Bad mgoblog Twitter post is bad
August 15th, 2017 at 2:47 PM ^
the comment can be taken different ways depending on whether you assume he meant all people or some people. I'm never too sure with the choo-choo guy, but I assumed some and there's nothing wrong with saying that.
August 15th, 2017 at 2:52 PM ^
August 15th, 2017 at 2:36 PM ^
people are also overly programmed by their globalist/hollywood/media lords and don't think for themselves.
August 15th, 2017 at 4:28 PM ^
I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not!
August 15th, 2017 at 2:37 PM ^
Now is a particularly sensitive time, and using a tragedy like this to poke fun at a sport rival is fucking tone deaf, and gross.
August 15th, 2017 at 2:51 PM ^
August 15th, 2017 at 2:52 PM ^
August 15th, 2017 at 6:56 PM ^
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August 15th, 2017 at 8:12 PM ^
August 15th, 2017 at 8:30 PM ^
Sometimes?
August 15th, 2017 at 2:28 PM ^
August 15th, 2017 at 2:35 PM ^
I'm not outraged, I just think it was lame.
August 15th, 2017 at 2:27 PM ^
And the tweet do nothing but prove to me that opinions truly are like assholes. I feel like we should just make this a negbang.
August 15th, 2017 at 5:31 PM ^
Negged
August 15th, 2017 at 2:29 PM ^
In fact, I hate all Nazis.
P.S. Apparently, Virginia is NOT for lovers.
August 15th, 2017 at 2:47 PM ^
Love this scene. An all time great. Also Loving vs. Virginia should tell us that Virginia is not for lovers.
August 15th, 2017 at 2:52 PM ^
I watched the 2016 movie about the case. Being in an interracial marriage, I was hopeful for the movie. It was a big let down for me. I didn't like how they started the movie - she's pregnant, gotta get married. I would have liked to find out more about what initially brought them together. Maybe the guy was quiet and introspective in real life, but that didn't make for an interesting movie. I would have liked to see more about the Supreme Court decision, what they thought about, why they ruled the way they did, etc.
August 16th, 2017 at 3:00 AM ^
August 15th, 2017 at 2:29 PM ^
I don't have a problem with the joke, other than it's not as sharply honed as it could be. In other words, I had to read the original a couple of times to get the joke. Brian's a master of a concise quip, and this one read a bit clumsy to me.
What I I don't read into it is Brian calling MSU fans Nazis. I read it as him saying that both the MSU fans who were (mind-bogglingly) proud to lose by nine and the Nazis who somehow think they were successful this w/e are similarly deluded.
Which, well ... yeah.
August 15th, 2017 at 2:36 PM ^
However, it's far too easy to read the former meaning or some other tactless meaning. Good, well-tuned jokes are more clear.
August 15th, 2017 at 4:38 PM ^
Don't most jokes rely on some sort of sentiment of "right time, right place"?
I'm more offended that the joke just wasn't that funny.
Sorry, Brian. You'll get 'em next time.
August 15th, 2017 at 2:34 PM ^
I get the joke and laughed. I knew exactly what his point was.
With all that said, sometimes you keep these types of jokes inside the fantasy football chat or the umich roommate text thread.
August 15th, 2017 at 2:33 PM ^
The joke was mean and not funny. If it's gonna be a lil mean, which i'm okay with, at least be funny.
/opinion
August 15th, 2017 at 2:34 PM ^
August 15th, 2017 at 2:35 PM ^
Here's what's interesting about this...Whether you're a right-winger grappling with what happened this weekend (and trying to deflect it off mainstream conservatism and Trump), or a left-winger outraged about what happened this weekend (and maybe trying to conflate all conservatives and conservatism with the extreme right), you probably find this Tweet in poor taste. In other words, I am guessing very, very few people will find this funny, and instead find it in poor taste.
August 15th, 2017 at 2:39 PM ^
August 15th, 2017 at 6:59 PM ^
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August 15th, 2017 at 8:33 PM ^
Should have more upvotes.
August 15th, 2017 at 2:36 PM ^
Last fall, EVERYONE - Michigan and Sparty alike - agreed that the MSU headline was stupid and self-defeating and worthy of mockery. Every sports fan knows that asking for credit for your moral victories is asking for still more mockery.
So when these Nazi douchebags try to claim victory, we all rightly point and laugh and say "if you're asking for credit for a moral victory, we point and laugh at you."
August 15th, 2017 at 2:59 PM ^
Agreed, but that's not the problem. The problem is that it looks Brian is comparing a sensitive national tragedy to a football rivalry. And while that was clearly not his intention, the reaction was predictable. In our current climate of self-righteous indignation, where everyone is looking to prove to everyone else that they care the most about whatever issue is at hand, a comparison like this is always going to draw fire.
