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Professor Beetus posted:If the condition wasn't causing him physical harm, which in all likelihood it was not, then yes, it's a cosmetic procedure so that his chest doesn't look all weird. For... whatever it might be worth, I doubt this was a cosmetic procedure because he was obviously proud of the way he looked and even used his condition to his advantage to make it look like he had ripped chest muscles.   If anything he probably thinks he looks "fat" after the surgery
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i didn't know enough about the guy and thought the lung collapse happened first. In this case, then, yeah gently caress that you can mock him for the pure aesthetic aspect and his contradictions.
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You all can choose to believe what you want. Absence any evidence to the contrary I'm going to continue to assume it was completely unnecessary due to his rampant narcissism and unhinged abuse of his pregnant wife, particularly given the timing of his procedure. gently caress him, it's not hurting anyone who has that condition to say that. I'm not saying a god drat thing about anyone with that condition and I'm not mocking him for having it. I am however glad he has it and I hope it causes him excruciating pain for the rest of his life, which will ideally be short.
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The posts mocking Crowder are similar to the one people used to make saying Rush Limbaugh deserves life in prison for being a drug addict. Most sane people don't think that should be the case but when you build a career partially by calling for the jailing and execution of addicts and then get caught loving around, it's more a case of "I thought you said that people who did this stuff should be buried under a jail or forced into slave labor?"
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SidneyIsTheKiller posted:For... whatever it might be worth, I doubt this was a cosmetic procedure because he was obviously proud of the way he looked and even used his condition to his advantage to make it look like he had ripped chest muscles. Body Dysmorphia isn't really rational
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Discendo Vox posted:It appears very weird to consider surgery for that condition cosmetic. Yeah but Crowder is giant piece of poo poo so gently caress him.
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Apr 29, 2023 00:19
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I feel like there's no need to argue about his state of mind as he scheduled his surgery when there's video of him verbally abusing his wife right there. I'm not saying anyone's bad for doing it but it seems like a waste of time when there's so many uncontroversial ways he's a piece of poo poo.
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VitalSigns posted:I feel like there's no need to argue about his state of mind as he scheduled his surgery when there's video of him verbally abusing his wife right there. Scheduled his surgery while his wife was about to give birth to his twin children no less. That's the real part of it that people should be focusing on. Dude decided to go in for elective surgery, for whatever his reason, while his wife was literally about to go into labor. And then she left him while he was incapacitated, assuming the timeline of events is correct because all three of those things; his surgery, his wife giving birth, and then his wife filing for divorce, happened within a month or two of the video of him yelling at her that was posted yesterday.
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I mean I think there's something to the critique of him enjoying the benefit of being able to walk in and get an elective surgery to better his life, while opposing the existence of transpersons, stoking violence against them, and supporting people who are stripping them of their rights to have elective surgeries to better their lives. There's a lot of things to drag Crowder for, so take your pick, go nuts.
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A page seems like more than enough discussion of Steven Crowder’s chest. Thanks all
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Baronash posted:Right Wing Media: more than enough discussion of Steven Crowder’s chest
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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ex-san-francisco-fire-commissioner-said-homeless-man-beat-metal-rod-ac-rcna81767 So to bring things away from a certain sunken chest this story was the top of All In tonight. I'd missed this particular story so forgive me if this has already come up. So apparently the CHUDs have been all fired up about this homeless guy beating up a former fire commissioner in San Francisco, but now that this thing is going to trial it comes out that there's more to the story and that before the homeless person assaulted the CHUD the CHUD assaulted the homeless guy first. What are the chances that this additional context will ever be mentioned in the Right-wing echosphere?
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Skex posted:What are the chances that this additional context will ever be mentioned in the Right-wing echosphere? What does your heart tell you?
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Skex posted:https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ex-san-francisco-fire-commissioner-said-homeless-man-beat-metal-rod-ac-rcna81767 Oh, was that the guy that was caught on camera casually walking by and spraying homeless people with bear spray?
