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

Before BLM formally started, there was the killing of Trayvon Martin also. Opinions varied here. My take was that George Zimmerman should have been tried and convicted of something , but that the prosecutors seriously overreached in charging him with murder and maybe even manslaughter. I read the j...

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The last time that I watched that video, Dawkins had a stroke. Wonder what will happen this time.

Because "BLM" is code. Which is why I hate "Focus on the Family". It is code for anti-gay. "BLM" is only concerned about black lives ended by police. It is code for "anti-police" among a lot of other things, like feel guilty because you are white. Except I don't feel guilty, especially when I'm whi...

I don't understand what issues people have with the “black lives matter” slogan, which quite clearly is meant as black lives matter, too . It stands in context of the perception that racism has deadly consequences and people don't care enough. Now I know the full picture is more complicated, though...

When someone suggested that Obama woudl cancel the election 6 years ago, I scoffed. Even two years ago. But in the last year its been in the back of my mind... Not a chance. Obama has nothing to offer that either of the two upcoming candidates can't offer. All off the effort, people and dollars put...

rayshul wrote:I feel I can speak on behalf of the entire Slymepit that we all pledge to not kill people.

Only Damion speaks for the Pit. Until he tells me to stop (which will require that someone quote him), I ain't stopping.

Why are you all talking about Islamic terrorism? My money says that the truck driver is a descendant of Bernard René Jourdan.

I actually agree that direct comparisons between what a real person does and what a fictional character does are either silly or too simplistic to be useful. Murphy Brown Syndrome at best.

I would like to know what he thinks this program says about the varying masculinities in Western culture. [youtube]13MeM5pg29Q[/youtube] Remember the controversy about Tinky-Winky? Male. Purple. Handbag. Triangle on head (which was the symbol of Act Up of "silence = death" fame). It was as bad as: ...

My niece watches Adventure Time. It's a really messed up cartoon. I remember that she was watching an episode where a mentally unstable talking cookie wanted to become a princess and took everyone hostage. Not to mention a character who looked like a dog with tentacles. I mean, holy shit. Children'...

Matt Cavanaugh wrote:Legally, men are a protected class.

Yep. And Title IX is one of the laws that makes this true.

Note, also, that until the end of the Obama Administration, Title IX concerns self-identified gender, not biological sex, so anyone who claims to be a woman can walk into that lounge. This might be a low-stress way to test how seriously we need to take the new reading of Title IX. It seems less inte...

I support this complaint... but it will truly go nowhere. My prediction is that there will be some half-assed attempt to make it seem like men never were really banned from the room. This is what the University of Iowa did with the gender-segregated Muslim prayer rooms in their student union. If th...

Civil rights complaint against women-only study area in student union at public university: http://dailycaller.com/2016/07/12/michigan-state-faces-civil-rights-complaint-for-women-only-student-union-lounge/ From the article: http://dailycaller.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Michigan-State-Universit...

Oppression consists, not only of brute force and resource inequality, but of the hierarchy of speech: The ability of those in power to decide whose voices are heard, whose experiences matter, whose concerns or goals are “serious” and “political” and whose are merely “personal” and should be ignored...

I've been living parasitically off my boyfriend since moving to Alaska. To kill time while he works, I've been volunteering around town. The other day I was playing pinochle with the oldsters at the senior center and I couldn't help but notice the music over the sound system-Sinead O'Conner, Kate B...

Cnutella wrote:You win this round...

Holy shit that Helen Mirren ad. Was that ever shown on TV? I don't remember it, if so. And I would have remembered that.

Warning: if you do some googling, looking for more, you're going to end up viewing granny porn with PZ. Don't ask me how I know.

Can you imagine the shame of risking a felony conviction for voyeurism, sneaking into a women's dressing room with your cell phone, only to come away with a picture of a half-naked Danielle Muscato?

I didn't read much on this page but did see the picture of Andre the Giant. Then I Googled "target woman dressing idaho" (because I was wondering what mordacious1 was on about) and was surprised to see the same picture.

So Theresa May has appointed BoJo as her Foreign Sec. People are reading the entrails to see what it means. Confidence in her ability to tame a nutter in the cabinet? Or crapping her panties in case he goes all Radio on her? Of all Cabinet Members, which spends the most time out of the country? Jus...

Eve Ensler wrote:What truth would we have to tell about ourselves to unravel these strangulating tentacles of racism and violence?

$10 says PZ got a little hard when he read "strangulating tentacles."

