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Nope, can't see a single reason why any police agency would dislike the Black Panthers. Must have been 100% racism and nothing else at all. It's naive to think race had nothing to do with how the Black Panthers were treated by law enforcement. The violent right wing openly carries firearms to intim...

Windows 8 is a irredeemably horrific pile of shit masquerading as a PC operating system.

We now return to your regularly scheduled madness already in progress.

Hmmm. The Net neutrality argument.... Another point I should have made in my other rant post is that NN isn't just about bandwidth. Without a regulatory requirement to provide good faith transit for all Internet traffic, there is very little stopping ISPs from outright blocking sites or services fo...

This is something I wish more people understood. This is why the days of UNLIMITED BANDWIDTH are coming to an end, because that shit is hideously expensive, Contrary to what the ISPs say, they're already being paid for their infrastructure. Cable and ADSL cost end users money and that money goes di...

Travel advice for Russians visiting America : 2. On Talking to American Women The short version: American women are a little uptight. They might call the cops if you look at them too long. And donâ€™t be gallant, that creeps them out. â€œUS etiquette prohibits flirting with a woman who is not your ...

If wealth were redistributed across the country, I'd have much less than I do now. I could survive, and possibly be quite happy, but I'd be much less comfy. If all wealth in America was redistributed evenly among every adult, you (along with everyone else) would have around $240,000 in assets. If a...

What has Twatson got on these people that results in this ludicrous fawning? It is clear as day that she is a self-serving mediocrity, a total hack, yet she is talked of as a modern-day hero, (literally) mentioned in the same breath as Nelson Mandela. I mean - what can possibly explain this bizarre...

Just for shits and giggles, this is my take on how the pecking order in American society is defined, from the most significant issue to the least: 1. Class. If you're born very rich, go to the top. Conversely, if you're born poor, go to the bottom and stay there for the rest of your life. 2. Disabil...

DownThunder wrote:Can someone explain the asterisk next to trans?

Trans* is a shorthand term for both transsexual and transgendered.

SJWism aside, these are separate conditions.

And it's what conservatives always do to liberals. Unfortunately it's much more of a jackass thing than a partisan thing. Liberals/progressives/whatever the spineless left half of the US is calling itself this week have been far too happy to spew the same bile at conservative luminaries. People lik...

Bhurzum wrote:http://www.returnofkings.com/2099/the-9 ... -feminists

Petty and stupid.

Slurs like that serve only to feed feminist victimization complexes without doing anything to undermine their positions or seriously insult them personally.

H. Korban wrote:My wife, who is just a run-of-the-mill white chick, finds it disgusting that I like brains. But, cooked with butter and curry spices, they are a delicacy. If you can get over the texture, that is.

What's the incidence of prion diseases in India?

Just wondering.

Executive director for The Center for Inquiry , ladies and gentlemen. Does organized skepticism serve any actual purpose anymore? Any purpose at all? The gulf between skeptical aspirations of fighting anti-empiricism in society and the skeptical reality of small budgets, ideological bindspots, and ...

When are these fucking morons going to realize that class is a bigger separator than race these days? They won't recognize class until the moment they find a way to use class distinctions to claim special persecuted snowflake status over their opponents. For SJWs, it's all about claiming persecutio...

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:I feel kinda sorry for Mick Nugent and what he may have to endure in the next few days/weeks/months/years.

If you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.

Anyone who stands up to support bullies deserves what they get.

Dick Strawkins wrote:Get ready for the fireworks!
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http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view2/147422 ... bomb-o.gif

Reads more like a damp squib, frankly. He's too vague and pulls too many punches in the name of being fair and balanced.

I wonder why she thinks her supporters might tend toward awkward conversations, though. Some awareness seeping through the alcohol in her brain, or what? If anything, it's more likely she's laboring under the mistaken impression she's important enough that someone would be bothered to spend $100 ju...

Unfortunately CFI is stuck with her unless they want to risk a lawsuit. Even if CFI's lawyers aren't creative enough to find a way to exploit America's notoriously weak worker rights laws to fire her legally, there are plenty of ways to manage public-facing problem employees short of termination. T...

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From LiartownUSA.

Dick Strawkins wrote:Ophelianism is a little complicated, how about 'Bensoned' ? "Myersed"?

Watsoning?

Moving the goalposts? An "Ophelianism"? It's not an exact match, but it looks like a form of equivocation. From wiki : Equivocation ("to call by the same name") is classified as an informal logical fallacy. It is the misleading use of a term with more than one meaning or sense (by glossing over whi...

