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satanic splash-back
Jan 28, 2009

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kikkelivelho
Aug 27, 2015

The tiniest sword

Ride The Gravitron
May 2, 2008

by FactsAreUseless

oldpainless posted:

I think you'll find that Americans are actually among the most oppressed and lead the hardest lives while the noble socialist countries live freely and in opulent comfort.

I work a 44 hour work week with only one day off

Snatch Duster
Feb 20, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

Volume posted:

I work a 44 hour work week with only one day off

noctambulous nebab
May 12, 2016

by zen death robot

Maybe you should edit that one more time.

loquacius posted:

I'm arguing that America's racial groups have a serious economic disparity which warrants discussion, and ignoring it will just sweep everything under the rug without actually fixing it

We have to make sure that the discussions are polite, constructive, and between the right people, of course, as I've said in earlier posts

America makes its discussions exclusive and divisive by default. Obviously it is a problem in the US. I feel like I already explained this.

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Oct 30, 2009

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Volume posted:

I work a 44 hour work week with only one day off

You work less than 8 hours a day? Must be nice.

bag em and tag em
Nov 4, 2008

Shaquin posted:

why dont you start with yourself kick the wave off be the trendsetter you want to see in the world

I'm going last so I can make sure no one tries to get out of it by faking a note from their parents or something.

HoboTech
Feb 13, 2005

Reading this with the voice in your skull.
I've never felt bad about posting in a thread before now.

It hurts, on the inside.

Ride The Gravitron
May 2, 2008

by FactsAreUseless

HoboTech posted:

I've never felt bad about posting in a thread before now.

It hurts, on the inside.

Your mom says the same

Kung Food
Dec 11, 2006

PORN WIZARD

MY PALE GOTH SKIN posted:

I give it five pages max before some dude drags his balls in here and smugly and condescendingly informs everyone that, if they actually do believe in total equality between the sexes, they're egalitarian, not feminist, while completely unaware of the irony

Can I do the first part and skip the second?

penus penus penus
Nov 9, 2014

by piss__donald

loquacius posted:

I fundamentally disagree with Morgan Freeman on this one

Talking about things is good. We need to talk about everything. You can't solve any issue by ignoring it. If you pretend race doesn't exist, you end up with a system like (for example) Cuba has, where everyone pretends they're all the same race but the light-skinned ones mysteriously all have the best jobs and the dark-skinned ones coincidentally all have poo poo jobs, and there's no fix in sight because people can't even articulate the problem.

The problem with what we have going on is that people need to talk to people who disagree with them more, so that they don't get caught in a polarization infinite loop and can maybe reach some kind of workable consensus.

I fundamentally agree with him, but I don't believe simply forcing yourself to stop talking about anything solves the problem. I see it more as once "you" (everyone) stops talking about it for reasons other than simply not talking about it on purpose, the problem has been solved. And lets face it, "talking it out" about race only works to people who agree with you already lol.

noctambulous nebab
May 12, 2016

by zen death robot

HoboTech posted:

I've never felt bad about posting in a thread before now.

It hurts, on the inside.

Everyone always says something like this. It's an SA thing.

Decebal
Jan 6, 2010

noctambulous nebab posted:

Everyone always says something like this. It's an SA thing.

To show that you're one of the good ones

kikkelivelho
Aug 27, 2015

Decebal posted:

To show that you're one of the good ones

good ones in what way?

HoboTech
Feb 13, 2005

Reading this with the voice in your skull.

Volume posted:

Your mom says the same

But my mom doesn't have an accou hey wait a minute

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

noctambulous nebab posted:

America makes its discussions exclusive and divisive by default. Obviously it is a problem in the US. I feel like I already explained this.

I mean, ok, but you were acting like race was entirely irrelevant to some problem or other, and I was talking about racial issues, so it seemed like we were just kind of talking past each other :shrug:

This last post isn't anything I disagree with at any rate

THE DOG HOUSE posted:

I fundamentally agree with him, but I don't believe simply forcing yourself to stop talking about anything solves the problem. I see it more as once "you" (everyone) stops talking about it for reasons other than simply not talking about it on purpose, the problem has been solved. And lets face it, "talking it out" about race only works to people who agree with you already lol.

Sure, but in order to get to that point you have to talk about poo poo a lot. Of course you can stop talking about a problem after you've successfully solved it. You still have to solve it first, and doing that inherently requires talking about it.

noctambulous nebab
May 12, 2016

by zen death robot

loquacius posted:

I mean, ok, but you were acting like race was entirely irrelevant to some problem or other, and I was talking about racial issues, so it seemed like we were just kind of talking past each other :shrug:

This last post isn't anything I disagree with at any rate


Sure, but in order to get to that point you have to talk about poo poo a lot. Of course you can stop talking about a problem after you've successfully solved it. You still have to solve it first, and doing that inherently requires talking about it.

We are not talking past one another at all, we are talking about the same issue. I have given my position on the issue, I await yours.

