The Pitters' Place

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1. We may be the only ones here who get the Yeerk reference (I was obsessed with Animorphs for years in gradeschool). You think so? https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/manual_for_civilization.png" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; https://xkcd.com/1380/ (image embedding doesn't seem ...

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Reminds me of the old IMDb RFS board, where a poster once said: I am not racist. I have a brown kid.

This was in the 21st century too. But people haven't changed that much in the past 50.000 years, I guess.

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Not surprising.

I guess that soon there will be people who believe that the Disney character "Donald Duck" is based on Donald Trump.
Or maybe there already are.

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Fact is: Not everybody can process all food equally well. Humans are omnivores, so they can eat anything in principle. But there are exceptions. Anakin mentioned lactose intolerance. I get sick when I eat peanuts, which is why I usually avoid Indian food. And I have heard of people who don't support...

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Another thing I find amusing (or hypocritical) about vegans is that they are never seen talking to lions, tigers, wolves or other carnivores, trying to convince them to lay off the meat. I have heard about vegans who have natural carnivorous pets and give them a vegan diet. That's nothing short of a...

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Sorry to hear about that Anakin. I'm not an expert in psychology, but it sound to me that you should seek professional help. Do you have health insurance that covers therapy? Unfortunately I don't have advice about the food, except: Eat what you like. It's not really helpful I guess. @Gendo: If othe...

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Hey Cassius Clay, Happy thanksgiving to you too. Now to your post. About comprehension issues: I admit that English is only my third language, and that I may not be very good at reading between the lines. But: It usually takes at least two sides in a misunderstanding. The side trying to deliver the ...

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My two cents. While I don't eat meat every day, I am not a vegetarian either. I live in a part of Germany where people in general like to eat meat; and where I have the suspicion that restaurants deliberately offer unattractive vegetarian dishes, so that their guests eat meat. This is actually my be...

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My problem with the articles, and some of the posts here, is: While I agree with some complaints (videos on the Internet being disturbing, largely inappropriate for children, and made with motivation to make profit), it is also true that: These phenomenons aren't new There is no evidence of a sinist...

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I now took the test, and I got...Che Guevara.

Not sure how to feel about it; but I guess that he's a more popular "murderous villain" in the first world than Osama Bin Laden.

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The first question is already a loaded question. "You tend to be what people expect you to be because you want to be liked" If I say "No", what does it mean? "No, I don't tend to be what people expect me to be"; or "No, I do it but not because I want to be liked&qu...

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This is what happens when people believe in "Where there's smoke, there's fire".

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I don't buy into conspiracy theories. Any thoughts regarding Islamic influence on Western Europe? Some is really neat. Like this one: 1234567890. And some ancient buildings in southern Spain are quite beautiful. Apart from that, I'm sure that there are some conspiracy theories regarding Muslims in ...

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I don't buy into conspiracy theories. The claim that there are sinister forces trying to manipulate children would be more powerful if there was a shred of evidence for it. The videos might be disturbing, but some kids have watched Happy Tree Friends before YouTube even existed. Did the world end? N...

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25% masculine, 22% feminine.
"Undifferentiated-Androgynous".

I take it as a compliment.

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Wow.

I'm starting to wonder if those RAR activists and the anti-Peirce crowd are really agents provocateurs working for the alt-right.
I find it hard to believe that anyone with a progressive mindset could really be that stupid.

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The world isn't all suffering, but what suffering there is can be incomprehensibly awful. If you have a town of ten people, and nine of them were living deliriously happy lives filled with perfect meaning and satisfaction, but one was in unimaginable agony with no hope of escape, I would gladly eli...

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I took Anakin's premise more along the lines of, "we're euthanizing this child because we're tired of taking care of it," and it having nothing to do with the interests of the child, because the only concern stated was that of the parents' inability to live the life they wanted. Also, age...

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If the child is severely sick and unable to live a life free of suffering, then it will experience suffering, and also be a burden on the parents. So if the bad (the disease) does not outweigh enjoying life, and the child and the parents suffer from it, and the child has not reached personhood yet, ...

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I mean it literally says a parent should have the right to euthanize (kill) their child if it causes them an undue burden (too much grief). No. It literally says: "If that child is euthanized, by definition he's not going to be around later to care that he was euthanized or that he's missing o...

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BruceSmith78 wrote:It's reply #24.

Which doesn't say anything about killing kids when they cause you too much grief.

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BruceSmith78 wrote:You argued for killing your kids when they cause you too much grief, didn't you?

I would be interested to know where you read this. I just reread the entire thread, and my attempt to find DA saying this has been unsuccessful.

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I don't think what I said was really that bad. It could have been worded a lot better, though. I mean, either it's terribly worded or you and Peter Singer are batshit crazy. What I just read was, "If someone's an inconvenience to you, their life isn't worth a goddam and you should just kill th...

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and that the right of a woman to have control over her body is infinitely more important than the "right" of some fetus to keep on parasitizing it This argument can be extended past birth, though - it could be used to justify the right to euthanise a disabled child who requires intensive ...

