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I didn't know where else to put this. I hate people.
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Nice Davis posted:I like your approach here. I've recently started doing things kinda the same and it feels so much better than the bash-head-against-wall tactic of futilely trying to change minds. Right. I used to explain my positions. Then I tried arguing. After that, I tried insulting their belief systems. Now, I just recognize openly that these people are twisted so far around that they're settling on classism to avoid nuanced thought. It makes me want to vomit, and I'll let them know that they make me viscerally ill with their opinions. RagnarokAngel posted:He probably will just say he doesn't do drugs so whatever. "The innocent have nothing to hide" is an easy doctrine to preach until it affects you. It drives me damnably nuts, especially since 1.) The person who posted this originally works in a drat doughnut shop, he doesn't get drug tested and smokes weed every day. 2.) The person responding with these virulent diatribes against the impoverished is self-employed, so he doesn't even have to answer to this system he's advocating. What sort of bastards try to expand the lovely war on drugs when they know they're never going to be touched? I didn't even blur it that well because I don't care, one of us is in the wrong here and it's pretty obvious that it's the one with the broad brush in hand.
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Jun 1, 2013 20:52
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 Not a massive nest of crazy, but I got a kick out of this one.
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Oct 5, 2013 05:02
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Wanamingo posted:It is always pretty funny how, when it comes to politics, people always get so worked up over the most harmless of fluff pieces. The "Eda Torial" guy is a laugh riot all on his own. He apparently owns a local insurance business. He's spent several replies telling me to "find a barber and a razor" and to "go find a job" to find a way to "become important" and "serve my fellow man" and "go become a man." Which is hilarious, because he knows nothing about me or what I do, he's a fat douchebag with one of those buzz-cuts that gets all white above the ears, and his main photo is of him with two half-dressed girls at some motorcycle convention. I politely reminded him that, "with as douchebaggy a profile picture as yours, you may want to back off the ad hominem attacks." I really don't know why he hates beards so much. Plus, I'm sure that if I told him my main "job/way to be 'important'/serving my fellow man" was that I am an artist who does massive amounts of local illustration work, (oftentimes pro-bono for non-profits) he would mock me as not doing something real or important--and his wife owns and runs an art & music education center out of the same place he sells insurance! Sardine Wit posted:I like the guy who says there wasn't a baskin and robbins there. Icecreamgate! Obama's past has been difficult to stitch together. It had to be exotic enough to make Democrats feel like they were making a difference, but American enough that the majority would vote him in. Difficult to achieve, and some details here-and-there slipped through the cracks. There was no Baskin Robbins. There was no first kiss. Michelle was assigned to Barack when he graduated from Secret Muslim Terrorist Training Camp in Kenya. Together, they are a well-oiled machine, two blades working in unison to whittle away the edifice of American society and leave naught but Gay Shariah in its stead. Brawnfire fucked around with this message at 07:25 on Oct 5, 2013 |
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Oct 5, 2013 07:05
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Do Marines not have cold-weather uniforms? I've been outside for two hours in the snow without dying of influenza: it took a little thing called a coat and gloves.
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Apr 15, 2014 19:23
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ArchangeI posted:I would assume they wear their dress uniforms if they are on ceremonial duty. Are dress uniforms not warm? I'm seriously asking. My grandfather's WWII-era dress uniform had three different thicknesses, with one coat being wool and intended for colder weather. Even the thinnest one, for summer, was just thinner wool and hot as a bitch. That's the Army though, maybe the Marines couldn't give two shits about you freezing your junk off.
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Apr 15, 2014 22:12
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I think the trouble is most words for that concept presume that someone--usually the speaker--wants what they're decrying. I can't really think of a word for wanting nobody to have exorbitant wealth, besides the political terms which change like the dunes. There's "equality" and "equity" but those are concepts and, in reality, Conservatives think we already have equality and need to shut up about outliers (who purposefully failed out of a working system). Whereas Democrats concede wealth redistribution is hugely important but that flow is dammed up by lobbyists, leading to a Republican Lite party (All the flavor with none of the effectiveness!) Anything more left-wing than that (Socialism, communism) is where you find philosophies primarily concerned with the provision of equity. But they've been stretched into unrecognizable bogeymen by despots using them as a mask, and a century of rhetoric about those selfsame despots by everyone to the right. And man, the Google results for "Anti-wealth" lead me to conclude there's no rehabilitating THAT particular term, either.
