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- Sat Oct 21, 2017 1:35 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: IT
- Replies: 32
- Views: 6628
Re: IT
i need more context than what Wikipedia gives
- Fri Oct 20, 2017 6:33 am
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: IT
- Replies: 32
- Views: 6628
Re: IT
I haven't yet read the book, but what's this about it having a child group sex scene? People bring that up a lot whenever Stephen King criticises Trump on Twitter or says anything about sexual abuse being bad.
- Thu Oct 19, 2017 2:52 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: From New Atheists to Fascists
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2151
Re: From New Atheists to Fascists
This explains a lot of things I'd been wondering about, particularly how so many New Atheists are suddenly holding political positions previously associated with Christian fundamentalists, while still going on about REASON LOGIC EVIDENCE. Meanwhile the left seems to have become a lot more supportive...
- Tue Oct 17, 2017 9:48 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Do me a favor
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4412
Re: Do me a favor
How many lesbians do you have, exactly?
- Mon Oct 16, 2017 2:46 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: "The Husband Stitch"
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1812
"The Husband Stitch"
https://electricliterature.com/what-i-dont-tell-my-students-about-the-husband-stitch-690899157394 lol at the guys mansplaining in the comments on an article about mansplaining. [none] the short story (linked there) is really good and also very unsettling the way that misogyny is framed as horror so...
- Fri Oct 13, 2017 10:59 am
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Last Jedi trailer
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1946
Re: Last Jedi trailer
I am ready to be assimilated by the porg collective.
- Wed Oct 11, 2017 8:18 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: respectability politics
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1422
respectability politics
usually I believe in it but sometimes it really sucks. [sad] I spent most of today being very polite to a TERF because I didn't know how to adequately explain my desire to yell at her, especially when her complaint was trans people being violent and unreasonably demanding to be seen as real men and ...
Scallops
TIL they have about a hundred bright blue eyeballs and terrifying rows of teeth.
here is a video my friend linked me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rhm7R01iL8'
we may not be friends any more
here is a video my friend linked me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rhm7R01iL8'
we may not be friends any more
- Wed Sep 27, 2017 1:46 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: The First White President
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4184
Re: The First White President
Rest of the quote: “And it will be a respectful thing, too," he assures, charging us to watch a video of Rand Paul speaking at Howard in 2015. “They're just gonna let him know they know their shit. I have no doubt they will take him to task. I'm certain of it." http://www.theroot.com/the-r...
- Mon Sep 25, 2017 3:37 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: who is this Andrew Tate dude
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2630
Re: who is this Andrew Tate dude
I like how he proudly describes himself as "Toxically Masculine". [none] also wtf: "Every time a vegan tweets me while I'm in this restaurant I order another meat dish I won't even eat. Poor animals die for no reason. :'(" with all the food waste, animals are already always dying...
- Mon Sep 25, 2017 1:43 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: who is this Andrew Tate dude
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2630
who is this Andrew Tate dude
wtf. [none] https://twitter.com/Cobratate/status/896341954346328064 On a Reddit discussion on that, people were suggesting that a whole bunch of male athletes should do that one day and then liberals will be sure to drop the trans movement very fast. But the International Olympic Committee has very ...
- Wed Sep 20, 2017 6:44 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: good tweet
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2450
Re: good tweet
Acting like good pals with Nazis is one thing, but I'm thinking about that black dude who makes an effort to befriend KKK members and through those relationships has convinced dozens of them to renounce their beliefs and work to fight against white supremacy. While this may not apply to the examples...
- Mon Sep 11, 2017 9:24 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: How do you explain power+prejudice?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2801
Re: How do you explain power+prejudice?
He just added "...women aren't oppressed. Men and women both have advantages and disadvantages in different situations." and then this analogy: The fact that people do X thing doesn't mean it's automatically racism or sexism or whatever other bias. For example, the fact that more people li...
- Mon Sep 11, 2017 5:48 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: How do you explain power+prejudice?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2801
Re: How do you explain power+prejudice?
In this instance he's asking how we determine how a particular race has power. The discussion ("can black people be racist") hinges on the assumption that black people in the US lack power as a race, which is what he's challenging, saying stuff like how the US just had a black president, a...
- Mon Sep 11, 2017 3:08 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: How do you explain power+prejudice?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2801
How do you explain power+prejudice?
Got caught up in a discussion of racism on Reddit regarding its definition of 'prejudice+power', where I'm being asked to prove "how you know whether anyone has power or not. What determines this, etc." The only answer I have is "you just know ", but this is clearly unsatisfactor...
- Sun Sep 10, 2017 2:19 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: The First White President
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4184
Re: The First White President
I read it last night and ended up overshooting my bedtime. It's good stuff.
- Mon Sep 04, 2017 5:27 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Happy Birthday DA!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3249
Re: Happy Birthday DA!
Happy birthday!
lol you have the same birthday as my brother. and now I've been made to think of December intercoursing.
lol you have the same birthday as my brother. and now I've been made to think of December intercoursing.
