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Social Forums => General Chat => Topic started by: superaielman on January 16, 2012, 04:10:14 AM
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Let's kick off the (old) new year with a brand new IotD topic. Our first one comes from politics.
News: http://www.ology.com/politics/ga-politician-supports-drug-testing-welfare-recipients-also-charged-dui/01152012
Views: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9B-ZoS0wvU Avenue Q puts it best.
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Our second one comes from politics, too. Someone better do something dumb during, like, a store robbery or something soon.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/02/22/83337/disabled-abortion/?mobile=nc
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Let's hear it for Australia!
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/120110/mother-rape-daughter-porn-films-cybersex-sex-education
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Ok, wow. I retract my complaint that there are too many politics-related dumb people. Maybe we need to post more about politics.
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http://tinyurl.com/43auemn
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http://choochoobear.tumblr.com/post/16047028443/sopa-lives-and-mpaa-calls-protests-an-abuse-of-power
pot.
kettle.
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Fe
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http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/01/20/408488/fox-news-a-team-psychologist-being-married-three-times-could-make-gingrich-a-better-president/?mobile=nc#comment_link
URL says it all, really. For sure, I don't think maritial infidelity is a sign of a *bad* leader, but it being a sign of a good leader? That's a new one.... (Keith Ablow is the same guy who also is quite disapproving about homosexuality, from a strictly medical / psychological perspective of course, no moralizing here... right... I wonder what he'd think about gays who've had 5 partners?! http://mediamatters.org/research/201112190003 for more details on that)
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(Keith Ablow is the same guy who also is quite disapproving about homosexuality, from a strictly medical / psychological perspective of course, no moralizing here... right... I wonder what he'd think about gays who've had 5 partners?! http://mediamatters.org/research/201112190003 for more details on that)
Hmm...let's see...
It would be wrong to think that gender dysphoria cannot be kindled by celebrating those who have undergone sexual reassignment surgery. Human beings do model one another--in terms of emotion, thought and behavior.
He's not exactly wrong on this point. There was a pretty good article sent out a while back about psychological conditions being exported. How people experiencing western-like psychological symptoms didn't exist in Asia 20 years ago, but do exist today. People will slot themselves under categorizations if you give them categorizations to read about.
Now, certainly there's some history that predates modern psychological definitions--there are Jazz musicians from the 20s that nobody realized had a vagina until after they were dead. But a celebrity like Chaz Bono openly declaring his maleness after he was already well-known is something I do not think would have happened in the 1920s. Most likely he would have been a sense of something wrong, but his frustrations would have been channeled a different way, or at least more privately.
We wouldn't invite people with anorexia to go on fashion shows and talk about how wonderful they feel now that they're thinner and how they want more liposuction. This is an exact parallel.
Well, except anorexics would come on, we'd see them looking freakishly bony, and we'd ask "how do you feel", and they'd say "I'm so fat *cries*". I don't think it would compel most people to do the same. Anorexics generally aren't happy or healthy. Chaz, on the other hand, is happy and healthy.
Ablow: J. Crew Ad Promotes "Psychological Sterilization." In an April 11 FoxNews.com column, Ablow criticized a J. Crew advertisement for depicting J. Crew president Jenna Lyons painting her son's toenails pink, writing:
Ok, I'm not going to quote Albow here, but actually look up more info on this:
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/crew-ad-boy-painting-toenails-pink-stirs-transgender/story?id=13358903#.TxrmEG87WAh
The caption reads
"Lucky for me, I ended up with a boy whose favourite colour is pink. Toenail painting is way more fun in neon."
And a quote from abc news:
"If the roles had been reversed, and that picture had been a little girl playing in the mud with trucks, nobody would have batted an eye."
And...yeah, that quote pretty much sums up my feelings on the subject. IT'S A ****ING COLOUR. There is nothing inherently female about pink other than the recent societal association. In fact, less than 100 years ago the colours were reversed:
http://askville.amazon.com/Blue-boy-babies-pink-girls/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=10177156
With boys wearing pink, and girls wearing blue. Seriously, pink literally doesn't mean anything. If, a decade from now, the boy has a penchant for trying on bras, then ok, it might be time to take notice, but pink is literally just a meaningless colour.
And...if Albow's goal is to have fewer people wanting gender surgery...doesn't it make more sense to allow a little more liberty? "You're a boy, therefore you're not allowed to like that." ---> "I don't want to be a boy anymore, this sucks." Seriously, "reverse psychology" is something most kids I knew understood by the time they were 12 or so. It's something you learn very quickly if you have ever interacted with a 5-year-old (telling them no makes them want it more). Albow is supposed to be a psychologist. (Although now I'm thinking he's just trolling).
If this woman wants to paint her son's toenails pink, I guess we should have no objection to someone who's male modeling a sundress in their catalogue.
Umm...yes? No more than you should object if a woman models cargo pants.
Ablow: Lesbian Mom Trying To Project "Her Own Discomfort With Masculinity" Onto Her Son. In an October 26 column for FoxNews.com, Ablow responded to the news that J. Crew's Lyons had begun dating a woman by writing:
Wait, he's blaming the pink toenail thing on lesbianism?
::) Oh yes: because if there's one thing that lesbians LOOOOOVE, it's pink. ::) Can't get enough of that colour. We all show up to lesbian events wearing pink princess-peach dresses while we play pool, arm wrestle, and ride motorcycles. ::)
(Seriously, though, is Albow not even familiar with lesbian stereotypes?)
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Regarding the pink thing, I think the most condemning thing in my experience has been that pink does not have that sort of genderization. My male students and plenty of male teachers wear pink all the time. Like, bright neon, "wow you live in the castro district don't you" pink, too. Though the people who don't recognize how pink being a "girl's color" is completely a construct probably wouldn't take too much from that example.
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All that proves is that the plague of deviancy has already taken hold in Japan, and that we must police our own morality ever more vigilantly to prevent such vile perversion of colour and the resulting personality disorders from becoming entrenched here.
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Regarding the pink thing, I think the most condemning thing in my experience has been that pink does not have that sort of genderization. My male students and plenty of male teachers wear pink all the time. Like, bright neon, "wow you live in the castro district don't you" pink, too. Though the people who don't recognize how pink being a "girl's color" is completely a construct probably wouldn't take too much from that example.
Remember back when people didn't associate Red with Republican and Blue with Democrat? The color-coding all started in the presidential race in '96 (or maybe it was '92) after TV networks decided to standardize their election maps. Before then, if you said "Red state" people would probably think you were referring to a former Soviet republic.
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I thought it was 2000; they used to alternate which color was which party, but after everybody spent two months looking at the same map the associations were locked in.
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Regarding the pink thing, I think the most condemning thing in my experience has been that pink does not have that sort of genderization. My male students and plenty of male teachers wear pink all the time. Like, bright neon, "wow you live in the castro district don't you" pink, too. Though the people who don't recognize how pink being a "girl's color" is completely a construct probably wouldn't take too much from that example.
That says absolutely nothing other than reaffirming that Japan is still stuck in 1986.
Colours have no gender. Social constructs surrounding gender are amazingly fluid. Social constructs surrounding gender are still amazingly stupid most of the time. We all know this, but that won't stop others or ourselves from those terrible knee jerk reactions at times, which is unfortunate.
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I thought it was 2000; they used to alternate which color was which party, but after everybody spent two months looking at the same map the associations were locked in.
Could be; I'm just going from memory. Point is, color associations can come up out of whole cloth.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ryq1v-cLHrk
FBI and Scotland Yard hold a conference call to discuss anti-hacking measures targeted at Anonymous.
Call is unsecured.
Anonymous dials in.
Nobody notices.
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My company is rebranding itself, and we're getting a brand new website to celebrate. As part of this relaunch, we're having a design company take us through the entire process.
After many long months, we finally have a logo! So now we can get down to the actual sample palettes and style tiles for the website, where they mock up what a page might look like.
The CEO/President of my company and the Marketing manager have some feedback. Here's my favorite part:
"Orange links seem too washed out, and overall, we feel like we’ve never seen links in a color other than blue in a website—is that true (mostly), and if so, won’t it be confusing?"
As a reminder, my company sells software, offers webinars, has a blog, a Facebook account, a Twitter account, and acknowledges its website to be the center of the business.
FACE. PALM.
(Bonus irony: The place where they posted this comment, Basecamp? Has grey links. Our current company website has company-teal links.)
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The next step up from pizza birthday parties (http://eater.com/archives/2012/02/09/pizza-huts-10k-engagement-party-package-includes-ring-fireworks-pizza.php)
If this had existed a few years ago, my second ex-wife and I might be together.
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I don't know what informs more about you in that Rob. That Pizza Hutt could haves saved your marriage or that something went so wrong with your engagement that it caused the divorce.
Both of which just adds to the aura of awesome.
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Part of the first step of the DENNIS system is to increase your value by lowering hers. My problem was that I set the bar too high at first.
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There was a time when the Guinness World Records organization was fairly respectable. That time is not now.
http://www.xbox360achievements.org/news/news-10809-CoD--Black-Ops-Voted-Best-Videogame-Ending-of-All-Time.html
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There was a time when the Guinness World Records organization was fairly respectable. That time is not now.
http://www.xbox360achievements.org/news/news-10809-CoD--Black-Ops-Voted-Best-Videogame-Ending-of-All-Time.html
It was a fan poll. Those are uniformly awful.
