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StandardVC10 posted:What I don't get is how sites like this can just stay angry and outraged about every possible thing. I get like that a lot, but at a certain point I either can't keep finding new things to feel really upset about or I just get tired of it. Between the trolling and TPC's terrible site design and userbase, it seems that there aren't too many people left who want to discuss anything that might invoke positive emotions anymore. The most favored content to share when I was last on the site was the stuff that promoted the most possible anger and hate, it's actually what they want to talk about. I found my next gimmick account. I'm gonna go look up anger management strategies and the effect of anger on a person, psychologically and physically. Gonna start sharing the effects of always being angry to these guys and help them lead a healthier, calmer life.
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Apr 1, 2013 02:01
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DongsMcMurphy posted:How would TPC react to an image macro that said "Guns: Bigger Than Jesus"? Stupidly.
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Apr 1, 2013 02:06
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That's a given, but I feel like this idea is worth following up on.
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Apr 1, 2013 02:18
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Or Jesus escaping the cross with a AR15 in his hand.
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Apr 1, 2013 02:27
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Is there something similar to Stealthy for Firefox I can use? Stealthy's not cutting it for me right now, and I got IP banned last week. Do those ever "wear off" or get cancelled or anything?
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Apr 1, 2013 02:38
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DemonDarkhorse posted:Is there something similar to Stealthy for Firefox I can use? Stealthy's not cutting it for me right now, and I got IP banned last week. Do those ever "wear off" or get cancelled or anything? Just use Tor to get around IP bans. If you get IP banned again, getting a new one is literally one click.
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Apr 1, 2013 02:39
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TPC: Once again showing that conservatives think about buttsex more than gay men do (a truly monumental feat).
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Apr 1, 2013 02:55
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WhackAWonderful posted:So, as the owner of business, I can't decide who I want to hire by your standards. And if I don't hire someone because I don't like them or they don't fit in or aren't qualified, I get sued even if I had no clue they were LGBT? Who will be a protected class next? Out of curiosity, why would you spent  to post on a forum, and then only post in one thread? I kinda understand the Let's Play Danga Ranga (or whatever it's called) kids doing that, but we do have extensive forums with many other subforums and threads that might interest you. TFR, for example, is all about guns, and you right wingers do love your guns.And to answer your question, the courts don't just take someone at their word, the employee suing you would have to prove that you did it just because they were gay. Meaning that you would have to tell other people "I'm firing Mr. Gayperson for being gay" and using slurs frequently.
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Apr 1, 2013 02:59
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Kaethela posted:Also, there's a frightening amount of comparison between gay marriage and bestiality/incest/etc. going on there. A big fat case of "the only moral sex is my sex!" See also: abortion. I wonder if they could be tricked into agreeing with the statement "what happens between consenting adults in the privacy of a bedroom is none of my business." Anyone with more time and patience than myself want to try it out?
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platedlizard posted:Out of curiosity, why would you spent Because they are so bad at gun safety, they'd be thrown out of TFR immediately.
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Apr 1, 2013 03:11
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djw175 posted:Because they are so bad at gun safety, they'd be thrown out of TFR immediately. I'm pretty sure he can guess that anyone else in SA would eviscerate him.
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WhackAWonderful posted:So, as the owner of business, I can't decide who I want to hire by your standards. And if I don't hire someone because I don't like them or they don't fit in or aren't qualified, I get sued even if I had no clue they were LGBT? Who will be a protected class next? You know, honestly you should just look at this thread and say "gently caress this bullshit". And go check out the guns us forum. Got a tv show that you like? TVIV. Video games (hell man if I saw you post something there I wouldn't call you out for poo poo in this thread, I don't really care about political ideas when I'm discussing lame video game things) or whatever, really. You're not proving anything in this thread, if you want to discuss the things you want to talk about here go to Debate&Discussion. Don't be angry just enjoy yourself. Edit: way to go on dropping the ellipses from the posts. Really I'm not being sarcastic.