- Tue Aug 29, 2017 9:39 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Happy birthday Cash!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2884
Re: Happy birthday Cash!
Happy birthday!
- Mon Aug 28, 2017 5:15 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Two Singaporeans jailed in Abu Dhabi for "wearing women's clothes"
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1282
Re: Two Singaporeans jailed in Abu Dhabi for "wearing women's clothes"
EDIT: All the money has been raised! In the meantime, the sentence has been reduced to a DH10,000 fine (~US$2.8k) and deportation. :D I think that's the worst case scenario now. Not sure if the lawyers will or can still intervene to appeal further, and what will happen to all that money if not. They...
- Thu Aug 24, 2017 7:43 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Two Singaporeans jailed in Abu Dhabi for "wearing women's clothes"
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1282
Two Singaporeans jailed in Abu Dhabi for "wearing women's clothes"
One is a trans woman, the other her male (and possibly gay) friend who were there for a work project; the latter was actually in a normal white shirt but also had earrings on. Both are Muslim. They were arrested while having lunch at a mall and sentenced to a year's jail: http://www.straitstimes.com...
- Wed Aug 23, 2017 1:50 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Actress Louise Linton
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2193
Re: Actress Louise Linton
Lol from there I found this: https://www.instagram.com/barbiesavior/aels wrote:OH MY GOD, IT'S THIS WOMAN, IT'S THE SAME WOMAN AS THIS WOMAN: https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman ... .gtVY2yM3j
I had no idea, this is amazing.
- Tue Aug 22, 2017 2:40 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: This is the most illogical argument against gay marriage I've seen
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2624
Re: This is the most illogical argument against gay marriage I've seen
Every family produces decedents, eventually. :T Meanwhile, wtf: http://www.news.com.au/national/politics/antigay-marriage-signs-hurtful-but-democratic-pm-malcolm-turnbull/news-story/03a8fee2c030ed6695bfe723054bb08a Those stats aren't even true and were based off highly flawed studies that have been ...
- Tue Aug 22, 2017 2:29 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Total eclipse on August 21st
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7693
- Tue Aug 22, 2017 2:02 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Identifying Nazis
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1300
Identifying Nazis
I'm torn about how people are asking others to try and identify the people in the Charlottesville march. I have no sympathy for the Nazis, but a few were misidentified and innocent people ended up being bombarded with hate mail and death threats and stalking (including once after Shaun King blasted ...
- Mon Aug 21, 2017 3:31 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: This is the most illogical argument against gay marriage I've seen
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2624
Re: This is the most illogical argument against gay marriage I've seen
About a year ago they were deathly afraid that sinister transgender people would rape cisgender people in these bathrooms. Nah, they're still afraid of that, though they like to insist that they're only afraid of people pretending to be transgender to rape people. That argument doesn't even make se...
- Mon Aug 21, 2017 1:29 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: This is the most illogical argument against gay marriage I've seen
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2624
This is the most illogical argument against gay marriage I've seen
Their entire argument is that legalizing same sex marriage will lead to a rise in straight men pretending to be women so they can rape women in bathrooms, so if you don't want women to get raped by straight men, don't let gay people get married! I can't even [none] https://twitter.com/sallyrugg/stat...
- Mon Aug 21, 2017 3:22 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Total eclipse on August 21st
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7693
Re: Total eclipse on August 21st
This is the more accurate version of the song
- Fri Aug 18, 2017 6:23 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Trump's Greatest Quotes
- Replies: 142
- Views: 28722
Re: Trump's Greatest Quotes
What reasons are there for thinking he's worse than any other republican? The things he's said display a very rigid, black and white view of the world and morality, and personally he scares me more than most other Republicans do, who usually have more room for nuance and listening to people. Pence ...
- Fri Aug 18, 2017 2:58 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Trump's Greatest Quotes
- Replies: 142
- Views: 28722
Re: Trump's Greatest Quotes
yep.
With Trump, at least we'll die entertained. With Pence we'll just die.
With Trump, at least we'll die entertained. With Pence we'll just die.
- Thu Aug 17, 2017 1:15 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Trump's Greatest Quotes
- Replies: 142
- Views: 28722
Re: Trump's Greatest Quotes
but do you have facts
- Wed Aug 16, 2017 8:35 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Trump's Greatest Quotes
- Replies: 142
- Views: 28722
Re: Trump's Greatest Quotes
"The statement I made on Saturday, the first statement, was a fine statement. But you don't make statements that direct unless you know the fact. It takes a little while to get the facts. You still don't know the facts, and it's a very, very important process to me, and it's a very important s...
- Wed Aug 16, 2017 8:24 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Trump's Greatest Quotes
- Replies: 142
- Views: 28722
Re: Trump's Greatest Quotes
insert entire press conference here
i am in awe of it
i am in awe of it
- Tue Aug 15, 2017 5:50 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Tweet of the week
- Replies: 96
- Views: 45585
Re: Tweet of the week
I can't speak for others, but for me that impulse had more to do with wanting to understand where people were coming from and what was motivating their hate, rather than jump to conclusions that they were evil.
