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gradenko_2000
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https://twitter.com/BarryStanton64/status/939551181734662144

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https://twitter.com/Independent/status/940364828194910208

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White Rock posted:

Eh not the worst take:


So arguing from a tactical view rather than some sort of moral high ground.

The far-right is going to cry victim regardless, so you might as well try to physically/violently stop them.

gradenko_2000
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gradenko_2000
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the Expanded Universe isn't really any more or less better written than the Disney Universe

gradenko_2000
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https://twitter.com/adamjohnsonNYC/status/942739361937985536

gradenko_2000
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https://twitter.com/kept_simple/status/942754096007778304

gradenko_2000
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that lady is most assuredly not naked

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theflyingexecutive posted:

it’s true tho. I can’t stand animal rights activists and poo poo hoovering up money and attention while children live in the streets in the richest country in the history of the world. straight up mike Vick gets real prison time for letting dogs fight in a house he owned (not even fighting them himself!) while pieces of poo poo like Ben roethlisberger get to keep their jobs and reputation after raping and abusing real human women

Hot take: the elimination of dogs as a cultural touchstone still wouldn't mean more money flows to the impoverished

gradenko_2000
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that's... not wrong???

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gradenko_2000
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business hammocks posted:

What did Cornell West do, aside from like the Matrix sequels?

He wrote a piece that correctly identified Ta-Nehisi Coates's racial discourse as lacking in anti-Capitalist and anti-Imperialist rhetoric and called him a neoliberal.

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business hammocks posted:

But that was an accurate argument and not at all unfair to Coates. I don’t think there are other people who could have made it at all, or half as well.

The people castigating West are (neo)liberals

gradenko_2000
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https://twitter.com/CatoInstitute/status/944255222259515397

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get that OUT of my face posted:

i can't speak for Paw Patrol, but kids watch Thomas because kids love trains.

You know who else loved trains?

gradenko_2000
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Zeris posted:

What is the ideal summary of the West critique of TNC that doesn't dumbify West's words but also doesn't involve sifting through tweets?

Why not West's words themselves?

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whomupclicklike posted:

I'm not at all saying that you should let a television set raise your children but I don't think it's far-fetched at all to think that a child will pick up at least something from what they watch or read.

Yeah it's weird to me that we're getting pushback to the idea that we should critically examine the media that children consume, when we also generally acknowledge that there's a lot of media out there with deliberately crafted messaging to shape our beliefs.

gradenko_2000
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https://twitter.com/ezraklein/status/946533860946468866

motherfucker write this poo poo today

gradenko_2000
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drat that's a scorching hot take

gradenko_2000
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First they came for the RPG designers, and I said nothing because the previous edition was better

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get that OUT of my face posted:

that guy is wrong as hell, but i've rarely encountered anyone on the internet making a "punch nazis" comment that's actually willing to put their money where their mouth is. the only way to win is to not play

Spoiler alert: they are not putting themselves at stake.

gradenko_2000
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ate poo poo on live tv posted:

Wait is johnny Depp "bad" (beyond his acting) now or something?

domestic abuser

gradenko_2000
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Krankenstyle posted:

e: yeah he plays a nazi wizard i think?

That's literally what his character is, yes

gradenko_2000
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https://twitter.com/MatthewSitman/status/952305065402003456

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https://twitter.com/BrianSKotkin/status/952801290211483648
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/952875283341889537

gradenko_2000 has issued a correction as of 13:22 on Jan 15, 2018

gradenko_2000
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love too be in a union with fellow rent seekers

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Dirk Pitt posted:

I kind of agree. if you’re naked in an apartment, having just given a blow job, it isn’t really harassment to be asked “when will the sex start?” and I am a huge fan of taking down sex pests. I’m not even a fan of Ansari, I just think we should save the outrage for actual sex pests instead of bad dates.

Consent has to be constant and eager. Even if you're already motorboating someone's tiddies, you can still ask "do you like that?", and you should also still ask if they'd like if you went down on them.

Not only does this make clear that whatever you're doing in consensual, it also makes you a more receptive lover.

gradenko_2000
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rudatron posted:

is your ideal of sex one where verbal consent has to be obtained each time a dick thrusts into a oval office (because conceivably that consent could be withdrawn intra-thrust), or is it one where good communication is the responsibility of both partners

The latter? I'm not ruling out that someone could pipe up and say what they want to be done with/to them in the moment, but I thought that goes without saying that that does establish consent.

I'm not even going to engage with your ridiculous "well what if they say no mid-thrust" hypothetical, which is obviously different from assuming that a person wants penetrative sex just because you're already at foreplay (much less not even being at foreplay yet).

gradenko_2000
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https://twitter.com/disco_socialist/status/953242648285888512

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I can't be racist, I have a black friend voting record

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gradenko_2000
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sweet jesus that's a smokin' take

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https://twitter.com/hankgreen/status/958002248180625408
https://twitter.com/hankgreen/status/958003721450938369

gradenko_2000
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Serf posted:

you literally have to be your worst self to succeed in capitalism. those who sacrifice their bottom line anything else will get gobbled up by someone willing to do anything to succeed.

The other week, I was talking to an acquaintance who was planning on opening a new restaurant. She was describing how they had bought out both floors of a 2-story building - the lower floor would be the restaurant proper, and the upper floor would be the staff dormitory.

She was describing how letting the staff live "on-site" would mean that they wouldn't have any "excuses" to skip-out on work. Further, all the staff they recruited were from the provinces, so they wouldn't know anyone here in the city, which would apparently reduce the chances that they would go off and party or otherwise be delinquent, and would provide a strong incentive to be good employees.

She then went on to portray this as her doing her employees a favor, since the amount of rent-and-utility-dues they'd take from their paychecks would be much smaller than if they looked for places on their own, and the dorm was already furnished.

Now, my radicalized self was listening to all this politely, and in the back of my mind I'm unpacking all the ways that this is exploitative, but to her, it just makes good business sense. And she wouldn't even be wrong!

Capitalism doesn't just force people to behave in immorally and unethically (lest they be outcompeted by the more vicious), it also creates its own rationalization for doing so.

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gradenko_2000
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https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/02/13/immigration-visas-economics-216968

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https://twitter.com/johnastoehr/status/963872010928640000

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