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Deuteronomy 22:23-24 posted:If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you. There's a reason we don't use the Old Testament as a basis for our laws. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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On the subject of the Olympics, today is probably the first day in a long time the Daily Mail have anything nice to say about a black person or an immigrant.
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Aug 12, 2012 20:21
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 London was a scary-rear end place even before the Olympics. 
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Aug 15, 2012 00:26
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Gonzo McFee posted:This is because we are all lazy, drug using, selfish workshy bastards of a generation. Neo Liberalism has always worked for us before. It's my fault I am unemployed and unable to find work. I see your Bill Bailey and raise you Theresa May: 
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Aug 22, 2012 02:50
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Fluo posted:I see your Theresa May and raise you Patrick Stewart: My goal is to scare y'all, not to impress y'all. 
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Aug 22, 2012 08:06
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FadingChord posted:From outside the DNC in Charlotte:  The cast and crew of Father Ted note that the lasting legacy of the show is that every protest in the past 15 years has been accompanied with at least one placard saying this.
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Sep 2, 2012 21:16
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Or, in the words of former Conservative MP Peter Griffiths, "If you want a friend of the family for a neighbour, vote Liberal or Labour". 
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Sep 5, 2012 23:21
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:Dont worry man it's all good. ACAB, I know, but... 
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Sep 12, 2012 23:41
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anonumos posted:As much as I respect the guy, Julian just needs to get over himself. You shouldn't respect him, he's a rapist. Wikileaks still kicks rear end though. Here's "Gorgeous" George Galloway's opinion on the matter. 
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Sep 14, 2012 03:43
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Orange_Lazarus posted:
Shadow President! Megarule: Here's a shadow government of a more milquetoast variety: 
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Sep 15, 2012 01:50
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Lord Lambeth posted:I always got bored and nuked everyone in shadow president. That's what you get for the spice girls britain. It's lovely to see trans people actually treated as something more than that letter on the end of the acronym. Because, well, yeah: 
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Sep 15, 2012 02:27
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286 Electoral Votes. I personally would've added Virginia just to make sure. So, thread, I'm pretty sure that you've seen the famous Young Conservative poster saying "Hang Nelson Mandela". But that was back in the eighties! Surely they've learnt no-  Oh. 
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Sep 19, 2012 05:13
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Nahdrav posted:Literally met this guy IRL, And he's digging himself deeper on this poo poo: 
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Sep 23, 2012 06:50
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bionic sheep posted:I've been following this whole debacle in a roundabouts way because Alex Peters-Day is a friend of a friend, so I see updates on facebook from time to time. For the record, she is a total badass and has been sticking it to this piss bubble at every opportunity: Alex is absolutely amazing. She's been one of the biggest trans allies over the past few weeks, and it's been a pleasure talking to her over Twitter. Related image: 
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Sep 26, 2012 17:31
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Enjoy posted:Some of those seem like good arguments for intervention in the sex market so idgi? Anti-sex-worker laws are problematic in the same way that abortion bans, or, arguably, drug or gun bans are: if people require to engage in sex work to live, then they'll do that regardless of what laws surround the actual profession. And a non-negligible proportion of sex workers do engage in survival sex. Not only that, but once you're "rescued" from sex work, the State won't do anything to help you. For example, trans women are one of the highest-incidence groups for sex work and survival sex but the legal system is so anti-trans it's really loving depressing (recent equality legislation in the UK made it legal again to refuse anyone who looks transy, even people with GRCs, access to shelters and single-sex hospital wards). The best way to reduce sex work levels is a strong welfare net so those people who turn to sex work out of poverty don't need to any more. All banning sex work does is make sex work unsafe. It doesn't prevent sex work at all. It's just a way of slut-shaming wrapped up in paternalistic language. This is why intersectionality is a vital concept to any contemporary feminism. White middle-class lesbians are not the most oppressed against people in existence. Women, people of colour, sex workers, trans people, LGB people, religious minorities, the working class, the disabled, etc... are all oppressed by those inherent power structures (aka: the Patriarchy), and very often on very similar grounds. And very too often, a large amount of feminists join sides with the Patriarchy against other women very often trans women, sex workers, or both without thinking it through. Luckily, some of them realise how their activism can be used against women - Andrea Dworkin, a fervent anti-pornography advocate, was also very much opposed to criminalising pornography under obscenity laws because of the damage it could do to women in poverty. But even worse, some people do think it through and still push for these kinds of laws; see Janice Raymond's unholy alliance with the Reagan-era Republicans to get transition-related medical procedures delisted as Medicaid-eligible, which meant insurance providers could remove those procedures from cover, which directly led to with horrific rates of sex work, poverty, mental illness, suicide, and even hate crimes upon trans people, especially trans women. (I could blog on this... would take me some time to write, though.) On a feminism-related note, here's someone I know at the SlutWalk in London last Saturday, before it went on an Assange-defending spree: 
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Sep 30, 2012 15:04
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prefect posted:Hillary Amy Pond?  Ronald Reagan, 1937/8: 
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Oct 2, 2012 16:40
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 This is not the Tory conference. This is the Labour conference.
