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mine is that trump isn't the end of the world, emails aren't the end of the world, brexit isn't the end of the world, and syria is the end of the world but only for syria people are becoming hysterical about everything we have reached peak information age - everyone is furious and the truth doesn't exist let alone matter
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hard counter posted:i'm guessing it's a jab at the juvenile content and aesthetics of metal bands, or how they're perceived anyway, focusing especially on their histrionic material and delivery that's perhaps more suited to the grosser tastes of teenagers (who insist Linkin Park's Crawling has more complexity and nuance than the whole of Don't forget 'I read a newspaper for the first time the world is bleak and dead and the man is eeeeviiiil'
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Jastiger posted:Eugenics isn't bad. Just in case anyone thinks this is a normal person's post, it isn't
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Trying to label political movements is almost as pointless as labeling generations. Everyone has a different definition, even in academia. There might be a general consensus on what a millenial is or what an alt-right is but everyone outside of academic circles (and even to some degree within them) will never agree on what they actually are besides "people we don't like". Most of them are only looking for variations on The Enemy anyway, such as mr poster who thinks the right is honest nazis and dishonest nazis. My unpopular opinion is that americans/the internet at large to should try to see the world as something other than a continuum between Myself ------> South Park ------> Hitler
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E: Ignore me I can't read for poo poo
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 My character resists death with infinite willpower Your character's mind is shattered with the endless chaos of the abyss:goto10:
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Well What Now posted:The term "patriarchy" is an incredibly nebulous concept and maybe, just maybe, feminists should need to leave it out of discourse aimed at mass audiences because besides being hard to define it can also sound somewhat insulting to the uninformed. Which is a bad thing. This is the weirdest thing and it applies to almost all left leaning causes, from vidya game representation to gunpoint communism. There are so many ways to get a message across but they always pick the one which is the most confrontational and alienating to the people they have to convince. It's like they think if they rage angrily enough the universe will recognise they're right and adjust itself.
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doverhog posted:Teachers used to be allowed to, and did, beat the students with wooden rods. Is that the kind of authority you are talking about? I don't think goons understand the difference between bullying someone and just mocking them. Mocking might teach someone what is socially acceptable, but bullying doesn't give a poo poo what you do in response. It doesn't matter if you stop being weird; someone will still put you down because they've learned it's entertaining.
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lol no one gets revenge for when they were miserable as a kida goon posted:I was bullied and ended up a Something Awful Forums poster. If they had only chopped my arm off I might have changed my ways and this never would have happened!!
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Pick posted:Essentially the entire business plan of Waitrose is to charge more for exactly the same products to keep the poors out, and they're doing well. Poor people don't shop in overpriced expensive shops. What a conspiracy!
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That's why when I go home I try to spend at least four hours meditating on the struggle against communism
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veni veni veni posted:I don't think he understands how unappealing stuff like Star Trek, Stargate, babylon 5, Farscape etc. is to the average person, because people that actually like those shows live in a bubble of people that actually watch them. Absolutely this. veni veni veni posted:Also, related unpopular opinion. I hate "world building" and prefer to call it bloat. But how else will I know where my nerdy daydreaming fits in the Expended Timeline or the List of Light Side Paragon Jedi Powers???
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Das Boo posted:Agreed! I was trying to think of how best to say, "I only like sci fi if it's the lesser classification of the genre," but referring to it as a setting instead really clarifies the idea. Alien and Moon were excellent not because they were sci fi, but because they used sci fi elements to strengthen the important factors of their primary genre. They both use sci fi to amplify the loneliness and helplessness of a horror and psychological drama rather than using technology as magic. But but what about rich white men who have never held a human conversation writing about what they think Real Science will do for them in the future? (The answer usually involves them having twelve year old girlfriends, but you guys it's really good I swear if you just ignore that bit)
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Hey come on at least gas giant planet was cool, especially at the time, don't you dare deny it 
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Yeah and I really like it. I'm no fan of the old guard 'future history' type stuff though, and that often seems to be what people mean when they call for serious exploration of technology. At least when it gets to the point of 'xyz isn't real sci fi'.
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You can enjoy both dumb poo poo and intellectual poo poo Sometimes even in the same day(???)
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Missiles from Such is life.
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I hear in some cases you can run a post conflict country without murdering thousands of vaguely defined opponents and using torture as a routine policing tool.
