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From the article: This is silly, first and primarily, because it splashes like a tossed pebble into a lake of assertions about the zealously historical Islamism of ISIS; the articleâ€™s primary thesis is that we commit an egregious analytic error in assuming that ISISâ€™s fanaticism is somehow un-I...

The Islamic State is nothing to do with Islam? They should the name to something more suitable then. And if it's not about Islam, then they should start recruiting Jews and Christians. If you're referring to the post I linked, no, that's not what it said (thanks for demonstrating how easily telepho...

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He is saying what? IS doesn't believe what they say they believe? That what they believe isn't real Islam? The US is the root of all evil and the cause of all trouble in the islamic world which would otherwise be happy and peaceful without western interference? He may want to take a look at the his...

If I were you, John, I would have interrupted your daughter when she said that she was pansexual and said this: "You can be whatever you wish and fuck whomever you want, Honey, but you will not attach a greek prefix to a latin word in my house." If this didn't get through to her or made her upset, ...

http://jacobbacharach.com/2015/02/18/one-thousand-and-one-mights/ This is silly, first and primarily, because it splashes like a tossed pebble into a lake of assertions about the zealously historical Islamism of ISIS; the articleâ€™s primary thesis is that we commit an egregious analytic error in as...

I was left unclear whether it was a parody or not, given how bluntly over-the-top and inaccurate was its portrayal of the pro-Gamergate side as white-male-supremacists. You're not kidding . The GamerGaters accidentally leave GPS information on the video, and it is traced to the house of one of the ...

Guestus Aurelius wrote:Jimi Hendrix...

he's white, right?

Did he ever play with his thumb over the neck of his guitar?

"This post was made by Nec_V20 who is currently on your ignore list. Display this post." http://static.fjcdn.com/comments/I+hate+cramps+but+dat+feeling+of+relief+when+it+_e951e9a4fdfb0d2da6580ed7494afe72.jpg Ahhhhhhhh... [welch_mode=on] Youre not ignoring him right. [welch_mode=off] Actually, from ...

For what it's worth, I doubt he believes a word of it. He seems to sit around all day thinking of moralizing outrage tweets to inflict on the world. He can't let Anita have all the credit. Lest she drop him like the dog turd he is. So he lets people know who is the brains of the outfit, while not s...

"Politically Correct": A History (part 1)

Until today, I had no idea that there was a mini-culture war in country music over something called "bro-country". Judging by the list of referenced articles, this has only become a thing in the last year or so.

http://www.ruthlessreviews.com/27702/pete-carroll-is-dumb/ Internet : Did you see that meme about how the kid from the commercial would be smart enough to call The Beast Mode? RR : Yes. In a game like football, you definitely want be completely predictable and obvious. Internet : It was obvious beca...

RE: Starship Troopers. Everyone understands it's satire. Look at the reviews at the time and that is acknowledged. The reason it bombed was not because it was too smart for people. It bombed because it is a bad movie. I have seen trees look less wooden than Casper Van Dien and the dialogue makes me...

http://fredrikdeboer.com/2015/01/29/i-dont-know-what-to-do-you-guys/ I have seen, with my own two eyes, a 19 year old white woman â€” smart, well-meaning, passionate â€” literally run crying from a classroom because she was so ruthlessly brow-beaten for using the word â€œdisabled.â€ Not repeatedly....

Hey, let's all chip in and buy a copy of this book for Cavanaugh: http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1419436155l/23873045.jpg I used the "Look Inside" feature at Amazon, but the word "gonk" didn't return any results. Maybe that section just wasn't included in the preview. I said Plato was a gonk. Aristot...

Hey, let's all chip in and buy a copy of this book for Cavanaugh:

http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1419436155l/23873045.jpg

I used the "Look Inside" feature at Amazon, but the word "gonk" didn't return any results. Maybe that section just wasn't included in the preview.

Here you will find a sob sister who is being micro-oppressed by drop-down menu options that remind her how unloved she is. Check your normative defaults, shitlords! Towards the end of a long and tiring day, I turned to an email asking that I set up an account with a clientâ€™s payroll processor. I ...

Here you will find a sob sister who is being micro-oppressed by drop-down menu options that remind her how unloved she is. Check your normative defaults, shitlords! Towards the end of a long and tiring day, I turned to an email asking that I set up an account with a clientâ€™s payroll processor. I ...

comhcinc wrote:Haha you are totally inferring your fucked his mom!

No more chair shots to the head for you.

