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John D wrote:Then I'm gonna kiss your pineapple!!!
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OPHELIA THREAT ALERT!!!

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Clarence wrote:But what's maddening about all this is how much of a voice in the wilderness it seems a place like the Slymepit is.
Or even how many of you - and I'm only talking USA, possibly Brits here - seem to have been ignorant or perfectly fine with alot of the precursors to this stuff.
For instance, in Britain, now: operation Yewtree. Do NOT take my word for it, look into it yourselves: what is the standard of evidence that is being used against these really old and sometimes dead men? That multiple accusations MUST equal guilt, even though there are incentives for false reports built into British law AND even though we know that memory is very malleable over decades.

In the USA: family court. How many of you really give a shit or gave a shit about the abuse of restraining orders that led to such idiocy as the Letterman incident? It's not like this system has ever been reformed. Well, ok, maybe I'm being unfair and you didn't know. But now you do. But lax or loose standards of evidence have been used here at home for well over 30/40 years now both in terms of the War on Drugs and the need to combat (which I don't deny, but the incidence is freaking exaggerated all to hell) domestic abuse and child abuse.

We have a legal system that operates with next to no checks and balances: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stump_v._Sparkman
We now have an apparently never-ending War on Terror, a President that thinks its just fine and dandy to assasinate American citizens without trial, and at least one (though I suspect more) out -of -control -but-for-maybe-the-Executive-Branch intelligence agency (NSA).

All this and you wonder why it's not a huge scandal that they are basically making Kangaroo courts in our colleges?
When it comes to the SJW stuff, the Pit, for all its quirkiness, is actually more representative of most of the general public's sentiments. One must never forget that the internet allows all sorts of damaged, deranged individuals crawl out and appear -- through spending all their waking hours on the internet -- to be a significant portion of the population. (otoh, Swedish society, apparently, is deranged.)

As for the growing surveillance/police state in the US, apathy and indulgence (aka, SOMA) are largely to blame. The manichean, Dem dogma vs. Gop dogma dynamic blinds most people to the real tyranny both major parties are committing at the behest of their corporate pimps.

We've gladly handed over our liberties in exchange for a mild, distraction-filled Brave New World type tyranny. Except the one's we given power to resemble less Mustapha Mon than Big Brother.

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Dick Strawkins wrote:You know, people like Svan exist in all walks of life. We've all met them, perhaps we recognize the behavior in some of our own relatives. The simple kneejerk reaction to events, the disregard and apparent inability to understand the implications of their own words.
These people are the reason why the 'Daily Mail' exists.
I would go a few steps further and submit that the likes of Zvan are the reason why the Hitlers, Stalins and Maos of this world exist. Zvan belongs to the class of their enablers; she is a completely amoral, ruthless ideologue who believes that destroying innocent people is nothing more than unavoidable splash damage on the road to Utopia. They are a statistic to her, not actual people who have a life. To paraphrase Stewart Lee, I can't work out which one of the FTBloggers to despise the most: Peezus or Zvan.

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Ugh, nature (and Nature) is perpetuating rape culture again:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/va ... 13451.html
Here we apply comparative methods to test a key prediction of this hypothesis, which is that the evolution of placentation is associated with reduced pre-copulatory female mate choice. We exploit a unique quality of the livebearing fish family Poeciliidae: placentas have repeatedly evolved or been lost, creating diversity among closely related lineages in the presence or absence of placentation. We show that post-zygotic maternal provisioning by means of a placenta is associated with the absence of bright coloration, courtship behaviour and exaggerated ornamental display traits in males. Furthermore, we found that males of placental species have smaller bodies and longer genitalia, which facilitate sneak or coercive mating and, hence, circumvents female choice.

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James Caruthers wrote:And btw I was following that link for the sweet gay porn when I instead found PZ's inane diatribe. PZ's rambling is quite difficult to masturbate to.
Not everyone gets off on trans*tentacle porn.

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You haven't seen bad arguments until you see Damion over at jref claiming he has seen no evidence of Melody Hensley exaggerating or lying about things and confronted with the fact she claims he harrassed her. Jesus the mental contortions he goes through to be "right" is just absurd!

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didymos wrote:
Kirbmarc wrote:So picking up women is sexist now?
Maybe. Over on Pharyngula, however, I've learned that the term "pick up" definitely is. It casts women in the role of an object and denies their humanity. I'm a little suspicious because I don't know if people actually analyze the grammatical nuances of idioms like that. Pretty sure they don't. Also, I'm pretty sure women and gay men have used the term themselves from time to time.
Here again, the SJWs resemble christian fundamentalists. And like the fundies, the SJW male allies hide dark, sinful lusts behind a show of piety.
You know Peezus secretly wants so desperately to pick up woman -- precisely, runaways at the bus stop -- and initiate them in the perverse practices of cephalopod orgy. If Greg Laden didn't keep his finger heavily pressed down on his "rape switch", he'd have those runaways chained in his basement sex dungeon.

In contrast, the women SJWs for the most part seem to have severe hang-ups &/or phobias about sex. Ophelia appears anti-sex & anti-male. Taslima's latest ravings against men are disturbingly reminiscent of Elliot Rodger. Their trans* comrades, like Zinnia & Natalie, express hatred for anyone with normative sexual desires & identities (aka, "cis scum").