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http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/290898/why-my-critics-are-wrong-michael-novak?pg=1
Michael Novak writes a horrid article defending Paterno and his child rape covering ways. He was promptly thrashed horribly by NRO comments. Not being merely content with the first verbal ass kicking, he tries *again* to defend Paterno.
It's a sad day when NRO commentators are not only in the right, but are completely embarrassing someone in a debate.
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I hope Paterno was in intractable pain when he died, and a doctor said he would inform his boss in the morning when he asked for painkillers.
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His firing and the utter destruction of his reputation did more damage than any physical pain could. He deserved no better for his part in the Sandusky shit.
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I think the only thing you can really say for Paterno is way, way too many people in his position (that is, coaches at top-shelf universities) would have done more or less the same thing. Perhaps I'm wrong, but I really think it's a systemic, rather than personal, issue.
Still doesn't mean the public shaming was inappropriate. He deserved it.
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Well, Paterno's crime was done for good reasons! The best of reasons. That are the path to hell. Specifically... loyalty. It's good to be reminded that the many video games involving covering up or escaping apparent crimes by your buddies because "they couldn't possibly have done it" is in fact a really, really bad idea. (Hell, look at the cabinet of one George W. Bush. He was loyal! He stood by his people and didn't fire them even when it should have been manifestly clear that they weren't cut out for the job. Obviously not as dramatic as rape, but same basic instinct.)
It'd have been wonderful if Paterno had stood by Sandusky and defended him as a good man for... other reasons... but even if you believe the best, yeesh.
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Anyway, in other news. Simon Wiesenthal and his parents convert to Mormonism ~5-6 years after his death. If only he'd done it sooner, maybe the Nazis would have skipped him?
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_BAPTIZING_THE_DEAD?SITE=ILMOL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
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The estate of Edgar Rice Burroughs is suing the people who do John Carter of Mars comics for, among other things, featuring "nude and pornographic covers that feature the Warlord of Mars mark," which mean "ERB's extremely valuable reputation may be permanently damaged."
If you've ever read a John Carter book you don't need me to explain why this is the stupidest thing anyone has said since...well, I guess since Rick Santorum last opened his mouth. If you haven't, suffice to say that the actual ERB would have found this cover (http://www.bleedingcool.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Warlord01-cov-Campbell.jpg) somewhat on the modest side.
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http://www.thelocal.se/38904/20120203/
Sweden, ladies and gentlemen. Posting patients personal information on your facebook page is not the work of geniuses.
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Two things:
1. Why does this deserve a "Sweden, ladies and gentlemen"? This type of thing could easily have happened in any country.
2. lol at the respondents in that thread saying the government is overreacting. It's not like they even fired the guy! And yes, this is a stupid thing to do and does violate patient confidentiality. Ultimately harmless in this case (hence the lack of real consequences), but still deserves a reprimand.
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For the same reason that if it happened in Virginia, it'd deserve a 'USA/Virginia, ladies and gentlemen' comment. It be stupid and I'm blaming the region for the stupid.
That and I also saw this article http://www.thelocal.se/39220/20120220/ but didn't post it. <_< What can I say, it was not a banner newsday in Sweden. The comments on this article are IotY material, unsurprisingly.
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1. Why does this deserve a "Sweden, ladies and gentlemen"? This type of thing could easily have happened in any country.
richard propaganda
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http://www.salon.com/2012/02/25/santorum_flunks_the_history_of_home_schooling/singleton/
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http://m.yahoo.com/w/news_america/penn-judge-muslims-allowed-attack-people-insulting-mohammad-210000330.html?orig_host_hdr=news.yahoo.com&.intl=us&.lang=en-us
I'm not even sure which party should earn the idiot prize.
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The "journalist" writing that "article," of course. Sharia law is not some other code with subsection 11.B3 that says "you must assault zombie Muhammads." And whether such sacrilege is worthy / requires a beatdown is hardly something Islamic jurists would agree on, anyway. (This issue has been poisoned in the last 10 years thanks to the Danish cartoons and irresponsible rhetoric, but traditionally, *Muslim law only applied to Muslims.* Granted this has its own issues, since many states refuse to acknowledge conversions from Islam and will randomly mark people down as Muslim even if they're not, and it's still horrible that you can execute random Saudis for tweets, but it's at least vaguely sane - of course non-Muslims won't follow Muslim law, why would they, so they'd be exempt from sacrilege punishments.)
What the judge was getting at, I presume, was that it's possible to initiate a fight non-physically. If I walk up to someone and start screaming and cursing and acting crazy, they still shouldn't strike first, but if they do it's more complicated than straight-up assault. I'd want to know the details of what happened more - entirely possible the Muslim here was just thin-skinned and attacked first, which is bad, but I wouldn't trust that article to fill things in if the zombie atheist made any provoking remarks himself.
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The "journalist" writing that "article," of course.
Certainly one of my strongest candidates.
But I mean...would you dress up as Zombie Mohammad, and wander down the streets yelling "I am the profit Mohammad risen from the dead, rarrrrrr". That hardly seems smart either.
I can't blame the judge for throwing out the case--I watched the youtube video and couldn't tell what was going on either. But if you follow the link to the source, the Judge goes on a pretty long rant about Islamic culture. He could have let sleeping dogs lie, and said "yeah, can't tell what's happening in that video, next case", or been a little bit more general about it, like "First amendment rights don't absolve you of all responsibility for provoking people", rather than trying to paint a picture of highly religious Islamic culture to a known militant atheist--that'll convince him the error of his ways!
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I think the judge would have been better off keeping his mouth shut - First Amendment rights DO absolve you of responsibility, legal responsibility anyway, for provoking people, unless you're trying to get that specific person to fight with you. Unpopular political speech, even dumb stuff like this, is the very heart and soul of what the first amendment protects, and the judge by berating the victim, by telling him he has a duty where he has none, does not show proper deference to a crystal-clear constitutional rule.
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Quoth Rick Santorum:
“The housing bubble was caused because of a dramatic spike in energy prices that caused the housing bubble to burst,” Santorum told an audience in Colorado.
Uh, dude? It was 4 years ago. We were there, or else we're 4-year-olds. It wasn't energy prices.
This is arguably worse than Romney's assertion that if the US government hadn't bailed out the auto industry that they could have avoided bankruptcy by finding private financing.
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Well seeing as that's how Romney made his fortune, he's pretty well obligated to say that.
Santorum still hasn't topped that comment about Kennedy's religion speech making him throw up, though.
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The auto industry was simply too big for private investors to take a risk on - even aggressive, high risk/high reward ones like Bain. Romney couldn't say what he was surely thinking: that normal bankruptcy would have been a more viable way forward for the auto industry. Couldn't say that because it would have led to a massive loss of blue-collar jobs.
As for the Kennedy thing, it was a remarkably dumb thing to say, but at least it didn't involve Santorum lying through his teeth.
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Re that judge: Oh, of course, I agree about the 1st Amendment specifically protecting unpopular opinions, so he's probably wrong, just that once an article has gone over my quota for bullshit (the "judge implementing sharia law over American law" part), I find it hard to believe anything else in the article, thus would find it totally plausible the underlying facts were entirely different.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/pa-judges-dismissal-of-harassment-case-criticized-after-zombie-muhammad-posts-trial-audio/2012/02/28/gIQA5kUggR_story.html
Here's a better source. And... yeah, the judge was off base here, although not drastically so. He should have been very clear that this was *stupid* but not illegal and that this "provocation" in no way excuses violence, but he's dismissing for other grounds, but he decided to give a little talking to to both sides, or something. Meanwhile seems the judge is conducting business from a different courthouse to avoid protesters, which is scary in its own way. Sigh.
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http://penny-arcade.com/report/editorial-article/sexual-harassment-as-ethical-imperative-the-ugly-side-of-fighting-games
Fuck all of this. Fuck all of this to the end of time.
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It is, yeah. and yes, the article-writer is all kinds of stupid. I don't know that there are any kinds of stupid that writer isn't.
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I really shouldn't click on this topic when I want to cheer myself up. Ugh!
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http://penny-arcade.com/report/editorial-article/sexual-harassment-as-ethical-imperative-the-ugly-side-of-fighting-games
Fuck all of this. Fuck all of this to the end of time.
Man, this is basically the entitlement discourse distilled to a tee. I hate mankind.
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I rather dislike the joke excuse. Devalues actual jokes. Just come out and say "I am trying to be offensive because I think it will put you at a disadvantage." Own up to your dickery.
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I doubt it's all that calculated. Dicks are dicks because they're dicks. It may come out in weird, almost ritualistic ways, but as the bard said, "the dickery's the thing."
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http://penny-arcade.com/report/editorial-article/sexual-harassment-as-ethical-imperative-the-ugly-side-of-fighting-games
Fuck all of this. Fuck all of this to the end of time.
Man, this is basically the entitlement discourse distilled to a tee. I hate mankind.
Yeah, seen it. Articles like this come by about once a week when you subscribe to feminist game developer mailing lists.
http://www.destructoid.com/-wtf-is-with-empowered-women-in-video-games-now--219511.phtml?s=150
(This one reaches "torch humanity" levels).
http://www.starcitygames.com/magic/misc/22786_To_My_Someday_Daughter.html
(In some ways a positive article, guy realizing "wow, I've been a dick." In other ways, I so would not show this to a woman I was trying to convince to participate in gaming because goddamn).
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/02/bioware-writer-describes-her-gaming-tastes-angry-gamers-call-her-a-cancer/
(She's actually really awesome over email, incidentally).
http://viewsfromthecouch.com/2012/02/12/you-didnt-thank-me-for-punching-you-in-the-fac/
(The stories that came out of this one were pretty horrifying. Stuff like "and then the boys from school broke into my house, ransacked my room, and the Teacher just said 'to be fair, she intimidates the other students by being too smart.'")
