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Certainly not as terrible as some of the articles posted here, but Tim Blair, a Daily Telegraph journalist extraordinaire, bravely ventured more then thirty minutes out of Sydney's CBD into Muslim Land - aka Lakemba . Staying at Lakemba hotel - one of the last bastions of Anglo-Australian culture, he writes:quote:It isn’t exactly luxurious. The room has a sink, which is nice, but nothing else by way of amenities. There isn’t even a Gideon’s Bible. Instead, reflecting certain demographic changes in the area, there is a Ramadan eating schedule. It's worth clicking for the full article, if only for a picture of Lakemba's newest local superstar. (of course he has his own Facebook page)
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Squid Inc posted:Certainly not as terrible as some of the articles posted here, but Tim Blair, a Daily Telegraph journalist extraordinaire, bravely ventured more then thirty minutes out of Sydney's CBD into Muslim Land - aka Lakemba . Staying at Lakemba hotel - one of the last bastions of Anglo-Australian culture, he writes: That is quite bizarre. I did the same visit. I live in East Sydney, went with a friend to Lakemba to just see this place because he kept talking about it, that it was not like "being in Australia". So I went to experience the whole thing. I took the exact same picture of that exact same manikin because I thought it was cute. That they had texted a beard on a standard white one. I actually thought it was wonderful there. Yes, it was like a different world compared to what I see every day, but that's why I loved it. You know the more I look at that picture, it is exactly the same as the one I took. I need to find it.
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# ? Sep 6, 2014 11:00 |
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Grand Theft Autobot posted:Won't someone think of the poor slaveholders??!! He's an idiot for claiming that slave owners had an incentive to treat their slaves well and implying that 'it wasn't so bad', but I'd say he's right to dismiss the notion that slavery is responsible for the success of American capitalism. It benefited the people that were directly involved, but on a societal level and in the long term it was a completely disastrous economic system. Its detrimental effects can be seen in the South even today. Phlegmish fucked around with this message at 19:31 on Sep 6, 2014 |
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Smoky One-bedder posted:That is quite bizarre. I did the same visit. I live in East Sydney, went with a friend to Lakemba to just see this place because he kept talking about it, that it was not like "being in Australia". So I went to experience the whole thing. I took the exact same picture of that exact same manikin because I thought it was cute. That they had texted a beard on a standard white one. I actually thought it was wonderful there. Yes, it was like a different world compared to what I see every day, but that's why I loved it. The picture or the Mannequin? Because last I heard it's been getting quite alot of outdoor time. I would have loved to have seen him getting toted around during the Haldon Street festival.
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Phlegmish posted:It benefited the people that were directly involved, but on a societal level and in the long term it was a completely disastrous economic system. It's detrimental effects can be seen in the South even today. That doesn't make it even a little bit special in the history of capitalism.
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Phlegmish posted:He's an idiot for claiming that slave owners had an incentive to treat their slaves well and implying that 'it wasn't so bad', but I'd say he's right to dismiss the notion that slavery is responsible for the success of American capitalism. It benefited the people that were directly involved, but on a societal level and in the long term it was a completely disastrous economic system. It's detrimental effects can be seen in the South even today. Capital raised by slavery in the South was able to be turned into capital to be loaned out in the North by banks for infrastructure and investment.
