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Party Plane Jones posted:
I really enjoy your twitter dump posts because I don't use twitter, but please don't jam the latest cute diminutive dehumanizing term in them. Not interested in a big ol' derail where we all eat each other alive over perceived racism or pontificating on the History of Racism in Asia or explaining why it's fine to call North Koreans, but I realize this is a can of worms. Priapus Unbound fucked around with this message at 17:55 on Jun 13, 2017 |
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Jun 13, 2017 17:45
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Sinteres posted:Can't imagine why the right has such success in painting liberals as looking for poo poo to be offended about. It's not used as a slur, and making up an ever increasing list of poo poo you can't say because it might possibly be construed the wrong way is ridiculous. Some words have a history of being used as weapons against people and causing real pain, but using a shortened version of North Koreans to refer to their government isn't in that category. The word 'nork' was used as a slur during the Korean war. It wasn't made up recently as a convenience thing.
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Jun 13, 2017 18:00
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Sinteres posted:As opposed to legislating what words people can and can't use on a constant basis? You're being disingenuous here. I requested that the original poster not use that word. I didn't call for legislation, only engaging in more thoughtful language that isn't dehumanizing. No one is oppressing you by asking others to use less loaded language.
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Jun 13, 2017 18:04
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Man, I even posted in my original request to not use the word that I didn't want to start a dumb derail, but here we are.
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Jun 13, 2017 18:05
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Autism Sneaks posted:the face of socialism well deserve Meanwhile, Barack Obama just made a public statement on this which is something he said he was unlikely to do. https://www.facebook.com/barackobama/posts/10154996557026749
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Jun 22, 2017 23:49
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 The President is AWAKE Not sure how many clips of fox and friends he plans on posting this morning, or why he just posted one attacking Mayor de Blasio. Other than maybe the quote in the preview here, which took a me a few reads to parse. https://twitter.com/foxandfriends/status/884374198751158272 Also this fuckbucket has something to say: https://twitter.com/foxandfriends/status/884372538607804416 Priapus Unbound fucked around with this message at 13:07 on Jul 10, 2017 |
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Jul 10, 2017 13:00
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business hammocks posted:Good lord I am addicted to hating him. I hope this is some kind of Stockholm variation thing and will pass when he dies. Quoting from a few pages back but something you may find useful is finding some kind of cathartic ritual to engage in for future milestones. I have two bottles of wine in my house. One is labeled 'Trump leaves office' and is reserved for that occasion, whenever/however it happens. The other is labeled 'Trump dies'. On the eve of both of these occasions, as I did when Reagan died and as I will when George Bush left office, I will get with some friends, put on some music and write things I detested about each figure on strips of paper. These are assembled into a paper chain that is then burnt as we drink and have a good conversation.
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Jul 17, 2017 19:52
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The made-in-America list includes 'iconic fiesta line of china'. That seems like some kind of dig.
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Jul 17, 2017 20:01
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:That was a thousand years ago, he delivers packages now. Oh, your grandpa is Red Skull? Also, one of the reasons the Guardian is my go to news rag of choice is their great reporting on climate change. They do a great job of accurately reporting on science most of the time by correctly describing the risks and uncertainties involved in climate science while still being emphatic about the need to do something and resist the current administration's attempts to dismantle climate policy grounded in reality. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/30/in-an-era-of-unwelcome-climate-records-hurricane-harvey-wont-be-the-last
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Aug 31, 2017 02:54
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Mustached Demon posted:Come to Boise! No coast here. Noooooo don't come to Boise, it's definitely not a good and rad place to live far from the ocean.
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Sep 1, 2017 03:24
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Blindeye posted:He kind of did, especially by glossing over the technical content of dry cask storage (because Harry Reid wants that instead of Yucca it must be bad). I like Yucca, but dry cask storage is the way to go: it is passive, hardened, and minimizes shipping/handling risks. Last Week Tonight did an episode about that two years ago. It's a pretty good one! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y1ya-yF35g
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Sep 1, 2017 12:15
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The Slack Lagoon posted:What does get taught in school about 9/11? I know this was a post from a long-rear end time ago but as high school teacher who just went through this: During announcements, a teenager read a list of things that happened on 9/11. I'm paraphrasing while recalling as much as I can. 'On September 11th, 2001, 19 men hijacked four planes. Three of the planes were flown into American buildings including the World Trade Center in New York City. Few who were alive that day can forget the terrible images that emerged from that event. The burning buildings. The firefighter emerging from dust carrying a lifeless child. (list of events) Please join me in a moment of silence for those who died that day.' Several of the older faculty used the day to hold students as emotional hostages and retell stories about where they were on 9/11. A couple of staff have pretty harrowing stories including one staff member who was in New York when it happened, but most of the people telling stories had no real connection to the WTC aside from being born in the same country where it was built. Younger staff members then jumped on the emotional remembrance train by recalling how old they were when it happened and what they did in school that day. Basically 9/11 is awful because it's a yearly exercise in having empathy for other people's grief while simultaneously screaming inside about how the whole thing has become an exercise in rehashing inane stories about staring at the TV all day.
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Sep 13, 2017 00:18
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Hrm. This doesn't seem like a conciliatory diplomatic tone to set at all. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/922603042796654592 https://twitter.com/VP/status/922562383641374721
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Oct 24, 2017 02:24
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Rinkles posted:https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/927673257230327808 Ah, America. Beacon of justice.
