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SpaceGoatFarts posted:It's kind of a similar situation. You just took me back to election night and the several group texts I received from friends frantically asking if others and I voted. Yes, but not for Hillary or Trump 
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I like how liberals have gone all the way around the political horseshoe and are now the pearl-clutching arbiters of morality, back when I was a liberal (I still am) jerking off to porn was a healthy release, smoking weed was fun and waging meaningless wars was bullshit. Now porn is sexist, smoking weed is probably racist or some other -ist, maybe its cultural appropriation from stoners, who knows, and liberals are demanding a hard line stance against Russia. Its pretty great that Hillary lost, Trump is one entertaining motherfucker, not directly mind, just in the wailing and gnashing of teeth he is causing the moral arbiters trying to police what I can and cannot do, say or think.
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Feb 22, 2017 18:06
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rezatahs posted:turns out attacking people for something they have no control over is kinda lovely even if you're punching up those are jews.
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Feb 22, 2017 18:10
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Lunixnerd posted:I like how liberals have gone all the way around the political horseshoe and are now the pearl-clutching arbiters of morality, back when I was a liberal (I still am) jerking off to porn was a healthy release, smoking weed was fun and waging meaningless wars was bullshit. Now porn is sexist, smoking weed is probably racist or some other -ist, maybe its cultural appropriation from stoners, who knows, and liberals are demanding a hard line stance against Russia. Its pretty great that Hillary lost, Trump is one entertaining motherfucker, not directly mind, just in the wailing and gnashing of teeth he is causing the moral arbiters trying to police what I can and cannot do, say or think. Welcome to trumps buddies doing the same thing you accuse liberals of, lol. People whine about liberals being crybaby snowflakes and then get really offended when they get poo poo on themselves. If you're going to defend flinging poo poo around, you're gonna get hit with some in return and trump's tweets getting mad at people for criticizing him are loving hilarious like that. MEDIA UNFAIR TO ME SAD.
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Feb 22, 2017 18:18
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looks like conservatives and liberals are two sides of the same weepy coin independents are over in the corner reefin and flexin 
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Feb 22, 2017 18:22
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SpaceGoatFarts posted:That's why I said the country is way too polarized, maybe even beyond repair. I would say that you are one of the useful idiots who cannot see context beyond a hot headline, but useful would require you to be a US citizen.
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Feb 22, 2017 18:27
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Yes, the PC Police and the Christian Morality Squad are the same groups of idiots on both sides, loving dipshits that can't mind their own business and leave everyone alone
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Feb 22, 2017 18:29
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Lunixnerd posted:Now porn is sexist, smoking weed is probably racist or some other -ist, maybe its cultural appropriation from stoners, who knows
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Feb 22, 2017 18:35
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Knight posted:Goddamn lol. Feminist groups have claimed porn was sexist since the 80s, and smoking weed is called racist, I guess, in your head? Maybe? Because you need to make a false equivalence with the party that has concretely said porn is a morally abhorrent cancer that should be censored for the last half-century and weed is a gateway drug for junkies who should be locked up. Whatever justifies your ignorance. Nice post and title combo
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Feb 22, 2017 18:36
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Ok real question here for everyone: would you go on a reality show hosted by President Don Trump where you wouldn't get any money but the winner would get to have a full presidential pardon for one future crime? You win by being the last contestant to survive in an extreme wife swap were you become Donald's personal wife and your SO goes to Guantanamo.
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Feb 22, 2017 18:36
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Knight posted:and smoking weed is called racist, I guess, in your head? Nobody calls smoking weed racist but I can easily think of a scenario where people could form a 'coherent' logical route identifying weed smoking as a form of cultural appropriation.
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Feb 22, 2017 18:37
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wasnt weed criminalised in the first place cause it was "black thing"
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Ape Fist posted:Nobody calls smoking weed racist but I can easily think of a scenario where people could form a 'coherent' logical route identifying weed smoking as a form of cultural appropriation. Cultural appropriation is one of those weird ideas that popped up when someone started sniffing their own farts cause it makes no sense that cultural exchange is something to be avoided.
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Feb 22, 2017 18:40
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Ape Fist posted:Nobody calls smoking weed racist but I can easily think of a scenario where people could form a 'coherent' logical route identifying weed smoking as a form of cultural appropriation.
