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Warmachine posted:Please PM me your publication once it finishes peer review. I'm expecting it will be a fascinating read. Thanks, I can only assume good intent with this comment and just wanted to mention that I am not a social scientist of any sort. I'm a lowly computer toucher than understands fairly well enough how to code, spends a lot of the day-to-day doing time series analysis, and has had a novice interest in right wing rhetoric for almost a decade. We all know that the most vocal of freepers are racist, but having some data to quantify who the instigators are and where the origin of their ire emanates from is something I've felt would be great to see. My entire method of counting all these could be wrong, but I'm confident enough in modern data analytics frameworks like pandas to put my neck out there. Put another way: It's one thing to see SeekAndFind's name show up while you're trolling for enticing threads of freeper bile to share with everyone. It's another thing entirely to see breitbart.com be the top source linked on the front page of freerepublic.com and understand that commenters are biased towards a news source that is racist as gently caress. SeekAndFind actually isn't the top poster of breitbart.com, that honor actually goes to ChicagoConservative27 according to my data whom, at the time of the writing of this post, has posted 104 unique breitbart.com articles. Making the code and data publicly available while protecting my identity has been something on my mind since I don't trust myself, but I haven't thought of a good way to do that yet. EDIT: Crap, uhhh The Silent Christian Secession quote:To: dadfly kik2dagroin fucked around with this message at 04:10 on Feb 5, 2021 |
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I mean, yes. God charges all Christians with personally doing what they can to take care of the poor, God does not want people to go "Welp I paid my taxes so I don't have to do anything else to help them!" That said it's real loving stupid to argue that God would be against government programs to help the needy. While they aren't meant to take the place of personal charity, they can help out tremendously, and there is absolutely no way God would say "Sorry I'd rather this person starve to death than have a government program to help them." "We've seen what happens when the government does it," if you wanted to give the benefit of the doubt (and you should not, because these assholes do not and never will deserve that), could mean "The government is inefficient and wasteful in helping people, and taking money from others due to taxes deprives them of money they could use more efficiently on a personal level." I mean, none of that is true, but it could in a hypothetical world better than our own mean that. What they actually mean, of course, is "People I don't like get helped by the government and that makes me mad because they won't suffer like I want them to."
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Finnankainen posted:These are some words colleges don't want you to say: Here are some of the words and phrases that are taboo on Campus Ok, this one is legitimately funny. [/quote] i am amused how much worse they have gotten since i last read this thread. i remeber they used to at least dog whistle poo poo a bit more even with trump in power, guess they just don't care anymore since they are at youngest 55 or years old and they know they are alone and angry. RagnarokAngel posted:My initial reading was "Oh they're saying liberals will defend Islam no matter what" yeah. i am amused that some of them are sorta realizing that they have more in common with the Wahhabist assholes then many Americans.
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Feb 5, 2021 05:15
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Dapper_Swindler posted:
Its almost amazing that more Chuds don't love Iran because their entire gimmick is embarrassing the Neo-Conservative Defense Establishment and Hating Israel. You'd think they'd WANT to be friends with people like that! They're even friends with their man-crush Putin!
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Feb 5, 2021 05:37
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It's almost as if something else colors their perception of Iran.
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Feb 5, 2021 05:39
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Twelve by Pies posted:It's almost as if something else colors their perception of Iran. I think its more that the Saudis are more appealing because they treat women worse.
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Feb 5, 2021 06:02
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Twelve by Pies posted:I mean, yes. God charges all Christians with personally doing what they can to take care of the poor, God does not want people to go "Welp I paid my taxes so I don't have to do anything else to help them!" Most importantly, government takes taxes from non-believers, who would not perform the acts of charity due from a Good Christian, and uses them to do good works. This is America and the First Amendment is a thing, so you can't just tax the heathens. A Good Christian tithes based on their gross, not their net, so they'll still give to charity despite paying taxes that also fund charitable works. And that's how welfare programs are doing God's work.
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mllaneza posted:Most importantly, government takes taxes from non-believers, who would not perform the acts of charity due from a Good Christian, and uses them to do good works. This is America and the First Amendment is a thing, so you can't just tax the heathens. A Good Christian tithes based on their gross, not their net, so they'll still give to charity despite paying taxes that also fund charitable works. If god was going to destroy America unless there were 10 good Christians in it he’d have sent glowering racist man child to be president.