It's not the end of the world, it's just in poor taste. When I was in college we would have called it a party foul.
August 15th, 2017 at 3:08 PM ^
Every comedy fan knows that if you have to explain a joke, then you become the joke.
August 15th, 2017 at 3:07 PM ^
Not everyone on twitter is aware of that context.
August 15th, 2017 at 3:15 PM ^
than Brian's vague, ask yourself why you don't think this is funny response.
August 15th, 2017 at 3:55 PM ^
Normal me: Doesn't even read headline because I'm to sickened to put energy into reading about the Alt Right.
Me after viewing Brian's tweet: "HA! Look at those Nazi's trying to claim a 'Moral Victory.' Also MSU went 3-9."
August 15th, 2017 at 2:36 PM ^
unfair to the nazis to compare them to msu fans.
August 15th, 2017 at 2:45 PM ^
That was pretty funny.
August 15th, 2017 at 3:10 PM ^
See here the joke is very obvious. you should teach Brian how to joke.
August 15th, 2017 at 3:16 PM ^
The joke is very MeanJoe07/MadHatter-esque.
August 15th, 2017 at 2:37 PM ^
that was as classless and bad taste and not a reflection of a true Michigan Man as you'll see. @mgoblog should delete that asap.
August 15th, 2017 at 2:38 PM ^
August 15th, 2017 at 2:46 PM ^
The problem isn't, as I think Brian is suggesting in the twitter conversation, that Nazis are so bad, we shouldn't compare them to Spartans. It's that one of those Nazis just killed someone, and so while MSU going 3-9 is funny, the Nazis are not something we should laugh about right now...or at least if you're going to say something funny about them, it had better be good and crystal clear what you are saying.
August 15th, 2017 at 2:48 PM ^
I think Nazis are always something we should laugh at.
We should take the threat they pose seriously, and deal with the risks and damage they cause with the greatest means available under the law. They are a threat to national security and our basic moral fiber.
But they WANT to be taken super-seriously. They want to be seen as a legitimate threat to the current social order. We shouldn't grant them that. They are inherently ridiculous; they are LARPers who think their wooden shields and tiki torches make them some sort of insurgent army. I have no problem pointing and laughing at these silly, small men.
August 15th, 2017 at 2:57 PM ^
I see that. But there's something to be said about timing and how funny the joke is. "Ha. Ha. They make the same pathetic excuses as Spartans." is a) not that funny, and b) not completely clear that we aren't making fun of the Spartans by comparing them to Nazis when we often make fun of Spartans. There's probably a way to make this comparison of pathetic reactions on the blog with some context, but just a side-by-side pair of images on twitter doesn't do it.
August 15th, 2017 at 2:59 PM ^
And I;m not even talking necessarily about this specific instance. I've just heard people say in the last few days that this isn't a time to joke about these guys, and I think that when talking about jokers, joking is among the most reasonable responses.
August 15th, 2017 at 3:02 PM ^
The jokes end when they drive a car into a crowd of people they disagree with and kill someone who still has to go into the streets in 2017 to protest Nazis.
I get it. But this weekend shifted the status quo on how we as a society deal with these people.
August 15th, 2017 at 3:11 PM ^
But the liberal zealot taking sniper shots at conservatives weeekend was totally cool?
No, it's this weekend.
Screw violence on both sides.
I never understood the counter protest. It just gives people targets of each other. Counter protest in the next town over.
Don't understand the outrage on Twitter about Brian, frankly don't care
August 15th, 2017 at 3:23 PM ^
it wasn't totally cool, but NOBODY claimed it was. Nobody came out and said "this war between democrats and rebublicans has been going on for a long time, and both sides bear responsibility."
Here, the violent action that was taken was a direct extension of the platform of the original protests. Lumping the counter-protesters in with the original protest is to criticize people for vocally rejecting an objectively wrong and dangerous belief structure. This "screw violence on both sides" that I keep hearing is a total cop out.
August 15th, 2017 at 3:46 PM ^
I didn't lump the counter protesters and the original protest together.
The original post I responded to, claimed that this weekend was the time it changed. So yes the previous events were then not major enough to act upon.
I'm not criticizing them. The Nazi's wanted THEM THERE. They brought clubs and shields! You can protest one town over and have your voice heard without being a target
Sorry for the " screw violence everwhere' quip. I don't have the energy to properly explain myself.
And I failed again.. I'm taking a break from this site. You win.
August 15th, 2017 at 7:07 PM ^
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