- Mon Aug 14, 2017 7:05 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Tweet of the week
- Replies: 96
- Views: 45585
- Mon Aug 07, 2017 2:57 am
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: The Dark Tower
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1298
The Dark Tower
I loved it. Haters gonna hate. [none] As an adaptation it was a complete failure in that it was a completely different story from the novels, but the filmmakers and Stephen King had made it clear early on it wasn't going to be a straight adaptation anyway. (The least spoilery way to explain it is th...
- Mon Aug 07, 2017 2:35 am
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Enemy
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3751
Re: Enemy
Yep, seen it! I also had to read the interpretations to get what was going on.
- Mon Aug 07, 2017 2:34 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Do women need protection from men?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2870
Re: Do women need protection from men?
But since Hogwarts-style protections are not possible in the real world lol that's actually how this all started Like women-only parking spaces. I disagree with this one, because I think it's a measure that will actually make things more dangerous, for the same reason that someone is less likely to...
- Sat Aug 05, 2017 8:53 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Do women need protection from men?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2870
Re: Do women need protection from men?
I think that's a useful distinction to make - "protection from men" vs "protection by men". I'd think the latter is the one that would be patronizing and potentially more dangerous, plus it makes women dependent on men to protect them from men, which isn't a good arrangement. I w...
- Fri Aug 04, 2017 6:20 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Do women need protection from men?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2870
Do women need protection from men?
I'm having a Facebook fight, where my position is yes, because right now women are harmed by men at staggering rates and anything that could prevent future victims is a good thing even if this isn't ideal because ideally such harm would not occur. Whereas they're arguing that this simply reinforces ...
- Mon Jul 31, 2017 12:52 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: There was a flying cockroach in my bedroom last night
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3316
Re: There was a flying cockroach in my bedroom last night
But I'm definitely not going to eat it, so it's still murder.
- Sun Jul 30, 2017 11:20 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: There was a flying cockroach in my bedroom last night
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3316
Re: There was a flying cockroach in my bedroom last night
@phe_de - I'd have preferred if the cockroach had just flown out the window (or even just out of my room), since murder is usually a last resort. (Especially since if they're pregnant the eggs/baby cockroaches will apparently sploosh everywhere.) Tbh I was primarily worried about it crawling over / ...
- Sun Jul 30, 2017 8:44 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: There was a flying cockroach in my bedroom last night
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3316
Re: There was a flying cockroach in my bedroom last night
It's an apartment, but the neighbors should understand.
Also today I found a dead baby cockroach in my closet. My room is fastidiously neat. I don't know what they're doing here. Unless they're after food, because I learnt that cockroaches sometimes eat the flesh of living humans.
Also today I found a dead baby cockroach in my closet. My room is fastidiously neat. I don't know what they're doing here. Unless they're after food, because I learnt that cockroaches sometimes eat the flesh of living humans.
- Sun Jul 30, 2017 4:48 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: There was a flying cockroach in my bedroom last night
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3316
There was a flying cockroach in my bedroom last night
I spent about an hour trying to murder it or chase it out the window but it wouldn't stay still and it's incredibly difficult to whack a flying cockroach. Then it would go hide somewhere and I'd think it was gone, only for it to pop up again and surprise me. And then it was 2am and I decided to give...
- Sat Jul 29, 2017 6:37 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Trump bans trans people from military
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1888
Re: Trump bans trans people from military
I like @Contrapoints' twitter take on it: "Dear comrades, the outrage over the transgender ban is not about support for U.S. imperialism. This ban isn't really abt the military. It's about signaling that transgender people are burdensome and not worth supporting. Trump is doing this not to make...
- Thu Jul 27, 2017 1:42 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Trump bans trans people from military
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1888
Trump bans trans people from military
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/26/trump-says-us-military-will-not-accept-or-allow-transgender-people-to-serve "The president's expressed concern since this Obama policy came into effect, but he's also voiced that this is a very expensive and disruptive policy and, based on consul...
- Wed Jul 26, 2017 5:38 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: John McCain
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3446
Re: John McCain
the punching Nazis thread feels relevant here.
- Wed Jul 26, 2017 1:45 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: #ShirtlessShamers
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1913
- Tue Jul 25, 2017 2:45 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Happy birthday Gendo!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3636
Re: Happy birthday Gendo!
Happy belated birthday, Gendo!
Re: Scammers
But on the other hand, it's simply telling someone a lie (which is not illegal) I think it's because it falls under fraud (and perhaps impersonation), which is technically also just lying. They also tend to target vulnerable people (e.g. online scams going after the elderly and wiping out their ret...
Scammers
A few months ago outside my office I was accosted by this woman who told me a very long story about not being able to find a job and having young children to feed. The whole time she kept covering her mouth when she spoke, which was weird but I didn't want to judge. After many minutes of this she ev...