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The Morning Rant
If you have been to a major top-shelf university or research institution’s graduation ceremony in the last two decades, one thing that dramatically stands out is how many People’s Republic of China (PRC) nationals are receiving not just undergraduate degrees, but master’s degrees and PhDs in the most highly skilled STEM fields from biostatistics to quantum physics. From aerospace engineering to industrial design—PRC nationals are overrepresented to an outlandish degree. Don’t forget, these are the places basic research starts, where the future technology is developed. This is also a zero-sum game with a finite number of positions. For each PRC national who is getting a PhD in a STEM field, that is one American who is not. They either don’t go, or have to find a lower-tier university to go to.
And sadly, our own government subsidizes this fifth column in the midst of our technological research! Read the whole thing...CDR Salamander is always worth a read, and this essay is particularly on point. America First must be all-encompassing, and must enter every facet of our society to be effective. Obviously our universities are savagely anti-American, but the fact that they are also pro-China should be a bridge too far. That China is assiduously working to further its own interests is normal. That America has so far not done anything like what the Chinese are doing is a sad commentary on how deeply the academic attitude of "America Last" has penetrated into our entire research effort. The fix is simple: reserve 90% of all publicly funded academics for American citizens. Will we lose some bright foreign students? Absolutely. But the net benefit will dwarf what we are currently losing to the rest of the world. [Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter]. If you folks who are on X/Twitter would follow us it would be much appreciated!
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: rickb223 at February 17, 2026 11:00 AM (idVxd)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 17, 2026 11:01 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Nazdar at February 17, 2026 11:01 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Lizzy at February 17, 2026 11:01 AM (tj6OY)
Posted by: rickb223 at February 17, 2026 11:01 AM (idVxd)
Posted by: Crusader at February 17, 2026 11:01 AM (TN0g+)
And that's saying something!
Posted by: The State Department, CIA, and Media Complex at February 17, 2026 11:03 AM (PM/iv)
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at February 17, 2026 11:03 AM (MNCvZ)
The original idea was that we would be educating the B and B from around the world, and that exposure to America would ensure they'd be friendly to us as they moved into the higher echelons of government back home. Obviously, if the university tells them nothing but "America sux" that will have an impact.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 17, 2026 11:03 AM (Riz8t)
That's two problems solved at once.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 17, 2026 11:04 AM (8DR9B)
Posted by: NR Pax at February 17, 2026 11:04 AM (lXoJ5)
Chinaman and Sis or Daughter working at Uni steals cancer research, paid for with US tax dollar and ships back to China.
China is asshoe.
Posted by: r hennigantx at February 17, 2026 11:04 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Crusader at February 17, 2026 11:04 AM (TN0g+)
And that's saying something!
Posted by: The State Department, CIA, and Media Complex at February 17, 2026 11:03 AM (PM/iv)
I am actually laughing. Shouldn't be, but it's true.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 17, 2026 11:04 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 17, 2026 11:04 AM (jc0TO)
You can't criticize that because it's part of their culture.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 17, 2026 11:05 AM (8DR9B)
Not just theft, but destroying trust in research.
Have read about all the fake research papers published, then later withdrawn. Meanwhile, they've muddied the water on that topic. Chines penchant for cheating is destroying academia. Anyone who doesn't cheat loses out, so why bother?
Posted by: Lizzy at February 17, 2026 11:05 AM (tj6OY)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 17, 2026 11:05 AM (6jv/d)
Posted by: NR Pax at February 17, 2026 11:04 AM (lXoJ5)
In general china does not seem to respect anyone- that's why they bleed everyone dry.
Ever notice that non-roman descent countries are kind of raging assholes?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 17, 2026 11:05 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 17, 2026 11:05 AM (6jv/d)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 17, 2026 11:05 AM (8DR9B)
Exactly, thieves.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 17, 2026 11:06 AM (bss/y)
One is funded by the PRC and subsidized by our gov't, the other is on his own.
Posted by: t-bird at February 17, 2026 11:06 AM (E/qck)
Posted by: Crusader at February 17, 2026 11:04 AM (TN0g+)
WHAT!?!?!
Next you'll be telling me that Abe Vigoda is no longer with us.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 17, 2026 11:06 AM (6jv/d)
How is that America First? He's protecting universities?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 17, 2026 11:06 AM (RIvkX)
Next you'll be telling me that Abe Vigoda is no longer with us.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 17, 2026 11:06 AM (6jv/d)
Franco? Kaput.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 17, 2026 11:07 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 17, 2026 11:07 AM (bss/y)
Unfortunately academia is one thing the Republicans won't go after. Why? Because a lot of government money is dumped into their district ms for Big University ™. They aren't destroying that pot o gold
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 17, 2026 11:07 AM (Ggsrp)
Posted by: Bulg at February 17, 2026 11:07 AM (77rzZ)
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"Math be rayciss, yo! 2+2=5."
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist at February 17, 2026 11:07 AM (5FL4d)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at February 17, 2026 11:08 AM (xvV+O)
Obviously our universities are savagely anti-American, but the fact that they are also pro-China should be a bridge too far.
They are pro-paying customers.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 17, 2026 11:08 AM (Cqx++)
Sadly, I think sports is not much further down the list in terms of being anti-American and just outright poisonous. Big professional leagues have long been captured and corrupted. That's trickled down all the way to Pee Wee leagues.
And don't get me started on the Olympics. I can't wait for this fuckfest to be over. I want to go back to never hearing about these insufferable gay douchebags and all their stupid psychodramas and perverted ideologies.
I feel bad for the (few?) athletes who train hard, go to the games to compete and represent their country, and aren't filthy commies and cocksuckers.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 17, 2026 11:08 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Zombie Don LaFontaine at February 17, 2026 11:08 AM (ZJT0I)
You can't criticize that because it's part of their culture.
Posted by: Cicero
Watch me.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 17, 2026 11:08 AM (idVxd)
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Before or after the burning at the stake?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 17, 2026 11:09 AM (FXNzP)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 17, 2026 11:09 AM (zjgNU)
Posted by: Archimedes at February 17, 2026 11:09 AM (Riz8t)
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Before or after the burning at the stake?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 17, 2026 11:09 AM
*golf clap*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 17, 2026 11:09 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: Archimedes
I've been wondering that, too. Hope his appointment went well.
Posted by: Bulg at February 17, 2026 11:10 AM (77rzZ)
Joint Ventures. Basically you had to "partner" with a Chinese automaker if you wanted access to Chinese markets. Lots of cash made by outside automakers while the Chinese stole all the IP/tech and learned how to build cars/engines /transmission etc. the whole supply chain.
Now, it's turned into a big issue. Chinese market is dwindling as BYD/GEELY/Great Wall etc are satisfying the domestic market in China. That battery tech and cars from BYD? How do you think they jumped ahead so far so fast? All stolen tech/IP.
We sold the Commies the rope they now hang us with.
Posted by: GigantorX at February 17, 2026 11:10 AM (hcqE+)
Posted by: Crusader
Who is the third?