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/39975/
(Now, if they actually follow through on their claims...)
http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-8-stupidest-defenses-against-accusations-sexism/
(Which contains the fantastic quote: "Being a straight male is tremendous fun and sexuality's lowest difficulty setting")
I've only been sharing 1 in 10 of these, because to some degree I assume that people don't want to be overflooded with feminist rants, and examples of over the top male privilege in gamer/internet communities. (There's so much of it that it does get kind-of repetitive--I assume everyone in the DL is intelligent enough to know that it's out there and pretty common right? Good). But if people want more such articles, I can certainly oblige. (The above selection mostly came in the past week or two, to give you an idea of the volume).
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I don't know if I do want more of them. I love discourse about it happening because that is a good way to progress on the issue.
On the other hand fuck all of this. Fuck all of this until the end of time.
Goddamn did that article piss me off and depress me.
Now I have a pile more to read :(
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I will say this much: when the news of this shit broke out in my local fighting game community here in RIchmond, a lot more people were upset about it and crying to improve the FGC and leave sexism behind[including me, of course.] than there weren't. It's all extremely horrible, but we don't need to keep it that way. See Gref about how exposure of this can bring light to an issue and get people to realize and strive for improvement. In a better world shit like this would never happen though ._.
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Oh, exposure in places where there are serious problems can certainly help. It's just...the DL doesn't strike me as the kind of place that needs a wake-up call about its serious sexism problems because it...kinda lacks such issues. Most of the above articles are articles I'd much sooner post on, say, GameFAQs than here. Thing is, if someone is making a female on the DL uncomfortable, super usually gets them banned...or if that doesn't happen, Zenny realizes he can call someone a "retard" without repercussions and hilarity ensues...until the inevitable ragequit. (Unless it's super making a DL female uncomfortable, in which case we...uhh...get Elfboy to make sarcastic remarks at super).
Whatever, point is, I don't really think the DL has a ton to learn by reading about manbabies crying that females are invading their little videogame boy's club. Now, if people want feminist materials to show to other forums, then yeah, I can provide.
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Shut up, retard.
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As the old saying goes, whenever you think we've hit rock bottom, somebody breaks out the shovels.
Although it does raise a borderline question to me (probably better for another place, but hey): when do trash talking and demoralization attempts cross the line in competitive situations?
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If the community didn't have a strong sexist undercurrent, then sexist comments in that competitive setting would be more appropriate. But we know it has a strong sexist undercurrent from all the sexist comments.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/01/rush-limbaugh-sandra-fluke_n_1313891.html
speaking of sexism, Rush Limbaugh comes out with what I do believe is the worst thing he has ever said in his entire life.
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That is an early frontrunner for Idiot of the Year.
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Thing is, if someone is making a female on the DL uncomfortable, super usually gets them banned...or if that doesn't happen, Zenny realizes he can call someone a "retard" without repercussions and hilarity ensues...until the inevitable ragequit. (Unless it's super making a DL female uncomfortable, in which case we...uhh...get Elfboy to make sarcastic remarks [...])
This is pretty much the DL three-step plan to dealing with all problems. (Note: Step 3 will occur regardless of whether it is solving any problems.)
More seriously, that was a pretty good set of reads, mc.
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Geordie Tait's article I found particularly emblematic of the issues a girl has to face when wrestling with gaming as a whole. It -is- pretty frightening in the boiling of eggs, but it's also very honest about the issues with the community. Interesting no matter what.
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http://m.nypost.com/p/entertainment/tv/moving_on_up_qxLcA8PSkdZsLhMuGn2hlK?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=TV (http://m.nypost.com/p/entertainment/tv/moving_on_up_qxLcA8PSkdZsLhMuGn2hlK?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=TV)
When confronted with allegations that their programming is causing an increase in teenage pregnancy, and accusations that they selected their subjects for sensationalist reasons, MTV decides that the next season of 16 and Pregnant will feature people from affluent families who are more "All-American" and like, models and cheerleaders and shit.
When people accuse you of glorifying unwanted teen pregnancy, you can apparently prove you don't by building your show around rich cheerleaders? Now, if you'll excuse me, I was accused of a total lack of empathy recently, so I'm going to go waterboard the shit out of someone to prove them wrong.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK-frJtGrt4
This is actually kind-of awesome in a hilarious kind of way.
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Not sure if joke.
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http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/04/justice/texas-girl-scouts-thief/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
Oh man, I'd pay money to hear the thieves explain that one to the judge. "Yes, your honor. We tried to unsuccessfully rob girl scouts and got our asses kicked."
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In all fairness, girl scouts are trained by Chinese and Taiwanese assassins from secret cults.
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Oh hey keeping with a theme
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/03/citrix_drops_rush_limbaugh/
In the least shocking news in the world, Rush Limbaugh is an arsehole.
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http://www.destructoid.com/scandal-pokemon-team-had-a-poo-fight-in-a-hotel-223181.phtml
Ok then.
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If it was gonna happen it was gonna be with people who play competitive Pokeymans.
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Actually I think something similar happened last year as well at the World Championships. Pokemon is a menace to society.
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That sort of thing makes me ashamed to say that I am fan of Pokemon.
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That sort thing makes me ashamed to say I am a fan of Spaniards.
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Actually I think something similar happened last year as well at the World Championships. Pokemon is a menace to society.
The real menace is that, now that Nintendo and Sega are pals, we might see Sonic characters in Pokeyman. That would create a Spergfect Storm once TVTropes shows up to catalog which interchangable anime personalities the players fit into.
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http://copssaylegalize.blogspot.com/2012/03/pat-robertson-blames-liberals-for-drug.html
Pat Robertson: It's an absolute shame that America incarcerates so many people. We should scrub our laws of needlessly punitive measures. And shame on liberals for writing all those excessively punitive laws.
Relatedly: ow my brain.
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Oklahoma Democratic primary voted 18% for borderline domestic terrorist Randall Terry, according to unofficial results. I hope this isn't true but it probably is.
TO BE FAIR. Due to the quirkiness of state politics in western Oklahoma (where Terry got a lot of his votes), a lot of people who are hard line right are registered Democrat. In state politics in western Oklahoma the Republicans are traditionally very weak, so in the Democratic primary you are pretty much determining who your candidate is. People figured this out and didn't register Republican even if they were Republican-aligned in the national political spectrum.
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Also, more to the point, it wasn't a contested primary. If Terry had ran in 2008, Democratic turnout would have been 5x the size and his share would probably have dropped to ~4% or so. (Unless there was some really interesting non-presidential primary at the same time?)
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Neither of our asslord senators are running this time, so probably not. (I just question why all the crazy people bothered to show up for the polls?)
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http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-florida-man-steals-from-judge-facebook-20120309,0,6785217.story
I'm sure I could come up with something if you gave me a little time, but I swear I cannot think of anything I've ever heard a person actually did that is more stupid than this.
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Eh, that was just a high 21-year-old who thought they were above the law. Now *here* is a bad thing to put on Facebook:
http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/facebook-friend-finder-leads-to-bigamy-charge-for-washington-man/
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That is amazingly stupid, cap.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/9140869/Dantes-Divine-Comedy-offensive-and-should-be-banned.html
So is this.
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High schoolers and university students lack the context to put Dante in historical perspective? Something tells me that advocacy group doesn't have any members with kids.
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That reminds me of how the EU wouldn't put William Shakespeare on the Euro, because there's an anti-antisemitism scene in the Merchant of Venice (which, incidentally, doesn't even imply that Shakespeare is anti-Semitic, just that he was depicting reality).
And that's why the Brits aren't on the Euro (a fact for which I suspect they're pretty happy about nowadays).
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That reminds me of how the EU wouldn't put William Shakespeare on the Euro, because there's an anti-antisemitism scene in the Merchant of Venice (which, incidentally, doesn't even imply that Shakespeare is anti-Semitic, just that he was depicting reality).
And that's why the Brits aren't on the Euro (a fact for which I suspect they're pretty happy about nowadays).
*blinks* I sincerely hope you're making a joke that's whooshing me, because yeah that is completely wrong (About the euro).
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http://www.aikenstandard.com/story/0315Followup-with-school--3862406
Somewhat related, apparently Ender's Game is child pornography.
"Police have not filed any criminal charges against the teacher at this time. The investigation is still ongoing, said Aiken Public Safety Lt. David Turno."
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Well, OSC is a closet pedophile, to be fair.
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http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/03/this-american-life-on-apple-episode-retracted-due-to-significant-fabrications.php?ref=fpblg
Ladies and gentlemen, let me present to you the worst excuse for flagrantly lying on a documentary that you will ever hear:
Daisey defended his work on his personal blog Friday, writing: “what I do is not journalism.
In unrelated news, I will be poking needles in peoples' bodies tomorrow, and if any of them are offended, I will deflect their criticism by informing them that what I'm doing is not acupuncture.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/20/verizon_family_locator/
What up Verizon? Do you suggest they tell them what clothes to wear? Who they can be friends with? Do you beat them to show you love them?
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At least the product is being advertised for pretty much what it'll actually be used for, unlike all those ads for internet browsers that tout their various "privacy modes" as ways to keep you internet history secret from others so you can...surprise them with gifts you buy for them.
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People are just now getting mad about that shit? They've had that horsecrap since before I worked there, and I got the impression it had been available ever since GPS in phones was a thing.
