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Kirbmarc wrote:The left would be FAR more credible if they stopped following Marx and started following Keynes. Call it a Newer Deal, not socialism.
Are you referencing the picture above?

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Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
I get nervous putting my resume out there.... I will never know how many jobs I did not get when they stumble across my activism and support. Once or twice I suspect this has happened. I have a great telephone interview and a face to face is scheduled. A day or two later comes a call that they have reconsidered the matter and cancel with no explanation.
As hard as that is for me. I am not trans or a person of color. I have a mere sample of their everyday life. But that sample may have cost me.
Transallyphobia strikes again! After reviewing your resumé -- MA Div., minister 10 years, cabbie 2 years, blogger 1 year -- and your complete lack of marketable skills, those prospective employers were itching to hire you ... until they saw your blog.

Or maybe called your last employer and learned how you creeped out all your fares.
Would it really be so difficult to work as a (semi-)independent cab driver?

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Murder capital of Britain, knife crime on an unprecedented scale, acid attacks (unheard of just a few short years ago) almost a weekly occurrence, drug crime up, gun crime up, street robberies up, feral uncontrollable street gangs, no go zones, sharia patrols, local election fraud, illegal migrants/ human trafficking up, islamic terror. All being policed by a wittled down increasingly cuckolded Met.
And all under your watch Mr. Khan.

[tweethttps://twitter.com/SadiqKhan/status/892691323572170752/tweet]

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Fucking tab .. :cry:

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shoutinghorse wrote:Murder capital of Britain, knife crime on an unprecedented scale, acid attacks (unheard of just a few short years ago) almost a weekly occurrence, drug crime up, gun crime up, street robberies up, feral uncontrollable street gangs, no go zones, sharia patrols, local election fraud, illegal migrants/ human trafficking up, islamic terror. All being policed by a wittled down increasingly cuckolded Met.
And all under your watch Mr. Khan.

[tweethttps://twitter.com/SadiqKhan/status/892691323572170752/tweet]
Pointing out rising crime statistics in London "is racist." Because it coincides with the severe reduction of the use of "stop and search", and people might jump to uncomfortable conclusions, or something!!!

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MarcusAu wrote:
Is it important if I haven't read the first one? I don't like skipping on series.

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You should be familiar with all the dicks.

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deLurch wrote:
Kirbmarc wrote:Libertarianism is based on purely abstract basis, with little regards for evidence. I have fun playing the devil's advocate for libertarianism, but, just like communism, libertarianism is just not plausible (among many issues there's the problem of externalities, which is why many libertarians buy into the idea that anthropogenic global warming is a "hoax")
My biggest beef with libertarians are with their extremists. Any ideology taken to it's extreme breaks down.

You have nutters to insist that everything should be privatized, even the roads. Can you imagine what a nightmare that would be? It would either be a patchwork of tolls, or monopolies keeping you prisoner.

Basically I don't think anything should be a monopoly/oligopoly on either a national or local level. So sewers, roads, bridges, water pipes are best owned by the state or closely regulated by the state.
I have many beefs, particularly with Randian flavour libertarians. There is a reason why philosophers have no time for Objectivist philosophy. That reason isn't that nobody can win the argument against Rand's "philosophical framework", as objectivists like to claim, but that the whole thing rests on faulty premises which are basically nothing more than handwaving.

The question of extremism is an interesting one. It is a commonly held fallacy, if one can call it that, that failing perfect implementation of a policy, the next best thing is a near compromise. Unfortunately things don't always work out that way. It only takes one thing out of place in a radical implementation to produce disaster. That is the problem extreme libertarians have. Any failures in such an unregulated system can spin wildly out of control very quickly.

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http://i.imgur.com/2K9knep.jpg
Bus seats mistaken for burqas by members of anti-immigrant group
Comments posted on Norwegian ‘Fatherland first’ Facebook group call empty seats on Oslo bus ‘terrifying’
A Norwegian anti-immigrant group has been roundly ridiculed after members mistook a photograph of six empty Oslo bus seats posted on its Facebook page for a group of women wearing burqas.

