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MinibarMatchman posted:"resigned" these days is pretty much bizspeak for "we politely asked him to gently caress off or we'd fire him" so lol Yeah, my first thought too. "He resigned" when Steven Bannon called him up to his office and, while wearing a Nazi hat and cleaning a knife, went "resign" with no further comment.
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Came across this gem this morning:quote:Over the past half-century, the mainstream media in the United States have evolved into interloculars for and the Praetorian Guard of the Ruling Class. They constitute a segment of society which is overwhelmingly Liberal, wealthy, self-centered, isolated, and brimming with disdain for the rabble that lives in fly-over country. Thus, what passes for journalism by the mass media is essentially a defense of the ideology, lifestyle and supremacy of their fellow travelers in the Ruling Class. quote:Beyond the boundaries of the Washington-New York axis, a significant majority of the people are fully cognizant that a leviathan encompassing the entertainment complex, the education establishment and the Democratic Party, has successfully inculcated a plurality of the American people into believing there are no moral absolutes and that the state can grant any rights it so chooses to whomever they choose. Further, the nation’s founding documents are arcane, racially insensitive, and unsuitable for today. Thus, religious liberty, property rights and freedom of speech are under aggressive assault. The mainstream media have chosen sides and their reporting reflects their alliance with this leviathan, whether it is gay marriage, the second amendment, transgender bathrooms, abortion on demand, limits on free speech and assembly or public expression of religion. There is virtually no balance in media coverage and to the average citizen there is no doubt that the media has an agenda. I mean the whole thing is wild but seems to echo the sentiment of the far-right right now.
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Scott is really enjoying his new role as a climate change denier, now calling people who believe in it "climate change zombies" and says they're hypnotized. He also shows an incredible ignorance of how scientific research works, but hey, that's par for the course.quote:I started with a quote from this article by Lawrence Solomon. He says… And then he says something that's ridiculously false. quote:And keep in mind that the question that generated the 97% figure was limited to whether human activity contributes to warming. Even the critics agree with that statement. Where they differ is on the predictive accuracy of the models. But Scott's climate change denial is getting old, and his new blog post is much, much more interesting. You know it's going to be a good blog post when you see the title: quote:Persuasion Advice for African-Americans It's an astoundingly bad blog post. So bad, in fact, that even Scott's usual group of cheerleaders are calling him out on how dumb it is. I'll just hit the highlights of it. First up, while I don't disagree with this statement, you can immediately understand why Scott's fanbase is very upset at it: quote:President Obama’s presidency did a lot to diminish racial bias simply because he was a black president who – in the opinion of many, including me – did a good job. As a role model, he was exceptional. But all the factors that made him a great role model are the same factors that prevented him from doing much for the African-American community. It would have looked like favoritism if he had focused too much in that area. The resistance from the right would have been ferocious. And it would have ruined Obama’s brand. People loved Obama in part because he didn’t focus on his race. The country needed that. This leads multiple people in the comments to say the usual "Obama DIDN'T focus on his race? What planet do you live on? Obamam DIMINISHED racial bias? Scott, you couldn't be more wrong!" Anyway, Scott's premise is "Trump has an image problem due to his opponents saying he's Hitler, so this is the time for the African-American community to approach him with proposals that would help them. Trump can then take their proposals and sell them to the Republicans, who definitely care about helping minorities." His suggestion for a proposal they could make is his idea from a few months back, "slavery reparations in the form of free college." quote:Suppose some organized group of African-Americans puts together a slavery reparations plan that focuses on free college education as the compensation. The plan would call for universal free college (to get all the liberals onboard) but specify that any such plan has to be phased in over a decade for practical reasons. And that means someone has to go first. Why not start with African-Americans who are also below a certain economic level? This of course led to the rest of the comments being people complaining about giving minorities more "free stuff," how reparations are dumb and bad, how this would be "reverse racism," and of course that Scott should, as a person who studied economics, know that free stuff is bad for the economy and nothing should ever be free. Oh and the occasional "We don't need free college, just get degrees in things that lead to jobs instead of gender studies, or don't go to college at all because trades are better." So yeah, pretty amazing that he managed to write a blog post that not a single person can agree with.
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:Milo has resigned All those Brietbart readers who never would have heard conservative or libertarian ideals without the strong leadership of Milo Yianappolous
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Leofish posted:The Washington Post has a write up here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...m=.4447dfb34860 So, there's basically nothing we can do to provide any actual context about what happened.
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It shows you how unimportant this guy is that his pedestal was broken by some links being sent around on Twitter with almost no mainstream attention, and then he resigned in a spectacle that received basically no mainstream attention. He'll just pull a Glenn Beck and set up his own thing. He made his name known among the people that matters enough to keep himself off the streets.
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I am surprised it took this long https://twitter.com/nranews/status/834099553687056384
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I can see the time-honored tradition of draping attractive women over firearms has extended  to the highest levels of the gun lobby.
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Milo's spot at CPAC has gone to Ken Bone.
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Lololol, wasnt he posting in lolita channels on reddit?
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He's finally gonna admit voting for Trump?
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TGLT posted:Aisha wasn't Muhammad first wife, she was his third. His first wife, Khadija, was a pretty cool woman though. She's also quite possibly the single biggest feminist figure in Islam, seeing as how she very nearly smacked down the third (?) Caliph on the field of battle (for his minions murdering the second, natch) and after he placed her under very polite house arrest she was a super-mega theologian.
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:I am surprised it took this long The lighting and makeup makes her face look like a moire pattern.