A question from Jerry Coyne at WEIT: I wonâ€™t say that I hate or fear all Muslims, but I canâ€™t bring myself to admire, like, or respect the many of them who hold beliefs I consider retrograde or dangerous. So my question is this: to what extent can you separate the believer and the beliefs? I've...

I knew some Satanists back in the day who urged me to read the Satanic Bible. Objectivism in a Halloween costume.

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6642 This is why, for example, I basically disengage from anyone who uses the phrase â€œwhite privilegeâ€ or the term â€œpatriarchyâ€. There is a possible world in which these might be useful terms of discussion, but if that were ever our universe it has long since ceased...

This Scott( Alexander) is the one whose quote PZ mis-attributed to Scott Aaronson. Hence Scott Alexander is a real shitlord, although PZ is playing dumb of the true extent of his shitlord-ness because it would mean correcting a mistake, whereas Aaronson (MIT) is merely a minor-mistaken-for-major sh...

Dear Pit, I need your collective advice. I have been literally twitching, sniffling and sharting with depression, anxiety, rage, and depressed, anxious rage all day. See, there's this African-American coworker I'm friends with. Today my friend referred to an annoying client of ours, a fellow PoC, as...

Jan Steen wrote:
ClichÃ© Guevara wrote:
Hey, I rarely get any good ideas, don't go stealing the ones I do have!
I wouldn't call it stealing, more a case of great minds thinking alike. :D

Well, as long as we've got some kind of mind-meld going on, can you send some of your artistic know-how and skills my way?

It is widely believed that Myers went off the rails after Elevatorgate, when he became infatuated with Rebecca Watson and discovered that he had been a life-long feminist. Well, that may be true. But I have a rival theory. Remember that Myers used to rub shoulders with Richard Dawkins, and that he ...

Four pages overnight? Did something...oh.

http://sjwar.blogspot.com/2015/01/if-on ... -free.html

If it's coming from my butt, it's poop. Even if it just appears to be brown water gushing in torrents it's still poop. I am a simple man. Which wrestler is that? Andre the Giant . Oh man, another wonderful Andre story came when Bad News talked about a time that the Giant was sick, but also had been...

Are you guys serious about conserving water, or are you just a bunch of spoiled kids goofing around? Fuck all this hippie shit about how rarely you wash your greasy hair. I want to hear details on toilet usage. Put up or shut up. How long do you go in between flushes? I could bathe a family of six i...

>Rapist footballer released from prison >Club signs him >People start a petition to voice their displeasure >Club doesn't listen >People make RAPE AND DEATH THREATS to the club in retaliation for them not listening >Club backs down >Club reckons if people are angry enough to make threats then they ...

And the father of one of them is heavily involved in promoting democracy in Indonesia and the SEA region. Someone (you?) mentioned earlier that Islam is supposedly antithetical to democracy. Go figure. The Steersbot may wish to peruse a decade's worth of writings on this topic from Razib Khan, of B...

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11095/9636345/sky-sources-oldham-deal-to-sign-ched-evans-is-off Sky Sports News HQ sources indicated on Thursday morning that the move would not go ahead and the club have now confirmed the news, with an official statement expected later in the day. Around 70,...

I'm going to be disappointed if you don't at least make it wrestling-themed. Do you and the other guy tag in and out? Do you sometimes do a run-in like an enraged heel and smack him in the back with a chair? Do you do color commentary? I wear a wrestling mask and go by the the El La Cabeza Dey Pequ...

Watching my wife with other people is fun. Ok. :bjarte: If you don't want to know the answer then don't ask the question. Btw I reject the concept of overshare. I'm going to be disappointed if you don't at least make it wrestling-themed. Do you and the other guy tag in and out? Do you sometimes do ...

In the simplest of terms, I like kittens a lot, more than I like being human. Therefore, I envision a future where through technology, I could put my human body out to pasture and take the form of a robotic kitten. Until such a time, all I can do is to affect the mannerisms of a robotic kitten from...

Really? wrote:
ClichÃ© Guevara wrote:What? No 'shops of the "executive committee" engaged in deliberation yet?

I'm spoiled.
I did see this earlier:

All right, that'll hold me for a little while.

What? No 'shops of the "executive committee" engaged in deliberation yet?

I'm spoiled.

Tribble wrote:
NoGodsEver wrote:That Godfrey Elfwick thing is a Poe, right?
There is no possible way of telling. The SJWs and the Poe's have both gone beyond the event horizon.

Better. It's a Parsehole.

* The pit, continues it's never ending goal to find issues to debate each other about. People who misuse commas and apostrophes in the same sentence are scabrous sewer dwellers who can only find relief from their incurable peotillomania by raping barnyard animals. A quick death would be too good fo...