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It has and I am still pissed about it.
Edit - and how is it being accurately marketed an improvement exactly? So stupid people can have equal opportunity to be abusive in domestic environments? To highlight that promoting abusive relationships are no only socially acceptable but also a profitable business venture to support?
Privacy programs you describe needing to be used in a relationship identifies that a relationship is probably not in good shape. This one used in a relationship with adults though is textbook indication of abuse instead (and I would argue is such when used as advertised here!).
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Family Locator can betray their driving habits, as well, letting parents know not only where they are, but how fast they're driving – and it allows said parent to message them
...
Because when your kid is speeding, the best course of action is clearly to distract them with a text message.
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Well if you have given them a mobile phone and are letting them drive your car even though you think they will be speeding clearly you are letting them drive the car with bluetooth connectivity so they can answer it hands free.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/20/verizon_family_locator/
What up Verizon? Do you suggest they tell them what clothes to wear? Who they can be friends with? Do you beat them to show you love them?
Man, if that were free I'd totally get that on my cell phone. Then I'd be able to find it when I lose it.
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Verizon would like to state that you are currently under the left seat cushion of your couch.
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Responding to Geraldo's admonition against hoodies, (http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/03/geraldo_rivera_blames_trayvon_martins_death_on_his.php?ref=fpblg) MSNBC has developed a Dress Code for Black Safety:
(http://msnbcmedia1.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Video/__NEW/n_mhp_didshejust_120324.standard.jpg)
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http://jezebel.com/5896408/racist-hunger-games-fans-dont-care-how-much-money-the-movie-made
Speaking of racism.
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Humanity. Rock bottom. Shovels. Etc.
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why is that little black girl not eating chicken and stealing from white women
i am so angry at that portrayal
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/02/belvedere-lawsuit-alicyn-packard_n_1396613.html
So...I didn't bother posting the original ad, which was trying to sell alcohol with a rape joke--not very smart, they took it down right away and apologized. But now it also turns out that the image they used was taken, WITHOUT PERMISSION, from a frame in a youtube video. Welp.
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Genius.
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http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2012-04-04-ea-defends-itself-against-thousands-of-anti-gay-letters (http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2012-04-04-ea-defends-itself-against-thousands-of-anti-gay-letters)
Here's some things I learned about SWTOR I didn't know from letters written by "family values" groups.
1- SWTOR is played mostly by children (not true, people just cant spell. I blame text messaging).
2- BioWare has decided to force their "captured audience" of players to engage in some good old' fashioned same-sex ass play to proceed through the game.
3- "Remember Sodom" is apparently something people say?
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http://www.openacase.com/collections/frontpage/products/playa-case
Best way to be discrete? Big fuck off branding on your product.
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http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/06/nbc-fires-producer-of-misleading-zimmerman-tape/
Surely editing a tape in such a fashion in a high profile, provocative case is smart right??? (no)
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What bugs the hell out of me about this is, Fox news broke the story about the edited tape. I fucking hate anything that makes Fox look even slightly principled. Don't worry; they're not. It was just fortuitous that, for once, the truth happened to fit their ideologically preferred view of events. Broken clocks, etc.
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http://www.economist.com/node/21552201?fsrc=scn/tw/te/ar/thewrongsignal
But a man who had sex with three 12-year-olds in 2002, it decided, had committed no crime.
In this case, all three children worked as prostitutes. The mother of one had previously told a lower court that her daughter often missed school to join the other two turning tricks in the town square. That showed that the girls were “far from innocent, naive, ignorant or ill-informed about sexual matters,” the judges said. Whether they were mature enough to consent had to be decided with reference to their wide sexual experience, not just their age.
I present this one without comment. That judge can go to hell.
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That's the case from Brazil, right? My sentiments about it are the same as yours, verbatim.
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I think it's funny how I automatically assume these things happen in Florida now.
e: like this one.
http://www.bradenton.com/2012/04/02/3977391/manatee-woman-offers-sex-for-2.html (http://www.bradenton.com/2012/04/02/3977391/manatee-woman-offers-sex-for-2.html)
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You should blame the legislature before the judge. I mean, feel free to blame the judge too, but the lack of an age-of-consent law until 2009 is absolutely beyond the pale.
EDIT: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/critics-slam-brazilian-appeals-courts-lenient-verdict-in-sex-with-minors-case/2012/03/30/gIQAAPNulS_story.html
Based on this article, it seems like the ruling was made under current Brazilian law, even after they created an age of consent (14), and the fact that the acts took place before current law was enacted was merely one of the extenuating circumstances leading to acquittal. That's weird. And, y'know, horrific.
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That's the case from Brazil, right? My sentiments about it are the same as yours, verbatim.
Yep. The article said there was a lot of public outrage over the case for obvious reasons.
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The U.S. takes a hard line against using evidence of an alleged sexual assault or rape victim's sexual past to help prove consent. (http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/fre/rule_412) In fact, the U.S. has been criticized as being too protective of that information, not allowing it even in some instances when it would be relevant.
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Jim is some kind of rap apologist. :(
March 9th 1997 (http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biggy_smalls) never forget.
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Rap apologists should be shot. There is no excuse for much of it.
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http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/05/north-carolina-marriage-amendment-protects-caucasian-race.php?ref=fpb
Really, North Carolina?
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The craziest thing is that the amendment will be voted on at all during a primary. NC law allows amendments to be voted on pretty well whenever, and if Santorum / Gingrich hadn't dropped out, there'd have been the farce of there being a ton of Republican voters at the polls for the presidential primary while Obama ran uncontested, making for an extremely obvious pass. (There's a vague chance of an upset now that only state-level primaries are on the table and turnout will be generally suppressed.)
That said, don't hate on North Carolina too much. It's been the only state in the South that didn't have a marriage amendment for some time now thanks to the Democratic legislature generally being able to bottle up any demands for one (since it's not like gay marriage is legal, anyway). The big Republican gains in 2010, alas, ended that bit of restraint. Since we all know such laws need to be written into freakin' state constitutions for some reason, and the average voter treats all referendums as "do you like this y/n."
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http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/297225/death-free-speech-continued-karen-lugo#
God fucking dammit. I am posting a National Review article because I agree with it. Now if you'll excuse me I'll be in the shower with an economy-size brick of soap, screaming "out, damn spot!" and bashing my head against the wall.
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To be fair it was a perfectly reasonable article up until they talked about liberals going after corporate campaign speech as if it held the same meaning as an individual's speech act.
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You made it all the way to the end? Brave man.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nMANMIe0ZZI
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nMANMIe0ZZI
I love the guy on the left.
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http://shoryuken.com/forum/index.php?threads/i-tried-to-rob-my-girlfriend-for-money-but-failed-help.160386/
And in case it gets deleted/modded/whatever...
i've been dating this girl for about 8 months and everything is great. she always buys me gifts, takes me out to nice dinners and takes me on small vacations. she's pretty wealthy since she's a nurse practitioner and makes around 180,000 a year before taxes.
anyways, i'm kind of desperate for money but she doesn't know this and I felt too embarrassed to tell her so I decided to rob her. I know it sounds like a stupid plan but she's not that cautious with her money because she stores a lot of cash in a safe in her attic, so I figured it'd be pretty easy to steal. I initially tried to get her to take me up to the attic so I could see the safe but she kept refusing and told me I don't need to go up there, so I couldn't get it that way.
Eventually, I was desperate enough for the money that I decided to buy a ski mask and act like a burglar and steal the money through force. I know this sounds extreme but I really needed the money and this was the only way I knew how to get it. I wound up storming through her front door and demanded her to take me up to the attic to the safe and she seemed pretty scared and I felt bad but the problem is she's pretty strong, so when I grabbed her and forced her towards the attic, she fought back and sort of took my mask half off and I freaked out that she might find out it's me, so I just ran out of there as fast as I could.
I failed to get any money and I know she probably called the police. Should I even bother seeing her again? or should I risk it and go over there and see if she's alright? do you think she'll press charges if she finds out it was me? I really do care about her and I feel bad about this. this happened 6 days ago, if it matters
tl;dr I have a rich girlfriend and I attempted to rob her but failed
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why are you exposing yourself to shoryuken forums mc? You are so young and innocent, don't become cold bitter and cynical like me :(
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I got that off of B8, actually.
And now, Denmark:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31322_3-57431869-256/why-we-need-to-keep-talking-about-women-in-tech/?tag=mncol;txt
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Thaaaaaat is more like it. Much better.
Oh wait, no it fucking isn't.
Note to self: Don't try to have dialogue in IotD.
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@shoryukenforums post: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! :o :o :o :o :o :o
....AAAAAAAAAAAGGHHH! *choke*
...clearly he should have just waited until he could legally rob her by marrying her and taking half her stuff.
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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2012/05/late-night-bill-maher-mormonism-omney-bullying-.html
Bill Maher: Always needs to shut the fuck up.
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I have always been pretty open about my hatred of all things Mormon, so generally I'm on board with that sort of thing, but Bill Maher isn't even clever about it.
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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2012/05/late-night-bill-maher-mormonism-omney-bullying-.html
Bill Maher: Always needs to shut the fuck up.
In the defence of Bill Maher, he did make this speech:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAvDtPz33w0
Which pretty much matched what my church was saying at the time (as Christians, we can't celebrate Bin Laden's death). Although, granted, Maher did it in a much more confrontational way.
So he can occasionally be on the mark.
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Bill Maher being smugly critical of religion or religious practitioners is not exactly breaking news. He may be right on this one, but it doesn't matter when you come off as a total condescending asshole.