Combined, they form a sick & twisted cluster unfuck of perversion, phobia, and hate. Were they ever to get into power, they'd make the Khmer Rouge look like Rotary.

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windy wrote:Ugh, nature (and Nature) is perpetuating rape culture again:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/va ... 13451.html
Here we apply comparative methods to test a key prediction of this hypothesis, which is that the evolution of placentation is associated with reduced pre-copulatory female mate choice. We exploit a unique quality of the livebearing fish family Poeciliidae: placentas have repeatedly evolved or been lost, creating diversity among closely related lineages in the presence or absence of placentation. We show that post-zygotic maternal provisioning by means of a placenta is associated with the absence of bright coloration, courtship behaviour and exaggerated ornamental display traits in males. Furthermore, we found that males of placental species have smaller bodies and longer genitalia, which facilitate sneak or coercive mating and, hence, circumvents female choice.

Interesting. Especially coupled with what I have been learning about genomic imprinting and the role of the placenta therein.

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sinister wrote:You haven't seen bad arguments until you see Damion over at jref claiming he has seen no evidence of Melody Hensley exaggerating or lying about things and confronted with the fact she claims he harrassed her. Jesus the mental contortions he goes through to be "right" is just absurd!
Yes. It's amazing isn't it?

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rayshul wrote:
didymos wrote:Oh, fuck you Jezebel:

http://jezebel.com/why-are-these-lady-s ... 1605552360
Shit ladies what click bait will we produce today?
Now that my friend -- recently-divorced from her child-man husband -- has found herself a mature, considerate new BF, apparently self-confident and versed in the art of romance, she has stopped making all those enraged facebook posts with links to Jezebel articles.

Just sayin'.

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Snapfingers wrote: From this moment I declare myself a freepisser. :dance:
I learned at Sunday dinner last, that my GF's brother is a freegasser.

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Tribble wrote:
welch wrote:
Tribble wrote:[

That was my take, too.

With that, I'm claiming to be Native American because my family's been here since the early 1600s and I'm 13th generation meaning I have 2048 ancestors in the patrilineal descent from my great, great, etc., etc., etc., grandfather. So surely someone had an Indian spouse.

In fact, I'm going to claim to be part Lakota because I have a physical connection due to having a TDY (temporary duty) post at Ellsworth Air Force Base near Rapid City, South Dakota. And when I was there, I could just feel, when I wasn't fucking around with a B-52, my spiritual connection to the land.

The mere fact I have absolutely no proof, and physically have central heterochromia hazel (karyotype blue) eyes, reddish-brown hair (before it turned grey) some very minor freckling and pale white skin (unless I get a farmer tan) means nothing.

And anyone who calls me on my bullshit honest claims is a hater and worse than Hitler and is denying my Native American lived experience.
What did you do on BUFFs?
I was really just there because you had to have two people in a no-lone zone and Ellsworth had just had a drug-bust and was short-staffed on people who were PRP qualified and they needed warm bodies to hold down slots since they lost all their redundancy and my base was within driving distance. So what I really did was to sit in an office reading shitty The Executioner and Mack Bolan spy books while the people who were actually qualified to do the work did the work while I tried not to fall asleep.

But I did get to out to the flight-line once and touch a B-52 all loaded up and ready to go on patrol. And that was pretty cool. And I saw some C-141 tankers, too.

So, for me, it was a waste-of-time-yet-vacation and the only thing I really remember was the day I spent at Mount Rushmore which was totally cool. And if it weren't for Mount Rushmore, I probably wouldn't remember any of it except the regret of not detouring over to Devil's Tower. I still kick myself in the ass for that. But we (there were a few of us) were all tired and just wanted to go home so we took the direct route back and there was always 'later.' But 'later' never came.

But for SJW purposes, I was a Chuck Norris-esque, a barely bridled killing machine ready to launch an nuclear strike at the White, Cishet, MRA, Misogynist Patriarchy in revenge for because... No particular reason... Just because... And only my superior humanity kept me from wiping you all out...
LMAO...oh lord, it's been two decades since I've had anyone talk about PRP. Grand Forks was a Minuteman/B-1B base, and the missile people were TOTALLY SERIAL about that shit. There were all these posters that said "If you never wake up in a cold sweat thinking about PRP...YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THE PROGRAM!"

All the aircraft types would read those, laugh, and say "Don't have a fucking clue."

Missile people were weird as shit.

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Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
rayshul wrote:
didymos wrote:Oh, fuck you Jezebel:

http://jezebel.com/why-are-these-lady-s ... 1605552360
Shit ladies what click bait will we produce today?
Now that my friend -- recently-divorced from her child-man husband -- has found herself a mature, considerate new BF, apparently self-confident and versed in the art of romance, she has stopped making all those enraged facebook posts with links to Jezebel articles.

Just sayin'.
Are you "just sayin" she needed a proper lay?

I am only joking.

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Apropos Svan's outbreak of witchhunteritis, an apt quotation from A Man for All Seasons (1966):
William Roper: So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!
Sir Thomas More: Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
William Roper: Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!
Sir Thomas More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!

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sinister wrote:You haven't seen bad arguments until you see Damion over at jref claiming he has seen no evidence of Melody Hensley exaggerating or lying about things and confronted with the fact she claims he harrassed her. Jesus the mental contortions he goes through to be "right" is just absurd!
Damion doesn't make arguments. He simply repeats whatever he thinks will cement his status as superior to all because he is involved with nothing.

