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Cocaine Bear posted:Love when dudes that look like that try to rip on women for their appearance. Dolly "it's expensive to look this cheap" Parton, famous for caring what random dudes think about her appearance 
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vyelkin posted:lmao aside from the last bit this is what American churches have been telling Americans since like 1917 even the last part isn't all that new! quote:Satanic ritual abuse (SRA, sometimes known as ritual abuse, ritualistic abuse, organized abuse, or sadistic ritual abuse) was the subject of a moral panic (often referred to as the Satanic Panic) that originated in the United States in the 1980s, spreading throughout many parts of the world by the late 1990s. Allegations of SRA involved reports of physical and sexual abuse of people in the context of occult or Satanic rituals. In its most extreme form, allegations involve a conspiracy of a worldwide SRA organization that includes the wealthy and powerful of the world elite in which children are abducted or bred for human sacrifices, pornography, and prostitution.
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mazzi Chart Czar posted:Kind of avoiding a sub argument, but you pulled it out. the only part of your original post i disagree with is that they think their jobs are easy street. whether or not their jobs are actually objectively hard, their self-image is that they individually are doing tough jobs (see tough job porn like "dirty jobs" and like any pickup truck commercial). taxes are just used by the government to give the fruits of their hard work to lazy bums, and union dues are just a tool their lazy coworkers use to keep jobs they should be fired from. is it the correct view of why they work hard and yet still arent rich? no, but the narrative that dues and taxes are stealing their wealth is the only one in the mainstream since the democrats refuse to offer any alternative explanation to the working class
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Aug 18, 2020 19:21
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Also, name a single positive representation of unions in the media. The inverted argument is that every movie about a good old country boy who saves the world, or rises to the top. Stars War, Avatar, Titanic, Probably a good amount of super heroes. The dog in call of the wild:that dog starts off as a central California farm boy and by killing a Native American in the wild at the end becomes the toughest thing in the wild.
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Aug 18, 2020 19:27
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mazzi Chart Czar posted:There people who want some government (small or big), then there are people, Why do you write like that? I feel like you're quoting a song or having a stroke. And the answer is even simpler: humans and dumb and stupid and awful and greedy and they value losses more than gains. Oh and racism. Lots and lots of racism. Cocaine Bear has issued a correction as of 19:31 on Aug 18, 2020 |
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Aug 18, 2020 19:28
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the milk machine posted:reverend horton heat owns bones, not going to google to see what their politics are They're old enough that you probably don't want to know.
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Plank Walker posted:the only part of your original post i disagree with is that they think their jobs are easy street. whether or not their jobs are actually objectively hard, their self-image is that they individually are doing tough jobs (see tough job porn like "dirty jobs" and like any pickup truck commercial). taxes are just used by the government to give the fruits of their hard work to lazy bums, and union dues are just a tool their lazy coworkers use to keep jobs they should be fired from. is it the correct view of why they work hard and yet still arent rich? no, but the narrative that dues and taxes are stealing their wealth is the only one in the mainstream since the democrats refuse to offer any alternative explanation to the working class Sorry, excuse me, let me try to make it clearer. Not trying to under sell how hard union jobs are. Union jobs are hard. Farming, especially substances farming, where a person eats what they grows: is way harder, and doesn't always have the pay off. Crops can go bad for years. If a person understands how hard that type of farming is, everything seems easier. Union have breaks. A farmer could go a whole day carrying heavy materials to and fro. A union worker can take a day off. A farmer "if you don't work, you don't eat." mazzi Chart Czar has issued a correction as of 19:37 on Aug 18, 2020 |
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anti-union people who benefit from unions exist. they either think that they'd be getting just as good a deal without the union or, more often, they don't think about where their good situation comes from and just default to anti-unionism because of cultural indoctrination
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Aug 18, 2020 19:35
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Cocaine Bear posted:Why do you write like that? I feel like you're quoting a song or having a stroke. I'm lazy. I hate reading long lines of text that make my eyes scan too far to the right. I like how most books only have a limit of only 50 characters per line, as opposed to the Something Awful forums of 150 characters in a line.
