The Pitters' Place

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There is Holodomor denial out there but it's actually rare. A more common theory -- even among many, many mainstream historians -- is that the traditional view of the Holodomor as a planned famine at the hands of the Soviet government is false, and that it was really a product of nature, well-inten...

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This thread, man. First of all, I wasn't incredulous that "Dems" (and we'll get to that in a minute) supported a war with Syria, I've known for years now that Dems aren't any more anti-war than Republicans. (And I'm talking about establishment Dems.) I knew that if Hillary had ordered str...

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Traditionalism: 52%
Liberal Feminism: 84%
Radical: 29%
Marxist: 37%
Cultural: 36%

Liberal feminism ftw!

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I think it's a bit...no... a lot disingenuous to pretend that anyone who voted for Clinton, including strongly anti-war far-leftists, tacitly approve of war with Syria. Again, I'm speaking in the context of Democrats and the seeming incredulity from some in this thread that Dems would support war i...

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I guess I worded my sentence poorly; in the context of "fuck Democrats who support war with Syria" I would include all the Dems who voted for Clinton, since a vote for Hillary means at the very least a tacit support for war in Syria, as you yourself said her position on interventionism was...

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Probably not the way most people feel but I liked Kill Bill vol 2 more than vol 1.

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Derived Absurdity wrote:Democrats = Democratic pundits, politicians, commentators, and reporters. Obviously.

Also anyone who voted for Hillary, since the only difference between what Trump has done and what Hillary would have done is Hillary would have started this shit about two and a half months ago.

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Anakin McFly wrote:
Donald Trump likes Pepsi.
Yay, now someone can just hand him one and everything will be great again. See, Pepsi makes everything easier!

They'll have to hand him one of those mini cans, or pour it into a tiny glass perhaps.

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She seems like a tankie, "bizarre and kind of gross" is their MO. That "scholarly debate" section seems blatantly biased and cherry picks a handful of historians who espouse one point of view. Wikipedia is known for that kind of thing when dealing with highly politicized topics....

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Cheered on by Democrats. That's nicest of all. Er... What? There are some who have supported it, but there's also some who have very strongly condemned it. Flipped on MSNBC and CNN for a bit last night and commentators were gushing with approval over Trump's strike. Last night was probably his best...

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Also, that tweet chain is really bizarre, kind of gross, IMO.

"I talked to someone who had concerns on a potential ethnic genocide. What a Nazi, am I right?! LMAO!!!"

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FWIW from what I'm reading the question of the Holodomor being a genocide seems to be centered on a semantics argument around the technical definition of genocide. There seems to be a preponderance of scholars accepting Stalin's regime put in place policies and practices that specifically targeted t...

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Per Wikipedia there are 15 or 16 countries that recognize the Holodomor as genocide and both the European Parliament and UN general assembly recognize it as a deliberate crime against humanity. Saying only Ukrainian Nationalists and propagandists are the major parties that believe the Holodomor was ...

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I think the people who would deny the Holodomor fall in to the same category of crackpot that would deny the Holocaust, but do you have sources saying it's a myth? I'd like to see their reasoning.

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Thanks guys!

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All hail the Dark Prince.

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I got a 71 which was "quite privileged".

I'm in the lead!

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the_dork_lord wrote:Your argument amounts to, "The pay gap doesn't exist because we can identify the causes of the pay gap."

It seems like he's saying the gap doesn't exist when you compare apples to apples instead of apples to oranges.

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In a superficial sense, maybe. Expanding child emancipation and child abuse laws would reduce a parent's "right" to exploit and abuse their child, though I would contend the parent doesn't (or shouldn't) really have that right in the first place. Conversely, parental licenses* would not em...

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This thread is crazy. Parental licenses are a fucking terrible, horrid idea.

If you don't like the power dynamic between parents and children, the correct stance would be to expand children's rights, not to reduce parental rights.

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I'm not a huge fan of communism or socialism because I think they necessarily lead to a strong totalitarian government.

But, if people want to voluntarily form their own communist/socialist communities on a smaller scale then I have no problem with that.

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On the plus side if you're related to a Nazi this makes it easier to punch them.

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I played loosehead prop and on a couple occasions winger (mostly for shits and giggles if we were blowing out a team and wanted to get our backups some playing time).

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I actually played rugby when I was in college!

Hopefully I can catch some of the games on tv this weekend.

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<-- literally my expression while reading that.

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Derived Absurdity wrote:I don't know much about him, but judging from ten minutes of googling he seems to epitomize brogressivism.

Sounds like one of those meaningless buzzwords.

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I like Dave Rubin.

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I'm allowed to lie. #FreedomOfSpeech

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So the silly American in me filled out the birthday part of my profile wrong, it's actually April 2nd, not February 4th.

But the sentiment is appreciated!

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the_dork_lord wrote:Just thought I'd remind you all that I hate you.

Since I'm not around much, you may have forgotten.

...Dad?

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Crazy times.

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Wow. End of an era.

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As I've said I'm not going to lose sleep over a Nazi getting punched, but I agree with Salmon.

Either you support the right to free speech even for people you despise, or you don't support free speech.

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This is important. So often I see my liberal friends sharing articles about a person who got fired after posting or saying racist things, with the comment of "good riddance". I for one am not ok with a world where it is the corporations that get to decide which things you're allowed to be...

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I was talking about unknowingly employing someone with questional opinions. In Germany, AFAIK, employers are not allowed to ask potential employees personal questions. If later, the political opinions of the new employee become known, I'd have to see how to deal with it. I'm not a boss. Right, obvi...

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Derived Absurdity wrote:I think this proves it: Boomer is secretly a Nazi

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I disagree, up to a point. If I was an employer or landlord, firing or evicting people for their political opinions would only be an option if their opinion had a direct effect on them as employees or tenants. If I were an employer I'd face an extreme risk for knowingly employing a Nazi if it were ...

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aels wrote:Goddammit man, I knew you were going to post something RIGHT as I was leaving to go to dance with weird old men. Will read and reply properly when I get back, big kisses, etc, byeeee

No worries, bust a move!

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I'm not saying I don't experience a delightful amount of schadenfreude whenever I see gifs of Richard Spencer getting punched in the face, but ultimately I believe in that pesky thing called freedom of speech. And since I can already hear retorts of "freedom of speech =/= freedom from consequen...

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It would obviously be okay to punch a nazi if they were being physically violent themselves; I'm reading the topic as "is it okay to punch a nazi for the sole fact that they are a nazi?"

I would say no.

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I voted no, kind of crazy it's split down the middle (4 to 4 at this time), but we live in some crazy times.

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It'd be nice if articles like these provided resources for those who wanted to make donations or something.

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One of the few good things he's done during his presidency, IMO.

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Happy born day!

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I've just been super busy lately, but I've been meaning to respond to the other thread where we were discussing libertarianism. I'll get around to it.

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I don't know what she was wearing but she was probably asking for it.

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I'm so drunk but I feel like I need to be drunker.

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What is your definition of libertarian? Speaking generally, from what I've read libertarianism has two main tenets: adherence to a non-aggression principle (often referred to as the NAP) and that natural rights are derived from personal property rights. The NAP is fairly self-explanatory, you're no...

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