The Pitters' Place

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I said Vader not Joker!

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I have some beef with Adam Johnson because of his part in the uncharitable, tribalist nonsense between hard, left-leaning Dems and socialists...but this is really well-written.

And Dave Rubin is a punk ass bitch.

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She was always a step ahead...and she would have lived if not for that Bernie Sanders-looking fuck.

I hope the FF7 remake uses the exact same soundtrack.

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Did the dinosaurs have feathers or not?

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What was Abe Lincoln like?

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I listen to a lot of contemporary music, but music from movies, tv, and games(FF7 soundtrack is the greatest game soundtrack) has always struck me for some reason.

'Light of the Seven' is great, but I'm still mad they did my girl like that. She was too cunning to go out that way. Y'all know who...

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This franchise used to simply be about street-racing and platonic man-love...what happened? Now Vin Diesel is uppercutting grenades into fighter jets while skydiving or some shit. He says he owes him a ten-second car, but he's really offering his infinite-second heart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

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Wasn't as scary as I expected, though there were some really creepy moments, but it was really good.

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Common sense is another word for prejudice.

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https://twitter.com/netw3rk/status/877669270531878913

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Aw man, did phe_de let the mask slip a little?

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Basically if you are afraid of black guys you can kill us. You can see from the footage that the cop was genuinely afraid, so that's all that really counts apparently. Same defense that female cop used recently. Doesn't matter that the fear is irrational, and based on racist stereotypes...and the dr...

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I think one of the most evil things in the world is not being nice to evil people.

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Long, but pretty good video from Coughlan on the mainstreaming of extreme right-wing views/policies by irresponsible jackasses

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNhie_K7A9M&t=670s[/youtube]

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And I think it expresses itself in your impulse to validate your values as being "objective" in some way....objective enough to be convincing to ideological enemies. It's like you are naively trying to play fair with ideological enemies, when the problem with ideological enemies is that t...

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Speaking of tone-deaf respectability bs:

https://twitter.com/ezraklein/status/874984691786543104

oy

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Seems the fanboys weren't too happy with it

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This twitter thread really exemplifies why men are pure garbage:

https://twitter.com/mala_munoz/status/8 ... 3520185344

I mean...it doesn't surprise me to hear things like this now...but this really got under my skin for some reason.

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So, the point is to "obviously stop them" but without "changing their mind"... ...and the way you intend to do this is to "hold them accountable"... ...by refusing to let them to work out at the gyms of their choice. I do indeed have a "very superficial grasp"...

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Ok wait, I think my view is getting conflated with phe_de's here. I don't believe in neutrality no matter what, and recently wrote a Facebook post ranting against this article that wanted to consider 'both sides' of a clearly racist thing. My argument is that things shouldn't be banned or condemned...

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Because majorities don't decide what is actually morally right, they only enforce it. An important distinction that people conflate and/or confuse. People decide, not "majorities". So, yes, just because a majority(or powerful minority) enforces a norm, doesn't mean it's actually just. On ...

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Derived Absurdity wrote:Can someone sum up this thread for me? I'm way too lazy and impatient to read through it.

Edit: sorry if that sounded shitty but it seems like we have a conversation like this every month lol

Sheeeeiiit. I've been having this conversation, in some form or another, for years.

Read the damn thread.

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But I am not so arrogant as to assume that my opinion is more valid than anyone else's. My sister got into an argument like this with one of her friends who considered it arrogant that she considered her opinion was more correct than others. It confused us because a) most people think that they are...

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There's a time and place to attack people with vile opinions, and it isn't at the gym or the supermarket or the movies where the people in question are not actively peddling their brand of racism but living their everyday lives. His everyday life is being a white supremacist though. It's not like h...

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Me: phe_de, I think you should be drawn and quartered phe_de: I disagree, but at least I'm not so arrogant to think my opinion is more valid You are correct. It isn't. But I have the law on my side. "I know you're conspiring to torture and murder me right now, but as a humble gentleman and sch...

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Me: phe_de, I think you should be drawn and quartered phe_de: I disagree, but at least I'm not so arrogant to think my opinion is more valid You are correct. It isn't. But I have the law on my side. "I know you're conspiring to torture and murder me right now, but as a humble gentleman and sch...

