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http://nypost.com/2014/08/18/enough-sanctimony-ladies-catcalls-are-flattering/quote:I imagine the catcall stretches back to ancient construction times, when the Israelites were building the pyramids, with scores of single Jewish women hiking up their loincloths, hoping for a little attention.
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# ? Aug 20, 2014 21:58 |
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# ? May 28, 2024 14:21 |
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I feel bad for that lady. When you get validation from what strangers yell at you, something is wrong with your life. (I get catcalled about once a week and I'm always mildly amused. "Okay, dude, whatever" )
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# ? Aug 23, 2014 11:21 |
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SeraphSlaughter posted:http://nypost.com/2014/08/18/enough-sanctimony-ladies-catcalls-are-flattering/ I refuse to believe that this is real.
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# ? Aug 23, 2014 11:57 |
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That lady should get along well with the M'lady crowd what with the euphoria and all that.
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# ? Aug 23, 2014 13:03 |
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cheerfullydrab posted:Not a single bit of PIV involved in creating Jesus, and he took away all our sins. Fun fact! One of the earliest attempts in history to reconcile Christianity with then developing biological sciences was that Joseph inseminated Mary by dipping his dong into her ear!!!!!!
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# ? Aug 24, 2014 00:41 |
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SeraphSlaughter posted:http://nypost.com/2014/08/18/enough-sanctimony-ladies-catcalls-are-flattering/ Ah, yes. The noted pyramids of Jerusalem... I get that she's referencing the whole slaves in Egypt mythology, but it's a really weird use. I mean, I've never heard a Jewish or Christian person claim the captivity happened during the pyramid building. I've just never seen that use. And anyway, the whole captives in Egypt thing has no historical evidence to support it. Also, so as not to miss the forest... That lady definitely has serious self worth problems.
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# ? Aug 24, 2014 03:07 |
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xrunner posted:I get that she's referencing the whole slaves in Egypt mythology, but it's a really weird use. I mean, I've never heard a Jewish or Christian person claim the captivity happened during the pyramid building. I've just never seen that use. xrunner posted:And anyway, the whole captives in Egypt thing has no historical evidence to support it.
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# ? Aug 24, 2014 05:06 |
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"Egyptians made Jewish slaves build their pyramids" is one of those pieces of pseudo-history that all poorly-informed people in our society "know," like "Columbus sailed the Atlantic to prove the world is round" (he didn't need to prove that, educated Europeans had known the Earth was round for about 1700 years).
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# ? Aug 24, 2014 07:19 |
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Back in the day, weren't the pyramids supposed to be, like, giant grain silos mentioned in the Bible?
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# ? Aug 24, 2014 19:39 |
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This guy is such an insufferable shithead, everything he writes goes into poe's law territory but this one is especially egregious. http://townhall.com/columnists/john...t-life-n1883160 quote:Dear Millennials: Hollywood, Your Favorite Bands, and Your College Professors Have Been Lying To You About Life The bolded part is basically the conservative version of the American Dream, work your rear end off all day for no reward and never have any fun, unless of course you're one of the all-important "job creators" in which case you can do whatever the gently caress you want. The funny thing is that the people under 30 I know who are really wealthy and successful are all crazy partiers because apparently people like spending their large amounts of disposable income on fun things .
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# ? Aug 27, 2014 16:15 |
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MaxxBot posted:The bolded part is basically the conservative version of the American Dream, work your rear end off all day for no reward and never have any fun, unless of course you're one of the all-important "job creators" in which case you can do whatever the gently caress you want. The funny thing is that the people under 30 I know who are really wealthy and successful are all crazy partiers because apparently people like spending their large amounts of disposable income on fun things . a shithead posted:We're successful because a lot of steady, responsible people do boring jobs that have to be done. It's the man who works 40 hours in his first job and another 20 hours a week at a part-time job so he can pay the bills for his wife and kids. It's the stay-at-home mom with spit-up on her blouse who has been on her feet for hours cleaning and taking care of the kids. It's the small businessman who worked 70 hours a week for peanuts over the last decade to get his business to the point where he can have people complain that he's not paying enough in taxes. It's the single mother who gives up partying every night to make sure her child is taken care of like he should be. It's the pastor who says something from the pulpit that will be controversial, but that his flock needs to hear. It's the cop who sweats through a half dozen encounters with drunk, drugged, and potentially violent creeps each night because he cares about keeping a neighborhood safe. It's a soldier sleeping in a tent far from home because he's doing his part to keep the peace. It's the couple who feels like they've achieved the American dream because they got married, bought a house, had two kids, and are putting enough money in their 401k to retire someday.