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http://borderhouseblog.com/?p=8365
So...kickstarter decides it doesn't want to host funding for a game about tentacle rape. So far, this seems fairly reasonable.
...Except for the part where Gabe from Penny Arcade is outraged, outraged that people continue to find rape anything but hillarious.
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Mmm. Not sure how I feel about this one.
While rape is a very, very, very terrible thing... there is something to be said for the fact that we do live also live in a culture that immensely trivializes other forms of assault and violence as Gabe said. I do realize there is a difference (since this all ties into sexism which is a different can of worms), but... hrm. What is the actual retort for that argument, anyway? The blogger shrugs it off, so I assume it is a generally counterpointed argument.
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That entire website set my teeth on edge. Goddamn do I hate leftist jargon, even if agree with them on this one.
I hope that in light of this, they develop more guidelines for screening misogynist and other hateful content in the future.
This is as literal a definition for censorship as you can get. "I want them to follow the guidelines *I* consider to be reasonable." Gabe is right on that score; it is censorship.
The point is, we live in a rape culture, a world where rape is constantly treated as trivial or a joke, where victims are blamed for their own assaults, and where the conviction rate for rapists is distressingly low.
I'm never sure how I feel on this point. Society on the whole has gotten much better about rape in our lifetimes, due to DNA testing, rape shield laws and and culture treating rape as a serious violent felony rather than as a crime. The conviction rate is around 40%. That isn't out of line with other serious violent felonies. Granted it doesn't tell the full story, as the trauma of rape (everything from the rape kit to the trial) is hell on the victim. The bigger problem is the number of unreported rapes. Some of that is really hard to treat on a cultural level. In 70% of rapes, victims know the attacker. That obviously makes it harder than reporting a stranger rape to the police.
Tentacle Bento may just be a drop in the ocean of rape culture, but every drop counts, and no individual or private company is obligated to support such a game. The fact that many in the game community spoke out against this game, and that Kickstarter listened, is a good thing.
You know what though? I agree here. That game is trash, and kickstarter had every right to yank the funding. It may be censorship, but a company has every right to draw this line in the sand drop the project for whatever reason.
Andy: The criminal justice system and our culture treats sex and sex crimes differently (for better or worse) than they do even things like murder. The blogger shrugs it off because it's a giant can of worms, and one that isn't really relevant to the matter at hand.
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I basically agree that the game sounds like slime, and good on Kickstarter for booting it. However, there was one comment from the linked article worthy of an eyeroll:
"murder in general is not treated as trivial or a joke in the same way that rape is."
Ah. No. American gaming culture often treats murder as trivial but is much more tiptoey about rape. I submit as evidence the Grand Theft Auto games and their many ripoffs. You murder tons of people because they pissed you off, because it's fun, because you want their money, etc. and it's no big deal. But as far as I know the main character never rapes anyone (although prostitution is its own brand of ick.). A major game where the main character rapes somebody, and it's treated as trivial, would make waves in the States. And frankly not do so well; I don't think that's smart. The 15-year old GTA-playing masculine culture admires a thug, yes, but there's still an understanding that because you are so manly and awesome, all the ladies at the strip club will be falling over themselves to get with you, if we're doing teen wish fulfillment. Rape is for losers and villains who can't get any themselves. Or, to increase the suaveness of the target audience a bit, James Bond is quite the conqueror of hearts - it'd be totally anti-sexy to imagine Bond raping someone rather than seducing them. (Yes, yes, the idea of easy seduction has its OWN screwed-upness and problems, but nothing new there.)
If the writer was referring to Japanese culture, uh, yeah. Will avoid rants but they definitely seem to be a lot laxer on that taboo, along with the whole "sexual harassment is part of life deal w/ it" attitude. But it sounded like this game was American, so.
I don't know what the Penny Arcade guys were thinking on this.
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Ah, Gonzo.
Setting aside that the article is trash, the affair raises an interesting question. So interesting I read Kickstarter's ToS. While they pretty much have a "we'll cut any project we want when we want" clause, they make no real mention of pornographic projects. While it's explicitly stated that no project page may contain obscene or profane content, there's no mention of restriction on the actual project so long as it's not harassing or illegal.
This is incredibly strange. While they can (and, indeed, should) kick such projects off their site, there's nothing overtly suggesting it is policy to do so, nor that this type of project is not welcome on their site. So it raises teh question: do they routinely cut pornographic content? Or was this game singled out? If it's the latter, then in all I'd be outraged too. Censorship is, on its face, an evil, and even in compelling cases should not pass without scrutiny. But having been scrutinized, this is still precisely the sort of thing that should not be readily allowed access to something like Kickstarter.
In summary, Kickstarter should really just say "Don't use us to get funding for porn" (whether it's specifically rape porn or not is fairly incidental; rape is a common fetish, and as such a common element to all brands of porn, even if it's not the dominant element as in this case), and Gabe is a dick who responds to dickishness by being an even bigger dick in an endless loop.
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Also. *lol* to one of the defenses the author linked to.
Directly related IotD, taken from MC's link. http://www.formspring.me/interrogate/q/327138748997337024
really not get the difference between a game about my personal non-consent fantasies and a mass-produced satire-free card game about consequence-free rape?
Rape is never excusable BUT MY OWN PERSONAL RAPE FANTASIES ARE COOL TO MAKE GAMES ABOUT, JUST NOT SOMEONE ELSE'S GAME/IDEAS
Way to cover yourself in glory there.
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Ah, Gonzo.
Setting aside that the article is trash, the affair raises an interesting question. So interesting I read Kickstarter's ToS. While they pretty much have a "we'll cut any project we want when we want" clause, they make no real mention of pornographic projects. While it's explicitly stated that no project page may contain obscene or profane content, there's no mention of restriction on the actual project so long as it's not harassing or illegal.
This is incredibly strange. While they can (and, indeed, should) kick such projects off their site, there's nothing overtly suggesting it is policy to do so, nor that this type of project is not welcome on their site. So it raises teh question: do they routinely cut pornographic content? Or was this game singled out? If it's the latter, then in all I'd be outraged too. Censorship is, on its face, an evil, and even in compelling cases should not pass without scrutiny. But having been scrutinized, this is still precisely the sort of thing that should not be readily allowed access to something like Kickstarter.
In summary, Kickstarter should really just say "Don't use us to get funding for porn" (whether it's specifically rape porn or not is fairly incidental; rape is a common fetish, and as such a common element to all brands of porn, even if it's not the dominant element as in this case), and Gabe is a dick who responds to dickishness by being an even bigger dick in an endless loop.
They're a private organization and have the right to not associate with anything they think would damage their image. That's their right as a business as much as it is the right of people to make tentacle rape porn. That street goes both ways. Kickstarter is not a government agency; they aren't required to spell out your rights for you and they're well within their rights to retain the power to terminate any project they think would make them look bad, for any reason or for no reason.
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Second CK. Censorship by private organizations is nowhere near as troublesome as censorship by the government, but they really ought to give some warning about what they intend to censor, even if they reserve the right to refuse any project. Even if they're well within their rights NOT to give that warning (they probably are, but it's not a slam dunk if they pull a project after it starts taking potential donations), it's in everyone's interest that they do.
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That's pretty much what I was saying, yeah. It's well within their right to censor whatever they want, but there should be clear reasoning and guidelines for what they do or do not censor. Arbitrary exercise of power is less dangerous when done by individuals or businesses, but it must not be more acceptable, at least to such point that there's no demand for reasoning.
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Second CK. Censorship by private organizations is nowhere near as troublesome as censorship by the government, but they really ought to give some warning about what they intend to censor, even if they reserve the right to refuse any project. Even if they're well within their rights NOT to give that warning (they probably are, but it's not a slam dunk if they pull a project after it starts taking potential donations), it's in everyone's interest that they do.
At the same time, people should have some common sense. The Internet has done a real fucking number on our generation to the point where some people no longer realize- I cannot stress this enough- that maybe a business is going to avoid helping you raise money to fund tentacle rape porn.
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Yeah, I'm with Rob on this one. Kickstarter should probably spell out its standards more clearly, but it's the "Why wouldn't a high-profile company want to be associated with tentacle rape pornography?" that rises to IOTD levels.
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That's pretty much what I was saying, yeah. It's well within their right to censor whatever they want, but there should be clear reasoning and guidelines for what they do or do not censor. Arbitrary exercise of power is less dangerous when done by individuals or businesses, but it must not be more acceptable, at least to such point that there's no demand for reasoning.
Well...I'm actually inclined to disagree mildly.
For instance, the forum rules of the RPGDL are extremely fuzzy. Pretty much all we say is "don't get us kicked off our hosting" (clearcut) and "don't be an idiot" where we're the ones who draw the line of what "idiot" means (extremely non clearcut).
The forum rules of GameFAQs are horrendously mechanically rigid, down to what swear words you need to censor out, and which exact letters need to be censored out.
I like the DL's moderation better than GameFAQs moderation.
I will leave you with something that could not be linked on GameFAQs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_(Michelangelo) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_(Michelangelo))
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By the same token, you may recall certain incidents that arose from people within the DL attempting to apply new, previously unknown at rules on the DL. The DL works because it's a sufficiently small community that rule by community consensus is viable. It should also be noted that the DL is neither meaningfully public nor a business, and if it suddenly grew to, oh, 10,000 members we probably would have to put mechanical, fixed rules in place.
