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WickedHate posted:He and the commentors on his site are really pushing the "He's just super mentally ill, yuck" angle. This guy's such a loving scumbag, I don't know how he exists without everyone in a twenty mile radius being consumed with the urge to kill him. Being super mentally ill and being a loving scumbag are not mutually exclusive.
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WickedHate posted:I wasn't saying that? I figured as much. I was just making sure it was said explicitly.
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Ron Paul Atreides posted:I just kinda want to punch him I want to stick his head in the toilet.
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Toph Bei Fong posted:A'yup. He's skeptical of some things, loves privacy, and loves Slate Star Codex. Somehow I don't think that article proves what you think it does.
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J_RBG posted:The point of people enjoying him is that they don't think he's shitposting. So he's basically an IRL Howard W. Campbell except Campbell was doing his Nazi playacting for a reason.
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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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Fututor Magnus posted:
I'm the failed attempt at writing an ſ in MSPaint.
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Aug 3, 2017 23:26
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Oligopsony posted:Well, actually, that's a long s, which is being used to ironically self-distance from the message (because we're all irony boys) An ſ is a long s.
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Aug 4, 2017 01:48
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Boatswain posted:Ah yes, the famous technique of sea-lioning. In fairness that's actually a thing that people have accused others of doing, and it's particularly popular amongst people who also say "mansplaining".
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Somfin posted:It's a good term for it, ya doofus. It's feigned politeness and requests for effort designed to get the other person to shut up. Pittsburgh Lambic, on this forum, is a master of the form. "Look, I know he cited dodgy statistics claiming to show that black people are inherently inferior to white people and stuck by those stats when they were proven to be false, but do you have four other examples of him being explicitly racist?" I didn't say it wasn't a real thing that douchebags do, just that it's a real term used by people who are often douchebags diametrically opposed to other douchebags. It's douchebags all the way down.
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pookel posted:Today I learned there are people who can read that Sea Lion cartoon and think it's about polite disagreement. And I thought MY social skills were bad. I think you'll find that it's really a cartoon about the importance of vigilantly calling out racists and therefore the sea lion is the hero because THE OPPOSITE READING IS TRUE.
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The opposite reading is true! The opposite reading is true! I've been to college!
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It's a shame Orwell didn't live long enough to read Lord of the Rings. That's an essay I'd love to read.
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From what I've heard, Tolkien's own Catholic beliefs made him intensely uncomfortable with his own depiction of Orcs as irredeemable Chaotic Evil mooks, but he just couldn't find a way to fix it in his writing.Josef bugman posted:Angry former colonial administrator vs Oxford Don isn't something I'd usually like to see, but now I really do. If you want to see the real George Orwell you need to read his essays and book reviews. His current reputation as the right's pet leftist would horrify him. Vincent Van Goatse has a new favorite as of 01:20 on Aug 10, 2017 |
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ThePlague-Daemon posted:So does he think people used to be wrong with they complained about liberal bias, but now they're not? I doubt he's thought it through that far.
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Improbable Lobster posted:LoB can gently caress off IMHO Yeah, pretty much. It's the Mother Night principle as much as anything.
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Improbable Lobster posted:https://twitter.com/bmcclendon/status/914988314784038914 You should post this in C-SPAM, there's a lot of these types there.
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J_RBG posted:As a rule it's usually a good idea not to be smug or glad that somebody's a sexual predator, but hey whatever floats the thread's boat It's more a case of "I knew this guy was really a poo poo all along so it's a relief to have tangible evidence".
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divabot posted:Kriss has written one genuinely good thing ever, and that's his review of the DSM-5 as a novel, which is of actual literary quality. That made me want to seek out and read more of his stuff. Unfortunately, I was disappointed. Wow, that's some really loving stupid lit major masturbation right there.
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ol qwerty bastard posted:Just gonna leave this here. Where's the rubber skull?
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The GOP re-endorsed Moore but they did it in the most tepid and limp-dicked possible way. Basically their national office gave him the political support equivalent of some spare change for a bus ticket. They did just enough to make sure they went down with his ship but nothing to stop it from sinking in the first place.
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psutify posted:Is this Time Cube? Is that still a thing? Gene Ray is dead and Time Cube only exists on archive.org.
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BioEnchanted posted:The problem is Tyson is an rear end in a top hat within his field as well, seeming to have a very "How dare people dumb-down science by making it fun!" elitist attitude. Which, considering that he got famous by doing that kind of popularizing science stuff, is a really strange attitude to take.
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Well, Sandifer's obnoxious pseudo-profound bullshit writing style hasn't changed at all.
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Oddly enough Prager U's video about the Civil War is exactly the opposite of what you'd expect. An Army guy explains that the South seceded to keep black people as slaves and they all committed treason.
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I'm not a fan of modern art (at least, the popular definition of modern art, which more or less seems to mean those shapeless lumpy sculptures that infest public parks), but I understand why it exists and I don't begrudge it's existence, and I can tell you the exact moment I came to this viewpoint: I was visiting a major art gallery in London which had their paintings arranged more or less chronologically. The effect was incredibly numbing, because it meant I was looking at room after room of portraits of dead rich guys interspersed with a few landscapes and Biblical scenes. After a certain point I was almost running through the rooms until I got to the mid-1800s and the first of the Impressionist paintings, and I don't think I've ever appreciated seeing one of Claude Monet's thousands of loving lily pad paintings more than that afternoon. The abstract paintings a couple rooms later were even more of a breath of fresh air. What I'm saying is that art changes and evolves, and we're all better for it. For every few hundred insufferable rear end in a top hat art majors who get their degree for making a fingerpaint recreation of Picasso's Guernica done in their own bodily fluids or a performance piece consisting of making GBS threads into empty Campbell's soup cans as a comment on the violence inherent in the system, there's someone doing something truly new and creative. Vincent Van Goatse has a new favorite as of 21:04 on Aug 27, 2018 |
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