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RFC2324 posted:I'm pretty sure its a 'I'm better than you for posting this' type smug bullshit. At least, thats how I read it, which is why I'm so turned off by it. I read it as the usual sort of slactivism that I generally get hit with on my facebook. Usually it's the like or share if you're against child abuse and ignore if you condone it. Every time one of those pops up, I keep hearing my Analytical Writing professor in my head pointing out the utter stupidity of that sort of argument.
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Personperson14 posted:Has anyone noticed the racism on social media getting a little worse? Early in this thread it was just the usual "now i'm not racist, BUT" kinda stuff. Now people look like they're just not caring about being racist shitheads and going "friend of the family hahah so funny!" I feel like racism in all media has gotten worse since the Trayvon Martin case. During the trial, Fox News and other right wing outlets really pushed a lot of clearly racist perspectives, and it seems as if people took that as a cue that racism was okay as long as what you say is "true."
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Personperson14 posted:Has anyone noticed the racism on social media getting a little worse? Early in this thread it was just the usual "now i'm not racist, BUT" kinda stuff. Now people look like they're just not caring about being racist shitheads and going "friend of the family hahah so funny!" It's not uncommon for people, especially black people, to use "niggas" as a word that basically means "guys."
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Mar 24, 2014 08:29
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Nightswimming posted:It's not uncommon for people, especially black people, to use "niggas" as a word that basically means "guys." It's also not uncommon for white people to use it because they get their race relations from stand up comedy.
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Mar 24, 2014 08:35
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I got some kind of cancer awareness thing I guess?   (For reference, she lives in Australia, where we have glorious socialised medicine and cancer patients don't have to fork out hundreds of thousands for their treatments.)
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Mar 24, 2014 09:20
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Why does it never occur to these quacks that if this "cure" existed, these evil mystery profiteers could just charge more than the current total treatment costs?
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Mar 24, 2014 09:30
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Not to mention, you know, the sheer PR/marketing/fame for a company that can say 'We loving cured cancer!' Also, less people dying, more people you can sell poo poo to later in life!
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Picnic Princess posted:Why does it never occur to these quacks that if this "cure" existed, these evil mystery profiteers could just charge more than the current total treatment costs? Another thing I see is that they seem to think that BIG PHARMA is a huge, unified cabal. What would actually happen if one of them discovered the cure for cancer is that they would get it on the market faster than anyone else could and reap the insane profits. They also think that cancer is one disease that you could cure with a magic pill, rather than a myriad of them with different forms of treatment based on their nature and location.
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I mentioned it earlier, but now with pictures: A friend on Facebook keeps posting pictures of graffiti from the new Infamous game as social commentary (he's libertarian)quote:A lackey for "The Man" gets shafted by the same system he defends. This game actually makes you think about reality at times. quote:Speaks for itself. quote:Big bfother [sic] is cranky cause his truck Isn't the deluxe model. Orgophlax has a new favorite as of 13:58 on Mar 24, 2014 |
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Mar 24, 2014 13:01
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Orgophlax posted:I mentioned it earlier, but now with pictures: A friend on Facebook keeps posting pictures of graffiti from the new Infamous game as social commentary (he's libertarian) The (sp) in the last one is what gets me, like he thinks "brother" is spelled with an F, but he's not quite sure.
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Bertrand Hustle posted:The (sp) in the last one is what gets me, like he thinks "brother" is spelled with an F, but he's not quite sure. No, that was added by me. I just realized I should've used [sic].
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Lord Booga posted:Not to mention, you know, the sheer PR/marketing/fame for a company that can say 'We loving cured cancer!' Serene Dragon has a new favorite as of 15:33 on Mar 24, 2014 |
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Mar 24, 2014 15:30
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Serene Dragon posted:Not only that but "curing" cancer isn't going to make it disappear. People will still keep getting cancers all the time so there will always be a market for this miracle cure Big Pharma are hiding. Until they make some sort of impossible wonder drug that stops people getting any possible cancer altogether that, naturally, they will also hide because making profits is anathema to them. It also ignores that some cancers, such as most forms of testicular cancer, are for all intents and purposes considered cured, with ~96% survival rate even in stage 3 (which is the most advanced stage) It's just that the cure is chemotherapy, and I guess curing cancer with drugs just isn't acceptable???
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Vicas posted:It also ignores that some cancers, such as most forms of testicular cancer, are for all intents and purposes considered cured, with ~96% survival rate even in stage 3 (which is the most advanced stage) People probably think of curing with other diseases, ie no terrible process or side effects like chemo or radioactive therapy compared to high rates of survival.
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Vicas posted:It also ignores that some cancers, such as most forms of testicular cancer, are for all intents and purposes considered cured, with ~96% survival rate even in stage 3 (which is the most advanced stage) I know that somewhere out there, someone has tried to cure their prostate cancer with black salve. That they dissolved half their guts and require a poop bag/constant medical supervision to survive is secondary to the fact that they are technically cancer free, if only because the organs that had cancer cells present (along with with their organ neighbors) no longer exist 
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Lord Booga posted:Not to mention, you know, the sheer PR/marketing/fame for a company that can say 'We loving cured cancer!' There is no way every scientist involved in the mystery cure decided to take a pay off over a noble prize in medicine. My brother has a phd in physics, and he did it solely for his love of science and showing off how god drat smart he is. There is no amount of money that would be worth more to him then the the ability to go "nanananna ahahahah I got a noble prize and you dont nananannana hahahahaha"
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TheAbortionator posted:There is no way every scientist involved in the mystery cure decided to take a pay off over a noble prize in medicine.
