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From now on every time somebody asks "who would do such a thing?" I'm gonna say "Canadian anarchists might."
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# ? Jul 11, 2013 06:31 |
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# ? Mar 29, 2024 12:04 |
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Canadian anarchists, not quite as accomplished as Serbian anarchists.
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# ? Jul 11, 2013 08:15 |
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Orange Devil posted:Canadian anarchists, not quite as accomplished as Serbian anarchists. They're almost as bad as radical Nova Scotian separatists.
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# ? Jul 11, 2013 08:19 |
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They are bad only if you believe Canada's so-called legitimate government. I am honestly surprised that this kind of thing doesn't happen more often, especially in the US during the Bush years. Trains and trucks pass through cities every day carrying everything from gasoline to spent nuclear fuel to Chlorine gas. We have been dodging bullets in a game of Russian roulette.
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# ? Jul 11, 2013 10:05 |
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Slaan posted:They are bad only if you believe Canada's so-called legitimate government. You mean Canadian roulette
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# ? Jul 11, 2013 10:22 |
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LowellDND posted:You mean Canadian roulette You don't just risk your life, you risk an entire village every time you play. Truly the ballsiest game. Seriously - those 30 missing people, most of them were likely vaporized - correct?
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# ? Jul 11, 2013 14:07 |
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Slaan posted:I am honestly surprised that this kind of thing doesn't happen more often, especially in the US during the Bush years. Trains and trucks pass through cities every day carrying everything from gasoline to spent nuclear fuel to Chlorine gas. We have been dodging bullets in a game of Russian roulette. It happens, it just rarely gets reported outside local news stations telling locals to stay the hell away. I can think of a couple incidences from when I lived in MI as well as my new home in PA. Can't remember if there was any loss of life on any counts, but one was a chlorine spill and I have a hard time imagining whoever was driving the truck got out of it alive. Found this interesting site in my googling on it: http://hazmat.globalincidentmap.com/home.php
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# ? Jul 11, 2013 15:38 |
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Orange Devil posted:Canadian anarchists, not quite as accomplished as Serbian anarchists. You say that, but when's the last time you've seen an Archduke in Canada?
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# ? Jul 11, 2013 17:01 |
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Xombie posted:I'm still trying to decide if this is real or not. Printed in the Columbus Dispatch under the heading "Boom crowd was selfish and obnoxious", of all things. For context, Red White And Boom is an annual fireworks display that draws somewhere in the realm of 400,000 people to downtown Columbus. You know, I had the same feelings this guy did on the 4th. I do get the frustration. Mostly because I was trying to get to a friends house near where this one suburb near my place has it's fireworks display. But their street was so close to where they light them off that it was completely blocked off (I was not notified of this), and there were NO parking spaces for over a mile, and there were swarms of clueless pedestrians everywhere. I think my quote to my passenger was "Jesus loving Christ, if I see another suburban dumbass who has no idea how to cross the street and looks like they haven't showered in a week wearing a Kid Rock 1998 World Tour T-Shirt, I'm going to loving run them down." I at least had the sense to simply leave the neighborhood, skip the party, watch some of the fireworks from a Super Target parking lot a mile or two away while letting my panic/anger attack subside...and not to write my newspaper. Though I am putting it on the internet, so...
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# ? Jul 12, 2013 06:33 |
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One of my friends just posted this on Facebook unironically. He's in law school. http://www.wnd.com/2013/07/black-racism-killed-trayvon-and-paula-deens-career/ posted:Black racism killed Trayvon … and Paula Deen's career
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# ? Jul 12, 2013 18:47 |
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quote:Before his death, Martin was suspended from school; he was caught with a marijuana pipe; it was reported he had burglary tools in his locker; and it was recently revealed that pictures of marijuana plants and someone suspected to be Martin holding a gun were found on his cell phone. Does this sound like a well-adjusted teenager? Yes.
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# ? Jul 12, 2013 18:51 |
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:One of my friends just posted this on Facebook unironically. He's in law school. ^^^I was going to say that too. Sounds like every teenager I love some of the wording if you read this closely: "troubled young woman" "along with the liberal media", "blatant hostility" "conquer black leaders" I mean come on this article wasn't meant to be a good basis for discussion, its straight up inflammatory. Lets take up arms against all the black people! White power!
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# ? Jul 12, 2013 18:53 |
I really appreciate how that article infers that due to "corrupt civil-right leaders" virtually every young black person is predisposed to violence and thus should to be assumed to be the aggressor in any self defense case. Pretty much every one of these editorials moaning about how unfair it is that people complain about racism bend over backwards to be as racist as possible.
