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Anyone else have a political argument running in their head, for a long long time? For my adult life my socialist and social democratic "factions" (in my thoughts, I mean) have been at war, never letting me really make up my mind about Marx, capitalism, and all the stuff my far-left friends think about. I've picked up Ill Fares the Land by Judt and it's really interesting but touching off another round of fierce internal debate.
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I would seek some kind of internal mediator to resolve your brain dispute. perhaps your limbic system?
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Jul 2, 2014 08:47
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If I had the power to give myself one moderator power, it'd be a forum suicide bomb that would allow me to ban every single poster on the last page of the Israel thread, myself included.
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Jul 2, 2014 08:48
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XyloJW posted:I would seek some kind of internal mediator to resolve your brain dispute. perhaps your limbic system? I think it's a consequence of being open-minded – it's harder to see things through a dogmatic lens when I can't stick to a dogma. There's been a little work in cognitive psychology done on why people hold their worldviews, interesting stuff but there's a long way to go.
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Jul 2, 2014 08:53
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XyloJW posted:I would seek some kind of internal mediator to resolve your brain dispute. perhaps your limbic system? Some kind of lambic system would probably make a good mediator too. You should get drunk in public and loudly debate yourself, asking passers by to moderate the debate
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Jul 2, 2014 08:56
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XyloJW posted:I learned something What's the problem there? It's the state rock of California, what better to build your school on? And it would shield your school from neutrons from below the earth! *things i learned after googling what the hell serpentinite is*
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Jul 2, 2014 09:11
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paragon1 posted:What's the problem there? It's the state rock of California, what better to build your school on? And it would shield your school from neutrons from below the earth! well, that's the thing, asbestos is a serpentine mineral, but serpentinite is metamorphosed asbestos, and thus isn't really going to form a choking dust cloud of death. But when you tell the PTA you just built a gently caress-off expensive brand new high school ontop of asbestos, they get upset.
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Jul 2, 2014 09:15
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XyloJW posted:well, that's the thing, asbestos is a serpentine mineral, but serpentinite is metamorphosed asbestos, and thus isn't really going to form a choking dust cloud of death. But when you tell the PTA you just built a gently caress-off expensive brand new high school ontop of asbestos, they get upset. So there weren't even any legal requirements to do it, they just tore down a brand new multimillion dollar school because some uninformed people got upset? That's horrible
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Jul 2, 2014 09:20
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Wait until you hear about Yucca Mountain!
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Jul 2, 2014 09:28
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ReindeerF posted:Wait until you hear about Yucca Mountain! Harry Reid's shame.
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Jul 2, 2014 09:48
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I learned recently that a lot of other state's literal garbage gets dumped in my state for money. Why you gotta be such a cash whore South Carolina? 
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Jul 2, 2014 10:02
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Asbestos is so loving annoying. Most of the companies that monitor and remove it are run by the same people that installed it in the first place, and they only remove it if its damaged that way they can put "monitor and manage" or some poo poo on the report and you will be legally required to hire them (or their competitors) a few years later to go look at it again. Seems to me like it should be easier to remove if its undamaged and waiting until it gets damaged is just adding further risk and hassle One of the asbestos contractors we used to use loving loved asbestos he gave this presentation that was supposed to be about how dangerous it is but it was just about how its amazing
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Jul 2, 2014 10:19
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Tony Judt's funny in this book - he ends up arguing for robust social democracy but I can't quite figure out the details. Except for trains, dude's really mad about UK trains.
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Jul 2, 2014 10:57
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I too am really mad about uk trains
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Jul 2, 2014 11:01
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I'm mad about trains in general. Some jackass decided it'd be a wonderful to run freight trains through my city in the middle of the goddamn night.
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Jul 2, 2014 11:08
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Phoon posted:Asbestos is so loving annoying. I discovered that ww2 gasmask I used for halloween had asbestos as part of the filter. 
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Jul 2, 2014 11:09
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paragon1 posted:I'm mad about trains in general. Some jackass decided it'd be a wonderful to run freight trains through my city in the middle of the goddamn night. Good morning!
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Jul 2, 2014 11:13
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Same to you! It just occurred to me that I've been awake for 21 hours!
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Jul 2, 2014 11:16
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Fluo posted:I discovered that ww2 gasmask I used for halloween had asbestos as part of the filter.
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Jul 2, 2014 11:26
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XyloJW posted:well, that's the thing, asbestos is a serpentine mineral, but serpentinite is metamorphosed asbestos, and thus isn't really going to form a choking dust butt of death. But when you tell the PTA you just built a gently caress-off expensive brand new high school ontop of asbestos, they get upset. What the gently caress? This is Di-hydrogen Monoxide levels of stupid. Couldn't the council get a geologist, a scientist or doctor with some expertise with asbestos to certify that the rock is harmless? We have parts of Australia (Queensland) that are resistant to fluoridation so 
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Jul 2, 2014 11:54
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paragon1 posted:Same to you! It just occurred to me that I've been awake for 21 hours! Throw some melatonin down your throat, lie down, and read something.
