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

Aron Ra leaves FtB for Patheos. I'm suprised he didn't leave long ago, his association with the network often gave rise to guilt by association. https://archive.is/F6jOm What a lot of vacuous nonsense. Aron the only thing your time at fftb demonstrated was that you have a gaping ideological hole in...

Parody Accountant wrote:Shatterface, let me just ask one thing. Do you even have your own apartment?

I live in my mom's basement, just like the rest of you.

Steers. how is it that you can read between the lines that Radford is making a legal threat but are unable to read between the lines and see that Watson was making an accusation?

Brive1987 wrote:
Aneris wrote:
Spike13 wrote:Hit lists, shit lists. You poor peez.

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There were other accusations of a 'sexual predatory' nature against Richard Feynman, Carl Sagan and Isaac Asimov - who have all, so far, failed to respond. Just what is it they are hiding?

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/353/967/a4a.jpg Well, I'm out of that now. I've put a couple of people on ignore and it's not NEC or even Damion. The Pit is the last place I'd expect people to defend punishing people for a joke. The 'self-censorship' shit was the final straw.

So I really don't have time for people who think employers have the right to treat employees like shit. Could have fooled me. In any event no one is advocating here for employers to have unfettered power. Get over yourself. No, you don't think they should have 'unfettered' power, just the power to ...

This will be fun when the war chest is filled with money, but no way to spent it. I'm sure Radford's #1 priority is to clear his name but it would be hilarious if he decided no to sue after all because he'd be better off having Watson completely screw herself over holding that bag a cash with nowhe...

This is how draconian labour laws are. My organisation has strict data protection policies meant to protect client information and it is forbidden to send certain types of information outside the agency. A friend of mine, coming up to retirement, requested pension information from our HR. She then f...

Jesus fucking Christ. Are you fucking retarded? It's 'self-censorship' to refrain from going after someone's job? Are you fucking kidding me? Can anyone be this fucking stupid? Technically it IS self-censorship to refrain from going after someone's job. It is also self-censorship to avoid calling f...

Ophie has an opinion on the Aron and liland ras deserting the sinking ship: https://archive.is/b6unm This has to be someone playing her, right? (Italics in original) #1 Delft August 21, 2015 at 10:55 am At bottom I donâ€™t think the issue is disagreement. If you had been more â€¦ pliant? Come to he...

I'm a bit taken aback by some of the "rights" of employers arguments but perhaps I'm not getting it. So I have to ask questions. Should companies have the right to fire their employees for any reason they choose? No, which is why I'm a union rep. Should employees have rights protecting them from un...

shat her face are you okay? you're on edge today. As I said, the two fucking things I hate on the Internet are social media lynch mobs and stupid fucking word games. Calling a refusal to take part in a witch-hunt 'self censorship' is the most fucking retarded thing I've ever read. Nobody is that fu...

Actually to be fair (need edit button!) I get your point. The fact that they went out of their way to fuck her over is another matter. Did I read it incorrectly? Wasn't this during a work outing? Yes, it was during a work outing. My question is if she was with the people she was chaperoning or not....

Your points are well-taken and yet you have just asked the mob and the company to "self-censor" so as to avoid offending this woman or upsetting her comfort in having a steady job. Why should they have to self-censor if she does not have to. You don't take offense at her behavior, they did. Why sho...

So if an employer found out you posted here, had a look at what gets posted, and sacked you that would be okay? If anyone wants to get me fired for anything stupid I've done online (lots of examples to choose from there!), PM me and I'll give you the info to contact my employer. I suspect that if a...

I don't think my fuck you was clear enough. Actually I believe you told ME (not Bill) to go fuck myself. Whatever. Two fucking ways guaranteed to piss me off: play stupid fucking word games or make excuses for people who cause real world harm for feelings of 'offence' that people have gone looking ...

There is no explaining outrage. It just happen sometimes. The salient point is that it reflects badly on the company and so they have to make a decision of whether to fire her and show their solidarity with those who are offended or keep her one and thus tacitly agree with her behavior. As an adult...

:-) Kind of funny as I had been looking into what that entailed since Thomas More , who had been quoted recently by Dick Strawkins, had been "sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered (the usual punishment for traitors who were not the nobility), but the King commuted this to execution by decapit...