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# ? Aug 27, 2014 19:50 |
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MaxxBot posted:The bolded part is basically the conservative version of the American Dream, work your rear end off all day for no reward and never have any fun, unless of course you're one of the all-important "job creators" in which case you can do whatever the gently caress you want. The funny thing is that the people under 30 I know who are really wealthy and successful are all crazy partiers because apparently people like spending their large amounts of disposable income on fun things . I am always amazed by the depth to which the protestant work ethic has sunk into the collective American psyche. Like, this guy writes this and thinks he's painting a picture of a desirable world. Working without pause through your young and healthy years, until you eventually die or become too old to work any longer. How is this something we've come to believe we actually want? Like, in the 'CEO of America' thread, it's derailed into a discussion of AI and automation, and the question is 'How will all the people whose jobs are made obsolete by automation find new ones?' -- and I'm floored that we'd ask that. Why should they? Why do we want them to? How have we reached this place, culturally, where we cannot imagine a world without employment? I mean, conservative shitheads acknowledge, on some level, that idleness is desirable; the investor class doesn't really work, in the protestant-work-ethic sense, to earn money. And that's the brass ring for conservatives, the ultimate goal of working your whole life: you might get that rich someday. Why is a world where that might actually be possible -- idleness, I mean -- so goddamn anathema to them?
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# ? Aug 27, 2014 20:02 |
MaxxBot posted:This guy is such an insufferable shithead, everything he writes goes into poe's law territory but this one is especially egregious. Anyone who writes poo poo like that should have to itemize their time to prove he or she both worked as hard as claimed and that there is no idle time spent for recreation.
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# ? Aug 27, 2014 20:07 |
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MaxxBot posted:This guy is such an insufferable shithead, everything he writes goes into poe's law territory but this one is especially egregious.
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# ? Aug 27, 2014 20:13 |
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Radish posted:Anyone who writes poo poo like that should have to itemize their time to prove he or she both worked as hard as claimed and that there is no idle time spent for recreation. He maintains some bottom tier right-wing news site and writes tons of incredibly lazy and poorly written articles, this one is actually an exception in that he actually bothered to arrange it into paragraphs rather than just listing a bunch of poo poo. He also looks like something out of goons.jpg, surely from a lack of time given all of that hard work.
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# ? Aug 27, 2014 20:52 |
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quote:that no matter what our race, color, or creed, we all suffer if our culture becomes a corrupt sewer I too share your concerns about the filthy hordes of Irishmen, their impenetrable Gaelic babble, sorcerous Romish religion, iborn drunkenness, and petulant rejection of Anglo-American culture. EDIT: quote:Somehow I feel sweaty alley sex hasn't been a problem for him.
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# ? Aug 27, 2014 21:40 |
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It's not like celebrities like Lady Gaga and Jay-Z don't use their fame to raise awareness for social issues, like Gay rights, Police Brutality, and racial issues with their music.
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# ? Aug 27, 2014 22:16 |
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Jay-Z entire discography is a love letter to the capitalist dream, he's richer than Mitt Romney and he defended the 1% during the Occupy protests while profiting off the movement. If he wasn't associated with the president and vague Democrat politics, Republicans would try and co-opt him as One Of The Good Ones at every opportunity.
