    that seems ....

    I don't know

  • Bluedude152Bluedude152 Registered User regular
    Oh boy

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  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    it is very, very past the statute of limitations

    If its true its A) horrible and B) a torpedo

    But its going to be tough to even get it heard

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  • TossrockTossrock too weird to live too rare to dieRegistered User regular
    wowzers

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  • captainkcaptaink TexasRegistered User regular
    Xaquin wrote: »
    that seems ....

    I don't know

    I think my response is "I don't have any ability to asses the veracity or potential consequences of this".

  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    it is very, very past the statute of limitations

    If its true its A) horrible and B) a torpedo

    But its going to be tough to even get it heard

    I feel like if this gets heard there will also be a few dozen "clinton ran into me and drove off" stories incoming.

    either way, I hope it isn't true because =/

  • ZoelZoel I suppose... I'd put it on Registered User regular
    So what's going on with Trump's money?

    I find it extremely odd that there aren't at least a few PACs keeping him afloat. Did he decline public funding? There is something super weird going on.

    I guess it's hard to get funding from people you already owe money to.

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    However, the ring will never leave your finger, and you will be unable to ever describe to another living person what you see.
  • ButtersButters A glass of some milks Registered User regular
    I thought he was funding his own campaign!

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  • MrMonroeMrMonroe passed out on the floor nowRegistered User regular
    Olivaw wrote: »
    Reporting a graffiti artist to the police because it's a crime is like reporting someone for littering

    They'll never catch the guy, the most he'd get is a misdemeanor or a fine or something, and all you'd be doing is inconveniencing everyone involved, including the cops

    Plus I mean

    Graffiti is neat

    Why you gotta be a killjoy

    So, living in downtown Oakland, graffiti is not always "neat". We have a higher concentration of public art pieces than any other city I've ever visited, no doubt, and I totally love that. We also have a pervasive culture of scrawling the dumb name you gave yourself on the side of someone else's shit in a weird aspiration to be involved in actual street warfare defined by gang tags. And then there's the actual gang tags, which are not in my neighborhood but are all up in East and West Oakland.

    I'm not gonna report anyone to the police for this in any circumstance, but I will absolutely tell the teenage turds from out of town who put up shitty tags late at night because they know the cops won't care about tags in this neighborhood to get the fuck right out of my sight. Especially the dinguses that have been doing their shit on the sidewalk in what appears to be some incredibly durable form of wood glue. I do not need that shit in my boot tread.

  • StericaSterica Yes Registered User, Moderator mod
    Butters wrote: »
    I thought he was funding his own campaign!

    :rotate:
    If you believe that, then I have a wall along the Rio Grande to sell ya

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  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    In Donald Trump's America, campaign funds you.

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  • ZoelZoel I suppose... I'd put it on Registered User regular
    He's going to self fund so hard you're going to get sick of self funding.

    A magician gives you a ring that, when worn, will let you see the world as it truly is.
    However, the ring will never leave your finger, and you will be unable to ever describe to another living person what you see.
  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
  • davidsdurionsdavidsdurions Your Trusty Meatshield Panhandle NebraskaRegistered User regular
    Brolo wrote: »

    Declare bankruptcy. Buy more candles.

  • BrainleechBrainleech 機知に富んだコメントはここにあります Registered User regular
    Are you a cult or something with that much in candles?

  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    Candles are pretty cheap too.

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  • Death of RatsDeath of Rats Registered User regular
    Brainleech wrote: »
    Are you a cult or something with that much in candles?

    Yeah, that's like... not ever the bare minimum of candies.

    Or is that per week?

    No I don't.
  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    Maybe they are trying to film new episodes of Buffy? That would need a lot of candles.

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