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If you think mean words are leading to right-wing extremists conducting these attacks, what the fuck do you think all of this violence (and the right's reaction to it) is going to do to people on the other side?
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And attempted murder, on multiple occasions, from the left is more than mean words. You just dont care that people were hitting people in the head with chunks of metal, because it was against your opponents. So you ignore it and call it mean words. Your side initiated tge violence. Your side ignored calls for years of people saying its only going to make things worse. And your side continues to ignore it, using calls to harrass, intimidate, and use violence against your political opponents. Whelp. Guess what. It got worse. SHOCKER.
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![]() Do you know something about the ricin guy I don't? You keep mentioning him but AFAIK we have no idea what his motive was. Seems he was a religious nutter.
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You hear that phrase all the time, too. The verbiage makes it very difficult for to take the thing seriously. We live in a real, actual world here. EDIT: And also, fuck Trump. In case we forget. Last edited by BaronGrackle; 10-29-2018 at 06:54 PM.. |
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I've seen terms like "cisgender" come into existence during my lifetime, whose definitions are based on the immutable dichonomy between one's sex and gender. EDIT: I realize my point isn't clear. What I mean to say is... by using "sex assigned at birth" as a blanket substitute for "sex", even in clear cases when there is no difference between the two, we create an implication that "sex" does not actually exist. And I'm not yet crazy enough to entertain that. Last edited by BaronGrackle; 10-29-2018 at 09:34 PM.. |
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![]() War Crime Promotin' Bolton has praised the new far right extremist elected in Brazil.
https://www.businessinsider.com/john...sonaro-2018-11 Surprise, surprise.
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https://www.vox.com/world/2018/11/1/...troika-tyranny John Bolton just gave an “Axis of Evil” speech about Latin America The US will now go after a so-called “Troika of Tyranny”: Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua. I guess he needs something else to bomb after they're doing Iran. |
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In an ideal SoL, both Hammer and Genya would have been banned years ago, before our inaction (though I wasn't a mod at the time) made it seem as if their behaviour was, if not sanctioned, acceptable on SoL. Maybe in this scenario other posters, like Yaska, Smoke, Drusus and the others, would not have left. I don't know. But do I regret banning Hammer? No. I regret not having given him a last warning first. Although I doubt that he would have taken the chance offered to him, it should at least have been given. That said, not getting banned on this forum is not witchcraft. All of this could have easily been avoided.
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https://act.moveon.org/event/mueller...events/search/ On a positive note, since Team Good Guys won back the House, even if Mueller's investigation is fully halted, they'll be able to subpoena him and all information he gathered in January. I think this was donnie panicking in response to Jr's imminent indictment.
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![]() Reminder that Republicans, especially donnie, hate the military and veterans and have absolutely no respect for us.
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I'm not going to pretend that a doctor "assigned" my "hormones, chromosomes, and genitals", as the article puts it, just in case it doesn't match "how I feel or how I identify". The doctor didn't make up my hormones, chromosomes, and genitalia. They were crafted that way through biology itself and can't be dismissed as merely "assigned", unless the assignment refers to mother nature or God. It's a dishonest term. Last edited by BaronGrackle; 11-14-2018 at 11:50 AM.. |
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I don't understand your comment about freedom of speech being 'illiberal' because it's a 'pressure valve'.
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Well I did say "almost illiberal." I meant that without the pressure valve of allowing people to speak their mind there would be a lot more resentment. People would be more inclined to organize with violent intent to get their ideas implemented. There would be more rebellions and consequently revolutions. In the end maybe (and it's a big maybe) the status quo would be more upset in this way rather than through the exchange of ideas in a free speech society. So free speech may paradoxically help the status quo. That was the line of thinking, just a bit of food for thought. |
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So his issues, it seemed, had not as much to do with immigration itself, but certain categories of people immigrating or fleeing to his island, because he thought globalism was ruining Europe or something along those lines. I call that "thinly veiled racism/bigotry", which I'd argue is pretty shitty in terms of morals. |
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No, that's not what you said. It's not what those articles said. But for me, it puts the concepts of "spectrum" and "assigned at birth" into the more realistic backdrop. |
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