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After The War posted:"Queerness itself causes suicides," seems like a total non sequitur, but it's taken as a given. Does this come from a "queerness is mental illness, mental illness causes suicide" thought process? No, they know why trans people are committing suicide, they just don't care or are even happy about it. To most people that makes them horrific monsters so they won't admit it publicly, so they have to make up bullshit to hide it. Garrison basically laid out the claim in his rant: "trans people are mentally ill and mutilate their bodies to try and be something they're not, but when the reality that they can't change what they are hits them and they realize they've irreversibly damaged their body, it causes them to become depressed and commit suicide." The idea is that they're not saying that gender dysphoria is itself a cause of suicide, just any attempts to transition or live as the gender you identify as are harmful. This makes it easier to swallow for people who aren't in the right wing hate club, you don't actually hate them, you really want to help them, but the best way to help them is to force them to be "normal." To the right it's a win/win situation: either the trans person commits suicide from being oppressed and abused, or they live a life of misery trying to deny their feelings. Zulily Zoetrope posted:It's my understanding "self-defense" in the US has never been stricter than "I thought my life/property was at risk" and you're home free as long as no one alive can contradict you and the dead person's skin is darker than yours. This seems like a logical extension of that. Presumably you're still gonna face charges if you hit like a Trump rally or something. It's this. People who have run over protesters always say things like "They were trying to break my windows to reach in and attack me, I was scared for my life and needed to flee!" so it gets framed as "self-defense." If someone did try and use it like the Rall cartoon against a right wing gathering, it wouldn't work because "Well obviously they were just peace loving people not doing anything wrong so therefore you can't use this law as a defense."
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Sorry, slight derail, but how the gently caress can states pass laws effectively making murder legal? Isn't that a federal crime? If you kill someone and then flee across a state border it becomes a federal issue though.
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FronzelNeekburm posted:I wonder how much Winslow, a literal coyote, will lose due to the increase in capital gains taxes. He can't eat the rich (people's pets) if they leave town.
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What's the word for when you're laughing from within a spreading pit of despair? There must be a german phrase for it.
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An insane mind posted:What's the word for when you're laughing from within a spreading pit of despair? There must be a german phrase for it. Galgenhumor, i.e. gallows humor fits it quite well.
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SneezeOfTheDecade posted:Mallard Fillmore - Loren Fishman loving lol, GA activists have gone through and analyzed just how bad the bill is point by point; it's wingnuts like Drinky n'Pals who are all "it makes voting easier, trust us, Brian Kemp said so!"
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Mikl posted:Kellies nomination: worst gaslighting. I love how Senator Cletus here just assumed Abrams was a dumb black lady who couldn't stand up to him because he believes his own bullshit
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SneezeOfTheDecade posted:Prickly City - Scott Stantis and Eric Allie
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So Bolling’s link. It’s an actual NFT, and he’s only donating half the profits to a carbon fund. Because supporting a destructive technology is okay if you donate to charity! How can you be this unaware? loving HOW?? Pants Donkey fucked around with this message at 17:10 on Apr 30, 2021 |
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Sorry, slight derail, but how the gently caress can states pass laws effectively making murder legal? Isn't that a federal crime? The federal government has tried to pass laws against murder, the various anti-lynching acts, to empower the feds to prosecute murders in states where the local government doesn't feel like looking into it for  some reason, but thus far it's always been defeated by opposition from states where a lot of black people got murdered and the state government just shrugged!The problem has always been the senate, which has filibustered every attempt to allow the federal government to intervene. The only thing the feds can do is prosecute cops who commit murder as a federal civil rights violation because that law was passed during Reconstruction when the power of the white southern elite was temporarily broken. Which they are now doing in the case of Chauvin and his accomplices, and it was apparently their backup plan in case the state of Minnesota acquitted him of murder. E: and there are federal laws against murder, the statute is just written that they only apply in areas under direct federal jurisdiction like US territories, US-controlled waters, etc VitalSigns fucked around with this message at 16:36 on Apr 30, 2021 |
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A punchline with layers. Wikipedia posted:Carl Barks (March 27, 1901 – August 25, 2000) was an American cartoonist, author, and painter. He is best known for his work in Disney comic books, as the writer and artist of the first Donald Duck stories and as the creator of Scrooge McDuck. He worked anonymously until late in his career; fans dubbed him The Duck Man and The Good Duck Artist. In 1987, Barks was one of the three inaugural inductees of the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame. Nameless Pete fucked around with this message at 17:21 on Apr 30, 2021 |
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fool of sound posted:Bottom right is dubious tbh My main takeaway from Defunctland is that yeah, Disney was a paternalistic conservative who thought Leave it To Beaver was the natural state of humanity and any deviations from that model should be corrected as violently as possible. Buuuuuut if it made the company money he'd ditch those principles in a heartbeat, and did so at every opportunity DarklyDreaming fucked around with this message at 18:00 on Apr 30, 2021 |
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Lol, the reason they decided to ditch Spot was because you can easily take it out by kicking it over and yanking the battery out. That or you can just dump a bucket of water on it. There was also maybe the part where Boston Dynamics wouldn't let them mount a gun on it. For now. Soon...
