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Shatterface wrote:
feathers wrote:Well, at least there won't be much of a reason for watching beyond season 4 now, will there.

Fortunately I ordered the It ain't half hot mum complete boxset.
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I had a teacher at secondary school (late 1970s when IAHHM was all the rage) who said he did his National Service with Windsor Davies (Davies also had been a school teacher) no great stories, just described him as "a quiet man".

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InfraRedBucket wrote:
I had a teacher at secondary school (late 1970s when IAHHM was all the rage) who said he did his National Service with Windsor Davies (Davies also had been a school teacher) no great stories, just described him as "a quiet man".
I thought that was John Wayne.

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That's a new level of retarded from PZ

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1 retweet and 13 likes? I would be made up if I got that for any of my tweets.

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'evo psych' is a dog whistle that only Myers can hear.

It's like when somebody could tell who was a witch and who wasn't. Myers has that kind of gift of divination.

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Gosh, that will come as a forceful blow to them racists.

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Sad news.... the Army ambulance is a bit too tall to fit in my garage. I don't have a barn or anything to store it in, and I couldn't just leave it out in the weather.

I showed a picture of it to my wife and she liked it right away. She said... "Cool... what will we do with it?" Oh Man. I am feeling a bit down today.
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What a strange man Herr Prof Meyers is...

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MarcusAu wrote:Not sure what 'hbd' is - but acronym finder lists:

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What a strange man Herr Prof Meyers is...
Herr Doctor Professor Meyers is cutting edge with acronyms. He called me an MRA before I even knew what an MRA was.

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Our foul-mouthed Caledonian street philosopher answers one of life's deepest questions:



Loves me some Dankula!

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Brive1987 wrote:The Lithuanian street guru has responded. Apparently the building marked green was pre-war but according to him the memorial is correctly placed. That means the garage would have been just to the left of the green diamond marker. Not exactly conforming to the eyewitness account of it being on the "corner". And the eyewitness use of "Greenwald" Steet is also out. The road running left to right (Misko) was however known as Wald Street from 1914-1918.

I also contacted a Jewish writer from the town who had done a story on the incident. He is convinced the authorities have hidden / misplaced the memorial out of spite. He is doing a site survey next week trying to match the red brick wall as an anchor point.
If you start looking into Estonia, I may be more interested. I've only driven through Lithuania.

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Spoken like a true German.

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Of course Estonia was declared judenfrei by Dec 1941. Helped by there only being around 4K Jews - most of whom fled to the delights of the USSR.

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John D wrote:Sad news.... the Army ambulance is a bit too tall to fit in my garage. I don't have a barn or anything to store it in, and I couldn't just leave it out in the weather.

I showed a picture of it to my wife and she liked it right away. She said... "Cool... what will we do with it?" Oh Man. I am feeling a bit down today.
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I understand Estonia found the Soviets so terrible, they welcomed the Nazis as liberators. Being a Russian in Estonia today still isn't much fun.

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Keating wrote:I understand Estonia found the Soviets so terrible, they welcomed the Nazis as liberators. Being a Russian in Estonia today still isn't much fun.
I think that this happened pretty much everywhere in the former Soviet republics, including Ukraine. There were plenty of Nazi collaborators in the Baltics, in Ukraine, even in the parts of Russia occupied by the Germans.

On the other hand a lot of Russians, Ukrainians and people of other ethnicity in the USSR fought to the death against the Nazis. Turkic/Central Asian ethnic groups were especially pro-Soviet.

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Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
John D wrote:Sad news.... the Army ambulance is a bit too tall to fit in my garage. I don't have a barn or anything to store it in, and I couldn't just leave it out in the weather.

I showed a picture of it to my wife and she liked it right away. She said... "Cool... what will we do with it?" Oh Man. I am feeling a bit down today.
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Do you have room for a portable car shelter? Check out the ShelterLogic brand.
Hey - those are pretty cool. I could lay gravel on the side of my property and put one of these shelters up. They are pretty ugly though. Also, there may be some kind of restriction on a "temporary" barn/shed in my city. Hmmmm.

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Maybe you can get one in army camo.

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Or you could flip things - and actually make ugly the aesthetic.

http://www.armytents.com/

Don't know if you could find an actual MASH tent though.

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John D wrote:Hey - those are pretty cool. I could lay gravel on the side of my property and put one of these shelters up. They are pretty ugly though. Also, there may be some kind of restriction on a "temporary" barn/shed in my city. Hmmmm.
In Detroit? Can't imagine someone'd notice.

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Anyone here familiar with Fredrik DeBoer ?

