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Platystemon posted:Broke: binders full of women 
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Would of been totally American to just say "Who cares it's Mexico.".
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Feb 16, 2020 05:05
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If you need any help convincing your parents and/or non-terminally online friends why Bloomberg is pure awful, this article may help convince them: https://twitter.com/jdawsey1/status/1228693455284686848?s=19 Tried to copy the whole article for those without a post sub, but it got royally hosed up in the app. Anyway, some key quotes from a legal complaint filed against Bloomberg in the '90s: quote:44. Upon information and belief, in or about July 1993, Bloomberg heard that a female Company sales person, who had just had a baby, was having difficulty finding a nanny. He yelled loudly at her, in the presence of a large group of employees,“It’s a f------ baby! All it does is eat and s---! It doesn’t know the difference between you and anyone else! All you need is some black who doesn’t even have to speak English to rescue it from a burning building!” The sales person cried at hearing her employer say such things to her, in so public a manner. quote:23. Upon information and belief, in October 1989, Bloomberg was unhappy with the outcome of a business meeting. He said to a newly-hired female Company sales person, “If [the clients] told you to lay down and strip naked so they could f--- you, would you do that too?” He repeated similar words or substance at frequent intervals throughout the period of plaintiff’s employment. quote:89. On April 11, 1995 at approximately 11:20 a.m., Bloomberg was having a photograph taken with two female Company salespeople and a group of N.Y.U. Business School students, in the company snack area. When Bloomberg noticed Garrison standing nearby, he asked, “Why didn’t they ask you to be in the picture? I guess they saw your face.” Continuing his penchant for ridiculing recently married women in his employ, Bloomberg asked plaintiff, “How’s married life? You married?” Plaintiff responded that her marriage was great and was going to get better in a few months: that she was pregnant, and the baby was due the following September. He responded to her “Kill it!” Plaintiff asked Bloomberg to repeat himself, and again he said, “Kill it!” and muttered, “Great! Number 16!” suggesting to plaintiff his unhappiness that sixteen women in the Company had maternity-related status. Then he walked away. quote:18. Upon information and belief, in 1989, when a male Company salesperson was getting married, Bloomberg said to the female salespeople, “All of you girls line up to give him [oral sex] as a wedding present.” He repeated like words on several occasions in each of the years plaintiff was employed at the Company.
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Feb 16, 2020 07:43
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Wow he was presidential before it was cool
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Feb 16, 2020 09:29
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Acebuckeye13 posted:If you need any help convincing your parents and/or non-terminally online friends why Bloomberg is pure awful, this article may help convince them: Something else is that he's a grown-rear end adult when he said this stuff, not just a dumb high schooler. Also after reading this I'm thinking, we have Al Franken resign and then we end up with this poo poo? Franken should run again imo Suicide Watch fucked around with this message at 09:40 on Feb 16, 2020 |
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Feb 16, 2020 09:37
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Acebuckeye13 posted:If you need any help convincing your parents and/or non-terminally online friends why Bloomberg is pure awful, this article may help convince them: my old man tried to broach the subject of how he thought bloomberg was a good guy, and didn't understand why i loving blew up in his face because he's just a trump with a couple extra zeros in his bank account and would actually be able to accomplish his corruption schemes without putting it out there on the twitter. He'd be the Smart Trump that everyone should be legitimately afraid of, much more so than cheeto benito
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Feb 16, 2020 09:45
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Bernie has rich dem "moderates" so shook they're tripping over themselves to support this piece of poo poo. What a bunch of pathetic worms.
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Feb 16, 2020 09:54
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orange juche posted:my old man tried to broach the subject of how he thought bloomberg was a good guy, and didn't understand why i loving blew up in his face because he's just a trump with a couple extra zeros in his bank account and would actually be able to accomplish his corruption schemes without putting it out there on the twitter. He'd be the Smart Trump that everyone should be legitimately afraid of, much more so than cheeto benito loving  man.Your dad is gonna die on you, sooner than later, and your spending what years you have left “blowing up in his face” over the loving DNC primary. Just hug him and love him and appreciate having him in your life because before you know it, none of the above will even be possible. Nothing in the realm of politics should ever drive a wedge between you and your parents. If you can’t hold separate and differing views from your parents without a bunch of fights that speaks way more to your emotional maturity than anything else.
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Feb 16, 2020 10:49
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Shim dropping wisdom in this thread.
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Feb 16, 2020 10:51
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That would be a valid point in a pre-Trump world.
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Feb 16, 2020 12:04
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"if you can't hug it out with members of your family who vote to deport other members of your family / friends then it's on you" Ehhh Alternatively if your family are toxic shitbags and you feel better not being around them then I can say for certain you'll feel better letting them go.
