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Goosed it. posted:My Chinese friend just got schooled by his mom on FB Go mom go! 
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Sep 22, 2013 19:42
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 Yeah. I'm an rear end in a top hat and just posted the snopes link for this one. I don't know this person very well and have no clue if they were just posting it to troll people or if they actually believe it.
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Sep 22, 2013 19:46
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My female Men's Rights Activist friend has a new post out. In today's episode we learn that picking out one bad Men's Rights Activist and claiming they represent the movement is bad, but picking out the worst feminist you can find and claiming they represent the movement is legitimate because feminism is a hive mind and a game of one-upping each other, so the worst feminist ends up bringing all other feminists closer to her position and only the worst feminists get to lead the movement. Also the goals of feminism are: 1) Legislative enslavement of men. 2) Treachery of an unimaginable scale. For reference: NAFAL means "Not All Feminists Are Like That."  
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Sep 22, 2013 20:45
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Obviously fake BS that makes you wonder why anyone would believe it. Comments left in for the fine spelling, punctuation, and capitalization display in the first one.
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Sep 22, 2013 23:13
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:My female Men's Rights Activist friend has a new post out. Meanwhile, at the top of the MRA movement https://www.avoiceformen.com/mens-rights/false-rape-culture/challenging-the-etiology-of-rape/comment-page-1/ I mean this guy was actually interviewed on 20/20 last month and is one of the main people at AVFM, you'd be hard pressed to find anyone else who is less of a representative for the MRA movement.
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Sep 22, 2013 23:16
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please buy this girl an account. PLEASE
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Sep 23, 2013 00:37
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Leave the dogs along  EDIT: Amused to Death posted:Meanwhile, at the top of the MRA movement The first proper sentence of this piece of he describes one of his political opponents as a pinhead. That'll teach 'em! 
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Sep 23, 2013 00:41
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Goosed it. posted:My Chinese friend just got schooled by his mom on FB Want to hi5 this mom.
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Sep 23, 2013 01:31
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Sep 23, 2013 02:15
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Inspector Zenigata posted:I kinda disagree with the notion that mentioning the race of a person in a story is necessarily an indication of prejudice or whatever. Sometimes it helps to garnish anecdotes with specific details like that to help people visualize what happened better. Of course, more often than not it is used by people who are (sub)consciously racist, but in a case like this, a Chinese kid talking about somebody of his own race doing something funny, doesn't strike me as being particularly problematic. Though now that I'm writing it out, he may have been sort of implying, possibly unintentionally that something sketchy like that would be more likely to be done by somebody of a different race. Kinda like litotes in a roundabout way; the affirmation of a preconceived notion (other races are more likely to do something like that) by the negation of its opposite (a Chinese person doing something sketchy is weird, implying that a person of a different race doing something equally sketchy wouldn't be). I'm just curious, what are your guys' thoughts on this? Am I missing something? I feel like a loving idiot right now. Why does (the bolded part) matter? Why do I, the listener, need to know the race of the subject if that person's race is irrelevant? By mentioning that detail you imply that said detail matters to the story. That doesn't mean you're racist - the fact that a white guy used the n-word rather than a black guy using it is relevant and worth mentioning, but isn't a racist thing to notice (usually) - but often those kinds of details are a form of dog-whistle racism.
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Sep 23, 2013 02:19
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There's been an amber alert going on the TV in Connecticut this hour because some 5 year old was abducted, and already two people on facebook are pissed about it. What the christ people.
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Sep 23, 2013 03:05
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Inspector Zenigata posted:I didn't mean to imply that mentioning race in anecdotes is ever a good idea, I meant more that I understand why some people, without any malice, use details about the people in their stories, like race, hair color, attire, etc, to flesh them out. That's usually racism or misogyny as well.
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Sep 23, 2013 03:46
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 Share if you're super loving ecstatic about this poor kid sleeping(?) in the dirt.
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Sep 23, 2013 03:58
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 It's QI, QI is the idiot.
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Sep 23, 2013 12:29
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Amused to Death posted:There's been an amber alert going on the TV in Connecticut this hour because some 5 year old was abducted, and already two people on facebook are pissed about it. What the christ people. Apparently it interrupted the episode of Breaking Bad that was on at that time, so maybe that's why those people were pissed about it.
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Sep 23, 2013 13:56
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Fatkraken posted:It's not medically valid either. When cancer (breast cancer inparticular actually) was first characterised and treatments were being developed, one of the first ideas was to remove the affected body part. But it didn't work very well, because that's not how cancer works. Still they tried it. First lumpectomies. Then Mastectomies. Then bilateral mastectomies, then what was called "radical mastectomy" where they dug deeper and went for related lymph nodes and underlying chest muscle. It didn't usually work any better than simply removing the cancerous lump because cancer doesn't spread that way, and people were subjected to more and more radical surgeries which often removed huge parts of their bodies to little effect and the cancers came back ANYWAY. When we actually started to understand what cancer is and how it works, the most radical of the surgeries were retired for the vast majority of cases because the outcomes simply weren't that great for how life altering the surgeries were. Good to know if my friend brings this up again. Thanks!