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Tribble wrote:
sinister wrote:You haven't seen bad arguments until you see Damion over at jref claiming he has seen no evidence of Melody Hensley exaggerating or lying about things and confronted with the fact she claims he harrassed her. Jesus the mental contortions he goes through to be "right" is just absurd!
Yes. It's amazing isn't it?
I'm just not sure he has thought out the whole "I'm an idiot" strategy all the way through.

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Git wrote:Apropos Svan's outbreak of witchhunteritis, an apt quotation from A Man for All Seasons (1966):
William Roper: So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!
Sir Thomas More: Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
William Roper: Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!
Sir Thomas More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!
perfect.

We've seen, we have well-documented evidence, across centuries and millennia, in all cultures, in all parts of the world of what happens when accusation = guilt. It is not even slightly in doubt. Yes, the law sucks, and the law is painful, but the law is necessary to keep everyone safe, and that means that we need presumption of innocence and proper court systems.

When we have misbehavior by officers of the court, from a beat cop to a high court judge, the answer is to fix that behavior, not change the law so it's more pleasing to one group.

For someone who brags so much about how much of a deep-thinker she is, Svain's refusal to admit this, even now, is shocking.

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Southern wrote:
welch wrote:
Za-zen wrote:The question i struggled with most on my last build, was whether to include a floppy or not. I opted to include, out of respect. This build will not have one
can you even buy those new anymore?
Hipster market demand is out there. "I only pass my files on floppies, that's soooo vintage! I wish we could go back to when music would occupy 10 disks, and we had to protect the disks from accidental erasing! 5"1/4 for life! Those floppies were the REAL floppies!"

Assholes.
No, the 8 inchers were the REAL floppies.

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The thing that has bothered me without being able to express it has been clarified by Zvan's latest pile of witch-hunt apologising bollocks. She and the rest of the victim-feminist types are reinforcing the concept that women are objects.

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welch wrote: For someone who brags so much about how much of a deep-thinker she is, Svain's refusal to admit this, even now, is shocking.
I subscribe to the following rule -- Anyone who brags about their intellectual prowess is likely not half as smart as they think they are.

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Lsuoma wrote:
Southern wrote: Hipster market demand is out there. "I only pass my files on floppies, that's soooo vintage! I wish we could go back to when music would occupy 10 disks, and we had to protect the disks from accidental erasing! 5"1/4 for life! Those floppies were the REAL floppies!"

Assholes.
No, the 8 inchers were the REAL floppies.
I refuse to use any removable media smaller than a 14-inch diskpack.

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James Caruthers wrote:
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But of course, feminists like her will still say "oh, but this isn't a legal court case, so it's not a witch trial and we haven't violated his rights." Even if the effects have been roughly similar. Kicked out of school, fired from his job, unemployed and unemployable. At least if he were in a real court, he could have asked for some goddamn evidence and had the benefit of legal counsel for his defense.
Yet these people will use the same logic ("it's not government so his rights haven't been violated") but in reverse when it suits their purposes. For instance, if a libertarian insists that legal and voluntary employer–employee relationships can never be coercive because the government isn't forcing anyone to do anything, these people will (quite rightly) point out that non-governmental shit still stinks.

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Dave wrote:
welch wrote: For someone who brags so much about how much of a deep-thinker she is, Svain's refusal to admit this, even now, is shocking.
I subscribe to the following rule -- Anyone who brags about their intellectual prowess is likely not half as smart as they think they are.
I agree and considering the number of braggarts I've read in many of the A/S fora over the years means the A/S community has a shitload of halfwits.

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Richard Dworkins wrote:The thing that has bothered me without being able to express it has been clarified by Zvan's latest pile of witch-hunt apologising bollocks. She and the rest of the victim-feminist types are reinforcing the concept that women are objects.
Yep. Thats what brought me to this in the first place -- some dipshit with a name that started with a "s" -- Sven? -- back at Abbie's old place, insisting that women who said they didnt want men to cross the street to avoid them at night were lying or deluded. The idea that some women might not want to be infantilized baffled him. Thats why I think most of this type of feminism is a middle class thing, its got ridiculous shades of neo-victorianism. They want to put women on protected pedestals, not allow them to compete in the wider world and succeed or fail on their own merits.

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Dave wrote:
Lsuoma wrote:
Southern wrote: Hipster market demand is out there. "I only pass my files on floppies, that's soooo vintage! I wish we could go back to when music would occupy 10 disks, and we had to protect the disks from accidental erasing! 5"1/4 for life! Those floppies were the REAL floppies!"

Assholes.
No, the 8 inchers were the REAL floppies.
I refuse to use any removable media smaller than a 14-inch diskpack.
Dude - paper tape. Storage tubes. Hg delay lines.

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Southern wrote:
welch wrote:
Za-zen wrote:The question i struggled with most on my last build, was whether to include a floppy or not. I opted to include, out of respect. This build will not have one
can you even buy those new anymore?
Hipster market demand is out there. "I only pass my files on floppies, that's soooo vintage! I wish we could go back to when music would occupy 10 disks, and we had to protect the disks from accidental erasing! 5"1/4 for life! Those floppies were the REAL floppies!"

