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darthbob88 posted:Precisely. Women are underpaid by only 5 cents per dollar, as opposed to the common statistic of 23 cents per dollar. Or, to use John Oliver's metaphor, employers collectively are taking a smaller poo poo on women's desks than statistics suggest. Once again, the 95 cent statistic applies only to women who do not marry and of a certain age. It is not accurate. And it is still poo poo. Additionally it is pay for equal work so it does not matter if they choose jobs that are undervalued.
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Even if the 95 cents stat was true it would still be bad. But even worse is that there still is very much a glass ceiling effect. There are many positions where you will find little-to-no women working in because of *reasons*.
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Axetrain posted:"One infamous study" (which I won't bother to provide) Not only will I not provide it, I will say that even though it opposes my argument, it is in fact incorrect, without providing any proof whatsoever. *waves hands*
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VitalSigns posted:I think Milton Friedman is commenting on my Facebook I might be misreading this, but did he just imply the meatpacking industry behaved the way it did because its workers were getting paid a lot?
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Taerkar posted:Even if the 95 cents stat was true it would still be bad. Even in their best-case, trusting every biased source, skewing everything to their favor study, things are still not equal. That's pretty telling.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Surely you've seen the musical Hair! That's the one where Meat Loaf crashes his motorcycle off a cliff, right?
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Luigi Thirty posted:That's the one where Meat Loaf crashes his motorcycle off a cliff, right? Let's do the Aquarius Warp again!
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Luigi Thirty posted:That's the one where Meat Loaf crashes his motorcycle off a cliff, right? No you idiot, its the one about the fat girl who dismantles systemic racism through dance.
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People need to make their fake numbers somewhat plausible. 84 members of Congress have been been caught drunk driving in the last year alone?
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 I just don't get this. Does he want Texas to vote itself out of the union, taking one of the (currently) strongest and most valuable red states out of the national equation? Or does he want Texas to remove itself before it turns purple/blue and they start losing the Republican points it gives in the electoral college and house? Does he actually think that Texans don't hear the crazies screeching regularly about how we could secede? Seriously, if there's one thing Texans know of, and are inordinately proud of, it's that we were once our own nation before we joined the Union, and you hear someone in a serious of power screech about "Secession!" every 3-4 months to rile up the crazy vote.
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Alkydere posted:
It would be a strategic move by the Republican party...vote Texas out while it's red, so that it's not a factor when it goes blue.
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No, you can't do that, you idiot baby. The United Kingdom is a different country and their laws on secession have no bearing on the United States.
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Edible Hat posted:People need to make their fake numbers somewhat plausible. 84 members of Congress have been been caught drunk driving in the last year alone? I'm thinking this is referring to the sum total across US history. Fulchrum fucked around with this message at 02:49 on Sep 21, 2014 |
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Edible Hat posted:No, you can't do that, you idiot baby. The United Kingdom is a different country and their laws on secession have no bearing on the United States. Well, duh. Besides, Texas had to sign a "We're sorry, we won't secede again." deal after the civil war. Though the courts can always declare that null and void. Of course such a vote would still fail miserably since we like being one of the richer states in the union thanks to all of our oil yet able to suck off of the federal teat.
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Just posting again to say I really loathe that confused baby picture.
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Fulchrum posted:I'm thinking this is referring to the sum total across US history. http://www.snopes.com/politics/crime/congress.asp  etc.
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Luigi Thirty posted:I read something about Germany having a counterculture movement in the 60s that embraced pedophilia under the guise of sexual liberation, but I think it was in Der Spiegel so who knows. LiberalLogic macro is ambiguous and bad.
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Got this gem from my dad. Finally someone filling the niche of conservative comedy, but of course it ends up being mostly propaganda and a couple really unfunny quips! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tvpaD4oatk
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Alkydere posted:
The state of Scotland is really leading the way for the rest of us here in the United Kingdoms of America.
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Tatum Girlparts posted:The state of Scotland is really leading the way for the rest of us here in the United Kingdoms of America. As far as I can tell it's literally "A thing happened so now I have to make an equivalency that makes no actual sense", mixed with a dash of "The Republicans are the REAL silent majority so we should all go to Texas and secede and leave the rest of the US to rot!" if there was actually any thought put in. I have no idea why it frustrates me so much. Maybe it's the way he keeps ruining baby pictures to make these stupid comments.
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RadicalWall posted:Got this gem from my dad. Finally someone filling the niche of conservative comedy, but of course it ends up being mostly propaganda and a couple really unfunny quips! That's expensive production for somebody with no talent, is he under Beck?