There is no explaining outrage. It just happen sometimes. The salient point is that it reflects badly on the company and so they have to make a decision of whether to fire her and show their solidarity with those who are offended or keep her one and thus tacitly agree with her behavior. As an adult...

You guys arguing about the firing and whether it is acceptable or not are missing several big points. Companies have every right to protect their brand. If something an employee does is seen as compromising that brand, the company is free to fire them because: 1. That person's action affects more t...

It depends on what the "tangible repercussions" entail. The fact that you framed it that way is telling. There is a big difference between being killed and being fired. Boycotts and protests are themselves a form of free speech. Pointing your finger and giving the finger are both forms of free spee...

OR the person who now has her job no longer considers robbing liquor stores or setting police cars on fire. See? I can come up with arbitrary scenarios too. My point remains that since the position likely remains open I'm not sure how a tax payer's subsidy will increase on average. It MAY, sure. Bu...

It's always useful to know which Pitters are against harming people for being stupid on principle and those who merely want to pick and choose who gets hurt.

Anyone who calls for someone to be sacked over 'offence' should be prepared to pay their benefits for a year because there's no fucking way tax payers should subsidise your hurt feelies.

Considering what happened recently with Benson, I guess it's lucky that Watson has no embarrassing SJW-unfriendly comments or pictures that might come back to haunt her. http://i.imgur.com/BSWWqSn.jpg Oooops! Wow if you posted that, there would be a shit storm coming her way. [youtube]nuHfVn_cfHU[/...

Nerd of Redhead looks back and wonders why. Fears that Myers doesn't really like him. From Tony's place : http://i.imgur.com/fBlPsuP.jpg 'Myers made me do it' This almost gave me a sad. Poor Nerd, just tryin'to fit in. Run with the cool kids. And he's just now figured out that his idol doesn't like...

CuntajusRationality wrote:Nerd of Redhead looks back and wonders why. Fears that Myers doesn't really like him. From Tony's place:

http://i.imgur.com/fBlPsuP.jpg

'Myers made me do it'

http://imgur.com/9gQusij.png

Amy thought she'd seen all the nastiness the Internet had to give but those ISIS beheading videos have nothing on this.

Brive1987 wrote:It's as if De Beers had released their entire diamond stockpile at once onto an unsuspecting market.

http://i.imgur.com/kyaXCTd.jpg

Wait, isn't using the term 'rabid' as a negative hydrophobiaphobic?

Cnutella wrote:Fucking shameless.

I am finding it a little hard to believe that RW could be quite so shamelessly stupid.

Is it the shameless or the stupid you are having trouble believing?

https://twitter.com/ccaldwell314/status/634046824039362560 https://life.indiegogo.com/fundraisers/legal-defense-fund-against-libel-bullying Given the porkies told by Watson about the 'Pit (thousands of rape threats, etc), shouldn't we start our own 'Legal Defense Fund Against Libel By @rebeccawatso...

The point of libel reform was that it restricted libel laws to dealing with, you know, libel, rather than allowing someone to resort to lawfare over disputes where the law should have no application. Accusing an innocent person of sexual assault isn't the same as calling alternative medicine horsesh...

PeeZus again violating FTB's privacy policy, publishing IP/email data of dissident posters. https://archive.is/ThyrL Wondering, if this could be a violation for Google Adsense's policies. Both of the IPs he shared appear to be for proxy servers, so, y'know, good luck with that. I presume that anyon...

Tragic, but at the same time this guy showed courage I can hardly imagine: Islamic State militants beheaded a renowned antiquities scholar in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra and hung his mutilated body on a column in a main square of the historic site because he apparently refused to reveal where...

The purpose of the Charity Principle is to avoid 'straw manning' by addressing the strongest interpretation of what your opponent means. It does not include adding words and punctuation to change their words to mean precisely the opposite of their intent. If their words are that fucking unclear ask ...

Sulman wrote:Part of it is the class system that starts in some English public schools, where a military officer career (at that time) carried some cachet and was seen as an appropriate choice for the aspiring leadership class.

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The posts I enjoy not reading the most are the long ones someone spent time on.