Assholes.
Floppy disks give the AIFF files (mp3s are for idiots) a rich warm tone that you can't get with optical media.

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welch wrote: In fact, I'm going to claim to be part Lakota because I have a physical connection due to having a TDY (temporary duty) post at Ellsworth Air Force Base near Rapid City, South Dakota. And when I was there, I could just feel, when I wasn't fucking around with a B-52, my spiritual connection to the land.
As I was born on what was once sovereign Massachusett territory, I claimed citizenship in that tribe per jus soli. Since all the Massachusett died out centuries ago, I won election as chief by a vote of 1-0.

I told my Cherokee friends this and they had good iawaji -- that is, a 'laugh' in English, or n'tchgowtan in Massachusett.

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sinister wrote:You haven't seen bad arguments until you see Damion over at jref claiming he has seen no evidence of Melody Hensley exaggerating or lying about things and confronted with the fact she claims he harrassed her. Jesus the mental contortions he goes through to be "right" is just absurd!
Can you enact the link labour?

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A parenting thought before I head to the Post Office:

Alex "Ronald McDonald" Gabriel, SJW and Oxford graduate, throws his 93-year-old grandmother under the bus to score SJW points and (I think) patreon income. Which kind of makes wonder what the hell his parents did as parents to have their child grow up so vicious as to attack a little old lady who won't be long to this world and to whom he owes a very deep obligation, not the least of which is the debt of life that he owes her.

And I understand that his grandmother doesn't meet his ideological purity and she's a bit of an old warhorse. But, to be clear, my parents are not exactly pure of spirit and deed, either. There's quite a bit of 'polite racism' and 'classism' in my family, of which I've discussed with my children.

Yet, despite knowing about these grand-parental feet of clay, my youngest daughter is writing (as I type) her grandmother to thank her for the $5,000 HS graduation gift/college support check (which is about all grandma will be able to do for her granddaughter). She will also be shipping some antique bird books her grandmother will love (and I remember her having from my 1960s childhood) after spending weeks of used bookstore shopping, going to estate sales, garage sales, etc. because it's important to for others to know that you care enough about someone to know their likes and tastes and to take them into account when you give them gifts. Even if that person has feet of clay and wouldn't have liked your Mexican boyfriend... Or your black friends...

Sometimes I think most of SJWism is just bad parenting and child-parent issues with a hefty dose of crazy. And that if these people would get some therapy from a 'keep it real' therapist (versus a coddle to your victim-hood therapist), they might actually become decent, healthy adults instead of the toxic, vicious little shits they are...

Anyway, just a thought.

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welch wrote:
Za-zen wrote:The question i struggled with most on my last build, was whether to include a floppy or not. I opted to include, out of respect. This build will not have one
can you even buy those new anymore?
I got one that's on a USB cable a few years ago. It's in a box somewhere.

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A little update on my first day out as a Freepisser:

As you know I was inspired by the courage and fearlessness of the feminist freebleeders, but not having uterus-priveledge I decided to express my contempt of matriarchy by becomming a freepisser. You see the matriarchy is telling us that penises and their discharge is something we should be ashamed of. I'm not having any of that.

I'm on holiday right now, so me and the kids weren't doing much. Days program was doing a bit of yardwork and shopping for food and some camping supplies for next week.
I didn't get into freepissing before late this morning, so much of my protest today litarally went down the drain. The freepissing and yardwork went well together. I could feel that mens rights were being drizzled into the lawn, but after a few hours it was uncomfortable. I was sweaty so my shirt was wet down the back and front, but the front of my shorts were saying NO MAM' with a large wet stain. My neighbors tried to ignore it but I think I have raised a lot of awareness. So it was worth it.

The trip to the camping supplies store was not something my 15-yo daughter enjoyed. She is so brainwashed with matriarchy that she was pleading and begging me to change shorts. While i was gulping down a liter of water (in preparation) she was girlsplaining that pissed pants were disgusting unsanitary and so on. I tried to make her shut up and listen, but the misandry runs deep in her. The son complained about the smell. His brainwashing made me sad. I blame his mom.

In the camping store I took a long satisfying piss over by the tents. Even before it was over my son had tears in his eyes. Pride I guess. The daughter went outside shaking her head. Wiping off my member in aisle 7 with a sleeping bag on sale I had the opportunity to explain the reason of my activism to the the lady manager and the teenage boy with the mop. Funny thing was he seemed grossed out while she nodded at everything I said while escorting me to the door. I wonder if lady manager could be an ally after seeing my protest? Her last words were "get help" so she literally wants the movement to grow.

Next stop the supermarket. After the long satisfying pis at camping goods I could only manage a few shorts drizzles but I kept my penis out all the time dripping. It was such an empowering feeling of masculinity. I could see people be educated on mens rights for every dripping step I took through the frozen foods section.

Picking up a sixpack of beer was an act of MRA glory: being able to stand in line I managed a short spurt of urine on the single slutmother of a whore in front of me. "You think cocks and piss is dirty, don't you?" I asked. This promted her misandry to surface. What a glorious victory for Mens Rights to see her lose it.

