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

I've been reading a lot of blather circulating that justifies political violence (not just the stuff I posted here earlier) and they all have certain things in common All of it conflates the existence of an idea with it somehow being in power, and frames political violence as self-protection in tha...

I'm not too familiar with Richard Spencer, so I have to ask - has it ever been established that he has physically assaulted someone not of the master race, or has openly agitated for violence against such folks? Because if he hasn't, then a lot of people are celebrating the fact that someone got pu...

Service Dog wrote: :romance-heartbeating: 8:27 :romance-hearteyes: 8:27! :romance-heartbeating: 8:27 :romance-heartbeating:

Can we keep her?!!

Goodbye Jenneke.... Hello 8:27!!

"It rubs the lotion on the skin or else it gets the hose again."

HunnyBunny wrote:
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That creepy way he stroked her hair? Hmm, dude has serious consent issues.

Unless she's saying that Americans suddenly turned racist in the last four years, but that would be retarded.... Oh wait. I cried at a fortune cookie the other day because it said: “You are doing a good job.” I wept helplessly through Star Wars: The Force Awakens (twice!), thinking of all the girls...

I'm not convinced it's quasi-Elfwick who wrote that piece. The proof he's offering up is easy to fake. You'd expect the author to have some form of communication from the Graun, if only a sub-editor checking something in the copy. The second 'column' he's offered up looks too obvious a troll – thoug...

That indeed sucks. Schools around here (Greater Seattle area) are pushing mobile development as a sure-fire ticket to steady employment. Trust careers advisers to always jump on The Last Big Thing. I suspect a Magic-8 Ball filled with a list of standard jobs would probably outperform them long-term.

In the interest of providing a forum reset (as per Phil's request) and because muttonchops - here's a brief interview with Isaac Asimov: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhA8TXdCg4M "At least as far as reason is concerned there is a system of transfer, a system of rational argument, following the la...

I think that riots / property damage or violence against individuals will have to be renamed as the words used to refer to them could be triggering in their current form. Why reinvent the wheel. Mao had a bunch of these worked out: It's not beating up someone who disagrees with you, it's an Ideolog...

That is some technically flawless Olympian-level virtue signalling at work there. Danielle Muscato is the SJW's SJW. I dunno. He's skating on thin ice now and his ally status may be in jeopardy. He's used his white privilege to place himself at the centre of BLM policy (safety pin or no safety pin ...

deLurch wrote:

Don't worry that you might run out of things to apologise for. We will invent some more things for the next Struggle Session.

Of all the people named "Sarah Jackson," you've got to wonder why the professor immediately assumed it was the porn star. Seeing as how this was Tennessee, the student could have claimed he meant Andrew Jackson's First Lady, although the connection to a slave-owning genocidal white male may have go...

Jonathan Haidt has published a ranking of Colleges according to their tolerance for diversity of thought. Anyone care to take a guess at Mizzou's place on the list? http://heterodoxacademy.org/resources/guide-to-colleges/ I didn't make it down that far. I was inexorably drawn to the mention of a U....

HunnyBunny wrote:http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/02/world ... hites.html

Fucking white people init.

So basically, white and brown people vote to keep white people out of the country [Brexit]. Clearly a whiteness issue there.

Let that soak in. A journal that has a policy of not admitting when it's wrong. Ah, Sage Publishing. That haven for high-quality work. All I did was buy access to one or two journal papers for some definitely non-scientific research in the distant past – they spam me every few weeks with invitation...

I'm sure that Guns, Germs and Steel has its limits. But Blaut's criticism is skewed, biased, partisan and in many cases just plain wrong. I'm not disagreeing. I was more pointing to Blaut's hypocrisy and his apparent belief that social science as practiced in many places actually has some science i...

On Blaut, I find his conclusion amusing: "But he claims to produce reliable, scientific answers to these problems when in fact he does not have such answers, and he resolutely ignores the findings of social science while advancing old and discredited theories of environmental determinism. That is ba...

The trigger warning was already in the course title. What did they expect? If you're such unimaginative adult what guarantee we have that more trigger warning won't get misread if the title of the course was? I believe her complaint runs along the lines of "I was promised atrocities and genocide, I...

The interesting thing about the "evolution of Jews", is that it is arguable that they are actually a separate race by virtue that they are a mix of semitic and european bloodlines. There is nothing particularly unique about either, so what "goes in" is not exceptional. Secondly, despite Jew's colou...

Worst mandatory online training at work today EVER. Usually it's something like "Bloodborne Pathogens" or "Information Security," but today's topic was essentially Microaggressions for SJWs. Full of words like micro-inequities and micro-affirmations, and instructions to shut up and listen . Utter S...

I doubt the US government is going to be duffing up the EU over this. It's already concerned about tax tourism by its largest conglomerates. Apple getting a bloody nose in Europe and threatening to take its toys back home can surely only make the IRS very happy indeed.