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Never heard of the guy before reading this thread.

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I hope the makers of this pamphlet never produce any "decedents".

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In a perfect world, women wouldn't need protection, because all people would respect each other. But the world is not perfect; and most violent crimes are committed by men. Therefore, it makes sense to implement measures that give women more safety without restricting their freedom. Whether lockers ...

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I agree with phe_de for once. Bonnie Tyler may be before your time but some of her songs are popular enough that you've heard them in movies and/or commercials. I might technically be too young to know about her but ' Holding out for a hero' is a song of hers I like that I think I first heard in 'F...

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OpiateOfTheMasses wrote:I think the younger people here won't have a clue what you two are talking about. Obviously I don't have a clue what you're talking about either.

This great song has been covered a few times. I'm sure many younger people know at least one version, even if they've never heard of Bonnie Tyler.

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I once lived in a student dormitory with cockroaches in it, and the owners then had cockroach traps installed in every room. They worked; after the installation the cockroaches became less, and I never had a problem with cockroaches in my skull or food. Another story from that time (before the traps...

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That's true about globalisation. (and on the selfish side, SIA's peanuts are amazing. They're one of the small highlights of each flight, and the prospect of never getting to taste them again makes me sadder than I expected. I acknowledge that this fact shouldn't be relevant to the discussion.) Ind...

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No tattoos, no piercings, no brandings.
If other people want them, let them.

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Because performing in America is the same thing as performing in an apartheid state that periodically and overtly engages in ethnic cleansing, then acts cool and normal about it by having big celebrities come over under the guise of "shared humanity, dialogue and freedom of expression" un...

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My son who has fallen in love twice with girls already (at 6 lol) has played dress up with my shirts turning them into dresses, has worn my make up (i think more than i lol since i practically never do), but does not want to be a girl and is very interested in girls and he plays with dolls. I try n...

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Wow. Like something out of a movie. https://twitter.com/needasou/status/884819179173498881 These days I often feel like the internet was a mistake and, like many others, deal with it with a lot of cynical, detached humor...but sometimes the internet gives us moments like this that temporarily shock...

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Like I said, can't tell if you're an idiot or a bigot..result is the same either way. But I say that because you do things like obtusely respond with "Islam is not a race" when someone calls an Islamophobe racist. And you awkwardly shoehorn Islam into convos where it has no relevance. The...

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Yes, you are so open-minded that you require no ideological framework to make sense of the world. It's not intellectual laziness, it's wisdom. And you are very wise because you're a much older gentleman than I. Good to see you agree. And do you really think it's really controversial to say that Naz...

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I think Wonder Woman was okay. Good acting, good special effects, good depiction of the horrors of World War I. The story was a typical super hero story. The origin story; then Wonder Woman doing some super-heroy stuff, and at the end, the boss fight. Reminded me a bit of Iron Man. All in all, it wa...

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To be as straightforward as possible: I think you have some anti-Islam sentiments bordering on bigotry. I'm not sure if you're a useful-idiot for bigots or a bigot yourself...you're likely a little bit of both. Because naive centrists(in love with "both sides" respectability) are often in...

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Cassius Clay wrote:Lol you posted a link to a right-wing lunatic's website.

I know. I was lazy last night and picked the first source that seemed to support my point.

I know that more respectable sources exist, and have found some in the meantime; but they are in German.

So what mask is supposedly slipping?

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Cassius Clay wrote:*mask-slipping intensifies*

*Cowardly non-mentioning of what mask is supposedly slipping persists*

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BruceSmith78 wrote:Curt Scilling has never been right, about anything.

It's possible that I don't agree with Curt Schilling or Courtney Kirchoff on plenty of issues.
But even a broken clock is right twice a day.

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Found this: https://rantt.com/the-alt-left-and-alt-right-are-two-sides-of-the-same-coin-dd768670bb27 Not a bad article. The horseshoe theory is popular in Europe. For good reason. I feel reminded of a cartoon made during Desert Storm, about a young man who goes to an anti-war rally, and is so fed u...

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Not a bad article.

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Cassius Clay wrote:
Common sense is another word for prejudice.

That is correct.
But you still failed to mention which mask I supposedly wear. Or were you "just asking a question"?

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Even if I had the means to do so: I have no plans to shut Cassius Clay up.

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Cassius Clay wrote:Aw man, did phe_de let the mask slip a little?

There's nothing wrong with asking questions, and I have no problem answering yours.
I am not wearing a mask right now.

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One question I believe could be asked to C.Christine Fair is: "If you had seen a Muslim hate preacher, like Pierre Vogel or Ahmad Musa Jibril, and recognized him: Would you have confronted him the same way you confronted Richard Spencer?" But since I don't have a Tumblr account, and she ha...

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Too many times I see topics that someone erroneously links to the concept of free speech or to the related concept of freedom of the press. [...] Revoking Richard Spencer's gym membership is not a violation of any of his rights. There is no "right to lift weights at a private club that charges...

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