sneakyfrog posted:

Somfin posted:

Yes, but astrologers think we're here for a special reason, therefore everything in the entire loving universe must have been put here for our special reasons because we are that loving special.

Pookah posted:

(For anyone who hasn't already heard, his campaign lost spectacularly - 66% to 33%)

Pookah posted:

(For anyone who hasn't already heard, his campaign lost spectacularly - 66% to 33%)

Fishstick posted:

I ended up looking this up because YES/NO alone still wasn't very useful without context (is Yes pro abortion of anti?).

The fun part is that when the Irish were voting on the original 8th amendment in 1983, the votes were 66.9% Pro, 33.1 Con. The current ratio for the 36th amendment, repealing the constitutional ban on abortions is almost exactly the same: 66.4 Pro and 33.6 Con.

RareAcumen posted:

So my mom's still a devout believer of the Black Hebrew Israelite teachings- I'm not because A: Not too religious in general B: People shouting on a street corner isn't my prefered way to receive information C: Like her, they can't research poo poo before passing it along so this was a point made in one of the videos she was watching. And I also heard him saying 'gook' too so they've already solidified my opposition to them on basic respect reasons. D: They're basically just hanging around on the street berating passersby on not knowing the Bible. Which doesn't really appeal to me at all. I don't get why it would to other people, tbh. E: less compelling but the fact that they label their videos like clickbait anti-feminists do just soured me on them to begin with.

So I sent her that link of dril tweets

https://twitter.com/chIoroplast/status/1000199890205593601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

And got this in response

Roblo posted:

I made the mistake of posting something negative about God King Musk on a Facebook article. Dear god his supporters are rabid. Nothing worthy of posting in here, just a poo poo load of crap responses. They seem to take it as a personal insult (which is weird since a bunch of them have called me a snowflake).

DicktheCat posted:

Wow, um. What is it about religion that kills people's sense of humor? That was a joke, and you got a tirade.

Mak0rz posted:

RareAcumen posted:

Well it's because I don't believe in the cause maaaan. I'm not supporting the Truth. We were the Kings of Egypt once upon a time. We're not actually black, that's a falsehood that the white man has perpetrated for- who the gently caress knows- millennia?

I'm not surprised since she's been believing in bullshit for a while now. Chemtrails are real, I'm pretty sure she's convinced that Jews run the world, HAARP, that Taco Bell Illuminati commercial bugged her, Anchor Babies, if you call a trans person by the wrong pronoun you'll be arrested- and I loving told her that you have to be medically qualified and deliberately misgendering people for that to happen and she's still peddling that bullshit again, I looked it up and everything!- Just a bunch of dumb poo poo. Oh yeah, and Black Panther is propaganda since it makes people think they're from Africa and Wakanda Forever became a meme.

excuse my rant. And don't worry, I needed to vent, and you didn't really say anything rude. Most people on here are always making a 'hosed your mom' joke anyway so whatevs.

Grimdude posted:

Wait hold the gently caress on. It's egotistical to think the planets and stars don't exist to affect us in any meaningful way?

Grimdude posted:

Wait hold the gently caress on. It's egotistical to think the planets and stars don't exist to affect us in any meaningful way?

i am the bird posted:

One cool internet trick: summon hundreds of white men by the mere suggestion that any rich guy is bad.

Midnight Voyager posted:

I THINK they mean it's egotistical to think that we are the one water on the planet that the planet and stars don't affect?

Monkeytime posted:

"I have a meme page with over 14k likes"

Midnight Voyager posted:

Wait, you're "not actually black", it's a lie? Wh- what are you, then?? How do you lie about something you can see??

RareAcumen posted:

Well it's because I don't believe in the cause maaaan. I'm not supporting the Truth. We were the Kings of Egypt once upon a time. We're not actually black, that's a falsehood that the white man has perpetrated for- who the gently caress knows- millennia?

Oh yeah, and Black Panther is propaganda since it makes people think they're from Africa

TinTower posted:

Tiggum posted:

So

1. Black people aren't actually black.
   
2. Black people (who aren't actually black) ruled Egypt.
   
3. Egypt... is not in Africa?

Am I understanding this right?

Tiggum posted:

So

1. Black people aren't actually black.
   
2. Black people (who aren't actually black) ruled Egypt.
   
3. Egypt... is not in Africa?

Am I understanding this right?

Cleretic posted:

And, for the record for anyone who's reading this and going 'hey, actually wait a minute here': The water in our bodies does get affected by the gravitational force of the moon, of course it does. But because that water is in our bodies, the gravitational force of our body is enormously more influential on that water than the moon is.

