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

Wait, are there still people around who think Obama wanted single payer? Of course he didn't. Like most of his Democrat colleagues in politics, he wants what big business tells him to want. I don't think he ever did either, or was murky at best at what he wanted. But the fact that it didn't happen ...

1. The Right's fidelity to fact and truth is hardly exemplary. 2. Your assertion that single payer could have passed with the composition of the 111th Congress rests on the assumption that Democrats would have voted for it en toto. This ignores that the House vote for the ACA was by a narrow 219-21...

An example of PZ's stellar logic from his post "Homosexuality and Evolution" "Nothing personal. Evolution doesnâ€™t play favorites. It canâ€™t: itâ€™s just the outcome of chance and physical laws interacting in particular environments." and then a miracle occurs.... "If there is one biological impe...

An example of PZ's stellar logic from his post "Homosexuality and Evolution" "Nothing personal. Evolution doesnâ€™t play favorites. It canâ€™t: itâ€™s just the outcome of chance and physical laws interacting in particular environments." and then a miracle occurs.... "If there is one biological imper...

That's actually why I still want to communicate. Not to say anything to Benson, Seven, Susan, or the twits that pile on as soon as they know that it's safe to do so. Rather, there seem to be a few halfway decent folks there and I'm sure that there's more who are merely lurking. Well I wish they cou...

Stupid and selfish question: now that I've been banned from Benson's blog, as well, can I start a new thread that is specifically for sending them messages? Consider that an honor. She has the audacity to put up a post agreeing that George Orwell of all people wrote "talented mediocrity," dissing h...

My guess is that due to their lived experiences, their choice of conservative or liberal politics is probably more informed than my own privileged and sheltered upbringing, and that contrary to Chris Mooney, they are not brain damaged and born stoopid but actually quite smart, observant and insight...

My guess is that due to their lived experiences, their choice of conservative or liberal politics is probably more informed than my own privileged and sheltered upbringing, and that contrary to Chris Mooney, they are not brain damaged and born stoopid but actually quite smart, observant and insight...

There's also the need to have their will imposed on others at work in there. A lot of people would have their opinions & preferences made public policy if given the power & time to rationalise the need for it. Exactly, if I know I'm right what is the point of having a discussion? But it's a bit tri...

Something about human nature gravitates toward the authoritarian mindset. Something about humans crave certainty even when it cannot be found. I think this is in part an explanation for the popularity of conservative churches over liberal ones. People naturally prefer certain lies over mushy nuanced...

I agree 100% on this. What exactly can we do about it though? Speaking out can't hurt. And share the Alternet & Glen Greenwald articles that Clarence linked. And vote third party. In the last primaries, I voted for 5 Greens, 3 Peace & Freedoms, and 2 Libertarians. I have issues with all three parti...

When I hear talk about politicians blamed for everything, I always think about stuff George Carlin said about it.

I don't think he's totally right about this, but essentially without an informed electorate, you get shitty politicians, that part is true.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.858347-Zoe-Quinn-and-the-surrounding-controversy?page=376 Here's the source on that quote I posted where the manager of The Escapist showed up to state that he is currently bitchslapping their SJWs around and telling them to play nice. At the end of th...

I'm not at all a fan of the surveillance state either. Maybe I'm paranoid, but I do think the government collects or is able to collect phone calls, emails, web searches, virtually anything that is possible to collect from anyone, and has done so without warrants. The main safety to the citizen is ...

I'm not trying to start a big Pit fight, but how many more trillions do you want to throw away in Iraq, a country that had no terrorists in it until we invaded based upon lies? How many more American soldiers must die because we destabilized the region for the oil? (Which was supposed to "pay for t...

On a totally different note, anyone checked out the sci fi indie film Under the Skin. It's about an alien woman played by Scarlet Johansson who drives around England in a cab and seduces men, brings them back to her lair and they get trapped in this black goo and get converted into alien food. It's...

Add in what way? Try for starters record fillibusters and delays in presidential appointments, shutting down the government, and getting to the brink of debt default, that would have caused an even bigger recession than we're barely getting out of. Plus of course the total scientific idiocy from fo...

On a totally different note, anyone checked out the sci fi indie film Under the Skin. It's about an alien woman played by Scarlet Johansson who drives around England in a cab and seduces men, brings them back to her lair and they get trapped in this black goo and get converted into alien food. It's ...

Karen Straughn seems to be quite well known here with varying degrees of acceptance and criticism. I like her and agree with her on many things. Isn't it interesting how these anti-feminist women are such weak submissive patriarchally brainwashed sexbots just trying to pander to male cock......so I...