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RadicalWall posted:Got this gem from my dad. Finally someone filling the niche of conservative comedy, but of course it ends up being mostly propaganda and a couple really unfunny quips! I love that the audience is all old white people.
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Thanatosian posted:I love that the audience is all old white people. I think I saw a daughter who'd been dragged along.
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RadicalWall posted:Got this gem from my dad. Finally someone filling the niche of conservative comedy, but of course it ends up being mostly propaganda and a couple really unfunny quips! I've always found this particular "logic" annoying, that global warming only exists cause money to scientists. Because Exxon has no money. None. And no interest in keeping people in doubt that extra CO2 in the air might do anything.
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And the money those scientists get from the government would all disappear instantly otherwise. Nobody would ever pay scientists if there wasn't a threat looming.
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Fulchrum posted:And the money those scientists get from the government would all disappear instantly otherwise. Nobody would ever pay scientists if there wasn't a threat looming. The number of people who assume that 'science' is some kind of organized belief system rather than a collection of observations about things that happen is pretty staggering and I suspect leads to most of the more absurd 'anti-science' nonsense.
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Alkydere posted:As far as I can tell it's literally "A thing happened so now I have to make an equivalency that makes no actual sense", mixed with a dash of "The Republicans are the REAL silent majority so we should all go to Texas and secede and leave the rest of the US to rot!" if there was actually any thought put in. I feel like conservatives have this idea of a universal law, what works in one place is law everywhere. It might be their fixation with the Bible, y'know God's law and all. Just their laws are "Things I like".
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Cpt.Americant posted:I've always found this particular "logic" annoying, that global warming only exists cause money to scientists. Because Exxon has no money. None. And no interest in keeping people in doubt that extra CO2 in the air might do anything.  and by 90% they really mean more like 97%+
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Amused to Death posted:
Yes, but those 97% only think Global Warming is real, while the other 3% know that it's a hoax! This is a real thing someone has said to me to support Global warming denial.
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Who What Now posted:Yes, but those 97% only think Global Warming is real, while the other 3% know that it's a hoax! It's technically an accurate statement!
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Regarding "The Flipside, with Michael Loftus":SedanChair posted:That's expensive production for somebody with no talent, is he under Beck? Not that I can tell, it's run out of Telco Productions, with no obvious ties elsewhere. The production company itself has run a couple environmentally themed shows, and a large number of children's shows for an FCC criterion structure I'm not familiar with. On the other hand, the founder was executive producer of "What America Thinks with Scott Rasmussen" for a time. Short answer, after very short investigation, is it looks like a one-off effort not affiliated with any larger right-wing entities. edit: There's what looks to be a decent article about the show from The Week, here. Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 17:17 on Sep 21, 2014 |
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The phenomenon that I can't believe is that atheism, A-theism, anti-theism, is a religion. Words don't mean anything?
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Dr. Faustus posted:The phenomenon that I can't believe is that atheism, A-theism, anti-theism, is a religion. Buddhism is also considered a religion but doesn't ascribe to a traditionally theistic outlook. Not to say that I think atheism is a religion but the objection raised isn't persuasive on the subject. Most atheists don't congregate in cultural or social places of worship or meditation or follow teachings or scriptures, which is a better argument that atheism is not a religion. Virtually the only thing shared among atheists is a lack of belief in God or gods. Mo_Steel fucked around with this message at 18:17 on Sep 21, 2014 |
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What would a genuinely non-religious person look like, in their view?
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Mo_Steel posted:but the objection raised isn't persuasive on the subject
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Edible Hat posted:What would a genuinely non-religious person look like, in their view? There's no such thing. Everyone believes in God deep down, but some people hate God and want to sin, so to spite him they become atheists, Buddhists, pagans, Muslims, Catholics, or some other anti-God thing
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VitalSigns posted:There's no such thing. Everyone believes in God deep down, but some people hate God and want to sin, so to spite him they become atheists, Buddhists, pagans, Muslims, Catholics, or some other anti-God thing There are a bunch of "atheists" who are just rebelling; they're the ones who convert back and become "ex-atheists."
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Edible Hat posted:What would a genuinely non-religious person look like, in their view? You ever see a Chick tract or a political cartoon where it has a fat, middle-aged, balding hippy standing next to a manish feminist with five-o'clock shadow, a pair of homosexuals in full whips and chains leathers, and a lawyer folding a manilla envelope with 'ACLU' printed on it, and all of them are sneering and radiating stink lines? That. That's literally what they picture. Not an individual, but that exact group like some sort of freakish set of conjoined quintuplets.
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