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Squid Inc posted:Certainly not as terrible as some of the articles posted here, but Tim Blair, a Daily Telegraph journalist extraordinaire, bravely ventured more then thirty minutes out of Sydney's CBD into Muslim Land - aka Lakemba . Staying at Lakemba hotel - one of the last bastions of Anglo-Australian culture, he writes: You could go into any book store in Real America (or Real Australia, I'm guessing), pick up a right wing polemic, and quote from it next to pictures of other things in the neighborhood and make Christianity look pretty bad, too. VideoTapir fucked around with this message at 17:27 on Sep 6, 2014 |
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Phlegmish posted:He's an idiot for claiming that slave owners had an incentive to treat their slaves well and implying that 'it wasn't so bad', but I'd say he's right to dismiss the notion that slavery is responsible for the success of American capitalism. It benefited the people that were directly involved, but on a societal level and in the long term it was a completely disastrous economic system. Its detrimental effects can be seen in the South even today. the south had about a century's more experience exploiting the labor of african americans than the north did
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# ? Sep 7, 2014 03:33 |
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Fox News printed up a doozy of an open letter to the president. Here are some highlights:An Ignorant rear end in a top hat posted:Dear Mr. President, The ending is a punchline worthy of The Onion. Godspeed, Larry. Source. Fuckt Tupp fucked around with this message at 20:32 on Sep 8, 2014 |
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Hahaha. So he was too chickenshit to go to Vietnam by his own choice, but he totally would have picked up a rifle if the only alternative was literal prison...and that's why this guitar-plucker has the moral high ground to demand WWII-level deaths of hundreds of thousands of young men in the sands of the Middle East. At least John Mccain had the stones to go fight in one of the endless wars he loves so much. Chickenhawks are dickless scum. VitalSigns fucked around with this message at 20:58 on Sep 8, 2014 |
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The murder of a couple American citizens by terrorists isn't directly comparable to a military attack on an American base, but it's difficult to make any argument if to you World War 2 is the Only Thing That Ever Happened In History Ever Aside From The Boston Tea Party.
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# ? Sep 8, 2014 20:43 |
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I love how you can generally get a sense of how unhinged someone's opinions are just by looking at their spelling and grammar. Really random use of quotation marks and capitalization along with gratuitous amounts of dashes and ellipses is always a dead giveaway.
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# ? Sep 8, 2014 21:00 |
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Everytime someone wants to go to war for those 2 dying tell them that every country that has had America kill 2 of it's citizens is also justified in bombing their suburb.
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# ? Sep 9, 2014 00:44 |
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Hahaha anyone who talks poo poo about war and then says "well uh my draft number was super low and I didn't volunteer or anything" can be slapped across their fat face.
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# ? Sep 9, 2014 00:55 |
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I'm actually really surprised that most of the comments to that are article are telling the guy he's a complete fool.
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# ? Sep 9, 2014 01:03 |
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SedanChair posted:Hahaha anyone who talks poo poo about war and then says "well uh my draft number was super low and I didn't volunteer or anything" can be slapped across their fat face. He would have stepped up if only he'd had a real leader as President to inspire him quote:Anyone can lead people who are willing and eager to go. Can you, will you lead people who are not willing, but need to go? Don't make LBJ's mistake, Mister Obama. Round up every loudmouth war-hungry country singer and put them on the front lines so they'll never grow old to regret staying home and cheering on the war in comfort and safety.
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# ? Sep 9, 2014 01:51 |
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It's cool, brah. Let's do this righteous war crime. Collective punishment is just and effective. Aerial bombardment will totally break the will of the enemy (like it did in London, and Berlin, and Hanoi...), and the dead from this Crusades-themed atrocity won't serve as a Jihadist rallying cry for generations to come.quote:THE VIEW FROM OLYMPUS: THE NEXT MOVE This is actually one of the more sensible things on TraditionalRight, which specializes in screeds against "cultural Marxists" and "gender feminists" and is serializing awful awful Tom Clancy's Race War fanfic.
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# ? Sep 9, 2014 03:33 |
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Uh, did he just quote the Nazis as inspiration for his little Baby Jesus Holy War plan? You know what, even laying aside the moral aspects of going to the Nazis for some good ideas...Maybe we shouldn't go with the literal worst failures in history at winning the support of civilian populations and defeating partisans and guerillas?
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# ? Sep 9, 2014 05:16 |
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This guy does know the Austro-Hungarian empire no longer exists because of how bad they were at war right? I'm not sure they're the guys we want to borrow field manuals from.
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Raskolnikov38 posted:This guy does know the Austro-Hungarian empire no longer exists because of how bad they were at war right? I'm not sure they're the guys we want to borrow field manuals from. I think bad is a little understating the magnitude of their incompetence, they failed to conquer Serbia. When your grand empire that's suppose to be competing with England and Germany for prestige and power losses to Serbia, your not just bad your an insult to the very concepts of empires and annexing other peoples sovereign territory. The grand achievements of Rome, Persia, and the Mongols are now lesser then they were before the war because they have to share the title of empire with a nation that lost to Serbia.
