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The ban on the international slave trade was enforced about as well as 19th century navies could manage because it had bipartisan support: from Northern abolitionists (for obvious reasons) and from Southern slaveowning aristocrats to support the price of their existing investment in owning people
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I do have a question - I often hear "The Cruelty is the Point" without really knowing what it refers to. I understand what the sentence means and do not think fondly of America, but I feel like there is a commentary there I'm missing out on.
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Jul 13, 2021 08:54
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Captain Log posted:I do have a question - It is used in references to policy that is needlessly cruel, policy that could achieve its stated objectives without being cruel on top of that. The explanation for the unneeded cruelty is that the cruelty is part of the point of the policy, the cruelty is an intentional but unstated goal of the policy.
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Jul 13, 2021 09:02
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Captain Log posted:I do have a question - It may go back further but I believe it entered popular consciousness in 2018 with the publication of this article in The Atlantic.
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Jul 13, 2021 09:02
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I find it most useful to apply to things like means testing, where it is usually euphemistically described along the lines of "people need to not be reliant on welfare" which is just a way to say "people need to suffer because I believe it is morally wrong for people to be helped"
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Jul 13, 2021 10:02
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They said he knows what it means theyre just not sure if theres some say literary significance. I feel like its older than 2018 though
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Jul 13, 2021 13:59
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RagnarokAngel posted:They said he knows what it means theyre just not sure if theres some say literary significance. Serwer's article is the earliest thing I can find featuring the phrase (although the search results are clogged with stuff written about his book of the same name published this year so it's hard to tell) and it's where I recall seeing it first. If something pops up from before that I wouldn't be shocked though.
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Jul 13, 2021 14:24
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Lemniscate Blue posted:It may go back further but I believe it entered popular consciousness in 2018 with the publication of this article in The Atlantic. This is specifically what I was thinking about. But I'd be interested if anyone can dig up any older references. Certain phrases permeate left and right spaces, often calling up a very specific case usage or nuanced meaning. I felt like I was missing some context, which just got filled in. 
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Help wanted: Half of Americans considering therapy before embracing post-pandemic lifequote:Summer may be here, but not everyone is apparently embracing a return to normalcy. Seven in 10 Americans are “anxious” over the thought of returning to their pre-pandemic lives. quote:To: CheshireTheCat quote:Half of Americans are pathetic losers. quote:To: CheshireTheCat Hey dick head, maybe the fortification of schools by our godawful police state has something to do with your precious Second Amendment and the proliferation of mass shootings due to the easy acquisition of high powered firearms? quote:To: CheshireTheCat The pandemic hasn't been bad for me personally but even I think this guy is a massive douche for posting about just how well he did. Along with his height. quote:To: CheshireTheCat  out of nowhere.quote:To: CheshireTheCat quote:To: CheshireTheCat
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If there is one thing the pandemic has utterly reinforced to me, a guy who became physically disabled in the past three years, is that about half of this country thinks I'm scum barely deserving to live. Or that I should have to set up GoFund Me accounts for my monthly required medical care that somehow costs six times more here than anywhere else in the world. But on the optimistic side, it has also taught me that for every dickhead out there, a genuinely good person seems to balance out the other side. I know some wonderful people who would be saints in a just world. But the sad thing? The Freep types have learned to cow a government while being a minority. God, I need to marry a Canadian.
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Jul 14, 2021 08:32
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kik2dagroin posted:
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Jul 14, 2021 10:49
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Freep: I'm 6'4" also imagine being able to get disability in the US for mental illness lol
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Jul 14, 2021 11:01
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I'm 6'8". My favorite thing to do during the pandemic was to bully people who would deliberately flout mask requirements. I'd have happily bullied this guy.
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Jul 14, 2021 12:31
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Freep: I'm 6'4" My father does, worth a try!
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Jul 14, 2021 13:21
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Because the libs would have let him walk all over them, you see.
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Jul 14, 2021 13:29
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OwlFancier posted:I find it most useful to apply to things like means testing, where it is usually euphemistically described along the lines of "people need to not be reliant on welfare" which is just a way to say "people need to suffer because I believe it is morally wrong for people to be helped" It also describes the insistence on very, uh, dramatic, methods of capital punishment.
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Jul 14, 2021 13:36
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Zeroisanumber posted:I'm 6'8". My favorite thing to do during the pandemic was to bully people who would deliberately flout mask requirements. I'd have happily bullied this guy. Fetterman, is that you?
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Jul 14, 2021 15:28
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OAquinas posted:Fetterman, is that you? Nah, I'm prettier than that man. I like bullying people like that because they're so used to being the big fish that they can't imagine there being a bigger fish. Like I'm big, but I met a guy with my build who dwarfed me by a good seven inches, had a huge beard, looked like a comic book viking but for real. You walk around being a jackhole long enough you're going to run into a bigger human who thinks you're worth his time teaching a lesson to.
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Jul 14, 2021 16:12
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Zeroisanumber posted:Nah, I'm prettier than that man. I'm Smol Ben sized and you will take that back or I will find you and fight you
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Jul 14, 2021 16:36
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I'm Smol Ben sized and you will take that back or I will find you and fight you Fetterman can talk the talk, if he gets in and walks the walk then I'll take it back.
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Jul 14, 2021 16:55
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I fully support a six foot eight person out there fighting the good fight through intimidation of absolute assholes. I'm five foot eleven, which puts me solidly in the category of too tall to get messed with, yet to short to not get messed with. It's a conundrum, but giving zero fucks helps.