I leave them up now but when I was together with the wife I would put it back down. My oldest son has a problem aiming and will just piss on the seat. Thus I have suggested that everyone leave the seats up because try as he might he can't remember to lift the seat. If there is a woman in the house,...

Looks like the Beeb has decided to fling a very large turd at the fan: https://twitter.com/bbcasiannetwork/status/718006149015085056 Background: peaceful shopkeeper in Scotland who happens to be a member of the Ahmadi sect of Islam (widely persecuted for supposedly heretical views) gets murdered by ...

A grad student complains about "sexist media coverage" of his group's paper on "the need for drama": https://www.academia.edu/24152907/Sexist_Media_Coverage_of_Need_for_Drama_Research "While it is cool to receive attention across the popular media for our research on dramatic personality traits, the...

Someone alert the cultural-appropriation police! David Byrne is promoting a mix of middle-eastern disco from the early 80s put together by a London-based DJ. I don't know what to think - so much has been appropriated here that spoons have started to go missing. Fun mix though: https://www.mixcloud.c...

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:So, those PETA morons actually believe Big Boss fed Al Snow his own dog? They've never heard of wrestling gimmicks?

Freddie Starr ate my hamster.

Clark remains pretty much a moron who, like Carrie in Homeland is basically made of luck until the end of season 2 ( I actually finished the season it last night ) but I don't want to post spoilers unless nobody cares. The problem with Clark's character is that she is more symbol than character. Sh...

FWIW, the main concept is ripped off of 'the Matrix' from Doctor Who - a piece of blatant plagiarism that, as far as I know, was never acknowledged. (If you don't believe me, check out 'The Deadly Assassin' episode 3...) I don't see how it was plagiarism off that - the protagonists in that ep were ...

Anyone have info for any of the countries at the top of this list from the World Economic Forum? (from here ) This doesn't answer that question directly but Maria Charles at UCSD has done a fair bit of work comparing attitudes and gender ratios in science and maths: http://www.soc.ucsb.edu/faculty/...

I only got the COBOL question (partially) correct so I'm guessing I must be a massive racist/sexist scumbag. Grace Hopper didn't invent COBOL as such, though she was a consultant on the project. She was responsible for something more fundamental: the first compiler, FLOW-MATIC, concepts from which ...

I need the opinions of people with a sense of perspective. Should I really give a shit about the Zika virus? I don't mean is it harmful for those it infects, I mean is it anywhere near the extinction level event the media would have us believe? Nope. The thing that concerns me, but which tends to p...

Kirbmarc wrote:This guy saw the Usual Suspects, where nobody is what they seem to be, but he's completely sure that Kobayashi, a guy we actually know nothing about, is "Indian".

Yes, we can be certain that Kobayashi is Indian. I mean it's such a stereotypical Indian name. Oh wait...

I don't think he looks like Michael Jackson. https://veuwer.com/i/3lpg.jpg Then again, I don't know anyone with the acting skill to pull it off could match Michael Jackson's facial features. Maybe they should have gone for a woman. I imagine they will use CGI/motion capture to pull off the looks pa...

It's almost like SJWs/feminists having seen the example of Islamist outrage have felt the release of some sort of inhibition in themselves, maybe like some sort of unconscious mirroring phenomenon or something like that. I think the recent rise of the SJW are symptoms more of an economic shift than...

Modern liberals are so in love with the idea of "identity" like it is some kind of holy grail. They say... oh poor girl.. this is affecting her "identity". No... it's not... she has learned how fucking stupid people are... especial the media... and she has found herself in the process. Fuck you NPR...

According to a linkbait article, shitstain of the zeitgiest Macklemore (appropriator of Dr. Seuss's rhyme skills) has a new song entitled White Privilege II, calling out race-mixers Miley & Iggy. The lyric innovates new imaginary sjw offenses: "You've exploited and stolen the music, the moment/The ...

It's galling to see the freeze peach crowd rushing to install CoCs and take away freedom of speech. The one encouraging factor is that SJWs like Ehmke are too stupid and lazy to go about it in a way that works. I guess the Opal project did eventually crumble and fall in line but the way Ehmke and x...

In their desperation to defend this medieval bullshit at all costs, it's almost as if the retarded regressive left WANT there to be a huge shift in voters towards the right wing. Cunts. I am beginning to wonder whether the Koch Brothers have diverted funding from the Tea Party and the like to the S...

Guest_0048cc29 wrote:Gaia Forbid that the "one cis male (he pronouns)" consider himself, or be considered a father, no, he is a "cis male mom (he pronouns)"

He sacrificed his precious male privilege. A true martyr.

Unless, he suddenly realised that male privilege no longer cuts it....

Indeed. It's pretty simple, isn't it. You or I can logically deduce, from knowledge of one's self, that the radfem statement "All men are potential rapists" has to be false. Equally logically, a man who who can't logically deduce that statement to be false must clearly see themselves as a potential...