GameFAQs is best thought of as having a target audience of about 10. Yes, you have to be 13 to form an account, but they moderate themselves such that a younger audience can look at anything on the site without an overly-wary parent raising alarms. In that context, they're considerably less moderated than might be expected, owing to the outdated nature of the site in terms of mechanics.
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At the same time, people should have some common sense. The Internet has done a real fucking number on our generation to the point where some people no longer realize- I cannot stress this enough- that maybe a business is going to avoid helping you raise money to fund tentacle rape porn.
American culture, when it defines what's obscene, really focuses on the visual. That's why trashy romance novels, which are filled with all manner of bodice-ripping rape and sexual slavery, can be sold in major bookstores without anyone so much as raising an eyebrow. So it's not that surprising to me they thought this would work: they didn't show anyone's naughty bits, and that's usually all you need to do to get past the censors, no matter how awful your actual ideas are. (unless god forbid you swear.)
On a completely unrelated note:
Arizona AG sends Hawaii request to prove Obama was born there, to ensure he's qualified to be on the ballot. Hawaii responds with request for AG to prove he is who he says he is, and for copies of the Arizona laws saying the AG is responsible for ensuring candidates on ballots are qualified.
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/05/arizona_ken_bennett_obama_birth_certificate_birther.php
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Long-form Trolling courtesy of the Hawaii Board of Health.
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/05/ken_bennett_birther_hawaii_arizona_emails.php?ref=fpa
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That is an amazing picture of Bennett.
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Christian gays think they deserve the same rights as others, told by college "...we don't need to modernize or bend our biblically based position on sexual ethics." (http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/24/11833663-underground-gay-group-emerges-shaking-evangelical-christian-college?lite)
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Alexis Hughes, a biblical studies major, said the gay group’s anonymity is telling. "Obviously, if it's underground, they know it’s wrong and on some level they know they shouldn't be doing it."
(http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/4830/emotughh.gif)
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(http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/4830/emotughh.gif)
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http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/2012/05/30/nc-makes-sea-level-rise-illegal/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihLBCbNIDbI&feature=player_embedded
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So does this go in this thread or the football thread? (http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nfl--sources--new-orleans-saints-kept-a--ledger--detailing-weekly-earnings-in-bounty-scandal.html;_ylt=AtMZ1OUnYLBQ.ugwVTEDlZ1DubYF)
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IotD. Holy shit, disband the entire Saints organization. They kept a *LEDGER?*
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I like that they outlined what Cart Offs and Whacks are but don't even explain whatever the fuck a "Mental error" is.
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Keeping a ledger?
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http://www.amazon.com/Murder-City-Ciudad-Economys-Killing/product-reviews/1568584490/ref=cm_cr_dp_see_all_btm?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending
I normally don't post youtube comments/amazon reviews, but GMB Arkangel's comment was too amazingly bad to pass up on.
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http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/ncf/story/_/id/8056698/ex-usc-trojans-star-safety-kevin-ellison-says-god-drove-arson
And now we have comic IotD. GOD TOLD HIM TO BURN DOWN HIS APARTMENT WITH A BLUNT
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Oh man.
Guys. This could take a while. You've probably read some of the background before but bear with me.
This (http://www.funnyjunk.com) is FunnyJunk. It's kind of like YouTube for funny images, which means people post a lot of copyrighted stuff there without permission. A year ago, (http://theoatmeal.com/blog/funnyjunk) Matthew Inman, who does the comic/blog/thing The Oatmeal, got pissed off that almost everything he's ever done was posted to the site without attribution and wrote a blog post about it. There was some Internet pissing back and forth (http://theoatmeal.com/blog/funnyjunk2) but at least some of his comics got taken off FJ as a result.
That was last summer. Last week, he gets this letter from FJ's lawyer (http://theoatmeal.com/blog/funnyjunk_letter). The gist of it: "We took some of your pictures off our site, so you have to delete the blog post you wrote before that happened, or we'll sue you for defamation. Oh, and give us $20,000." Inman writes a great response about how stupid this is, and then starts an IndieGoGo fundraiser to collect $20,000 - which he will send to the National Wildlife Federation and American Cancer Society. FJ's lawyer won't get any of the money, but he will get a picture of the money. And a comic that depicts his mother trying to have sex with a bear.
For some reason the lawyer in question was not happy about this, and started whining about how people are being mean to him on the Internet now that they know he's a complete douchebag. So Friday, he sued everybody. (http://www.popehat.com/2012/06/17/the-oatmeal-v-funnyjunk-part-iv-charles-carreon-sues-everybody/) "Everybody" meaning Matthew Inman (for saying mean things about him), IndieGoGo (for helping Matthew Inman raise money while saying mean things), and, I swear to God, The American Cancer Society and National Wildlife Federation.
And that's why my brain is dribbling out my ears.
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And people complain about Taunts in MMOs being unrealistic. See? You CAN goad people into going completely batshit.
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Lawyer blogs are having a field day with that one, Shale. Here's the complaint (http://www.loweringthebar.net/2012/06/carreon-v-the-oatmeal.html), if you want little light reading.
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Apple, being Apple and doing everything Steve Jobs thought was right.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/06/20/155440206/no-ipads-or-iphones-for-you-apple-store-clerk-tells-iranians
I'm interested in Farsi speakers sharing several phrases, that way non-Iranians would flood Apple's sterile white-cubed stores to speak Farsi and refuse to speak English.
O ya. Thx GA. *thumbs up*
Alpharetta's fuckin' racist anyway. I don't go there much for obvious reasons extending beyond non-English languages.
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http://www.myfoxny.com/story/18847568/denver-neighborhood-bans-children-from-drawing-chalk-art-on-sidewalk
HOAs: Always awful.
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And somehow, even on an issue that seemingly everyone agrees on, the comments on the story manage to match the story itself for stupidity.
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HOAs: Always awful.
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http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/loch-ness-monster-used-debunk-evolution-state-funded-190816504.html
I sometimes will post a short blurb about the stupid in an article. This wonderful piece deserves no blurb, as it should be read to appreciate the majesty of the idiocy on display.
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Wait. How does that even disprove evolution?
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It's like the education equivalent of the Chewbacca defense.
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It's like the education equivalent of the Chewbacca defense.
I was thinking the exact same thing. High five!
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/27/texas-republican-party-2012-platform-education_n_1632097.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/27/texas-republican-party-2012-platform-education_n_1632097.html)
"We oppose teaching critical thinking in schools. It will prevent us from indoctrinating our children because they might think for themselves." -The Texas Republican Party.
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aw man, you beat me to it!
they also want to repeal the "Voter Rights Act" [sic]
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Is it too late to get a refund on Texas?
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Hey, don't look at me, I just live there. <_< >_>
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aw man, you beat me to it!
they also want to repeal the "Voter Rights Act" [sic]
Also: the US should reject the UN Resolution on the Rights of Children and publish a constitutional amendment in favor of "the rights of parents."
Translation: we want to physically abuse our children.
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Whatever program you're using to translate from nutso must be off. That translates to "home school." None of that silly evolution claptrap!
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http://entertainment.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/09/12642955-ted-nugents-drummer-flees-police-in-golf-cart
At least this is funny dumb rather than just dumb.
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http://deadspin.com/5928385/i-hope-u-all-fuckin-die-and-other-reasoned-measured-responses-to-the-ncaas-penn-state-punishment
I have no idea what the original news story is, or how reasonable the NCAA punishment was, but these are still claw-your-eyes out level bad.
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http://deadspin.com/5928385/i-hope-u-all-****in-die-and-other-reasoned-measured-responses-to-the-ncaas-penn-state-punishment
I have no idea what the original news story is, or how reasonable the NCAA punishment was, but these are still claw-your-eyes out level bad.
Are you implying that you somehow have avoided knowing about the huge story at Penn State that gets major coverage on everything from CNN to the BBC World News Service which has been ongoing since November?
The NCAA punishment is gigantic, but necessary. Penn State is like a crazy cult of personality around Paterno and football. People's reactions reminded me of people in Germany finding out about the Holocaust right after WW2, where their most common reaction was "If only the Fuhrer knew, he would have done something." They literally cannot wrap their minds around the idea that Joe Paterno thought winning football games and keeping his school's image clean was more important than stopping child rape. The only way to undo that is to demolish the program. Penn State is only under sanctions for 5 years but judging by what happened to SMU, they may never recover, and that's not even taking into account how much harder it will be for them to recruit now that their school is famous around the world for facilitating a sexual predator fucking young boys.
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Are you implying that you somehow have avoided knowing about the huge story at Penn State that gets major coverage on everything from CNN to the BBC World News Service which has been ongoing since November?
um yes?
Working 12 hour days, plus saturdays, and soon to be plus sundays as well. Not exactly aware of the news right now.
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I blame this on you reading Kotaku. Fix that.
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I blame this on you reading Kotaku. Fix that.
I...don't. People link me to kotaku sometimes, and sometimes I pass the link on.
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http://www.comicsalliance.com/2012/07/18/rush-limbaugh-dark-knight-rises-bane-romney-bain-capital-batman/
I am late on this. I wish I had never seen it. The comments are amazing as well of course.
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http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57484704-503544/congressman-links-contraception-mandate-to-9-11-pearl-harbor-day/
Good rule of thumb for politicians: Any type you are going to compare an issue to 9-11 or Pearl Harbor, use this handy guide first to make sure you don't look like an idiot!
Super's guide to not coming off as a total dumbass for politicians and other lower forms of life:
1. Does a state of war exist with the United States and another country due to this action? As an attachment, did this action cost a serious loss of life? If Y, make the comparison. If N, see 2.
