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Fix to all this election malarkey
May 7, 2016 4:06 PM
TheTrueBanananik
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Fix to all this election malarkey
YeahLinguisticsBitch
Oh, this again.
SucksToSuckNerd
r/im14andthisisdeep is leaking again. Better watch yourself with all this edge.
bodomad
tried to read it in his voice
LumburgOR
Aladeen mutherfucker.
humblewordsmith
What's this from?
shugies
the dictator
QueefLord
As a Swede i didn't notice the sarcasm until now when i've watched it like three times...
movethebongos
"As a swede" is starting to look a lot like "I'm vegan"...
Burnnoticelover
Yes, Sacha baron Cohen, very clever. You've made your point. Now go make something actually funny.
MerToo
This scene isn't funny. What's funny is that so many people couldn't understand it. Actually, that's not funny either, that is a crime.
FuckKnows
I think everyone should get a vote, no matter how crippled or black or female they are.
derpiderper
gave me goosebumps, however not as much as Chaplin's speech in the Great Dictator.
niakaki
After all these years, I now finally understand what this scene meant.
imnotarron
After the second time watching, I noticed he is pointing with his kill finger through the WHOLE fucking movie! Instant fav actor
caesarjd
At least in America you have a chance to create your own success. That's more than most of the world can say.
movethebongos
It's so cute how you actually believe that :)
caesarjd
Having traveled the world it's a fact. It's difficult for American's to appreciate, and the system isn't perfect, but nothing ever is.
movethebongos
I didn't mean it comparatively. The chance to succeed coming from the wrong type of background is minuscule.
OsIgnis
Is that Ted from HIMYM?
srslydude
*sigh* There are more black people in prison than others of different skin colors because of CULTURAL UPBRINGING. It's not racism, people.
Munchman347
The Innocence Project has gotten far more people of color released from false imprisonment than any other race. Is that culture too?
AdolphusHitler
I think more black people are in jail because they commit the most crimes out of any racial group.
cleveremu
Thanks Hitler
Fplo
statistics = hitler lol
cleveremu
His name is AdolphusHitler, dumbass
RikkordF
While I get the joke and laughed during the movie, we're more of an oligarchy.
MerToo
You're a plutocratic kleptoctracy thinly disguised as a pseudo-democracy. Switzerland is IMHO a better example, but so are most OECD places
RikkordF
Taking it too seriously
MerToo
No doubt I shall be severely beaten with the down-vote stick for taking the corruption of an aggressive WMD-armed superpower "too seriously"
RikkordF
I didn't downvote ya
JShea50
My favorite part of the movie "you are HIV Aladeen" http://m.imgur.com/lqNokwo
thatonegingerbitch
Aw fuck
SnowmaninHeat
I rate this movie 5/7 Aladeen's
GrImmgur
Even though this is all bullshit. I get our government is corrupt, but grow the fuck up. The world isnt out to get you. It's not all bad. 1/
derpiderper
do you mean the statements are false?
CreativeSquare
thank fucking christ some sane people who dont go around going "ooo america so bad, its the worst place in the world" grow up ffs
GrImmgur
You guys act like the government hates it's people and just says fuck you. Try meeting some actual officials some time.
Glennguacamole
Agreed, politicians are just people. Sure - Some have bad intent, but most don't.
GrImmgur
Seriously. I've talked to a lot of senators actually. People act like all they want is for the country to burn.
IsButtHurtACarb
Why is everyone replacing random nouns and adjectives with the word "aladeen"?? Somebody help!!
DoctorWatchamacallit
it was a running joke in the movie that this is from
GekkouHayate
He is a dictator. He changed a large number of words in his culture's language to his name "Aladeen". Good is Aladeen. Bad is also Aladeen
The1stBellicose
An aladeen tongue does not mean you have an aladeen mind.
Dyslexicglove
I'm pretty sure America is a republic, so you know... close enough.
LavaAxe
It's the greatest democracy in the world.
TakamiStitches
Oligarchy now.
humptysorthopedic
republican *form* of democracy, vs "pure" democracy like Athenian city-state or anarchist commune. Democracy + law + institutions = republic
Wander1236
What movie is this?
LiftBig2GetBig
The Dictator - one of Sacha Baron Cohen's films.
Wander1236
Thank you
abacaxi
The movie, meeh, but the promotions for it were funny: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BlazElwPkA.
jackbos
Ah look. Our daily dose of infantile anti-establishment angst. When you kids grow up you'll see the worlds a bit more complex.
TheMajesticHarpyEagle
No, the world is very simple. People like the fantasy that it is complex.
CaffeineManic
If it's so complex that these statements seem close to the truth, then it needs to be complex in a different way.
ToTheLastDrop
I'm not anti-establishment, leading is filled with difficult no-win situations. It's the massive corruption that this satirizes that I mind.
rickybobbyis1
What corruption? Presidents using media and public speaking to influence votes or Bernie Sanders not winning?
