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empty whippet box posted:Yep, a friend of mine has two daughters in college and is 34 years old. I'm kind of jealous of it sometimes because I want to have kids and I'm 31, and he's already in 'could be grandpa soon' territory. If it doesn't gently caress your life up and make everyone in the family miserable, then hey, having kids young can be great. It's certainly a different life experience than mine, but it really works out for some people. Did said friend actually raise their two kids? I can't imagine a 14 year old doing that successfully.
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Terebus posted:Politically, the good thing about the Roy Moore situation is that no matter how the election turns out republicans are hosed. and that even if they did "accept" him, he would be ted cruz on steriods and gently caress things up even more the GOP, probaly to start the culture wars up again, which is something most GOP don't really want to start again.
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Xombie posted:Christians across the country, especially in rural areas, have been ideologically in step with southerners since Jim Crow. Urban Christianity barely even exists except among minorities, who are also ideologically in step with their southern counterparts. Edit: Like urban African-American churches aren't even in step with Southern Black Churches, what are you talking about here Tibalt fucked around with this message at 22:54 on Nov 11, 2017 |
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Spiffster posted:Consent is not that hard of a concept people... It actually really is, though. Look at C.K. as an example, he asked for and got "consent" that he convinced himself was real. It wasn't, though, because of the power dynamics. Let's take a hypothetical: Weinstein didn't "forcibly" rape anyone, he just ran a casting couch. Even in that (false) scenario, it's still rape even if they agree to it. He's a gatekeeper for an entire profession, so there is no choice. Coercion isn't consent, but many people convinced themselves that "yes" means yes. We're a broken country in general. It's not racism if it's not the literal hooded klan shouting "N*****s go back to africa!", it's not sexisim when it's  . It's not nazis unless they wear the uniform, swastika, and heil literally hitler, it's not rape unless a guy drags you into a dark alley and forces himself on you.E: I'll rephrase: It shouldn't be hard, but apparently it's a really tough concept to most of the country. Harik fucked around with this message at 22:57 on Nov 11, 2017 |
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https://twitter.com/LanaDelRaytheon/status/929444319236202497 https://twitter.com/Green_Footballs/status/929163641890283521
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Crabtree posted:I mean, I know its loving Alabama, but how goddamn pathetic does the crop of Rs have to be when the best you can run is a loving stupid old pedophile in a blood red hellhole? A less vile rich rear end in a top hat is too much of a hurdle for the Republicans of Alabama to find as not even they would deign to lower themselves putting their tax shelter there. They just want the most openly reactionary person possible. That's it. There were """""better""""" options but they didn't care.
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Groovelord Neato posted:what the gently caress. i was my parents' first kid and they were 30 and 27. loving lmao a 34 year old with college aged kids. My wife's family had an generational habit of teen pregnancy. When she was born her grandmother was 35. And no, they were not from Alabama.
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Inspector Hound posted:Just lmao at America slowly figuring out it's actually the villain https://twitter.com/JesseLehrich/status/929451829657853952 Everyone is poo poo
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Overwined posted:Evangelicals are 100% Protestant and most absolutely hate Catholicism and Catholics in general. This would have the opposite effect you think it would. It would just coalesce them under a "common enemy". Fun fact, the United States has had exactly one Catholic President and he caught a bullet. Although I have no idea what sect Trump is faking right now. Presbyterian or something along those lines, if i remember. gently caress i am still surprised people legit believe that trump is a "god fearing" man.
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Overwined posted:Evangelicals are 100% Protestant and most absolutely hate Catholicism and Catholics in general. This would have the opposite effect you think it would. It would just coalesce them under a "common enemy". Fun fact, the United States has had exactly one Catholic President and he caught a bullet. Although I have no idea what sect Trump is faking right now. Conservatives used to be real weird about Catholics until they realized that the soul is in the blood and not the spirit and you can't afford to turn away god fearing white people.  
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ZenVulgarity posted:Everyone is poo poo the migrant crisis and the rise of terrorism are america's fault. you wouldn't have those warsaw marches without us destabilizing the middle east.
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There Bias Two posted:Did said friend actually raise their two kids? I can't imagine a 14 year old doing that successfully. I used to know a woman who'd had a daughter at twelve. I think I had barely stopped playing with dolls at that point.