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# ? Aug 29, 2014 10:31 |
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MaxxBot posted:The bolded part is basically the conservative version of the American Dream, work your rear end off all day for no reward and never have any fun, unless of course you're one of the all-important "job creators" in which case you can do whatever the gently caress you want. The funny thing is that the people under 30 I know who are really wealthy and successful are all crazy partiers because apparently people like spending their large amounts of disposable income on fun things . You know, it reminds me a lot of my dad, the whole 'Work until you are medically unable to work' part, and I respect that. Then again, that's because he was working multiple jobs with lovely pay to raise three kids, along with my mom, whose work often took her out of state for months at a time and led to a separation when we moved to Kansas. Even then, my childhood had a lot of bacon and bean soup, summer jobs and weeks without power because we missed the bills. So, yeah, gently caress the idea that working yourself to death for scraps is a noble idea.
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# ? Aug 29, 2014 13:26 |
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Americans waste a ton of words justifying acquisitive individualism as a value system, and as morally desirable, even as we are a mere 6 years separated from a definitive demonstration of its failure. Also, read Piketty.
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# ? Aug 29, 2014 14:15 |
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:Somehow I feel sweaty alley sex hasn't been a problem for him. That would go a ways to explain some of his issues, but I don't know, the "Young John Madden Look-Alike Club" gets all the ladies if what I've heard is true. I actually like the real Madden and all his goofball mannerisms. This guy is just another shilling goober that swallows the ultra-conservative kool-aid. Gotta keep those young folks merrily jumping in the trenches, busting rear end and giving no back talk, just so the aholes on top can get all the rewards. Talk about a pyramid scheme. And all that for (what he admits off the bat) likely less reward, and certainly a less secure future than the previous generation. Neo-feudalism is alive and well folks. Hey, not saying life is meant to be easy, and I'll admit my life is cake compared just to what my parents dealt with as kids. I too think hard work should be praised and rewarded - just not 30 years* from now. Is it really worth the clusterfuck rat-race just to tread water? * along with a metric fuckton of ifs and providings along the way.
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# ? Aug 29, 2014 21:24 |
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In which Megan McArdle disabuses feminists of their fantasies of not having to worry about rape.A Dumbass posted:The feminists who get angry when people point out the obvious risks of taking nude selfies on your phone or getting extremely intoxicated at a big party full of adolescent guys seem to be arguing that if the patriarchy went away, guys could all be culturally conditioned not to steal nude photographs or rape people, with the few sociopaths restrained by the much harsher penalties that would presumably be enacted once we end "rape culture" -- that there is some way, in other words, to make it perfectly safe for young women to get trashed at frat parties or take all the nude selfies their phones can hold. Sorry feminists, your world of woman being safe to have fun at parties is an impossible utopia. You just have to identify and sever your relationships with all possible rapists. Also don't take sexy pictures. Source
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# ? Sep 4, 2014 19:52 |
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Scare quotes on "rape culture" while basically describing frat parties as being a rape culture.
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# ? Sep 4, 2014 22:30 |
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Won't someone think of the poor slaveholders??!! Blood Cotton The Economist posted:American slavery Almost all the blacks victims almost all the whites villains Maybe sometimes the slaveholders were nice to the living humans that they literally owned maybe you should have thought of that before you slandered the noble institution of slavery you cretin
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# ? Sep 5, 2014 00:30 |
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Internet Webguy posted:Sorry feminists, your world of woman being safe to have fun at parties is an impossible utopia. You just have to identify and sever your relationships with all possible rapists. This is so weird to me. A guy who waits until people at a party get drunk to start stealing phones or ipods or rifles through people's things is roundly condemned, and nobody goes "hey don't go to parties and get drunk if you don't want to be pickpocketed" because our expectations of respect for people's property don't go away just because the victim had a few. But a girl gets raped and suddenly "oh well swear off alcohol and social events forever and this won't happen!" Ahahaha wow, is it still a dogwhistle if it's sounding a strong Concert A? I love the complete rejection of evidence and testimonials with "Ah but did you get the opinion of every single slave? No? Oh well then some of them probably liked slavery" mixed with the usual Αustrian contempt for empirical facts "A slaveowner has an economic incentive to treat his slaves well to maximize his profit, because obviously mistreating slaves could never bring in a few extra bucks and also humans are perfectly rational utility-maximizing machines who would never beat or rape a slave for emotional reasons " VitalSigns fucked around with this message at 01:19 on Sep 5, 2014 |
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America wasn't built on the brutality of slavery, it was built on the lure of "open land," which totally proves that America wasn't founded on brutality! quote:By 1860 the four wealthiest states in the United States, ranked in terms of wealth per white person Also what the loving gently caress. They don't even count as 3/5 for this guy.
