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menino posted:Somebody who views misery as a competition to be adjudicated on Tumblr  please tell me that is a joke. GOP primary candidates in North Carolina's sixth district, prove that yes they are less intelligent than a six grader.
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Crowsbeak posted:
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 Is there any interest in a Bonhoeffer thread? I am finishing up with The Cost of Discipleship and would love to talk about him. e: brandorKP I want opinions dammit Miltank fucked around with this message at 07:23 on Apr 5, 2014 |
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menino posted:Somebody who views misery as a competition to be adjudicated on Tumblr actually a 4chan buzzword to dismiss anything to the left of national socialism 
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Nothing good ever came from discussing social justice online. http://i.imgur.com/0bRUImA.jpg
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7thBatallion posted:Hey now, Starbucks does a hell of a lot for the people that pick and maintain their coffee plants. African slaves my rear end. 
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 As people may or may not know, the Australian government is currently operating a network of concentration camps to deal with the hordes and hordes of asylum seekers swamping our shores, since we can't possibly contemplate the idea of helping brown people. The ones currently in the national spotlight are our offshore centres like Christmas Island, Manus Island and Nauru. However, we still operate onshore ones, particularly one at Villawood, about half an hour from where I live. Villawood detainees were subject to a data breach recently, wherein their personal details were posted publicly, unencrypted. They began legal action against the government, which was due to start soon. Conveniently, the government have decided that it's really important to ship them out across the country to Curtin in Western Australia (roughly the distance from NY to CA) because they're supposedly renovating Villawood. A group of protestors, including Greens, Socialist Alliance, Socialist Alternative and a bunch of refugee advocacy groups, turned up to protest the move, myself among them. The NSW Police turned up in full riot force - armed riot squad officers carrying pepper spray and tasers as well as their guns, attack dogs, mounted police and even a helicopter. It turned ugly.      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m494qYcIkEs Here's a video of some of the brutality, including elbows and knees into the picket line, as well as officers stomping on a protester who was pushed to the ground. I personally took more knees to the thigh than I can count, a few jabs to the chest and stomach, some elbows to the neck and a couple of shots to the face. I know it pales in comparison to some of the demonstrations going on worldwide, but it's noteworthy the level of absolutely absurd force put out by the NSW Government as a response to the wacky idea that we should honour our international commitments and treat human beings with a modicum of dignity and respect. It's also noteworthy that this is how the Government and the police feel they can get away with behaving against, to be frank, mostly white middle-class uni kids, in public, while they know they're being filmed by mainstream media as well as a hundred cell phones and cameras. Bonus picture: riot squad laughing at protesters who were injured, and a few others crying from either the shock of being in the line or the refugees being carted off. 
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zoux posted:What Europe thinks America eats: Mustard in general isn't but American style mustard is. Peanut butter definitely is, the peanut butter in my grocery store here in France costs about $5.50 for 350 grams (12 oz). I see this brand in stores all the time and I don't think I'll ever stop finding it funny. 
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menino posted:Yes it is. Big words for big people and still relatively accurate. 
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tdrules posted:Nothing good ever came from discussing social justice online. Sure it did, just not here. 
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You're trying to push through a police line and almost succeeding. Not really sure what you were expecting but in other places that strategy generally leads to pebberspray and bloody batons. Unions protesting in Brussels:  
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Quantum Mechanic posted:
Are you seriously getting upset over police using stuff you learn on day one of kid's level judo to restrain someone with minimal risk of injury? The takedown of the dude in the white and blue shirt was text book and exactly the kind of thing I think police should learn to do instead of relying on tazers. That video makes them look like the nicest cops in the world in terms of how they behaved versus how they have previously and potentially could treat people. They're just doing this to him: 
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Smegmatron posted:Are you seriously getting upset over police using stuff you learn on day one of kid's level judo to restrain someone with minimal risk of injury? The takedown of the dude in the white and blue shirt was text book and exactly the kind of thing I think police should learn to do instead of relying on tazers. Some people have in real good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW1ZDIXiuS4  http://i.imgur.com/Xxfxq8l.jpg?1And some from my home town http://i.imgur.com/5cNbtDs.jpg?1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Jude,_Jr.#The_federal_trial I hope people realize that we should all be aiming for the point where the Aus protest video is an outrage *grumble the police are guardians of the status quo most of the time, the rest of the time it's usually when they join up with Fascists. We really could change this if we look at how we run the police (and stop the military to police force with no mental health treatment bullshit) SirKibbles fucked around with this message at 14:41 on Apr 5, 2014 |
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Am I right in assuming thats the tip of one ungodly iceberg? Edit: 
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RonJeremysBalzac posted:That picture triggered me Or alternatively, colleges are weird bubble world hothouses for all kinds of batshit drama. The idea that a 16-year-old girl with a picture of a dead fetus "triggered" traumatic memories that exploded in violence is either a transparently bullshit rationale or this prof needs serious therapy, or both. Warning this image is highly problematic: 
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Omi-Polari posted:I'm inclined to think that the SJW feminism is undergoing what researchers of political extremism call the radicalization process where the world is split into a binary good/evil that allows extremists to justify anti-social and violent acts, which also begins alienating potential followers while putting them at odds with other members of their movement, causing it to fracture and splinter into internecine feminist sniping and (cold) warfare. The whole point of the on-campus protest was to be as provocative as possible, and they managed to provoke a response. The professor was an idiot to fall into that sort of obvious trap, but it's certainly not indicative of a movement becoming radicalized. 