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Professor Beetus posted:Oh, was that the guy that was caught on camera casually walking by and spraying homeless people with bear spray? According to the article it wasn't exactly "casually walking by" while doing it. Apparently back in November he actually opened up a tent that was closed, sprayed the man in it, and told him to get out of the city.
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Skex posted:https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ex-san-francisco-fire-commissioner-said-homeless-man-beat-metal-rod-ac-rcna81767 Chuds have been saying it was good and cool to pepper spray homeless people and consider him some kind of vigilante because he did what they all want to do. Meanwhile the guy attacking with the crowbar doesn't seem to be retaliating against pepper spray, only attacking him directly and they'll emphasize that.
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And here's an MSNBC piece about how Fox and other RW media are using this to call every Democratic run city a festering hellhole. They also claim that the previous incidents of a big guy spraying homeless in the neighborhood was someone else and that in this incident they say that he never sprayed the guy, he accidentally sprayed himself. So that guy was attacking him for no reason. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4XIIJAJx0E
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Sax Mortar posted:According to the article it wasn't exactly "casually walking by" while doing it. Apparently back in November he actually opened up a tent that was closed, sprayed the man in it, and told him to get out of the city. Okay yeah, I only saw the one clip from the night where he just walked passed the guy on the street and just opened up the bear spray on him. I didn't realize there was so much other footage because today was the first I'd even heard about it.
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remember when Fox News said pepper spray is just a food additive, oh and the pos cop got a settlement for emotional damages
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Elon trying to do PR damage control for the hurt he's putting on the companies he has money in that arent Twitter. Talking as if he had any idea what public education is like. https://twitter.com/MarioNawfal/status/1652145733791784961 https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/elon-musk-bill-maher-interview-woke-mind-virus-1234725788/ "Musk pushed back, saying, “Earth is 70 percent water by surface area.” Maher quipped: “But you can’t drink that.” When Musk protested that “desalination is absurdly cheap,” he countered, “Why don’t we do it, then?" OgNar fucked around with this message at 13:04 on Apr 29, 2023 |
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"Desalination is absurdly cheap" says the billionaire who hasn't figured out a way to turn that into profit despite water shortages worldwide.
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All you need to do is put the ocean under saran wrap in direct sunlight. Super easy even a child could do it.
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Sax Mortar posted:"Desalination is absurdly cheap" says the billionaire who hasn't figured out a way to turn that into profit despite water shortages worldwide. He couldn’t even fix Flint.
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Invalid Validation posted:All you need to do is put the ocean under saran wrap in direct sunlight. Super easy even a child could do it. Oh so that's what all the microplastics are for
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"Parents are unaware of what their children are learning." lol does musk even remember basic details of his other dozen children? like other than the one with the rocket name Ask Ex 13 or the trans kid that he is really really really angry at for totes not bullshit reasons. e: also musk is cutting birdshit's parental leave time down to bare bones, just on the line of legal. so lol.
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quote:Who are the first few presidents of the United States.’ They could name This absolutely never happened.