2. Did this action cause billions of dollars in damage, cause a radical shift in US policy and bring terrorism to the forefront of society? If Y, make the comparison. If N, see 3. Due to the nebulous nature of terrorism, it can be difficult to accurately gauge if something fits here perfectly. Please use restraint and as always, 3 is there to cover your back at worst.
3. SHUT THE FUCK UP AND STOP TRYING CHIC FIL A/ABORTION/THE US SOCIAL NET/SPACE ALIENS/YOUR PET ISSUE INTO A GODDAMN NATIONAL TRAGEDY.
4. Any and all attempts to ignore this guide will result in you being classified as Excors American politicus and treated as such.
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I'm kind of confused. They specifically made an exception for religious institutions as well. So is the problem that as a Christian manage at Wal-Mart you have to make an exception?
I mean, strictly speaking, isn't paying employees who can use said money for contraception the same thing anyway?
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Going out of pocket is a lot more expensive than having insurance that covers it. Plus how can they punish the sex-havers this way?
Religious freedom = being able to force people who don't believe in your imaginary sky friend to follow the myths of bronze-age sheep herders.
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http://storify.com/redtani/anti-rh-think-weather-is-god-s-punishment-for-the
"god's punishing you for disagreeing with us!"
/me shoots self
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Because there have never been notable floods before. Ever.
That, and I'm pretty sure America remains a more notable flood target.
Also, doesn't God specifically not intervene anymore or something? I could swear there is a reason that we don't get old school, awesome, medieval miracles anymore. My memory may be failing me, though.
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http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/filipino-bishops-warn-that-reproductive-health-bill-first-step-toward-legal/
“It is therefore quite disturbing when the country is told that having too many children is a burden to the national budget,” the Cebu archbishop said, noting, “There is a grave reason to worry when the government would rather suppress the population through the RH Bill instead of confronting the real causes of poverty.”
Look at the God-forsaken figures and then tell me with a straight face that having more children won't posit an additional burden to the national budget. Why are people so insistent on deluding themselves? It's baffling.
“We are battling against contraception because we know it can harm your soul. Believe me. Contraception harms your soul. Contraception is corruption,” Archbishop Villegas stated, adding, “Contraceptive pills teach us this ‘It is alright to have sex with someone provided you are safe from babies. Babies are a nuisance.’ A culture of contraception looks at babies as reasons for our poverty. Birth control, they say, means more food, more classrooms, more houses and better health for mothers. If more babies are the cause of poverty, are we now saying, ‘No more children means no more hardship?’”
nice logical leap there archbishop
Archbishop Villegas concluded his plea to Filipino youth by reiterating that “Contraception is corruption. Contraception is the mother of abortion. Contraception makes sex pleasure cheap without responsibility. Contraception says babies and children are annoying. Contraception is contra youth. Contraception is contra children. Contraception is against us.” He noted incisively, “There is no Tagalog or Pangasinan word for contraception because it is not only ungodly, it is also unFilipino.”
:fail:
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http://www.desmogblog.com/who-needs-scientists-when-you%E2%80%99ve-got-james-inhofe
For realz. No one knows more about climate science than an old crazy senator.
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http://www.news-journal.com/news/local/lawsuit-claims-black-sacker-ban-from-big-sandy-grocery-store/article_211e8217-acdf-5489-8915-8f6cc7900470.html
DeWitt R. Thomas filed a federal lawsuit in July against Keith Langston, owner of Two Rivers Grocery & Market.
According to the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Tyler, Thomas entered the market on March 5 to buy food.
He stated in a nine-page, hand-written lawsuit that he told the grocery sacker, a black man, “Wait a minute, don’t touch my groceries. I can’t have someone negroidal touch my food. It’s against my creed.”
(snip)
When Thomas returned two days later, he noticed the same black man would be sacking his groceries, so he again requested the “Negro” not handle his groceries, according to the lawsuit.
This time, Langston was there. He called police to serve Thomas a criminal trespass warning. While waiting for the police, an employee locked the doors, and the lawsuit claims Thomas was “unlawfully restrained.”
(snip)
Thomas said he doesn’t understand why he had to deal with the same situation twice.
“My question is, why after I told them how I felt and that it was against my creed did this negroid try to impress himself upon me and try to handle my groceries again.” Thomas said.
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http://www.channelfireball.com/home/announcement-regarding-tristan-shaun-gregson/ (http://www.channelfireball.com/home/announcement-regarding-tristan-shaun-gregson/)
So for some context here, Channel Fireball is one of the big Magic The Gathering sites out there, they have a card store and put up a lot of articles and videos of MTGOnline drafts and sponsor/are comprised of several of the world's top players. They differentiated themselves from other such sites by guaranteeing all their content would always be free (other major sites usually charge a subscription of some sort for immediate access to articles and stuff), making A LOT of both informative and entertainment videos, and explicitly working on their reputation as Awesome Nice People instead of Snooty Tournament Grinders. They are not THE largest or most trafficked site, and their card store is not the biggest or smoothest operation out there (that would be Star City Games on all counts), but they are unquestionably the most beloved by the community and were doing quite well for themselves.
Tristan Shaun Gregson, while not a top tier pro player himself, ran their card store, was their Cube format expert and produced and appeared in most of their weekly video series. So today this happened, and nobody knows what the heck. From a community perspective, this is like hearing Bob Barker stole a set of Plinko prizes and fled to Mexico. It is just bizarre. He stole cards, from his own store, that he ran, and sold them on an Ebay/Paypal account registered to his name. Neither the store nor TSG himself were in any financial trouble, as far as anyone can tell. He was doing quite well and had a great reputation, both working and personal, with the rest of the site and the community at large. The stolen sum is not even all that large, $1000-1500 or so at most.
Just... what.
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Bizarre behavior like that makes me think drug addiction.
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http://www.naturalnews.com/032372_science_consciousness.html
"Do you now understand how these core, distorted beliefs of the scientific community are evil in nature? They are diabolical. They deny the value of you and everyone else as a living, conscious being. This is why science offers the perfect pretext for genocidal crimes against humanity. This is why the Nazi war machine and its IG Farben chemical experiments on Jews were all carried out in the name of science. This is why “science” can give us atomic weapons, GMOs, population control vaccines, mass chemical poisoning and the rampant destruction of our world — because science is based on an empty, mindless, soulless philosophy that denies our conscious existence."
Watch the fuck out guys, I am going to do experiments to drain your non-existent souls out of your body.
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The only way that could be more ironic than being hosted on an internet blog is if it also ended with
Sent from my iPhone while also not dying of smallpox
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Indeed!
The comments on that article are pretty unbelievable as well. Did you know that because the leading scientist producing country in the early-20th century also produced Hilter that scientists are evil? Yeah, me neither.
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I suppose the large number of scientists fleeing Germany during the 1930's was just a migration to begin insidiously corrupting America. If only we'd known we could have turned away all of them and the only consequence would have been nuclear weapons being used against London and New York! A small price to pay for our souls!
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It would have been exactly like in Captain America, if Weapon I hadn't gone down and Steve Rogers was still a frightening man-skeleton trying to fight a different frightening man-skeleton.
EXACTLY LIKE THAT. Except in the montage, it would be US getting shot with Nazi lasers.
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I always hate the "Hitler was one of those atheist/scientific evils, even though he cited religion as his main cause for everything" argument, but this just takes it one step further. :(
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Psh, what has science ever done for us?
TV off.
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http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/1179846-Lady-Gaga-s-bodyguard-quot-hits-quot-a-fan
Thread talking about how a fan had a fanboy moment and charged Lady GaGa and was taken down by a bodyguard.
Cue lots of "aaaaaaand?" posts, then surdenly Godwin's Law troll pops up and ALL VIOlENCE EVER IS WRONG people show up. Apparently Celebrities should just be happy to have fans at all and Bodyguards should let random people charge at them.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/aug/22/george-galloway-sacked-holyrood-rape?newsfeed=true
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This site's pretty overly-liberal, but the quotes are enough to highlight the idiocy the article exaggerates:
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/08/23/limbaugh-obama-made-up-tropical-storm-to-disrupt-gop-convention-mocks-hurricane-katrina-audio/
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Today's idiot, old people! Enough to horrify the art historians in the crowd.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/119195-Helpful-Old-Lady-Ruins-200-Year-Old-Portrait
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http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/08/24/rnc-official-says-nm-governor-disrespected-custer-by-meeting-american-indians-130958
I can't even begin to fathom what this guy was thinking, what made him jump to George Custer specifically or why in God's name he felt the urge to share. But the HRC lawyer did get in a pretty awesome burn, so it's not all bad.
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Of all the things to criticize Susanna Martinez on, this is easily the funniest.
Hopefully this will reflect so badly on the RNC that she'll get booted out come election time, and we can get all the things she was fucking up back. Like buses that run on a reasonably frequent schedule.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/29/father-benedict-groeschel-teens-seduce-priests_n_1840900.html
...I.. I don't even know what to say here.
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Debate from a suitably objective stand point with significant enough distance to make a reasonable well considered argument on the act of child molestation between a member of the Catholic Priesthood and a teenagers.
If you go back 10 or 15 years ago with different sexual difficulties — except for rape or violence — it was very rarely brought as a civil crime.
It's been close to decade since an investigation into clergy sex abuse cases by The Boston Globe unearthed a shocking scandal and cover-up that rocked the foundations of the Catholic Church in the U.S. and around the world.
Until people started getting called out on raping kids barely anyone called them out on raping kids!