Am I the only one disappointed with the drift into nitpicking and knowingly uncharitable interpretations of PZ and Co? IMO opinion the Pit is sidelining itself into a circus act which can easily be dismissed because of the fabricated smears, and disingenuous smears are essentially fabrications in m...

And what's the problem with being 'condescending'? We don't worry about being 'condescending' when we argue there's no god or that 'intelligent design' is horseshit. http://fredrikdeboer.com/2014/04/29/bingo-cards-go-both-ways/ All of this, frankly, is politically ruinous. I meet and interact with ...

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage/ In the same way, publicizing how strongly you believe an accusation that is obviously true signals nothing. Even hard-core anti-feminists would believe a rape accusation that was caught on video. A moral action that can be taken just as we...

A year and a half ago, I remember being pretty fucking shocked to see one Pitter saying that he didn't feel any empathy for the Oklahoma tornado victims because "they" always vote for Republicans, and thus deserve the lack of federal assistance they're going to get. He even prefaced it by saying (I...

In defense of Ophelia No. Just no. Too late. A year and a half ago, I remember being pretty fucking shocked to see one Pitter saying that he didn't feel any empathy for the Oklahoma tornado victims because "they" always vote for Republicans, and thus deserve the lack of federal assistance they're g...

Hey everyone, So I've been dealing with kind of a tricky proposition, and that's how to explain this whole atheism drama to an outsider. How would you do it? Put a copy of Robert Ingersoll's writings into their hands and say, "There, that's all you need to know about atheism. Now, turn around and r...

Personally, I couldn't wish any worse punishment on them than to have them spend hours every day wallowing in an environment where twitchy whackjobs who take offense to everything under the sun compete to see who's the most pathetically miserable and righteously angry. The problem is, it doesn't lo...

Still, you have to admit that there potentially exists some sort of satisfaction in seeing a few of these nutters get a spoonful of their own medicine. It might accomplish nothing for the "greater good", but I'd be lying if I said I wouldn't enjoy reading about one of them actually crying themselve...

If you do not agree with me I may think you are a passive lamb. God forbid I may even express that opinion. That's how how it works. And yes I do think the horde ultimately are filled with self fear of exposure as the inane vacuous marginalised souls they are. And yes per bunny-gate, they can modif...

If you do not agree with me I may think you are a passive lamb. God forbid I may even express that opinion. That's how how it works. And yes I do think the horde ultimately are filled with self fear of exposure as the inane vacuous marginalised souls they are. And yes per bunny-gate, they can modif...

You are never too old to re-evaluate your position. Trust me, no tears here - just interested whether the new data just published lubes the thinking gears. I don't like dumb and I think passivity and lamb like behaviour in the face of this is pretty stupid. btw - my point was and is not to pursue a...

You have tried to rule out using satirical pictures as a tool to urge Watson to stop being Twatson. Exposing the lies, hypocrisy, and collateral damage in words - including your own, detailed posts in this area - has failed miserably, as she is currently second only to Snarkeesian when it comes to ...

AnonymousCowherd wrote:Dear Shoopers of the 'pit.

I may not append a smiley to every post you make, but each and every one of them warms the cockles of my graphically challenged, er, cockle holder.

Consider yourselves thanked.

Carry on!

Yeah, what s/h/it said. Thanks, fellows.

http://www.wwtdd.com/2008/06/mark-wahlberg-sucks-2/ I hate Mark Wahlberg and his wooden line reads and the way he furrows his stupid brow and tries to look intense but just looks confused, like a caveman poking a turtle with a stick. Seriously. He should be begging to be pardoned for impersonating a...

Psst! Hey, Southern! Happy Festivus.

Oh, I wouldn't dream of forbidding you guys from publicly masturbating. I just wanted to see if you were under the illusion that you were doing anything but. Che - Perhaps you're missing the fact that it's not that we're particularly interested in PZ as an individual. It's more of a case-study in w...

another lurker wrote:Can they cum on your face?

I guess they can if they really want to, but if it were me, I'd be aiming for Parsehole's irresistible chin.

Speculating about what an idiot like Peezus rilly rilly believes deep down in his heart of hearts is worthless intellectual masturbation. It makes no pratical difference whether he's a calculating cynic or a mere simpleton. Change my view. Why would anyone try to change your view that is consistent...

Most SJWs actually the shit that they spew, which forces them to shut down most critical faculties to avoid the dissonance. PZ (and a few others like him) don't believe it, but are trying to believe it and this also forces them to stop thinking because thought is incompatible with the desired belie...

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