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Nov 7, 2017 00:16
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RE: The teenager brains being affected by phones thing, this graphic is from a larger article that is worth reading if you have the time. I'm a high school teacher and I can say this article definitely struck a chord with me because I had witnessed many of the patterns like reduced sleep and increased loneliness among my students. I've been pulling kids out of my classroom to do emotional check-ins far more this year than I can ever remember in the past.  https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/has-the-smartphone-destroyed-a-generation/534198/ I certainly don't think that any trends can be tied back to just the one thing; the election of Trump also hosed up a lot of kids who had seen themselves as somehow winning the tolerance war by default. Still, this is absolutely worth a read. If this is a bad derail, I'll happily delete it. I just find this stuff fascinating now, having spent much of my professional life in contact with large numbers of young people that seem to grow progressively more anxious each year. EDIT: GODDAMN, that's the new stupid newbie face? I'm definitely going to pay 10bux as soon as I can be assed to find a decent av.
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Nov 28, 2017 05:31
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Koalas March posted:Yup. Like if you're that worried about your kids that you're posting about it on an internet forum be an actual loving parent and talk to your kids. I thought that bit was presented as part of a list of data points about the kid, but I can see why it would be weird. My own parents were super open with me about sex and drug use, but the consequence there was that I waited on both until college when I found people that made both of those activities interesting. I could see that post being written by someone like my own dad, who is a medical professional who sees sexuality as just another part of the whole human.
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Nov 28, 2017 05:35
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As someone who grew up as a middle class straight white dude in Idaho, I appreciated the original article contextualizing the imagery in Cuphead. I do find stone cold's posts frequently annoying because they have a nasty habit of posting one interesting thing and then aggressively soapboxing on the moral high ground for pages afterwards, but the original post was good. I genuinely had no idea that the imagery of dice had racist connotations or about many of the other things described in the article (I didn't watch cartoons as a kid) and now it will become another part of my cultural analysis toolbox for better understanding. I don't mean to diminish the experience of other people, but I've been genuinely ignorant about most of this stuff due to the circumstances of my childhood. Now that I'm an educator in a very diverse district, I find myself questioning my cultural biases a lot and feeling a bit adrift. Many of the things I've taken for granted my whole life have vastly different and often oppressive meanings for other people, and it sometimes feels like walking a cultural minefield. Man, all I want is someone to answer my questions. I've already figured out I have subconscious racist biases; I don't need to be told that every time I run up against the limitations of my cultural literacy. But yeah. Trump.
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Dec 6, 2017 05:05
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boner confessor posted:really it's just the dice in this context, directly evoked in these cartoons in this way Straight razors have a history TOO? Your post made me curious so I found this: https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/01/the-racially-fraught-history-of-the-american-beard/283180/ Last paragraph: 'The most important explanation for whites’ anxiety about the shop, however, involved black barbers’ growing wealth. For many, the success of leading African-American barbers seemed to threaten the social order. As white customers were shaved by men with fortunes worth many thousands of dollars, some must have wondered who was serving whom.' Which I found super interesting. It's always struck me that a huge amount of African American culture was foisted upon them by white oppression from their names to their available professions. It really stands out that so many times, black people make the best of a poo poo situation and prosper only for white people to change the rules again. In response to the other dude, quote:your fine, dont worry. don't beat your self up because of people like stone head. try to learn and grow from experience and realize that you don't have all the answers or all the experiences others of different groups have had. just think about stuff deeper then just surface level reading and learn from it. I'm not beating myself up. I'm trying to express frustration with the minefield that cultural exchanges can be. There are centuries of conflict at this point and I GET why someone who has spent their life explaining this poo poo would get tired of it and become derisive, but that makes it really hard to have a meaningful conversation and pointing it out sounds way too goddamn much like tone policing. Caught between the cultural rock and the racist hard place.
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Dec 6, 2017 05:36
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Alter Ego posted:These are the women that accused Weinstein, correct? More than that. These are all people who have publicly spoken about being harassed, including a couple of men.
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Dec 6, 2017 14:01
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boner confessor posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Belt_(U.S._region) As a science teacher, I've always liked this little connection: https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2014/07/18/the-relationship-between-todays-political-map-the-economy-and-geological-time/
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Dec 13, 2017 03:47
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Ogmius815 posted:I told you bitches not to have any hope. The needle is a lioness playing with her grizzly prize. *grisly, unless this is part of an extended metaphor about a lion trying to bite something bigger than it.
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Dec 13, 2017 03:49
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Does Jones need to win with more than 50% of the total vote, or does he just need a majority? I seem to recall something about this being different by state.
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Dec 13, 2017 04:00
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Right now the risk of war with North Korea is as real as it's ever been. It's not guaranteed by any means, but a lot of experts are increasingly worried about the possibility and it is likely that China is attempting to prepare for the eventuality. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/12/china-refugee-camps-border-north-korea https://www.vox.com/world/2017/12/7/16743550/north-korea-tammy-duckworth-interview Really, it feels like the drums are beating closer and closer to the brink of war, and it's becoming increasingly likely that someone is going to make an irrevocable mistake. We can hope that the system prevents rash decision making, but our government wasn't built with the expectation that someone like Trump would be elected. If he wanted to nuke North Korea in a fit of wanting more of our attention, he'll do it. If he thinks being inflammatory on Twitter will get him attention, he'll do it, and drag the rest of us along with him. EDIT: Not to say worrying about this is super productive, but it's understandable. Do your best to be a good human to those around you and the society you inhabit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIoBrob3bjI Priapus Unbound fucked around with this message at 05:04 on Jan 3, 2018 |
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Jan 3, 2018 05:01
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