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Jul 14, 2021 20:46
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6’9” is nice
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Total derail, but I cannot imagine how inconvenient being taller than myself would be. I wear size thirteen shoes. Nowhere has them. I were XXL gloves and a size eight hat, which nobody has. Hotel beds are always too short, requiring me to sleep diagonally. Ditto on hospital beds too. Travel is always loving cramped, along with any car not a mid-size SUV or truck. How in God's name do you bigger folks cope?!
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Jul 14, 2021 22:37
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We just develop a deep simmering disdain for the fact that the world isn't built for us.
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*smirks in Ben*
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Being taller than yourself certainly poses both practical and logical challenges.
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Biden Admin Calls for UN to Investigate ‘Racism’ on US Soil Wastes no time in going for "Liberals are the REAL racists!" quote:To: RandFan quote:To: RandFan quote:To: rdcbn1 Prove that it isn't quote:To: RandFan quote:To: econjack quote:To: RandFan World Wear I quote:To: RandFan quote:To: RandFan quote:To: RandFan quote:To: RandFan
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OwlFancier posted:Being taller than yourself certainly poses both practical and logical challenges.  ETA: kik2dagroin posted:To: RandFan 
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BlackIronHeart posted:We just develop a deep simmering disdain for the fact that the world isn't built for us. Tallfreep
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Jul 15, 2021 06:30
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Zeroisanumber posted:Nah, I'm prettier than that man. This is how I justify my gay male gaze on clearly straight guys (the first part)
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Captain Log posted:Total derail, but I cannot imagine how inconvenient being taller than myself would be. Double postin because gently caress it, this post is quite confusing to me. I’m your height, maybe slightly taller, and I feel like this (American) world is designed for men around our height. Certainly not for my 6’5 husband, nor for Frank Lloyd Wright’s “anyone above 5’8 is a waste of oxygen” chosen, shorter class.
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Jul 15, 2021 08:31
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Pontius Pilate posted:Double postin because gently caress it, this post is quite confusing to me. I’m your height, maybe slightly taller, and I feel like this (American) world is designed for men around our height. Certainly not for my 6’5 husband, nor for Frank Lloyd Wright’s “anyone above 5’8 is a waste of oxygen” chosen, shorter class. I spent a poo poo ton of time on the road, stuck in crap LaQuintas and Southwest flights. Also a depressing amount of time in hospitals. Everything was always too small, which always made me marvel at how maddening it must be to be genuinely tall. But I could be full of poo poo, wouldn't be the first time. I also have grey alien sized hands, feet, and head. If you painted me grey, I'd startle Conspiracy-Freep-ists.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:Serwer's article is the earliest thing I can find featuring the phrase (although the search results are clogged with stuff written about his book of the same name published this year so it's hard to tell) and it's where I recall seeing it first. If something pops up from before that I wouldn't be shocked though. I can remember reading it being used long before that back when abortion was america's main issue
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Jul 15, 2021 10:26
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kik2dagroin posted:To: CheshireTheCat I can't help but picture this rear end in a top hat standing over graves of covid deaths shouting down at the marker.
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Captain Log posted:Total derail, but I cannot imagine how inconvenient being taller than myself would be. You cope. The world is meant for smaller people and when you grow up in that world you get used to it. Being able to order clothes off the internet helps.
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Zeroisanumber posted:Being able to order clothes off the internet helps. I remember in the late 90s/early 2000s i figured out that I didn’t have to go to a store with little more than a prayer that they’d have my size in stock but could order clothes on the internet! It was liberating
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Captain Log posted:I wear size thirteen shoes. Nowhere has them. And I cope with my clown feet by making sneakers my thing.
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Me goin to the freep thread goonmeet like kik2dagroin posted:"Work until you literally die" is boring as gently caress and these fossils think its the best thing ever. -posted from my social-security-funded iphone, ps i shouldn't have ever had to pay taxes Edgar Allen Ho fucked around with this message at 14:10 on Jul 15, 2021 |
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:I think I encountered a Freeper in the wild yesterday. I work in a hotel and this old fart comes storming up to the desk wearing an old Marine garrison cap, a t-shirt reading "HERE'S MY GUN PERMIT: THE 2ND AMENDMENT!!!", a tragic pair of old man shorts, and open-carrying a ludicrous Deagle-sized handgun. "I PAID FOR TWO NIGHTS AND YOU PEOPLE KICK ME OUT, THIS IS THE BIGGEST SCAM GOING". "uh, no one is kicking you out, the keys either expired or demagnetized. Here." He then takes those keys, turns around, and stomps off shouting "I DON'T KNOW WHAT ANY OF THAT MEANS" before angrily coming back to check out 10 minutes later. I also work in a hotel and I always get old men coming down and screaming at me when their keys demagnetize. They act like I did it to them on purpose. It's such an easy thing to fix but they get so angry.
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Aeolusdallas posted:I also work in a hotel and I always get old men coming down and screaming at me when their keys demagnetize. They act like I did it to them on purpose. It's such an easy thing to fix but they get so angry. I think it’s a reflection of their bullshit attitude about personal responsibility. Like if you grow up in a terrible gang neighborhood with an underfunded school and your dad went to prison for DWB it’s your personal responsibility to lift yourself by your bootstraps and become a coder or whatever. The key can’t have just demagnetized because it’s a key, instead someone personally did it.
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