“Tragic” and “terrifying” were among the comments posted by members of the closed Fedrelandet viktigst, or “Fatherland first”, group beneath the photograph, according to screenshots on the Norwegian news website Nettavisen.

Other members of the 13,000-strong group wondered whether the non-existent passengers might be carrying bombs or weapons beneath their clothes. “This looks really scary,” wrote one. “Should be banned. You can’t tell who’s underneath. Could be terrorists.”

Further comments read: “Ghastly. This should never happen,” “Get them out of our country – frightening times we are living in,” and: “I thought it would be like this in the year 2050, but it is happening now,” according to thelocal.no.

The photograph was posted “for a joke” by the journalist Johan Slåttavik, who told Nettavisen he was “interested to see how people’s perceptions of an image are influenced by how others around them react. I ended up having a good laugh"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/ ... -norwegian

:lol: Easy mistake to make if you ask me.

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The picture fooled me at first glance.

But why is it not problematic for a journalist to joke about such issues in the first place?

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MarcusAu wrote:You should be familiar with all the dicks.
You must have me confused with [insert name of Pitter/SJW of choice. But not me, obviously].

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In other news, I've just ordered a book from Mufassil Islam: The Codex Of A Murtad

It is apparently about his struggle and subsequent leaving of Islam. He's a pretty cool guy, and living in Bangladesh I'd say he's fucking brave going open about his apostasy.

If anyone is interested, you can write to him at this email address: islamm@tcd.ie

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Cnutella wrote:
Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
Shatterface wrote:I love The Forever War.
I loved it so much I bought the board game. Unplayable.
I heard it was kind of fun to play but unbearably slow to watch.
I played one combat round and the next thing I knew everyone had turned gay.

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deLurch wrote:
Kirbmarc wrote:Libertarianism is based on purely abstract basis, with little regards for evidence. I have fun playing the devil's advocate for libertarianism, but, just like communism, libertarianism is just not plausible (among many issues there's the problem of externalities, which is why many libertarians buy into the idea that anthropogenic global warming is a "hoax")
My biggest beef with libertarians are with their extremists. Any ideology taken to it's extreme breaks down.

You have nutters to insist that everything should be privatized, even the roads. Can you imagine what a nightmare that would be? It would either be a patchwork of tolls, or monopolies keeping you prisoner.

Basically I don't think anything should be a monopoly/oligopoly on either a national or local level. So sewers, roads, bridges, water pipes are best owned by the state or closely regulated by the state.
Whether you operate under libertarianism or socialism, the same conditions must be met economically. I'll always remember the hilarity that ensued when I once suggested (on a libertarian site) that insurance is essentially equivalent to socialism. There were outraged responses claiming that insurance is "voluntary risk pools". That's just a convenient way to say that either your money is going to pay for someone less fortunate than you (sicker, more accident prone, etc.) or you are claiming that money from others. Of course, the word "voluntary" is key (and I get that), but I think people could actually start to make concessions once they realize how similar things must be in order for everyone to survive and thrive. To a large extent the "democracy" part of social democracy answers the question about freedom. If you agree that democracy is a good idea, you are to a large extent acquiescing to the notion that your decision making freedom is limited to voting, at least for certain big decisions.

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Hunt wrote:Whether you operate under libertarianism or socialism, the same conditions must be met economically. I'll always remember the hilarity that ensued when I once suggested (on a libertarian site) that insurance is essentially equivalent to socialism. There were outraged responses claiming that insurance is "voluntary risk pools". That's just a convenient way to say that either your money is going to pay for someone less fortunate than you (sicker, more accident prone, etc.) or you are claiming that money from others. Of course, the word "voluntary" is key (and I get that), but I think people could actually start to make concessions once they realize how similar things must be in order for everyone to survive and thrive. To a large extent the "democracy" part of social democracy answers the question about freedom. If you agree that democracy is a good idea, you are to a large extent acquiescing to the notion that your decision making freedom is limited to voting, at least for certain big decisions.
In Switzerland voting in referendums about immigration, fiscal policy, the justice system and many other matters, both federal and local, is pretty common. I think that this is what keeps the country together, knowing that you get to have a say on many issues and can have a degree of local autonomy. Also we don't have a two-party system.

