If thou gazest long into the Pit, the Pit will also gaze into thee

Holy crap. Hulk Hogan for president would be awesome.

Back in '93, when my sister was 8 and we flew out of Australia for the first time, the first thing she asked upon arriving at Sydney Airport from Canberra was "do people in Sydney speak English?" (Everyone in the airport we encountered was speaking something other than English, so it wasn't an unrea...

An example of the kind of thing that's necessary to maintain a society:

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/GZrAo1Vvf0M/maxresdefault.jpg

Dame Edna Everage unpersoned for saying transgenderism is a fashion.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-16/ ... d/11018726

Hey!

Well, when you're right, you're right.

Get an Australian involved, then:

https://quillette.com/2019/04/10/michel ... -or-troll/

Ben Shapiro talks about the same underlying problem here:

Starts about 1 hour and 17 minutes.

It's what happens when water boils.

Is that we are calling it now?

It's like you're making my point for me. What was Elevatorgate other than the instance that a particular interpretation of feminism was the only one that Good People™ could make?

I don't have the guile or skill to convincingly propagate ' The 'Noble Lie ' and probably not the temperament to maintain ' The Great Silence ' (even if the phrase had not been put to other uses). The truth will (not) set you free. Sure, but there's a problem when you insist that atheism implies sp...

To add a little - currently it seems most peoples views of religion tend towards faitheism rather than anti-theism, making them out of line with the implicit (if not explicit) goals of most atheist activist organisations - ie to decrease religious influence. Yeah, despite still being an atheist, I'...

Yeah, I feel the same.

It would be good to know if anyone has any suggestions for other places that are like the Pit was in its heyday.

Eh, if you ask me it looks like a (petty) case of holding your enemies to their own standard. I doubt many of the people who’d wear such a shirt believe what Biden is on video doing is necessarily wrong, but Biden has been one of the biggest pushers of “believe all women”. It’s therefore funny to se...

https://thefederalist.com/2019/04/02/me ... p-traitor/

Really? I think Sanders would have best Trump in 2016.

That wasn’t really about how great Trump was, but how awful Clinton was. I agree with the US, I still think he was, despite his flaws, the better choice of those two.

My shoreline:
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/conten ... 036660.jpg

I don't get it. Didn't Mueller's office come out and explicitly say a story was false? Do you seriously believe the Mueller would let Barr cover up the real story?

May’s deal dies a third death. Looks like April 12 is the day. Given there is no way Europe will let UK go over the wall, I wait with bated breath to see the rabbit pulled from the hat. May could solve the problem by having parliament donate to Pettibone's fiancée and getting all of the UK banned f...

Just sayin' kimberley.png thulsa.png Didn't have the balls to make it Dr. Zaius? BTW, John D: it's not actually race, it's celebrity/class. If it had been a white buddy of the Obamas the same would have happened. But this is: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/style/modern-love-race-i-broke-up-with...

Reward those people who do not hold dual citizenship I hold dual citizenship, but I agree it's a really bad idea. I'm not going to cut my nose to spite my face, but it does enable a dual loyalty which isn't good. It's really good that Section 44 of the Constitution has been interpreted in the way i...

This is a pretty good article about the underlying morality that's going on:
https://quillette.com/2019/03/27/the-ex ... -morality/

It would be useful for Haidt's work to be more widely read. It really explains shitloads about what's going on.

The idea of group cohesion may be noble, in a narrow sense, but is it practical? Probably not, but I suspect the alternative is continued escalation of violence until the entire system collapses. This is what you're working with. You might not like Kirb's message of enlightenment values, but tell m...

Because Kirb didn't close his bold tag.

Lsuoma wrote: ↑ BAM! EU passes Article 11 and Article 13 copyright directives!

https://boingboing.net/2019/03/26/jfc-fml-jfc.html

Apparently because the Swedes pushed the wrong button.

Why does James Ashby still have a job? Everything he touches turns to shit.

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I don't think I'd realised you were in South Africa. What ended up happening with Cape Town running out of fresh water?

Eh. I think Trump's chances of re-election have just skyrocketed. He's been handed a huge amount of political capital by people who hate him. The idea of Russian collusion was always tenuous, and two years of 'bombshells' that never went anywhere because of poor reporting has further damaged the med...