He is a left wing academic & writer on such topics as free speech, intersectionality and other related matters.

I'm part-way though his interview on the 'So to Speak' podcast - and am enjoying his analysis.

https://soundcloud.com/so-to-speak-the- ... -higher-ed


Here's an article he wrote on white privilege too:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/postever ... ae3a22a318

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feathers wrote:
John D wrote:Hey - those are pretty cool. I could lay gravel on the side of my property and put one of these shelters up. They are pretty ugly though. Also, there may be some kind of restriction on a "temporary" barn/shed in my city. Hmmmm.
In Detroit? Can't imagine someone'd notice.

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That's where my people used to live. We left that part of town, took all our shit, and moved here... My family is white and we were part of the flight.
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MarcusAu wrote:Anyone here familiar with Fredrik DeBoer ?

He is a left wing academic & writer on such topics as free speech, intersectionality and other related matters.

I'm part-way though his interview on the 'So to Speak' podcast - and am enjoying his analysis.

https://soundcloud.com/so-to-speak-the- ... -higher-ed


Here's an article he wrote on white privilege too:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/postever ... ae3a22a318
What a surprise! An "intellectual socialist" lecturing us about systemic racism, white guilt, and white supremacy. His commie grandfather, who was an outspoken member of the Communist party, had his job saved only because he had University tenure. Hmmmmmm......

I agree with him that the University is at the center of the "culture war." In recent decades, Universities have swollen to an unrecognizable size, increasing in cost at 4 times the rate of inflation. This cost increase has primarily funded Administration and waste. In the University of California system fully half the cost goes directly to administrative personnel.

There is going to be a new generation of students who hate their student debt and hate that their University robbed them of value. There is a university cost bubble that might pop in a very destructive way.

So this little bitch DeBoer can only complain that the Republicans are threatening funding cuts to Unis. NO SHIT ASS HOLE! You, and your fellow "intellectuals" have been fucking the public and your students for the past 20 years. Suck a bag of dicks commie!

I will say... that he is completely correct about how Unis indoctrinate students. He is also correct that the left is going to wreck his precious funding because the left are acting like pompous intellectual assholes.

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MarcusAu wrote:Anyone here familiar with Fredrik DeBoer ?

He is a left wing academic & writer on such topics as free speech, intersectionality and other related matters.

I'm part-way though his interview on the 'So to Speak' podcast - and am enjoying his analysis.

https://soundcloud.com/so-to-speak-the- ... -higher-ed


Here's an article he wrote on white privilege too:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/postever ... ae3a22a318
I used to read his blog on an occasional basis, but of course he has shut this down at least for now.

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The sins of the (Grand) father will be visited on the (grand) sons...

That's why I float my ideas in a somewhat neutral fashion before committing to them.

It's nice to hear a different perspective though.

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Antifa hoodlum wailing "I need my service animal!" over and over as she's taken off the street. Fucking surreal.

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I like this young lady.


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MarcusAu wrote:Maybe you can get one in army camo.
I'm sure you can.

The Hawkeye /Hot Lips cosplay options are expanding rapidly!

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John D wrote:
MarcusAu wrote:Anyone here familiar with Fredrik DeBoer ?

He is a left wing academic & writer on such topics as free speech, intersectionality and other related matters.

I'm part-way though his interview on the 'So to Speak' podcast - and am enjoying his analysis.

https://soundcloud.com/so-to-speak-the- ... -higher-ed


Here's an article he wrote on white privilege too:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/postever ... ae3a22a318
What a surprise! An "intellectual socialist" lecturing us about systemic racism, white guilt, and white supremacy. His commie grandfather, who was an outspoken member of the Communist party, had his job saved only because he had University tenure. Hmmmmmm......

I agree with him that the University is at the center of the "culture war." In recent decades, Universities have swollen to an unrecognizable size, increasing in cost at 4 times the rate of inflation. This cost increase has primarily funded Administration and waste. In the University of California system fully half the cost goes directly to administrative personnel.

There is going to be a new generation of students who hate their student debt and hate that their University robbed them of value. There is a university cost bubble that might pop in a very destructive way.

So this little bitch DeBoer can only complain that the Republicans are threatening funding cuts to Unis. NO SHIT ASS HOLE! You, and your fellow "intellectuals" have been fucking the public and your students for the past 20 years. Suck a bag of dicks commie!

I will say... that he is completely correct about how Unis indoctrinate students. He is also correct that the left is going to wreck his precious funding because the left are acting like pompous intellectual assholes.
But how do you really feel?