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In case you didn't notice, women's agency is something the far right also isn't big on.
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Chilichimp posted:Lololol, wasnt he posting in lolita channels on reddit? Nah, just ones with beautiful human submarines.
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Sloober posted:Infowars pays you in ReptoDollars Odd, I've never seen someone refer to Bitcoin that way.
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I've accidentally reconnected with an old friend who has gone full Trumpist Gamergater.  is the obvious answer and likely the route I'll take. Especially because things have gone well for me and . . . not for him. Like, I don't ever know where to go. I'm happily bisexual, happily married, well compensated doing something I enjoy doing while he's . . . a deeply closeted person, I don't know if he's gay but, yeah, I kinda do, dropped out of college and works as a 35 year old Domino's delivery driver. I'm cool just telling him to suck eggs. But I believe there is good in him. Republicans are pure evil, so I'm not going to be able to present a reasonable alternative there. But I don't really care about video games, so I feel that is something I can talk about in a calm, rational way. Controversial pet theory: sexuality is fluid and I'm pretty sure he was molested by his pastor/step-father. But the reality is that any MSM is a bad approach since the only moral X is my X. So that approach vector is out of the question.
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Controversial Pet Theory: You car more about the fact that he's not out and has a lovely job more than you care about his dumbass political beliefs.
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I'm not entirely that person, but I'm close enough that I can identify with it. Most people in that situation just want a friend, that you know he's closeted means you're also one of the few people he can talk to without having to out himself. Whether or not he wants to out himself isn't your problem, and if he isn't asking you for money or posting Breitbart articles on your Facebook, what's the problem.
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CubanMissile posted:Controversial Pet Theory: You car more about the fact that he's not out and has a lovely job more than you care about his dumbass political beliefs. No. I'm willing to afford him some space because of his lovely situation. It's easy to be fabulous when it is easy. But it's obviously not when it's not. Going, "Well I believe X and life is loving AMAZING!" is rather tone deaf. What I care about is our previous friendship. I'm not going to make a new friend who is "on the management track because they just got the store key" at Bed Bath and Beyond. I'd be open to it, but I can think of zero situations where I'd meet someone like that. Especially given their views. If I had just met them, they can go have sex with themselves. But because there is a pre-existing friendship, I may as well try and steer them towards a better life, no?
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Craptacular! posted:I'm not entirely that person, but I'm close enough that I can identify with it. Yeah, but do I want to be his friend? That seems like a lot of work for very little return. I'm cool hanging with the dude but my time is limited. I have some sympathy but so what?
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Do you like hanging out with the guy or not? Geez it's not like you're taking him on as your padawan learner.
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CubanMissile posted:Do you like hanging out with the guy or not? Geez it's not like you're taking him on as your padawan learner. No. Not at all. But he seems really unhappy and really in need of a friend. And that's something I'm not only got at, it's something I'm professionally compensated for. So it makes sense that I get twangs of "maybe I can sell him on this". Does that make sense?
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I'll be his friend and we can play sword fights with our penises. Give him my number.
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Shbobdb posted:No. Not at all. are you a hooker? what on earth does "professionally compensated for being someones fried" mean
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Therapist maybe.
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Playstation 4 posted:Therapist maybe. Pretty sure that would violate ethics guidelines somewhere.
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Ramadu posted:are you a hooker? what on earth does "professionally compensated for being someones fried" mean It's like China's 'Hire a White Guy' action.
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Lego Batman, gay propaganda for adoption https://twitter.com/LibertyKnight44/status/832274744686891009 quote:LEGO builds Gotham City well: Bruce Wayne/Batman, Alfred Pennyworth, Robin, and the deranged underworld lords terrorizing the unsuspecting population—all sanitized and humorized to delight and inspire children. And don’t forget the orphan adoption by two dads, homoerotic attraction, and penis jokes!
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Pirate Radar posted:Pretty sure that would violate ethics guidelines somewhere. Not only ethical guidelines - there are really important differences in the interactions between being a therapist and being a friend. But some of the underlying skills are the same and maybe that's what they mean?
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:Lego Batman, gay propaganda for adoption This is better than The Secret World of Arrietty teaching communism.
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:Lego Batman, gay propaganda for adoption Two things: one, this sounds so stupid I got to go see the film and, two, I'm glad I don't live in a such a paranoid delusion that a 100 year old joke, "how do superheroes keep their secret identity?", is somehow "propaganda designed to destroy my very way of life!!!" Also glad I don't hate gay people and view them as an existential threat: would be hard to reconcile with actually being gay.
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Covok posted:Two things: one, this sounds so stupid I got to go see the film and, two, I'm glad I don't live in a such a paranoid delusion that a 100 year old joke, "how do superheroes keep their secret identity?", is somehow "propaganda designed to destroy my very way of life!!!" Also glad I don't hate gay people and view them as an existential threat: would be hard to reconcile with actually being gay. It's a really really fun movie and a lot of it is mocking how seriously other superhero movies take themselves, but not in a mean way at all.
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LifeSite News on lego batmanquote:Yesterday, I caught the new LEGO Batman movie and boy did it disappoint!
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Batman also comes to terms with some of his issues after being supported by his friends and loved ones which is something decades of real comics and movies were never really able to do.
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Okay, wait, there was sexual innuendo in the Flintstones? Since when? No really, since when? Last time I saw that show I was 9 year olds.
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mintskoal posted:Came across this gem this morning: the first quote isn't wrong, though.
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