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# ? Jul 12, 2013 18:54 |
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Flaggy posted:^^^I was going to say that too. Sounds like every teenager The author is black, actually, so that makes it about ten times worse. Though the conservative bias should be obvious by the fact it's World Net Daily.
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# ? Jul 12, 2013 19:11 |
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:One of my friends just posted this on Facebook unironically. He's in law school. Isn't there some sort of character litmus test for passing the bar? Wouldn't a printout or two of this kibosh anything like that?
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# ? Jul 12, 2013 23:49 |
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Pixelboy posted:Isn't there some sort of character litmus test for passing the bar? Law school is filled with the most FYGM, "reverse racism is totally a thing" assholes you can possibly imagine. It gets exponentially worse the higher up the U.S. News rankings you go.
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# ? Jul 12, 2013 23:57 |
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Pixelboy posted:Isn't there some sort of character litmus test for passing the bar? You can take solace in the fact that getting a law job is pretty much a Herculean task right now.
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# ? Jul 13, 2013 00:13 |
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The Warszawa posted:Law school is filled with the most FYGM, "reverse racism is totally a thing" assholes you can possibly imagine. It gets exponentially worse the higher up the U.S. News rankings you go. Thank goodness my alma mater had an admissions scandal that dropped us 15 spots Those kids are getting nicer by the year!
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# ? Jul 13, 2013 00:45 |
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Nice Davis posted:Thank goodness my alma mater had an admissions scandal that dropped us 15 spots Those kids are getting nicer by the year! To be fair, I misstated it. The further up you go, the worse some get, and the more likely it becomes that the "left" is composed entirely of rich white kids from Scarsdale who are totally into telling people of color what their priorities should be.
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# ? Jul 13, 2013 06:30 |
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The Warszawa posted:Law school is filled with the most FYGM, "reverse racism is totally a thing" assholes you can possibly imagine. It gets exponentially worse the higher up the U.S. News rankings you go. This just in, Lawyers are assholes. For more on this story, we turn to every hack comic from the last 90 years.
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# ? Jul 13, 2013 07:43 |
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Fulchrum posted:This just in, Lawyers are assholes. For more on this story, we turn to every hack comic from the last 90 years. Nah, this isn't even the case. Several Supreme Court Justices are straight up the nicest people you will ever meet, for example. It's just that they're an incredibly small fraction of law students.
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# ? Jul 13, 2013 07:48 |
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The Warszawa posted:Law school is filled with the most FYGM, "reverse racism is totally a thing" assholes you can possibly imagine. It gets exponentially worse the higher up the U.S. News rankings you go. True, true. My dad teaches at one of the top-tiers and he's HUGELY FYGM, believes pretty much all the talking points, etc. When I had the audacity to claim that socialized medicine was better than America's private system, he actually told me that he hopes I do get to see how "great" Obamacare will be when I go on it. That's like me wishing for him and my mom to lose their jobs and savings so they can see how easy it is to live on welfare - in other words, a curse.
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# ? Jul 13, 2013 07:53 |
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Fulchrum posted:This just in, Lawyers are assholes. For more on this story, we turn to every hack comic from the last 90 years. Henry VI, Part 2 posted:Dick: The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. Last 420 years.
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# ? Jul 13, 2013 08:30 |
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cafel posted:Last 420 years. ... did you just accuse Shakespeare of being a hack?
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# ? Jul 13, 2013 09:36 |
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Fulchrum posted:... did you just accuse Shakespeare of being a hack? Well duh, since Marlow was secretly the one that actually wrote everything. Shakespeare was just an illiterate actor front man. (Not really)
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# ? Jul 13, 2013 09:42 |
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The thing about that quote is that it's taken out of context: the character who says it is part of an anti-intellectual mob who goes on to kill a man for the crime of knowing how to read. We're not supposed to agree with what they say!
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# ? Jul 13, 2013 10:37 |
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Pththya-lyi posted:We're not supposed to agree with what they say! This comes up a lot in Shakespeare.
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# ? Jul 13, 2013 22:21 |
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:This comes up a lot in Shakespeare.