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welch wrote:
sinister wrote:You haven't seen bad arguments until you see Damion over at jref claiming he has seen no evidence of Melody Hensley exaggerating or lying about things and confronted with the fact she claims he harrassed her. Jesus the mental contortions he goes through to be "right" is just absurd!
Damion doesn't make arguments. He simply repeats whatever he thinks will cement his status as superior to all because he is involved with nothing.
d1mon3 thinks his rhetorical wanking makes him look intelligent.


Then again, "Ace" thinks this hat makes him look studly:
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Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
welch wrote: In fact, I'm going to claim to be part Lakota because I have a physical connection due to having a TDY (temporary duty) post at Ellsworth Air Force Base near Rapid City, South Dakota. And when I was there, I could just feel, when I wasn't fucking around with a B-52, my spiritual connection to the land.
As I was born on what was once sovereign Massachusett territory, I claimed citizenship in that tribe per jus soli. Since all the Massachusett died out centuries ago, I won election as chief by a vote of 1-0.

I told my Cherokee friends this and they had good iawaji -- that is, a 'laugh' in English, or n'tchgowtan in Massachusett.
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Snapfingers wrote:A little update on my first day out as a Freepisser:

As you know I was inspired by the courage and fearlessness of the feminist freebleeders, but not having uterus-priveledge I decided to express my contempt of matriarchy by becomming a freepisser. You see the matriarchy is telling us that penises and their discharge is something we should be ashamed of. I'm not having any of that.

I'm on holiday right now, so me and the kids weren't doing much. Days program was doing a bit of yardwork and shopping for food and some camping supplies for next week.
I didn't get into freepissing before late this morning, so much of my protest today litarally went down the drain. The freepissing and yardwork went well together. I could feel that mens rights were being drizzled into the lawn, but after a few hours it was uncomfortable. I was sweaty so my shirt was wet down the back and front, but the front of my shorts were saying NO MAM' with a large wet stain. My neighbors tried to ignore it but I think I have raised a lot of awareness. So it was worth it.

The trip to the camping supplies store was not something my 15-yo daughter enjoyed. She is so brainwashed with matriarchy that she was pleading and begging me to change shorts. While i was gulping down a liter of water (in preparation) she was girlsplaining that pissed pants were disgusting unsanitary and so on. I tried to make her shut up and listen, but the misandry runs deep in her. The son complained about the smell. His brainwashing made me sad. I blame his mom.

In the camping store I took a long satisfying piss over by the tents. Even before it was over my son had tears in his eyes. Pride I guess. The daughter went outside shaking her head. Wiping off my member in aisle 7 with a sleeping bag on sale I had the opportunity to explain the reason of my activism to the the lady manager and the teenage boy with the mop. Funny thing was he seemed grossed out while she nodded at everything I said while escorting me to the door. I wonder if lady manager could be an ally after seeing my protest? Her last words were "get help" so she literally wants the movement to grow.

Next stop the supermarket. After the long satisfying pis at camping goods I could only manage a few shorts drizzles but I kept my penis out all the time dripping. It was such an empowering feeling of masculinity. I could see people be educated on mens rights for every dripping step I took through the frozen foods section.

Picking up a sixpack of beer was an act of MRA glory: being able to stand in line I managed a short spurt of urine on the single slutmother of a whore in front of me. "You think cocks and piss is dirty, don't you?" I asked. This promted her misandry to surface. What a glorious victory for Mens Rights to see her lose it.
Mother of god how I laughed. Now the kids want to see the silly story I was gaffawing about. I don't think they are quite ready for lessons about the matriarchy just yet.

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Tribble wrote:A parenting thought before I head to the Post Office:

Alex "Ronald McDonald" Gabriel, SJW and Oxford graduate, throws his 93-year-old grandmother under the bus to score SJW points and (I think) patreon income. Which kind of makes wonder what the hell his parents did as parents to have their child grow up so vicious as to attack a little old lady who won't be long to this world and to whom he owes a very deep obligation, not the least of which is the debt of life that he owes her.

And I understand that his grandmother doesn't meet his ideological purity and she's a bit of an old warhorse. But, to be clear, my parents are not exactly pure of spirit and deed, either. There's quite a bit of 'polite racism' and 'classism' in my family, of which I've discussed with my children.

Yet, despite knowing about these grand-parental feet of clay, my youngest daughter is writing (as I type) her grandmother to thank her for the $5,000 HS graduation gift/college support check (which is about all grandma will be able to do for her granddaughter). She will also be shipping some antique bird books her grandmother will love (and I remember her having from my 1960s childhood) after spending weeks of used bookstore shopping, going to estate sales, garage sales, etc. because it's important to for others to know that you care enough about someone to know their likes and tastes and to take them into account when you give them gifts. Even if that person has feet of clay and wouldn't have liked your Mexican boyfriend... Or your black friends...

Sometimes I think most of SJWism is just bad parenting and child-parent issues with a hefty dose of crazy. And that if these people would get some therapy from a 'keep it real' therapist (versus a coddle to your victim-hood therapist), they might actually become decent, healthy adults instead of the toxic, vicious little shits they are...

Anyway, just a thought.
They're incapable of having a generous thought to anyone not of the body. Fucking Landru they are.

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Snapfingers wrote:A little update on my first day out as a Freepisser:

As you know I was inspired by the courage and fearlessness of the feminist freebleeders, but not having uterus-priveledge I decided to express my contempt of matriarchy by becomming a freepisser. You see the matriarchy is telling us that penises and their discharge is something we should be ashamed of. I'm not having any of that.