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MarcusAu wrote:Or you could flip things - and actually make ugly the aesthetic.

http://www.armytents.com/

Don't know if you could find an actual MASH tent though.
For full authenticity, a Nissan hut is the way to go.

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Matt: PZ has a post up asking you to sue him:
http://archive.is/h9j9O
Oh no, another lawsuit?
I’m a bit fed up with people who turn immediately to lawsuits to get big money for slights, but this one is different.
I’m not the one being sued! Yay! That changes one’s whole perspective, I tell you what.
It’s Sargon of Akkad being sued. It’s hard to be sympathetic, sorry to say, but if it was another bullshit suit by people angry about being called mean names, I would be.
This is not a bullshit suit! He’s actually been caught dead to rights on copyright infringement.
I'm pretty sure when you remind him about stealing your blog post he will wisely settle for big money, like he advises Sarcod to do.

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Antifa hoodlum wailing "I need my service animal!" over and over as she's taken off the street. Fucking surreal.
I wonder how many times xe encouraged people to punch nazis.
Also a bit curious what xe thinks about guns.

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Jerry Coyne is mad that an unscrupulous author is targeting a famous figure and attempting to trash their reputation as a way to boost their own profile.

In between posts on this topic, he is promoting a book by a different author targeting a famous figure and trashing their reputation, which Jerry approves of.

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Because I'm sick and tired of a handful of Axis II walking train wrecks dragging down liberalism:

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyat ... 3494487972


Also, Hemant seems extra whiny & hysterical of late. Starting to feel like a Dan Arel power dive is coming.

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Sunder wrote:Jerry Coyne is mad that an unscrupulous author is targeting a famous figure and attempting to trash their reputation as a way to boost their own profile.

In between posts on this topic, he is promoting a book by a different author targeting a famous figure and trashing their reputation, which Jerry approves of.
You don't see the difference between Darwin and a complete fraud like Freud?

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Shatterface wrote:
Sunder wrote:Jerry Coyne is mad that an unscrupulous author is targeting a famous figure and attempting to trash their reputation as a way to boost their own profile.

In between posts on this topic, he is promoting a book by a different author targeting a famous figure and trashing their reputation, which Jerry approves of.
You don't see the difference between Darwin and a complete fraud like Freud?
I see a big difference. I just dislike the immediate leap to "oh small, less well known person is only targeting big, famous person to leech off their popularity." It's the kind of bad faith reasoning that in Jerry's case immediately turns around to bite him on the ass.

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free thoughtpolice wrote:Matt: PZ has a post up asking you to sue him:
http://archive.is/h9j9O
Oh no, another lawsuit?
I’m a bit fed up with people who turn immediately to lawsuits to get big money for slights, but this one is different.
I’m not the one being sued! Yay! That changes one’s whole perspective, I tell you what.
It’s Sargon of Akkad being sued. It’s hard to be sympathetic, sorry to say, but if it was another bullshit suit by people angry about being called mean names, I would be.
This is not a bullshit suit! He’s actually been caught dead to rights on copyright infringement.
I'm pretty sure when you remind him about stealing your blog post he will wisely settle for big money, like he advises Sarcod to do.



Actually, I was praying for Peez to sue me for slander, for saying he condones bestiality. Far greater ceiling for shits & giggles in that one.

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I also have to admit my own bias: While on the whole I think Jerry can be a decent ally to genuine liberalism at times, he's also a pretty smug and self-righteous cunt at times and I just like taking potshots from the sidelines at times.

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At times I say at times too often. At times.

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Sunder wrote:I also have to admit my own bias: While on the whole I think Jerry can be a decent ally to genuine liberalism at times, he's also a pretty smug and self-righteous cunt at times and I just like taking potshots from the sidelines at times.
He can't help but act that way.

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"Officers who Tasered a man armed with two knives 11 times, hit him with a car and shot him used reasonable force, the police watchdog has found.

Metropolitan Police officers fired on Joseph Hive several times with a stun gun in Brent, north-west London on 8 October 2015.

When the Taser had no effect, they struck him with a patrol car before shooting him."
Mr Hive was armed with two knives and a screwdriver and later convicted of possession of offensive weapons and common assault, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-41098088

Hate to think what they would have done if he had a hammer.

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Looks like Indy's days are numbered .. a rock, a sack and off the Bay bridge or abandoned by the freeway?

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Lsuoma wrote:
"Officers who Tasered a man armed with two knives 11 times, hit him with a car and shot him used reasonable force, the police watchdog has found.

Metropolitan Police officers fired on Joseph Hive several times with a stun gun in Brent, north-west London on 8 October 2015.