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Not to worry, now they've upgraded to a counterintelligence state 
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He has a very intelligent British voice and progressive opinions, therefore 
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Dec 23, 2016 23:58
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Er almost any writer outside of superhero comics?
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Darks Souls levelling has pretty small incrememts so if you're scared it's pretty easy to bank your exp at a bonfire. 'Poker is an awful game if I lose a round I lose all the chips I wagered  '
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My unpopular opinion is that every government kills people and that the selection of drone targets is pretty above board as far as that goes
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Aramek posted:Commies and Libertarians always come off as this "Beep, boop? Social rules?" type of developmentally disabled that it just breaks my heart. They strike me as people who don't understand differences in opinion and beleive the world has an objective solution (naturally, the problems include everything they don't personally like)
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Baronjutter posted:The internet of things and home automation are loving stupid and make me feel like an angry luddite. We're living in a world where people can and do hack your lightbulbs and appliances. Idiot nerds spending 10k on a bunch of stupid automation poo poo so they can turn their lights on from their phone or adjust the furnace using cloud based personal biometrics while playing their VR game and their Wifi kettle AI can predict when you need another cup of coffee. Sure it doesn't work half the time and needs hours to set up and isn't actually practical but it's so cool man!!! O'Neill Cylinders
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Mu Zeta posted:They are both bad but not equally bad. Islam is clearly worse. Muslims revere a pedophile war monger. I got bad news for you about many saints, tons of popes, all churches older than a decade. Also any historical figure you ever respected.
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You people realise that most religions will self segregate into different denominations for your convenience in telling their views apart? And that even within that there night be... disagreements? And that some people might not be public with their disagreement or might not care either way? So what on earth does 'Christian' mean as a global political force, beyond smug generalisations from the local Young Socialists meeting? But no we must have clear categories of good and bad or my pulse rate rises 
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Even US fundamentalists don't manage to do that because it's too contradictory. Also because I have a better grasp of theology, just from studying late Roman history, than they do from a lifetime of '''''faith'''''.
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My opinion is that half the time people say capitalism their complaint actually covers any unequal power dynamic.
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Canemacar posted:Feminism was co-opted by corporate and government interests as a means of forcing women into the workforce as the economy shifted to a 2-breadwinners-per-family model. This greatly expanded the pool of available workers paying taxes, and increased competition for available jobs resulting in stagnant wages. You really they have put that much thought into it, or exercise that level of control or in particular that level of coordination? Feminism (with massive wage gaps) is publically popular and it is personally feel-good for most of the people making the decisions. That's it. There is no organised conspiracy, just the path of least resistance.
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MizPiz posted:The friends and family members of ICE agents are acceptable targets for harassment, so long as it's specifically for being a friend or family member of an ICE agent. So if you had a brother who joined, and got a brick through your window, you'd go out front on your belly and ask for another?
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MizPiz posted:Accoustic covers of songs always suck It's the other way round! Most lyrics are vapid garbage sung over a tune that deserves much better. I just want to enjoy the song without the singer informing me it's about how he treats her so baaaad but it still feels so goooood etc
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MizPiz posted:I'm well aware of that, but we are talking about a guy who comes from a culture that has effectively made pedophilia a state institution. Hollywood?
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You take off your shoes so you don't tread mud or dirt all over the floor. It's not some weird requirement, at least outside of wherever you live
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Solice Kirsk posted:Wasn't most of the guillotining done by rich people on other rich people? Of course it was, but 14yr olds' revenge fantasies are in and moderation is out
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Tubgoat posted:It's insanely easy to feel superior to peeps who chat at great length about their financial investments and longterm plans as though we don't have maybe 20 years of a moderately-inhabitable planet left and their reverence of the flim-flammery that is capitalism is the cause. must be a real miserable state of mind to live in
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Actually, life, is good 
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Mum: You need to clean your room Tea it's getting gross... Me: YOU WON'T FOOL ME, CAPITALIST DOGS  then Lenin high fived me and we sung bohemian rhapsody
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Pastry of the Year posted:You're going to die eventually, and until your own personal body is well and truly on fire, there is a buffet of pleasures (small and big, but mostly small) that make individual moments/hours/days worth living, so opting to miss out on them because of a (however accurately) pessimistic long view is also not the decision of a mentally well person. The idea that "unlike other peoples' depression, my depression is a rational response to my lovely situation" is probably one of the most insidious parts of the disease. This is a very unpopular opinion. I personally love Nobly Being Right even when it makes me miserable
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