Feminist Frequency, Tropes Against Women in Video Games "Ms. Male Character" November 18, 2013 1.22 Million youtube views This video covers the "Ms. Male Character" trope, in which female characters are merely variants of established male characters with stereotypical female identifiers, such as Ms...

Damn that sexism in stem. Jupiter mission pic. http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/120019e928e3ec0846b84514ace1d734 http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/space/nasas-juno-spacecraft-sends-first-images-of-jupiter/news-story/d2460a2a4d6de7530427fa95f4d3553f Liar! I know for a fact that that's a Hu...

Houston did it pretty well. The data are better for Lowell, Massachusetts, but they weren't dealing with as much of a problem. Baltimore's program started out mixed (with more success on the east side [black] than Hamden [white]) and then fell on its face. NYC's program was too focused on people to ...

Again, that's not the Broken Window Theory I know. When done correctly, it's foot patrols in neighborhoods where the cop first tells the people living there what is out of compliance. In some places, there are funds or groups that help fix places up and the cop mentions these or gives the home-owner...

Do you really think that Dr Richard Carrier PhD is going to need our help for him and his socks to swing this vote?

Brive1987 wrote:A special couple appear to be having sex behind me on the train.

Their day has started off better than mine.

Special?

Sure, their day started better than yours, but....

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It entails treating arbirary infractions-- like riding a bicyle on the sidewalk-- as crimes, in order to entangle a large portion of the populace on the wrong side of the law/ so later, when pursuing 'real' crimes, bail can be high, or denied & maximum sentences can be advised. It's evil. In nyc, G...

I had the pleasure of touring New York City in 1982 at the "height" of its shittiness. The horrible street scene from that time is hard to exaggerate. Broadway had just about died as the area was taken over by porn theaters and sleezy adult only venues. Large areas of the city were over taken by ag...

I am not so sure about overlooking crimes such as vandalism. "Broken Window Theory" can't be reduced to 'overlooking vandalism'. It entails treating arbirary infractions-- like riding a bicyle on the sidewalk-- as crimes, in order to entangle a large portion of the populace on the wrong side of the...

I'd add "fund raising for municipalities" to the list of things police shouldn't be tasked with. Agreed. Seems to be a common complaint from police. I'd go further and say that whether a cop enjoys or dislikes giving out things like traffic tickets is a good test of whether they're a pig or a cop.

Ah, yes, many Europeans do still love Obama, don't they. Obama was probably one of the best presidents, especially in light of the obstructions, and considering G. W. Bushs expensive war adventures and a massive financial crisis. Yeah, continuing us down the path of drone-strikes (outside of war-zon...

dogen wrote:University Might Expel Student Who Criticized Black Lives Matter

:bjarte:

Note that some time, place, and manner restrictions on free speech at public universities have stood up. Odds are, however, they are going to try to claim it was "hate speech."

AndrewV69 wrote:
Billie from Ockham wrote:Oh, and thanks for the links AndrewV69. I marked the spot for when my spoons-to-sarcasm ratio is high enough.
eh? Sorry to go all aspie on you but what links related to what topic?

Didn't you post a bunch of links related to Brexit? Maybe not. I blame the 70s.

You should never take your macho SJW persona into real life. Apparently two men were arguing about BLM online and the pro BLM guy got pissed and made threats to the other man's family. The two knew each other , so the BLM guy decides to take his argument over to the guy's house. The family locked t...

Oh, and thanks for the links AndrewV69. I marked the spot for when my spoons-to-sarcasm ratio is high enough.

Another day, another nasty - and quite possibly illegal in the US - threat from FfTB. Meyers, those sure are some charming folk you encourage on your network: http://i.imgur.com/83QuC7z.png I don't think that qualifies as illegal in the US. Had Raucous threatened to do that to Fred, that would be i...

Another day, another nasty - and quite possibly illegal in the US - threat from FfTB. Meyers, those sure are some charming folk you encourage on your network: http://i.imgur.com/83QuC7z.png Not just illegal. That's a sexual violence PZ is endorsing there. The standard you walk past. Um, suggesting ...

I took her general point as making a distinction between legal labels and what is simply true. On that I agree completely. Yes, this is true, what is "true" can be known only according to evidence. Accusations alone shouldn't be enough to assume guilt even outside of a court of law. Yes, but the ev...

Please don't post any more quotes like that from Giliell. I find it extremely painful when I agree with her. You don't fully agree with her. She thinks that "innocent until proven guilty" is only for court proceedings AND you can also shout totally unfounded rape accusations anywhere you like AND t...