Robert Duvall, Jesse Jackson & ????
Nancy Pelosi for 100 quatloos.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 17, 2026 11:10 AM (idVxd)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 17, 2026 11:11 AM (0KSrI)
American students in China number approximately 1,200 as of mid-2025, according to recent reports. This represents a sharp decline from a peak of nearly 25,000 a decade ago.
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist at February 17, 2026 11:11 AM (5FL4d)
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Even when academia wasn't so anti-American this didn't work so well. Sayyid Qutb and Isoroku Yamamoto come to mind.
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at February 17, 2026 11:11 AM (0bjKf)
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Throw her to the lions! Her and Mooch both!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 17, 2026 11:12 AM (FXNzP)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 17, 2026 11:07 AM (bss/y)
I believe that should be:
"In other news, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead."
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 17, 2026 11:12 AM (zjgNU)
Robert Duvall, Jesse Jackson & ????
Nancy Pelosi for 100 quatloos.
Posted by: rickb223
Jackson was the third, after Duvall and Bud Cort, who died last week.
Posted by: Bulg at February 17, 2026 11:12 AM (77rzZ)
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Before or after the burning at the stake?
"Saint Joan" or "Saint Crispin'"?
Posted by: t-bird at February 17, 2026 11:14 AM (E/qck)
Joint Ventures. Basically you had to "partner" with a Chinese automaker if you wanted access to Chinese markets. Lots of cash made by outside automakers while the Chinese stole all the IP/tech and learned how to build cars/engines /transmission etc. the whole supply chain.
Now, it's turned into a big issue. Chinese market is dwindling as BYD/GEELY/Great Wall etc are satisfying the domestic market in China. That battery tech and cars from BYD? How do you think they jumped ahead so far so fast? All stolen tech/IP.
We sold the Commies the rope they now hang us with.
Posted by: GigantorX at February 17, 2026 11:10 AM (hcqE+)
Our "elites" are the most stupid, shortsighted rulers our culture has ever had.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 17, 2026 11:14 AM (zjgNU)
*ahem*
May 5, 2018
Condola Rashad [Phylicia Rashad's daughter]stars in St. Joan on Broadway and tells NPR's Scott Simon that Joan of Arc will always be fascinating as a woman who did what she believed and led thousands of soldiers to victory. . .
That's Condola Rashad as The Maid of Orleans, who was burned as a witch but became a saint. The Manhattan Theatre Club production has opened at the Samuel Friedman Theatre. It's directed by Daniel Sullivan. Condola Rashad has been nominated for four Tony Awards, including this year for "St. Joan."
Posted by: Lizzy at February 17, 2026 11:14 AM (tj6OY)
Posted by: ShainS
________
Dostoyevsky - “I agree that two times two makes four is an excellent thing; but if we are dispensing praise, then two times two makes five is sometimes a most charming little thing as well.”
But what he meant by that is also not being taught by the universities.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 17, 2026 11:14 AM (XvL8K)
"Solution": stop asking "migrants" if they have tickets.
Yeah, you can't make this up.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 17, 2026 11:14 AM (IG3/x)
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell
Given his stance against the policies he was forced to carry out, Yamamoto almost proves the point. Qutb, well, barbarians gotta barbarian.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at February 17, 2026 11:15 AM (OUMaO)
So: named after the condo where she was conceived or the failed condom that was responsible?
Place your bets.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 17, 2026 11:16 AM (IG3/x)
Posted by: GigantorX at February 17, 2026 11:10 AM (hcqE+)
Our "elites" are the most stupid, shortsighted rulers our culture has ever had.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 17, 2026 11:14 AM (zjgNU)
Well, yeah. This was always the problem with the post USSR worldview of economics being the only thing.
You do not just have a manufacturing base, or a food base or a raw materials base to be able to satisfy home demand- you maintain that so you are not fucked if you fo to war with your suppliers.
We have had the biggest bunch of retards making decisions at every level for the past 40 years. Well... probably more like 60.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 17, 2026 11:16 AM (bss/y)
How do you think they jumped ahead so far so fast? All stolen tech/IP.
We sold the Commies the rope they now hang us with.
Posted by: GigantorX at February 17, 2026 11:10 AM (hcqE+)
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* The Treasonous Bubba Clinton and His BFF Bernard Schwartz (former CEO and chairman of Loral Space & Communications) have entered the chat *
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist at February 17, 2026 11:17 AM (5FL4d)
Well, regardless of how the results from my appointment turn out (they said it could be a few days), at least I get to see a post-Jesse Jackson world.
Posted by: XTC at February 17, 2026 08:09 AM (6Uni
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 17, 2026 11:18 AM (6jv/d)
So, how did that Oxford resolution on support work out for England again?
Posted by: man at February 17, 2026 11:18 AM (cGjQu)
Robert Duvall, Jesse Jackson & ????
Nancy Pelosi for 100 quatloos.
Hollywood.
We just made a $200,000,000 AI movie in just one day. Yes, this is 100% AI.
https://is.gd/gnzd8g
Posted by: Archimedes at February 17, 2026 11:18 AM (Riz8t)
THIS
Posted by: Lizzy at February 17, 2026 11:18 AM (tj6OY)
Posted by: NR Pax at February 17, 2026 11:04 AM (lXoJ5)
In general china does not seem to respect anyone- that's why they bleed everyone dry.
Ever notice that non-roman descent countries are kind of raging assholes?
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Godless countries tend to behave in Godless ways.
Posted by: Crusader at February 17, 2026 11:18 AM (TN0g+)
Posted by: man at February 17, 2026 11:19 AM (cGjQu)
So: named after the condo where she was conceived or the failed condom that was responsible?
Place your bets.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 17, 2026 11:16 AM (IG3/x)
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I'm old enough to remember Bobby Moore, Lew Alcindor, and Cassius Clay.
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist at February 17, 2026 11:19 AM (5FL4d)
Posted by: GigantorX at February 17, 2026 11:10 AM (hcqE+)
Our "elites" are the most stupid, shortsighted rulers our culture has ever had.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 17, 2026 11:14 AM (zjgNU)
I should note that statement is quite connected to the article today because our "elites" were TRAINED to be this stupid.
They were taught that (1) everything wrong in the world is because of Western Civilzation (broadly) or the United States (specifically) and (2) that every culture is better than Western culture.
So, they think that these other cultures OF COURSE would not try to manipulate them because they are better than we are.
And now China is eating our lunch because of how stupid the elites have been trained to be.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 17, 2026 11:19 AM (zjgNU)
Posted by: man
They got the comma?
Posted by: Bulg at February 17, 2026 11:19 AM (77rzZ)
They sure don't respect animals (thinking of the dog-related tweet from last thread). They don't even value human life - look at how they treat each other/their leaders treat the people.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 17, 2026 11:20 AM (tj6OY)
Bit too old for playing Joan of Arc as well. I think people who are playing actual historical characters should be the ethnicity of the actual person.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 17, 2026 11:20 AM (ix8EF)
Posted by: DaveA at February 17, 2026 11:21 AM (FhXTo)
The cars? I'm unimpressed. Bigly.