Social democracy is fine but in too many countries "democracy" is limited due to lack of referendums, lack of regional autonomy and lack of options due to voting system that encourages a two-party system. That's a source of resentment. In the US many are fed up with choosing between Republicans and Democrats, and would prefer a wider range of choices, but the system is set up so that third parties just cannot win.

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Bhurzum wrote:
deLurch wrote:What is the difference between Richard Spencer and Lauren Southern? (Aside from their gender)
I wouldn't tongue-punch Spencer in the fart-box.
Most things in life can be boiled down to that.

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Kirbmarc wrote:
*snip*

Social democracy is fine but in too many countries "democracy" is limited due to lack of referendums, lack of regional autonomy and lack of options due to voting system that encourages a two-party system.

*snip again*
You don't say! France would be a very different country with actual popular opinions.

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Cnutella wrote:
Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
Shatterface wrote: I love The Forever War.
I loved it so much I bought the board game. Unplayable.
I heard it was kind of fun to play but unbearably slow to watch.
I started playing it c. 1980. Haven't finished yet.

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This Paul Joseph Watson dude.

I just binge watched a shed load of his videos. And have yet to disagree with him.

Is there a Pit contrarian view? Probs that I've missed an entire thread on this. If so what was the tldr?

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Hunt wrote:If you agree that democracy is a good idea, you are to a large extent acquiescing to the notion that your decision making freedom is limited to voting, at least for certain big decisions.
I am sure if we peeked under the carpet of a medium or small libertarian forum we would get at least one nutter who would argue against allowing other's votes to hold sway over him.

Hmmm.... I wonder if AnarchoLibertarian is a thing.

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InfraRedBucket wrote:http://i.imgur.com/2K9knep.jpg
Bus seats mistaken for burqas by members of anti-immigrant group
Comments posted on Norwegian ‘Fatherland first’ Facebook group call empty seats on Oslo bus ‘terrifying’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/ ... -norwegian

:lol: Easy mistake to make if you ask me.
I see Darth Vaders.

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InfraRedBucket wrote:http://i.imgur.com/2K9knep.jpg
Bus seats mistaken for burqas by members of anti-immigrant group
Comments posted on Norwegian ‘Fatherland first’ Facebook group call empty seats on Oslo bus ‘terrifying’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/ ... -norwegian

:lol: Easy mistake to make if you ask me.
I see Darth Vaders.

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Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:
MarcusAu wrote:
Is it important if I haven't read the first one? I don't like skipping on series.
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Richard III-D was a sequel too far, in my opinion. Too gimmicky.

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Brive1987 wrote:This Paul Joseph Watson dude.

I just binge watched a shed load of his videos. And have yet to disagree with him.

Is there a Pit contrarian view? Probs that I've missed an entire thread on this. If so what was the tldr?
NO!!!

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feathers wrote: Would it really be so difficult to work as a (semi-)independent cab driver?
You mean, like Uber? I bet that's what he did.

Ex-ministers are pretty damn useless to society.

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People mistake bus seats for burqas.

Has anybody ever mistaken anything for a swastika?

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Brive1987 wrote:This Paul Joseph Watson dude.
I just binge watched a shed load of his videos. And have yet to disagree with him.
Is there a Pit contrarian view? Probs that I've missed an entire thread on this. If so what was the tldr?
What little I have seen of him, I tend to agree too. But his style of yelling is a few steps below Alex Jones. I bet Alex mentored him into that bullshit.

He tends to be a tad hyperbolic, and some of his arguments are a bit flimsy. I am sure if we started posting a few of his random videos here we could give it a real critical eye.

That said, a quick scan of his latest videos shows plenty of name calling (not much of an argument as it is an emotional response which engages his target audience for some self reassuring pats on the back). It also shows that he really tends to go after the low hanging grapes. Like really low.

Here we have Paul being played by the dog. And the ball is what he is arguing against.


His videos are short. He makes a single argument. And he quickly backs them up with a few quick points of evidence and plenty of snark. So to the point, he does a good job of presentation for a short attention space youtube audience. A great place to go if you want your biases validated.