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WhackAWonderful, can you get Joe to post again? He really made things interesting when it was starting to get dull.  vvvv Yeah, it's interesting to debate. But it's kind of a shame to have her post one  that's full of holes and then not respond to multiple prompt rebuttals.
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Apr 1, 2013 03:22
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Acquire Currency! posted:You know, honestly you should just look at this thread and say "gently caress this bullshit". And go check out the guns us forum. Got a tv show that you like? TVIV. Video games (hell man if I saw you post something there I wouldn't call you out for poo poo in this thread, I don't really care about political ideas when I'm discussing lame video game things) or whatever, really. You're not proving anything in this thread, if you want to discuss the things you want to talk about here go to Debate&Discussion. Don't be angry just enjoy yourself. I wouldn't actually mind arguing with her, here. It's just whenever people try to talk to her, she just disappears into the aether like she has now. It's what led to her current avatar, actually.
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djw175 posted:I wouldn't actually mind arguing with her, here. It's just whenever people try to talk to her, she just disappears into the aether like she has now. It's what led to her current avatar, actually. Yeah the whole hit and run argument thing is kind of annoying. It strikes me as a person who says something but becomes really afraid to read or look at any criticisms, like he/she knows his/her argument isn't very good. Or maybe she's just genuinely afraid of anything outside an echo chamber.
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Apr 1, 2013 03:27
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Kaethela posted:No, I'm fairly sure it didn't. With a more literal interpretation of the Bible, Adam and Ever were "married" under god meaning that Marriage did predate Law and Government. I do wonder what they qualify to be incest and why they have a problem with it given that it's somewhat prevalent throughout Genesis which many of them tend to hold dearly. Obviously, modern notions label incest wrong but these modern notions conflict with the Bible as a result. Bestiality on the other hand is disgusting, but since animals don't have rights like people do, it should be moot.
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Apr 1, 2013 03:31
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I Fought The Mom posted:Weren't the midwest and south (REAL AMERICA) rife with anti-semitism until like 20 years ago? This is from a while back, but I can tell you that in Kansas you have to drive about 20 minutes north of the capital to find a place where Jews are not made to feel welcome. Out west a ways, there are places where the patrons at a local bar will check to make sure you aren't Jewish. It hurts, because deep down Kansas isn't about thinly veiled racism and far-right Christianity. 
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Red Crown posted:This is from a while back, but I can tell you that in Kansas you have to drive about 20 minutes north of the capital to find a place where Jews are not made to feel welcome. Out west a ways, there are places where the patrons at a local bar will check to make sure you aren't Jewish. Look on the bright side: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb3IMTJjzfo
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Red Crown posted:This is from a while back, but I can tell you that in Kansas you have to drive about 20 minutes north of the capital to find a place where Jews are not made to feel welcome. Out west a ways, there are places where the patrons at a local bar will check to make sure you aren't Jewish. How exactly do they check to make sure patrons aren't Jewish?
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Red Crown posted:
This is a joke, right. I don't mean to offend you if you're from Kansas or something, I'm from Oklahoma and I'll accept the hundreds of criticisms about that state but- That's a joke, right.
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Kaethela posted:How exactly do they check to make sure patrons aren't Jewish?
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"Hey, you fellas ain't Jews, are you?" Said to someone I know well, after they'd been chatting and getting along pretty well for a while. Had to be sure, you know. (They immediately picked up and left. None of the other patrons were offended by this statement) I'm a Kansan, and every day my state does something to bring shame upon itself. As a political and civil entity, Kansas tends to be pretty awful. That said, Kansas produces A LOT of good people.
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Red Crown posted:"Hey, you fellas ain't Jews, are you?" I have an Uncle that makes sure that I'm not dating any black people whenever I see him. Ahhhh the South.