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# ? Sep 5, 2014 01:05 |
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There's nobody here!
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# ? Sep 5, 2014 01:08 |
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What about all the slaves we're not hearing the accounts of, eh? The Silent Majority if you will? Maybe they liked it, and got hot stew to keep their hands strong and flexible. Fuckin' motherfuckin' Economist. It must have taken me a decade after high school to figure out that they are even crazier than Reason and just have better typography.
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# ? Sep 5, 2014 01:17 |
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I for one welcome The Economists' condemnation of the evils of wage labour and look forward to their issue extolling the virtues of socialism. Seriously though, slavers making perfectly valid arguments against wage labour will never not be amusing to me in a very dark sort of way.
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# ? Sep 5, 2014 01:51 |
The fact that you can publish that and it doesn't result in headlines saying "Guy defends slave owners WTF??" on news channels or papers pretty much disproves the concept of "political correctness" censuring conservative opinions.
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# ? Sep 5, 2014 01:57 |
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The real reason America is rich is because Puritans. The best comment on that article is: "Elie Weisel has not written an objective history of the Holocaust. Almost all the Jews in his book are victims, almost all the Nazis villains. This isn't history, it's advocacy."
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# ? Sep 5, 2014 04:57 |
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Elie Weisel was just one voice. Have we heard from all eight million camp inmates? We musn't draw any conclusions as long as there might be someone out there who had a grand old time as a concentration camp inmate. And anyway, the Jews, Slavs, and Roma were essential forced labor for German war industries, so the Nazis had every inventive to keep them healthy and strong if they wanted to win the war.
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# ? Sep 5, 2014 05:14 |
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Radish posted:The fact that you can publish that and it doesn't result in headlines saying "Guy defends slave owners WTF??" on news channels or papers pretty much disproves the concept of "political correctness" censuring conservative opinions. Its gotten attention from certain outlets but a book review in the Economist is probably not going to get round the clock coverage from CNN.
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# ? Sep 5, 2014 05:37 |
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Aw, would you look at that, the liberal PC police have claimed a new victim in their unceasining censorship purge by making the poor ol' Economist pull a review.
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# ? Sep 5, 2014 15:55 |
Haha, well that sure showed me. It's still funny we have slaver apologia 150 years after the Civil War though.
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# ? Sep 5, 2014 15:57 |
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quote:In our review of “The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism” by Edward Baptist, we said: “Mr Baptist has not written an objective history of slavery. Almost all the blacks in his book are victims, almost all the whites villains.” There has been widespread criticism of this, and rightly so. They should have just left the entire review in the quotes, because it wasn't just that sentence people were criticizing. That review was hosed up from head to toe.
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# ? Sep 5, 2014 16:00 |
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VideoTapir posted:They should have just left the entire review in the quotes, because it wasn't just that sentence people were criticizing. That review was hosed up from head to toe. They link to the original review now and the entire thing is in quotes
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# ? Sep 5, 2014 16:18 |
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I'll give 'em credit, they didn't just take it down and hope it'd be forgotten.
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# ? Sep 5, 2014 16:46 |
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Has that writer been fired/forced into slavery to teach him a lesson?
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# ? Sep 5, 2014 19:56 |
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They incentivized him to do better next time by giving him a raise. Edit: Is there a way to figure out who wrote it? Get Anonymous on the case or something along those lines?
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# ? Sep 6, 2014 06:51 |