This Watson/Mantilla thing is popcorn-worthy. I can't tell whether RW is throwing chaff, squid ink, and Mantilla under the bus by affecting to not have any recollection of the interview, or Mantilla pieced the thing together from other sources and presented it as if she had talked to her interview ...

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Shatterface wrote:The Guardian ran a story about rape this morning illustrated with a picture of Labour MP John Prescott.

An hour or so he transitioned into Andrea Dworkin.
That is one damned good plastic surgeon.

Really..?

The Guardian ran a story about rape this morning illustrated with a picture of Labour MP John Prescott.

An hour or so he transitioned into Andrea Dworkin.

The Guardian: Bangladesh says Briton arrested over murders of secular bloggers Security forces claim a UK citizen of Bangladeshi origin, Touhidur Rahman, was main planner of fatal attacks on Avijit Roy and Ananta Bijoy Das Bangladeshâ€™s security forces have arrested three suspected Islamist militan...

I think if we stopped mocking her the Horde would call her a Pitter.

Really, we're doing her a favour.

Younger than Riker's beard?

So Suey Park has grown a beard.

Cool.

Star Ninja'd

:nin:

Apparently the opposite of 'jumping the shark' is 'growing the beard' (after Riker in Star Trek: TNG).

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/M ... ngTheBeard

Charles MacGruder wrote:intredasting:

What's the opposite of 'jumping the shark?'

So Benson has joined The Friendly Atheist and conceded we are right, even if we are assholes?

There's hope for her yet.

Most people here are atheists and skeptics. There is no real problem of MRAs trying to infiltrate the a/s community, attempting to make it all about their issues and telling people what to think. On the other hand, this is exactly what the SJWs/radfems et al. are trying to do. This is why there is ...

Trolls also posted on an online forum that started in the wake of Elevatorgate, slymepit.com, "thousands of comments threatening to rape me, doing Photoshops of me, calling me a cunt."... Steersmode: In general, the comma shows that the words immediately before the comma are less closely or exclusi...

I had no idea! Thanks, I just thought before you go all poutragey and Popehat signally and ask for Brive to set up Timelines, you might want to read the quote in the most charitable to her light to see what others would think of as an "obvious lie", "filthy lie". Maybe in your neck of the world eve...

'Guest', we saw exactly your line of arguments being posted in response to Nugent's blog. It's the same wanked-out shit.

''Duh, I don't get how anal-uhr-gees work. Why must words in a sentence refer to previous words? Brain hurt now''

Being a fucking retard isn't a trump card.

Are you the same fucking 'Guest' who refused to take a nym last week or another prick entirely?

Shatterface's 2nd Law: Competence with analogies is inversely proportionate to the ability to read 'intent' into statements that quite clearly say something else.

If the claim is: being interviewed by X means you endorse X's position, what does it matter if it's Bugliosi by Manson or Manson by Bugliosi or Watson by Mantilla or vice versa? I'm a Watson apologist? It matters because there's a big fucking difference between an interviewer and an interviewee. Jo...

Ophelia said: I think Freethought Blogs the network has taken a hard turn to anti-intellectualism for the sake of absolutist political commitment. I think political commitments need to be accompanied by thinking. So, Ophie's a Pitter now? Whodda thought? :shock: :whistle: Not quite a Pitter. Opie t...

Benson's latest... In thinking about the frenzied monstering of me on Freethought Blogs over the past few weeks, I realized I must have been laboring under a misapprehension all the time I was there. I thought it was a network that was partly about thinking â€“ thinking as such, thinking as a value...

It may be featured, but when Vincent Bugliosi wrote Helter Skelter which certainly featured Charles Manson, very few people thought this was Bugliosi endorsing the views and acts of Manson, even with Bugliosi's extensive interviews of Manson. I don't see being interviewed by author X as an endorsem...

Here's a link to the full pdf: https://luceononuro1.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/the-stealth-politics-of-the-transgender-movement.pdf Oh, dear: Are intersexed and other trans people about overturning power structures, or do they just want to be free to do their own thing and get their piece of the p...

Karla Mantilla's article: "Men in Ewe's Clothing: The Stealth Politics of the Transgender Movement", on why trans women need to be excluded from women only spaces: https://luceononuro1.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/the-stealth-politics-of-the-transgender-movement.pdf Christ, that article is all over ...

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