I just through it was worth saying here because it never actually occurred to me until I heard a podcast mention it specifically to debunk stuff like this.

Cleretic posted:

And, for the record for anyone who's reading this and going 'hey, actually wait a minute here': The water in our bodies does get affected by the gravitational force of the moon, of course it does. But because that water is in our bodies, the gravitational force of our body is enormously more influential on that water than the moon is.

I just through it was worth saying here because it never actually occurred to me until I heard a podcast mention it specifically to debunk stuff like this.

Monkeytime posted:

"I have a meme page with over 14k likes"

RareAcumen posted:

Well it's because I don't believe in the cause maaaan. I'm not supporting the Truth. We were the Kings of Egypt once upon a time. We're not actually black, that's a falsehood that the white man has perpetrated for- who the gently caress knows- millennia?

I'm not surprised since she's been believing in bullshit for a while now. Chemtrails are real, I'm pretty sure she's convinced that Jews run the world, HAARP, that Taco Bell Illuminati commercial bugged her, Anchor Babies, if you call a trans person by the wrong pronoun you'll be arrested- and I loving told her that you have to be medically qualified and deliberately misgendering people for that to happen and she's still peddling that bullshit again, I looked it up and everything!- Just a bunch of dumb poo poo. Oh yeah, and Black Panther is propaganda since it makes people think they're from Africa and Wakanda Forever became a meme.

excuse my rant. And don't worry, I needed to vent, and you didn't really say anything rude. Most people on here are always making a 'hosed your mom' joke anyway so whatevs.

timefly posted:

Do you have the source about the misgendering thing because my brother insists that JP "could be brought up in front of a human rights tribunal and made to pay a fine, if he refuses he could be held in contempt and jailed".

CommonShore posted:

The Human Rights Commissions are a Canadian thing. It's essentially an agency of higher appeal when dealing with issues of discrimination.

timefly posted:

Do you have the source about the misgendering thing because my brother insists that JP "could be brought up in front of a human rights tribunal and made to pay a fine, if he refuses he could be held in contempt and jailed".

quote:

"Since the LGBT Senior Bill of Rights was introduced, the Religious Right (the same folks who oppose all LGBT civil rights bills) have attempted multiple lines of attack against the bill. Their first attempts were to go after trans people using the North Carolina ‘trans people will rape you in the bathroom’ absurd argument," Wiener wrote in a September press release.

"After these specious attacks floundered, these opponents of LGBT civil rights came up with a new argument: that if you use the wrong pronoun you'll be criminally prosecuted and jailed," he continued. "This is a ridiculous and misleading argument that uses fear and distortion of facts as a shield to attack LGBT rights."

We decided to examine this controversial claim about jail time for using the wrong pronoun given its persistent nature and Wiener’s strong rebuttal. We won’t rate it on our Truth-O-Meter because the claims come from disparate sources, not a single individual. But we will separate fact from fiction as much as possible.

quote:

Our research

We found groups such as Breitbart and Fox News crammed misleading information into short news headlines, greatly distorting the facts about the use of pronouns or leaving out key information that would have given a different impression.

But we also found an element of truth: Violations of the bill could, under limited circumstances, be treated as a misdemeanor with punishment of up to one year in jail and/or a $1,000 fine.

Courtney Joslin, a UC Davis law professor, said the bar for criminal prosecution would be extremely high.

"The bill is very, very clear that what is prohibited is the willful engagement and repeated engagement in discriminatory conduct against LGBT seniors. So, if someone makes a mistake or doesn’t know what a person’s gender identity is and uses the incorrect pronoun that is not a violation of the statute," Joslin said.

Willful and repeated violations alone wouldn’t lead to criminal prosecution, Joslin added. They would likely be punished with a fine.

Criminal charges would only follow, she said, if the violation reached a level that was shown to cause the risk of death or serious physical harm, in accordance with state’s existing penalty structure for health and safety code violations at long-term care centers.

Wiener has said purposefully using the wrong pronoun would be treated the same way as someone who violates a center’s smoking ban. It would be considered a minor violation but "no one is going to jail for that."

Ularg posted:

I can't not share this:

RareAcumen posted:

I'm guessing JP is Jordan Peterson but I don't really know to be honest. Anyway, here's the thing I'm referring to with specific quotes to what I was hazily remembering.

http://www.politifact.com/california/article/2017/sep/26/claims-mislead-about-california-bill-forcing-jail-/