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I often have to come to work weekends in order to make sure servers stay up and all that nonsense. I decided to read through the thread, and here's a personal(-ish) story that kinda threw me off guard. Earlier today, my daughter Skype'd me and told me that she and her girlfriend watched Casino last night. After the movie was over, her girlfriend said something to the effect : "I sincerely wish that I could go loving Frankie Marino on the piece of poo poo coach who raped my older brother back when he was in high school". My daughter said that it was really off-putting just how to-the-point and very matter-of-fact her girlfriend said those words. And it made me wonder: If more cases of people (read: more than likely guys) being scumbags get out there, just how long is it going to be until we see / read news of some rear end in a top hat rapist getting a violent payback?
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Overwined posted:Evangelicals are 100% Protestant and most absolutely hate Catholicism and Catholics in general. This would have the opposite effect you think it would. It would just coalesce them under a "common enemy". Fun fact, the United States has had exactly one Catholic President and he caught a bullet. Although I have no idea what sect Trump is faking right now. He loves all the churches with the lower case "t"s in them.
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Nov 11, 2017 22:59
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ZenVulgarity posted:https://twitter.com/JesseLehrich/status/929451829657853952 quote:Where will he go next, this phantom from another time, this resurrected ghost of a previous nightmare – Chicago? Los Angeles? Miami, Florida? Vincennes, Indiana? Syracuse, New York? Anyplace, everyplace, where there's hate, where there's prejudice, where there's bigotry. He's alive. He's alive so long as these evils exist. Remember that when he comes to your town. Remember it when you hear his voice speaking out through others. Remember it when you hear a name called, a minority attacked, any blind, unreasoning assault on a people or any human being. He's alive because through these things we keep him alive. There is something truly disturbing about White Supremacists marching in Warsaw...
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There Bias Two posted:Did said friend actually raise their two kids? I can't imagine a 14 year old doing that successfully. It's kind of a long story? He and the mother(same age, but actually just died of a heart problem a few weeks ago...) had a lot of help, he's been there the whole time but hasn't been the primary caretaker, graduated high school and college. Has a great relationship with them, is their father and dad, but they mostly stay with his mother. These things are only possible with a great support network around them, and it(either pregnancy, I mean) definitely didn't happen on purpose, as you can imagine.
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The existence of Slavic Nazis is one of the world most baffling ironies. I get it, you really hate Muslims. But maybe identify with one of the countless groups over the past hundreds of years that hates them that doesn't also lust for the death of you too.
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Nov 11, 2017 23:03
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CommieGIR posted:There is something truly disturbing about White Supremacists marching in Warsaw... It is not impossible that America still leads the world, and we just started punching Nazis again, but now we have to grab the wheel and turn before poo poo gets worse for everyone everywhere.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:The existence of Slavic Nazis is one of the world most baffling ironies. Let alone in a City literally built on the ruins of a genocidal siege held by white supremacists to exterminate the population.
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ZenVulgarity posted:https://twitter.com/JesseLehrich/status/929451829657853952 loving horrifying, but that picture is beautiful.
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That photo is a good reminder that Europe has more frequent, and larger, pro-Nazi rallies than we've had here even post-Trump.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:The existence of Slavic Nazis is one of the world most baffling ironies. I get it, you really hate Muslims. But maybe identify with one of the countless groups over the past hundreds of years that hates them that doesn't also lust for the death of you too. the poles kept the holocaust going after it officially ended.
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Nov 11, 2017 23:08
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Groovelord Neato posted:even if moore hadn't molested a 14 year old child, "dating" 16/17/18 year olds when you're 32 should be disqualifying. i'm 32 and those are kids. gently caress i'd feel like an enormous creep dating seniors in college at my age. it's insane that his defense is "i only kissed high schoolers". There's a definite point where those people aren't in your peer group. For me, as someone who is 28, it's roughly 17-35. That pretty much includes everyone who is in my group of friends, and their various siblings that still feel like peers.
