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Prester Jane posted:While I agree with the rest of the points you made in your post, I personally disagree with this point. I do not think the people passing these laws are aware that they will simply be struck down, nor do I think that this is a cynical Ploy just to rile the bass up. Well that would have been absolutely true 15 years ago, in our post Tea Party World, I really think that these are genuine true believers who have been elected to positions of power that are pushing these policies. I was about to ask if you had read Prester Jane's thread about this, but something tells me you already have 
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NC Governor Pat McCrory posted:We're cool with the economic left tho, those guys are neat.
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Yardbomb posted:Also Breivik should've sprayed his own brains on some trees and saved the people over there even the smallest amount of time and money. Though it would've been nicer if he'd also opted to do that before he shot anyone else in the first place. Breivik never intended to be caught alive.
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Badger of Basra posted:A fun angle on the Olympics: outing closeted athletes for clicks. Bonus clicks if they are from repressive countries! Holy poo poo, what a vile person.
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TinTower posted:If you fancy spending a few hours in the abyss, do enjoy this so-called Marxist-Leninist spending five posts blaming the Trots and Jews for gay rights and blaming the gays for the Holocaust and the death of MLK. I decided to read this for a laugh, but... I can't recall ever getting this angry at an article. I'm usually more emotionally detached, but something about this has just left me completely seething. I'm... Just so angry. Is it the self-righteousness? Is it the author treating the words and beliefs of political philosophers like infallible gospel, seemingly refusing to consider the possibility that the historical figures he respects and admires were flawed people like everyone else and may have had questionable views? Is it the fact that he's so blatantly disregarding any evidence against his ideas, just so he can declare there never were any in the first place? Is it the shocking lack of empathy and understanding coming from a supposed ardent leftist? Is it the fact that he'd so willingly ruin the lives of all of us here in this thread just because he can't accept that his role models weren't flawless beacons of humanity? Or is it the fact that he's a fundamentalist zealot who treats Stalinism as if it was his religion? I stopped reading at the end of part two, I can't get past this: Fred Phelps: Red Son posted:
I genuinely loathe this person. I can barely handle the pure loving contempt I feel towards him. That's something I haven't been able to say about anyone for nearly a quarter of my life. Nobody. Not a single person. I'm not used to hate, not like this. It's... Not a good feeling. I kinda regret clicking that link. e: Sorry for the rant, but I really had to vent after reading that. ThaumPenguin fucked around with this message at 00:29 on Aug 30, 2016 |
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Small Frozen Thing posted:The heretic is always more hated than the heathen. Figured it was something like that. It's just seeing something vaguely similar to your own beliefs, except twisted into a grotesque mockery... I feel like I just got a much better understanding of intrareligious conflicts. e: Oh and I'm not a tankie, just so that's clear. ThaumPenguin fucked around with this message at 00:41 on Aug 30, 2016 |
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Guavanaut posted:There's a piece here about homophobia and transphobia on the left that also addresses some of what might be going on in the 'very liberal' set too. God, don't remind me. Good article though, thanks for sharing. I've seen too many leftists online denouncing identity politics as "a distraction from the real issues." gently caress off.
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I'm fairly sure "privilege checkers" is just chess.
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Treating old dudes from the past as infallible fonts of wisdom is probably one of my main annoyances with a lot of people on the far left. It's like they can't accept that their idols were normal human beings who were perfectly capable of having both good and bad ideas at the same time. Morality isn't a zero-sum game. Of course, "treating old dudes from the past as infallible fonts of wisdom" is popular across the board, particularly with the right, but I keep expecting the Left to be better than that. Turns out left-wingers are just as fallible as anyone else.
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Quorum posted:gay warlocks Tell me more. I've been looking for a good career path.
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spotlessd posted:Wow this didn't take long at all, did it? Who'd have thought a forum that exists entirely for smarmy liberal morons to congratulate themselves would spend more time pathologizing any view that doesn't fit into a tweet than actually engaging the argument. Tell me more about this irrepressible font of wisdom known as "the middle". Capitalism is garbage and the workers should control the means of production. Doesn't mean any of the big far-left philosophers should be treated as infallible beings who do no wrong. The entire reason I brought that up was because I've seen it happening several times, like the guy linked in this thread a while ago who claimed that homosexuality had to be bad and wrong because Marx, Engels and Stalin didn't like it. Thanks for making massive assumptions about my political beliefs, though.
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I blame ~~human nature~~
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spotlessd posted:You're so incredibly full of poo poo starting with the first sentence of your post. You're just a liberal. Come to terms with that now so we can move on to correcting this idiotic strawman. Oh heavens I was gonna be a leftist but now I'm not so sure! Please. Unless you're a graduate of the OwlFancier Academy of Uh Let's Just Call It Idiosyncratic Marxism you don't have a loving clue what you're even disagreeing with. You would if you read my posts but you blatantly didn't. No True Marxman.
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UN Calls for Worldwide Decriminalization of Homosexuality.  I wonder if anything will happen from this.
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Yeah, I'm not exactly holding my breath about this. On the other hand, at least they're trying. 
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OwlFancier posted:Best wishes Mr and Mr Penguin. thank
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Prester Jane posted:I posed this in the RWM thread as well, but I think it is relevant enough to warrant a crosspost here. God, this sounds scary  Have to say I'm glad I don't live in the US right now, hope the best for all of you over there.
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Bethamphetamine posted:In very weird news, this: how will my Norse slashfiction OTP ever make it to Midgard now
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Cocks Cable posted:What' the opposite of fair weather? Storm comrade? ThaumPenguin fucked around with this message at 00:21 on Dec 29, 2016 |
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Bi people are real and probably also cool, imo
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Vulpes Vvardenfell posted:The bathroom bill put forth in Alabama says that you can have unisex bathrooms, but only if you have a security guard watching it. Well of course. Alabaman unisex toilets are remarkably rare, so you need some way to ward off poachers.
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fishmech posted:Check yourself into a mental hospital immediately. So in other words Check yourself before you wreck yourself?
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In other news, Slovenia has now legalised same-sex marriage.
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