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i also met a few guys at my last job who disliked the union either because 1. they didn't like that the union was confrontational with management, or 2. they didn't like that we talked about social justice issues
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mazzi Chart Czar posted:I'm lazy. you can make your browser window narrower
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Declan MacManus posted:it is white privilege cosplay, yes Robbie Fulks has a song called Roots Rock Weirdos about how much he hates his rockabilly fans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bVukKvLGL4
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Nothus posted:They're old enough that you probably don't want to know. 100%
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the milk machine posted:reverend horton heat owns bones, not going to google to see what their politics are Reverend Horton Heat Says ‘They Can’t Stop Rock and Roll,’ Aren’t Canceling Any Shows "Lead singer Jim Heath announced the decision to keep rocking and rolling on the band’s Facebook page, writing that anyone who might be wary of gathering in large groups was in danger of becoming “sheeple to authoritarian government.”' they also just played sturgis, lol
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Shear Modulus posted:you can make your browser window narrower I'll try it out.
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mazzi Chart Czar posted:I'm lazy. Wow! A sentient FORTRAN program!
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FMguru posted:The rate at which Americans (especially young Americans) are turning their backs on Christianity is the single biggest uncovered story in America. This is happening in the Jewish community too and considering Hebrew school is the biggest vehicle for Zionism, it's being noticed by the israelis as well
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Aug 18, 2020 19:53
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Shugojin posted:Wow! A sentient FORTRAN program! Yeah. That's accurate. Thank you.
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mazzi Chart Czar posted:I'm lazy. So you... only read your own posts? Also, poo poo post on your phone like a human. The gently caress still uses a computer for internet browsing?
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Cocaine Bear posted:So you... only read your own posts? To force other people to post like that is insane, but, yeah, I try to re-read my posts to make sure I don't gently caress up the posts too bad(and try to hold on to that something awful rule of: only post something that is interesting or funny), and I know that some times, when they really get going the sentences can become to loving structurally complex to keep track of where when certain ideas being or end that even just having those lines makes the re-reading of the sentences much easier to follow. Still do gently caress up tho. Sorry.
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Business Gorillas posted:This is happening in the Jewish community too and considering Hebrew school is the biggest vehicle for Zionism, it's being noticed by the israelis as well
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You do you, comrade. Just an odd thing and for whatever reason out of place caps and weir use of punctuation and the like recently is a pretty good indicator of
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Laterite posted:Reverend Horton Heat Says ‘They Can’t Stop Rock and Roll,’ Aren’t Canceling Any Shows yeah i got curious too considering they're all a million years old i guess it could be a lot worse
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Cocaine Bear posted:You do you, comrade. Just an odd thing and for whatever reason out of place caps and weir use of punctuation and the like recently is a pretty good indicator of Yeah, I'm pretty stupid. Yeah, probably got some gears all fudged up. Using a desktop computer is conservative bullshit. Oh god why my fist waving at kids on the lawn!
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Dude, just Ctrl + mouse wheel up until it looks comfortable to you. Less hassle all around.
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Roundup Ready posted:Dude, just Ctrl + mouse wheel up until it looks comfortable to you. Less hassle all around. also firefox and safari (idk about chrome) have "reader modes" which basically do exactly what op wants, re: limiting column width and also allow you to toggle font size, what font to use, background and text color forums look like poo poo with it:  but its readable
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Shear Modulus posted:anti-union people who benefit from unions exist. they either think that they'd be getting just as good a deal without the union or, more often, they don't think about where their good situation comes from and just default to anti-unionism because of cultural indoctrination a lot of it is the free rider problem coupled with the supreme court striking down union dues for non-union members; basically between unions negotiating on behalf of every worker there and not just union members (meaning that non-union members get the same benefits as union members), the unions not being allowed to collect administrative and legal fees from non-members, and it being illegal to bar non-union members from a workplace (thanks right to work laws), there is no short term loss to not being in a union in the us, so membership steadily declines and operational funds dwindle for the few unions that haven’t already been broken by big corporations someone else already mentioned that unions are never given positive media depictions; this is also true, as not even copaganda points out that the police officers’ union is what allows them to keep their jobs even after they go dirty harry on a perp (well, that and qualified immunity but if a cop show explained all that then the stakes would be so unbelievably low that no one would watch it)
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Also, name a single positive representation of unions in the media. Deep Space Nine, season 4 episode 16, "Bar Association". The employees of Quark's Bar form a labor union (despite that being extremely illegal under hyper-capitalist Ferengi law) and go on strike. We're clearly meant to be on the side of the strikers. O'Brien proudly recalls an ancestor on Earth who was a union man, most of the "good guy" characters on the show refuse to cross the picket line, and hell, the union leader even trots out a Marx quote. e: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Bar_Association_(episode)
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In Legally Blonde, there is a handsome UPS driver that is well regarded. The writers likely felt they didn't need to explicitly state he was a union member, since the audience would know that UPS drivers (in that year) were union.
