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Jack Gladney posted:A week to a month in an residential rehab clinic seems to purge the record for whatever reason, like character flaws are a mental illness or something. Didn't it come out a few years back that antipsychotics take the edge off extreme racist views?
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# ¿ Jul 4, 2013 10:54 |
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2024 06:42 |
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Pixelboy posted:Humbolt Squid, but they'd just as happily attack you given the chance. One of the few animals I won't get in the water with. Wikipedia says they grow to almost five feet, which is frightening in a species that only lives a year.
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# ¿ Jul 5, 2013 06:20 |
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The funny part is, Dio got the gesture from his mother, to whom it was a sign to ward off evil influences.
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# ¿ Aug 24, 2013 04:28 |
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SeraphSlaughter posted:If AC/DC is getting this lady riled up, extreme forms of metal would probably cause her mind to implode. Perhaps hammer smash her face. If you're not careful with those references, you might end up with every bone broken.
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# ¿ Aug 24, 2013 15:20 |
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Chandragupta posted:Why is there a narrative that there are bands of black guys wandering around looking for white people to murder? All of these conservative posts fail to mention that black people are disproportionatly the victims of violent crime. Because to right-wingers only white people are real.
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# ¿ Aug 26, 2013 01:08 |
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Mike's never going to get over the fact that his dad didn't care about him, is he?
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# ¿ Aug 27, 2013 13:58 |
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Rich people loving hate low unemployment because it raises wages and reduces their control over their employees, and many econ professors (like Mark Thoma) are basically lapdogs to power.
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# ¿ Sep 12, 2013 05:42 |
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"Chickenhawk" was also a popular insult during the Iraq War, which was planned and run by a bunch of former draft-dodgers.
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# ¿ Nov 15, 2013 08:42 |
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Reminder that the concept of a person being homosexual or heterosexual was completely foreign to the ancient Greeks and Romans.
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# ¿ Dec 19, 2013 02:25 |
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Medium has Bors and Jen Sorenson, and also I think Ryan Pequin, and they're the only reasons to ever click on a Medium link.
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# ¿ Feb 22, 2014 05:20 |
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constantIllusion posted:I've always wondered why people like that think that no one who has tattoos and piercings, or who wears baggy clothing, ever works. It's like in their minds that only people who wear polo shirts and khakis as casual wear are gainfully employed. Because aesthetic cultural markers are more important to a lot of people than basic sense.
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# ¿ Mar 7, 2014 08:35 |
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VideoTapir posted:via Terminal Lance: You know, the vets I've known have been pretty unanimous in disliking being painted as bloodthirsty psychopaths who care less about getting paid decently than about getting to kill people. I'm curious as to who thought giving this guy a mic was a good idea.
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# ¿ Apr 10, 2014 04:49 |
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joepinetree posted:I'll let the NY Times take this: He must not watch a lot of American football.
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# ¿ Jun 17, 2014 15:50 |
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A discount for praying publicly? Can I get one for telling poor people that they have to sit on the floor, too? Since that's another thing Jesus explicitly said not to do.
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# ¿ Aug 6, 2014 21:32 |
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SeraphSlaughter posted:http://nypost.com/2014/08/18/enough-sanctimony-ladies-catcalls-are-flattering/ I refuse to believe that this is real.
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# ¿ Aug 23, 2014 11:57 |
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Kegluneq posted:"Sticks and stones may break my bones..."? ...but words can make me think I deserved it.
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# ¿ Sep 25, 2014 09:19 |
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Torpor posted:I really think this is like a soda/pop discussion. Whereas you refer to violence as some kind of umbrella term I would use other words. Why you prefer the word violence is beyond me. Because avoiding the word violence is being done to minimize the harm.
