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Social Forums => General Chat => Topic started by: Shale on January 05, 2015, 01:04:21 PM
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Let's kick off the year right: with Super torture.
http://www.talking-time.net/showpost.php?p=1885619&postcount=46849
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I NEED TO PLAY THIS. THIS MAY BE THE LANGFANDOOD VERSION OF DER LANGRISSER FOR ME.
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There are plenty of things I would do to rebalance GE (rune cost on certain monsters, making some Rune Knights usable and not questbait, making certain skills more useful, having the option to get higher level monsters for more rune points or whatever the hell they're called), but I wouldn't include that in a straight translation patch. Looks like he nerfed Meteor Doom and changed what monsters/classes get them. Lots of people would be playing GE for the first time using this patch, so it's a bit of a shame that this is their first exposure to it.
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Whoever did that translation patch: kindly fuck right off, thanks a lot!
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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/charles-payne-racist-meme-mistake
Moron. This is what #blackbrunch REALLY looked like:
(http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/files/2014/06/jump-the-shark.jpg)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SlrKIE5H0s#t=184
Fox News has tips for us ladies on how to snag a man.
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I thought you would be happy with advice be to be a giver and not a receiver?
Edit - Oh and all the vomiting you will do from listening to this will strip those Holiday pounds right off!
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As a menu translation, the Brigandine GE patch is actually okay. It has the original font for the regular Brigandine Knights but uses a weird more angular font for everything else. The other text in cutscenes looks kind of ugly and hard to read and the script itself is filled with minor typos, which is a shame. The monsters come with unique names, which wasn't a feature of the patch but one of GE, but it does make a bit of a difference in terms of personalizing your army.
I feel like he changed the names of some castles for some reason but I haven't played the English version of Brig in forever so I can't comment on whether they really were switched. Witches are now Vixens and Cai is now a Runeweaver, Devils are now "Imps", hellhounds are now "Garmrs," so the translator being a Christian and not wanting any hellish/Satanic imagery is really showing through (and the Missing Link thing is really funny). I feel like the translation itself is kind of awkward, like the dude's first language may not be English. Also yeah, he changed the Silence spell to Dumb (literally making you too stupid to cast spells), which really is dumb. I'll continue on with this. I don't think this will take too many liberties with the actual story translation but we'll see. I haven't gone far enough to see the gameplay changes, but if Meteor Doom is really like a 155 power fire spell now that is super lame.
(http://i.imgur.com/bsGtdr5.png)
THAT FONT. MY EYES.
(http://i.imgur.com/TFZ6WSs.png)
Very strange translation, derisive does not mean what he thinks it does.
(http://i.imgur.com/aPRWG4C.png)
I knew Imps were racist!
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2015/01/07/after-charlie-hebdo-attack-u-s-catholic-group-says-cartoonists-provoked-slaughter/?tid=hpModule_04941f10-8a79-11e2-98d9-3012c1cd8d1e&hpid=z10
Bill Donahue, go fuck yourself.
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/01/bitcoin-investor-who-renounced-us-citizenship-now-cant-get-back-in/
That sound you hear is high fives emanating from the US embassy.
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http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2015/01/don-lemon-isis
2015 shaping up to be a special year.
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It felt like Don Lemon has had a horrific public gaffe for every single major news story of the last year. It is shocking he still has a job.
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Also yeah, he changed the Silence spell to Dumb (literally making you too stupid to cast spells), which really is dumb. I'll continue on with this.
Actually, an archaic meaning of the word dumb is unable to speak. If you think this guy isn't a native speaker, then it wouldn't surprise me that he might use a technically correct word that wouldn't carry the connotation he's looking for to a native speaker.
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Well, the spell description says something to the effect of making your mind hazy and slower such that you can't cast spells, so it really felt like it was using the dumb (stupid definition) as if it were a verb. A Lisa Simpson-esque dumbening, if you will.
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I was going to say the same thing Excal did (with more dick jokes), but I guess that was giving credit where it wasn't due.
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Oh...
Welp, never mind then. That's pretty dumb.
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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/kentucky-newspaper-prank-cops-shoot-minorities
IOTD, You Had One Job dept.
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As someone currently in an editing position with a newspaper, I'm going to say the temptation to do things like that is always there.
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Every time I respond to an adversary's testimony, I have to resist this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4bftQ4xxFc).
(Mostly I'm responding in writing so it's easier to not do, but god damn do I want to.)
Bonus fun fact: I have been accused of fraud by an adversary. In writing, no less! Had a great response written out, but never got a chance to use it because his pleading was rejected by the court, because he is an idiot.
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http://www.mediaite.com/online/ultra-orthodox-jewish-newspaper-edits-female-world-leaders-out-of-charlie-hebdo-march/
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http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/george-lucas-on-oscarssowhite-its-not-just-the-show-its-hollywood?postId=602684&socialTitle&utm_campaign=vrl&utm_content=379-option-b&utm_medium=fnpg-hitfix&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_term=1421635222147731 (http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/george-lucas-on-oscarssowhite-its-not-just-the-show-its-hollywood?postId=602684&socialTitle&utm_campaign=vrl&utm_content=379-option-b&utm_medium=fnpg-hitfix&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_term=1421635222147731)
Not for what is said, but who said it. George, you don't get to have Jar-Jar do a minstrel show and have a race of Chinese stereotypes and then tell people they're being racist if you don't acknowledge you dragged out some 1940s era shit and threw it up on screen.
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Fox news has been crazier than usual lately as it said that Birmingham (Second biggest English city) is 100% muslim and that Chariah applies in some zones in Paris and some other really dumb stuff. Paris decided to sue.
I wonder, why haven't more people sued Fox for spreading BS? Is this really hard under US law?
BTW Pope Francis went from Decent Enough Pope to Worst Pope as he literally said the West are like nazis for spreading birth control to poor countries. (I don't have a link yet but I've seen him say the words on TV)
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Worst Pope is a pretty tall order when there's an actual Serial Rapist Pope and Pirate Pope on the books. (Amazingly these are not the same person.)
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Wait why didn't I know about a Pirate Pope and why hasn't he appeared in a videogame already?
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I'm sure Pirate Pope will be in a currently developing Assassin's Creed game that will not work at launch.
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Yeah. He'll somehow be the protagonist, the final boss and Mata Hari all at once.
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The fact that the Catholic Church opposes Birth Control isn't really news, they've opposed it since the 70s.
I wonder, why haven't more people sued Fox for spreading BS? Is this really hard under US law?
Yes. Before NotMiki beats me to the link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times_Co._v._Sullivan
This is probably good because it avoids MSNBC getting sued for claiming global warming is real, etc.
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The fact that the Catholic Church opposes Birth Control isn't really news, they've opposed it since the 70s.
Definitely, but there was no ridiculous nazi comparisons coming from the pope (who's supposed to be a little reasonable) before. This is not a 12 years old posting on Gamefaqs, this is the pope.
Can't believe his rabbit quote is catching on in the news instead of this.
I wonder, why haven't more people sued Fox for spreading BS? Is this really hard under US law?
Yes. Before NotMiki beats me to the link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times_Co._v._Sullivan
This is probably good because it avoids MSNBC getting sued for claiming global warming is real, etc.
Thanks.
I'm not sure it's really good but w/e. This and global warming feel like something different alltogether. There's a scientific consensus about global warming being real, while Fox is saying plain wrong things any fact checking department would notice.
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I'm not sure it's really good but w/e. This and global warming feel like something different alltogether. There's a scientific consensus about global warming being real
Lol. You say that like it affects how people in power in the US behave.
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Every other AC game goes pretty well, so there's a 50/50 chance.
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http://io9.com/80-of-americans-support-mandatory-labels-on-foods-cont-1680277802
80% of people polled want mandatory DNA labels on foods.
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Setting aside the basic biology fail (if your food doesn't have ANY DNA, why the fuck are you eating it that means it isn't alive), people get pretty dumb about this shit in general.
There are absolutely good and valid reasons to require certain types of genetically modified food to be labelled. For starters, modern frequency of food allergies being what they are, you do need to know if, oh, your rice has carrot genes in there so it's got vitamin a (real thing they did in china to combat, uh, rural blindness). But just because something is nominally a GMO doesn't make it dangerous. The definition of the term is sufficiently broad that 100% of living cows are actually GMOs. Selective breeding going predating recorded history baby. The way people get worked up about them in general is amazingly ignorant.
Though god knows I've been tempted to go to protests against Monsanto. Those fucks are supervillains.
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The discussion re: the framing of the question that comes up is quite interesting, as are the linked articles.
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Fenrir: But people who say 99.98% the right thing will get jumped on for the 0.02% that's wrong, and the party in power - which won't always be Democrats - will totally jump on them for that if allowed.
There was a really stupid media hubbub in conservative web circles about Neil DeGrasse Tyson a few months back. Apparently he mis-remembered / misquoted George W. Bush on something. Somehow the fact that the liberal media wasn't blaring TYSON BIG BLACK LIAR showed the LIBRUL COVERUP at work. The fact this happened a few weeks after Tyson made some comments on global warming, and the magazine hyping this the most is well-known for attacking anyone who dares suggest global warming is real, is obviously a coincidence. The general point is that they would say Tyson said something "plain wrong that any fact-checking would notice."
Luther Lansfeld: The study for that was pretty crap. There are all sorts of tricks if you want to *intentionally* get a stupid result on a study, I think they lined up marking DNA in the middle of a bunch of other things you were expected to mindlessly click yes to on an Internet survey with no consequences. This isn't well-known for getting careful, analytic thought out of people, but rather quick gut "move along" answers.
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The discussion re: the framing of the question that comes up is quite interesting, as are the linked articles.
I think, as much as anything, that the point of the survey is that, yes, you can get people to approve of a lot of things if you make it sound reasonable, so citing a poll of the public as an argument for something that they don't know much about (scary-sounding science words and the like) isn't really a very sound tactic, even if it's appealing. If this were a real poll trying to advocate for real policy, we should take it with a grain of salt.
(I debated whether to post this here or in Misc. Links but since I twitched when I read it I just decided to put it here. >_>)
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The discussion re: the framing of the question that comes up is quite interesting, as are the linked articles.