Posted by: man at February 17, 2026 11:19 AM (cGjQu)
Yeah, their quality control has been shit for... 40 years and has never improved. Commies.
This is why I'd still bet on Japan in a war. Japan supplied anything? Top tier. If there is ANY issue, they immediately replace, no questions asked (this is across multiple industries I have worked.) And there is hardly ever an issue. They are just better.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 17, 2026 11:21 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Lizzy
But they make bank on those stupid giant pandas.
Posted by: Bulg at February 17, 2026 11:21 AM (77rzZ)
The issue is this has been gone for how long and there will just be more 'hearings' if there's enough new PR.
During C19, hammered into the ground. Lockdowns lifted, issue forgotten. And it arose well before C19 and looks like it'll keep on riding long afterwards.
It's all about $. And the fact that we're not daring enough to reign it in before we're being reprogrammed like the Uighurs.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 17, 2026 11:22 AM (NFX2v)
Dogs VS muslims
https://instapundit.com/776865/#disqus_thread
If there's one thing alone, that proves the unfitness of muslims in Our Society, it's this.
I mean, there's plenty to choose from, rape, jihad, etc, but this peculiarity is the muslim's alone.
They need to leave and to live in the comfort of their 13th century society.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 17, 2026 11:22 AM (iJfKG)
They sure don't respect animals (thinking of the dog-related tweet from last thread). They don't even value human life - look at how they treat each other/their leaders treat the people.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 17, 2026 11:20 AM (tj6OY)
Their leadership believe the Earth is theirs to do whatever they want with it. Just look at the pillaging they're doing in the seas off the African coast.
They had contemplated going to the moon. Any attempt of China landing on the moon should be shot down at launch.
They will destroy it, and Earth along with it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 17, 2026 11:22 AM (6jv/d)
>In general china does not seem to respect anyone- that's why they bleed everyone dry.
Consider China to be a nation inhabited by locusts and everything else falls into place.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 17, 2026 11:23 AM (xG4kz)
They had contemplated going to the moon. Any attempt of China landing on the moon should be shot down at launch.
They will destroy it, and Earth along with it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 17, 2026 11:22 AM (6jv/d)
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All Under Heaven.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 17, 2026 11:23 AM (GBKbO)
Of course not. The tribe matters, not the individual.
The triumph of the west was the elevation of the individual, with rights and obligations.
That candle is going out.
Posted by: man at February 17, 2026 11:23 AM (cGjQu)
https://is.gd/gnzd8g
Posted by: Archimedes at February 17, 2026 11:18 AM (Riz8t)
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Interesting and cartoonish.
For our lawyers here: how can they use the likenesses of Kash Patel and President Trump sans their permission and/or financial compensation?
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist at February 17, 2026 11:23 AM (5FL4d)
MUNKEY
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 17, 2026 11:23 AM (kTyBw)
I was wondering about that as well.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 17, 2026 11:24 AM (ix8EF)
Old news, not surprising.
https://tinyurl.com/EvilsAdvantageOverConscience
... It is this force inside the psyche of his enemies that the person without a conscience can so effectively enlist as a fifth column ...
What fools these mortals be? what fresh hell?
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at February 17, 2026 11:25 AM (68yTU)
Somewhat related: Local botanic garden has an orchid show ever winter. It is fabulous, so many colors and varieties. They hype it, do plant sales, photography contest; it's a big event. Change in leadership at the botanic garden in the past year. Orchid show was crap, mostly the varieties you see at the local grocery store, didn't fill half the planters, no photo contest, less hype. But, hey, look at their big celebration of the Chinese new year and Chinese craft market right next to the pathetic orchid show! Priorities changed, bigly.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 17, 2026 11:25 AM (tj6OY)
There are large portions of the country (think Beijing) where it's just under one, at 0.9.
But, reported births at Chinese hospitals show only 15 million kids under 2 right now. Out of a country supposedly with 1.4 billion.
The population collapse started a couple of decades ago. They're just in the middle of it.
Hard to project power when most of your population is old like that.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 17, 2026 11:25 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 17, 2026 11:05 AM (bss/y)
EVERY culture is like that, except those influenced by Christianity. Most people who grew up in a culture still handing on to Christian influence have no idea how foreign pagan culture truly is.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 17, 2026 11:25 AM (zjgNU)
In general china does not seem to respect anyone- that's why they bleed everyone dry.
But we can't let them lose face.
Face face face.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 17, 2026 11:26 AM (Cqx++)
Robert Duvall, Jesse Jackson & ????
Nancy Pelosi for 100 quatloos.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 17, 2026 11:10 AM (idVxd)
Logically, Dustin Hoffman is next, penciled in for next February, since their other old roommate Gene Hackman died last February.
Posted by: SciVo at February 17, 2026 11:26 AM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: ShainS
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I don't know. Appropriation of name or likeness is one of the four torts within invasion of privacy.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 17, 2026 11:26 AM (XvL8K)
Robert Duvall, Jesse Jackson & ????
Nancy Pelosi for 100 quatloos.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 17, 2026 11:10 AM (idVxd)
Logically, Dustin Hoffman is next, penciled in for next February, since their other old roommate Gene Hackman died last February.
Posted by: SciVo at February 17, 2026 11:26 AM (Sy6m/)
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Has to be out of nowhere.
Shia Labeouf was just arrested in New Orleans for battery. Maybe he'll get shivved in prison.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 17, 2026 11:26 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: And nothing of value was lost at February 17, 2026 11:27 AM (TbWk/)
So: named after the condo where she was conceived or the failed condom that was responsible?
Place your bets.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 17, 2026 11:16 AM (IG3/x)
Filistine! I named her after one of those cute boats in Penis.
Posted by: Phylicia at February 17, 2026 11:27 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 17, 2026 11:05 AM (bss/y)
Not just every person. The are trying to do that with the fish in the ocean.
I saw in the article today that our state department is trying to do something about it, but China's overfishing is an ACTUAL threat to human existence, unlike "Climate Change".
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 17, 2026 11:27 AM (zjgNU)
Shia Labeouf was just arrested in New Orleans for battery. Maybe he'll get shivved in prison.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 17, 2026 11:26 AM (GBKbO)
The 4chan owning of LaBoof should've ended his existence once and for all.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 17, 2026 11:27 AM (6jv/d)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 17, 2026 11:20 AM (ix8EF)
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Next you'll be telling me that someone will portray Jesus as a black female gay tranny.
Wait, wut?
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist at February 17, 2026 11:27 AM (5FL4d)
But, reported births at Chinese hospitals show only 15 million kids under 2 right now. Out of a country supposedly with 1.4 billion.
The population collapse started a couple of decades ago. They're just in the middle of it.
AI is the force multiplier.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 17, 2026 11:27 AM (Cqx++)
"Self reported" = "not worth spit"
Posted by: man at February 17, 2026 11:27 AM (cGjQu)
Posted by: man at February 17, 2026 11:28 AM (cGjQu)
Jesse Jackson's dead.
