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Dunno what to do with these, so here - add-ons that denormalize the term "Rebranded White Nationalism".

http://www.stopnormalizing.com/
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/Rebranded White Nationalism-denormalizer/glfmlcifdhfpibfmokbcojfkbgfigeph/related?authuser=1

This is great, and I installed it. I am still astonished by how many people don't seem to get that the alt-right is a white nationalist movement.

"We cant normalize the alt-right"
Meanwhile:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/family/transgender-children-my-son-told-me-he-was-a-girl/

"Stunning. Brave."

What's your point?

That Purity-Spiraliers care more about tone policing coverage of a completely irrelevant hoverhanding loser but swoon over gushy media depictions of child abuse. By all means guys, keep obsessing over using just the right vocabulary to describe things, we cant let any semantic crimes go unpunished. If you all prove how absolutely disgusted you are with white nationalism over and over again to each other maybe it will eventually accomplish something. And keep up the articles about parents cross-dressing their children. Its completely inspiring and beautiful and totally doesnt make the average person want to join ISIS.

Oh. You don't know what transgenderism is or how it works. I see.

I mean that's fine, we have all been ignorant at some point. I'm sure you'll figure it out.

Dunno what to do with these, so here - add-ons that denormalize the term "Rebranded White Nationalism".

http://www.stopnormalizing.com/
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/Rebranded White Nationalism-denormalizer/glfmlcifdhfpibfmokbcojfkbgfigeph/related?authuser=1

This is great, and I installed it. I am still astonished by how many people don't seem to get that the alt-right is a white nationalist movement.

"We cant normalize the alt-right"
Meanwhile:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/family/transgender-children-my-son-told-me-he-was-a-girl/

"Stunning. Brave."

What's your point?

Also, SNL totally has given the insular (mostly white) liberal crowd a big poke in the ribs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKOb-kmOgpI

Apropos of nothing: Saw the most recent Harry-Potter-movie-not-about-Harry-Potter.  More or less liked it, first because the protagonist is a Hufflepuff, and secondly because one of the reasons he wins is because he's nice.

Yes, escapist fantasies.  But I'll take it, for now.

This is literally the first thing I've seen or read that made me interested in seeing it. And I was one of the biggest Harry Potter dorks alive between ages 11 and 18, just about.

Hufflepuff4Lyfe.

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I'll give you this mate: I think you've got about 20 IQ points on Shandor. Not that it's doing you a whole mess of good right now, but hey. I was a fucking moron on PD.com for my first year and a half. Now I'm only a minor nincompoop.

It's one thing to call someone an idiot; it's another to dismantle their arguments.

That is correct. I assure you that most people here are quite aware of the difference, and have made a conscientious decision to do the former.

The latter is more work and tends to have the same end result as the former. Especially if they are an idiot.

Fascinating how my pointing out that I made another human with my own bone and blood was glossed over by PDS, and he instead went to a scenario in which two beings share a body instead of one directing leeching off another.

Truly a master of mental gymnastics.

I'll give you this mate: I think you've got about 20 IQ points on Shandor. Not that it's doing you a whole mess of good right now, but hey. I was a fucking moron on PD.com for my first year and a half. Now I'm only a minor nincompoop.

Today at the grocery store, I grab a box of "Hibiscus Cleanse" tea, it's new. It's hibiscus, yerba mate, and mint. I got it because it sounded tasty. And then...


Her: "Does that stuff work?"
Me: "Hmm?"
Her: "Does that tea actually work as a detox?"
Me: "No, that's what my liver is for, I just like the taste of hibiscus, and it sounds good with mint."
Her: *confused face*


Hibiscus is a diuretic, but seriously, I just think it tastes good. 

How the hell would you even tell? Sending all of your urine to a lab every day to test for "toxins"?

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They're assholes. My impression

Could you clarify how you came about this impression? 

is that they're young and naive, predominantly white with upper-middle-class parents, and they get their news from Facebook. As I've already pointed out, many of them didn't even fucking vote

Gee, are they paid by George Soros too?

Nonwhites are more invisible than I thought, I guess.

By way of illustration:

No person can be legally required to donate blood or part of their body. Even in the most ludicrous example you could think of: a drunk driver mortally injures someone and could save their life by donating blood. Even though the situation is their fault, isn't legally compelled to give blood. Those are extreme examples, and hundreds more that are far less intense exist. In none of them is a person required to surrender their bodily autonomy.

A fetus has no right to require the use of a woman's body for nine months of she doesn't want to. Even if she fucks 80 men a day without protection, who gets to use her uterus to gestate in is exclusively her decision.

LOL So you would allow third trimester abortions on the grounds that "the fetus has no right to the womans body." Hello Ayn Rand!

Are you bored? You must be really bored.

Your argument applies to every trimester of pregnancy.

Yes. And?

By way of illustration:

No person can be legally required to donate blood or part of their body. Even in the most ludicrous example you could think of: a drunk driver mortally injures someone and could save their life by donating blood. Even though the situation is their fault, isn't legally compelled to give blood. Those are extreme examples, and hundreds more that are far less intense exist. In none of them is a person required to surrender their bodily autonomy.

A fetus has no right to require the use of a woman's body for nine months of she doesn't want to. Even if she fucks 80 men a day without protection, who gets to use her uterus to gestate in is exclusively her decision.

You forget that, at least in the US, organ donation is opt-in.  Therefore even dead people would have more bodily autonomy that a pregnant woman if the anti-abortion people had their way.

A person should show that they are an organ donor before you agree to listen to their pro-life spiel.

Trust me, I would never forget that corpses have more sanctity than women in the minds of anti-choice people. I'm just amazed that the realization didn't occur to me earlier in life.

Any protest that doesn't piss off a lot of people and seem totally unreasonable to outsiders is probably a shitty protest.

1. Go fuck yourself.

My day-early super-fancy preorder of Dishonored 2 got delayed to Tuesday because Amazon is farts. But I got to play the Clockwork Mansion level a few times over a month early at one of their promotional events, so my saltiness is slightly alleviated. Speaking of, did Bethesda just spill a giant bag of marketing money on this game and be like, "go nuts, guys"? They've done all kinds of promotional events and stuff this past year.

I am saying that the stick is going to be a necessary component of how we get laws that both reverse voter suppression and end gerrymandering. Things are going to get worse and scarier before they get better.

I think you are very correct in this. The "peace is the only way, riots don't solve anything!" pap is sounding less and less true to me every day.

A lot of people are going to get hurt, it seems. But if "lesser of two evils" really is the only path to progress in this society, then a greater evil must be presented as the alternative to the lesser "evil" of treating Those People as humans.

(In case the FBI is listening, this hurts my White Male Feelings and I'm against it, for the record. Also, well played, pigs.)