I think, as much as anything, that the point of the survey is that, yes, you can get people to approve of a lot of things if you make it sound reasonable, so citing a poll of the public as an argument for something that they don't know much about (scary-sounding science words and the like) isn't really a very sound tactic, even if it's appealing. If this were a real poll trying to advocate for real policy, we should take it with a grain of salt.
(I debated whether to post this here or in Misc. Links but since I twitched when I read it I just decided to put it here. >_>)
You mean like US politics?
(http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view6/3611555/andrew-dice-clay-oh-o.gif)
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The optimistic part of my brain already tried to push that thought out of my head earlier today. <_<
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I want all my fucking food to be superfood. I want to replace all the genes in my body I don't like with genes I do, and I want all the body parts I don't like replaced with cyborg parts that give me godlike powers. Fuck all of you who aren't with this, you'll be the peasantry that toils in caves to support superior people like me. I'm going to be a golden god.
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I want all my fucking food to be superfood. I want to replace all the genes in my body I don't like with genes I do, and I want all the body parts I don't like replaced with cyborg parts that give me godlike powers. Fuck all of you who aren't with this, you'll be the peasantry that toils in caves to support superior people like me. I'm going to be a golden god.
Right. Same old Rob Schubert. You look good, Nick.
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I want all my fucking food to be superfood. I want to replace all the genes in my body I don't like with genes I do, and I want all the body parts I don't like replaced with cyborg parts that give me godlike powers. Fuck all of you who aren't with this, you'll be the peasantry that toils in caves to support superior people like me. I'm going to be a golden god.
Maaaaaybe he shid lay off tha dayiss ecks.
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I want all my fucking food to be superfood. I want to replace all the genes in my body I don't like with genes I do, and I want all the body parts I don't like replaced with cyborg parts that give me godlike powers. Fuck all of you who aren't with this, you'll be the peasantry that toils in caves to support superior people like me. I'm going to be a golden god.
He asked for this.
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I mean let's be clear, the line of dialogues where Adam Jensen is all whiny about being a superpowered cyborg are pretty asinine.
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It saved his life and enabled him to hunt down and murder everyone who did this to him. If they wanted him to be uncomfortable he probably should have been racist against augs in the first scene.
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Fortunately it's pretty easy to make him not be a whiny baby. The magic of dialogue-tree games.
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(http://www.nerfnow.com/img/1475/2372.png)
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http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/jan/27/stuart-broad-minimum-wage-england-humble
rich people
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http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/01/27/counter-strike-global-offensive-match-fixing/#more-265889
protip: if you are going to throw a match to make teh moneyz maaaaaaybe you should request payment in something OTHER THAN in-game currency?
rich people
cost of living how does it work.
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http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/01/not-a-very-pc-thing-to-say.html (http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/01/not-a-very-pc-thing-to-say.html)
College professor gives anti-abortion protestors exactly the reaction they wanted, takes it a step further and escalates things to the physical. Forgets that "it TRIGGERED me!" is something people say on Tumblr and not an actual legal ground for self-defense.
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Chait has been getting a lot of shit from mainstream liberals of the non-caricature variety (your Slates and TPMs and what have you) over writing this. Can't say I blame them. Examples of actual intimidation and violence aside, he seems to fall into the idea that free speech means putting up with bullshit. Oh how dare those college protesters influence their school to disinvite Bill Maher as a speaker. How dare they! Boo hoo! Those protesters and their words! They should have let him show up and gladhand the president of the school and get his honorary degree and give the administration a nice photo op to show the donors and oh yeah fart out some bullshit 15 minute monologue about how great he is. How dare they use the occasion of his invitation as a springboard to express their values. How dare they accomplish their objective using the power of speech!
Free speech is the right to say what you want to say and not get thrown in jail for it. That's it. If your newspaper editor fires you because he thinks you're an asshole, tough shit. Maybe you should have done a bit better at office politicking. A column isn't a license to say whatever you feel like and not be criticized for it. Go start a blog.
p.s. Not disputing your point. That person is a moron.
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Chait has been getting a lot of shit from mainstream liberals of the non-caricature variety (your Slates and TPMs and what have you) over writing this. Can't say I blame them. Examples of actual intimidation and violence aside, he seems to fall into the idea that free speech means putting up with bullshit.
Sure, and when there is *actual* bullshit afoot, fine. However, the point is that members of the far-left are attacking people for *non-bullshit* on specious reasoning, and defense of yourself / defending others is only seen as further evidence of your culpability, like in bad Mafia games. As someone who also supports their aims (usually), there can be no more counterproductive stance to take, and it's important to fight back. Merely because somebody CLAIMS that Stephen Colbert making a joke (http://thediplomat.com/2014/03/colbert-under-fire-for-anti-asian-joke/) (at the Redskins expense, a deserving target!) means he's racist against Asians doesn't mean it's true, as anyone with half a brain could tell by watching the clip. However, there are definitely people who assume that because 1 person got offended = whoever said something first MUST have been wrong.
For another example not from Chait's article, there was a conference for women computer scientists a few months back. Great. Lack of women in CS is as usual a major concern, and there's a lot to be done to improve the gender balance there. However, there are a lot of ideas on how to do it. Anyway, there was a panel for "male allies" or the like with a bunch of important CS executives, but somehow somebody said the wrong thing and someone got offended, so it was shouted down as an example of "mansplaining" and the participants were forced to sit through a "listening session" where they merely heard complaints from women in computer science rather than try to give advice. Now, I don't know what exactly was said. It's possible it was totally worthless corporate blather. But this is still a bad precedent, since even if they had "wrong" advice, the correct thing is to argue against that line of thought, rather than decree the person bad for even giving it. These are executives who voluntarily came to your conference to support it; they are probably not the enemy! Why the circular firing squad?! This is a great way to discourage broaching any ideas that don't already have 100% consensus behind them, or that aren't meaningless feel-good nonsense. Bah, depressing. (Of course, I'm sure the answer from some would be "well if they were offended, then we don't want their help anyway." Lovely.)
Of course, to some degree, this is nothing new, the far-left has always inherently been incredibly self-destructive and spends most of its time fighting itself since the 1960s, but it's worth calling it out occasionally. (It'd be nice if they weren't, but as an alternative fantasy, I wished the far-right turned their looniness similarly inward - like, crazed arguments over whether the UN's black helicopters coming to take away our guns will have Chinese pilots or Vietnamese pilots, and the other side is clearly freedom-hating for daring question the obvious truth that it's Chinese pilots.)
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Relatedly, this is the exact point at which you can stop trusting Chait:
Rosin, a self-identified feminist, has found herself unexpectedly assailed by feminist critics, who found her message of long-term female empowerment complacent and insufficiently concerned with the continuing reality of sexism.
Because honestly, if there is anything more expected than the sun rising in the east it is that one branch of feminism will be attacked by another branch of feminism.
And I agree it's worth calling out the far left from time to time, but the piece reads more like derision for certain liberal viewpoints than productive criticism. Ok some feminist writer got mercilessly mocked on twitter by other feminists. What, exactly, is supposed to be wrong about that? The only conclusion I can come up with is that Chait agrees with the writer and so would like her critics to shut up. But the substance of their complaints is perfectly reasonable (I base this on what I imagine the content of a book called "The End of Men" must be, and if I'm wrong, she needs to pick a new title).
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The amount of obsessive nitpicking over minor offenses (or created offenses) drove me absolutely batty when I started trying to follow feminists on Twitter, so I deleted my account >_>. In fact, people praising the Colbert-is-racist-against-Asian-people girl is part of the reason I did this! The amount of mental gymnastics that one must do to conclude that she was correct in her assessment is beyond my comprehension. Naturally, if you believe this, you are just a white privileged asshole who thinks that Asian people don't understand satire.
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I don't know if Twitter is the best platform to get complex ideas across in the first place.
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The amount of obsessive nitpicking over minor offenses (or created offenses) drove me absolutely batty
These people are academics first and feminists second, so you have to guide yourself accordingly.
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http://esports.garena.ph/newsArticle.php?contentid=00000600&cat=NEWS&subcat=LEAGUE+OF+LEGENDS
Garena starts all female LoL league.
Teams are limited to 1 LGBT member because... uh... I... um...
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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/thom-tillis-washing-hands-toilet
Is there an emoticon for slamming one's head into one's desk? I could use it. Oh I could use it.
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There's the :bang: emote over on Something Awful. Would that be close enough?
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http://esports.garena.ph/newsArticle.php?contentid=00000600&cat=NEWS&subcat=LEAGUE+OF+LEGENDS
Garena starts all female LoL league.
Teams are limited to 1 LGBT member because... uh... I... um...
The 1 trans woman / team limit is super offensive
But the 1 lesbian /team limit is really hilarious
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Where do you stand on the one lesbian or one trans limit per team?
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To elaborate I think they just wanted to limit the number of trans women for a number of possible reasons (they're all dumb and offensive) : Avoiding a Fallon Fox like situation (lol e-sports), not risking having total cis dudes (strawmen) enter the competition and declare they're women for 2 hours just to participate, trying to make the competition sexier.
And since they know literally 0 things about this subject they just lumped lesbians with transwomen for no other reason I can think of than the known label about transwomen being "LGBT". This is just really funny to me since LoL is supposed to be the biggest thing and they can do something as ignorant as this.
So you can't even have two cis lesbian lovers in the same team "because they might have unfair advantage"
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Garena isn't Riot. They run League of Legends in parts of Asia, but also run their own competitor knock-off MOBAs, so it's super-weird and Riot might have been drunk when they hired them.
Also classy, this Garena promotion:
http://i.imgur.com/lxHvH9L.jpg
"I'm so sorry, Darius, I'm a bad girl for strangling you to death. Won't you forgive me?!"
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Snow: Probably just have the infrastructure to do stuff. I feel like a lot of games end up running through the same companies out that way?
As a brief update, part of the issue may be one of poor translation (re: the lesbian thing). Supposedly the "gay" in this context refers to "bakla" which is neither a male nor female designation. No actual confirmation.
Still weird regardless.