There is in this cartoon a pattern of misrepresentation and disingenuousness, a disregard for the truth, that is representative of what we see on several FTB sites, on Skepchick and A+. As such the cartoon serves not only as the Pitâ€™s gold standard of unfunny humour but also as an icon of the tru...

Yesterday at reddit men's rights, a similar supposedly real life event came up, where a man in his car saw a child alone on a river bank and drove by without stopping out of fear of being labeled an abuser or prosecuted if he bothered to stop and help the kid. I don't think that's a completely unre...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Rebecca_Watson_NECSS_2011.jpg/595px-Rebecca_Watson_NECSS_2011.jpg Someone's maturity check bounced. It doesn't say much for the secularism movement that it has conveyed status on someone who can't even be bothered to dress respectfully for an...

Ape+lust wrote:Lol. One for that special somebody's Page o' Hate. From Reddit:

http://i.imgur.com/ssgPKxS.png

It appears that the /r/atheism moderators have removed that post in favor of one that lacks the potato remark in the title.

Spineless cowards.

As for all of the arguments for or against Sarkeesian's ideas, something that I see getting trampled underfoot by most is the fact that this is [arguably?] ART that's being talked about. I'm not seeing it. YMMV, but art starts to fade away when budgets reach six figures and dies entirely when share...

Am I the only one who thinks Anita Sarkeesian makes some pretty convincing points? The under-representation of women's agency in popular fiction, as a point independent of Sarky, is an issue, but I think anyone who finds Sarky convincing is far too easily convinced. Sarky's videos are built on taki...

Guest wrote:Feminist Frequency's Sarkeesian ...

... missed her true calling as a seller of used cars.

Actually, it might be the router or modem that gets overloaded (this is on the ATT 1.3 Mbs DSL). Let's say I'm streaming a football game (which takes up quite a bit of bandwidth) and my son starts watching Netflix. First, the game starts cutting out, then freezes, then the green light on the router...

Download speeds are limited by whichever part of the network between you and the site you're downloading from is slowest. If your modem reports a connection speed of 30 mbit/sec you won't see 30 mbit/sec downloads unless there's also 30 mbit/sec of spare capacity on your cable segment, your provider...

Yeah, the technology difference between DSL and Cable is insane. DSL is simply non-competitive at this point, since Cable started to jettison analog channels. At this point, available performance depends much more on effective regulation and the existence of an effective marketplace rather than tec...

Remember tardblog? It's been my experience that a lot of teachers consider their students to be something along the lines of stupid, but very few of them are crass enough to say it in public. When they're talking off-the-record to colleagues, friends, or family, however, then the descriptive gloves ...

Al Stefanelli wrote:These people are damaging the feminist movement,

These people are the feminist movement. Whatever sanity might have been involved in feminism has long since left the building. The crazies are the only ones left.

I already thought 2mg of LorazÃ©pam a day was a bit too much for comfort. Lorazepam is an anti-anxiety drug that can trigger depressed moods. Taking it while depressed can make things worse. Do you exercise much? Vigorous, daily, exercise is apparently an effective treatment for depression if you'r...

bovarchist wrote:The soundtrack to Rebecca's brain....

"me me me Me Me Me Me ME ME ME ME ME! ELEVATOR!"

I thought these women were social media experts and shit. They are social media experts. They've taken a clear case of getting caught with their hands in the jewelery jar and used social media to con hundreds of useful idiots into giving them free publicity while sliming DragonCon for enforcing its...

FWIW, things might have changed, but years ago at least, moderators on phpBB boards don't have the ability to change the avatars of other users. Doing that needs admin rights or access to the database. Moderator powers are mostly restricted to post and thread manipulation (delete, edit, split, move,...

Secondly, she says she was treated in a poor manner. Even if he got the rules right, it's good form to be respectful and accommodating where possible. Bullies don't deserve the kind of respect that is due to normal people. Since Watson could reasonably be expected to spin any interaction with the c...

Sisters to pay $125K to uncle for alleging sexual abuse.

mike150160 wrote:Wonder who she's talking about?

Every SJW and radical feminist with an online presence?

How unlikely is it that some woman will go nutso on a transwoman because "some creepy guy is trying to get a look in the women's restroom." It's even more likely to happen because of the feminist swarm that now surrounds atheism. Many feminists really hate the transgendered and put a lot of effort ...

