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Anakin McFly

i need more context than what Wikipedia gives

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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.

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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...

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How many lesbians do you have, exactly?

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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...

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I am ready to be assimilated by the porg collective.

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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 ...

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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

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

Anakin McFly

I read it last night and ended up overshooting my bedtime. It's good stuff.

Anakin McFly

Happy birthday!

lol you have the same birthday as my brother. and now I've been made to think of December intercoursing.

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Happy birthday!

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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...

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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...

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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.

Lol from there I found this: https://www.instagram.com/barbiesavior/

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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 ...

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Lol : http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/t ... ar-eclipse

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

Anakin McFly

This is the more accurate version of the song

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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 ...

Anakin McFly

yep.

With Trump, at least we'll die entertained. With Pence we'll just die.

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but do you have facts

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"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...

Anakin McFly

insert entire press conference here

i am in awe of it

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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.

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https://twitter.com/inthesedeserts/stat ... 8053905409

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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...

Anakin McFly

Yep, seen it! I also had to read the interpretations to get what was going on.

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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But I'm definitely not going to eat it, so it's still murder.

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@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 / ...

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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.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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the punching Nazis thread feels relevant here.

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Lol http://www.boredpanda.com/woman-mocks-s ... harassment

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Happy belated birthday, Gendo!

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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...

Anakin McFly

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...

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