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Speaking of weird, though.
http://www.avclub.com/article/frozen-hurting-boys-self-esteem-fox-host-who-has-o-214796 (http://www.avclub.com/article/frozen-hurting-boys-self-esteem-fox-host-who-has-o-214796)
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Along the same lines as Andy's...
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ark-encounter-kentucky-discrimination-suit
;_;
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I... how do they not implode from hypocrisy?
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In real estate, blowing a $15m hole in your financing because you can't agree to not be an asshole pretty much counts as imploding. They'll never attract another investor, and their current ones are assuredly weighing the feasibility of pulling out. (Yeah, I know that's not what you mean. But it makes me feel better to say it.)
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http://imgur.com/83dPzKP
That moment when the owner of "A Voice for Men" retweets the Onion, not understanding the joke.
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So my racist uncle approvingly posted a supposed statement from a school superintendent from rural Quebec refusing to take pork off of the menu to accommodate Muslims, blah blah blah this is a Christian nation and Muslims who come to it need to assimilate or gtfo.
So I told him (and all his FB friends) that rural Quebecois hate English speakers who refuse to learn French a lot more than they hate Muslims. JFC learn some context. Not everyone who hates A-rabs is your friend, asshole.
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So my racist uncle approvingly posted a supposed statement from a school superintendent from rural Quebec refusing to take pork off of the menu to accommodate Muslims, blah blah blah this is a Christian nation and Muslims who come to it need to assimilate or gtfo.
So I told him (and all his FB friends) that rural Quebecois hate English speakers who refuse to learn French a lot more than they hate Muslims. JFC learn some context. Not everyone who hates A-rabs is your friend, asshole.
They also really, really hate Americans. Like...English Canadians with poor French are not well-liked, sure, but Americans? LOL
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Good to know. I woulda figured it's like Montreal, where they dislike English-only Canadians but love Americans and their tourismbux.
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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/daily-caller-article-headline-kill-all-jews
Another entry in the annals of poor editing choices. Notable that there's no indication this is a joke.
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I dunno. I kinda get what the title was aiming for? I predicted the contents of the article, at least.
That said. Still prolly needed some editorial attention.
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prolly
ya.
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2015/02/lenovo_superfish_scandal_why_it_s_one_of_the_worst_consumer_computing_screw.html
IotD: Lenovo edition. There are more technical articles out there about this, but I like the tone in this one: righteous, blinding rage. Entirely warranted, of course.
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What in the actual fuck. I really like their hardware, but I guess I need to weigh up on going back to asus next upgrade.
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http://www.buzzfeed.com/katiejmbaker/college-professor-bans-student-from-class-for-his-views-on-r#.twaErnOdr (http://www.buzzfeed.com/katiejmbaker/college-professor-bans-student-from-class-for-his-views-on-r#.twaErnOdr)
TL;DR: Guy has controversial opinions in required first year humanities class over at Reed. Focuses them on people made uncomfortable by them. When asked to stop, he decides to become even mouthier. Eventually Prof boots him because the other students were starting to be unable to focus or learn properly while this guy was mouthing off.
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http://www.buzzfeed.com/katiejmbaker/college-professor-bans-student-from-class-for-his-views-on-r#.twaErnOdr (http://www.buzzfeed.com/katiejmbaker/college-professor-bans-student-from-class-for-his-views-on-r#.twaErnOdr)
TL;DR: Guy has controversial opinions in required first year humanities class over at Reed. Focuses them on people made uncomfortable by them. When asked to stop, he decides to become even mouthier. Eventually Prof boots him because the other students were starting to be unable to focus or learn properly while this guy was mouthing off.
To piggyback on this, once you have one repulsive opinion, you probably have so many more:
http://www.mediaite.com/online/this-story-about-reed-college-kid-banned-for-challenging-rape-stats-just-got-really-weird/
EDIT: Oh yeah this guy is the worst:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/24/rape-culture-troll-threatens-reed-college.html
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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/phil-robertson-rape-murder-atheists
This dude ain't right.
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this is what happens when you are never around people who disagree with you, are a gigantic asshole, and your brains have seeped out of your head via your ZZ Top beard.
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I sure am glad that all atheists also don't believe on morality because that is literally what religion is about.
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Courtesy of Ashley
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/03/25/man-loses-job-after-punching-colleague-in-face_n_6940474.html?1427303245
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Courtesy of Ashley
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/03/25/man-loses-job-after-punching-colleague-in-face_n_6940474.html?1427303245
Sadly, neither Clarkson acting like a violent ass nor TopGear fans acting like insufferable, horrible shits are really surprising. At least the BBC did the right thing.
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http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/cyberbullyings-got-new-target-big-companies-n331656
I guess if corporations are people, they can also be cyberbullied. So super sad. :(
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Man wins free buffet trips for life.
Man gets banned from hotel which hosts buffet for harassing female employees.
Man writes 270-paged, indexed letter to newspaper, complimented with photos and DVDs, then kills himself. (http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/las-vegas/suicide-m-resort-blamed-loss-free-buffet-life)
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He won a life time supply and cut him off. He had no more life any more.
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And yet he still had the drive to index his 270-page suicide letter and cross-reference audio/video components. That's more work than I'm putting into my goddamn thesis.
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Hey, buffet was VERY important to him!
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Speaking of entitlement and incandescent rage, here's a Brony getting mad that Hasbro isn't marketing My Little Pony to it's "true" audience.
https://youtu.be/GEAOMJTLajc (https://youtu.be/GEAOMJTLajc)
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Despite liking them sometimes, I feel VLOGs are about the worst (not actually all that bad) thing the internet has enabled.
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Speaking of entitlement and incandescent rage, here's a Brony getting mad that Hasbro isn't marketing My Little Pony to it's "true" audience.
https://youtu.be/GEAOMJTLajc (https://youtu.be/GEAOMJTLajc)
Oh god, that entire video.
He gets angry at the implication that Twilight Sparkle likes books. Seriously?
"Hasbro, you're never going to make any money unless you understand your core audience" (followed by 5 seconds later) "Anyway, go buy it, it's still fun."
Not only that, but the business model isn't exactly new. I know a lot of much older folk who watched Powerpuff girls; it was a good show. If I actually saw someone with powerpuff girl merchandise though? Like a lunchbox or a backpack? Chances are it was a girl under the age of 7.
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http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2015/04/09/south_carolina_we_can_discriminate_against_women_so_why_not_gays.html
South Carolina: there is no constitutional right to gay marriage because states should be allowed to treat women as property and deny them fundamental rights reserved for people.
You think I'm kidding, don't you.
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The Civil War didn't go far enough. Atlanta is the only decent place in Georgia and it's also the only one we completely leveled. Discuss.
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As I understand the history of Atlanta, it didn't become a cool city until after it held the Olympics in the 90s. (Grew by about 10x at that point, with people immigrating from cool places).
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Some would argue that it is still not a cool city.
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I'm not going to go on a big I AM A HISTORIAN tear about the history of Atlanta, Reconstruction and the idea of the New South that it embodies (and was the entirety of for a while) but I will say I didn't say anything about coolness and set the bar far, far lower than that at the level of basic decency.
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http://imgur.com/bvRXC3h
Apples:oranges to an amazing degree, also choice link specifically to make Fenrirs Mad and Sad.
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Is this some new GamerGate bullshit?
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Of course it is. (http://comicsalliance.com/honey-badger-radio-calgary-expo/)
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Speaking of, I found this:
http://matthewhopkinsnews.com/?p=1407
I really, really could not tell that if it was a joke (drinking the tears of leftists?) but they do have that Milo idiot there.
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um.
http://www.boston.com/news/2015/04/30/peer-reviewer-rejects-journal-article-because-wasn-written-man/tHNo8WaBK5vtJeDuTlXL6M/story.html?p1=feature_pri_hp
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i thought about posting that but then decided that there is some stupid no one needs to know about
so dumb
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Yeah that was pretty shit. PLOS One is fraught with issues for a number of reasons, and it was not very well regarded even before all this happened (people use it as a CV filler because it has a low rejection rate and as such it lets in a bunch of terrible stuff). There are some good things that get published in it but the signal to noise ratio is pretty terrible. Famously there were fraudulent papers with made up data that have gotten in before.
There was also a recent study that came out that claimed no evidence of sexism in STEM fields, which was really horribly done but is contributing to a troubling attitude about the state of diversity in science:
http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2015/04/no_sexist_hiring_in_stem_fields_a_vaunted_new_study_makes_that_claim_unconvincingly.html
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http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/05/04/failed-christian-shoe-promoter-makes-anti-gay-first-person-shooter/
This qualifies.
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What the hell.
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Oh yeah, that. Jim Fucking Sterling Son did a video on that one where he starts off literally speechless as he showed some video of it before tearing into Steam for letting it onto Greenlight. That thing is pretty fucking disturbing.
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It's from a somewhat established developer; they just threw this together quickly; it's not their main project.
Aaaand now their main project is going down with the ship. Several voice actors on their primary game have asked that their vocals be removed from the project.
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It's from a somewhat established developer; they just threw this together quickly; it's not their main project.
Aaaand now their main project is going down with the ship. Several voice actors on their primary game have asked that their vocals be removed from the project.
Salt the earth, baby.
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I normally try not to dwell on things that turn up in this topic, but wow what a toolbox. In short:
-Guy wants to demonstrate how people who are "slightly homophobic" are unjustly persecuted by others who do not tolerate their intolerance.
-Guy decides to prove this by making deliberately crude and inflammatory videogame.
-Guy is now hated by everyone.
Mission accomplished? If "slightly homophobic" is most aptly demonstrated by murdering the everloving shit out of everyone who differs from his own personal definition of normal sexuality, I am not sure what we could infer represents to him an extreme position.
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I think it's part of this weird misunderstanding of free speech and censorship where this type of GGer/MRA/whatever feel that they should be able to say whatever they want without incurring any consequences and when there are consequences ("SJWs" hating them or people in general repudiating them) they feel like people end up "self-censoring?" So I guess that was the point of this stunt?
And if you do anything of the sort and there are consequences, some people think that you are beholden to the gay lobby.
http://i.imgur.com/TPzPBOJ.png
I didn't think it was physically possible to unironically type the words "big gay" without bursting into uncontrollable fits of laughter.