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Apr 20, 2014 14:53
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May 1, 2014 19:39
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I'm not an economist by any means, but I can't help but ask: If everyone made a minimum income, and then people who had a job had income from that on top of it, wouldn't people who worked still be better off? (As if that matters) and so people who don't want to "work" for a living get just that: a living. People who want more than that (luxury) get jobs. Plus, the fact that they're at work at all shows they are willing and able to perform their task. And then, if you balance the taxes so most of that subsidization for the poor comes from the very highest earners, there would be practically no reason for the people with crappier jobs to grumble about the people who just use their government stipend to live. That's the system I imagine, and I don't understand why anyone would begrudge another person basic existence as long as they can have better stuff, whenever they want it and the person sitting on their rear end, uh, can't. I know it's unworkable, but it only seems unworkable because of people's preconceptions of justice and "how the world works".
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May 11, 2014 02:34
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WoodrowSkillson posted:It is, and depending on where you live, its a pretty unpopular thing to be vocal about and you will get questions about your morals and lack thereof decently often. Now, this is not really all that big of a deal, but you can see how reddit atheists get their fuel if they are from the bible belt or other conservative areas and do legitimately get harassed by family and friends for not being religious. Yeah, I've had more than a little of this, and in a NE US city. One time I got into a discussion with someone in which they asked me what my "purpose" in life was. I could only explain that I felt life had no inherent purpose beyond the biological foundations already extant. This was followed by telling me it was because I don't believe in God, and that if I believed in God I would serve Him and my purpose would be to go to Heaven. It was weird, because I wasn't sure what she expected me to say, exactly. I wasn't about to start believing in God, and I wasn't about to attack her beliefs to feel righteous in my own. So I just shrugged.
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May 27, 2014 17:24
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I dunno, I think I'd appreciate a president who had an extramarital affair and was up-front about it, it would make me feel like they were more... human? Susceptible to error, but willing to rectify it? I know my own marriage hasn't always been a good, solid Christian one, so presidents who play that part make me feel almost condescended to. I like people who are more "real" in political positions.
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May 28, 2014 03:22
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TerminalSaint posted:Thanks for going out of your way and popping out kids with supernatural powers despite there being no selective pressure towards it, evolution. Ironically enough, the conditions required for the Indigo mutation are high levels of CFCs and ultraviolet radiation. The Montreal Protocol effectively closed the door to future pure Indigo births. Now the mutation is degrading back into the genetic average, as evidenced by the second generation, or "Crystal" children, who are but a faint imitation of their Indigo parent.
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Jun 16, 2014 19:41
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Small Frozen Thing posted:Simple answer: It's not true, they get their ability to act decently from the same place everyone does, and they're making poo poo up to justify why their codified set of morals is superior. People frequently believe stupid poo poo about their own mind, it turns out. Yeah, they're acting like decent human beings because they're decent human beings. The problem is what you said for one, that people are defensive of their religion and will justify endlessly. Also Christians (anecdotally, I grew up Roman Catholic, am no longer) are fed a constant line about our bestial nature being right below the surface. Without constant maintaining the evil will erupt like weeds in a garden. Few people self-flagellate anymore, but you still see people psychologically abusing themselves and policing their families instead of accepting normal thoughts/experiences/feelings/actions. I don't even want to get into the things I've heard women in my family say about abusive husbands, or LGBT friends say about parents who kicked them out/cut them off, all because of some unattainable virtuousness. I can understand wanting to be pious, but I think crippling oneself will make the pilgrimage harder.
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Jul 24, 2014 17:01
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Did this absolute fuckup underline "vanillin" ?