ToTheLastDrop
Bailouts protecting campaign donors, domestic spying, unregulated lobbying, rampant voter fraud... 140 characters isn't enough. Google it.
rickybobbyis1
It doesn't seem like the government is trying to be big brother, things just aren't going the way you like so you call it corruption
TheMajesticHarpyEagle
What part of voter fraud and unregulated lobbying do you not get? Or the fact that the congress can vote their own pay up?
NannerMander
All of their movies have been on point social commentary.
frjackhackett
where was the social commentary in bruno?
NannerMander
Satire by nature pushes past reality. Bruno was a satire of the gay man. In 2009. Right as most states were legalizing civil unions/marriage
lyeNarsenic
The child actors bit was pretty frightening. Those parents were so fame/money-hungry.....
frjackhackett
o yea, i'd forgotten about that bit, the parents didn't bat an eye at any of it
JizzOnAllTheThings
Nobody speaks of Bruno. It never happened you didn't see shit
CreamingPies
The do's and don'ts of fashion in Austria
ImguryProne
When the penis was swinging
daletvak
That scene is permanently scarred into my retinas.
thisusernameissorad
i think it was about how absurd some shows has become and how people will do anything to become famoua
frjackhackett
i didn't get any of that out of it, i just saw a load of gay jokes, and people made uncomfortable by an overly gay person
Slander7
I felt like Bruno disproved its own argument. It seemed to be saying that Americans pretend to be tolerant of gays, but there is 1/2
Slander7
rampant underlying homophobia. I don't disagree, but in the movie he goes to ridiculous lengths of blatant sexual harassment to get a 2/2
Slander7
reaction in several of the scenes (like the hotel interview). If you have to go that far, I'm not sure what I'm seeing is intolerance of 3/2
Slander7
homosexuality vs. intolerance of being an asshole. 4/2
Anonsy
Perhaps if that specific racial group didn't commit a disproportionate amount of crimes, there wouldn't be so many in prison.
Hotpocketrocket
Too bad that specific racial group largely lives in poverty and doesn't have much else of a choice
swinglinered
Not much, but it is there.
Jabberwookiez
Just wait, soon more and more people will be in poverty, and the government will begin to wonder why people can't pay taxes.
mottledbear
As someone who grew up in poverty, there is a choice. The odds are stacked heavily against them and it's very easy to screw up, though.
mousemarie94
research. I know everyone can't study it for multiple years, so I'm biased with facts and meta research but it isn't clean cut.
EndersGame
Go do basic criminology research and you'll see why that's not true. Impoverished peoples commit more crimes.
mousemarie94
specifically for low offending drug crime (most in prison for) is just as similar in other racial groups. Please (1/2)
Lilshadow48
It has been shown that black people do commit more crimes, though. Not just low level drug offenses.
mousemarie94
I want to know what research you've been reading. It is true that they get arrested more for crimes committed.
mousemarie94
That is a strikingly different statement than 'black people commit more crime' I only studied criminology for a few years but...no
WillowFox
Only good part of that movie. Also, spot on.
mytola
Yep. I saw it in a packed cinema, and only laughed at this scene. Everyone else laughed all the time, except here. Weird experience...
q118
I found most of the movie funny tbh
jazzglands
Which movie is this from?
DickTertius
The Dictator
ShibiSF
I kind of enjoyed when he fell for the hairy little lesbian.
RedDwarfIV
Not spot on. In America, the black population commits crimes at a disproportionate rate (no, not "because they're black") hence prisons
IATTM
More than one or two aladeens were not spot on. But it does make one aladeen.
DoctorWatchamacallit
its because of poverty primarily.
RedDwarfIV
Also the fatherless homes, but yes. The point is, there is no malevolence on the part of the US government in this, which the pic implies
StarrrryNight
Not quite. I nearly died at the end "Are you having a boy or an abortion" DIED I tells ye
KrakNihilus
So you were having an abortion.
DoctorWatchamacallit
and the whole thing at the beginning with "you are HIV Aladeen" and him using the start pistol to shoot the other people in the foot race
LavaAxe
"I want the one with the fuck-me hooves!" had me in stitches.
FindYourChillMate
The film was pretty terrible but had quite a few awesome lines
swidster
Terrible as in not PC in the slightest, but had a lot of comedic value and is one of the better lampoons on society
swidster
In my opinion at least
206SEA
I'd give it an aladeen rating
somenub755
Twilight had none. Still watched 5 times (although unwillingly).
DaedaIus
I'm still amazed how they took everything about the timeless Chaplin movie, and just threw it out the window to make this crap.
derpiderper
I really disagree, this film deals with the issues people face and did so fantastically. opinions, I guess.
excepttheoneswhoaredead
Holy crap I just realized... is it actually based on The Great Dictator?!
myusernameisfrankdrebin
A truly Aladeen movie
MurdockTheHawk
I mean... there were some Aladeen moments, but for the most part, it was pretty Aladeen.