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The trick is that a startling amount of people have no grasp of irony.
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Homosexual Lobby is a pretty good name for a bar.
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Homosexual Lobby is a pretty good name for a bar.
Grefter I will take you to the Homosexual Lobby any time you want to go with me. *waggles eyebrows*
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Meet me at The Sailors Closet.
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But the real question is will you find yourself able to please the Homosexual Lobby?
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how do I politics
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/05/carly-fiorina-campaign-debt-senate-2016
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That is how you be fiscally responsible. Don't pay for things until people pry it from your clutch. If they wanted to get paid they would have chosen to work for someone with morals.
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Look, this is America, where anyone can become a millionaire by virtue of hard work and never paying anyone you aren't compelled to pay by court order or bad press during your senate campaign.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mathew-rodriguez/is-discrimination-on-grindr-killing-gay-sex_b_4558989.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mathew-rodriguez/is-discrimination-on-grindr-killing-gay-sex_b_4558989.html)
"Why are people searching for a casual fuck concerned with superficial attributes?"
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Wow that may be the most naive thing I have ever read. With just a touch of hypocritical whining.
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Tumblr's leaking with that article, yes. The author is an insufferable shit. Does he seriously not get why people wouldn't want to date someone with HIV? It just comes off as totally self involved whining.
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Tumblr's leaking with that article, yes.
It is full of porn gifs? Because that is largely what Tumblr is used for.
Don't let the stupid internet tell you that Tumblr is just for one thing. It is a bunch of self selecting communities for anything you really want. The only reason you hear about "SJW" stuff on there is because there is people that actively seek out to hate follow it and be fuck heads.
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The SJW types on tumblr get attention because they are fucking insane. If you're unironically using the world ableism, it's time to unplug the computer and do something else with your life.
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Just remember: ableism is the belief that to do something, you must be able to do it and not just want to be accepted as someone who has done it. And if you don't want to fuck a giant hambeast of a woman or someone with HIV you are a monster.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mathew-rodriguez/is-discrimination-on-grindr-killing-gay-sex_b_4558989.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mathew-rodriguez/is-discrimination-on-grindr-killing-gay-sex_b_4558989.html)
"Why are people searching for a casual fuck concerned with superficial attributes?"
Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha x1 million.
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The SJW types on tumblr get attention because they are fucking insane. If you're unironically using the world ableism, it's time to unplug the computer and do something else with your life.
And if you build an entire community up around making fun of teenagers being excessive you might need to rethink what you are investing your time in.
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Presented (http://abovethelaw.com/2015/05/god-sues-homosexuals-in-nebraska-god-has-terrible-grammar/)
with (http://abovethelaw.com/2015/05/important-practice-pointers-for-homophobic-pro-se-litigants/)
out (http://abovethelaw.com/2015/05/surprisingly-lawsuit-against-all-homosexuals-summarily-dismissed/)
comment (http://abovethelaw.com/2015/05/federal-judge-wonders-if-dismissal-triggered-the-apocalypse/)
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There's a lot of stupid geopolitics stuff out there, but this one is impressive. Is this author literally on drugs?
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/22/opinion/calm-down-isis-isnt-winning.html
* ISIS conquering cities "was a sign of desperation, not strength."
* "There is even a silver lining in the fall of Ramadi. Before last week, many Iraqi leaders seemed to have forgotten that the Islamic State was still a threat and failed to give credit to those doing the most to resist it.... Ramadi has ended their complacency."
Yeah, and I guess a building burning down might make people take fire safety seriously, just like a drought makes people end their complacency about conserving water. Silver lining! Too freaking late! The VietCong are on the verge of collapse!
Is the author aware of the fact that when the Islamic State conquers cities, they execute anyone around vaguely sympathetic to the old order? And those people don't magically come back? Even if you don't give a fig for their lives, from a purely calculating standpoint it makes running the city & area harder even if it was to be reconquered tomorrow. Which it won't be.
Also "arming the tribes is a crucial priority". Apparently the author hasn't read about how most of IS's equipment is hijacked American supplies meant for the troops supposed to be fighting them, but abandoned after they are forced to retreat.
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If you're unironically using the world ableism, it's time to unplug the computer and do something else with your life.
Wow, super, that's a pretty amazingly stupid thing to say.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ableism
Until the 1970s, ableism in the United States was often codified into law. For example, in many jurisdictions, so-called "ugly laws" barred people from appearing in public if they had diseases or disfigurements that were considered unsightly.
The federal Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988 prohibits housing discrimination on the basis of disability and requires that newly constructed multi-family housing meet certain access guidelines while requiring landlords to allow disabled persons to modify existing dwellings for accessibility.
Ableism and activism around it has existed since before you were born.
Like...are you actually genuinely angry that there is braille is sometimes offered as an alternative for blind people? Are you pissed at people like me who add captions to videogames so that deaf people can still play? What about when I add colourblind modes? And if so........why?
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Yes he absolutely was raging against Braille. Way to beat up that straw man MC.
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There is a damnably persistent strain of ultra-liberals who specialize in taking offense where none is meant, and protecting against theoretical evils that go unnoticed by their supposed victims. A guy I know once tore into someone for using the phrase "stand up for your rights," because of course standing up is not something that everyone can do and using it in that context is ableism at its worst. I wish I were making that up. I am a proud liberal, and that motherfucker is a living, breathing right-wing caricature of everything I stand for.
The ADA is one of the best laws ever created, and I unwaveringly support it. But ableism as a word stands more for a lunatic fringe of offense-seekers more than it stands for a bedrock principle of antidiscrimination.
(see also, the phrase "check your privilege," which takes a critically important idea and reduces it to a toxic sound byte. If someone tells me that I should consider that my perspective is influenced by my position as a straight white male, I will say that's a perfectly valid point. If someone tells me to check my privilege, I will say "go fuck yourself.")
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Ableism sure looks a lot like feminism a few years ago, re: People's reactions to it.
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If it's ableist to not want to fuck people I'm not attracted to then sign me up.
There is a damnably persistent strain of ultra-liberals who specialize in taking offense where none is meant, and protecting against theoretical evils that go unnoticed by their supposed victims. A guy I know once tore into someone for using the phrase "stand up for your rights," because of course standing up is not something that everyone can do and using it in that context is ableism at its worst. I wish I were making that up. I am a proud liberal, and that motherfucker is a living, breathing right-wing caricature of everything I stand for.
The ADA is one of the best laws ever created, and I unwaveringly support it. But ableism as a word stands more for a lunatic fringe of offense-seekers more than it stands for a bedrock principle of antidiscrimination.
(see also, the phrase "check your privilege," which takes a critically important idea and reduces it to a toxic sound byte. If someone tells me that I should consider that my perspective is influenced by my position as a straight white male, I will say that's a perfectly valid point. If someone tells me to check my privilege, I will say "go fuck yourself.")
That's the economy of disability in a nutshell. If you're a white middle class person you need to come up with new boxes to put yourself in and new things to get offended about otherwise you're not special.
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The term can be used by people that Jim describes, and I agree that such people deserve no sympathy. Yet mc is correct to make the comments she did in response to "If you're unironically using the world ableism, it's time to unplug the computer and do something else with your life", because it's also quite possible to use the word reasonably, too.
edit: And no, Rob, that's not "ableist" in the slightest and nobody reasonble would argue that it is. I'm not sure you're in a position to accuse others of beating up a straw man.
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I know I have read articles that trend in the direction Rob describes, but it is all user contributions. So amateur writers that may not even be communicating their actual intent (someone may be trying say that people should be accepting that someone might find any one attractive and that we maybe shouldn't default to going "ewes grooooosssssss to fat/old people having sex for example).
Pretending that is actually representative of a large demographic or somehow poisons progressive ideologies is mad fallacious though bros.
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There is a damnably persistent strain of ultra-liberals who specialize in taking offense where none is meant, and protecting against theoretical evils that go unnoticed by their supposed victims. A guy I know once tore into someone for using the phrase "stand up for your rights," because of course standing up is not something that everyone can do and using it in that context is ableism at its worst. I wish I were making that up. I am a proud liberal, and that motherfucker is a living, breathing right-wing caricature of everything I stand for.
The ADA is one of the best laws ever created, and I unwaveringly support it. But ableism as a word stands more for a lunatic fringe of offense-seekers more than it stands for a bedrock principle of antidiscrimination.
(see also, the phrase "check your privilege," which takes a critically important idea and reduces it to a toxic sound byte. If someone tells me that I should consider that my perspective is influenced by my position as a straight white male, I will say that's a perfectly valid point. If someone tells me to check my privilege, I will say "go fuck yourself.")
This states how I feel (Minus the whole being proudly liberal part) pretty aptly,l so I will quote this and agree. And MC: I'm not going to touch that argument because yeah strawman, but the specific article that started this was a really dumb post from a blogger who took offense that someone on a casual sex site would only want to have sex with people they found attractive. And yes, anyone who takes offense to someone who doesn't want to have casual sex with an HIV positive person is an idiot of the highest order and completely self absorbed to boot.
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Ableism sure looks a lot like feminism a few years ago, re: People's reactions to it.
I think there's a pretty clear distinction between ableism and feminism: feminism is the name of a movement, the members of whom take on the label feminist as a description of the work they do and the goal they want to acheive. Ableism is a term for a kind of discrimination. No one identifies as an ableist. It is a term used exclusively to criticize other people. It is a sledgehammer of a term for a concept that should be approached with a great deal of nuance. There's nothing inherently toxic about the term feminism but I don't think that will ever be the case with the term ableism.
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There's nothing inherently toxic about the term ableism either, unless you also feel that there's something inherently toxic about the terms sexism and racism (which, in the sense that they label behaviour we consider unpleasant, sure you're correct, but I don't think that's what you meant). So I do see where Fenrir is coming from that people are ascribing toxicity to folks using the term based on an obnoxious minority, and that's a very problematic thing to do.