When the Taser had no effect, they struck him with a patrol car before shooting him."
Mr Hive was armed with two knives and a screwdriver and later convicted of possession of offensive weapons and common assault, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-41098088

Hate to think what they would have done if he had a hammer.
Nailed it.

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Lsuoma wrote:
"Officers who Tasered a man armed with two knives 11 times, hit him with a car and shot him used reasonable force, the police watchdog has found.

Metropolitan Police officers fired on Joseph Hive several times with a stun gun in Brent, north-west London on 8 October 2015.

When the Taser had no effect, they struck him with a patrol car before shooting him."
Mr Hive was armed with two knives and a screwdriver and later convicted of possession of offensive weapons and common assault, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-41098088

Hate to think what they would have done if he had a hammer.

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Lsuoma wrote:
"Officers who Tasered a man armed with two knives 11 times, hit him with a car and shot him used reasonable force, the police watchdog has found.

Metropolitan Police officers fired on Joseph Hive several times with a stun gun in Brent, north-west London on 8 October 2015.

When the Taser had no effect, they struck him with a patrol car before shooting him."

Mr Hive was armed with two knives and a screwdriver and later convicted of possession of offensive weapons and common assault, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-41098088

Hate to think what they would have done if he had a hammer.
Yeah but dem polees day got dem groovy moves doe bruv innit.

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TheMudbrooker wrote:

Coming from Pete Seger the title should be 'If I had a hammer and a sickle'

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MacGruberKnows wrote:
TheMudbrooker wrote:

Coming from Pete Seger the title should be 'If I had a hammer and a sickle'
Yup. Best. Post. Evah! Here's your x2.

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Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
MarcusAu wrote:Or you could flip things - and actually make ugly the aesthetic.

http://www.armytents.com/

Don't know if you could find an actual MASH tent though.
For full authenticity, a Nissan hut is the way to go.
You say Nissan, I say Nissen - but we don't have to call the whole thing off.

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shoutinghorse wrote:Looks like Indy's days are numbered .. a rock, a sack and off the Bay bridge or abandoned by the freeway?

https://www.instagram.com/p/BYbVpxCB_2y/
Dafuq. Hopefully her boyfriend/victim likes the dog, or she finds it a good home. Or maybe she was just being "edgy" or snarky or whatever she calls the shit she spews. Abandoning her dog might even be too low for her. I hope.

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Re: In 2017 Idiocracy is a Documentary

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Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
John D wrote:
MarcusAu wrote:Anyone here familiar with Fredrik DeBoer ?

He is a left wing academic & writer on such topics as free speech, intersectionality and other related matters.

I'm part-way though his interview on the 'So to Speak' podcast - and am enjoying his analysis.

https://soundcloud.com/so-to-speak-the- ... -higher-ed


Here's an article he wrote on white privilege too:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/postever ... ae3a22a318
What a surprise! An "intellectual socialist" lecturing us about systemic racism, white guilt, and white supremacy. His commie grandfather, who was an outspoken member of the Communist party, had his job saved only because he had University tenure. Hmmmmmm......

I agree with him that the University is at the center of the "culture war." In recent decades, Universities have swollen to an unrecognizable size, increasing in cost at 4 times the rate of inflation. This cost increase has primarily funded Administration and waste. In the University of California system fully half the cost goes directly to administrative personnel.

There is going to be a new generation of students who hate their student debt and hate that their University robbed them of value. There is a university cost bubble that might pop in a very destructive way.

So this little bitch DeBoer can only complain that the Republicans are threatening funding cuts to Unis. NO SHIT ASS HOLE! You, and your fellow "intellectuals" have been fucking the public and your students for the past 20 years. Suck a bag of dicks commie!

I will say... that he is completely correct about how Unis indoctrinate students. He is also correct that the left is going to wreck his precious funding because the left are acting like pompous intellectual assholes.
But how do you really feel?
I feel like this...


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Re: In 2017 Idiocracy is a Documentary

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Matt Cavanaugh wrote:Because I'm sick and tired of a handful of Axis II walking train wrecks dragging down liberalism:

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyat ... 3494487972


Also, Hemant seems extra whiny & hysterical of late. Starting to feel like a Dan Arel power dive is coming.
Liberalism has had a rough go for a while now. The term was denigrated and abused by Republicans in the Reagan era, dragged through the mud by neocons during the Bush years and now is being twisted Orwellian-style by the regressive left. Fortunately I see some of the regressive left beginning to use it as an insult and shy away from the term, using it to vilify what we would call centrists. I do hope that sticks, along with idiot conservatives realizing that using "libtard" only makes them look profoundly retarded.