Posted by: And nothing of value was lost at February 17, 2026 11:27 AM (TbWk/)
No, no,-no-no
He's outside
looking in!
Posted by: Zombie Moody Blues at February 17, 2026 11:29 AM (iJfKG)
"Self reported" = "not worth spit"
Posted by: man at February 17, 2026 11:27 AM (cGjQu)
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And then I go on to explain how it's probably much lower than that.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 17, 2026 11:29 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Archimedes at February 17, 2026 11:29 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 17, 2026 11:29 AM (Cqx++)
"Self reported" = "not worth spit"
Posted by: man
You'd think they'd report that they're well above replacement birth rate.
Posted by: Bulg at February 17, 2026 11:29 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 17, 2026 11:27 AM (6jv/d)
still one of the greatest things that ever happened on th einternet
and i include pron in that discussion....
Posted by: Sturmtoddler at February 17, 2026 11:29 AM (v6XNT)
He's another abused child star, though in his case think I read that it started with his parents? Grew up in a weird commune. Dude has been struggling for years, turned to Christianity, appeared to be on a new path. Another Hollywood casualty.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 17, 2026 11:30 AM (tj6OY)
still one of the greatest things that ever happened on th einternet
and i include pron in that discussion....
Posted by: Sturmtoddler at February 17, 2026 11:29 AM (v6XNT)
I agree.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 17, 2026 11:30 AM (6jv/d)
Posted by: Lizzy at February 17, 2026 11:30 AM (tj6OY)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 17, 2026 11:26 AM (GBKbO)
The 4chan owning of LaBoof should've ended his existence once and for all.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 17, 2026 11:27 AM (6jv/d)
For all that is wrong with that guy, he is no Alec Baldwin. Yet. I guess.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 17, 2026 11:30 AM (dK+Kv)
You'd think they'd report that they're well above replacement birth rate.
Posted by: Bulg at February 17, 2026 11:29 AM (77rzZ)
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Their numbers are probably inflated.
Heavily.
They may have less than a billion people total. Their replacement rate is probably .7-.9 across the whole nation. And Xi is purging generals on pretty much a weekly basis now.
Contain China for the next twenty years, then ignore it as a backwater.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 17, 2026 11:30 AM (GBKbO)
They will destroy it, and Earth along with it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 17, 2026 11:22 AM (6jv/d)
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If anyone is going to fake the Moon landing, it'll be the Chinese.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 17, 2026 11:31 AM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 17, 2026 11:30 AM (dK+Kv)
He's well on his way, tho.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 17, 2026 11:31 AM (6jv/d)
Posted by: Lizzy
They named him "Shia," so yeah.
Posted by: Bulg at February 17, 2026 11:31 AM (77rzZ)
"Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory" -- Shameless Politico THUG, Nancy Pelosi'09 in Red China.
Remember who did this:
"to leave now we would send a message to terrorists and other potential adversaries around the world that they can change our policies by killing our people. It would be open season on Americans."
-- Bill Clinton '93 just before he pulled out of Somalia.
To abandon this area now -- and to rely only on efforts against alQaeda from a distance -- would significantly hamper our ability to keep the pressure on al Qaeda, and create an UNACCEPTABLE RISK of additional attacks on our homeland and our allies.
-- OBAMA'09 after doing PRECISELY THAT
But I always promised the American people that I will be straight with you. (riteo) ... This is not in our national security interest. -- JOE BIDEN's retreat from Afghanistan and first capitulation to a Lesser Evil.
What is the vital national interest? -- IceKing Joe
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at February 17, 2026 11:31 AM (68yTU)
CD has a new one on Ezra Miller, who appears to be legitimately insane. Pity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t6gFJCpI50
Posted by: Archimedes at February 17, 2026 11:31 AM (Riz8t)
If anyone is going to fake the Moon landing, it'll be the Chinese.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 17, 2026 11:31 AM (ESVrU)
True, but every attempt should be met with major hacking and complete detonation upon liftoff.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 17, 2026 11:31 AM (6jv/d)
The population collapse started a couple of decades ago. They're just in the middle of it.
AI is the force multiplier.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 17, 2026 11:27 AM (Cqx++)
This could be a good thing. Reap as you sow.
I am all out of fucks.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 17, 2026 11:32 AM (bss/y)
He's outside.
Looking in.
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Perhaps he's on the downside...looking up?
Posted by: Alan Parsons at February 17, 2026 11:33 AM (TN0g+)
I'm guessing the "something" doesn't involve Los Angeles-class fast attack submarines?
No point in wasting a Virginia-class on a bunch of fishing boats.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 17, 2026 11:33 AM (IG3/x)
Posted by: fourseasons at February 17, 2026 11:33 AM (3ek7K)
He's outside.
Looking in.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
It was touch and go for a while, but he's stable now.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 17, 2026 11:33 AM (idVxd)
Shia Labeouf was just arrested in New Orleans for battery. Maybe he'll get shivved in prison.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 17, 2026 11:26 AM (GBKbO)
To fit the Rule of Three, the third has to be someone of near-equal standing to the first two. Shia is so many tiers down, mathematicians use the number as shorthand for infinity.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 17, 2026 11:33 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Sponge
Sum Ting Wong
Wi Tu Lo
Bing Dang Ow
Posted by: Bulg at February 17, 2026 11:33 AM (77rzZ)
Can't wait for the new St Crispin's day speech...
"Hey, who says we need more s...? We gots some serious pipe hitt'n n...., and we gonna f... their s.... up. "
Inspired, huh?
Posted by: man at February 17, 2026 11:34 AM (cGjQu)
Sum Ting Wong
Wi Tu Lo
Bing Dang Ow
Posted by: Bulg at February 17, 2026 11:33 AM (77rzZ)
Ho. Lee. Fuk.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 17, 2026 11:34 AM (6jv/d)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 17, 2026 11:05 AM (bss/y)
Not just every person. The are trying to do that with the fish in the ocean.
I saw in the article today that our state department is trying to do something about it, but China's overfishing is an ACTUAL threat to human existence, unlike "Climate Change".
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 17, 2026 11:27 AM (zjgNU)
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One of the speculations for Trump's motive in controlling Greenland is that there's a 230-mile Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) extending from its coastline (over 27,000 miles of it), and Chinese fishing fleets have been intruding upon and overfishing that territory without any regard to the future.
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist at February 17, 2026 11:34 AM (5FL4d)
Wi Tu Lo
Bing Dang Ow
--
4chan and Shia's flag may be the best thing to ever happen on the internet, but this is the greatest prank ever pulled on the news media.
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at February 17, 2026 11:35 AM (0bjKf)
CD has a new one on Ezra Miller, who appears to be legitimately insane. Pity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t6gFJCpI50
Posted by: Archimedes at February 17, 2026 11:31 AM (Riz8t)
He might be a genetic schizophrenic, since he was the right age for that when he started going kookoobananas.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 17, 2026 11:35 AM (iJfKG)
Wi Tu Lo
Bing Dang Ow
Posted by: Bulg at February 17, 2026 11:33 AM (77rzZ)
Ho. Lee. Fuk.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 17, 2026 11:34 AM (6jv/d)
Wi Dun Nao
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 17, 2026 11:35 AM (dK+Kv)
He's outside.