Privilege is similar. It's a very important concept, and I'm not going to stop using the term "privilege" to describe that concept even if some obnoxious fuckwits overuse it, and would resent any implication that the term is inherently toxic because of said fuckwits. (And let's please not act like said fuckwits are a bigger problem than the broad social issues they bring up; insulting them is too often a cover to discredit anyone who argues for social justice.)
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There is a damnably persistent strain of ultra-liberals who specialize in taking offense where none is meant, and protecting against theoretical evils that go unnoticed by their supposed victims. A guy I know once tore into someone for using the phrase "stand up for your rights," because of course standing up is not something that everyone can do and using it in that context is ableism at its worst. I wish I were making that up. I am a proud liberal, and that motherfucker is a living, breathing right-wing caricature of everything I stand for.
The ADA is one of the best laws ever created, and I unwaveringly support it. But ableism as a word stands more for a lunatic fringe of offense-seekers more than it stands for a bedrock principle of antidiscrimination.
(see also, the phrase "check your privilege," which takes a critically important idea and reduces it to a toxic sound byte. If someone tells me that I should consider that my perspective is influenced by my position as a straight white male, I will say that's a perfectly valid point. If someone tells me to check my privilege, I will say "go fuck yourself.")
So....you're supportive of the concepts, but just hate the words because there are some people out there who have misused the terms? Even if a large number of the people who use the terms do so in a reasonable way?
I suppose I consider that irrational behavior. Don't get me wrong, it's an emotional response on your part, and emotions are valid. If there's some words that provoke a negative emotional reaction in you, then I can endeavor to not use those words around you. I just...wasn't expecting such a reaction I suppose?
And MC: I'm not going to touch that argument because yeah strawman, but the specific article...
Hadn't read the article (still haven't; sounds boring). I was responding to your post which made much wider generalizations about the use of the word ableism.
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there are some people out there who have misused the terms?
After a certain amount of "misuse" it just becomes "use." I'm in favor of "men's rights" in the abstract (as should everyone?), but the way that term is actually USED means I'm likely going to disagree with anything a "Men's Rights Activist" has to say. "Retarded" was once a nice, neutral clinical word to describe people insulted as idiots. After enough 'misuse' it just became another insult.
If abelism ever had a "legitimate" phase where it meant something useful about accommodations for the handicapped, that time has passed.
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there are some people out there who have misused the terms?
After a certain amount of "misuse" it just becomes "use." I'm in favor of "men's rights" in the abstract (as should everyone?), but the way that term is actually USED means I'm likely going to disagree with anything a "Men's Rights Activist" has to say. "Retarded" was once a nice, neutral clinical word to describe people insulted as idiots. After enough 'misuse' it just became another insult.
Agree that terms can be completely coopted by people not really fighting for perhaps the idealized meaning (as per men's rights).
"retarded" is an interesting case; hold on, going to look up the history on this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphemism#Disability_and_handicap
Idiot, imbecile, and moron were once neutral terms for a developmentally delayed adult with the mental age comparable to a toddler, preschooler, and primary school child, respectively.[17] In time, negative connotations tend to crowd out neutral ones, so the phrase mentally retarded was pressed into service to replace them.[18] This too was eventually considered pejorative and became commonly used as an insult. Today, terms such as mentally challenged, mentally disabled, with an intellectual disability, learning difficulties and special needs are used to replace the term retarded.
This, I think, will continue to churn through terminology, as people keep appropriating medical terms for "stupid". Like...Aspergers was recently replaced by "high functioning autism". Pretty sure I've started to see people use "special needs" as an insult as well--that one might be on its way out.
If abelism ever had a "legitimate" phase where it meant something useful about accommodations for the handicapped, that time has passed.
Eh? I see it used in legitimate cases quite often. Like...the biggest charity about accessibility in games literally calls themselves ablegamers
http://www.ablegamers.com/
And yes, I've seen them use the word ableism specifically.
I also see ableism used productively on some forums I visit. And...hell, I want to say I've seen it on game industry mailing lists. (Usually in the form of ground rules; i.e. "no sexism, racism, or ableism on this list.")
I dunno, I want to say 90% of the uses I see of the word are actually pretty legit.
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So....you're supportive of the concepts, but just hate the words because there are some people out there who have misused the terms? Even if a large number of the people who use the terms do so in a reasonable way?
Well... yes. Because in a social activism context, forming consensus, finding common goals, and making coalitions of different interests to affect change are the entire goal. Once terminology or phrases have become used to be exclusionary or are co opted as tools of derision? They are the precise opposite of helping. When a word for discrimination is more commonly associated with assclowns engaging in 4chan antics than legitimate use, it's hurting your cause to keep using it. When "check your privilege" is a tool to silence opinion rather than a reminder to expand discussion, you're alienating necessary allies. When people see the word "Feminism" on your website and immediately click away rather than reading on and finding themselves agreeing with you, the movement becomes stagnant and ineffective.
In other words, in this context the ability of a few assholes to alter the perception of words to the uninformed reader is a very big deal, and from sheer pragmatism must be addressed in some manner. And even here we see that for a group of (on average) highly educated and politically informed readers these distorted meanings can be the first ones called to mind. It's a pretty bad sign, y'know?
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So....you're supportive of the concepts, but just hate the words because there are some people out there who have misused the terms? Even if a large number of the people who use the terms do so in a reasonable way?
Well... yes. Because in a social activism context, forming consensus, finding common goals, and making coalitions of different interests to affect change are the entire goal. Once terminology or phrases have become used to be exclusionary or are co opted as tools of derision? They are the precise opposite of helping. When a word for discrimination is more commonly associated with assclowns engaging in 4chan antics than legitimate use, it's hurting your cause to keep using it. When "check your privilege" is a tool to silence opinion rather than a reminder to expand discussion, you're alienating necessary allies. When people see the word "Feminism" on your website and immediately click away rather than reading on and finding themselves agreeing with you, the movement becomes stagnant and ineffective.
In other words, in this context the ability of a few assholes to alter the perception of words to the uninformed reader is a very big deal, and from sheer pragmatism must be addressed in some manner. And even here we see that for a group of (on average) highly educated and politically informed readers these distorted meanings can be the first ones called to mind. It's a pretty bad sign, y'know?
Yeah, I can agree with most of this.
But I do think it depends a little on context, and target audience. Like...to use feminism as an example...if you're trying to convert non-believers, then sure, maybe don't use the word feminism. And there are websites that specifically re-branded themselves, changed their URL to hide the word feminism.
But at the same time, when I talk in women in games email lists, nobody is scared or bothered by the word feminism, so we just use it.
In terms of the idea of getting everyone everywhere to start using a new word for feminism that 4chan doesn't know about yet...that would be really hard. And there would be a danger too that any new word created would be percieved as just "trendy" or "politically correct" or whatever. Though sure, obviously new words can be adopted.
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There's nothing inherently toxic about the term ableism either, unless you also feel that there's something inherently toxic about the terms sexism and racism (which, in the sense that they label behaviour we consider unpleasant, sure you're correct, but I don't think that's what you meant). So I do see where Fenrir is coming from that people are ascribing toxicity to folks using the term based on an obnoxious minority, and that's a very problematic thing to do.
the term 'ableism' is reductive of a complex topic that 99% of the time ought not to be reduced. Unlike sexism and racism, when you talk about discrimination against the disabled, you are talking about what accommodations should or should not be made. Should Business X be obligated to spend $80,000 on a wheelchair ramp, Should Business X be allowed to exclude people with disability Y from consideration for position Z, etc. The reasonableness of accommodations for the disabled is a topic where rational minds may differ - it is very fact-specific. So my sense it that most of the time when someone hurls an accusation of ableism, they do so in bad faith - in other words they don't have very good evidence that the target of their scorn is discriminating for an invidious reason. Contrast that to racism - if you are discriminating on the basis of race and you're not casting a production of Othello, it is a virtual certainty that you are guilty of invidious discrimination.
It's noteworthy that 'ableism' is a very young term - if Google Trends is to be trusted, it did not come into widespread use until 2007 - and the term 'ableist' saw no use before 2010. So we're dealing with a small sample size here.
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I agree with pretty much all of that.
Interestingly, I was first introduced to the term in 2008, when I took a class on the inclusion and consideration of folks with disabilities (primarily learning and developmental disabilities, as you might guess). And some of the contexts in which the idea was introduced were certainly rather black-and-white ("reductive" if you will); our society's history of interactions with disabled people includes some rather appalling stories. Of course, most issues on the subject today are likely to be more nuanced (few argue for forced sterilisation of the mentally handicapped any more), and I certainly agree with it being a complex topic. To be perfectly honest I can't remember the last time I used the term myself. But as someone who has seen it used in a proper fashion, I'm going to stand by my resentment of Super's comment.
Snowfire: mmm, there's an obvious difference with men's rights. If someone told me, "I'm in favour of men's rights", I would not dismiss that argument or consider it a toxic term. There are, after all, some very valid discussions worth having on the subject, and "men's rights" remains the best label for that subject I'm aware of. It's the "Men's Rights Movement/Activism" (usually capitalised!) which is more of a banner for toxicity, and yeah if someone told me they were part of that they would immediately get on my "regard with suspicion" list. But I think it's fair to consider an organisation toxic. Terms I'm less sure of.
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Well the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is still around, but I'm not going to call a black man colored unless I want an ass-whupping.
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Yeah, that happens with old groups. NYSARC, for example (formerly the New York State Association for Retarded Citizens).
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I know I have read articles that trend in the direction Rob describes, but it is all user contributions. So amateur writers that may not even be communicating their actual intent (someone may be trying say that people should be accepting that someone might find any one attractive and that we maybe shouldn't default to going "ewes grooooosssssss to fat/old people having sex for example).
Pretending that is actually representative of a large demographic or somehow poisons progressive ideologies is mad fallacious though bros.
Interestingly, I was first introduced to the term in 2008, when I took a class on the inclusion and consideration of folks with disabilities (primarily learning and developmental disabilities, as you might guess). And some of the contexts in which the idea was introduced were certainly rather black-and-white ("reductive" if you will); our society's history of interactions with disabled people includes some rather appalling stories. Of course, most issues on the subject today are likely to be more nuanced (few argue for forced sterilisation of the mentally handicapped any more), and I certainly agree with it being a complex topic. To be perfectly honest I can't remember the last time I used the term myself. But as someone who has seen it used in a proper fashion, I'm going to stand by my resentment of Super's comment.