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Sep 23, 2013 13:57
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Perry Normal posted:Good to know if my friend brings this up again. Thanks! If you're interested in a very accessible book about the history of cancer treatments and the societal attitude towards cancer, I highly recommend this book http://www.amazon.co.uk/Emperor-All-Maladies-Siddhartha-Mukherjee/dp/0007250924 It's a really interesting look at the biology of the disease-group, the history and sociology of treatments, even the politics of the search for treatments. It'll arm you with a plethora of diverse responses to stupid Facebook posts about miracle cures, research and so forth. On a similar note, http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bad-Pharma-How-Medicine-Broken/dp/000749808X/ref=tmm_pap_title_0 is a must read for combating idiots when it comes to pharmaceutical companies, because they really ARE terrible awful bastards but just not in the way that facebook forwards would have you believe. This book is meticulously researched and very accessible I know that 99% of the people actually posting this bullshit are completely unreceptive to reality, but you might just prevent another reader being led down a bad path
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Sep 23, 2013 14:06
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You're a scholar and a gentleman (or gentlewoman). I'll look into these, thanks! EDIT - Sweet, the library in my town has Emperor of all Maladies. Perry Normal has a new favorite as of 14:37 on Sep 23, 2013 |
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Sep 23, 2013 14:14
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Fatkraken posted:If you're interested in a very accessible book about the history of cancer treatments and the societal attitude towards cancer, I highly recommend this book http://www.amazon.co.uk/Emperor-All-Maladies-Siddhartha-Mukherjee/dp/0007250924 It's a really interesting look at the biology of the disease-group, the history and sociology of treatments, even the politics of the search for treatments. It'll arm you with a plethora of diverse responses to stupid Facebook posts about miracle cures, research and so forth.
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Sep 23, 2013 15:08
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 Looks like it's time to revise my position on culling family members.
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Sep 23, 2013 16:07
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The Chinese part is relevant if it was a commentary on the practices of Apple. The most expensive spot in the world for purchasing Iphones is Mainland China, and a lot of Chinese people on vacation will buy a bunch of Iphones and then resell them in China for money. Cash fits into this because most Chinese people don't actually use credit cards. Bam, anecdote solved.
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Sep 23, 2013 16:19
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Guiness13 posted:
Kenyan's can own guns. It takes five loving seconds on Google to find this out.
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Sep 23, 2013 16:22
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Hrm... haven't heard from my step sister in awhile. I wonder what she's up t..... Oh. 
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Sep 23, 2013 18:12
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sunsweet posted:Apparently it interrupted the episode of Breaking Bad that was on at that time, so maybe that's why those people were pissed about it. Yeah, one of them specifically mentioned Breaking Bad, but still.
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Sep 23, 2013 18:34
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Sep 23, 2013 18:36
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Someone I knew from school has been constantly posting passive aggressive (I think) stuff exclusively using hashtags, and what interesting ones they are... I'm assuming this is meant to be some sort of  but I really have no idea. He has lots of these, and I've considered posting them in the past, but today's round just made me weirded out enough to do it.
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Sep 23, 2013 18:53
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Experto Crede posted:Someone I knew from school has been constantly posting passive aggressive (I think) stuff exclusively using hashtags, and what interesting ones they are...  Is your friend one of those guys? They've really turned up the snark, I guess.
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Sep 23, 2013 19:22
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Austrian mook posted:I really just don't loving understand female MRA's. Like. Why would I be chatting up a woman at a party if I didn't like women to start with? Jesus.
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Sep 23, 2013 20:07
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I don't have any idiots per se, but I do have some dad-joke level terrible puns. 
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Sep 23, 2013 22:12
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This is sort of getting into e/n territory but I wanted to share it. Context: "Paul Itician" is my mother, and last wednesday I lost my job. 
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Sep 23, 2013 22:23
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Owned by your own mother... just savage.
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Sep 23, 2013 22:25
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Segmentation Fault posted:This is sort of getting into e/n territory but I wanted to share it. This is better than chinese mom from the last page
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Sep 23, 2013 22:26
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 Translation: when any of your electronic devices get wet leave them in a bowl of rice overnight; a group of asians will come to repair them. This loving cutesy racist stuff infuriates me so much because it's so prevalent in my country, and when you try to call them on it they'll just tell you to get a sense of humor.
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Sep 23, 2013 22:55
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henkman posted:This is better than chinese mom from the last page Would you say the same if the mom was Russian or Polish? DoctorPresident posted:cutesy racist stuff infuriates me so much because it's so prevalent in my country, and when you try to call them on it they'll just tell you to get a sense of humor. I've seen that exact image and caption in English in the United States. So we are racist country pals together, I guess.
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Sep 23, 2013 23:11
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Maker Of Shoes posted:Hrm... haven't heard from my step sister in awhile. I wonder what she's up t..... No you see we're being overly sensitive by being worried about that kind of stuff showing up in our relatives room like that. I still see the big confederate flag in my step-sisters room, despite having gently caress-all to do with the confederacy besides living in the south. I just don't loving get it.
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Sep 23, 2013 23:17
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This one guy I'm friends with who is usually nice just linked an article on my wall from "The Humble Libertarian" about how Obama is like Bush
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Red Green, you've broken my heart.
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