I'm on holiday right now, so me and the kids weren't doing much. Days program was doing a bit of yardwork and shopping for food and some camping supplies for next week.
I didn't get into freepissing before late this morning, so much of my protest today litarally went down the drain. The freepissing and yardwork went well together. I could feel that mens rights were being drizzled into the lawn, but after a few hours it was uncomfortable. I was sweaty so my shirt was wet down the back and front, but the front of my shorts were saying NO MAM' with a large wet stain. My neighbors tried to ignore it but I think I have raised a lot of awareness. So it was worth it.

The trip to the camping supplies store was not something my 15-yo daughter enjoyed. She is so brainwashed with matriarchy that she was pleading and begging me to change shorts. While i was gulping down a liter of water (in preparation) she was girlsplaining that pissed pants were disgusting unsanitary and so on. I tried to make her shut up and listen, but the misandry runs deep in her. The son complained about the smell. His brainwashing made me sad. I blame his mom.

In the camping store I took a long satisfying piss over by the tents. Even before it was over my son had tears in his eyes. Pride I guess. The daughter went outside shaking her head. Wiping off my member in aisle 7 with a sleeping bag on sale I had the opportunity to explain the reason of my activism to the the lady manager and the teenage boy with the mop. Funny thing was he seemed grossed out while she nodded at everything I said while escorting me to the door. I wonder if lady manager could be an ally after seeing my protest? Her last words were "get help" so she literally wants the movement to grow.

Next stop the supermarket. After the long satisfying pis at camping goods I could only manage a few shorts drizzles but I kept my penis out all the time dripping. It was such an empowering feeling of masculinity. I could see people be educated on mens rights for every dripping step I took through the frozen foods section.

Picking up a sixpack of beer was an act of MRA glory: being able to stand in line I managed a short spurt of urine on the single slutmother of a whore in front of me. "You think cocks and piss is dirty, don't you?" I asked. This promted her misandry to surface. What a glorious victory for Mens Rights to see her lose it.
That is hysterical.

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Snapfingers wrote:A little update on my first day out as a Freepisser:

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What a glorious victory for Mens Rights to see her lose it.
Great story. I know you've gone for factual accuracy, but for dramatic effect you could rework it so that it ends with you whispering "It was my privilege."

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Tribble wrote: Alex "Ronald McDonald" Gabriel, SJW and Oxford graduate, throws his 93-year-old grandmother under the bus to score SJW points and (I think) patreon income. Which kind of makes wonder what the hell his parents did as parents to have their child grow up so vicious as to attack a little old lady who won't be long to this world and to whom he owes a very deep obligation, not the least of which is the debt of life that he owes her.
Per Lil' Alex, his dad was a pass-out alcoholic and his mother a goddamn thieving gypsy. Which means as a boy, Alex bounced between stepping over vomit and shoplifting at Tesco. His granny was likely the only grownup trying to inject a little order into his life. Regrettably, it seems no quality adult male role models.

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Snapfingers wrote: I decided to express my contempt of matriarchy by becomming a freepisser. You see the matriarchy is telling us that penises and their discharge is something we should be ashamed of. I'm not having any of that.
Just be careful you don't end up a freechancreoozer.

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Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
Tribble wrote: Alex "Ronald McDonald" Gabriel, SJW and Oxford graduate, throws his 93-year-old grandmother under the bus to score SJW points and (I think) patreon income. Which kind of makes wonder what the hell his parents did as parents to have their child grow up so vicious as to attack a little old lady who won't be long to this world and to whom he owes a very deep obligation, not the least of which is the debt of life that he owes her.
Per Lil' Alex, his dad was a pass-out alcoholic and his mother a goddamn thieving gypsy. Which means as a boy, Alex bounced between stepping over vomit and shoplifting at Tesco. His granny was likely the only grownup trying to inject a little order into his life. Regrettably, it seems no quality adult male role models.
I doubt it would have made a difference.

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JayTeeAitch wrote:
sinister wrote:You haven't seen bad arguments until you see Damion over at jref claiming he has seen no evidence of Melody Hensley exaggerating or lying about things and confronted with the fact she claims he harrassed her. Jesus the mental contortions he goes through to be "right" is just absurd!
Can you enact the link labour?
http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=276628

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Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
Snapfingers wrote: From this moment I declare myself a freepisser. :dance:
I learned at Sunday dinner last, that my GF's brother is a freegasser.
Ugh! I used to have a friend who would fart anywhere she felt the urge. She excused it by it being 'natural'. :puke-huge:

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Scented Nectar wrote:
Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
Snapfingers wrote: From this moment I declare myself a freepisser. :dance:
I learned at Sunday dinner last, that my GF's brother is a freegasser.
Ugh! I used to have a friend who would fart anywhere she felt the urge. She excused it by it being 'natural'. :puke-huge:
Natural like arsenic I bet.

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Lsuoma wrote:
Southern wrote:Hipster market demand is out there. "I only pass my files on floppies, that's soooo vintage! I wish we could go back to when music would occupy 10 disks, and we had to protect the disks from accidental erasing! 5"1/4 for life! Those floppies were the REAL floppies!"