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Apr 1, 2013 03:45
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Acquire Currency! posted:I have an Uncle that makes sure that I'm not dating any black people whenever I see him. The fun thing to do is to say Yes the next time that subject gets brought up. Make sure you have an exit strategy if it all goes to poo poo.
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Dr.Smasher posted:The fun thing to do is to say Yes the next time that subject gets brought up. Make sure you have an exit strategy if it all goes to poo poo. The nearest state to run to would be Texas, sooooo. I can only imagine the best case scenario would be him pulling my over and saying "It's cool, I got the Jungle Fever, too." Edit:\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ I'm not going to lie that is really really interesting. I wouldn't be able to make heads or tails out of that place, starting with its crazy-rear end name. frank.club fucked around with this message at 04:01 on Apr 1, 2013 |
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I should preface this by saying that my dad is Jewish: there's a town about 20 minutes from where I grew up in Wisconsin called Oconomowoc. I was once told a story by a Jewish-American teacher who went around and talked at different schools since he had served in the Israeli army for a time and worked with a bunch of different Jewish organizations in Milwaukee. He went to a small college to give a talk on anti-Semitism, and was approached by a girl afterwards, who explained to him that she came from a place that didn't have anti-Semitism. He's stunned, and asks her where this bastion of tolerance is. "Oconomowoc," she answers. He knows that she's just being naive, so he plays along: "How did the town get that way?" "Well, we just don't have any Jews!" So that gets him a little curious and he does a bit of research. Until about 20 years ago, realtors simply wouldn't sell houses to people if they discovered that they were Jewish, so Oconomowoc didn't have anti-Semitism because it didn't have any Jews, because no one would sell them houses. I should say that I grew up in a small, conservative town where everyone that I knew was aware that I was partly Jewish, and never experienced any problems because of it, so it isn't a statewide thing.
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Acquire Currency! posted:
Haha, it's kind of funny listening to people try to pronounce that one. Also fun is Ashwaubenon, a suburb of Green Bay. I don't understand the logistics of not selling a home to Jewish people. Did they ask every single person if they were Jewish? That's too much work. At least Oconomowoc isn't a huge city.
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Guess you've never seen a Floridian gated community.
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DemonDarkhorse posted:I don't understand the logistics of not selling a home to Jewish people. Did they ask every single person if they were Jewish? That's too much work. At least Oconomowoc isn't a huge city. I never quite worked this out, and I'm willing to believe he was exaggerating some. That said, Oconomowoc is basically a town sized country club, so how hard is it to believe that they'd take some steps to keep Jews out, really?
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Last summer I was in South Dakota with my dad (we're from the northeast, and he's working there as a doctor on an Indian reservation), and we were browsing through a gun store, and were going back to our parked right outside it when my dad went to go pee or something like that. Some guy, who I remember was missing at least one tooth, was getting into his car right next to ours when he asked me: "Hey um, I'm not racist or anything, but um, are you two guys of the, uh, Jewish religion?" Now, we ARE Jewish, though we're both 100% Atheists and I'm only half Jewish (and my mom's the Christian, so by Jewish ritual standards I'm actually not Jewish), and while we're both short and my dad looks pretty jewish, I don't think I look super Jewish on a cursory glance. Now, I really don't think I'm particularly prejudiced against people from the flyover states, and maybe he really was just genuinely curious, but with the combination of this guy's incomplete set of teeth and being outside a gun store, I wasn't going to take any chances. I answered with an "uh, no?" and got in my car (and locked the door). It helps that while I acknowledge I'm ethnically half-Jewish, I really don't identify as a Jew and am actually kind of disdainful of the whole thing because I was made to go to hebrew school and have a bar mitzvah and stuff, and was even forced to get the Jewish equivalent of a baptism, though I later learned it doesn't count if you do it under duress. So MAYBE if I was somewhere else and asked by somewhere else, I'd have said yes but we weren't religious, or "kind of," or something. Then my father and I went to some lovely Chinese food place for the novelty of eating Chinese food in South Dakota.
