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I just watched an American TV show produced within the last two years. Geeze the politics injection is tedious. Every episode had to have an obvious dig at Trump. How do you American fucks deal with that shit?

Ms O'Dwyer, who is also the Minister for Women, made clear when she announced her shock resignation from federal politics on Saturday afternoon that she expected a woman to replace her as the Liberal candidate. Prime Minister Morrison emphatically added: "Hear, hear." Best person for the job .... S...

Kirb might find this interesting. SocJus as a form of Calvinism:

Speaking of which, I could do with a good piss.

I'm wondering if the deplatforming we're seeing now is the inevitable result of Operation Choke Point, which was an Obama era initiative to crack down on banks that did business with anyone the US DOJ felt were doing illegal things.

Not to mention thousands of fish dying in the rivers. That's one of the signs of the apocalypse.

Left field buyers remorse. Seven in 10 Aussies don’t want more migrants, ANU survey reveals https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/seven-in-10-aussies-dont-want-more-migrants-anu-survey-reveals/news-story/8d6e45de83aea4fc04e6765bc6d8a7c6 Even above and beyond all the culture stuff, Australia, it...

Not that this thread is anything but a joke, made so by people who complain about this discussion on the main thread, but this is relevant:

Ape+lust wrote: ↑
Lsuoma wrote: ↑ Oh, and Apers? You're a sick fuck...
Not as sick as Mr Bezos, apparently. This woman he's seeing might be another Elyse :D

https://i.imgur.com/ujxQMQK.png

"I want to be reincarnated as your tampon"

Tucker's monologue is worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSuQ-AyiicA Ben Shapiro's response is worth reading too: https://www.dailywire.com/news/39964/tucker-carlson-claims-market-capitalism-has-ben-shapiro This review is also good: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/tuck...

Take this bullshit to the thread designated for it: http://slymepit.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=544 This shit is driving people away. I've tried, oh gods how I have tried. I created separate threads, asked nicely, but to no avail, because of a certain angry Aussie. Although I'm a sorta free spee...

He did deplatform Goldy, after all.

Fundamentally, Brive, as much as you want to distance yourself from the Blood and Soil fascists, you share eith them the anti-Enlightenment assumption that collective identity is more important than individual rights. I think Peterson (and by extension Brive) are absolutely right to point out that ...

The Progressive left has become increasingly more and more ideologically and tribally driven over the last decade or so. Or I guess more so, as the American left has shifted up from Liberalism to Progressivism, the quality of their arguments has gone down significantly. It's at a "The rich are bad,...

Me: "There are some authoritarian tendencies in the Social Justice left, what with the idea of dissent being offensive and offense needing to be quashed, which produces memes like "mansplaining" or "stay in your lane" or "words are violence". This is a potential danger, as seen many times in academ...

There's a joke I like from Estonia: Two policemen are walking along their beat during the heyday of the USSR. One policeman asks the other "What do you think of the government?" The second policeman, thinking quickly says "Same as you, comrade." The first policeman responds "I'm sorry, I'm going to ...

KiwiInOz wrote: ↑
Wed Jan 02, 2019 3:07 pm

rayshul wrote: ↑
Wed Jan 02, 2019 5:07 am
I've been doing some dating and you'd be surprised how many men are secretly conservative and just leave the mention off their profiles. ^_^ Just in case.
Some of us are conservative liberals, or liberal conservatives.

Or anarchist conservatives. Or authoritarian liberals.

Pre-Industrial revolution people were living in smaller isolated communities. Their shared narrative (which was really just a subset of their shared cultural practices and life experiences) would have come from various sources - undoubtedly the local pastor played a part - but there were most likel...

rayshul wrote: ↑
Wed Jan 02, 2019 5:07 am
I've been doing some dating and you'd be surprised how many men are secretly conservative and just leave the mention off their profiles. ^_^ Just in case.

Nah, that doesn't surprise me in the least.

Is christendom the same thing as the Holy Roman Empire? Or does it include the Eastern Orthodox nations too? Maybe. These things are inherently hard to define. The important point is that there was a shared narrative. You could be sure that everyone had some understanding of the Bible. I don't thin...

rayshul wrote: ↑
Tue Jan 01, 2019 6:46 pm
Happy new year!
Sorry to those who’ve had a less than ideal start
I start this year single and in australia on holiday!
So you know if y’all know any single guys let me know

Do you still have a perfect pussy?

n order to reach the Heavens, you need one language, one culture, in order to work together. The closer you get to Heaven, however, the more likely you are to break up as the language and culture breaks up. That's exactly what we're seeing now in the West. There is no longer a unifying culture, and...

So I watched My Fair Lady recently and then this article appeared: https://quillette.com/2018/12/26/refighting-the-usage-wars/ This is a half finished thought about the endles Kirb/Brive wars. It occurs to me that the same problem described in this article about the prescriptive versus descriptive ...

Happy New Year Pitters!

If only you'd had a little bit o' luck! I love old Looney Tune cartoons. 'What's Opera, Doc?' may be the best animation ever made. What I have difficulty with is the caricatures of period actors. It was only when I saw Casablanca, that the Peter Lorre caricatures started to make sense. I'm not too ...