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Oct 3, 2012 16:53
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So this happened: 
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Oct 18, 2012 18:10
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Peace and Freedom, guys! (Unless you're a tranny)
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Oct 26, 2012 17:41
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Frosted Flake posted:Sex ≠ Gender. Hey, thanks for putting me at risk of urinary tract infections or serious assault!   47%. That's way too loving high.
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Oct 26, 2012 18:02
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Don't know why you're so concerned with our genitals anyway. Are you some kind of pervert? Women's toilets are just stalls, last time I checked. There's no way you're gonna know what a woman has in her pants unless you're looking. Which is sexual harassment, I'm sure you're aware. Also, I should point out that the amount of trans-on-cis assaults in toilets is extremely negligible. Don't want to say none, because someone will say "but this happened", but it happens about as much as feminists burn bras, Jews drink blood, Satanists sacrifice children, and people on welfare having kids to get a bigger cheque. 
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Oct 26, 2012 18:29
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I'm glad to hear of your medical expertise, and your dissension from your peers that reparative therapy for trans people doesn't work and that transition is the only effective method of treating gender dysphoria.
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Oct 26, 2012 18:39
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prefect posted:She recently gave a big speech, and it sounds like she's pretty happy these days, which is a nice thing. I saw the speech and it was simultaneously happy and sad. And I was gonna post Laura Jane Grace.   Luke Anderson, winner of this year's Big Brother, and the second trans person to win Big Brother. Like Nadia Almada eight years ago, he was subject to transphobic jokes in tabloid coverage of the series.  Regardless, like Nadia, he endeared himself to the public's heart. 
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Oct 26, 2012 19:32
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Lord Lambeth posted:What's wrong with black hitler? I'm pretty sure it's adolf hitler that was the bad one. I ate spaceman paninis with him!   massey ferguson posted:there are trans and then there are trans who wont shut the gently caress up about it, some of whom could really benefit from therapy. I'm not saying this to be snarky, I went through therapy myself for depression and drug addiction and it was the best thing i ever done Careful. You're veering close to "feminists would get more victories if they weren't so strident" territory. (I was at a talk a few months ago which touched upon stuff like this while discussing New Atheism's conscious parallels with feminism)
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Oct 26, 2012 20:38
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Kieselguhr Kid posted:Perfect excuse: The Black Gestapo trailer What I mean is that the Dawkins, Hitchens, and Harris, Dawkins especially, are deliberately trying to parallel feminism when advocating atheism awareness and secularism. Look at the God Delusion, which talks about consciousness raising and parallels Simone de Beauvoir's "one becomes, rather than is born, a woman" when he talks about religious children. 
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Oct 27, 2012 00:06
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Noreaus posted:Jesus christ. That's over ten years of income for the bottom fifth of UK households. On loving alcohol, in one night. This is loving disgusting wealth. The fact that this makes me more angry than the horrible drone strike pictures, which just elicit a sense a crushing despair and hopelessness, probably makes me an awful person. The Graun's maps on poverty are very elucidating.  A map of last year's riots overlaid on poverty levels for areas in Manchester. Red areas are the poorest, yellow dots are the addresses of all people arrested on suspicion of offences during the riots.
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Oct 31, 2012 06:22
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KoldPT posted:
50 States of Grey!  While eyes were on America or Jimmy Savile's mates, a Labour MP came out with this sexist STDH couple of tweets:   lol, women having facial hair! That's in no way sexist or transphobic at all! (At least two of those RTs are holding people to accountability so he can't delete them, I should point out)
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Nov 9, 2012 00:23
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front wing flexing posted:The best part about that diamond is the fact that Nazism is closer to equality than US Republicans. IL-04 was actually drawn like that to ensure a Hispanic Representative for the two Hispanic communities of Chicago!  Speaking of gerrymandering, the Republicans' efforts to hold onto the majority this year have to be brought up. The Democrats actually won the popular vote, 48.8-48.5. But the Republicans still hold 233 of 435 seats in Congress, because of Republican state legislatures elected after the 2010 wave election gerrymandering the districting in their favour. This is Pennsylvania after Tuesday:  Of the five congressional districts the Democrats won, they were won with 85%, 89%, 69%, 77%, and 61% of the vote. For comparison, the thirteen Republican house districts were mostly won with between 55% and 60% of the vote. The Democrats won both the House election in Pennsylvania and the Presidential election pretty handily,, but had the Republican State House had their way and changed the electoral college allocation to per-congessional district, they would've given thirteen of their twenty electoral votes to Mitt Romney.