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There's a time and place to attack people with vile opinions, and it isn't at the gym or the supermarket or the movies where the people in question are not actively peddling their brand of racism but living their everyday lives. His everyday life is being a white supremacist though. It's not like h...

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But I am not so arrogant as to assume that my opinion is more valid than anyone else's. My sister got into an argument like this with one of her friends who considered it arrogant that she considered her opinion was more correct than others. It confused us because a) most people think that they are...

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And we know for damn sure that society didn't evolve morally because centrists sat around having "rational" discussions entertaining/accomodating the "equal" validity of every moral position. But I am not so arrogant as to assume that my opinion is more valid than anyone else's. ...

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This might be truer than people realize: https://twitter.com/eugenevdogs/status/873172265021710336 I remember seeing some survey or study vox that discovered that right-wing voters used authoritarian parenting while dems and leftists were more egalitarian in their parenting. These right-wing millenn...

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Derived Absurdity wrote:I knew what that tweet would be before I even read the url

You know me well

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Before I forget: this is also fundamentally about the tension between the norms of society/civility vs. core value differences. And how far does one go to fight for values at the expense of certain good faith norms/expectations of behavior? Which boils down to what is at stake. Extreme neutralists a...

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This is Mariah Carey's greatest song. Don't fight me on this.

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This one goes out to all the white knight manginas, cucks, simps, and captain save-a-hoes

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Ode to The Metal

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Morality and where one draws the line is heavily influenced by the surrounding culture, and any system of punishment based on that becomes subject to what the majority believes is right or wrong. I don't trust majorities to know that. Because majorities don't decide what is actually morally right, ...

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What's the point of asking if any of us would be okay with fundies demanding that businesses don't serve gay people? What in the hell does that have to do with demanding that businesses don't serve Nazis? Do you seriously think there's some kind of inconsistency there? It's the manatee theory of hu...

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That is true. However, what is relevant is what the majority thinks. There may be people who believe that murder is permissible under certain circumstances; but as long as they don't become mainstream, it doesn't matter . Ah, so you are sometimes willing, without invoking slippery slope nonsense, t...

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This thread has made me realize that I should be uncomfortable with locking people up for murder. If we lock people up for things just because we think they're wrong, we must remember that other people have different ideas of what wrong is. Where do we draw the line? What if people just start lockin...

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I lack common sense and I'm proud of it. -phe_de, definitely Indeed. Let's look at some examples of common sense. Dana Rohrabacher called it "Common Sense" to prohibit gays from joining the Boy Scouts. After all, it's common sense that homosexuals are more likely to be pedophiles, right? ...

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This is part of your problem. I've spoken about this before...you fetishize logic and "objectivity" to an ironically unreasonable point...to the point of meaninglessness.

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I lack common sense and I'm proud of it.

-phe_de, definitely

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I think he means that when you say this woman's actions create monsters, you're removing, or at least discounting, the agency and responsibility of monsters for being monsters. Like anti-SJW's aren't monsters because they're shitty people who don't give a damn about the oppressed and just want to c...

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Laci has lost her damn mind. She has joined the dark side. Some have speculated that she is more far gone than she is letting on, and I'm inclined to agree...based on how she's been interacting with sjws on social media. I wasn't that familiar with her. I used to be into the atheist community on you...

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I'm all for tolerance, but as a tolerance absolutist, that means we should also be tolerant of intolerance. Because if we don't also tolerate intolerance, then that means we have to use our own values, judgement and common sense to decide when the tolerance principle is applicable and when to take ...

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This is exactly the kind of behavior that creates monsters like this and that gets you a Trump president. Some people are natural monsters but some are created and a lot have been created by these kind of actions There are no Dr Frankensteins running around creating monsters. Monsters create themse...

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I've randomly been thinking about how superhero stories actually have really important, basic moral lessons. Superheroes and supervillains both have origin stories that "justify" their fate. They both often come from some kind of pain/hurt and anger...yet they go in very different directio...

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^ Richard Spencer's origin story

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I haven't read it yet, but you can be angry at this woman(whatever she did) without making excuses for monsters.

Having compassion/understanding for monsters without accountability is dangerous infantilization.

-Castor Troy, Just now

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Laci Green is the latest victim of horseshoe theory.

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