The Michael A. Naso Institute of Comedy

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many coincidences are not coincidences.  NY is the most gerrymanderd state in the country and any fair redistricting effort would lead to more Republican or Conservative  representation.  therefore it is not surprising that a website that was created by a very big liberal would shut down for the first time on the day that NY allowed any individual to submit a map.

A far better candidate for the Deluge.

I generally try to use the Deluge for posts that offend or upset me and the Institute for ones that amuse me no matter how unintentionally.

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many coincidences are not coincidences.  NY is the most gerrymanderd state in the country and any fair redistricting effort would lead to more Republican or Conservative  representation.  therefore it is not surprising that a website that was created by a very big liberal would shut down for the first time on the day that NY allowed any individual to submit a map.

A far better candidate for the Deluge.

I generally try to use the Deluge for posts that offend or upset me and the Institute for ones that amuse me no matter how unintentionally.

Well pretty much every post that guy makes would fit in at least one of them based on that criteria (and all would also fit well in a hypothetical "Horrible spelling and grammar goldmine" to boot.)

I thought the combination of conspiracy theorizing and taking somebody else's sarcasm completely at face value even after I pointed it out made this one special, though.

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Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And, but for the interference with his arrangement, there would be no cause for such marriage. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix.

Also posted in the Deluge because it's the best illustration of Poe's Law I've seen maybe ever, especially considering its provenance.

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Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And, but for the interference with his arrangement, there would be no cause for such marriage. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix.

Also posted in the Deluge because it's the best illustration of Poe's Law I've seen maybe ever, especially considering its provenance.

This is the most blatantly racist thing I have ever seen someone post.

Obviously. As I said, Poe's Law. I can't believe that even Krazen could be that racist, but I also can't believe that he could have a sense of humor about something like this, so I really didn't know what to do with the post. It's in the Deluge as well, obviously.

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Context (very broadly defined) needed:

Spoiler alert: Alyosha is the killer.

lmao

Alyosha kills Dmitri and Ivan marries a bottle of cognac.

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This is less a hilarious post than a post about a hilarious fact but I still think it belongs here.

Oh yes, Connecticut for Lieberman was taken over by an anti-Lieberman faction. Should have remembered.

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Context needed, from both the thread and general knowledge of forum lore:

"Dominating."

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It's what krazen says whenever a right-wing politician is leading in a poll or favorability ratings, even if it's a terrible poll or within the margin of error or both.

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Context:

At last we have an answer to that omnipresent net question, "Who is Johan Galtung?"

Keeping in mind the source, this is actually really...I mean, this is surprisingly worthwhile. I actually chuckled for a second or two.

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West is no Grayson, even if some fringe lefties think so. West is a man of the people.

This is accurate. War criminals and rabid misogynists and xenophobes are, technically, 'people'.

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BRTD, on Allegri's 'Miserere mei, Deus':

Also I can't understand any of it. It might as well be in the original Latin.

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I speak Latin

How is that funny?

Latin is a dead language.

So?

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JUNK POLL BUT THAT WISCONSIN RASMUSSEN ONE SURE SEEMS LEGIT TO ME

'Seems legit' is, to be quite honest, one of my favorite bits of Internet jargon ever. True story.

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I really don't think context is necessary or relevant.

Gilded Age peasants

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The night is dark and full of turnips.

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If you rearrange the words & use alternate definitions and sometimes guess at what stuff means, it's

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Yep. My self-translation would be 'I'm sorry, but uselectionatlas.org is an English-language website.' And then exactly what you had for the second sentence.

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You can't spell Reince Priebus without RNC PR BS.

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The real question is why you're eating Mexican food in Amherst.

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It's my humble belief that this also belongs in the Good Post Gallery, but I don't want to trust in my own righteousness on that issue regarding it.

Would anyone be opposed to returning Arizona to Mexico?

Yes. They're called "the Mexicans".

The Chichano nationalist would have a field day with this one

We are, of course, assuming a scenario where the Outer Phoenix Metro Whites* stay in place. Evidently, their deportation back to their points of last non-Arizonan origin would change everything.

*and Payson, Lake Havasu, Prescott etc pp. The rural Mormons may be voring for similar people but I suppose they could be allowed to stay. Heck, deport the rich hippies in Flagstaff and Sedona too while you're at it.

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Hey, if Tesla was so smart, why wasn't he able to keep Edison from stealing his inventions, eh?  Gullible twit.  Edison showed true American ingenuity by jacking Tesla and making himself rich.  That's the kind of entrepreneureal spirit this country's all about.

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This is the best way to refer to Jack Kerouac.

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I'm a liberal and I will say that this is basically a case of "Gotcha Politics".  Clearly Congressman Akin misspoke.  I'm sure he meant to say something along the lines of "I'm dumb as s***."

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Anzalone Liszt also found Mazeppa leading Les préludes 47-34, with Orpheus and Hunnenschlacht trailing far behind.

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If Congress can posthumously promote George Washington to a 5-star general, can it also posthumously demote Custer back to private?

Washington was actually promoted to six stars, but I laughed.

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the bradley effect:

1. now responsible for the statistical margin of error and/or arbitrarily state-specific

2. happens backwards for mexicans