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if you really want to sperg out on desktop browser line widths you can also install a custom theme for the forums that enforces a maximum width, i used to use it so i know something like that exists and you can probably find it by poking around one of the forums meta threads. goonspeed. Business Gorillas posted:This is happening in the Jewish community too and considering Hebrew school is the biggest vehicle for Zionism, it's being noticed by the israelis as well the hardcore zionists have already taken the ben shapiro approach of writing off 80% of american jews, they're all in on white evangelicals now, which is... not a sustainable strategy. the same short-sighted siege mentality as the modern NRA and GOP in general
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Shear Modulus posted:anti-union people who benefit from unions exist.
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mazzi Chart Czar posted:Yeah, I'm pretty stupid. Lol, chill dude. I wasn't calling you anything. I mean, now I'm implying you have poor reading comprehension but that's hardly grounds for name calling. Stay safe, weird typer.
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Halloween Jack posted:Is there any anti-union person who doesn't benefit from union activism? It's like people who hate "big government." I'm guessing you're excluding bosses?
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Mr Interweb posted:it was an interesting theory until the bolded. surely as dumb as republicans can be, even they realize that being in a union actually benefits them, don't they? they may absolutely hate unions in other areas and want them destroyed, and they may not like the union dues that they have to pay for their own unions, but on balance, they do understand that they're getting a net positive out of the deal, right? i can't imagine anyone in something like say, a police union being stupid enough to not realize how much power they have by being in one. Sorry to break it to you but republicans loving hate Unions because of all the propaganda and misinformation. Even many centrists / liberals dislike them due to this. I work in an industry that is kind of infamously known for poo poo pay, long hours of unpaid overtime, and mass layoffs without warnings, and I've had so many coworkers talk about how terrible it would be if the industry unioninzed. I've heard talking points like "unions just take money and do nothing" and "all unions do is tell you where you can't work" and poo poo. One of them talked about how he used to work at Walmart and all the union did was take money out of his paycheck and tell him he couldn't work when he wanted to. They all of course love sharing news articles and stories when some corrupt union leader is caught embezzling money or something. They see unions as some bureaucracy that exists solely to steal workers' money while pretending to do something. They think of them like a lovely HOA - just a group that you're forced to pay dues to while it actively gets in the way of you trying to live your life. In their mind, if there was no unions then the job would be exactly the same except they'd have more money thanks to no dues and would be able to work more overtime! That'd make them even more money!!
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FMguru posted:The rate at which Americans (especially young Americans) are turning their backs on Christianity is the single biggest uncovered story in America. Interesting to see Catholicism fall so sharply among Latino Americans. From 57% to 47% in ten years.
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Forceholy posted:That makes sense. I have never seen a minority rockabilly there’s a LOT of hispanic rockabilly
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OhFunny posted:Interesting to see Catholicism fall so sharply among Latino Americans. From 57% to 47% in ten years.
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OhFunny posted:Interesting to see Catholicism fall so sharply among Latino Americans. From 57% to 47% in ten years. Quite a few of those are just going to evangelicalism instead which is occuring much more pronouncedly in Latin America itself
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Quite a few of those are just going to evangelicalism instead which is occuring much more pronouncedly in Latin America itself That's not what the data was showing though, the Protestant grouping jumped like one point is all. Though I'm not sure why people are shocked that latinx Catholics would be so different from the white ones in this regard?
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