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deLurch wrote:
Hunt wrote:If you agree that democracy is a good idea, you are to a large extent acquiescing to the notion that your decision making freedom is limited to voting, at least for certain big decisions.
I am sure if we peeked under the carpet of a medium or small libertarian forum we would get at least one nutter who would argue against allowing other's votes to hold sway over him.

Hmmm.... I wonder if AnarchoLibertarian is a thing.
I think they're the rule, not the exception. The only purpose of gubmint in the libertarian scheme is as a means to enforce contracts. Everything else is privatized. Not a whole lot of room there for democracy.

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Hunt wrote:
deLurch wrote:
Hunt wrote:If you agree that democracy is a good idea, you are to a large extent acquiescing to the notion that your decision making freedom is limited to voting, at least for certain big decisions.
I am sure if we peeked under the carpet of a medium or small libertarian forum we would get at least one nutter who would argue against allowing other's votes to hold sway over him.

Hmmm.... I wonder if AnarchoLibertarian is a thing.
I think they're the rule, not the exception. The only purpose of gubmint in the libertarian scheme is as a means to enforce contracts. Everything else is privatized. Not a whole lot of room there for democracy.
I call myself "Libertarian Leaning". On social topics I am 100% Libertarian... basically, I think the gubbment should stay out of people's personal business. Regarding other topics I am a "small government Republican". The problem is that there are almost no small government Republicans left in Merica.

Hard core Libertarians are just masturbating over some kind of anarchic utopia.

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Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
InfraRedBucket wrote:http://i.imgur.com/2K9knep.jpg
Bus seats mistaken for burqas by members of anti-immigrant group
Comments posted on Norwegian ‘Fatherland first’ Facebook group call empty seats on Oslo bus ‘terrifying’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/ ... -norwegian

:lol: Easy mistake to make if you ask me.
I see Darth Vaders.
I see Cylons.

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free thoughtpolice wrote:I never was in Nam, but I still get flashbacks...
For most people that I know, that song is now linked to the show Family Guy.

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What Dusty Smith thinks of Paul Joseph Watson:

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCsC3T13Dug&t=217s[/youtube]

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Eskarina wrote:
Matt Cavanaugh wrote:http://i.imgur.com/2K9knep.jpg

I see Darth Vaders.
I see Cylons.
The Cylons would send a boarding party to take over the bus, kill all the passengers, then replace the driver with a Hybrid.

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Bhurzum wrote:
deLurch wrote:What is the difference between Richard Spencer and Lauren Southern? (Aside from their gender)
I wouldn't tongue-punch Spencer in the fart-box.
Queefus Christ, your aim is bad.

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Eskarina wrote:snip
InfraRedBucket wrote:http://i.imgur.com/2K9knep.jpg
Bus seats mistaken for burqas by members of anti-immigrant group
Comments posted on Norwegian ‘Fatherland first’ Facebook group call empty seats on Oslo bus ‘terrifying’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/ ... -norwegian

:lol: Easy mistake to make if you ask me.
I see Cylons.
I don't see it.

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MarcusAu wrote:This must come as a relief to everyone - the problem of 'Online Terrorism' is to be sorted out:

https://www.blog.google/topics/google-e ... ne-terror/
Written by people who don't know the difference between (real) terrorism that happens to involve or use the internet and "online terrorism" that never hurts anyone.

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As much as I'm normally optimistic about technology making our lives better even if it does bring new socioeconomic challenges (bring on the self-driving cars), nothing brings out my inner Luddite more than watching big tech companies like Google roll out clumsy and stupid automation for social media platforms. Laziness and lack of accountability is the future, and the future is now. And it's fucking awful. Losing access to your email is more than just a minor goddamn inconvenience for many people. And those kinds of decisions should not be put in the hands of idiotic algorithms.

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Brive1987 wrote:This Paul Joseph Watson dude.

I just binge watched a shed load of his videos. And have yet to disagree with him.

Is there a Pit contrarian view? Probs that I've missed an entire thread on this. If so what was the tldr?
He seems to buy into the whole Bilderberg globalist conspiracy nonsense. Although, he's hinted in the past that since his primary platform has been Infowars, he's been giving the audience what they want. But, not much can be said for the intellectual integrity of someone who tailors their professed beliefs to their audience. He does seem to be striking out on a path independent of Infowars lately and has become considerably more temperate and rational. He's an interesting and clearly intelligent guy, but also does not have a history of being a careful thinker, so I have to put everything he says through an extreme skeptical filter.