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# ? Jul 13, 2013 22:32 |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/28/opinion/sunday/dowd-time-to-hard-delete-carlos-danger.html?smid=fb-nytimes&WT.z_sma=OP_DTT_20130729 I knew was in for some hardcore full blinders-on misstatements when the NYTimes Facebook feed excerpt for this article started with: quote:Some sex scandals, like Mark Sanford’s, fall into the realm of flawed human nature, and some, like Weiner’s, fall into the realm of ‘Seriously, what is wrong with you?’” writes Maureen Dowd in the Sunday Review. Yeah, Mark Sanford, that normal, personable guy he is, loving mistresses in Argentina, repeatedly violating restraining orders while trying to make a political comeback, you know, a real natural dude from the land of Just-Wins-Electionsville. So let's dig in further! quote:WHEN you puzzle over why the elegant Huma Abedin is propping up the eel-like Anthony Weiner, you must remember one thing: Huma was raised in Saudi Arabia, where women are treated worse by men than anywhere else on the planet. Let's kick off with a blame-the-woman sideways assault that isn't even strictly true on the facts (ever been to Afghanistan, Maureen?) quote:Americans keep moving the marker of acceptable behavior, partly as a reflection of the coarsening of society and partly as a public acknowledgment that many pols with complicated personal lives have been good public servants Being socially liberal: "coarsening," which is about this article's tenth broadside into the English language, or at least tortured metaphor, in eight paragraphs. For example, gently caress this sentence: quote:Huma gained renown, movie star suitors and a Vogue spread as the stylish Muslim Garbo silently and efficiently parting the waves for Hillary. Where do you start there? Anyway, as can be expected, the article juggles a bunch of malignant centrist narratives--badly--with maybe the only halfway convincing argument being that Weiner is a liberal Michele Bachmann. That's mildly instructive, I guess. Its usefulness is negated, and then some, by Dowd disturbingly patterning her editorial after right wing croaking that Huma is still with Weiner because Muslim women are powerless. Normally I would just appreciate if Dowd took this article back to the poetry slam where she wrote it, but I'm not sure how many poetry slams out there appreciate such on-the-nose witticisms about Greta Garbo. George Will would probably love it?
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# ? Jul 29, 2013 21:10 |
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:Where do you start there? I have seriously considered this question for several minutes now, since that sentence is impressively tortured. After careful consideration, I've decided that the only winning move is not to play. That sentence might seem like a remarkable if ugly blacksmith's knot of language, but I'm pretty sure that the intricacy is an illusion and that it's actually just a bunch of crap welded together.
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# ? Jul 30, 2013 05:47 |
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Nathilus posted:I have seriously considered this question for several minutes now, since that sentence is impressively tortured. After careful consideration, I've decided that the only winning move is not to play. That sentence might seem like a remarkable if ugly blacksmith's knot of language, but I'm pretty sure that the intricacy is an illusion and that it's actually just a bunch of crap welded together. An appropriately-placed comma would be a great starting point.
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# ? Jul 30, 2013 05:56 |
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I've found it. The textbook example of a strawman and a false dichotomy. It came in a letter to the editor of the Star Tribune today...quote:‘TIME CAPSULE’ There are only those two possibilities. There can be no alternative but those two extremes.
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# ? Jul 31, 2013 20:50 |
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"I Got Yelled At By An Inner City Kid At A YMCA Camp." That's the actual title of the piece. Let that sink in for a moment. quote:I never went to public school. This is probably for the best because frankly I don’t think I would have survived.
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# ? Aug 14, 2013 17:16 |
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I am trying to imagine how hard it would be to keep a straight face as someone tearfully relates that harrowing tale.
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# ? Aug 14, 2013 17:49 |
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"Homeschooling Never Taught Me to Keep My Grubby Mitts Off of People's poo poo Unless Invited."
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# ? Aug 14, 2013 18:00 |
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"Unwelcome and repulsive" seems an accurate summary of that essay. I wonder if she looked around for a site without a comments section when deciding where to post that "I'm not racist but" opus.
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# ? Aug 14, 2013 18:26 |
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"their insatiable sense of entitlement"
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# ? Aug 14, 2013 18:27 |
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I open the opinion section of the Star Tribune today, and behold an astounding sob story (emphasis mine):posted:The Center of the American Experiment received a letter last week from U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, Democrat of Illinois. We are normally thrilled to hear from any elected official, given the fact that we are a policy organization. Plucky little ALEC is being picked on by a big meanie Democratic Senator! A witch hunt! Him sending out letters and asking questions is an abuse of power, and we all know how the IRS has been targeting groups for political reasons!
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# ? Aug 14, 2013 21:08 |
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It is time for a fair and truthful discussion of race courtesy of The Eagle.quote:Race-mongering-lynch mobs divide a nation
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# ? Aug 14, 2013 23:15 |
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This is, I think, my first time in this thread. I just wandered in to see how bad the stuff being posted here was. Maybe it was humorous, or entertaining. So I clicked "last page" to check out moronic takes on current events. I didn't even make it one third of the way through the above article before my eyes refused to relay the words to my brain. gently caress people. How can someone get literally everything so badly wrong?
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# ? Aug 15, 2013 03:58 |