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Apr 1, 2013 06:12
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NoUU posted:OK I've been seeing this image around a lot, and it's been confusing me. I love the fact check here: http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/40980_About_That_Taxpayers_Spent_$1.4_Billion_on_Obama_Family_Last_Year_Fake_Outrage Once again democrats are better at saving money
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I think what I find most disturbing is that tea partiers want to be right about their views so bad that they seem to be hoping that the country falls apart and tens of thousand die. As the suffering increases, they would smugly tell anyone who would listen that they were right. It's honestly terrifying that they probably go to bed praying that the world will be burning when they wake up.
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Bait and Swatch posted:I think what I find most disturbing is that tea partiers want to be right about their views so bad that they seem to be hoping that the country falls apart and tens of thousand die. As the suffering increases, they would smugly tell anyone who would listen that they were right.
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HEGEL SMOKE A J posted:This is also because most of the people on TPC are survivalists. I know some real survivalists. Brilliant, resourceful people who can go into the wilderness with nothing but a knife and build a house, make clothes, hunt and fish and garden until they have more food than they know what to do with, who can build a forge and pull iron from the earth and make tools. These are old fat people who occasionally go hunting and have a garage full of canned food. That's just the ones who consider themselves survivalists, most of them are the kind of people who post on a social network 18 hours a day. They rely on Medicare and cars and smokeless gunpowder and TV dinners and all the other amenities and luxuries that a rich country with a strong centralized government affords them. They're just so dumb that they think holing up in their lovely house with an AR-15, a thousand rounds of ammunition, and a garage full of canned goods will protect them from government death squads or roving bands of feral minorities or one resourceful individual with a molotov cocktail. These are woefully inadequate human beings who can't suss out the difference between, for instance, a massive blowjob for the insurance industry and Kenyan Marxism. They want the violence to happen, they want to be a part of it, but they are entirely too loving stupid to consider the consequences of another civil war or American Revolution. They're also cowards who will never have the balls to actually follow through with any of their threats, they want Obama to cross some imaginary line so the Silent Majority can rise up and Take Back Are Country. Although Obama is already literally Satan, already literally assassinating American citizens and literally operating thousands FEMA death camps etc. yet somehow he still hasn't pushed them far enough to actually do anything. It's just a fun fantasy for paranoid conspiracy theorists and bloodthirsty racists who live humiliating and pointless lives.
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Vivoviparous posted:I know some real survivalists. Brilliant, resourceful people who can go into the wilderness with nothing but a knife and build a house, make clothes, hunt and fish and garden until they have more food than they know what to do with, who can build a forge and pull iron from the earth and make tools.
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HEGEL SMOKE A J posted:That sounds really rad. Not that it's important or anything, but in case the worst does happen, what are their opinions about intermittently-employed grad students crashing with them? I am neither engineer smart nor tough as nails so I've never asked. I wouldn't know where to begin, the sheer breadth of practical knowledge and self discipline required is staggering. I don't even know what this post-apocalyptic OBUTTMER DEATH SQUADS/FERAL PACKS OF BROWN PEOPLE universe is supposed to look like or what the purpose of such a thing is. Rambo and Robinson Crusoe are fictional characters, and neither one is applicable to what the breakdown of modern society would actually look like. I wish some brilliant novelist or something would explore this Civil War 2: Revengeance stuff with some depth and verisimilitude, I think it's a fascinating idea and if the teabaggers are too lazy and cowardly to make it actually happen somebody needs to tap into that tension in a more resonant and intelligent way than the boring trash that is zombie fiction.
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Peter Cottontail account is now done, my Easter ceasefire is over. The only things I didn't capture below were me being nice to Joe and when I got called out as a troll 5 seconds in despite my first post saying as much. People need some reading comprehension. Screens:                     Now you guys know. dirtycajun fucked around with this message at 09:54 on Apr 1, 2013 |
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