To tangent off this, as someone whose familiarity with the term does come from common discussion, my understanding what Ableism "means" is fairly different from what the technical definition actually is (though overlap does exist between the proper use and the use I'm familiar with). I'm way more inclined to think of "ableism" as being representative of the idea that thinking of individuals as handicapped/disabled is wrong, full stop. The sort of use where I am mortally insulting someone in a wheelchair or on crutches if I help them with a door or something.
THAT SAID, I feel this is more a consequence of what Grefter talks about up there. The wider public discussion on the subject (IME) seems to generally err on the side of dumb. I'm actually kinda stretching to think of a talk on ableism outside this one right here that has actually had... I'm stretching for a word here. Merit seems extreme? A conversation on ableism that did not amount to "Check Your Privilege!" rather than actually discussing historical/modern contexts or even the needs of handicapped individuals.
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It's noteworthy that 'ableism' is a very young term - if Google Trends is to be trusted, it did not come into widespread use until 2007 - and the term 'ableist' saw no use before 2010. So we're dealing with a small sample size here.
A few quick google searches suggest that it's older; this source claims 60s/70s:
http://nndr.no/ableism-and-ability-studies/
It's worth noting that Google Trends isn't everything; it doesn't go back before 2004, and the data from 2004 seems to be a bit spotty. Like...if we believe Google Trends, then Monica Lewinsky was most searched for in 2014/2015.
Although I'll agree I didn't know people who used the term ableism until relatively recently (within the past 12 months was my introduction). Then again, the subject was not really on my mind. I was more focused on stuff like homophobia (and had lots of facepalm-worthy conversations on the internet where someone insisted to me that they could not be homophobic because they didn't have a phobia of gay people......).
That said, suppose Google Trends is correct: the term was not in widespread use before 2007, which sounds possible. Well...we've already discussed how some older words (like "retarded") sometimes get abandoned, and newer terms need to be adopted. Maybe that's what happened here. Maybe there was an old term that was no longer really acceptable, and "ableism" IS the new term. Just a thought. (Again, obviously this isn't my first area of expertise).
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http://www.avclub.com/article/spider-man-should-be-snapchatting-edm-fan-accordin-218519 (http://www.avclub.com/article/spider-man-should-be-snapchatting-edm-fan-accordin-218519)
I think this was written by the executives who were responsible for making Poochy the Dog "20% more rasta-fied." The best example is unquestionably:
Millennials will often post “N.B.D.” on their social media after doing it , as in No Big Deal, also known as the “humble brag”.....wondering if Spidey could get into that in some way....he’s super athletic, bendy, strong, intense....and it’s all NBD to him, of course.
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http://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/04/there-is-no-victim-a-survey-of-iblp-literature-on-sexual-assault-and-abuse/
I fell into a hole reading about the Quiverful/ATI creeps today, and this is pretty much the worst. Not 'idiots' as much as scary, manipulative cultists.
http://www.recoveringgrace.org/media/Counseling_Sexual_Abuse-540x700.jpeg
4. Why did god let it happen? Maybe it was IMMODEST DRESS or being out with evil friends, great
6. If abused is not at fault-- seriously???
8 is also creepy as fuck. "No physical abuse or mighty in the spirit -- which would you choose?"
The story about Tamar at the end of the article is also pretty fucked up.
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Somehow, reading the article, the most distressing thing to me about it is that the author felt the need to write it. That this cult enjoys enough influence that people need to actually expend effort beating it down.
There was a Pew survey a couple weeks ago that showed that the number of people self-identifying as liberal in the US has grown to equal the number self-identifying as conservative for the first time in decades, if it has ever happened. The entire change came from folks who were already voting Democrat. I can't help but feel that that increased willingness to identify with being a liberal is a direct result of the Catholic clergy abuse scandal and the drip drip drip of incidences of sex abuse from the country's religious conservative groups. Also the losing battle conservatives fought on gay marriage. That the Christians that felt bad about not going to church every Sunday always assumed that the more conservative folks had a lock on morality that their secular peers lacked. I don't think they think that anymore.
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haha ok posting here because while I am fine with giving Elfboy shit basically anywhere, I probably shouldn't get in arguments with people I don't know on facebook... anyway Jim your family is just precious. "[Imperial units] are human life referenced"? "[Metric units are] just some geek's recent fabrication"? hahahahahahahahaha
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Shut your mouth or I'll add Brian again.
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That is a lot to deal with for the sake of spite, and I do believe you'll go through with the threat. Good man. My lips are sealed.
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haha ok posting here because while I am fine with giving Elfboy shit basically anywhere, I probably shouldn't get in arguments with people I don't know on facebook... anyway Jim your family is just precious. "[Imperial units] are human life referenced"? "[Metric units are] just some geek's recent fabrication"? hahahahahahahahaha
That means that his family is stealing talking points from Ann Coulter.
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Hey, even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Ok all I'm proving is that Ann Coulter is less accurate than a stopped clock...
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haha ok posting here because while I am fine with giving Elfboy shit basically anywhere, I probably shouldn't get in arguments with people I don't know on facebook... anyway Jim your family is just precious. "[Imperial units] are human life referenced"? "[Metric units are] just some geek's recent fabrication"? hahahahahahahahaha
That means that his family is stealing talking points from Ann Coulter.
Mmmph mmmrrmmnmphhmmmrnrmm mrmmmnmnmm
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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/bernie-sanders-diane-rehm-israel
So this happened. I am sure you are wondering why it happened.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/diane-rehm-bernie-sanders
This is why it happened.
Faith in Humanity -10
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http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jun/10/nobel-scientist-tim-hunt-female-scientists-cause-trouble-for-men-in-labs
You know, I've worked in labs with all kinds of gender distributions (3 men 2 women, 3 women 3 men, 3 men and me, 3 women and a man) and they have all been pretty close to universally harmonious. And certainly any lack of harmony was not due to girls crying or falling in love or whatever this dumb shit even is (lack of harmony due to being mistreated by the head researcher is a different story altogether). There are lots of problems with university science research, mostly in their reaping of cheap labor done by smart, educated people and holding people's degrees hostage because of a desire to continue to reap that cheap labor, but I'm pretty sure that icky girls being in the labs isn't the problem at all.
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Keep your cooties out of our biochem labs!!!
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http://time.com/3917390/science-chauvinism-sexism-tim-hunt-resigns-university-college-london/
"I'M REALLY SORRY I SAID ALL THOSE SEXIST THINGS (IN A ROOM OF JOURNALISTS)."
His whole explanation speaks to a lack of professionalism on his part. I guess winning a Nobel Prize isn't mutually exclusive with being an idiot.
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First: I know, I know, Ben Carson, low-hanging fruit.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/10/politics/carson-gay-rights-civil-rights/index.html
Second: he believes being gay is a choice because people "go into prison straight -- and when they come out, they're gay."
lol
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Ben Carson's myopia and lack of empathy make my head spin.
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These are all pretty terrible.
I really like this thing from Ciato's though:
(http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2015/24/1434048559-howtomakeanappealpage4.jpg)
Metal
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Satan is the Batarang that will rain destruction down on pedestrians.
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http://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20150305/boystown/chop-chop-chinaman-defaced-by-insulted-woman-but-restaurant-defends-name (http://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20150305/boystown/chop-chop-chinaman-defaced-by-insulted-woman-but-restaurant-defends-name)
It's like "but they say nigga in their raps!" but in reverse.
Also it's a Japanese person defacing the property of a Chinese person so that's true to form.
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Well you gotta remember that in America it's not like anyone can tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese.
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Well you gotta remember that in America it's not like anyone can tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese.
"Chinks is Chinks." - NotMiki 2015
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Well you gotta remember that in America it's not like anyone can tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese.
Just goes to show you that "half-Japanese" girl is actually 100% white because if there's one thing that Japanese people hate, it's being mistaken for Chinese, and vice versa.
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God damn you half-Japanese girls.
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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/pete-hegseth-jeff-prosperie-axe
Anyway posting this mostly for the novelty of posting about Fox News in IotD for reasons other than politics.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiibClEZ6Fo
Every part of this is gold
"I'm introducing a new term: The Gay Reich. I'm not saying that they're nazis"
Also , "Big Gay"? Really?
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Yeah, that guy is really heinous and his twitter makes several references to the gay lobby which he loves to call Big Gay. He is pretty much the worst.
http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/davidson/2015/06/23/forrest-statue-land-owner-fires-back-blocking-efforts/29161883/
http://www.tennessean.com/story/insession/2015/06/24/rachel-maddow-talks-interstate-65-nathan-bedford-forrest-statue/29209305/
Oh wait no this guy may be worse. This statue is of Nathan Bedford Forrest (Grand Wizard of the KKK) and it's a hideous fucking eyesore that you can see off the interstate. It's on private land and the owner claims that if the statue is blocked it will kill the tourism industry here (because I'm sure thousands of people come to make pilgrimages to see ugly ass statues of founding members of the KKK on the highway).
http://nashvillepublicradio.org/post/owner-i-65-nathan-bedford-forrest-statue-defiant-over-calls-block-view
Owner of the statue says that slavery was the first form of social security for black people. It was also good job security (...).
http://imgur.com/3hoVT9w
"If I'm racist why do I have so many blacks working for me?" Transplant this statement 160 years ago.
Nashville is getting better in a lot of ways but this drags it back about a million steps.
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A lone hero fighting against Big Black
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http://imgur.com/mwOcaC4
Big Gay
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Bigot tears are the best kind of tears
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https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3brf9s/i_am_rev_jesse_jackson_ama/
Fuck the Internet. Disagree with someone? Better be racist as fuck about it.
Edit - There is seriously someone in there calling out statements he made about Charleston shootings being the most traumatic shooting since MLK. The response being is it really any worse than Sandy Hook???
I dunno maybe possibly to a black reverend the shooting up of a black church hit is close to home?
BUT WHAT ABOUT WHITE PEOPLE?????
Just fucking gross.