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Quid_Yossarian posted:This absolutely never happened. So the notion develops among conservatives that history textbooks must be ghostwritten by Louis Farrakhan, rather than students forgetting 98% of what they read in their textbook. Historian James Oakes has mentioned a similar phenomenon: quote:In 1979, Frances Fitzgerald published America Revised: History School books in the Twentieth Century, an account of how dramatically US history textbooks written for both high school and college classrooms had changed over the previous decade. Unlike earlier generations, students were now systematically introduced to marginalized groups — black people, women, immigrants, workers. The tone of the books, far from being patriotic, struck Fitzgerald as surprisingly dark. Rather than nationalistic narratives telling of the inexorable rise of freedom and democracy, US history texts by then focused on conflict and violence, oppression and resistance to it, without all that much Whiggish progress. Enver Zogha fucked around with this message at 01:00 on Apr 30, 2023 |
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Enver Zogha posted:Even if it did, the issue seems to be that most people don't really have much of an interest in history, at least not the way it's taught in US schools. George Washington owning slaves is much easier to remember (and more immediately relevant to modern subjects concerning racism, etc.) than the background and specifics of the Jay Treaty or whatever, especially if you have no historical grounding and everything just seems like a jumble of dates and individuals. Not to give away my age but I was in high school and college during that time and Oakes' quote accurately described my experience with American history courses in junior high, high school, and college. The goal wasn't to use history to indoctrinate students one way or the other but to take a page from science and journalism and approach the subject objectively. That meant looking at all the facts be they pleasant or unpleasant and making students realize history wasn't an ongoing Manichean struggle. You have to distinguish between many shades of gray.
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Sax Mortar posted:"Desalination is absurdly cheap" says the billionaire who hasn't figured out a way to turn that into profit despite water shortages worldwide.
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I don't know if Australia is the same way, but the leading cause of the water crises in the western US is farmers getting the equivalent of a water subsidy and using it to grow things like alfalfa as cash crops. Solving it with desalination sort of misses the point because the rivers already have enough water to preserve the ecosystem while supplying urban consumers and more productive agricultural users (winter produce in California), you'd just be building expensive infrastructure to more efficiently transfer money to alfalfa farmers. Of course that may not be relevant to Elon Musk, who probably doesn't know what alfalfa is and is only slightly more likely to know what desalination is.
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James Garfield posted:I don't know if Australia is the same way, but the leading cause of the water crises in the western US is farmers getting the equivalent of a water subsidy and using it to grow things like alfalfa as cash crops. Solving it with desalination sort of misses the point because the rivers already have enough water to preserve the ecosystem while supplying urban consumers and more productive agricultural users (winter produce in California), you'd just be building expensive infrastructure to more efficiently transfer money to alfalfa farmers. In parts of Australia reliant on the over-used Murray River (which occasionally is depleted to the point of needing engineering work to stop the river mouth closing over) we grow rice and cotton, which is madness. It's a smaller scale example, but there is a cool facility further north in my state (South Australia) that produces about 10,000 tonnes of tomatoes a year using solar power driven desalination: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundrop_Farms Edit: we also have a desalination plant in Adelaide built during the drought 15 years ago, designed to be able to supply 50% of the cities water requirements and powered entirely by renewables. The last conservative state and federal governments struck a deal to do something similar to what you describe, upping production to reduce the cities reliance on the Murray and giving more water to irrigators. Senor Tron fucked around with this message at 05:17 on Apr 30, 2023 |
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Invalid Validation posted:All you need to do is put the ocean under saran wrap in direct sunlight. Super easy even a child could do it. had Musk ever gone to public school he would have had to watch Voyage of the Mimi like the rest of us and learn this
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VitalSigns posted:He briefly tried to do the "let's all come together" grift with Samantha Bee immediately after Trump was elected, but it didn't take him long to figure out the real money was in getting aboard the Trump train How did Samantha Bee ever think this was a good idea?
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Crosby B. Alfred posted:How did Samantha Bee ever think this was a good idea? Hillary losing broke her brain and she became desperate to find allies in anyone who even mildly disliked Trump, and Beck, for as stupid and crazy as people mock for being, is actually a pretty ruthlessly cunning motherfucker and knows a mark and how to exploit them when he sees one.
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Good roasts at the WH dinner tonight. Biden rolled on Elon and MTG and even... https://twitter.com/demsmight/status/1652509930031824898 Also a great joke about a non fungible token from Roy Wood Jr.
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:had Musk ever gone to public school he would have had to watch Voyage of the Mimi like the rest of us and learn this obligatory.
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OgNar posted:Good roasts at the WH dinner tonight. Biden, after that Carlson joke: 
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