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Kirbmarc wrote:Basically building a road is something that benefits anyone who lives in areas reached by the road or who benefit of the services of the road, not just the people who routinely use the road for travelling. By privatizing a road the costs are paid only by those who use it, while people who do not use it but receive benefits from the existence of the road do not pay for it. This means that those who use the road need to pay more to build and maintain it.
I live in a private development, so the home-owners association owns the one-entrance, dead-end street. We have to pay all maintenance, etc, which we share equally. At a home-owners meeting a few years ago, one of the families that lives near the entrance suggested that we should change the fees to match how much of the road is used by each household. He would pay one "share," as he's in the first house. I would pay six "shares," because there are five houses between me and the road (on my side of the street). We took the suggestion seriously enough to debate whether the shares should be set by the number of houses between you and the road or by the actual distance. Then we voted it down by something like 12 to 4.

A month later, the guy was back with the idea that we should install water meters on every house and put a separate electric meter on the well's pump. (Some of us have lawn-sprinklers, but he doesn't.) This one didn't get much debate and he stopped coming to homeowners meetings for a while. Once I knew that his ideas would be voted down, I kind of missed him. He was very serious about all of it.

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And I'm giving Google the benefit of the doubt that this is a genuine anti-terror effort, which is how they seem to be selling it. A way to go after shit like IS recruitment and propaganda videos hosted on their site. I still believe that stupidity is almost almost always a more parsimonious explanation than malice.

But you ultimately need human beings working behind the scenes ready to fix and mistakes caused by the automated system. And that's where corporate cheapness ruins everything. Because false positives who get swept up by this and aren't big names like Jordan Peterson are going to either end up waiting forever or give up. Google hardly cares. But they should since this feeds the narrative that they're deliberately trying to silence dissenters.

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Desperate attempt to prop up her flagging profile, plus her deflating bank balence no doubt. Last time I bothered to look she had 13 followers on twitch.

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Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
feathers wrote: Would it really be so difficult to work as a (semi-)independent cab driver?
You mean, like Uber? I bet that's what he did.
Possibly like Uber, but I think we've had taxi cooperatives here of independent professional drivers where the 'company' only has a phone central which dispatches calls, and the drivers remain mostly free to take or leave it, or to avoid certain parts of the city etc. (the difference with Uber being that the drivers still need to be registered with the chamber of commerce, or whatever you have). Such coops are unlikely to conduct extensive background checks and job interviews.

Those places in Europe where I've been in a cab, the drivers can just about get away with murder. I can't for the best of me imagine someone ever checked their Facebook.

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CaptainFluffyBunny wrote:
Eskarina wrote:I see Cylons.
I don't see it.
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They are black Cylons.

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Hunt wrote:
I think they're the rule, not the exception. The only purpose of gubmint in the libertarian scheme is as a means to enforce contracts. Everything else is privatized. Not a whole lot of room there for democracy.
Not even close. The main purpose of government under even hard-core libertarianism (never mind the softer Milton Friedman inspired versions of libertarianism) is as an entity with a legal monopoly on the use of force, which is to be used only as retaliation and deterrence against those who initiate it.

Anarcho-libertarianism is a tiny fringe within libertarianism. I have yet to meet one since college, where they are sadly plentiful, and I'm guessing that's how you got your misconceptions about it. Beyond Bryan Caplan, who's not exactly a major intellectual figure, you'd be hard pressed to find a single significantly consumed media source, think tank, or even blog or YouTube channel that has anarcho-libertarianism as its core philosophy.

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Brive1987 wrote:This Paul Joseph Watson dude.

I just binge watched a shed load of his videos. And have yet to disagree with him.

Is there a Pit contrarian view? Probs that I've missed an entire thread on this. If so what was the tldr?
Your'e not alone.

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CaptainFluffyBunny wrote: I don't see it.
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Call yourself a Cylon? You 'orrible little man, er, android!