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http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/05/tech-industry-diversity-jesse-jackson
happier Jesse Jackson-related news.
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https://www.reddit.com/
found your problem
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https://www.reddit.com/
found your problem
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quote author =Grefter
found your problem
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http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/04/us/texas-alligator-attack/index.html
*Facepalm*
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I would like to point out that he was from St. Louis. The Texans were the smart ones in the story!
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https://twitter.com/chaeronaea/status/618816214316380160
My daughter gasp got vaccinated without my consent! The horror.
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On that note, Jim Carrey can go fuck himself.
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The doctor penetrated her daughter without consent. That's literally rape!!!,!,!
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On that note, Jim Carrey can go fuck himself.
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The kid snuck out to get vaccinated on her own and paid for it with her own money. Gotta love it when the kids are smarter than the parents.
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The kid snuck out to get vaccinated on her own and paid for it with her own money. Gotta love it when the kids are smarter than the parents.
From the twitter, but I just loved it:
FUCK YOU DAD! *pays for own medical care*
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Speaking of anti-vaxers, a woman on medication that compromised her immune system died of measles this week here in Washington. She was exposed to an unvaccinated person with the disease in a hospital waiting room. These people should probably be put into one of those Terminator factories that produce stackable human skulls.
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http://m.motherjones.com/mojo/2015/07/obama-greeted-by-confederate-flags-oklahoma-city
Fdgfdhgdhhgmjymmyj
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"Confederate Lives Matter"
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"Confederate Lives Matter"
Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh.
::Copy and pastes the entire Civil War delusion part of Twin Peaks here::
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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/todd-courser-cindy-gamra-michigan
Amazing. The stupidest politician of 2015 isn't even running for president.
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Got a piece of stupidity. This was on the news all afternoon. I just have to sigh at this.
http://abc13.com/news/police-searching-for-suspects-inside-budweiser-plant/910846/
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/08/cops-filmed-behaving-badly-say-pot-shops-camera-illegally-recorded-raid/
So police raid a marijuana dispensary, destroy the security cameras, but miss one, smash a bunch of stuff, eat some (pot?) brownies, and now that the department is investigating them, they are claiming that their right to privacy was violated when they were recorded.
p.s. it wasn't.
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/08/man-accused-of-driving-stoned-takes-selfie-with-arresting-officer/
Just to even things out.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/3gcpkw/wrestling_is_no_longer_a_safe_space_for_men_sadly/ (https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/3gcpkw/wrestling_is_no_longer_a_safe_space_for_men_sadly/)
I would say stuff here but unfortunately nothing beats the second comment, "When professional wrestling is far too progressive for you, it means you are an irredeemable garbage person."
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You could just say "I went on reddit."
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*ahem*
loljets (http://deadspin.com/geno-smith-punched-by-teammate-out-6-10-weeks-1723397727)
p.s. read the comments.
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"This is the most Jets thing to happen this week"
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On a slightly less funny note, the dude who punches his teammates into the hospital gets picked up a day later by another team. wat. I can't imagine morale will be high in the locker room there?
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Well Geno Smith actually threw the first punch, it just fell several yards short and to the side.
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On a slightly less funny note, the dude who punches his teammates into the hospital gets picked up a day later by another team. wat. I can't imagine morale will be high in the locker room there?
Low morale in the locker room of the Bills, who are a division rival of the Jets and whose season just got a little easier (maybe!) through no effort on their part? Whose head coach, Rex Ryan, got canned by the Jets last year in part because punchee Geno Smith is a mediocre QB? Yeah, I'm sure they're heartbroken.
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That is such a Rex Ryan move in general.
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It is the Rexest.
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Low morale in the locker room of the Bills, who are a division rival of the Jets and whose season just got a little easier (maybe!) through no effort on their part? Whose head coach, Rex Ryan, got canned by the Jets last year in part because punchee Geno Smith is a mediocre QB? Yeah, I'm sure they're heartbroken.
If he punched him because he'd already been signed by the Bills and he was just welling up with new team spirit, fine. This is a guy who was brought in for "charged with disturbing the peace and battery of a police officer" (http://www.nj.com/jets/index.ssf/2015/08/who_is_ik_enemkpali_the_linebacker_who_punched_jet.html) in a bar fight. It sounds like he just has a temper and lashes out at people around him, except he's a huge monster that can fuck you up. Not the most calming presence.
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Well he wouldn't calm me down, but I am not a huge monster that can fuck you up. Most football players, though? Are huge monsters that can fuck you up.
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Well he wouldn't calm me down, but I am not a huge monster that can fuck you up.
Girl. Don't doubt yourself. Believe in me, who believes in you.
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http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2015/aug/31/terry-pratchett-is-not-a-literary-genius
And people complain about games journalism.
Honestly, as a huge Pratchett fan, I'd be fine with this article, if not for one tiny, itty-bitty, little, insignificant detail: "I have never read a single one of his books and I never plan to."
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"I didn't read the article, but I'm pretty sure Jonathan Jones is wrong about whatever this is about." is one of the first comments. Good one.
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By dissolving the difference between serious and light reading, our culture is justifying mental laziness and robbing readers of the true delights of ambitious fiction.
*Faaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrttttttttttttttttt* about sums up that article, good god.
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in an age of social media and ebooks
Yessssss because that is when Pratchett became famous and popular.
Fuck this "real literature can change your life" bullshit, Men at Arms made me the person I am today.
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Fuck this "real literature can change your life" bullshit, Men at Arms made me the person I am today.
Also didn't read article because who needs firsthand experience of a thing to know what's what, hey?
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I read the article and immediately regretted it.
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Guys. In the last paragraph he praises an Austen novel for its social commentary and says he enjoyed Post Office by Bukowski. There's no way that wasn't on purpose.
Johnny Jo be trollin, yo. Y'all getting played.
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"He must be someone who is adept at Stephen Harper's trickle-down theory of economics," Mulcair said. (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/jerry-bance-canadian-parliament-peegate)
Burn.
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Guys. In the last paragraph he praises an Austen novel for its social commentary and says he enjoyed Post Office by Bukowski. There's no way that wasn't on purpose.
Johnny Jo be trollin, yo. Y'all getting played.
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2015/sep/11/jonathan-jones-ive-read-terry-pratchett-now-its-more-entertainment-than-art
If it's trolling he is remarkably dedicated, that really does read like someone who is serious (And is doing some serious backpeddling).
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http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/northwest-dallas-county/headlines/20150915-irving-ninth-grader-arrested-after-taking-homemade-clock-to-school.ece
They led Ahmed into a room where four other police officers waited. He said an officer he’d never seen before leaned back in his chair and remarked: “Yup. That’s who I thought it was.”
I think my favorite part is how nobody can understand why a kid that likes electronics would try to build a clock, so it obviously must have been a bomb. That and they apparently needed 4 cops to handle a 14 year old kid.
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Yeah that fits my mood today. good job reality
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This story pisses me off beyond words.
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It's pretty fucking infuriating but if there's any positive from this, he is getting quite a lot of vocal support from a lot of people, including NASA and local engineering/science organizations, so his interest in science being encouraged by these outside sources even if it's really not by his own school administration.
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His own school administration is in Texas, of course he's not getting support from those subnormals. They think bombs are circuit boards linked to big flashing timer displays like in 24.
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Yeah the clock probably made a ticking sound like bombs obviously do IRL
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guys it looked like a movie bomb
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pfft it wasn't a black sphere with a skull and crossbones label and a fuse sticking out of it, that's no bomb
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I saw a reasonably funny meme reusing a Seinfeld quote: You charged him with building a hoax bomb, but he never claimed it was a bomb. And that's really the most important part of a hoax.
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it seems like all the bigots have picked up on this story late and i've spent the last day facepalming
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Yeah I have watched people say he didn't achieve/do anything and doesn't deserve all the positive reinforcement he had been getting.
It is a special kind of vile that I didn't expect to see.
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http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/sep/20/richard-dawkins-questions-ahmed-mohamed-motive-backlash
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^^^^
Pretty much zero respect for Dawkins. He gets off on being a shithead to as many people as possible, and he's unbending on his beliefs in things like Evolutionary Psychology, even though a lot of it is garbage science, with some pretty tangible Very Bad Things coming off of it.
http://news.yahoo.com/professional-imbecile-george-zimmerman-retweets-163810394.html
George Zimmerman tweets out a pic of the teenager he killed. Calls himself a "One man army".
Jim, what, exactly would Zimmerman need to say to make a viable perjury case against him?
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Perjury? He'd have to be under oath. There's no law against being a sack of shit, regrettably.
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I mean in regards to his previous trial.
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I'm not sure I see where the lie is.
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His claim wasn't that he didn't kill a defenseless kid, it was that hunting down a kid to kill him is okay under Florida law, which the court decided was true.
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There isn't one yet. He's just being a shit.
I'm saying, what would he need to say to indicate he wasn't acting in self-defense? Or would he need to directly say "Haha! Joke's on you, I wasn't acting in self defense.
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Constitutional prohibition against double jeopardy prohibits Florida from retrying him. In that circumstance, the federal government might try and step in, though.
(Fun fact: the prohibition against double jeopardy does not prevent the federal government from prosecuting on charges that include stuff you have been acquitted on at the state level. go fig.)
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Okay, Zimmerman is a bad example because see Mr. Stark, he didn't deny doing the killing on the stand, merely argued it was legal. But I do presume that double jeopardy extends to forbidding perjury charges on general denials somebody did a crime, or even false alibis, if the State later gets more evidence the person really committed the crime and encourages the jury to use the perjury charge as a stand-in for re-charging them with the same crime.
That said, what about perjury charges for something different than general denials of responsibility? e.g. Alice says on the stand that sure, she was at Bob's house, but she saw *Carol* shoot Bob, so she's innocent. In a display of prosecutorial incompetence, the prosecutor doesn't closely probe into this accusation, and Alice is acquitted. Carol later shows up, angry at being defamed, and has an iron-clad alibi of being in another state with lots of witnesses, so Alice was clearly lying. Can Alice be prosecuted for perjury? (I'd assume no, but.)