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RuanGacho posted:It is not impossible that America still leads the world, and we just started punching Nazis again, but now we have to grab the wheel and turn before poo poo gets worse for everyone everywhere. oh jesus if you think the american ego is bad now wait till we win ww3: the return of nazis
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I grew up around a bunch of Polish and Yugoslavian immigrants and refugees, and it would not surprise me in the least if some of the older ones were completely on board with Nazism up to the whole "killing Slavs" thing. Hell, my Polish grandpa killed Nazis and still had opinions about his daughter marrying a Jew
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:The existence of Slavic Nazis is one of the world most baffling ironies. I get it, you really hate Muslims. But maybe identify with one of the countless groups over the past hundreds of years that hates them that doesn't also lust for the death of you too. If Jon Tron. The son of an Iranian immigrant can be a white supremacist then the world is our nazi oyster.
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Tiberius Christ posted:oh jesus if you think the american ego is bad now wait till we win ww3: the return of nazis If we just become the barbarian nation that smashes Nazis on a regular cycle of good and evil I could think of worse fates. America remains forever locked in between 1945 and 1999, unable to advance, unable to dream of anything but righteous asskicking. Wait I just described the boomers, gently caress.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:The existence of Slavic Nazis is one of the world most baffling ironies. I get it, you really hate Muslims. But maybe identify with one of the countless groups over the past hundreds of years that hates them that doesn't also lust for the death of you too. FYI lots of eastern Europe was very on-board with the holocaust. In fact some, like the Ukrainians, were so enthusiastic that it weirded out the Germans. Ethnic chauvinism is a default setting in human nature.
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FlamingLiberal posted:That photo is a good reminder that Europe has more frequent, and larger, pro-Nazi rallies than we've had here even post-Trump. The US's entire international image is built upon beating the poo poo out of the Nazis, though.
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Dejawesp posted:Conservatives used to be real weird about Catholics until they realized that the soul is in the blood and not the spirit and you can't afford to turn away god fearing white people. Bullshit they did, Catholics were just tolerated because soon Muslims became the scary religion we could declare war on as soon as the Iranian revolution and Muslim Brotherhood. Anytime the pope does something to anger conservatives they start remembering all the Touchy Priests and boil up the old Grudge. Racism and bigotry don't dissipate with Jews, it hasn't disappeared from Catholics because some were white. If Catholics start to be more liberal than their otherwise no abortion unity is, its back on because "Mexico is predominantly Catholic". Let's not forget half the attacks against JFK were that he was more loyal to the pope than the US.
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Nothus posted:FYI lots of eastern Europe was very on-board with the holocaust. In fact some, like the Ukrainians, were so enthusiastic that it weirded out the Germans. Ethnic chauvinism is a default setting in human nature. Yes I know how all over Poland and the Baltic people turned out in droves to help the Nazis kill Jews. Ultimately the Nazis had plans to eventually get around to enslaving and murdering them too once the war was over though.
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That wacky Putin is up to it again. http://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2017/11/10/professor-misfud-robertson-pkg.cnn
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Dejawesp posted:If Jon Tron. The son of an Iranian immigrant can be a white supremacist then the world is our nazi oyster. Persians were considered one of the good races.
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Krispy Wafer posted:Ironically the one person we haven't heard anything new about is Woody Allen. Oh goddammit. ...I'm still allowed to like Let It Ride, right? 
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Moktaro posted:Oh goddammit. The boomers seem to be intent on erasing everyone else from history just so no one can remember how badly they ruined everything.
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Evil Fluffy posted:Dems would've won even more seats if Ellison was in charge, clearly! do gotv door to door canvasers have tablets where they can help people register for early mail in voting right there on the spot?
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Your Taint posted:That wacky Putin is up to it again. i am surprised he wasn't "disappeared" earlier. seems like a weak link.
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Anyone who wants to have kids in this world should really reexamine their beliefs. If all the sexual predators, bigotry, declining employment and climate change don't scare, please tell me your secret. I cannot imagine why anyone would willingly take that responsibility.
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Tibalt posted:... The majority of Christians in the United States live in metro areas. The majority of practicing christians in the US live in rural areas. Evangicals are the largest denomination in the US. Suburban white protestant churches, as was shown in 2016, are not politically different from them on the whole. quote:African-American churches are absolutely not in step with Southern White Christianity. The gently caress are you talking about? You definitely misread what I said there. The counterparts of non-southern black churches are southern black churches. The counterparts of hispanic catholics are other hispanic catholics, etc. quote:Edit: Like urban African-American churches aren't even in step with Southern Black Churches, what are you talking about here In social values, they really are in lock step. Xombie fucked around with this message at 23:28 on Nov 11, 2017 |
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