Is this unbuttoned blouse thing: It's a TV thing. Costumes for professional women on TV are much more revealing than would be acceptable in a real office with an equivalent dress code. Unbuttoned blouses and skirts that don't even reach the top of the knee are staples of TV 'professional' costumes ...

I actually don't understand the "feminist movement" in the skeptic community. They are two separate issues. Also while I acknowledge goals may exist, I haven't seen any clearly defined goals (that aren't moving goalposts) from the "feminists." WTF do these people want? Objectives of the FC(n) or SJ...

I suspect he knows nothing he says will get through the ever thickening skulls of the SJW's and FftB dimwits. The value is in removing the doubt that begins to seep into the normal persons head from the constant screeching and misrepresentation of those willful idiots. They had seeded a lot of conf...

Modern journalists are mostly lazy and work differently, I think, than old fashiony journalists, mainly by reading what their friends are publishing and tweeting about and then rewriting and republishing the same stories. I think that's a more accurate take on modern journalism than your argument t...

And if it isn't trans folk themselves that started this and/or are doing it, then they should do their best to tell their "supporters" that their idea of helping is doing the exact opposite... Just as the SJW definition of rape covers a far wider span of behaviors than the legal definition of rape,...

@Elevatorgate should be suing. It's very unfortunate that there's no anti-SJW organization with deep enough pockets to fund legal defenses for people who have been defamed by rabid feminists. It's disgusting that SJWs have been able to silence critics of feminism by manipulating service providers, a...

Something tells me Scalzi won't be in a hurry to denounce the Public Shaming tumblr for doing essentially what @elevatorgate did, except to people SJWs don't like, and to a much larger audience.

As usual, it's OK when the SJWs do it.

Meanwhile, elsewhere in the feminist sphere: a tumblr page claiming to be written by Anita Sarkeesian "kinda like " fiction involving the killing of video game designers. (Link is via archive.is -- a freezepage equivalent.) There's utterly no implication she's making real death threats, but Jesus, h...

I have a feeling none of this is going to end well. I sincerely hope the fallout is confined to those who deserve it most, but life is seldom fair.

...how do these people date? Isn't this how people meet up? They pay someone attention hoping that they are interesting enough to start a relationship and then if there's no interest... they move on? Sometimes I'm genuinely confused by what is "harassment" - it sounds more like flirting. This is ho...

I'm sure none of the harassment allegedly alleged[*] by Stollznow would have happened if all atheist conferences had harassment policies that prohibited anti-skepchick t-shirts, monopods and fake jewelry, right? Right? Anyone? It's almost as if SJW feminists have been pouring away their social capit...

Badger3k wrote:Not even sure what to call her histrionics

Narcissism.

Also applies to the rest of the FC(n) and the SJW brigade in general.

I managed to get the lever partially down using my weight, but for some reason when I asked for help to complete the process I was instead escorted back to my seat. Almost all airliner doors are designed to be held closed by both latches and the air pressure differential between the cabin and the a...

Letâ€™s be careful about what we say that might adversely affect severely depressed people, unless that severely depressed person happens to have written a post. Because heâ€™s not a real person. Heâ€™s some fucking television show you can all fucking yell at. That's the SJW mentality in a nutshell...

Use the BBC formal complaints process instead of tweeting at Mason personally: http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints He'll get in hotter water much faster if people make noise there. Twitter is difficult to contact but they do have a known postal address, which might be the appropriate venue to complain a...

Obama quoted in Pravda the NYT : He said there are â€œvery few African-American men in this country who havenâ€™t had the experience of being followed when they were shopping in a department storeâ€ or â€œthe experience of getting on an elevator and a woman clutching her purse nervously and holding...

Talks about video game tropes do not address social justice, yet this seems to be a major obsession for them. One wonders if their obsession with video games has anything to do with the fact that Sarkeesian proved there's a lot of money to be made by harvesting trolls from the gamer community. The ...

The idea that women are victims who need to be saved from men's "beastly lust"* is definitely a throwback to a Victorian view of the sexes. I think the opposition to displays of sexuality by sex-negative, but heterosexual, feminists is ultimately driven by mate competition instincts. They don't tru...

If this is an "open secret" perhaps someone like Scalzi could use their position to "name names" and put some pressure on these individuals directly, Asking sci-fi people to stop being passive-aggressive and stand up for their beliefs is like asking a fish to fly at 30,000 feet without the aid of a...

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