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Finnankainen posted:These are some words colleges don't want you to say: Here are some of the words and phrases that are taboo on Campus Still see goons posting "I'm gay" like it's the funniest thing in the world.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:
well, you see, it's triple ironic parody and Elephant Ambush fucked around with this message at 17:26 on Feb 5, 2021 |
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Feb 5, 2021 17:14
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Quite a lot of goons are actually gay.
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Twelve by Pies posted:It's almost as if something else colors their perception of Iran. I think a lot of the specific anti-Iran sentiment (beyond the general reasons to dislike them) is because of the hostage crisis; both the Embassy seizure and the hostages in Lebanon. I know a bunch of people who feel that way, especially older people.
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Epicurius posted:I think a lot of the specific anti-Iran sentiment (beyond the general reasons to dislike them) is because of the hostage crisis; both the Embassy seizure and the hostages in Lebanon. I know a bunch of people who feel that way, especially older people. Almost none of those people could cite those reasons though They've just heard "Iran bad" their whole lives and never questioned it or did any research on any of those things
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Epicurius posted:I think a lot of the specific anti-Iran sentiment (beyond the general reasons to dislike them) is because of the hostage crisis; both the Embassy seizure and the hostages in Lebanon. I know a bunch of people who feel that way, especially older people. You'd think hardcore right wing partisans would actually like Iran because they assisted Reagan in 1980 by not releasing the hostages before the election, and then were the beneficiaries of the arms sales by the Reagan administration during Iran-Contra. But IDK. Muslims I guess.
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CIA Counterterror Chief Suggests Going To War Against ‘Domestic Insurgents’quote:To: GreyHoundSailor quote:Comment #6 Removed by Moderator quote:To: dpetty121263 quote:To: Nebr FAL owner quote:To: amorphous quote:To: puppypusher quote:To: central_va quote:To: central_va quote:To: amorphous quote:To: Nebr FAL owner quote:To: amorphous For people who insist they aren't domestic insurgents there's an awful lot of planning how to pick off liberals and "Don't say anything prosecutable on here"
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Speculating that federal law enforcement is spread out and that lone wolves could take out members of the opposition. Such patriots.
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Nimmy posted:You'd think hardcore right wing partisans would actually like Iran because they assisted Reagan in 1980 by not releasing the hostages before the election, and then were the beneficiaries of the arms sales by the Reagan administration during Iran-Contra. But IDK. Muslims I guess. I don't know. Most of the people I know who dislike the Iranian government are center-left or left wing. They're no big fans of Reagan either.
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Epicurius posted:I don't know. Most of the people I know who dislike the Iranian government are center-left or left wing. They're no big fans of Reagan either. Yeah it takes a special kind of government when both the Americans and Soviets largely support your enemy in a decade long war during the Cold War.
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Freep discussing the most pressing issue of the day *checks notes* guitars in church Does ‘A Guy With a Guitar’ Really Improve Church Worship? quote:To: Kaslin quote:To: Kaslin quote:To: Pining_4_TX; MinuteGal quote:To: HonkyTonkMan quote:To: zaxtres quote:To: Kaslin quote:To: Kaslin
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quote:Anybody who wants to can pick up an instrument or sing and it’s usually awful. We are there to worship God, not be entertained. Entertainment shouldn't be a focus of worshiping God. Also, they suck and aren't entertaining enough! Though they're their usual lovely selves about it they aren't wrong about contemporary Christian music and its use in church services. It's focused on the emotions and feelings of the singer and usually does involve singing the same sentence like five or six times in a row. I know it probably isn't much of a distinction to most people, but for worship music I think there's a big difference between singing "God is great and holy" and "I'm in awe of God." One states the qualities of God and what he is, the other is "this is how I, on a personal level, feel." Music meant for group worship probably shouldn't be focused on the self, especially since if there's a disconnect between a person's personal feelings and the lyrics they're singing ("I just lost someone important to me, I certainly don't feel in awe of God right now") it can have the opposite effect and make them feel more distant from God. That said all Freep gives a poo poo about is they don't like how it sounds and their perception that anyone who plays a guitar just wants attention.