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# ¿ Sep 26, 2014 00:39 |
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7c Nickel posted:Still not actually a statement about "all gamers" in general, which was the original claim. If you assume that gamers as a whole support you because you lack the ability to comprehend that other opinions and viewpoints are valid or even exist except as dishonest strategies to take away your toys, I can see how you'd see that as aimed at all gamers. Pope Guilty fucked around with this message at 22:26 on Nov 19, 2014 |
# ¿ Nov 19, 2014 22:19 |
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Popular Thug Drink posted:Part of why I even care about gamergate is that I don't identify as a gamer because I find gamer culture and lifestyle pathetic. I am not defined by my hobbies or consumer choices, but I meet the general definition of a hardcore gamer. One of the funniest gamer misogynist grievance things is that timeline where year after year women make fun of the creator for playing videogames until they get into casual games and suddenly want to ban all games they don't like. The funniest part, aside from the sheet unreality and telling us way more about the creator that he meant to tell us, is that the timeline starts in 1995. Jack Gladney posted:Yeah, that seems much more like people suddenly learning what left politics actually are how belief systems inform behavior. It's the other side of growing up churchy in a small conservative town and seeing your gay friend actually get kicked out into the street by his parents and seeing your own parents refuse to help. I remember thinking I was super liberal and lefty right up until I (STEREOTYPE INCOMING) took a class on feminist ethics and epistemology which used radical lesbian feminist writers for most of the course texts, particularly Marilyn Frye's outstanding The Politics of Reality. Completely opened up my head and showed me just how small and blinkered and disorganized my understanding and politics had been to that point. It wasn't easy, though- when you're reading stuff that's basically way ahead of where you are and implying that where you are is in fact way shittier than you thought it was, it can feel like a personal attack. To somebody who's not approaching such an experience in a spirit of openness and inquiry, I can absolutely imagine it being incredibly psychologically painful top deal with, even if that doesn't excuse how the shitheads are dealing with it.
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# ¿ Nov 19, 2014 22:50 |
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Ogmius815 posted:To be fair, as a person who plays violent video games and has played violent video games for a decade and a half, gamers are really loving myopic about the ways that violent video-games might be informing our perspectives on violence. It's sort of like goatse. The first time I saw goatse, I freaked the gently caress out (because I was like 12, but still). Goatse doesn't even phase me today, it's actually comforting in a weird way, like an old friend. It's literally as neutral as looking at a fruit bowl. I'm not sure that it's a good idea to get used to violent imagery like that, and I think that's what's happened to a lot of people. It's amazing how many people can't tell the difference between "sexist/violent media can influence our attitudes toward gender/violence" and "VIOLENT/SEXIST MEDIA FORCES YOU TO KILL/RAPE PEOPLE" and think they can dismiss the former due to the obvious falsehood of the latter.
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# ¿ Nov 20, 2014 10:36 |
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Goatman Sacks posted:Gamergate was always about conservatism. Namely, white men being upset that their play toys might at some point not be 100% oriented towards them. And that women's bodies being to women.
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# ¿ Feb 9, 2015 03:43 |
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Jack of Hearts posted:No one is obligated to take anything at face value or give anyone the benefit of the doubt. But inasmuch as gaming media is worthless and corrupt by all accounts, as a nerd, I sympathize with the idea that a bunch of fellow nerds who liked games decided to object online. Even from the start maybe the majority was reactionary MRAs and other weirdos. But as an inclusionary leftist I don't believe in this sneering chauvinism. Ethics was never anything but a mask to fool overly-charitable types like yourself.
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# ¿ Feb 10, 2015 06:50 |
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Popular Thug Drink posted:
He's making a joke wherein he interprets my post as being about ethics as a field. It's a funny joke. Relax, chill, and have a chuckle.
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# ¿ Feb 10, 2015 06:59 |
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ErIog posted:It's an uneasy coalition, and transgender is a weird thing to lump in with L/G/B because it's not an issue of sexual attraction. So a lot of gay people do not identify at all with the trans movement because it's something they've not experienced. It's similar to how a lot of straight people couldn't identify with the experiences of gay people(and maybe still can't in some ways). Wanting to be a different gender and having sexual attraction to the same gender are very different experiences. I'm a fan of the term "Gender and Sexual Minorities" (GSM) since it's a big umbrella and explicitly references the position of those groups in society.
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# ¿ Feb 10, 2015 07:00 |
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Actually, it's about ethics in parking spaces.
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# ¿ Feb 21, 2015 07:38 |
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VideoTapir posted:Look at this big old steaming turd: My favorite part of this is how very, very carefully he avoids actually mentioning what happened in 2008 and why.
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# ¿ Oct 31, 2015 16:40 |
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This is by far the whiniest, most pathetic thing reeking of wounded aspiration to performing masculinity I've read in months, and that includes a lot of Gamergate horseshit.
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# ¿ Nov 3, 2015 03:54 |
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It would be more accurate to say that men in general tend to be misogynists.
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# ¿ Nov 4, 2015 17:19 |
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2024 06:42 |
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Yesterday I saw gas for $1.76, I dunno what he's on about. Gas is cheaper than it's been in like a decade.
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# ¿ Nov 19, 2015 19:34 |