Looking in.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
I always liked Outside by Staind. In general, I like Aaron Lewis' stuff.
https://tinyurl.com/3fj5dvts
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 17, 2026 11:35 AM (bss/y)
4chan and Shia's flag may be the best thing to ever happen on the internet, but this is the greatest prank ever pulled on the news media.
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at February 17, 2026 11:35 AM (0bjKf)
I want to by that kid a beer.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 17, 2026 11:36 AM (6jv/d)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 17, 2026 11:36 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: fourseasons at February 17, 2026 11:33 AM (3ek7K)
those hatians aren't getting screwed for free...
Posted by: Sturmtoddler at February 17, 2026 11:37 AM (v6XNT)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 17, 2026 11:27 AM (zjgNU)
An interesting question is - IF China has a smaller than reported population and IF China has a birthrate so far below replacement then why is China overfishing everywhere?
Have they completely destroyed the waters around China?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 17, 2026 11:37 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: naturalfake at February 17, 2026 11:35 AM (iJfKG)
Probably the sexual abuse by hollyweirds did not help.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 17, 2026 11:37 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 17, 2026 11:36 AM (XV/Pl)
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*cuts through bathroom door with an axe*
I'm looking for Johnny.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 17, 2026 11:37 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 17, 2026 11:37 AM (dK+Kv)
Basically you had to "partner" with a Chinese automaker if you wanted access to Chinese markets.
Even if the ChiComs allowed Western firms proper access to the Chinese market, that market isn't nearly as large as Western "elites" from Hahvahd think it is. It's about 400M or so people on the Eastern coast of China, if that. The other 1B or so Chinese consumers are illiterate rural peasants who live in huts without running water or electricity and think that public sanitation means that you shit in the street rather than in a corner of your mud hut.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 17, 2026 11:37 AM (kTyBw)
Have they completely destroyed the waters around China?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 17, 2026 11:37 AM (ExV1e)
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Well, that's certainly not possible because communists love Mother Earth and would never harm her unlike nasty capitalists.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 17, 2026 11:37 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: fourseasons at February 17, 2026 11:38 AM (3ek7K)
It's probably not really "zero-sum". The PRC grad students who come in occupy a position that was created by a grant (NSF, DOE, NRL/ARL, whoever) to the university and, given how The World seems to work these days, it's a safe assumption that if that post weren't designed to be given to a Chinese national with the bill footed in part or in full by the PRC itself in the first place, then that position simply would not exist because the grant would not exist. They're here because the people who got them here got paid, one way or another, to get them here.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 17, 2026 11:39 AM (06Hmj)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 17, 2026 11:36 AM (XV/Pl)
Spoken like a man who has sat back and allowed Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of his precious bodily fluids.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 17, 2026 11:39 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Common Tater at February 17, 2026 11:39 AM (BLawi)
Posted by: man at February 17, 2026 11:40 AM (cGjQu)
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Counseling under 18 yo girls on proper life choices, no doubt. Plus handies.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 17, 2026 11:40 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: r hennigantx at February 17, 2026 11:40 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: r hennigantx at February 17, 2026 11:40 AM (gbOdA)
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Big, if true.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 17, 2026 11:40 AM (GBKbO)
We tried. Not working out so well for us....
/Volkswagen
Posted by: man at February 17, 2026 11:41 AM (cGjQu)
I'm looking for Johnny.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 17, 2026 11:37 AM (GBKbO)
I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave.
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at February 17, 2026 11:41 AM (0bjKf)
Are we sure? Somebody perpetrate a race hoax and watch if he twitches.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 17, 2026 11:37 AM (dK+Kv)
Oh crap, is it racist if I refer to his malignant spirit haunting the earth as a "shade"?
I think it might be...
Oh well. Damage done. Live and learn.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 17, 2026 11:41 AM (06Hmj)
Big, if true.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 17, 2026 11:40 AM (GBKbO)
In before the 'nothing will happen' guy.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 17, 2026 11:41 AM (6jv/d)
Posted by: Bulg at February 17, 2026 11:41 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: r hennigantx at February 17, 2026 11:40 AM (gbOdA)
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Big, if true.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 17, 2026 11:40 AM (GBKbO)
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"Oh, it's true"
-- The Paolo
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 17, 2026 11:42 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 17, 2026 11:33 AM (8zz6B)
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Put me down for the murderer of Natalie Wood, Robert Wagner.
[I listened to an audiobook of Rob Lowe's autobiography -- he became more conservative with age -- and he tells a funny story where he's at some large Hollyweird get-together and sitting at a table are Robert Wagner, Cary Grant, and Prince Rainier III of Monaco. Wagner waves him over and invites him to join them.
Awkward. After he gets up to leave, he hears Wagner turn to the other two and say something like "Gentlemen, you DO realize that that young man has likely slept with each of our daughters?"]
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist at February 17, 2026 11:42 AM (5FL4d)
Posted by: man at February 17, 2026 11:42 AM (cGjQu)
147
Big, if true.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 17, 2026 11:40 AM (GBKbO)
In before the 'nothing will happen' guy.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 17, 2026 11:41 AM (6jv/d)
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I have been assured that Pam Bondi is refusing the allow Harmeet Dhillon to do her job in suing jurisdictions to clean up their voter rolls because it will interfere with Bondi's interview time on Fox.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 17, 2026 11:42 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 17, 2026 11:37 AM (GBKbO)
True enough. Just look at the way the Sovs used to responsibly dispose of their decommissioned sub reactors by dumping them into the Arctic Ocean whole.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 17, 2026 11:43 AM (IG3/x)
An interesting question is - IF China has a smaller than reported population and IF China has a birthrate so far below replacement then why is China overfishing everywhere?
Have they completely destroyed the waters around China?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 17, 2026 11:37 AM (ExV1e)
Probably a combination of that and the asshoe idea that if they are going to overfish, might as well do it in someone else's backyard.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 17, 2026 11:43 AM (kTyBw)
Back in the day we hanged spies. But then we got all squishy and stuff. Of course if there was enough money in it our own people would just sell our secrets to them. Won't let us hang them either. This kinda stuff should be handled by the CIA, that's what we pay them for.
Posted by: Case at February 17, 2026 11:43 AM (j6kTf)
Posted by: r hennigantx at February 17, 2026 11:40 AM (gbOdA)
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Wow, that low?