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Nov 13, 2012 01:42
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Political compass chat: it's funny seeing anarchism as a right-wing position on these charts. I don't think any anarchist with the faculties to examine their ideology would think that outsourcing government oppression to the private sector would be a good idea. 
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Nov 13, 2012 14:02
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Omi-Polari posted:Shows the contrast a bit better: The arc going through Mississippi to South Carolina, as well as Western Mississippi, is a Cretaceous-era coastline that left the region with soil very favourable to cotton production. So slaveowners would produce cotton there, and the descendants of those slaves continue to live in those areas.  1988 election. Oh, and the easiest way to debunk the "Party of Lincoln" myth, this is the 1956 (Eisenhower landslide) and 1964 (Johnson landslide, just after the Civil Rights Act passed):  
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Nov 14, 2012 12:22
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Strong Female posted:It's going to be interesting to see how this will change in 10 or even 5 years: Grey's Anatomy is awful on other sorts of diversity; this is the series that gave us the immortal quote "you can't be "sort-of" a lesbian!"  Kyrsten Sinema, first openly bisexual Representative, elected as a Democrat to represent the Arizona 9th.
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Nov 14, 2012 18:52
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Laminator posted:
Not the worst Ten Commandments typo ever... 
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Nov 17, 2012 17:44
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 Holy gently caress, digger.  E: Jonnie Marbles remains amazing. 
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Nov 18, 2012 03:14
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Luminous Cow posted:
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Nov 18, 2012 06:51
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:
Not the first time she's hosed it up for sane supporters of causes.  Natalie Reed posted:[Cathy] Brennan, in case the name isnt met by you with immediate, horrified recognition and a shiver down your spine (as thunder claps and the horses whinny), is one of the most vocal, adamant and bitter of the transphobic wing of radical feminism. (RationalWiki has a pretty good write-up about Brennan, which includes that quote.)
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Nov 18, 2012 19:47
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I really hope she just wasn't thinking of the possible implications of that tweet, but even if that's the case, prepare to see it hammered by the right wing and pro-Israel blogospheres.
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Amused to Death posted:I love this quote so much no matter how many times I see it. Yes, because women-led governments are always, always progressive...  (That said, I'd rather have Yvette Cooper than Ed Miliband as the Leader of the Labour Party, even though they're both as horrible when it comes to most of their politics)
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Nov 18, 2012 19:59
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CatCannons posted:
Would it be worth overlaying a map of minority communities and a map of Democratic-leaning counties? It's a no-brainer that such counties would lean Democratic with the Republicans declaring war on everyone but rich white cis straight men. 
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Nov 19, 2012 01:43
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Fried Chicken posted:I assume the point is that the IDF uses bullpups and carbines while the US uses rifles. The reason for that is because shorter weapons are better for stopping civilian revolt - better to clear tight restrictions that come with indoors/city fighting, less penetration means it is fine if you are against people without body armor and don't want to trash the surroundings. Whereas rifles are better for greater distance and penetration, but are more cumbersome if you are out to suppress a population. In other words, the IDF is supplied around the mission of curbstomping civilians, where as the US is still focused around fighting other armies. I'm pretty sure that Half-Life 2 subtly does this too. In the early game, your major opposition is the Civil Protection, who are glorified school bullies, and their weapons include suppressionary weapons such as stunsticks, manhacks (drones with spinning blades), and the real life MP7.  As you progress through the game, the enemies change into the infantry, the Combine Overwatch, who are equipped with an energy pulse rifle.  By the end of the game, you're constantly fighting against the Combine's invasion force onto each world. Each episode so far has had the Strider, basically Tripod-style things with disintegration lasers, as an end-game quasi-boss. 
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 20th November is Transgender Day of Remembrance. Over the past twelve months, at least 265 trans people, almost all of them trans women of colour, have been murdered in hate crimes. The above person, Cece McDonald, is thankfully not one of them. While across the country people were arguing about Trayvon Martin, Cece McDonald received 41 months in a Minnesota men's prison for involuntary manslaughter. Her only crime was to defend herself from attack while being trans and black. Had she not pled guilty to the lesser charge, she was facing 25 years in jail for murder.
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So, basically, Call of Duty got out-jingoed on its Red Dawn fantasy? You know, the same series that had this guy paid to consult and promote the game? 
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