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Serene Dragon posted:The Nobel prize also comes with a sizable cash award, I think it's just over $1 million. So that's a lot of bribe money needed. That, plus the marketability of being a Nobel Laureate: book deals, lecture tours, greater potential to be hired somewhere with a nice, fat pension... And that's just from a purely financial perspective.
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Mar 24, 2014 18:00
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 Those comments.  It's so funny. gently caress those unions, right? 
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just got this suggested to me by Facebook. Thanks Facebook! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjqJ3cDzReA Apparently Obama is part of the secret Jewish community and will force America to be Jewish. Also gently caress them homos.
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Guest2553 posted:I know that somewhere out there, someone has tried to cure their prostate cancer with black salve. That they dissolved half their guts and require a poop bag/constant medical supervision to survive is secondary to the fact that they are technically cancer free, if only because the organs that had cancer cells present (along with with their organ neighbors) no longer exist This isn't a common thing, is it? Because... drat.
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Met posted:
I fully support unions but drat if that is not a clever way to take the wind out of the union sails
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Lord Booga posted:Not to mention, you know, the sheer PR/marketing/fame for a company that can say 'We loving cured cancer!' As someone fairly well connected into 'big pharma' and having watched several relatives die drawn out, painful deaths from cancer, few things piss me off more than these jackasses. Met posted:
I'm a big supporter of unions but those "Shame On X" banners are often a scam. Try talking to the 'protestors' some time. They're almost universally day laborers unconnected with any union, getting payed dollars an hour with no benefits and have no idea what they're supposed to be protesting. Sometimes they're hired by unions but other times they're hired by competitors. I don't put any stock in them anymore.
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Good Citizen posted:As someone fairly well connected into 'big pharma' and having watched several relatives die drawn out, painful deaths from cancer, few things piss me off more than these jackasses. I got ball cancer and my mom worked for Pfizer (and other Big Pharma-related, smaller companies) for years, and the idea that those companies are a cabal capable of even covering up their own mistakes, greed, and bad science is hilarious, much less hiding a mythical cure for cancer
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Vicas posted:I got ball cancer and my mom worked for Pfizer (and other Big Pharma-related, smaller companies) for years, and the idea that those companies are a cabal capable of even covering up their own mistakes, greed, and bad science is hilarious, much less hiding a mythical cure for cancer Yeah, the best thing being linked into high levels of Big Pharma will get you is access to early stage clinical trials that might let you live a little longer while you help them discover new and horrifying side effects of the medication
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Good Citizen posted:As someone fairly well connected into 'big pharma' and having watched several relatives die drawn out, painful deaths from cancer, few things piss me off more than these jackasses. I looked up the story, apparently it's a rather minor dispute over the dealership's choice of drywall installer.
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Met posted:
We've got a fair amount of those Shame On protesters out in Albuquerque, a lot of times they're outside Yanni's greek restaurant. From trying to find out more about the Shame protests, I've not been able to find much other than when the Unions are asked about them, they go 'no comment'. Going from what I've seen of them, they just sit out in chairs with a banner up. One day one of the guys was reading 50 Shades of Grey while holding the banner up.
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ratbert90 posted:Apparently Obama is part of the secret Jewish community and will force America to be Jewish. Yahweh is probably fairer skinned than Allah anyways, not sure why our heartland racists are so up in arms over it.
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Mar 24, 2014 21:01
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Met posted:
There have been the same three people holding a similar banner at my local hospital for over two years. I didn't get why they just didn't move on, but apparently they're being paid up to $10/hr to hold the sign so that is their full time job. (how does one get a job as a union sign holder anyway?) http://newsok.com/shame-on-union-campaign-is-against-companies-not-listed-on-banners/article/3691967
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I don't even know what the Christ. Why. 
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SteelMentor posted:I don't even know what the Christ. Over 2000 people are comfortable with their friends knowing they are into that.
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the ones they met in the child/bestiality porn community
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RFC2324 posted:P sure the only way pot can kill you is by smoking so much you literally don't get any oxygen for extended periods of time. There was a recent major study in Germany that looked at a bunch of cases that were attributed to cannabis. Of all the deaths they looked at, only two were directly marijuana related, and both had some sort of heart issue that smoking made worse. The rest were all ruled as deaths from other causes while they happened to be smoking. The study is getting some flack.
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Personperson14 posted:Has anyone noticed the racism on social media getting a little worse? Early in this thread it was just the usual "now i'm not racist, BUT" kinda stuff. Now people look like they're just not caring about being racist shitheads and going "friend of the family hahah so funny!"
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      I'm Ella Vator. I could have handled it better, but I just got mad. Somewhere in that rambling screed Lynn Guini talks about how Medicare/Medicaid expansion would have been a better alternative to the PPACA, but then he talks about how America should have voted for McCain, or for a Republican-majority Senate, or for Romney and how it totally doesn't count that he's in the military while thumbing his nose at Obamacare because he was never going to buy health insurance anyway and won't even after he leaves the service.
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I don't even had a smartass comment to make about this.
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World's smartest teen. 
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Tracula posted:I don't even had a smartass comment to make about this. Instead, you could scroll up.
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