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Raskolnikov38 posted:This guy does know the Austro-Hungarian empire no longer exists because of how bad they were at war right? I'm not sure they're the guys we want to borrow field manuals from. It's a dumb joke. Lind wrote a series of Manuver Warfare manuals for the Marines, but because he's not actually in the military, probably an idiot, and definitely insane, they won't publish them. So he published them himself, under the imprint of one the least respectable militaries in European history. Whoever is writing the awful racewar fanfic (probably Lind) also has a hard-on for defunct European countries. I just skimmed one of the more chapters, but it had a Prussian military cosplayer commanding a unit of T-34s against the Savage Black Muslim hoards threatening Massachusetts. Yes, this is supposed to take place in the present. No, I have no idea what the author has been drinking. Paint thinner?
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Biffmotron posted:It's a dumb joke. Lind wrote a series of Manuver Warfare manuals for the Marines, but because he's not actually in the military, probably an idiot, and definitely insane, they won't publish them. So he published them himself, under the imprint of one the least respectable militaries in European history. Italy? Biffmotron posted:
That image is kind of awesome/hilarious
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[url=http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/magazine/the-death-of-adulthood-in-american-culture.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=HpSum&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0 ]A.O. Scott has managed to top himself:[/url] quote:This slow unwinding has been the work of generations. For the most part, it has been understood — rightly in my view, and this is not really an argument I want to have right now — as a narrative of progress. A society that was exclusive and repressive is now freer and more open. But there may be other less unequivocally happy consequences. It seems that, in doing away with patriarchal authority, we have also, perhaps unwittingly, killed off all the grown-ups. He goes on to whine about how women have all the power and heterosexual men are losers.
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# ? Sep 11, 2014 17:21 |
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Ummmm... Did you read the whole article? That portion is talking about depictions in American media, and he ends it by embracing the expansion of women's roles in modern fiction and declaring that all the worrying about the death of adulthood is overblown.quote:I do feel the loss of something here, but bemoaning the general immaturity of contemporary culture would be as obtuse as declaring it the coolest thing ever. A crisis of authority is not for the faint of heart. It can be scary and weird and ambiguous. But it can be a lot of fun, too. The best and most authentic cultural products of our time manage to be all of those things. They imagine a world where no one is in charge and no one necessarily knows what’s going on, where identities are in perpetual flux. Mothers and fathers act like teenagers; little children are wise beyond their years. Girls light out for the territory and boys cloister themselves in secret gardens. We have more stories, pictures and arguments than we know what to do with, and each one of them presses on our attention with a claim of uniqueness, a demand to be recognized as special. The world is our playground, without a dad or a mom in sight.
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# ? Sep 12, 2014 00:47 |
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http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2014/05/cyberbll.html 1) What the gently caress is this trying to say 2) Why the gently caress is it making me angry 3) What kind of writer essentially talks to themselves whilst imagining it is what their readers are thing.
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Josef bugman posted:http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2014/05/cyberbll.html From the looks of it it's a right winger being angry that a completely unremarkable, centrist news/politics magazine is too left wing, with all the usual whining about the mainstream media and the politically correct agenda
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icantfindaname posted:From the looks of it it's a right winger being angry that a completely unremarkable, centrist news/politics magazine is too left wing, with all the usual whining about the mainstream media and the politically correct agenda Really? It seems to me that he's complaining about capitalist interests hijacking feminism - an essentially left-wing complaint.
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Valhawk posted:Ummmm... Did you read the whole article? That portion is talking about depictions in American media, and he ends it by embracing the expansion of women's roles in modern fiction and declaring that all the worrying about the death of adulthood is overblown. I took it more as "well, these are all theoretically good things but I don't like them because they are new and different."
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# ? Sep 17, 2014 00:59 |
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Jonah Goldberg managed to poo poo out something I thought was absolutely reprehensible, even by his standards. What War on Women? quote:Last Friday, the White House announced its “It’s On Us” initiative aimed at combating sexual assaults on college campuses. I’m all in favor of combating sexual assault, but the first priority in combating a problem is understanding it. I wonder if I corned Goldberg on the street and jammed my tongue down his throat, would he just laugh it off as caddish behavior? Always great to see Goldberg take substantive issues and sweep them entirely under the rug because the President said something about it. What a sniveling little prick.