New Zealand has banned the shooters manifesto, but they also sell exemptions to access it:
https://www.classificationoffice.govt.n ... -releases/

Probably appropriate that Trump has his own firm of birtherism.

Good Morning, Have A Great Day!

My 2002 Toyota is getting a new clutch next month because I think pouring another grand into her is a better bet than getting a new car.

I think New Zealand (and Australia) are showing themselves to be an authoritarian police state, given the amount of censorship that has occurred in the wake.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/201 ... CMP=twt_gu

Britain’s counter-terrorism chief has said far-right terrorists are being radicalised by mainstream newspaper coverage

https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/blog-posts/cambridge-university-rescinds-my-fellowship/ Now the Divinity school has decided that signaling their solidarity with the diversity-inclusivity-equity mob trumps that opportunity–or so I presume. You see, I don’t yet know, because (and this is particularly ...

I'd like some proof that racial diviseness can't be solved before I'd remotely consider that to be a valid position. What we're in now is a tiny blip in history, maybe even just growing pains. I didn't mean to imply that racial divisiveness couldn't ever be solved; I don't believe that. However, wh...

"In a time long past, the armies of the Dark came again into the lands of men. Their leaders became known as The Fallen Lords, and their terrible sorcery was without equal in the West. In thirty years they reduced the civilised nations to carrion and ash, until the free city of Madrigal alone defied...

I didn't know her background, but given her performance on the Drum yesterday, I'm not at all surprised.

Lsuoma wrote: ↑ I hate so say this, because he's Strine, but Keating is basically the only sane, reasoned voice I'm seeing in these threads. Everyone else is trolling, stupid, ungenerous, disingenuous, obtuse, or any mixture of the above.

I hate posting in this thread.

We do need a better narrative, but retreating into enclaves of homogeneous cultures isn't going to make a better narrative. The racial divisiveness of identitarian politics on both sides are stirring up animosity and hate. That won't end well. The point isn't to retreat, but an acknowledgement that...

<snip> A massive wall of text that never actually engages my points, but dances around them. Who could have predicted this? be lectured to by Kirb as he misses the point Even further limiting immigration has its economic and social costs in terms of losses of economic growth. In order to convince y...

My name appears in a Senate Committee record from 10 years ago. I started opposed to the internet filter idea from 2007. I didn’t want to come out of retirement on this again.

Seems the only predictions the Christchurch shooter failed on was the speed to which his bidding would be done.

And yes, we live under the guidance of what is basically an informal Global American Empire, and for all the many, many flaws of the United States, past and recent, it's better them than the Chinese regime or the now thankfully defunct Soviets. The States have the potential to at least fix some of ...

I should also say that my point of view is from a very Western perspective. If I was Chinese or Islamic, I'd have a very different perspective and be working to actively encourage these problems.

I'm not even sure what's being argued anymore. I don't think the problem is immigration, or Islam specifically. Islam certainly has its problems, but it isn't the problem. There's a cultural malaise throughout the West, and that is the real problem. It's a crisis of meaning and identity. What is a g...

Quick point-Chinese people aren't the repressive government of China. Surprisingly, they're individuals with individual views as to life. People, contrary to identitarian views, are remarkably diverse in their viewpoints. Which is why I said "China" and not "Chinese". The point I was making was abo...

NZ is the place where many tech companies first trial their new things - Facebook uses it as a test site as it is an English-speaking Western country with a tiny fucking population AGGHGHG I'm freaking out right now Sounds like you need a VPN? Nord VPN for example. Pricing Free trial I understood i...

No one gives a shit about China literally genociding Muslims within their borders.

Because not everything is awful.

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The wretched events in Christchurch made me have a thought. It's pretty clear that many natives of desirable-residence countries are unhappy about the immigration policies of their governments, rightly or wrongly - it doesn't matter for this thought. It might not be immigration: it could be an issu...

I'm having a hard time processing this. I can sort of understand why you'd want to fly a plane into buildings, or kill the children of a political party you disagree with. What I can't understand is why you'd blame name drop someone like Candace Owens, and then tell people to subscribe to PewDiePie ...

In the live stream he also told people to subscribe to PewDiePie.

Not at all sure what to make of this. He posted his manifesto on 8Chan. Some excerpts copied from Twitter: Is there a particular person that radicalized you the most? Yes, the person that has influenced me above all was Candace Owens. Each time she spoke I was stunned by her insights and her own vie...

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