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Zeroisanumber posted:The whole point of the on-campus protest was to be as provocative as possible, and they managed to provoke a response. The professor was an idiot to fall into that sort of obvious trap, but it's certainly not indicative of a movement becoming radicalized. 
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On one hand, SJW means people who are so focused on fighting every single detail of society as priviledge and oppression and whose activity is 99% online based. They rarely actually try to work on support groups and just like to show about how they're miserable online because their fat non-cis joints are oppressed by the world. They love sending death threats if you're cis scum too. On the other hand, i see SJW being sent more and more against people who actually study and want to talk about the serious and legitimate problems of society and how it affects the sexual, ethnic or religious minorities of our society. In my view, people who use SJW are just using a derogatory term against either A) someone who studies (or not) poo poo just to shout about it online and feel "just" without actually doing anything positive to change society (kinda like the now fading internet marxist) or B) someone who wants to talk about the problems of society but some right wing rear end thinks doing so is invalid. Like the people a few pages ago who though woman's studies were useless for example. 
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Mans posted:On one hand, SJW means people who are so focused on fighting every single detail of society as priviledge and oppression and whose activity is 99% online based. They rarely actually try to work on support groups and just like to show about how they're miserable online because their fat non-cis joints are oppressed by the world. They love sending death threats if you're cis scum too. This. As someone who spends a lot of time online and in the culture of university academia, you can really tell the difference in discourse. Comparing someone who studies queer theory and someone who studies tumblr you'll realize ignorance hurts no matter how noble the intent. Not to mention just learning the basics of being civil in intellectual discourse no matter how much you disagree with someone. Then again I am just being classist for growing up in Canada where education is affordable(ish). 
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Pope Guilty posted:SJW means "person who cares about [anti-racism/feminism/insert anti-oppression cause here] more than I want them to". Some people will claim that it only applies to a certain subset of people who are "oversensitive" or "care too much", but in actual use expressing virtually any sentiment that maybe people could be less lovely can get you called an SJW. I associate it with jackass dilettantes playing identity-games with communitarian-egalitarian issues. 
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Let's do this so we can have Mega City Three. I want to force everyone to have to live in Texas.  
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Cocoa plants, not coca plants. Coca plants are associated with their own brand of oppression and violence though. Evo Morales, President of Bolivia and a senior figure in the cocalero movement, a union of mostly indigenous coca growers in Peru and Bolivia. They have recently gained recognition from the UN for the use of coca leaves, something that has been traditional for indigenous people in the region for millennia, but has been illegal since the UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs for anyone who isn't a pharmaceutical processor or one of Coca Cola's preferred suppliers.
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7thBatallion posted:Hey now, Starbucks does a hell of a lot for the people that pick and maintain their coffee plants. African slaves my rear end. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaDfNqpB4Wo
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Mans posted:On one hand, SJW means people who are so focused on fighting every single detail of society as priviledge and oppression and whose activity is 99% online based. They rarely actually try to work on support groups and just like to show about how they're miserable online because their fat non-cis joints are oppressed by the world. They love sending death threats if you're cis scum too. Another overlooked point is that this stuff is basically clickbait (see the link). There's millions of blogs out there, so ratcheting up the rage is a way to broadcast yourself above the noise in a manner similar to a cable TV news host. You're able to build an online following and make money by providing an adrenaline drip to people  ing for the newest outrage. To put this into perspective, one of the "activists" behind the #CancelColbert thing claimed she had to cancel a week's worth of speaking gigs (around $4,000) to focus on her campaign. That's a lot of money for a week's worth of work - for a grad student too. But cultivating media outrage and translating it into $$$ speaking fees is the same business model used by Ann Coulter. (The books and TV appearances don't make Coulter much money, but serve as marketing tools for four- and five-figure speaking gigs.) And this uber-left SJW Twitter entrepreneur (from a posh Chicago suburb no less) also teamed up with Michelle Malkin. So radical left-wing identity politics can be big business, and loudest voices are really totally mercenary and in it for themselves. Because at the end of the day, it's all about themselves, right? http://www.salon.com/2014/04/03/cancelcolbert_activist_suey_park_this_is_not_reform_this_is_revolution/       
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JoelJoel posted:[timg]The data represent the lifetime risk of maternal death from pregnancy-related causes.[/timg] Does it strike anyone else as incredibly odd that Ireland has the lowest rate? Is it because abortion is restricted and they want to follow through on providing good maternal care for that reason? 
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Exclamation Marx posted:Soviet imaginings of Communism In Space The future sucks.  Yoshi eggs!
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