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Sep 9, 2014 19:58
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VideoTapir posted:All controlled by Hillary Clinton, noted feminazi. Oh my poo poo. I can't think of a single occupation fully closed to a man. For other reasons besides being a man, such as class or race or malady, sure. But what is literally a closed door to anyone with a dick? Being a nun? It makes my fingernails dig into my palms whenever someone does the "yeah, but consider men..." as if women have any loving option but to consider men. It's almost impossible to talk about anything solely involving women without mentioning men because if you DON'T, men will volunteer it anyways and then you MUST talk about them. Because men brought it up. Gynocentrists indeed.
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Sep 25, 2014 18:22
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Internet Webguy posted:You freedom to do whatever you like, unless you believe that poo poo is o-tay. I know I feel a swelling of pride towards heterosexuals, seeing they are capable of such deep and nuanced commentary as exemplified in this work.
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Oct 23, 2014 19:37
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ZDar Fan posted:When can I move in? I, for one, would like to see a League of Gentlemen-esque skit show set in this small, improbably homosexual village.
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Oct 25, 2014 04:00
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Tequila25 posted:horrors Well. I didn't think anything in D&D would have the power to make me tear up, but there you have it.
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Nov 26, 2014 18:21
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I got this one in my feed, from my wife's lesbian Democrat aunt, no less. Whole lot of people saying he was stupid or racist, but nobody putting up any quotes or statements they found particularly egregiouss. For them to dislike this guy so thoroughly and vehemently, he must have said something really wrong or out of line! 
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Dec 8, 2014 23:48
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Yeah but that's over it's not like people are shooting at protest marchers anymore
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Dec 9, 2014 00:42
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FactsAreUseless posted:There's an absurd hyper masculine tough guy culture around everything but crochet, and sooner or later they'll realize that a crochet hook is basically a second penis. Crochet goes well with that douchey nautical hipster thing that I've got going
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Dec 15, 2014 18:57
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Fulchrum posted:
Obama: Hey, Bush, the crew and passengers decided I should take the yoke for a bit. Bush: Well, if they say so-- Obama: [gets plane flying mostly level despite massive turbulence] Republicans in first class: [for six years] OH gently caress WHERE ARE WE GOING OH NO WE'RE CRASHING OH gently caress THIS GUY's PILOT LICENSE IS FAKE
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Dec 27, 2014 05:10
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Spatial posted:Yeah, good luck with that. Some choice excerpts for those who haven't heard of Adrian Schoolcraft: Jesus Christ.
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Dec 28, 2014 17:02
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TerminalSaint posted:It's covered in the second half of this TAL episode if you're in the mood to get angry. I don't know if I can handle it. These bitches in blue have been making my blood pressure spike. I mean, they freaked out at the use of the word "alleged" for the guy who killed the two cops. That's... loving petulant as all poo poo.
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Dec 28, 2014 17:51
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KiteAuraan posted:This lovely little number has been going around. Of course it ignores that in both cases it wasn't "As far as we know, the killings were not related to Ferguson race-rioters, but the stories are still developing." Now that's journalism. Draw a connection, wait for it to be cemented in readers' minds, then quietly let it slip under the waves of public discourse. I wonder what it felt like to write the descriptions of those crimes out, and every keystroke making it more obvious they were normal police/suspect altercations with no bearing on the larger theme of the article. And then, sort of ending it, and publishing it. Must have felt like getting paid.
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Jan 1, 2015 03:15
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ASSASSINATED COPS DUE TO POLICE UNDER SIEGE!
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Fulchrum posted:The big risk, obviously, is that no matter who starts the secret corporation it will be seen as an American invention, or it will involve American-made technology, or imagined American funding, so there will still be blow-back. Oh, THAT's the big risk here. Not that a massive murder corporation with zero international oversight is vaporizing "bad guys" with robot swarms. The BIG risk is it might have some blowback for the American government. Which, incidentally, I'm SURE would totally still be a legitimate, recognized, and powerful actor in a world with INTERNATIONAL ROBOT MURDER CORPORATIONS
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Jan 17, 2015 06:44
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Bloodnose posted:One of the dumbest things right wingers have been up to lately has been this idea that "entitlements" means the exact opposite of what it actually means. I've been musing about this on facebook, they literally think they're being called "entitled" like they're bratty kids or something. Too bad they'll never absorb how true that is, though not in this particular case.