/
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist at February 17, 2026 11:43 AM (5FL4d)
True enough. Just look at the way the Sovs used to responsibly dispose of their decommissioned sub reactors by dumping them into the Arctic Ocean whole.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 17, 2026 11:43 AM (IG3/x)
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"Your source is untrustworthy! Also, capitalism kills hundreds of millions of people a year!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 17, 2026 11:43 AM (GBKbO)
You don't go to church, so you can be forgiven not knowing.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 17, 2026 11:43 AM (zdLoL)
Posted by: man at February 17, 2026 11:43 AM (cGjQu)
I have been assured that Pam Bondi is refusing the allow Harmeet Dhillon to do her job in suing jurisdictions to clean up their voter rolls because it will interfere with Bondi's interview time on Fox.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 17, 2026 11:42 AM (GBKbO)
That holds water.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 17, 2026 11:43 AM (6jv/d)
Posted by: fourseasons at February 17, 2026 11:33 AM (3ek7K)
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I mean, there are only dozens of pics of Bill Clinton sleazing his way across the island, in hot tubs, with girls on his lap, etc.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 17, 2026 11:44 AM (iFTx/)
I saw the article about protests in Iran and how they needed guns. I thought 'What if every american donated just one gun?'
This then lead to a mental image of the old African Food donation ads and a guy walking by Iranian kids trying to beat a Iranian Guardsman to death with a stick and the spokesperson stopping to hand them a 1911. 'Each donation of one firearm-' *gunshot in background* '-will be matched by our generous sponsors. Won't you help?'
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 17, 2026 11:44 AM (bss/y)
>>*cuts through bathroom door with an axe* I'm looking for Johnny.
I mean, does anyone make films today that could be said to be Kubrikian?
Are there Kubrickian Memes?
Do Zoomers even know who Kubrick is?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 17, 2026 11:44 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 17, 2026 11:42 AM
Don't you have some movies that need reviewing?
Posted by: Pam Bondi's Social Media Director at February 17, 2026 11:44 AM (0sNs1)
And Tenure! Why, that will protect professors from political retribution for unpopular speech. They told us it would.
The professors rolled over faster than anything yet seen, Tenure fell faster than the Maginot line. Not a peep from anybody, near as I can tell.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 17, 2026 11:44 AM (BLawi)
"No, you frivolous buttmunches, it's 'Jeanne D'arc". I swear, somewhere out there there's a thousand typewriters missing their monkeys...."
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 17, 2026 11:45 AM (06Hmj)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 17, 2026 11:40 AM (Dv3i1)
How the hell was I supposed to know she was 13?
She looked 15, at least.
Posted by: William Jefferson Clenis at February 17, 2026 11:45 AM (IG3/x)
Are there Kubrickian Memes?
Do Zoomers even know who Kubrick is?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 17, 2026 11:44 AM (XV/Pl)
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Nolan and Paul Thomas Anderson both make Kubrickian films. Park Chan-wook makes Kubrickian films.
Yes, the memes are alive. For any filmmaker who died 30 years ago, Kubrick is still surprisingly alive in the cultural consciousness.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 17, 2026 11:45 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Pam Bondi's Social Media Director at February 17, 2026 11:44 AM (0sNs1)
He's probably preparing to get his Kubrick rankings wrong.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 17, 2026 11:46 AM (ExV1e)
Don't you have some movies that need reviewing?
Posted by: Pam Bondi's Social Media Director at February 17, 2026 11:44 AM (0sNs1)
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Honestly?
Just waiting for my microphone to charge.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 17, 2026 11:46 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Pam Bondi's Social Media Director
Like and subscribe!
Posted by: Bulg at February 17, 2026 11:46 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 17, 2026 11:46 AM (ExV1e)
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How can a definitive ranking be wrong?
It's right there in the title! Definitive!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 17, 2026 11:46 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 17, 2026 11:47 AM (6jv/d)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 17, 2026 11:44 AM
Since TJM refuses to review my movies, they don't know who I am, either.
Fortunately, thanks to my die-hard AoSHQ fans, I'm not completely forgotten.
Posted by: zombie Russ Meyer at February 17, 2026 11:47 AM (0sNs1)
FIFY. The academy believes it should rule...
Posted by: man at February 17, 2026 11:47 AM (cGjQu)
Posted by: Bulg at February 17, 2026 11:47 AM (77rzZ)
This then lead to a mental image of the old African Food donation ads and a guy walking by Iranian kids trying to beat a Iranian Guardsman to death with a stick and the spokesperson stopping to hand them a 1911. 'Each donation of one firearm-' *gunshot in background* '-will be matched by our generous sponsors. Won't you help?'
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 17, 2026 11:44 AM (bss/y)
I'm in. And a brick of 5.56.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 17, 2026 11:48 AM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 17, 2026 11:44 AM (XV/Pl)
Wes Anderson's films have a Kubrick influence.
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at February 17, 2026 11:48 AM (0bjKf)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 17, 2026 11:48 AM (xcxpd)
Fortunately, thanks to my die-hard AoSHQ fans, I'm not completely forgotten.
Posted by: zombie Russ Meyer at February 17, 2026 11:47 AM (0sNs1)
This is actually not safe for work:
https://tinyurl.com/bddzz8tj
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 17, 2026 11:48 AM (bss/y)
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Die hard AoSHQ Fans. Is a long way to say boob fetishists.
Posted by: NTTIAWWT at February 17, 2026 11:48 AM (RLbsR)
Wes Anderson's films have a Kubrick influence.
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at February 17, 2026 11:48 AM (0bjKf)
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Anderson has a host of influences, but the main ones would be Jacques Tati and Yasujiro Ozu.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 17, 2026 11:49 AM (GBKbO)
I'm in. And a brick of 5.56.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 17, 2026 11:48 AM (dK+Kv)
If every American donated just one gun.... we'd still be more strapped than any other populace on earth.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 17, 2026 11:49 AM (06Hmj)
>>Nolan and Paul Thomas Anderson both make Kubrickian films. Park Chan-wook makes Kubrickian films.
I would disagree strongly that Nolan or PTA make anything approaching a Kubrick film in either style or substance.
The closest would be that Yorgos dick weed who made that disgusting film with Emma Stone and Hulk dude.
I would say that Park makes films closer to Fincher and Tarantino and early Woo than Kubrick.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 17, 2026 11:50 AM (XV/Pl)
She looked 15, at least.
Posted by: William Jefferson Clenis at February 17, 2026 11:45 AM (IG3/x)
+1 for Cheech and Chong reference.
Posted by: Zombie Don LaFontaine at February 17, 2026 11:50 AM (ZJT0I)
I mean, does anyone make films today that could be said to be Kubrikian?
Are there Kubrickian Memes?
Do Zoomers even know who Kubrick is?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 17, 2026 11:44 AM (XV/Pl)
Tarantino has openly acknowleged that he stole a bunch of shit from Kubrick, even though his films don't end up being noticeably Kubrickian.
Unlike that stunted little gnome Spike Lee, who stole virtually every film trick in his book from Scorsese or Charles Laughton (the love/hate tattoo speech from The Night of the Hunter, which is used almost verbatim in Do The Right Thing).
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 17, 2026 11:50 AM (kTyBw)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 17, 2026 11:50 AM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 17, 2026 11:44 AM (bss/y)
oh my god, we need to harness ai to make this happen, it would be sooo funny. i can picture it now...