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Feb 16, 2020 12:56
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y'all making some Evil Kenevel-tier leaps from "got loud about an existential threat to the working class" to "disowned my parents" however this is extremely true quote:Alternatively if your family are toxic shitbags and you feel better not being around them then I can say for certain you'll feel better letting them go.
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Feb 16, 2020 13:04
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BRB guys, I’m just disowning my family to own the cons. Look how pure strain progressive I am. loving Republicans, Am I rite?
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Feb 16, 2020 13:27
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I’m not saying keep toxic pieces of poo poo in your life, I’m saying thinking and believing differently than you doesn’t make your family toxic pieces of poo poo. I’m quite certain there are folks who have very good reason to keep their families out of their lives. I’m sure some or even many of those probably include political/social belief differences as a noteworthy characteristic. What I’m saying is: Don’t hate anyone, let alone your family, for their political beliefs. With the caveat of Nazi’s/Fascists. That’s political thinking you can and should hate. Localize Fascism/Nazism to whatever analogue exists in your part of the world.
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Feb 16, 2020 13:47
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Shim you’re dumb as hell If your parent wants to vote in people who will destroy the world as much as possible even after your parent dies, they’re not being a good parent and don’t deserve a  hug
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Feb 16, 2020 13:52
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:I’m not saying keep toxic pieces of poo poo in your life, I’m saying thinking and believing differently than you doesn’t make your family toxic pieces of poo poo. I see where you're coming from for sure. Also to consider though is having to tacitly condone a family member directly loving over another family member and/or friends by not calling them out over it because of 'politics'. It's not some purity test thing. At some point there's a line crossed that's just too far to keep accepting.
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Feb 16, 2020 14:12
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Lol. Some peoples' families suck. There's a reason I live a thousand miles from any of mine, and it's not strictly their political beliefs. It's to a point where I'd gladly change my phone number and not give it to any of them.
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Feb 16, 2020 14:52
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That Works posted:I see where you're coming from for sure. Also to consider though is having to tacitly condone a family member directly loving over another family member and/or friends by not calling them out over it because of 'politics'. It's not some purity test thing. I have made it clear to my family that voting Trump is a line that can't be crossed. Thankfully, they agree. Meanwhile, eugenics is trending on Twitter. I wonder why that i-- https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/1228943686953664512 Oh.
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Feb 16, 2020 15:07
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Goddamn dick dorkins, that's a hell of a take.
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Feb 16, 2020 15:11
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Lmao Dawkins with the straight " I do not see why mankind should not be as cruel as nature"
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Feb 16, 2020 15:13
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dick dorkins off the top rope with another awful idea
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Feb 16, 2020 15:18
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That Works posted:Lmao Dawkins with the straight " I do not see why mankind should not be as cruel as nature" He's literally (like, the actual sentence in the post) saying that it can be opposed on moral grounds but genetically you could totally make a pug-person with a hosed up skull with enough years and inbreeding.
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Feb 16, 2020 15:20
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Laranzu posted:He's literally (like, the actual sentence in the post) saying that it can be opposed on moral grounds but genetically you could totally make a pug-person with a hosed up skull with enough years and inbreeding. Our knowledge of this stuff is so limited and the timescales to make it work for humans are so long that anyone who thinks it wouldn't backfire spectacularly is a dumbass.
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Feb 16, 2020 15:24
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Could an incomprehensibly advanced alien race productively practice eugenics on humanity? Sure. Can any human society productively practice eugenics on its own people? Hahaha no.
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Feb 16, 2020 15:24
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Platystemon posted:Could an incomprehensibly advanced alien race productively practice eugenics on humanity? Sure. Eugenics is inherently ideological anyway, on the basis that "desired traits" is entirely subjective (even if solving for "desired trait" didn't also mean developing turbocancer at age 20), so the entire tweet is like a self-cancelling ouroboros.
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Feb 16, 2020 15:26
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Our knowledge of this stuff is so limited and the timescales to make it work for humans are so long that anyone who thinks it wouldn't backfire spectacularly is a dumbass. Humans are just animals man. If you want taller ones just have tall ones gently caress and kill the short ones. Sure you will turn out turbo hosed organisms but so are dogs. The rest is moral and political.