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Jul 2, 2014 11:54
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Tokamak posted:We have parts of Australia (Queensland) that are resistant to fluoridation so Welcome to Oregon!
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Jul 2, 2014 11:56
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Dave Weigel posted:After we talked, and after Nader spent some time deriding Sen. Bernie Sanders as an inadequate left leader who "can't even return a call," the progressive thinker trekked over to the Cato Institute, where the Heritage Foundation's new media arm got him to call for the end of the Export-Import Bank. loving Nader.
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Jul 2, 2014 12:01
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Pope Guilty posted:Throw some melatonin down your throat, lie down, and read something. Nah I'll just stay awake for another 12 hours it'll be fine.
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Jul 2, 2014 12:10
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Vivian Darkbloom posted:Anyone else have a political argument running in their head, for a long long time?
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Jul 2, 2014 13:00
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Av you need to get a new dream mentor, try looking at a picture of someone you respect every night before you go to sleep
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Jul 2, 2014 13:41
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paragon1 posted:Nah I'll just stay awake for another 12 hours it'll be fine. Go to the gym
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Jul 2, 2014 13:57
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what is the prevailing opinion on a possible stormfront.txt thread i've been looking at stormfront to gather material for gamers.txt and jesus it's like freep pushed beyond the point of absurdity, seeing people argue about whether anime video games are a threat to the white race is loving hilarious
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Jul 2, 2014 14:23
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SALT CURES HAM posted:what is the prevailing opinion on a possible stormfront.txt thread Dont we already have a freep thread.
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Jul 2, 2014 14:24
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i feel like if i post insane stormfront poo poo in the freep thread it will not go over well
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Jul 2, 2014 14:25
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We already know everything they have to say is horrible all the time so I don't see much of a point.tbp posted:Go to the gym To be clear, I was just making an observation, not soliciting advice on how to go to sleep. Thanks anyway though.
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Jul 2, 2014 14:25
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Why do people always ask before they start new threads? 
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Jul 2, 2014 14:30
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I wouldn't mind laughing at some funny Stormfront quotes without having to get Stormfront in my own browsing history. Not a mod tho
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Jul 2, 2014 14:31
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tbh stormfront is largely pretty unfunny but occasionally it just dives headfirst into "andy kaufman is alive" territoryquote:I do let my daughter play video games, but I do research on the games before I let her play them. She seems to like Kirby's Epic Yarn for the Wii, and that Mario Kart game. But I don't think it would be healthy for lets say a teenage to adult male to be interested in either of those games. quote:I have that game, actually, the three games. e: i swear to god i'm not kidding
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Jul 2, 2014 14:32
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Torka posted:I wouldn't mind laughing at some funny Stormfront quotes without having to get Stormfront in my own browsing history. Not a mod tho If it's anything like 4Chan's /pol/, then no thanks.
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Jul 2, 2014 14:33
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Conversation Hijack from USPOL thread- Huxley vs Orwell, Round Infinity:haveblue posted:In 1984 the system itself was malicious, but had long since passed the point that any one person could do anything about it. The seemingly malicious characters do their job of spying and torturing on some level because it will happily consume them too if they don't. The best 1984 reenactment I saw was during a peaceful protest around the RNC, where the protesters were treated like terrorists. The funny thing about it was that the police, despite waddling around in full riot gear, were scared out of their minds. You could see they were terrified of the kids running around in the streets with signs, which, of course, is why they were so heavy with the pepper spray and beatings. 1984 did a really good job of describing what imbalanced power looks like when it's flexed, which is why it's the sort of thing that most middle class people who follow the rules don't really see it. They get the BNW treatment, prescribed drugs and afforded cheap cable packages to keep them docile. Pythagoras a trois fucked around with this message at 14:40 on Jul 2, 2014 |
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Jul 2, 2014 14:37
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I like to visit the fantasy/sci-fi section of Stormfront every now and then. The last time I went there was a topic where the OP was suggesting that Orcs in World of Warcraft were supposed to represent "the blacks". Thrall, "the young war-chief" apparently is a stand-in for Martin Luther King Jr.
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Jul 2, 2014 14:40
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Sephiroth_IRA posted:I like to visit the fantasy/sci-fi section of Stormfront every now and then.  that explains a lot about your posting 
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Jul 2, 2014 14:42
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Yeah they love Lord of the Rings for all the wrong reasons.
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Sephiroth_IRA posted:The last time I went there was a topic where the OP was suggesting that Orcs in World of Warcraft were supposed to represent "the blacks". There's a hilarious series of Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky audio commentary on Lord of the Rings articles on that topic.
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