JiveHonky
May 12, 2001

by zen death robot
Grimey Drawer

satanic splash-back
Jan 28, 2009

noctambulous nebab posted:

We are not talking past one another at all, we are talking about the same issue. I have given my position on the issue, I await yours.

you're loving terrible and you post exactly like every other terrible poster who posts only to make extremely long diatribes and stir up poo poo but never actually post anything meaningful, interesting, or funny

JiveHonky
May 12, 2001

by zen death robot
Grimey Drawer

satanic splash-back posted:

you're loving terrible and you post exactly like every other terrible poster who posts only to make extremely long diatribes and stir up poo poo but never actually post anything meaningful, interesting, or funny

penus penus penus
Nov 9, 2014

by piss__donald

loquacius posted:



Sure, but in order to get to that point you have to talk about poo poo a lot. Of course you can stop talking about a problem after you've successfully solved it. You still have to solve it first, and doing that inherently requires talking about it.

This works for a lot of problems, but simply talking about racism seems to be breeding more racism due to misinformation, misdirecting real information, serious lack of critical thinking skills, and good old fashioned groupthink. I'd be willing to give the "just stfu about it" approach a try at this point. I think you dont talk to enough racists lol

Besides, a lot of racism stems from a mountain of individual issues that need to be solved first that have nothing to do with race and must be addressed first, and we hardly talk about that poo poo at all compared to "racism". For example, why does a gigantically higher % of black people commit more crimes than any other race in America? Is it because of genetics (race)? Or is it because of a laundry list of other poo poo like the socioeconomic pit, the subcultures that spawn from high crime areas, poor education and a very poor attitude about education, etc (its this one)? The point is until those are talked about, fixed, or altered, real racism will never go away. When you're up against the inherent human tendency to dislike or distrust groups unlike their own, you really can't add actual reasons for them to dislike said groups as well.

If anybody cared about racism for real they'd talk about fixing the core issues that exasperate racism. As a result, I rarely actually like to talk about racism when that same person doesn't seem to even have an opinion about the why of anything at all.

Of course all the real problems are hard, which is a whole other reason why its so fiercely ignored.

tenspott
Aug 1, 2002

by FactsAreUseless

Roylicious posted:

Because a rising tide lifts all boats.

Which is why everyone should vote Trump 2016.

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

noctambulous nebab posted:

We are not talking past one another at all, we are talking about the same issue. I have given my position on the issue, I await yours.

I've given it :confused:

Several times now

Here it is again

loquacius posted:

I'm arguing that America's racial groups have a serious economic disparity which warrants discussion, and ignoring it will just sweep everything under the rug without actually fixing it

We have to make sure that the discussions are polite, constructive, and between the right people, of course, as I've said in earlier posts

I guess your point is "we don't know how to discuss things right" and I'm with you on that because we only talk to people we agree with and self-polarize, but I have said this before

I see something about how "cultural upbringing" is the real problem so I guess you want us to crack down on rap music or something which is dumb and won't help, lifting people out of poverty and giving them more economic opportunities will help

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

THE DOG HOUSE posted:

For example, why does a gigantically higher % of black people commit more crimes than any other race in America? Is it because of genetics (race)? Or is it because of a laundry list of other poo poo like the socioeconomic pit, the subcultures that spawn from high crime areas, poor education and a very poor attitude about education, etc (its this one)?

Yeah, we don't actually disagree on this. Socioeconomic factors (poor infrastructure, no good jobs, horrible schools, etc) disproportionately affect certain races and ethnicities, which is the kind of thing that would ideally come up in those discussions I keep going on about. Just because it isn't caused by race doesn't make it not a racial issue anymore.

penis man
May 18, 2016

by zen death robot
this is some cokehead girls issue with feminism that i had some beers with yesterday

basically she says u guys gently caress over men and became a white privileged girl supremacy movement that forgets about blacks and nerds and the awkward etc and instead tries to target them with punishment and this just isnt feminism its just e-bullying

gl hf

lowtax's wife went through the same bullshit i did and ran from by neo nazis because she was sensitive to it just like i was

instead they cameback and used my name to false flag me like idiots

i dont think they ever thought itd turn out this bad though

obviously im guessing athena forgives them as she lets mdm still post here but really if i was her i wouldnt that poo poo u ppl did in the name of gateway and ur own politics was hosed and i ran from it for just reasons

i didnt like homelan federation or athena's zealous bannings but more so i didnt like ppl pretending to be me and appropriating my politics to do it

i,e, chump doomtrain total trash shifter player and i guess wondergirl when she went to shifter tg to learn tosnipe

athena, anita is on this with me chump is trump and im the real deal if u listen and believe and read so gl whatever side u choose but i literally only posted on ur tg board 8 times on one account and most of them were not insults at all just being perplexed that someone claiming to be feminist was so into punishment

anyway make no mistake ppl have been false flagging me since nofix was around and id join servers as gateway and have 30 ppl drop and claim i culd hack their credit card information THROUGH the computer (and i had to start smurfing just to play the dang game)

penis man fucked around with this message at 20:39 on May 18, 2016

penus penus penus
Nov 9, 2014

by piss__donald

loquacius posted:

Yeah, we don't actually disagree on this. Socioeconomic factors (poor infrastructure, no good jobs, horrible schools, etc) disproportionately affect certain races and ethnicities, which is the kind of thing that would ideally come up in those discussions I keep going on about. Just because it isn't caused by race doesn't make it not a racial issue anymore.

well thats good but unfortunately when most people talk about racism its literally none of that, or if it is, its "they dont work hard" or at the very least the very heavy implication that its their own fault.

the best thing we can do is keep shoving good education in problem areas, but the downside to that positive effects from this take way more time than anybody likes to think about

No. 6
Jun 30, 2002

I'm a feminist. Just treat everyone fair and equal. There isn't any discussion required.

Thirsty Girl
Dec 5, 2015

Blurry Gray Thing posted:

Anti-feminism dorks are working against their own self interest. A world where they don't have to be "a REAL man" would be a much better one for dorks of all shapes and sizes. Eroding the patriarchy is a much better solution than pretending you're a noir detective or posing with a katana.

lol if you think some bogeyman patriarchy is what makes a huge dork a huge dork

Thirsty Girl
Dec 5, 2015

my nasal whine and fey giggles are actually really charming but The Man is keeping me down

Roylicious
Feb 21, 2012

Braver than the cops
ain't afraid of no chaps
If they steppin up on me
I just start bustin some caps
It's more like 'gotta be macho and MANLY and beat people up and poo poo YEAH' which is a fairly prevalent attitude in a lot of countries but yeah nerds are gonna nerd.

Turtle Sandbox
Dec 31, 2007

by Fluffdaddy
Homosexuality is the cure for feminism, I think we all know what we have to do.

Snatch Duster
Feb 20, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
i just think these gals need some good ol' fashion deep dickin'

OXBALLS DOT COM
Sep 11, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
Young Orc

Roylicious posted:

It's more like 'gotta be macho and MANLY and beat people up and poo poo YEAH' which is a fairly prevalent attitude in a lot of countries but yeah nerds are gonna nerd.

some people deserve a beating, though. who else is going to do it? the police? don't make me laugh

Roylicious
Feb 21, 2012

Braver than the cops
ain't afraid of no chaps
If they steppin up on me
I just start bustin some caps
Yeah but we have to direct the beatings not just let them flow free.

OXBALLS DOT COM
Sep 11, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
Young Orc

Roylicious posted:

Yeah but we have to direct the beatings not just let them flow free.

let the men take care of that, honey

Decebal
Jan 6, 2010

Roylicious posted:

It's more like 'gotta be macho and MANLY and beat people up and poo poo YEAH' which is a fairly prevalent attitude in a lot of countries but yeah nerds are gonna nerd.

It's not our fault we have all this testosterone. Nobody complained when there were beasts to kill or other tribesmen :(

OXBALLS DOT COM
Sep 11, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
Young Orc

Decebal posted:

It's not our fault we have all this testosterone. Nobody complained when there were beasts to kill or other tribesmen :(

Kill the other guy, take his stuff, rape his women and take them into slavery. Life used to be so much simpler then

penis man
May 18, 2016

by zen death robot

Decebal posted:

It's not our fault we have all this testosterone. Nobody complained when there were beasts to kill or other tribesmen :(

lol

Blurry Gray Thing
Jun 3, 2009

im gaye posted:

lol if you think some bogeyman patriarchy is what makes a huge dork a huge dork

That's the opposite of what I said though???

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Feb 13, 2012
LUFTHANSA YOU FUCKING DICKWEASEL

penis man posted:

this is some cokehead girls issue with feminism that i had some beers with yesterday

basically she says u guys gently caress over men and became a white privileged girl supremacy movement that forgets about blacks and nerds and the awkward etc and instead tries to target them with punishment and this just isnt feminism its just e-bullying

gl hf

lowtax's wife went through the same bullshit i did and ran from by neo nazis because she was sensitive to it just like i was

instead they cameback and used my name to false flag me like idiots

i dont think they ever thought itd turn out this bad though

obviously im guessing athena forgives them as she lets mdm still post here but really if i was her i wouldnt that poo poo u ppl did in the name of gateway and ur own politics was hosed and i ran from it for just reasons

i didnt like homelan federation or athena's zealous bannings but more so i didnt like ppl pretending to be me and appropriating my politics to do it

i,e, chump doomtrain total trash shifter player and i guess wondergirl when she went to shifter tg to learn tosnipe

athena, anita is on this with me chump is trump and im the real deal if u listen and believe and read so gl whatever side u choose but i literally only posted on ur tg board 8 times on one account and most of them were not insults at all just being perplexed that someone claiming to be feminist was so into punishment

anyway make no mistake ppl have been false flagging me since nofix was around and id join servers as gateway and have 30 ppl drop and claim i culd hack their credit card information THROUGH the computer (and i had to start smurfing just to play the dang game)

finally! someone talking some sense in this thread

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