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Feb 22, 2017 18:41
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Knight posted:Do you think that because you could think of a scenario in which someone could, conceivably, identify weed smoking as a form of cultural appropriation, that it makes this a valid comparison between these groups? no.
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Feb 22, 2017 18:41
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Kjoery posted:when contrasting voter turnout to the previous election, wasn't the primary reason why the demos lost because they just failed to energize a bunch of voters that turned out in the prev election? im not sure if that could be qualified as a rebellion, but then again, i dont watch quality youtube series This Week In Stupid A major problem of looking at voter turnout numbers, is that due to the electoral college, national numbers are almost useless compared to regional numbers. Because in terms of national numbers, the dems and repubs turned out at the same rates. But in places like the rust belt, black voters did not turn out for Clinton like they did for Obama, which is the biggest reason she lost those states. The difference in national numbers for Hillary came in the form of California and the east coast states which (iirc) had higher turnouts than 2012 which gave her similar vote totals to Obama but meant she lost the college and the presidency. An interesting thing to note, Florida was one of the few swing states where Hillary had higher turnout than obama...but trump ended up with the most votes for a candidate from Florida. Tldr; there was a rebellion in the rust belt, but had people run to her in cali and New York so nationally it looks similar to 2012.
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Knight posted:Do you think that because you could think of a scenario in which someone could, conceivably, identify weed smoking as a form of cultural appropriation, that it makes this a valid comparison between these groups? If hippies didn't like smoking weed and rust belt people did, I bet you they'd label it appropriation
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Ape Fist posted:no.  Well, ok.
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Feb 22, 2017 18:47
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"How an ancient Rastafarian Spiritual Medicine was turned into the Stimulant of Choice by White Supremacists"
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Waterbed Wendy posted:Ok real question here for everyone: would you go on a reality show hosted by President Don Trump where you wouldn't get any money but the winner would get to have a full presidential pardon for one future crime? How long would this last, because living a couple hundred miles from Trump while spending as much of his money as possible sounds like a sweet gig. And when the Baroque-As-Viewed-By-A-Russian-Oligarch decor gets to me, I can just smash poo poo and blame the cleaning staff.
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really queer Christmas posted:Tldr; there was a rebellion in the rust belt, but had people run to her in cali and New York so nationally it looks similar to 2012. i mean, i dont know the demographics of the frogmen, but i assume they exist predominately in urban centres
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Feb 22, 2017 18:50
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Knight posted:Goddamn lol. Feminist groups have claimed porn was sexist since the 80s.
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really queer Christmas posted:A major problem of looking at voter turnout numbers, is that due to the electoral college, national numbers are almost useless compared to regional numbers. Because in terms of national numbers, the dems and repubs turned out at the same rates. But in places like the rust belt, black voters did not turn out for Clinton like they did for Obama, which is the biggest reason she lost those states. It was really weird because she campaigned heavily in the blue strongholds, too. She was supposed to be this brilliant politician and she blew enormous amounts of money campaigning in California and New York or on bizarre choices like turning Texas and Georgia blue. Her people really did think it was just going to be a coronation. Kjoery posted:yeah, but dont rust belters have legitimate grievances, rather than fake white oppression olympics? or were they affected by the whole "political correctness has gone mad!!!" narrative (ok, i guess PC has gone mad has always been a conservative narrative, so that might make things difficult) trump didn't do much better than others in the rust belt but hillary did a lot worse because she didn't even bother, she just kinda assumed it would go her way Anecdotally, a lot of my old buddies from that area woulda voted bernie but not hillary and they aren't exactly socialists(or wouldn't call them selves that). Panzeh fucked around with this message at 18:53 on Feb 22, 2017 |
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Feb 22, 2017 18:51
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JB50 posted:Jesus christ let the gun thing go. Here chew on this: Why on earth would I give a poo poo what the state government in Kansas is?
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Feb 22, 2017 18:55
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Most of the hillary negative ads against trump seemed designed for hillary voters and not trump voters. I mean, how do you not manage to attack a guy whose catchphrase is "you're fired" on the economy? All you have to do is splice in "You're fired" and then some stock footage of closed factories and closed businesses and it'd be effective as gently caress.