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Freepers: Church should let us scream at younger people about how awful they are and should be a grueling hour of suffering for them! Also Freepers: Churches in America are slowly dying as younger generations spurn organized religion, what is wrong with young people? I just can’t imagine being a person whose stance on any activity is “It should be painful, boring, and unfulfilling” like a Freeper
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Finnankainen posted:
I prefer post-7-11 music, or "The Circle K Jerks using their WaWa pedals", as I like to call it
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Finnankainen posted:Freep discussing the most pressing issue of the day *checks notes* guitars in church lol, these fuckers are so bitter is depressing. like yeah, personally, i am wierdly old fashioned with church music and poo poo, i like the older style hyms than new poo poo but who cares if someone plays stuff on a guitar or some poo poo Dr. VooDoo posted:Freepers: Church should let us scream at younger people about how awful they are and should be a grueling hour of suffering for them! yeah like thats the hosed up thing. i am not a believer really but my gf is and she gets enjoyment and fulfillment from watching/going to services. like even my conservative catholic relatives/friends of family get enjoyment and use the church as social functions. these assholes just go as some hosed up obligation and how its weird social penance. like i understand folks who want worship to be ritualistic/solem/awesome but thats not even what they want.
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Dethroning God with a bitching rad guitar solo.
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Most of that was crazy, but the freepers pointing out that "modern" Christian music doesn't sound anything like the modern music that people actually like aren't wrong. VitalSigns fucked around with this message at 00:17 on Feb 6, 2021 |
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I mean, christians can and do make good music. But it's inevitably going to suck when it's religion first, music second. Good music comes from good musicians who happen to be christian and incorporate that into their art. Like poo poo, you can jam to medieval hymns. But also theres this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2iHNzNJkJw
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Here's some music even the Freepers would say is good, powerful, and holy anti-Satanic rock (skip to 1:14) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoAGasPLh30
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I mean, christians can and do make good music. But it's inevitably going to suck when it's religion first, music second. Good music comes from good musicians who happen to be christian and incorporate that into their art. I've literally never understood the logic of "God so loved the world that he made it so that people would commit original sin and thus be condemned so he could send his only son to die in torture to redeem people" it reeks of Munchausen by proxy.
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pseudanonymous posted:I've literally never understood the logic of "God so loved the world that he made it so that people would commit original sin and thus be condemned so he could send his only son to die in torture to redeem people" it reeks of Munchausen by proxy. idk, Christianity and by extension Abrahamic faith in general is loving weird when you actually think about it or read into the history of it. if i remember God is just a survivor of a much older pantheon but gods sect forced the others out or some poo poo. idk i read alot of christian history and alot of it is dudes killing each other over small doctrinal differences and or making their headcanon real canon after they screamed enough about it.
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Feb 6, 2021 04:03
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Q threads reaction to this quote:The painting. I don’t know what to make of that. Some civil rights leader, picture of black slave meant to shame everyone? quote:dunno, but the thing that popped into my head was “floyd” quote:THESE PEOPLE ARE SICK !!!
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Elea posted:
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Elea posted:Q threads reaction to this 
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pseudanonymous posted:I've literally never understood the logic of "God so loved the world that he made it so that people would commit original sin and thus be condemned so he could send his only son to die in torture to redeem people" it reeks of Munchausen by proxy. Jesus dying is actually a convoluted way for Yahweh to get out of the original contract with the Israelites. Under Jewish law the covenant between God and the Israelites could only be broken by the death of either party. Since the Israelites were a whole society it would require eliminating every single one of them so God just had himself killed in a clever fake suicide to avoid his debt collectors and get out of his covenant. I’m not meming by the way this is the actual reasoning for why God’s death was required. Nitrousoxide fucked around with this message at 13:13 on Feb 6, 2021 |
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Feb 6, 2021 13:11
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Nitrousoxide posted:Since the Israelites were a whole society it would require eliminating every single one of them
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That seems really short sighted of Hashem. We've rules lawyered Him quite a bit over the years. Lame that this guy can't even figure out a way to win with the laws that He wrote.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:That seems really short sighted of Hashem. We've rules lawyered Him quite a bit over the years. Lame that this guy can't even figure out a way to win with the laws that He wrote. HaShem is really bad at the lawyering part. If she had any kind of wit to her, we wouldn't need the Talmud now would we?
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It's like when a parent let's their kids win. Sure they could just say "I'm an omniscient being and I know better" but it's just a game to them and it means to world to the kids.
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