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Feb 16, 2020 15:30
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If I'm gathering right, I think he means humans are as susceptible to genetic homogenization as the cows we get milk from, the horses we watch race, that kind of poo poo. So maybe dick dorkins thinks if aliens come to earth and start treating us like livestock or for strict entertainment purposes, they'd find some examples of humans that are superior for eating or watching run their obstacle course. It's not about individual performance at that point, but maintaining a standard that's capable of consistent results. Think of it like grain for a second. There's a lot of corn/maize variants out there that are not grown agriculturally for a variety of reasons, left to the wild or small farming not using the largely generic yellow corn that the agriculture industry as a whole has stepped behind. People picked a strain for its' productivity, ability to withstand rot or drought, that kind of poo poo, then we went and hosed with the genetics of it to produce more and deal with shittier climates. Hell, we whittled ourselves down to one type of banana, it's not unimaginable that it can be done with anything else. So yeah, if aliens were farming us for people steaks, they're probably going to want to homogenize us for consumption as a whole for their society to produce predictable results and maintain a consistent product. If you take the emotional reaction of our value for our differences away, we're all just tasty meat to some spaceship dealership owners' son. Or maybe I just need to smoke a joint.
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Feb 16, 2020 15:33
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Laranzu posted:He's literally (like, the actual sentence in the post) saying that it can be opposed on moral grounds but genetically you could totally make a pug-person with a hosed up skull with enough years and inbreeding. While true, why is this something he feels the need to say on Twitter?
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Feb 16, 2020 15:34
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SimonCat posted:While true, why is this something he feels the need to say on Twitter? Because he is the atheist version of Ben Shapiro Edit: except actually kinda objectively right sometimes instead of entirely wrong always
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Feb 16, 2020 15:37
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Laranzu posted:He's literally (like, the actual sentence in the post) saying that it can be opposed on moral grounds but genetically you could totally make a pug-person with a hosed up skull with enough years and inbreeding. I know. It's the "I'm just asking questions" of takes.
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Feb 16, 2020 15:40
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:People steaks. Did you come up with this fine sci fi universe without having smoked a joint?
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Feb 16, 2020 15:40
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I haven't smoked since like, 8:30pm last night. Sobriety is breaking my brain. Here's where I got the spaceship dealer from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM2G-TAmZG8 CRUSTY MINGE fucked around with this message at 15:45 on Feb 16, 2020 |
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Feb 16, 2020 15:42
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Lol don't appease your lovely parents
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Feb 16, 2020 16:20
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Proud Christian Mom posted:Lol don't appease your lovely parents Yea, assuming youre a grown rear end adult leave the decorum poo poo for stuff that dont matter. If they vote a lovely direction call them out for it.
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Feb 16, 2020 16:23
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Unplug the ventilator 2020
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Feb 16, 2020 16:31
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I try not to let my parents’ lovely political opinions get me too angry despite how personally the results affect my family. I will laugh at my mom getting hit with a massive tax bill after claiming that Trump was looking out for schoolteachers like her, though.
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Feb 16, 2020 17:07
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Old Boot posted:I have made it clear to my family that voting Trump is a line that can't be crossed. Except that eugenics isn't about breeding for meat production or hunting badgers. It's always been about prohibiting procreation for undesirable races and perceived intelligence and morality. For a famous evolutionary biologist he sure doesn't know what the gently caress he's talking about.
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Feb 16, 2020 17:21
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The more important question to me is, even if you overlook the ethical issues, why would we even bother to try to breed humans to be harder/better/faster/stronger when we have machines to do that? Like I don't need to be able to run 60 mph when I can just hop in a car and do that. Biological evolution stopped being a concern when our ape ancestors started using stone tools.
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Feb 16, 2020 17:35
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Stultus Maximus posted:Except that eugenics isn't about breeding for meat production or hunting badgers. It's always been about prohibiting procreation for undesirable races and perceived intelligence and morality. It's the same thing with the physicists that made the bomb. They were there for the science of it. Imagine if Oppenheimer had a Twitter account. edit: the point I'm trying to make is that being an expert in the fundamental components (high energy physics, evolutionary biology, etc.) does not make you an expert in the application of said knowledge. Vasudus fucked around with this message at 17:48 on Feb 16, 2020 |
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Fister Roboto posted:The more important question to me is, even if you overlook the ethical issues, why would we even bother to try to breed humans to be harder/better/faster/stronger when we have machines to do that? Like I don't need to be able to run 60 mph when I can just hop in a car and do that. Biological evolution stopped being a concern when our ape ancestors started using stone tools. i've noticed that modern eugenics advocates often fetishize the genetic component of intelligence e: yep, seems like Dawkins was talking about this because one of Boris Johnson's advisors said that intelligence is great so eugenics is great https://twitter.com/ianbirrell/status/1228809833434042369 Doc Hawkins fucked around with this message at 18:00 on Feb 16, 2020 |
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