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Jan 17, 2015 17:34
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Just dropping in to say I want to see Amy poehler play James Bond
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Jan 30, 2015 02:20
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mr. mephistopheles posted:
Because all evolution is towards a better more Platonic ideal therefore standing in the way of plagues and injury which removes our weak and feeble prevents humanity from becoming its most pure expression of genetic self You could be a little bit more progressive you know
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Feb 3, 2015 15:51
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Doctor Butts posted:Knives he I think collects and or buys. They kind of all look like cord-wrapped knives or some poo poo (I know nothing of knives). Just kind of odd he's like, "oh yea cool knife" posts picture of orange bladed knife with wrapped handle. Gross, I think I know the style you're talking about. Is he an "outdoorsy" survivalist nutjob who actually lives a comfortable middle-class life and rarely goes anywhere more woodsy than a park? Does he exclusively like things that are safety orange or camo? Does he wear those survival strap bracelets? Would his stated set of beliefs actually make him borderline communist if a youthful dalliance with libertarianism paired with a steady technical job hadn't dropped him soundly on the lap of the GOP? Because I know there's more than one of this guy.
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Feb 12, 2015 19:05
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blackmet posted:Sketchy -- primarily minority and/or poor, perceived as either just starting to gentrify or on it's way to becoming a ghetto. Yeah, sketchy is when there's someplace on the edge of safe whiteness you want to go, but there's people just beyond the edge of safe whiteness you don't want to encounter.
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Feb 13, 2015 18:21
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Okonner posted:Yeah, clearly the person complaining still thinks calling people "black" gets people in trouble. They're trying to make the point that "well, I can call Irish people 'whites' so why isn't THAT racist?" Most people's views on what is and isn't racist seems to be just a long, confused whine. A non-contradiction dressed up as a contradiction.
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Feb 26, 2015 14:48
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CHRIST. LL101 is great exercise for my scrolling finger. I have no choice but to wait for discrete bits of that massive wad of hate to be extricated and, gemlike, polished and faceted with nuanced opinions by the posters here. I've tried to take on the whole thing a couple times, and it's like a bile marathon. I could feel my stomach trying to digest my heart.
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Feb 28, 2015 17:21
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Picard is franco-european. Anglicized, except when he speaks frankly.
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Mar 3, 2015 16:51
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Maybe we can have the students from the poor schools mop the floors at rich schools to get some extra tuition money. Picturing this actually happening was upsetting, but worryingly not very difficult. Which makes me consider all the social bullshit I'm either jaded to or blind to. 
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Mar 5, 2015 17:39
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Can you imagine being the one to have to explain to these kids why they're doing that? To look into a kid's eyes and tell them this is for their own good, that they're empowering themselves through education while they're bent over a mop bucket at a mollycoddled magnet school?
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Mar 5, 2015 18:02
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ToxicSlurpee posted:That's basically like...the entire point of debating and discussing, isn't it? The difference for me is that every viewpoint here is usually thought out and seeking understanding of other views. Very rarely do I experience a discussion IRL where both parties aren't different shades of ghastly insulting each other. Here it's more like several misguided angels on your shoulder. Out there, it's devils screaming at each other right in your loving ear.
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Mar 9, 2015 19:24
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G-g-global Reset!
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Mar 12, 2015 16:28
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Rick_Hunter posted:If that happened and I was magically transported to Nigeria, I'd be pissed because I like my Xbone and Internet. Now you get a bone knife and a fishing net. But be thankful! Think of all the people who were lost resetting the global population.
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Mo_Steel posted:Distant family relation shared this: :Nike swoop: just do it And share the meltdown pleeeeez
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Mar 16, 2015 16:44
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I'd post a picture of a dog whistle but it's pretty blatantly racist.