GWW was one of the first channels I subscribed to, Austin. A few days I mentioned the t-shirt I wanted to send her: "don't tell me to stop smoking; teach cancer to stay out of folks' bodies" Great, we're on the same page. I particularly like these vids because it comes from a very intelligent woman...

I don't know how familiar y'all or or opinions about Karen Straughan are, she's apparently is a MRA. But anyway some of her YouTube videos on feminism make a great deal of sense. In fact this one (link below) is one of the best two part expose's on the problems of feminism that I've run across on th...

Notice how the mainstream left (cable news and the Democratic Party) largely stopped crying about the Patriot Act and unlawful surveillance when Obama started doing it. Same for Drones. For the most part, yes. I really wish I could bring myself to just hate the vast part of humanity. It sure would ...

Almost everything Obama campaigned on was a lie. Oh sure, y'all can blame Republicans and say he was a poor wittle victim (despite expanding executive power to crazy levels) who couldn't implement his liberal policies, but the fact remains that voters voted for a liberal progressive and got Bush 2....

Add in what way? Try for starters record fillibusters and delays in presidential appointments, shutting down the government, and getting to the brink of debt default, that would have caused an even bigger recession than we're barely getting out of. Plus of course the total scientific idiocy from fo...

Almost everything Obama campaigned on was a lie. Oh sure, y'all can blame Republicans and say he was a poor wittle victim (despite expanding executive power to crazy levels) who couldn't implement his liberal policies, but the fact remains that voters voted for a liberal progressive and got Bush 2....

If you want to see some strange posts, read the warnings that Stephen's fans give Thunderf00t in his "for sanity" video. They say some very strange things about morality and psychological attacks. It reads like scientology SP craziness. OK, I'll check that out, thanks. It would be fun if tF respond...

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She does a nice quick mock sketch about Elevatorgate at the beginning. The Ophelia Benson rants are coming.

I wonder if slymepitters know about or have any particular opinion of Stefan Molyneux. I saw Thunderf00t's brief take on his obsession with one comment he made on one of his videos. He has a large YouTube following. He's an atheist libertarian who probably creates as many new videos everyday as any...

If you want to understand the ideology of radicals left or right, including SJWs besides 1984, everyone should read The True Believer, by Eric Hoffer. It's old but it really describes the mindset of ideologues whether they be secular or religious. A bit outdated but still a great read. And you can g...

2) If feminism was a credible movement, it would have accomplished at least one of its goals over the past 40-odd years. How about starting modestly, for example by stating some concrete, feasible goals. I think the opposite. If the goals are equal participation in education, jobs, health care, you...

I wonder if slymepitters know about or have any particular opinion of Stefan Molyneux. I saw Thunderf00t's brief take on his obsession with one comment he made on one of his videos. He has a large YouTube following. He's an atheist libertarian who probably creates as many new videos everyday as anyo...

NPR should be called NBR = National Boring Radio. I am going to pretend this post never happened. I'm going to erase your opinion because I find NPR to be boring, and tend to get a lot of pops and clicks around here through the radio. Probably a little bit over the top, yes, but sometimes it's frus...

One of the biggest problems with the whole Sarkeesian phenomena, as Thunderf00t points out, is that a male equivalent of Sarkeesian could easily beg for donations, and make videos about male stereotypes and objectification of men in these same videos. Men all have to be these super stud Sylvester St...

I really don't watch MSNBC or FOX, because I don't have cable. The likes of Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly and scientologist Greta van Susteren, by themselves discredit it. Besides the fact that today's version of Charles Foster Kane monopolistic yellow journalism, Rupert Murdoch owns the network. They...

NPR should be called NBR = National Boring Radio.

After Greta Christina got her minor bump after her hypocritical attack on the amazing atheist, given she writes stories on rape fantasies, she is now back to normal. Of course she didn't have it in her to respond to his response except cry victimhood about all the terrible things that were said abou...

So Victor Stenger has died. I read a couple of his books which were great. His first debate with WL Craig was one of the biggest takedowns of him of all time. But anyway too bad he died. I notice PZ is claiming they were buddies, even if they only met a few times. Stenger was probably too old to get...

The right is founded on individualism, the left is obsessed with squashing it. That's why their big tent always falls over. That may be how the right would portray themselves, but the reality is that the right trends to conformity and authority, the left to individualism and anarchy The problem wit...

We'll Amanda Marcotte posted my comments on feminism, but surprise surprise, no replies to replies to my comments, at least for now, down the rathole of nonexistence, even if the replies were even "nicer" than the original comment. We'll she does deserve credit for at least posting one comment, whi...

We'll Amanda Marcotte posted my comments on feminism, but surprise surprise, no replies to replies to my comments, at least for now, down the rathole of nonexistence, even if the replies were even "nicer" than the original comment. We'll she does deserve credit for at least posting one comment, whic...

austin wrote:Slightly altered I posted my comments on Marcotte's post.