Assholes.
No, the 8 inchers were the REAL floppies.
Only because to get hard would take away too much blood from his head and he'd pass out. :lol:

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Dick Strawkins wrote:Paging Edward Gemmer.

Svan's latest is a doozy. She's decided that the right to be considered innocent until proven guilty should be removed from those accused of
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The biggest mystery to me is how people like her ever got close to positions of power or influence.
Yes, the major players in skepticism and atheism regard Svan as a malignant parasite, latched to the rectum of the movement, and ignore her as best they can. But FTB and others such as CFI, American Atheists and a few others, actually treat her words with a kind of reverence - or more likely fear, since she has gained a well deserved reputation for smearing those who step outside the accepted line.
Svan is beyond contempt.
I reserve my real contempt for those organizations who take her seriously.
The other disgusting thing is, such a relaxation of standards of evidence would blatantly increase the rate of false accusations, as it's an open invitation to any embittered woman to make a poor sap's life hell if they ever felt like it.

Oh but of course, men have penises and so are always guilty.

Stephanie Zvan is evil.

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http://s27.postimg.org/82p1pa0oz/mandown.jpg

This poster just went up on the bus-stop outside my home. I wonder how long it takes before some cunt complains.

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sinister wrote:
Scented Nectar wrote:Ugh! I used to have a friend who would fart anywhere she felt the urge. She excused it by it being 'natural'. :puke-huge:
Natural like arsenic I bet.
Yeah, but the arsenic would have been more pleasant.

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Scented Nectar wrote:
Lsuoma wrote:
Southern wrote:Hipster market demand is out there. "I only pass my files on floppies, that's soooo vintage! I wish we could go back to when music would occupy 10 disks, and we had to protect the disks from accidental erasing! 5"1/4 for life! Those floppies were the REAL floppies!"

Assholes.
No, the 8 inchers were the REAL floppies.
Only because to get hard would take away too much blood from his head and he'd pass out. :lol:
Misogynist. These are the real 8" floppies:

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Snapfingers wrote:
James Caruthers wrote:https://38.media.tumblr.com/f7a6d0ef152 ... o1_400.png

modernfeminist.jpg :lol:
"Freebleeder"? What the actual fuck? I googled this even though I had a feeling not to:
So enter the idea of “free bleeding.” More of a mindset than it is an action, the idea is, as this blog title gives away, letting ourselves bleed. No judgement, no worries about messiness or cleanliness. Just letting it happen.

From this moment I declare myself a freepisser. :dance:
And presumably if she 'goes' all over my new sofa, it's my responsibility to buy a new one, because I have a penis.

These people are ill.

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Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
Tribble wrote: Alex "Ronald McDonald" Gabriel, SJW and Oxford graduate, throws his 93-year-old grandmother under the bus to score SJW points and (I think) patreon income. Which kind of makes wonder what the hell his parents did as parents to have their child grow up so vicious as to attack a little old lady who won't be long to this world and to whom he owes a very deep obligation, not the least of which is the debt of life that he owes her.
Per Lil' Alex, his dad was a pass-out alcoholic and his mother a goddamn thieving gypsy thieving gypsy bastard. Which means as a boy, Alex bounced between stepping over vomit and shoplifting at Tesco. His granny was likely the only grownup trying to inject a little order into his life. Regrettably, it seems no quality adult male role models.
FTFY.

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Scented Nectar wrote:
sinister wrote:
Scented Nectar wrote:Ugh! I used to have a friend who would fart anywhere she felt the urge. She excused it by it being 'natural'. :puke-huge:
Natural like arsenic I bet.
Yeah, but the arsenic would have been more pleasant.
Stop othering freegassers! Breakinf wind is not only natural, it's therapeutic!
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Lsuoma wrote:
Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
Tribble wrote: Alex "Ronald McDonald" Gabriel, SJW and Oxford graduate, throws his 93-year-old grandmother under the bus to score SJW points and (I think) patreon income. Which kind of makes wonder what the hell his parents did as parents to have their child grow up so vicious as to attack a little old lady who won't be long to this world and to whom he owes a very deep obligation, not the least of which is the debt of life that he owes her.
Per Lil' Alex, his dad was a pass-out alcoholic and his mother a goddamn thieving gypsy thieving gypsy bastard. Which means as a boy, Alex bounced between stepping over vomit and shoplifting at Tesco. His granny was likely the only grownup trying to inject a little order into his life. Regrettably, it seems no quality adult male role models.
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Richard Dworkins wrote:http://s27.postimg.org/82p1pa0oz/mandown.jpg

This poster just went up on the bus-stop outside my home. I wonder how long it takes before some cunt complains.
"Welcome to CALM’s #mandictionary.

We think that that it’s time for men to define themselves on their own terms, say sayonara to harmful, boring and archaic male stereotypes and have a bit of fun at the same time. Post your definitions and words using the hashtag #mandictionary on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Vine (then shared on twitter) and Google+ and get involved. At CALM we aim to keep men alive by talking. If you would like to make a donation to help us keep our helpline open and our website running, click HERE

Being male is biology. The rest is up to you…
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Yeah the SJWs will love this stuff for sure :mrgreen:
I was genuinely surprised there wasn't already 50ish whiny blog/tumblr posts up about it. Maybe it's a small, local campaign?