Posted by: Sturmtoddler at February 17, 2026 11:51 AM (v6XNT)
We ever get time travel, forget killing Hitler. Wipe out the entirety of the people from the Frankfurt School.
Posted by: NR Pax at February 17, 2026 11:51 AM (lXoJ5)
The closest would be that Yorgos dick weed who made that disgusting film with Emma Stone and Hulk dude.
I would say that Park makes films closer to Fincher and Tarantino and early Woo than Kubrick.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 17, 2026 11:50 AM (XV/Pl)
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Interstellar is a borderline explicit response to 2001, Nolan's favorite movie.
There Will be Blood is an outright Kubrick homage.
The influence is alive and well. You may think it's not there because others have taken it and repackaged it slightly in forms you are more open to liking, but the influence is definitely there.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 17, 2026 11:52 AM (GBKbO)
https://tinyurl.com/bddzz8tj
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 17, 2026 11:48 AM
That poster would be ridiculed and torn apart were it on the Gub Thread.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 17, 2026 11:52 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: NR Pax at February 17, 2026 11:51 AM (lXoJ5)
Frankfurt school? Bunch of weeners if you ask me.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 17, 2026 11:52 AM (06Hmj)
The Shining
Paths of Glory.
Dr. Strangelove
2001
1st Half of FMJ
Nothing else.
The only director who sucks more donkey dick than Kubrick is DePalma.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 17, 2026 11:53 AM (XV/Pl)
Have they completely destroyed the waters around China?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 17, 2026 11:37 AM (ExV1e)
Well yes, but they also sell all over the world. Buyers literally have to do genetic testing to find out what a fish actually is, since they just lie. And there are expenses in fish farms, where they either have to use enough space for the fish to be healthy naturally (costs money) or load them up with antibiotics so they don't die from each other's poop (less expensive, but can get them banned from a market if detected). But if you buy caught fish from them, then you're contributing to the collapse of fisheries worldwide.
Years ago, I was in a class with a guy who had been in the Coast Guard, and one of their standard, ongoing functions was protecting Alaska's fisheries from Russian factory ships. Now it's the Chinese overfishing other people's waters, and they're everywhere.
Posted by: SciVo at February 17, 2026 11:53 AM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: Warai-otoko
From a meme in my collection:
Time traveler: "Hey boss? I know you sent me to kill baby Hitler but I accidentally killed Woodrow Wilson instead."
Boss: "Who is Hitler?"
Posted by: NR Pax at February 17, 2026 11:54 AM (lXoJ5)
Posted by: Bulg
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The final scene still brings a tear to my eye, even though I've seen it at least ten times. The only beef I have with it is that some of those soldiers were way too old to have been in the trenches.
And Kubrick married the chick from that scene.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 17, 2026 11:54 AM (XvL8K)
How the hell was I supposed to know she was 13?
She looked 15, at least.
Posted by: William Jefferson Clenis at February 17, 2026 11:45 AM (IG3/x)
And she looks like she's about 15. OK, 14 then. In fact I know she's 14, because I was dating her a year ago!
Posted by: Roland T Flackfizer at February 17, 2026 11:54 AM (kTyBw)
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TJM, I've read your review of Eyes Wide Shut. I'm a little dense at times--other than conceiving it and filming it as a dream-like sequence, was there any "message" that Kubrick was attempting to convey (in your opinion)? I know you're aware of the rumors surrounding the flick, Kubrick's death, "controversy" over whether it was he that finished the final edit, etc.
Posted by: Alan Parsons at February 17, 2026 11:54 AM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Crusader at February 17, 2026 11:55 AM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Alan Parsons at February 17, 2026 11:54 AM (TN0g+)
199 Sorry, 198 was mine.
Posted by: Crusader at February 17, 2026 11:55 AM
So, 198 was a project of your's?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 17, 2026 11:56 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
Same here. It's so cathartic after the brutality that's displayed in the rest of the movie.
Posted by: Bulg at February 17, 2026 11:56 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: man at February 17, 2026 11:56 AM (cGjQu)
Posted by: Alan Parsons at February 17, 2026 11:54 AM (TN0g+)
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I never really saw a message in it. Maybe one about fidelity and sexual urges to be unfaithful. The film is pretty obviously supposed to be experiential around the nature of dreams first and foremost.
The whole "Kubrick got murdered because he uncovered Epstein" thing has always struck me as...typical over analyzing of Kubrick. I put as much stock in it as the missing chair from the background of The Shining as being important to the intention of the film.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 17, 2026 11:56 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: ShainS
Daughters? Hell, it's Hollywood. Probably their wives too.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 17, 2026 11:57 AM (idVxd)
Posted by: Bulg at February 17, 2026 11:57 AM (77rzZ)
>>Interstellar is a borderline explicit response to 2001, Nolan's favorite movie. There Will be Blood is an outright Kubrick homage.
Interstellar was not dry enough to be Kubrickian, and There Will Be Blood was too straight ahead to be Kubrickian.
All Kubrick films have an underlying skeeviness and nihilism to them.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 17, 2026 11:58 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: man at February 17, 2026 11:58 AM (cGjQu)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 17, 2026 11:44 AM (bss/y)
oh my god, we need to harness ai to make this happen, it would be sooo funny. i can picture it now...
Posted by: Sturmtoddler at February 17, 2026 11:51 AM (v6XNT)
Program needs a cheerful alliterative name, like "Bundles for Britain". Maybe the Horde will provide?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 17, 2026 11:59 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Gunnery Sgt. Hartman at February 17, 2026 11:59 AM (vqA1l)
Posted by: man at February 17, 2026 11:58 AM
To be fair, it's just a jump to the left.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at February 17, 2026 12:00 PM (0sNs1)
And boredom. You left out boredom
Posted by: man at February 17, 2026 12:00 PM (cGjQu)
Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at February 17, 2026 12:00 PM (LOZbR)
All Kubrick films have an underlying skeeviness and nihilism to them.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 17, 2026 11:58 AM (XV/Pl)
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And there we have it.
You have a specific element of Kubrick that you define as Kubrickian, something you obviously despise, so you reject any other potential for influence. His entire crafting ethos gets pushed aside for the thematic intention you read into the films.
And, to flip that back on you, considering the skeeviness and nihilism of modern culture, couldn't you say that your view of Kubrick's failings are some of the most influential things in modern cinema?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 17, 2026 12:00 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Thomas Bender
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I go back again to that final scene in Paths of Glory. What was nihilistic about that? I view it as exactly the opposite.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 17, 2026 12:01 PM (XvL8K)
199 Sorry, 198 was mine.
Posted by: Crusader at February 17, 2026 11:55 AM
So, 198 was a project of your's?
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*golf clap*
Posted by: Crusader at February 17, 2026 12:01 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: man at February 17, 2026 12:01 PM (cGjQu)
Posted by: Bulg at February 17, 2026 12:02 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: man at February 17, 2026 12:02 PM (cGjQu)
Interstellar was not dry enough to be Kubrickian, and There Will Be Blood was too straight ahead to be Kubrickian.