Of course it may never see the light of day.

Slightly altered I posted my comments on Marcotte's post.

Real answers to Amanda Marcotte -or how to answer a radical feminist. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/28/answering-questions-asked-of-feminists-by-a-misogynist/ â€œAnswering questions asked of feminists by a misogynist By Amanda Marcotteâ€ Notice right off the bat if you disagree with a feminist...

To clarify I don't think SJWs have had any influence on atheism as a whole. Atheists by and large are moderate to left of center politically. But this is mostly because the other party is adamantly anti-science cluttered with brilliant thinkers like Sarah Palin, so it makes the job pretty easy, eve...

Overall I still like Dilly, although I don't really pay attention to him much. Running a Atheist TV show in Texas of all places does take guts. However sometimes his mealy mouth go along to get along political correctness does piss me off as well.

The "creepy behavior" bit is quite relative. If you haven't bathed, dress shabbily, are older, talk awkwardly to women will you be perceived as creepy? It depends - if you are Joe Blow unemployed almost in a nursing home old guy, almost definitely so. If you are Mick Jagger, in many many cases prob...

The "creepy behavior" bit is quite relative. If you haven't bathed, dress shabbily, are older, talk awkwardly to women will you be perceived as creepy? It depends - if you are Joe Blow unemployed almost in a nursing home old guy, almost definitely so. If you are Mick Jagger, in many many cases proba...

There was the panel, then elevator guy, then complaining about elevator guy, then dear Muslima. I would love to watch a video of the discussion in the bar before elevator guy. My theory predicts that Watson was out of her depth in any serious conversations that took place, was aware of this, and be...

tl;dr - I'm in a weird zone where, right now, I can still post in some SJW forums, but probably only because I remain very calm and never respond directly to things that I vehemently disagree with (which are almost always their assumptions). I did not answer Sally Strange's claim that being male ha...

To clarify I don't think SJWs have had any influence on atheism as a whole. Atheists by and large are moderate to left of center politically. But this is mostly because the other party is adamantly anti-science cluttered with brilliant thinkers like Sarah Palin, so it makes the job pretty easy, even...

Get the fuck out of here. Also, Paul Fidalgo, COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR of the CENTER FOR INQUIRY is blocking people on Twitter for ASKING QUESTIONS? The FUCK? Moreover, he's doing it because he watched a femfreq video where Anita misrepresents games yet again to support a narrative comforming to her...

I guess the passion is down in PZ warriorland. I noticed quickly that all the posts about Sarkeesian, and Whedon, and all related SJW stuff are tiny. All the science stuff is tiny as well, presumably because the majority of readers who once cared or even knew anything about science are long gone, th...

The hell? The one with the dog made me laugh out loud. "A dog has been modified to do disturbing things!" Disturbing things - hilarious. Have any of these people actually seen real dogs? They do this sort of thing all the time. That's why they're called dogs. The Chris Morris Paedogeddon special ha...

There are plenty of very prominent atheists who are women that SJWs don't like, because they don't agree with them. For example, Abbie Smith has more scientific creds than almost everyone on freethoughtblogs including PZ Myers. If I wanted to learn something in particular about actual real science I...

Zvan seems to think that the meme that regards them as thought police originates and spread infectiously from the pit: http://freethoughtblogs.com/almostdiamonds/2014/08/27/politics-and-the-english-language-revisited/ I think what she's created for herself is a comforting delusion that 'SJW as thou...

How do SJWs reconcile their claims a) of games being filled with sexism and misogyny, with b) that the majority of gamers are female? Aren't, according to SJWs, sexism and misogyny the main forces that drive women out of movements/activities? If so, then how come b) is true if a) is too? Aren't tho...

Well: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/08/28/california-bill-yes-means-yes-sex-assault/14765665/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=usatoday-newstopstories I predict Governor Moonbeam will sign it. This has went from a very bad joke a few years ago to horrifying...

Jesus. The fawning adulation is getting out of hand: https://twitter.com/ZenMonkey/status/505162245073272832 In a hundred years they'll be fully immersible virtual reality video games where you can add virtual reality feminist thought police, or anything that suits your fancy to your game if you li...

We've gone way beyond the point of no return with the SJWs. Someone who directly harasses Sarkeesian is the same as someone who criticizes her, and critics de facto condone harassment, same for Zoe Quinn. We can simultaneously think death threats against Sarkeesian even if through twitter are repreh...

Gene Roddenberry actually tried to get an abortive series called Planet Earth going in the seventies about a matriarchal radical feminist world in which a strange man appears, and they don't know what to do with him. I saw it years ago, it was funny but quite cheesy. Don't know how hard it is to fi...

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