Pozy
Ah! Someone left the gun on Aladeen instead of Aladeen
ILoveWings
You are HIV Aladeen.
bed1am6666
I thought it was a solid Aladeen/Aladeen
GuardLLama
Okay? https://imgur.com/PhuJmCW
login34
Really? I thought it was really fucking Aladeen man. I respect your opinion though.
GekkouHayate
Glad to see some people cans till be Aladeen in the comments despite holding different Aladeens.
darksamus8
Dude, it was Aladeen as FUCK yo! This was the most Aladeen movie I've ever Aladeened
myusernameisfrankdrebin
Wow! Such an Aladeen attitude, man.
ProvidesYouShittyLinks
the whole US vs. vietnam thing was based on a lie..
rickybobbyis1
What lie? The USSR actively trying to destabilize countries and make aggressive moves against the west?
MrAwesomesauce101
Lie in the sense that the Gulf of Tonkin incident was acted upon with little to no evidence.
rickybobbyis1
They acted to not seem weak and unified in the eyes of the USSR. I don't think the second incident happened, but the response was to aid SV
CultureVulture
Yep, the domino effect was technically accurate, the soviets were funding/arming the North and The Gulf of Tonkin didn't help things either.
rickybobbyis1
I think the domino effect was more of a way for the US to rally support against the USSR who was being an aggressive asshole but youre right
swinglinered
On the Open Sea. How far is that from shore?
rickybobbyis1
the distance doesn't mean they weren't acting like assholes with the intent of furthering their own interests to defeat the west
CultureVulture
I think as it was a North Vietnamese vessel involved, it wasn't about defeating the west and more about legitimising their power in the area
Jocktopus
Would have been easier if we just let South Vietnam relocate, instead of fighting a war in an inhospitable jungle.
rickybobbyis1
Fighting was always a decisive victory for the US except the Tet offensive which was during a cease fire we really lost nam on the homefront
rickybobbyis1
I think relocating would have created more issues instead of directly addressing the real issue at hand.
Jocktopus
We would just have to make sure they didn't all go to the same country, as to avoid a migrant crisis.
ryuotaikun
It seems I don't get the difference between dicatorship and democracy.
HeWhoMustNotBeBlamed
Democracy is the best compromise we can have.
OneZebraInAHerdOfWildebeests
One isn't a hipocacy
ProjectKurtz
Given enough time, a democracy will turn into a dictatorship. Then, armed revolt, and it starts over.
FedericoAstica
In a democracy people can choose their dictators.
MerToo
Some people. Some very few people. You're not one of them. We're all sorry.
xKaraKx
Freedom is slavery
Mayhzon
Arbeit macht frei?
Trumman
Ignorance is strength
heynongman4pres
Work shall set you free
TheTrueBanananik
One works. The other is democracy
PrincessBride1
We don't have a democracy, though, and never have.
Sandyundertones
Democracy is the worst form of Government except for all the others. It is us that is the problem not our leaders.
TheMajesticHarpyEagle
So we have only ourselves to blame
HorseMcFucker
Eldis
You don't seem to understand your government and the election systems very well.
pinecone
One trouble is that power corrupts. Almost anyone we choose will be ruined because they gain power.
Honorius77
Not democracy, institutionally guided mob-rule. We currently dont posses democracy, and likely won't for some time till idiots get educated
AspAspAsp
thats_the_joke.jpg
Zokalwe
Democracy is "yeah yeah, talk as much as you want". Dictatorship is "Shut the fuck up".
freyjaboo
America isn't a democracy...
MerToo
It doesn't matter how many times this gets reposted, the majority of voting Americans won't understand it.
PrincessBride1
I understand it perfectly well. Doesn't change facts.
MerToo
Indeed it doesn't, and even in a weak, corrupt semi-democracy, that would be precisely because you are in the minority.
NomsOnWorlds
I'm glad it isn't. The majority of us aren't exactly know for acting out of careful consideration of cause and effect, but knee jerking.
noyougofuckyourself
You can thank a jacked up education system most are forced to attend.
freyjaboo
If you mean the US YES. Oh my GOD our education system is hellaciously embarrassing
noyougofuckyourself
The U.S, yes. It's like they want us to fail and fill the prisons and battle fields.
freyjaboo
I prefer political and social anarchy. Tribal style.
NomsOnWorlds
The inner city might just have what you're looking for.
freyjaboo
Not surprised that you don't actually know what tribal anarchy is. I'm not going to bother with you then.
ParanoidWithGoodCause
it's a really simple: any system invented by humans can be broken just as easily by the same ingenuity that created it in the first place.
jimthe70yearoldfarmer
That is why we should employ AIs to run our world. But NOo, cause that bitch Sarah O'Conner had to jangle everyone's tits about computers.
ParanoidWithGoodCause
all that talk about wiping out humanity, as if that were a BAD thing