Please don't post any more quotes like that from Giliell. I find it extremely painful when I agree with her.

ConcentratedH2O, OM wrote:http://i.imgur.com/VfYSIk4.png

If the movie that they were going to ... and were made late by the protest ... happened to be Ghostbusters, then the protesters did them a favor.

AnonymousCowherd wrote:
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#BlueLivesMatter
Love how the "art" is about the water near the town it is taking place in. So much more, um, obvious than just having people there - 60-80% water themselves, whatever colour they are.

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sp0tlight wrote:
Cnutella wrote:Looks like there's some confusion there about how stop and search should actually work.
Stop and frisk.

I'd even go so far as to question "stop and frisk" as a package, given that the pat-down requires its own RAS.

I think some people might be scoffing at the idea that part of what is needed to stop all this corruption, cruelty, treachery and violence. is more of the right kind of love. Am I right? Yup. http://s3.amazonaws.com/asmedia/7e476176ce705229d2c0398971007823/Q9x8UpP_02.jpg Looks like there's some con...

I love that movie, so I appreciated this allusion. My son and I argued for an hour about the meaning of the origami unicorn before I realized that he'd seen the version without the dream sequence. Quite a few ideas/theories here re: the unicorn. http://www.br-insight.com/significance-of-the-unicorn...

Oops. Above is to Service Dawg. :)

There are a whole bunch of semi-conflicting rulings on lying, etc, during interrogations which boil down to allowing a few verbal lies but not repeated lies, false threats, or faked physical evidence. I'm actually OK with that balance because it is during a formal interrogation. What I'm not OK with...

I cant reconcile probable cause (or reasonable suspicion) with the way the supreme court has authorized cops to tell direct lies. That's what I was referring to earlier. It's a huge source of mistrust between ordinary people and cops. But it does not need to be that way. Frazier v Cupp was only dir...

My bad, too, Yeti, as I have mixed the locations of the two things that we are cross-talking about. Michael Brown was in a stop-and-ID state, so a Terry Stop would have been enough to ID him.

NP, Yeti. Once it became clear to me that they wanted to ID the guy, I could see why they wanted more than a Terry Stop. That actually shows decent thinking on the part of the cop ... knowing that a Terry Stop wouldn't legally get him what he wanted in the state where he worked.

You only need RS for a Terry Stop but Terry stops get challenged quite a bit in court and if the defense successfully challenges your RS for the stop then any evidence stemming from the stop is thrown out. Much better in practice to have PC to make the stop due to an observed traffic violation and ...

Tribble wrote:
Bhurzum wrote:http://favoritememes.com/_nw/31/82634070.jpg
Rutger Hauer has become trans-lemur?

I love that movie, so I appreciated this allusion. My son and I argued for an hour about the meaning of the origami unicorn before I realized that he'd seen the version without the dream sequence.

The only quibble that I have with the article that you posted is When they noted that the pc for stopping Michael Brown was walking in the street as if It was wrong for the officer to stop him. The officer was looking for a robbery suspect, saw a suspect matching the description, and used the misde...

NYPD withdraws Auxiliaries from streets http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/07/08/nypd-dallas-shooting/ Police should withdraw from areas which think they can police themselves. Let's see how that works out. The point was that they are pulling the unarmed cops. And some aux "cops" are not only unarmed...

At times like these, a little Dave Chappelle is helpful. E.g.,

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Former Dallas Cowboys defensive back Deion Sanders took to Twitter to call for prayer and affirm that “all lives matter” in the wake of a massacre in his city that left five law enforcement officers dead and 12 people wounded at a Black Lives Matter march. Not everyone like his message. One Twitter...

Malky wrote:What? Too much info?

:oops:

Too much info would be telling the story of how your wife said "Dr Evil was right" the first time you had sex after your vasectomy. And how you had to continue to shave your scrotum for the next five fucking* years.

* nb. both gerund and adjective, in this case

A perfectly innocent man, who nonetheless ought not to be surprised that if he chooses to walk in a protest march with a rifle slung over his shoulder (the photo doesn't show us anything but the butt, and it's not some beautiful walnut-stocked Weatherby. It's a plastic stocked tactical style weapon...

Lsuoma wrote:
Bhurzum wrote:What's next, a suit crafted out of discarded foreskins?
Problem with that is that if you rub it accidentally it gets six sizes too big and falls off.

sigh

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