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Post by feathers »

Eskarina wrote:
CaptainFluffyBunny wrote:
Eskarina wrote:I see Cylons.
I don't see it.
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They are black Cylons.[/quote][/quote][/quote]

Eskarina, no! Cylons of Colour, remember?

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Brive1987 wrote:This Paul Joseph Watson dude.

I just binge watched a shed load of his videos. And have yet to disagree with him.

Is there a Pit contrarian view? Probs that I've missed an entire thread on this. If so what was the tldr?
He gets things right every once in a while, but he's still a conspiracy nut. He believes in the chemtrails, the New World Order, the Illuminati and other dumb stuff, the kind of things that free thoughtpolice loves to post here to troll Steersman or Vicky Caramel. He created the "dying Hillary" conspiracy theory FFS. He's also pretty dishonest when it comes to editing his videos: he added "haunting" music to a joke by a German journalist to make people believe that there was support for killing Trump in Germany, he frequently splices together clips to leave out information that doesn't overtly support his narrative.

He's right about the derailment of the left post-Trump, and he's not pulling any punches about the SocJus or the Regressive Left and he's at least more coherent with his anti-interventionist stance on Syria than a lot of other Trump supporters, but he's still not someone I'd trust as a source of reliable information.

Cathy Young or Christina Hoff Sommers offer the same kind of commentary on feminism without conspiracy bullshit. Jerry Coyne has lots of material on the SocJus and the Regressive Left. Sam Harris, as naive as he is when it comes to foreign policy, is a much sharper thinker on the American society, and he invites lots of interesting commentators (and Scott Adams). And if you want some commentary on foreign policy which are free from intersectional bullshit you just need to check out any foreign policy commentator who adheres to the Realist school (like Sumantra Maitra).

There's no need to check out PJW or anyone who works at Prison Planet for that matter. They might get things right about the SocJus and the Regressive Left, but they're so full of bullshit on other matters that their commentaries are pretty tainted.

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Post by Kirbmarc »

I also recommend Razib Khan and @YeyoZa if you need to find good stats and data which debunk Intersectional narratives. Hell, our own AndrewV69 is pretty good at that.

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Eskarina wrote:
CaptainFluffyBunny wrote:
Eskarina wrote:I see Cylons.
I don't see it.
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They are black Cylons.[/quote][/quote][/quote]
Cylons of Color, please...

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feathers wrote:
Eskarina wrote:
CaptainFluffyBunny wrote: I don't see it.
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They are black Cylons.
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Eskarina, no! Cylons of Colour, remember?[/quote][/quote][/quote][/quote]
Bah!

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feathers wrote:
Eskarina wrote:
CaptainFluffyBunny wrote: I don't see it.
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They are black Cylons.
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Eskarina, no! Cylons of Colour, remember?[/quote][/quote][/quote][/quote][/quote][/quote][/quote][/quote][/quote][/quote][/quote][/quote][/quote]

So the Black Block is really the Block of Colour?

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Really?
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Post by Really? »

I think someone needs a juice box and a time out.

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Post by Kirbmarc »

free thoughtpolice wrote:[.youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noMHeb3fXhI[/youtube]
QED.

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Check out Paul Joseph Watson -pedophilia and others. If it's a nutty conspiracy theory he likely supports it.

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Billie from Ockham wrote:
I live in a private development, so the home-owners association owns the one-entrance, dead-end street. We have to pay all maintenance, etc, which we share equally. At a home-owners meeting a few years ago, one of the families that lives near the entrance suggested that we should change the fees to match how much of the road is used by each household. He would pay one "share," as he's in the first house. I would pay six "shares," because there are five houses between me and the road (on my side of the street). We took the suggestion seriously enough to debate whether the shares should be set by the number of houses between you and the road or by the actual distance. Then we voted it down by something like 12 to 4.

A month later, the guy was back with the idea that we should install water meters on every house and put a separate electric meter on the well's pump. (Some of us have lawn-sprinklers, but he doesn't.) This one didn't get much debate and he stopped coming to homeowners meetings for a while. Once I knew that his ideas would be voted down, I kind of missed him. He was very serious about all of it.

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