All Kubrick films have an underlying skeeviness and nihilism to them.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
It's almost easier to look for places Kubrick didn't have influence. When anime is blatantly referencing Apocalypse Now you know what's up.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at February 17, 2026 12:04 PM (OUMaO)
So, 198 was a project of your's?
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*golf clap*
Posted by: Crusader at February 17, 2026 12:01 PM (TN0g+)
So if a former Governor of Alaska were to commence a campaign to burn down Communist schools, could we cal it "The Palin Arson Project"?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 17, 2026 12:04 PM (8zz6B)
So, recently purchased a 9mm...
Posted by: man
Planning on donating it to a Persian household in need?
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at February 17, 2026 12:05 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: man at February 17, 2026 12:05 PM (cGjQu)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 17, 2026 11:59 AM (8zz6B)
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Pew Pews for Persians
Posted by: ballistic at February 17, 2026 12:05 PM (5aZAZ)
‘ Best Kubrick film is Paths of Glory.’
Agreed. Also my favorite Kirk Douglas movie.
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‘ The only beef I have with it is that some of those soldiers were way too old to have been in the trenches.’
I wouldn’t be too sure. WWI cut very deep into the French male population.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 17, 2026 12:05 PM (jbnUc)
Posted by: man at February 17, 2026 12:06 PM (cGjQu)
Posted by: Bulg at February 17, 2026 11:57 AM (77rzZ)
From whom?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 17, 2026 12:06 PM (n9ltV)
And Kubrick married the chick from that scene.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 17, 2026 11:54 AM (XvL8K)
Yes, but did he get drunk, drug and sodomize a 14 year old?
Piker.......
Posted by: Roman Polanski at February 17, 2026 12:06 PM (6jv/d)
>>And there we have it.
The essential element when I watch any Kubrick film is that I do not want to continue watching this film, I have pretty much seen every Kubrick film in a theater setting and have had to push through and not walk out.
As I have noted before, If after watching many Kubrick films, if you have any desire to watch them again, there is something profoundly wrong with that person.
There are exceptions and I listed them up thread.
Bottom line, Kubrick is probably my least favorite director.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 17, 2026 12:07 PM (XV/Pl)
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People looked older then.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 17, 2026 12:07 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 17, 2026 12:08 PM (XYFl9)
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*golf clap*
Posted by: Crusader at February 17, 2026 12:01 PM (TN0g+)
So if a former Governor of Alaska were to commence a campaign to burn down Communist schools, could we cal it "The Palin Arson Project"?
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Wow--that was really, really good. I know its only Tuesday but that should be mentioned in the weekend roundup of great posts!
Posted by: Crusader at February 17, 2026 12:08 PM (TN0g+)
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People looked older then.
Posted by: Chuck Martel
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The Sgt Schultz looking dude they focus on was at least 55. Maybe 60. And he had no officer insignia.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 17, 2026 12:10 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: anachronda at February 17, 2026 12:10 PM (oY6Yp)
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at February 17, 2026 12:11 PM (vqA1l)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 17, 2026 12:11 PM (XYFl9)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 17, 2026 12:11 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 17, 2026 12:11 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at February 17, 2026 12:11 PM (vqA1l)
But for the fact that they rape the wife, I'd have said trannies.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 17, 2026 12:12 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Crusader at February 17, 2026 12:08 PM (TN0g+)
*takes notes*
Posted by: Doof at February 17, 2026 12:12 PM (tceez)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 17, 2026 12:11 PM (XV/Pl)
That depends on the girl...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 17, 2026 12:13 PM (xcxpd)
‘ Hey is Lolita or A Clock Work Orange a good film for date night?’
Depends on the age of your date.
Make sure you say,”When I picked this movie I was thinking of you.”
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 17, 2026 12:13 PM (jbnUc)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 17, 2026 12:12 PM (ExV1e)
A lot of trannies are still fundamentally heterosexual with functioning dicks.
That's why they want to be in women's locker rooms.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 17, 2026 12:14 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
Various places. Don't remember a particular source. But I do remember its being discussed here as well.
Posted by: Bulg at February 17, 2026 12:14 PM (77rzZ)
‘ Hey is Lolita or A Clock Work Orange a good film for date night?’
Depends on the age of your date.
Make sure you say,”When I picked this movie I was thinking of you.”
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 17, 2026 12:13 PM (jbnUc)
Straw Dogs.
Or High Plains Drifter.
There was a shitload of rape in cinema in the 70s.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 17, 2026 12:14 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 17, 2026 12:11 PM (XV/Pl)
That depends on the girl...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 17, 2026 12:13 PM (xcxpd)
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I've dated a few girls who were crazy into horror movies. Like the bloody, gory, nasty stuff. Not my thing, but I did sit through some really disturbed movies with them.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 17, 2026 12:15 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 17, 2026 12:15 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 17, 2026 12:15 PM (iFTx/)
It is a woman thing.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 17, 2026 12:15 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 17, 2026 12:14 PM (bss/y)
"You said rape twice."
"I like rape."
"Somebody gotta go back and get a shitload of rape."
Posted by: Mel Brooks at February 17, 2026 12:15 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Bulg at February 17, 2026 12:15 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 17, 2026 12:16 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 17, 2026 12:16 PM (6jv/d)
Posted by: Bulg at February 17, 2026 12:17 PM (77rzZ)
‘ I've dated a few girls who were crazy into horror movies. Like the bloody, gory, nasty stuff. Not my thing, but I did sit through some really disturbed movies with them.’
The Kubrick movies are a different kind of disturbing.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 17, 2026 12:17 PM (jbnUc)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 17, 2026 12:17 PM (6jv/d)
Posted by: Thanatopsis at February 17, 2026 12:17 PM (LdBR/)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 17, 2026 12:17 PM (ExV1e)
Agreed. Also my favorite Kirk Douglas movie.
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Mine was "The Final Countdown"
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 17, 2026 12:20 PM (1itZ7)
Posted by: Azjaeger at February 17, 2026 12:20 PM (H+T4K)
Posted by: Chuck Martel
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I look at WWI and WWII pictures, knowing that these guys are no more than early 20's,and they look like they are in their late 30's.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 17, 2026 12:21 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 17, 2026 11:59 AM (8zz6B)
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Pew Pews for Persians
Posted by: ballistic at February 17, 2026 12:05 PM (5aZAZ)
Perfect.
"Your donation to Pew Pews For Persians will help fund air-dropped crates of Liberty Starter Kits, with a Long Pew Pew and a Hand Pew Pew, and for each one a case of appropriate Freedom Seeds. With this, the ancient Persian people can take their destiny into their own hands. Or not. You will be giving the Power To Choose."
Posted by: SciVo at February 17, 2026 12:23 PM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: Darth Randall at February 17, 2026 12:28 PM (ot8Uf)
Because the number of spots open for such candidates never goes up or down every year.
(Rolls eyes).
Late to the party but I saw this and just had to comment.
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