It's not a coincidence that those countries have the largest numbers of SJWs. Sweden in particular is the closest thing to SJW Land, and it has a huge Islamist problem, which is affecting the secular, modern Muslims and the ex-Muslims the most. Talking to people I know in Sweden, the backlash is ge...

ConcentratedH2O, OM wrote:Over at Meyers's place:

"Educated women who own vaginas". Please kill me.

Now he's in trouble. Doesn't he know all vaginas are property of the Patriarchy? Re-education camp for PZ awaits.

Also strangely, the country with the highest level of creationist belief is Iraq, which is one of the more educated Muslim countries. 67% express creationist beliefs, even more than backward Afghanistan at 62%. My guess is that as a country's educational system modernizes, the curriculum becomes po...

https://twitter.com/hashtag/dropthenamepete In which social justice rangers out themselves as racist – reading entirely racist connotations into the name of a restaurant that's been trading in Colorado for years run by a bloke called Pete who wanted a countercultural name for his burrito place. Wel...

I was about to make the standard observation that Zzzzvan is a truly terrible writer, how she clearly thinks her screeds have great fluency and depth, when they are in fact tortuous and trite, but this commenter beat me to it: That was gorgeous. I promise to read it again later for the thinky part…...

This is rolling around the twitterverse. I really should check the source I suppose. http://i.imgur.com/VRsWWVO.jpg I think the figures are accurate though potentially misleading by treating the Muslim population as one bloc and because it excludes Muslims in Western Europe, China and the Americas....

SZvan has a purple prose post up graphically documenting a night of abject terror when a man politely said hello as he walked by and she nearly shit her pants. It explains a lot about her broken state. https://web.archive.org/save/http://freethoughtblogs.com/almostdiamonds/2015/12/10/walking-with-f...

Speaking of Rebecca Watson & Elyse's forays into Stand-up Comedy, there's only one way for women to ever excel in any field: a hashtag, a public shaming campaign, loose accusations of discrimination, special benefits, quotas. http://i.imgur.com/bQmxYGj.png Wait, don't tell me, I know how this one e...

Sorry that should have been Qadi Ayyad.

But there must be ways of structuring this process that doesn't stigmatise Muslims directly, and is therefore defensible as 'fair'. We all (including the islamopologists) know that Islam reliably leads to barbarism, and other major religions less so - but we could ostensibly apply the same level of...

And while it's no longer the King of Swinging Dicks, it's still a Top-10% computer in processor and video because Moore's Law was wrong because of an underly assumption not being foreseen at the time. At this point it takes a 45% increase in transistors to make a 10% increase in power while Moore's...

Cnutella wrote:Maybe they could open source it to make life easier for the Chinese government?

Nah, no need. Give their developers a bit more reverse engineering practice.

Hunt wrote:The major problem with imagining Watson as a star comic is how to reconcile that with political correctness.

If she has the 'right' audience all she has to do is make sure she keeps punching up. "Men, eh. Amirite?" Rinse and repeat.

So when people say that there's 1.5 billion moosles wagging their tails right now, what they're really saying is that this number is too great to deal with in an appropriately aggressive manner, and that we somehow have to play nice with them instead. I question this conclusion. WMDs were explicite...

Surely no one would make such an accomplished fellow witch of the week over this https://twitter.com/ProfBrianCox/status/670219065726734336 From what I can gather, Cox is already persona non grata in SJW circles because his wife carries the Curse of TERF for daring to put on a seminar where a speak...

Anyways, he was also known for dishing out the idea that the left - or at least certain elements of it - wants to 'normalise' paedophilia; to make paedophiles not a target worthy of condmenation but understanding; to present a case that paedophila should be considered as much an acceptable sexual o...

SJWism has gone so far that society is being forced to accept middle aged men who want to play with little girls alone all day. The setup is curiously similar to the play The Nether - although that's based on the use of virtual reality to create the fantasy. (The set design used for the London perf...

Bad news for Richard Carrier: Poly Means Polynesian, Not Polyamorous http://www.guerrillafeminism.org/poly-means-polynesian-not-polyamorous-lily-stone/ The author is " a fat, queer, cis hafagasi Tongan. Her interests include casual misandry, collecting white tears and binge watching Netflix." In ot...

Cnutella wrote:
(I did use blood from my menstrual cup as house plant food for a short spell years ago, but could never be arsed to keep it up. Baby Bio will do fine.)
Yeah, no shit. Breakthrough realization.

It was all going so well. But the plant started calling out: "Feed me Emily!"

https://twitter.com/uberfeminist/status/668501436028751872 I'm sure that will be a fair and balanced article on CoCs in open-source software that will cover attempts to blackmail various groups into adopting Corey/Coraline's wording. And, whadya know, she's found another target and is going after o...

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