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I don't know of any cases where a defendant has been prosecuted for perjury based lies relating to a crime they committed. I believe it is possible; perjury is very rarely prosecuted relative to the number of verifiable lies made under oath. Part of that is prosecutorial culture and discretion. Part of that is that in order to successfully prosecute perjury a prosecutor has to prove not only that the information was inaccurate but that the person who made the misstatement knew at the time that it was incorrect. Given, for example, the massive reliability problems with eyewitnesses, I don't think this is something prosecutors are eager to dig into.
I think perjury is much more likely where a witness lies about a fact material to a crime and that lie has negative consequences. The only perjury case I can recall is where a woman was the victim of rape by a stranger, and she lied in court and said that the rapist was her ex-boyfriend. The ex-boyfriend was convicted and sent to prison. The woman later recanted her story to a friend of hers', the friend told the authorities, and she was prosecuted and convicted of perjury (and her ex-boyfriend's conviction was nullified). I don't think you're going to see perjury outside those kinds of extreme circumstances.
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On the other hand, people do get prosecuted for making false statements to a federal official investigating them for criminal activity, e.g. Martha Stewart.
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I don't know of any cases where a defendant has been prosecuted for perjury based lies relating to a crime they committed. I believe it is possible; perjury is very rarely prosecuted relative to the number of verifiable lies made under oath. Part of that is prosecutorial culture and discretion. Part of that is that in order to successfully prosecute perjury a prosecutor has to prove not only that the information was inaccurate but that the person who made the misstatement knew at the time that it was incorrect. Given, for example, the massive reliability problems with eyewitnesses, I don't think this is something prosecutors are eager to dig into.
I think perjury is much more likely where a witness lies about a fact material to a crime and that lie has negative consequences. The only perjury case I can recall is where a woman was the victim of rape by a stranger, and she lied in court and said that the rapist was her ex-boyfriend. The ex-boyfriend was convicted and sent to prison. The woman later recanted her story to a friend of hers', the friend told the authorities, and she was prosecuted and convicted of perjury (and her ex-boyfriend's conviction was nullified). I don't think you're going to see perjury outside those kinds of extreme circumstances.
Yeah, in the case SnowFire brought up, no one's gonna really be brought up on perjury. Because it'd be impossible to prove that the person Alice saw wasn't merely a person who looked like Carol. It makes Alice look a lot less credible, but it doesn't actually directly disprove Alice's initial story.
I dunno where I was coming from on the Perjury thing, honestly. If he were to write a book, and claim "I was out cruising around looking for a person I could provoke and kill." and then just spent thirty chapters detailing a bizarre, depraved bloodlust and a generally racist attitude. I guess there's nothing that could be done, even in this hypothetical terribly-written movie scenario.
I understand that with any kind of law, you need to basically handle everything with a scalpel. On the one hand, posts like "The Z-man is a one man army. Look at this guy I murdered." are despicable, but if you give authorities carte blanche to detain an idiot merely because he's "a threat" that leads to... uh... something bad. Hold on.
Oh right, stuff like this. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Americans)
We all joke around about the NSA or "being put on a list somewhere" or whatever, but, uh, this asshole is probably monitored somehow, right?
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I understand that with any kind of law, you need to basically handle everything with a scalpel. On the one hand, posts like "The Z-man is a one man army. Look at this guy I murdered." are despicable, but if you give authorities carte blanche to detain an idiot merely because he's "a threat" that leads to... uh... something bad. Hold on.
Oh right, stuff like this. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Americans)
(http://rs1img.memecdn.com/that-escalated-quickly_o_1950613.jpg)
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http://edition.cnn.com/2015/10/05/politics/lindsey-graham-flooding-federal-aid/
Sen. Lindsey Graham is asking for federal aid for his home state of South Carolina as it battles raging floods, but he voted to oppose similar help for New Jersey in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in 2013.
"Let's just get through this thing, and whatever it costs, it costs," Graham told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on "The Situation Room" on Monday of the devastating floods in his home state.
Graham was among the Republican senators who opposed a federal aid package in January 2013 to assist states hit by Hurricane Sandy, but now he doesn't remember why.
"I'm all for helping the people in New Jersey. I don't really remember me voting that way," Graham said.Pressed further, he said: "Anyway, I don't really recall that, but I'd be glad to look and tell you why I did vote no, if I did."
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I am straight ripping off a sub reddit here, but holy fuck
This is what happens when you mix Reddit sexism with tech "meritocracy" bullshit (https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/3no4lz/linix_kernel_dev_who_asked_linus_torvalds_to_stop/cvq0uru)(ie reasons to be jerks because you are good at one thing and it isn't people).
Enjoy reading how objectifying women doesn't involve any level of inherent dislike because everyone likes icecream.
The logic chain worked backwards is it is okay to like an object -> treating women like objects means I like women them because I like other objects -> there is nothing wrong with objectification, good job icecream!
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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/fox-news-guest-charged-cia
*ahem*
lollllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll
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http://mashable.com/2015/10/15/walmart-stocks-gun-counter-with-lube/#FyvRE9MzJEqk
I want this to be true
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A lighter idiot of the day that I think only a few people here will understand.
Player has rules question about Hanabi. Turns out he and his group have been playing it as a competitive game. Much confusion ensues.
https://www.reddit.com/r/boardgames/comments/3oyfen/hanabi_rules_question/
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A lighter idiot of the day that I think only a few people here will understand.
Player has rules question about Hanabi. Turns out he and his group have been playing it as a competitive game. Much confusion ensues.
https://www.reddit.com/r/boardgames/comments/3oyfen/hanabi_rules_question/
You see, Laggy had a 5...
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A lighter idiot of the day that I think only a few people here will understand.
Player has rules question about Hanabi. Turns out he and his group have been playing it as a competitive game. Much confusion ensues.
https://www.reddit.com/r/boardgames/comments/3oyfen/hanabi_rules_question/
You see, Laggy had a 5...
You leave my waifu outta this
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It is a shame that print media is dying.
http://www.latimes.com/home/la-hm-erskine-20151010-column.html
Because this belongs in a dumpster fire.
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Just another old guy jerking off to telling those young people what to do. Remain calm and he will die decades before you.
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There is a bottomless fucking well of self righteous "your generation is shit and can't take a joke about itself, unlike my generation which is great and you shouldn't make fun of us because we are young and shit like we used to be at your age"
He now has 3 articles out of it and super helpfully takes screen caps of people on Twitter with there names right fucking there to point and laugh at them while anonymising quotes from people that agree with him completely seriously about this joke about how shit millenials are.
Such a goddamned arsehole.
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You know, this is a rarity, but that comment section is gold.
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I honestly don't see it, I just see a bunch of people getting mad and saying some real shitty stuff.
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There were a surprising number of good snarks near the top, I felt (including one about the misuse of the word literally).
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I'm with Andrew on this one, the comments writers were considerably more clever than the original article.
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That's true, but isn't the bar being set so low that everyone is a winner the reason literally everyone up in this club fucking getting fired every single day.
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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/netanyahu-reduced-to-defending-hitler-really
Netanyahu reverse-Godwins? or something? I'm at a loss for words.
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Link to the SRS thread about the stupid thing because fuck linking directly to the source (https://www.reddit.com/r/ShitRedditSays/comments/3q6r39/rrape_and_rrapecounseling_are_genuinely_worse/)
Fuck heads on Reddit decide that subs are evil because they blanket banning people who have post history in subreddits with reputations for being aggressive to women and then whitelist them back in if they actually want to contribute instead of just shit post up the thread. Because no one deserves a controlled "safe space". Not even if it is ones that are about supporting rape victims.
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Reddit
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-27GFE9IJQ&app=desktop
Warning: Pat Robertson
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Apologies in advance, Meep,
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/as-campaign-crumbles-christie-hit-with-epic-bridgegate-docu-dump
Haha New Jersey
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http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/11/13/colorblind-fans-had-a-hard-time-on-thursday-night/
Haha NFL
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/11/18/roanoke-mayor-syrian-refugees/76016936/
Yep, this is good historical precedent to cite.
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Yeah. I was pretty annoyed about that yesterday. I felt IotD was too good for it.
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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/david-wright-defends-doxxing-muslims
I vote we nuke Texas from orbit.
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Go ahead, I'm suicidal anyway.
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Speaking of suicidal, everything Donald Trump has said today makes me want to kill myself.
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For what it is worth at least so it is not worth ending it all because of Trump.
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Speaking of suicidal, everything Donald Trump has said every day makes me want to kill myself.
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Speaking of suicidal, everything Donald Trump has said every day makes me want to kill myself.
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One of the things I always found weird about Earthbound and especially Mother 3 is just how did Pokey get so much influence? Now I know, Trump is Pokey
Also there is at least one person who already made this parallel so
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Trump is a Le Pen/Berlusconi type of politician the US usually doesn't get. He does need to go away asap though.
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I guess now the internment of everyone with Japanese ancestry in WWII is something that is pointed to as a historical success in some circles.
The fact that so many people within the Republican party would vote for this man just goes to show you that democracy doesn't work, because nothing common can be good.
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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/david-wright-defends-doxxing-muslims
I vote we nuke Texas from orbit.
Start with Austin first. Let me know a day in advance.
Also, watching media on SCOTUS case of Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin with the most bitter anger I've had towards education today. And Scalia's most recent comment? If the case ends negatively, aka Fisher's case winning, hopefully we wee-grad students can recuperate some respect and change from that point forward.
I am so sick and tired of Texas existing. It is way too big (zing) and sets shitty standards for education nationwide.
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(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CVzNAIBUAAAU2Zq.jpg:large)
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For real, Scalia takes it today. Fuck that guy.
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For real, Scalia takes it today. Fuck that guy.
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Fuck that guy.
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http://www.statesman.com/news/news/gun-rights-groups-to-stage-mock-mass-shooting-at-u/npf38/
Were we still talking shit about Texas?
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We are always talking shit about Texas.
Also:
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/study-scalia-better-off-in-less-advanced-court?mbid=nl_121015_Borowitz_Report&CNDID=24409627&spMailingID=8335723&spUserID=MjczNzc1MDA3MTIS1&spJobID=821124205&spReportId=ODIxMTI0MjA1S0