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http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2012-09-05/news/bs-md-co-lamdin-20120905_1_judge-bruce-s-lamdin-domestic-violence-white-marsh-woman
What a perfect ass. I actually bothered to listen to the linked audio ( http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-county/bal-audio-hearing-before-judge-bruce-lamdin-20120905,0,2159417.mp3file ) and this is a guy who, since he's a judge, has not had people slap him like they frankly should. He seems utterly convinced that a pretty open & shut domestic abuse case is totally a case of a mooching wife who is either lying or is okay with the abuse (as evidenced by the fact she stayed with her husband some time) and why don't you just go live in a shelter and stop harassing your fine husband and trying to get me to do something, as if that will change your life, which haha it can't. It's especially stupid because this is a forward-looking hearing - even if hypothetically she should have left him soon, she's trying to do it now, you ass, so why are you raking her over the coals and trying to use this as evidence that things clearly aren't all that bad or that the problems are her fault.
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"You allow money to control your better judgment, because it's the easy way out."
"That's not it at all!"
"Then why would you go back then?"
"Because I was in school -"
"You didn't have any money and went back and lived with him because he was paying the bills!"
"He doesn't pay all the -"
"Then why'd you go back?"
(snip tearful explanation where she points out that she still feels sorry for her husband, that he has brain damage and PTD, was hoping things would get better, etc.)
"Ma'am, I'm trying not to be the least bit disrespectful to you, but you have to listen to yourself. If you choose to put yourself in this position in this relationship - for whatever reason - you choose to do it! Now you're asking me to put the gentleman out of his house and you think this piece of paper is some - catch-all, be-all."
(more snip)
"Out of his house? Isn't it our house? I'm his wife?"
"It's his house."
"That's not what the police said."
"Ma'am I don't care what the police said. The police don't control me."
(snip)
"You're troubling yourself. Because you're uninformed."
(snip)
"The problem is - I have to apply the FACTS."
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That's a goddamn lot of penis dangling.
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Seriously. It seems as if the facts aren't in question, so why the judge would even be reluctant to grant a restraining order is beyond me.
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https://twitter.com/BryanJFischer/status/248416095982190593
This particular argument against gay rights/(bisexual rights in this case) has always irked me so much. There is an ocean of difference between TWO ADULTS HAVING SEX WITH CONSENT and adults having sex with animals and children. This is such a strawman and I have heard this idiotic argument entirely too much both IRL and online.
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Also nicely segues into inane rape analogy.
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The way he phrased it, he almost sounds hopeful.
"What's next? Pedophile Pride Day? Bestiality Pride Day? Lemme mark my calendar..." Kindly fuck off, Bryan Fischer~
I'm just kinda assuming he's some kind of clergyman, as spending any extra time learning about him is already on my "Never gonna waste time on this" List.
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Boston: a little piece of the racist South way up north.
http://cognoscenti.wbur.org/2012/09/25/os-gemeos-fox-25-medvedow (http://cognoscenti.wbur.org/2012/09/25/os-gemeos-fox-25-medvedow)
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You know you're linking a local Boston news organization, right?
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Unfortunately I didn't feel like digging up the exact local Boston station so I used what was handy.
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http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/elnino/faq.html#iceberg
I like how this question (#20) is common enough that they put a specific answer in the FAQ. Between keeping an iceberg cool and actually digging it out and hauling it to the equator... and it would probably be a disaster even if it wasn't stupidly expensive and time-consuming to pull off. The article itself is pretty cool if you are interested in climate studies, but this question just made me burst into laughter when I read it.
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Boston: a little piece of the racist South way up north.
Hey, our local Fox affiliate is no more or less racist than everyone else's.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/02/todd-akin-abortion-providers_n_1934305.html
Headdesk.
Headdesk.
Headdesk.
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My favorite comment:
"Akin has an intellect surpassed only by leafy green vegetables and hubcaps."
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My favorite comment:
"Akin has an intellect surpassed only by leafy green vegetables and hubcaps."
The furniture in my room feels offended by this.
also jim why do you hate us here -and- on facebook
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also jim why do you hate us here -and- on facebook
It's politics season. My hate cup runneth over.
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despair
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http://gawker.com/5949544/arkansas-state-rep-slavery-may-actually-have-been-a-blessing-in-disguise-for-blacks
Really, the title says it all.
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http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/2012/10/08/jerry-sandusky-releases-chilling-audio-address-denies-everything
Ew ew ew ew ew!
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/12/roger-rivard-wisconsin-republicans-rape_n_1961124.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
You know what I would love? Not to be posting this. But a politician said it, and now I need to share it. Sorry/You're welcome.
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I swear I'm sending you back to your mom for recalibration.
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http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/1215311-Bolvar
Hey guys if only people understood that Everquest and FF11 didn't go far enough!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I never understood how FF11 has a player base. Those people's lives must be so pathetically empty even by the standards of people who still like final fantasy if that is their idea of fun.
Also: they post on MMO-Champ, of course they are stupid. That place is like a u-trap.
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More proof that if you have to ask if something is weird, it is (http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3514212)
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#TryingToLinkToSomethingAwfulTopicsThatYouNeedToRegisterFor
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I can never keep track of where the paywall is anymore.
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It's a thread about some dude who pisses in bottles instead of going to the bathroom at night, you're not missing much beyond nerds on the internet being disgusting.
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More specifically, it's a dude asking if it is weird to do that, and losing his shit when people say yes.
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http://boingboing.net/2012/10/30/heckuva-job-brownierdq.html
Warning: unsafe levels of unintentional irony.
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http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/11/09/navy-seals-busted-for-giving-secrets-to-make-video-game-more-real/?hpt=hp_t3
Facepalm*10
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But on the bright side that oughta be one hell of a game.
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http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/11/09/navy-seals-busted-for-giving-secrets-to-make-video-game-more-real/?hpt=hp_t3
Facepalm*10
I'm pretty sure there must be a proper channel to get that kind of information, because there's this little game called "America's Army" which does consult openly with the military on a regular basis. So...either EA didn't go through the correct channels, or the officers didn't correctly get permission from their superiors before consulting. But yeah, there's definitely more to this story, because military consulting with videogame company is...not even uncommon.
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From what I gathered, the folks didn't get permission before consulting.
Which somehow makes me wonder if this is a statement about military paygrades.
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MC:
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The work, done around the late spring and early summer, was unauthorized by their commanders and against military regulations according to the Navy official
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http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/11/09/navy-seals-busted-for-giving-secrets-to-make-video-game-more-real/?hpt=hp_t3
Facepalm*10
I'm pretty sure there must be a proper channel to get that kind of information, because there's this little game called "America's Army" which does consult openly with the military on a regular basis. So...either EA didn't go through the correct channels, or the officers didn't correctly get permission from their superiors before consulting. But yeah, there's definitely more to this story, because military consulting with videogame company is...not even uncommon.
AA is actually bankrolled by USDoD. It's more than just consultation. That could be a whole other matter, because the contract between the DoD and the company responsible for coding AA might include some wording of consultation rights being awarded to them, which means they might have breached that contract on behalf of the Army.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/19/us-crime-cocaine-halloween-idUSBRE8AI0S320121119?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FoddlyEnoughNews+%28Reuters+Oddly+Enough%29
whoops.
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I think my state has an early front-runner for stupidest Black Friday shopper (http://www.lowellsun.com/breakingnews/ci_22052609/police-black-friday-shopper-left-2-year-old).
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dammit, Springfield!
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2012/11/25/toronto-ford-conflict-case-decision-release.html
IOTD: Canada edition.
Ford testified in court in September, revealing that he had never read the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act he has now been found to have violated, nor the handbook given to city councillors that spells out the rules for declaring conflicts.
Not exactly the defense you want to use when you are the mayor. It's worth noting that the vote which he participated in which he had a conflict of interest in was on whether he would have to pay back $3,000 from his charity that he was ordered to pay back...because of a conflict of interest.
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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/12/06/texas-burglary-suspect-calls-11-on-homeowner-with-gun/?intcmp=trending
*Facepalm*
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/radley-balko/the-police-state-comes-to_b_2321878.html
So unconstitutional it makes my brain hurt.
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How very Fear Factory of them. Also love the recurring theme there. Being outside in a neighbourhood is probable cause lolololol you only are scared of armed police with lots of power if you have something to hide. Fear of armed police with lots of power is a suspicious activity.
Is there really a whole culture of people that really think this kind of shit? How sheltered does your life have to be if "Only the guilty have something to hide, so you shouldn't be afraid to tell us anything" is something you really believe?
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You know what kind of people think that way. Same group of people who think that minorities are disproportionately poor because blacks are lazy and Mexicans are thieves, and that if you're not rich you should have worked harder.
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Speaking of which... (http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/12/nra-propaganda-shootings-newtown)
(scroll to the bottom if you want maximum stupid)
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(http://www.motherjones.com/files/NRA-vigilant-dad.jpg)
How the fuck do you even get a car to crash like that?
Edit - (http://www.motherjones.com/files/NRA-gangs.jpg)
I see they also appreciate the art style in GTA: San Andreas. Grove Street 4 life.
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It's not 2012 anymore holy crap oh my God.
www.buzzfeed.com/mattbellassai/45-people-you-wont-believe-actually-exist-6z51
(Spoiler: There are only 42.)
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http://www.themillions.com/2014/01/dumbest-thing-ever-scribbling-in-the-margins-of-dan-browns-inferno.html
Not the article, but a fun read of people just tearing into terrible books.