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CaptainFluffyBunny wrote:
Matt Cavanaugh wrote:Because I'm sick and tired of a handful of Axis II walking train wrecks dragging down liberalism:

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyat ... 3494487972


Also, Hemant seems extra whiny & hysterical of late. Starting to feel like a Dan Arel power dive is coming.
Liberalism has had a rough go for a while now. The term was denigrated and abused by Republicans in the Reagan era, dragged through the mud by neocons during the Bush years and now is being twisted Orwellian-style by the regressive left. Fortunately I see some of the regressive left beginning to use it as an insult and shy away from the term, using it to vilify what we would call centrists. I do hope that sticks, along with idiot conservatives realizing that using "libtard" only makes them look profoundly retarded.
The US need a movement of people interested in solving social issues (healthcare, welfare, law enforcement, local politics, foreign policy etc.) from a non-identitarian, non-ideological, reformist, evidence-base, citizen-centered and taxpayer-centered perspective (and anti-lobbies/anti-corporate "special interests"). You can call them liberals or centrists or Liberal-Democrats or The Newer Deal, or Trafalmadorians for all I care. Political labels are so all over the place these days that they're becoming useless.

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Re: In 2017 Idiocracy is a Documentary

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Tigzy wrote:Oh man. This thread. Looks like the most batshit muslim outside your typical suicide bomber and beheader. Steersman, you're gonna either love this or pop a BSOD.

'Anti-colonialist islamist' - and that's just the start, folks.

[.tweet]https://twitter.com/uberfeminist/status ... 4868846592[/tweet]
;-)

Tags: Politics and strange bedfellows; ironic incongruities ...

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Matt's comment gets the most predictable of responses: "Uh, I know how to multitask THANK YOU."

Let's ignore that multitasking is actually something it has been repeatedly proven humans CANNOT do. When it comes to devoting a disproportionate amount of attention and resources to a vanishingly small identitarian faction, suddenly it's possible to juggle multiple priorities.

And yet we've got Peez and other liberal Luddites insisting we can't spare a fraction of our attention for something like space travel because that's just so bourgeois. And you're not paying sufficient deference to social justice if anything less than all of your time and energy is poured into that cause.

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Sunder wrote:You don't see the difference between Darwin and a complete fraud like Freud?
I see a big difference. I just dislike the immediate leap to "oh small, less well known person is only targeting big, famous person to leech off their popularity." It's the kind of bad faith reasoning that in Jerry's case immediately turns around to bite him on the ass.[/quote]

It doesn't take much of a leap to see that A.N. Wilson (who I think you're referring to) is a fraud, too, and Jerry showed a point-by-point refutation of what he stated about Darwin.

Incidentally, Wilson screwed up a "biography" of Hitler too.

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Brive1987 wrote:First they came for ......


A raft of fair dinkum, true blue Aussie place names face the chop for alleged racism.

Including Steer's favourite mountain:

[.img]http://i.imgur.com/I67fLCV.jpg[/img]
680 meters? You call that a mountain? Sheesh ... ;-)

But sure a lot of niggers about. Decidedly moot who's winning in the proverbial and profoundly problematic civil war between blacks and niggas ... ;-)



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51vFbsZ ... e=youtu.be

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free thoughtpolice wrote:Matt: PZ has a post up asking you to sue him:
http://archive.is/h9j9O
Oh no, another lawsuit?
I’m a bit fed up with people who turn immediately to lawsuits to get big money for slights, but this one is different.
I’m not the one being sued! Yay! That changes one’s whole perspective, I tell you what.
It’s Sargon of Akkad being sued. It’s hard to be sympathetic, sorry to say, but if it was another bullshit suit by people angry about being called mean names, I would be.
This is not a bullshit suit! He’s actually been caught dead to rights on copyright infringement.
I'm pretty sure when you remind him about stealing your blog post he will wisely settle for big money, like he advises Sarcod to do.
Isn't PZ lying in this piece?
Here’s the person doing the suing to explain it all. Sargon just simply uploaded her video to his monetized channel, no commentary, no satire, just lazily retitling a copy to get mo’ money.
As I understand it, Sargon edited the video specifically for the rhetorical intent of commenting upon her commentary. He might have added a voice over before or after or something, but I don't believe the case is as PZ claimed it to be.

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I suspect that if YT decided to deal with this matter internally as a simple breach of TOS rather than allow it to escalate into the civil arena, Peez's prior libertarian leanings with regard to companies being allowed to do as they wish with all content under their own purview would vanish in a puff of smoke.

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