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Feb 22, 2017 18:56
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Panzeh posted:Cultural appropriation is one of those weird ideas that popped up when someone started sniffing their own farts cause it makes no sense that cultural exchange is something to be avoided. There's a legitimate conversation to have about important cultural aspects being commandeered for idiotic reasons or profit (commodification) but I think it's unavoidable and certainly not something you can suppress without going down a silly path where everything is off limits. Fredrik DeBoer had a great article about how nobody can define what is and isn't cultural appropriation, I'll try finding it.
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Panzeh posted:Most of the hillary negative ads against trump seemed designed for hillary voters and not trump voters. They had Kaine during the VP debate say "we need a "you're hired" president, not a "you're fired" president" and it was dead silent, no laughter, no applause, just awkward silence. So they kinda tried it lol.
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scrubs season six posted:Why on earth would I give a poo poo what the state government in Kansas is? Redistricting. Welcome to Pax-Repubican
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Panzeh posted:It was really weird because she campaigned heavily in the blue strongholds, too. She was supposed to be this brilliant politician and she blew enormous amounts of money campaigning in California and New York or on bizarre choices like turning Texas and Georgia blue. Her people really did think it was just going to be a coronation. also, the alternate timeline where bernie was the candidate is a cool idea - id like to believe he'd have won (a lot of canadian campaign talent was actually pulled for bernie's primaries, it was a lot of fun), but who the hell knows
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Cthulu Carl posted:How long would this last, because living a couple hundred miles from Trump while spending as much of his money as possible sounds like a sweet gig. You and thirteen other contestants have to do everything  quote:And when the Baroque-As-Viewed-By-A-Russian-Oligarch decor gets to me, I can just smash poo poo and blame the cleaning staff. This will probably be a sort of Challenge to spice things up. Maybe something like the person with most gold leaf under their fingernails gets extra points. E: woops! Waterbed Wendy fucked around with this message at 19:46 on Feb 22, 2017 |
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scrubs season six posted:Why on earth would I give a poo poo what the state government in Kansas is? Kansas has the nickname Brownbackistan because of how absolutely terrible the state is doing after Governor Brownback tried to make it a libertarian paradise. Seriously he completely hosed the state.
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Waterbed Wendy posted:You and thirteen other contestants have to do everything Ivanka did before she mysteriously disappeared. I'll have to know the wording of the pardon before agreeing then.
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Gumbel2Gumbel posted:You're going to die alone because your cancer treatments have bankrupted you since the repeal of the affordable Care act. you should probably take the advice in this tweet wrt reading this thread http://twitter.com/obamamalik/status/834426197496954881
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do u know jenny posted:Kansas has the nickname Brownbackistan because of how absolutely terrible the state is doing after Governor Brownback tried to make it a libertarian paradise. Seriously he completely hosed the state. Adding to this: states that completely gently caress themselves require federal assistance to unfuck themselves. So your federal tax dollars go to fund Kansas state idiocy.
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do u know jenny posted:Kansas has the nickname Brownbackistan because of how absolutely terrible the state is doing after Governor Brownback tried to make it a libertarian paradise. Seriously he completely hosed the state. The left really has to get their poo poo together so I can go back to supporting things like taxes and regulations
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TheIllestVillain posted:wasnt weed criminalised in the first place cause it was "black thing" Yes. If you really wanted to, there's a decent argument that white people with weed is a strong display of privilege considering how little trouble they'd get into if caught compared to say...a black person.
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Weed was criminalized for the same reason it remains criminal - to strengthen the power of the state and to control the population. It was a politically motivated decision
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Spunky Psycho Ho posted:These people arguing live in Europe. They have no idea what America is even like. They should look inwards, to Brexit, which essentially rallied the Trump movement to victory you've got some terrible opinions duder 
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frakeaing HAMSTER DANCE posted:Yes. Legalization in Colorado was a big problem because people were mad that a whole bunch of white people flooded the industry to profit on something black people were doing time for.
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Spunky Psycho Ho posted:Weed was criminalized for the same reason it remains criminal - to strengthen the power of the state and to control the population. It was a politically motivated decision A lot of drug laws were written 100+ years ago and were most definitely racially motivated. There's a reason a large portion of the black male population is behind bars on drug charges.
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