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Sorry, slight derail, but how the gently caress can states pass laws effectively making murder legal? Isn't that a federal crime? Samurai Sanders posted:No actually, murder is a state crime. The constitution says that powers not explicitly given to the federal government are given to the states and there’s no mention of murder, or most other crimes, in the constitution. That’s not saying that murder isn’t a big deal or anything, that’s just how it is written out. Probably some other things can make it federal too, like killing a federal agent or member of the military. Here's a nice little article about how a bunch of drunk people get federal DUI charges at the Pentagon because it's a confusing interchange. (This is not what I got in trouble for, for the record. I believe I had an expired plate? I really don't remember it was a long time ago.)
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SneezeOfTheDecade posted:Clay Bennett Uhh
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DarklyDreaming posted:My main takeaway from Defunctland is that yeah, Disney was a paternalistic conservative who thought Leave it To Beaver was the natural state of humanity and any deviations from that model should be corrected as violently as possible. Buuuuuut if it made the company money he'd ditch those principles in a heartbeat, and did so at every opportunity People ditching their principles for a paycheck is not unheard of, and sometimes when it happens it's a net positive. But not always.
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Lodin posted:Lol, the reason they decided to ditch Spot was because you can easily take it out by kicking it over and yanking the battery out. That or you can just dump a bucket of water on it. I like to pretend that it was because Spot was programmed to document any laws being broken, and it just kept documenting police.
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Pants Donkey posted:So Bolling’s link. It’s an actual NFT, and he’s only donating half the profits to a carbon fund. Because supporting a destructive technology is okay if you donate to charity! Some people take the next step of "there is no ethical consumption under capitalism" to be "so go nuts" rather than "but don't do something exponentially worse you loving clowns"
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Pants Donkey posted:So Bolling’s link. It’s an actual NFT, and he’s only donating half the profits to a carbon fund. Because supporting a destructive technology is okay if you donate to charity! How much does that carbon fund do? Does it actually get CO2 removed from the air? Because CO2 is all the same; if you release 100 tons and capture 300 tons then that's pretty good.
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Dylan16807 posted:How much does that carbon fund do? Does it actually get CO2 removed from the air? Because CO2 is all the same; if you release 100 tons and capture 300 tons then that's pretty good. Carbon funds have long been known to be an incredibly ineffective way of trying to stop climate change, and they provide no "capture" of carbon so much as they try to offset various emissions. But regardless of that, there is no amount of carbon funding that supersedes the amount of waste that NFTs cause for absolutely zero benefit to anyone (except the buyer's ego and the seller's bank account). Even if he was giving ALL the profits to the carbon fund, it almost certainly wouldn't result in a net loss of anything. UZworm fucked around with this message at 22:35 on Apr 30, 2021 |
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Chip Bok Steve Breen  Tim Campbell  Stuart Carlson  Matt Davies  John Deering  Al Goodwyn  Steve Kelley  Mike Lester  Michael Ramirez  Gary Varvel  Ah, good old Commu-Fasc. Matt Wuerker  Tony Branco  quote:Santa’s Little Helper I dunno, that baby seems to be able to lift it alright. Must be all that public investment into making the baby stronger.
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UZworm posted:Carbon funds have long been known to be an incredibly ineffective way of trying to stop climate change, and they provide no "capture" of carbon so much as they try to offset various emissions. Carbon credits fail because the systems are set up badly, not because all forms of paying to reduce carbon are doomed to failure. Is he donating to buy carbon credits? If so that's a pretty flawed setup. But if he would donate to directly bury some charcoal or whatever, then we could measure a real amount of change on the amount of CO2. And your second point doesn't really work. If a chunk of the money is going to a good cause then "absolutely zero benefit" stops being true. It might not be nearly enough, but we have to actually check the numbers to know.
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Dylan16807 posted:Carbon credits fail because the systems are set up badly, not because all forms of paying to reduce carbon are doomed to failure.  personified
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Nameless Pete posted:FACISM A covid virus wearing a mask labeled FACISM has got to be the singularly most stupid concentration of political cartoons in existence
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Poor Bernie, demoted from Socialism to Communism. Not gonna lie, those things look like a toy I remember them selling back in the mid-90s
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the_steve posted:Poor Bernie, demoted from Socialism to Communism. One of these, I'm guessing?  And what do these guys think is going to happen to our grandkids if we continue with deficit spending? That around 2050 the US will have to declare bankruptcy?
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Raised By Birds posted:Al Goodwyn
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Lemming posted:A covid virus wearing a mask labeled FACISM has got to be the singularly most stupid concentration of political cartoons in existence
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Moon Slayer posted:
Who knows! It doesn't matter, or it didn't for four years previous apparently
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the_steve posted:Poor Bernie, demoted from Socialism to Communism. 
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Lemming posted:A covid virus wearing a mask labeled FACISM has got to be the singularly most stupid concentration of political cartoons in existence THEY GO ON YOUR FACE! READ BETWEEN THE LINES PEOPLE.
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Moon Slayer posted:One of these, I'm guessing? That hyperinflation will render all of your savings worthless ANY DAY NOW. They've been saying that since 2009, if not earlier, but they really mean it this time!
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Lemming posted:A covid virus wearing a mask labeled FACISM has got to be the singularly most stupid concentration of political cartoons in existence "Fascism is when the government won't let me do something I want to do or makes me do something I don't want to do. Good governance is when the government murders you."
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