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# ? Sep 24, 2014 07:35 |
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Change the name of this forum to Feminist-Industrial Complex please.
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# ? Sep 24, 2014 13:23 |
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Because the Republican Party's fundraising emails aren't alarmist at all. Nope. They've never sent a single email telling about how Obama's gay Nazi brownshirt squads want to take your guns and make you gay marry abortions at Agenda 21 UN camps.
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A total cumstain posted:So the Obama administration and its allied activist groups trot out the claim that there is a rape epidemic victimizing 1 in 5 women on college campuses. This conveniently horrifying number is a classic example of being too terrible to check. If it were true, it would mean that rape would be more prevalent on elite campuses than in many of the most impoverished and crime-ridden communities.
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:Jonah Goldberg managed to poo poo out something I thought was absolutely reprehensible, even by his standards. So what industries are colluding with feminism to form this complex? The abortion industry, obviously...I mean we've practically got an abortion-based economy now. Red states are driven by military bases and arms industry; blue states by killing babies. VideoTapir fucked around with this message at 14:54 on Sep 24, 2014 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZI2IRbSKts 12 minutes and 24 seconds of completely missing the point. Holy poo poo.
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# ? Sep 24, 2014 16:17 |
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The gamergate poo poo is annoying as hell. It's wrapped up in a lot of stuff and people are trying to search for objectivity where there can be none. Although it is kind of funny to see people wail when Anita Sarkeesian gets another famous supporter
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# ? Sep 24, 2014 17:31 |
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The only people who are interested in Gamergate are people who have massive unresolved problems with women or people who think shouting at the previous group via internet advances society.
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Thunderf00t had a good point about how much of a stretch some of her interpretations of ONE game were, and how she was taking things out of context. He then ignored the entire context in which she said those things and declared feminism over. It was hard for me to pick a side at first. I mean Anita Sarkeesian took up a cause that not many had bothered with and brought a lot of attention to it, and she has a lot of legit points; but she taints all of that with bullshit. OTOH, the entire gaming community response to her. I mean if it's a race to see who can be the shittiest, she just kind of quit about a quarter of the way through while the gaming community has been like the end of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaIM4OOZB_A edit: No wait, here is a depiction of Anita Sarkeesian in that race. http://pbfcomics.com/222/ VideoTapir fucked around with this message at 18:20 on Sep 24, 2014 |
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VideoTapir posted:Thunderf00t had a good point about how much of a stretch some of her interpretations of ONE game were, and how she was taking things out of context. Really this shouldn't matter because she's trying to make her points as simple as possible for literal mental children but she's used to the soft academic mode of explanation which expects intelligent users to extrapolate where stubborn nerds will inevitably mask their insecurity by employing superior technical knowledge of the subject. "Well actually in S03E12 the main character uses a katana, not a western sword which means..." kind of poo poo.
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VideoTapir posted:
Yeah I really don't get this attitude. If she lists 100 games with lovely attitudes about women, and 10 of them are debatable, she hasn't "tainted" anything, because she's right about 90 of them and that's maybe something that's a little more important??
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Popular Thug Drink posted:Really this shouldn't matter because she's trying to make her points as simple as possible for literal mental children but she's used to the soft academic mode of explanation which expects intelligent users to extrapolate where stubborn nerds will inevitably mask their insecurity by employing superior technical knowledge of the subject. "Well actually in S03E12 the main character uses a katana, not a western sword which means..." kind of poo poo. She never took anything out of context, that's the dumbest part. She was talking about how games encourage experimentation with mechanics and itneractions. I was trying to explain this to someone on facebook the other day and almost posted it in the forwards thread. Imagine a game that has a whip and also has room with naked people tied to poles. It doesn't matter that you don't have to go into that room, that you aren't really supposed to be using the whip for that level, or that you can use the whip on anyone in the game regardless of who they are. If there is a black man tied naked to a pole in that room that you can go in and beat with a whip, then maybe the game developers should reconsider their decision to include one or more of these elements or mechanics in their game.
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