If only you'd had a little bit o' luck! I love old Looney Tune cartoons. 'What's Opera, Doc?' may be the best animation ever made. What I have difficulty with is the caricatures of period actors. It was only when I saw Casablanca, that the Peter Lorre caricatures started to make sense. I'm not too s...

So I watched My Fair Lady recently and then this article appeared: https://quillette.com/2018/12/26/refighting-the-usage-wars/ This is a half finished thought about the endles Kirb/Brive wars. It occurs to me that the same problem described in this article about the prescriptive versus descriptive a...

Merry Christmas Pitters. It was a pretty good day.

Kirbmarc wrote: ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMW19scI2g0

We're going to get Shorten next year. Not quite sure if he's worse than Corbyn. He's certainly more machiavellian, although less of a communist.

I think we've found the Russian bot.

I agree. You can never trust a Turk. They'll always be lying sometime.

free thoughtpolice wrote: ↑Holy shit! I am allergic to yellowjackets.

This explains why you hate the French rioters.

Most of the whale sightings around here have been Humpbacks and Orcas and although Gray Whales aren't super rare here, the odd bit about this whale is how far up the river he was, not terribly far from the top of the intertidal zone. Occasionally we have orcas chasing seals in the spot where that p...

AndrewV69 wrote: ↑ The French, Coming Apart

Despite your double cut&paste, this is a really good analysis. Thanks Andrew.

"Do you want to come back to my place, bouncy-bouncy?"

The braid girls, certainly.

Kirbmarc wrote: ↑teaching languages to foreigners in my spare time

"My hovercraft is full of eels."

Brive1987 wrote: ↑There are no bad people, just bad ideas. Or something.

People don't have ideas, ideas have people.

free thoughtpolice wrote: ↑
Mon Dec 17, 2018 7:14 pm

Brive1987 wrote: ↑
Holy shit! I got 5 minutes into 55 minutes of drivel. I will never forgive you until you can compensate for those 5 minutes of my life I will never get back. :twisted:

This is why YouTube allows you to double the video playback speed.

https://www.spin.com/2018/12/jack-dorsey-azealia-banks-hair-amulet/ The rapper who allegedly received Dorsey’s facial hair, I’m very excited to share, was Azealia Banks. She tweeted about this exchange in 2016, writing that Dorsey “sent me his hair in an envelope because i was supposed to make him a...

One thing I wonder about PayPal is that it was a Theil and Musk project. Have they completely moved on so they no longer have any input at all? Theil in particular would probably be against this, I would have thought.

Thanks. I ended up going with chicken ravioli.

Brive1987 wrote: ↑

Yes. Let’s be responsible and secure peace in our minds.

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It's almost like there's a River of Blood.

TheMudbrooker wrote: ↑If it does come to that, perhaps you Brits can petition Her Majesty to dissolve the Government. If I remember correctly, that's one of the many powers the monarch still actually has but doesn't use.

I'd prefer to see beheadings at the Tower of London again.

May held on? That's insane.

Brive1987 wrote: ↑ Looks the French Scrooge was a North African. Weird.

I thought Strasbourg was in France?

I'm planning an 8 course meal for my parents for New Years Day. I'm looking for a small fish course that isn't too fishy, as they aren't huge fish eaters. Anyone got good fish taster recipes?

Brive in his new home:

I didn’t say if. I said when. But no fixed timings. My daughter has just now finished school so I feel my indentured job is done. Looking for options. In a perfect world I’d teach history for a few years in a nice private school in a nice country town. Just like PZ, but without the tumble weeds. Bu...

Brive1987 wrote: ↑
Mon Dec 10, 2018 12:50 am

Keating wrote: ↑We have a moat.
I’d pay a fence surcharge to put one around Sydney.

Once I completed my tree change.

You're moving? Aren't Sydney property prices collapsing?

We have a moat.

How come there isn’t a word like ‘culturalism’? Discrimination based on someone’s culture.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/05/17/tocqueville-in-america Movingly, Tocqueville is always trying to negotiate a contract between his élitism and his populism, his anxiety about equality and his love of freedom: his great book is really its fine print. The intellectual power of the book is...

Tim Cook accepting a “courage against hate” award from the ADL is fucking embarrassing and concerning in equal measure. As is the attempted radicalisation of Sargon by the fascist liberals. Strange times. Seriously listen to the ADL speech as Cook invokes Apple’s (literally) religious mission again...

Which again raises the question as to why all major interwebs functions are solidly left-wing. Decidedly to the far-left in most cases. Why no right-wing companies? I wonder if the same reasoning for women and minorities apply to why right-wing are underrepresented in STEM...? I suppose that depend...

I’ve now seen two people get upset at God fucking Mary without her noticing. The first was a liberal trying to shit on Western tradition because of nihilistic self destructiveness. The second is a riddle. Or maybe the motivation is to point out how religious thinking gets people to accept moral lap...

Serious query from the Pit: who the fuck are you? Long time (several years) lurker, starting sporadically reading the 'Pit after seeing Peezus's hypocrisy and Becky's ascendence to martyrdom in The Elevator. Never a member of the Horde though, and only a very occasional reader of FTB and whatever t...

McWhorter is really impressive in this debate:

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