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In my fair State of Michigan we have outsourced the food service in our prisons to a private company. The food has gotten so bad, including the addition of extra protein by way of maggots, that there was a big riot.

In addition, the prisoners are being raeped!
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Hunt wrote:The FIRE article that Zvan links does a pretty good job blowing holes in her argument:

http://chronicle.com/article/Campus-Is- ... or/134770/

It argues that we should really be moving in the opposite direction, since college hearings really are "Kangaroo Courts" lacking the checks and balances of Civil Court. I would go further and say that Zvan's entire premise is flawed, given that you establish both parties have equal "risk" (as she puts it), that you are allowed to lessen the rigor of proof. At that point I would go Blackstone, "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer", which 50/50 doesn't even begin to satisfy. There's just something about innocent people going down for something they haven't done that should bug us mightily.

But there are more things wrong with Zvan's proposal, like the fact that college hearings (which don't include legal counsel or actual judges, or anyone else with actual knowledge of jurisprudence) won't prevent real criminal proceedings against the accused. All those acceptable "false positives" that Zvan arbitrarily declares indifference to are going to return as civil counter suits when criminal courts acquit the false positives (as exemplified in the article). Are these suits going to be against the accuser? Uh-uh, they're going to be against the deep pocket, the college.

It all boils down to a misclassification, as the article points out. Are sexual assault cases "like" civil cases, where the loser pays a fine and goes on with life, or are they more "like" criminal cases, where there is a perp and a victim. Well, the answer is clear. They are more like criminal cases, and personally I think that's where they should be adjudicated, not by some panel including students, professors and administrators. Seriously, think back on some of your fellow students, and some of your professors...
Just a fine point - I assume it was in the article - but sexual assault cases are not "like" criminal cases - they are criminal cases. It is a crime, period, full stop, whatever. Idiots in colleges can think what they like but it doesn't change the law.

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acathode wrote:"Welcome to CALM’s #mandictionary.

We think that that it’s time for men to define themselves on their own terms, say sayonara to harmful, boring and archaic male stereotypes and have a bit of fun at the same time. Post your definitions and words using the hashtag #mandictionary on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Vine (then shared on twitter) and Google+ and get involved. At CALM we aim to keep men alive by talking. If you would like to make a donation to help us keep our helpline open and our website running, click HERE

Being male is biology. The rest is up to you…
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https://www.thecalmzone.net/mandictionary/
Yeah the SJWs will love this stuff for sure :mrgreen:
I was genuinely surprised there wasn't already 50ish whiny blog/tumblr posts up about it. Maybe it's a small, local campaign?
hitler did nothing wrong #mandickshunary

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Søren Lilholt wrote:
Dick Strawkins wrote:Paging Edward Gemmer.

Svan's latest is a doozy. She's decided that the right to be considered innocent until proven guilty should be removed from those accused of
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The biggest mystery to me is how people like her ever got close to positions of power or influence.
Yes, the major players in skepticism and atheism regard Svan as a malignant parasite, latched to the rectum of the movement, and ignore her as best they can. But FTB and others such as CFI, American Atheists and a few others, actually treat her words with a kind of reverence - or more likely fear, since she has gained a well deserved reputation for smearing those who step outside the accepted line.
Svan is beyond contempt.
I reserve my real contempt for those organizations who take her seriously.
The other disgusting thing is, such a relaxation of standards of evidence would blatantly increase the rate of false accusations, as it's an open invitation to any embittered woman to make a poor sap's life hell if they ever felt like it.

Oh but of course, men have penises and so are always guilty.

Stephanie Zvan is evil.
From the comments:
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Some of these outspoken bloggers are quick to demonize men who have been accused of sexual harassment. No evidence beside what “she said” is needed in their book. That is demonstrably NOT APPLYING SKEPTICISM
This quote is highly problematic since “she said” is, in fact, evidence[bolding by the nitwit himself]. Experience tells us that, more often than not, if there’s an allegation, there’s also a crime. Sure, it’s not 100%, but any proper skeptic should realize that that’s no counter-argument.

Rape and harassment happens every day, whereas false accusations are quite rare. Therefore, a simple allegation is enough for a tentative conclusion and gives us every reason to take the matter very seriously indeed. There’s nothing unskeptical about that.
Fair nuff.

PZ and Jason Thibeault are rapists, then.

Problem?

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Lsuoma wrote:
Matt Cavanaugh wrote: Per Lil' Alex, his dad was a pass-out alcoholic and his mother a goddamn thieving gypsy thieving gypsy bastard. Which means as a boy, Alex bounced between stepping over vomit and shoplifting at Tesco. His granny was likely the only grownup trying to inject a little order into his life. Regrettably, it seems no quality adult male role models.
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Re: Nerds. Nerds EVERYWHERE...

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Oops - that comment was actually from another recent Zvan thread. Though it still applies, so...yeah.

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Re: Nerds. Nerds EVERYWHERE...

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sinister wrote:
JayTeeAitch wrote:
sinister wrote:You haven't seen bad arguments until you see Damion over at jref claiming he has seen no evidence of Melody Hensley exaggerating or lying about things and confronted with the fact she claims he harrassed her. Jesus the mental contortions he goes through to be "right" is just absurd!
Can you enact the link labour?
http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=276628
Cheers, just read it :bjarte:

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