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Started by Ben Shapiro, February 22, 2014, 01:57:26 AM

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February 22, 2014, 01:57:26 AM Last Edit: July 31, 2018, 07:47:23 PM by Ben Shapiro
There is no "war on drugs", there is drug policy, and there is reasonable debate on how we approach drug policy. However, legalizing pot does nothing to help our issues with addiction, and will indeed exacerbate them while lining the pockets of, mostly, wealthy white males.

The Good Reverend Roger

#1
February 22, 2014, 06:28:27 AM
Oh, no, this is fine.   :lulz:
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- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#2
February 22, 2014, 08:33:52 AM
Quote from: /b/earman on February 22, 2014, 01:57:26 AM
Dear Nostalgia assbags,

We don't fucking care how "hard" your life was, or how the "good old days" were better. Go fuck yourself hard for trying to convince me that two world wars, Jim Crow laws, and not having the internet connecting me to the rest or the world and having access to free information in a matter of seconds is better.

There is nothing amazing about reading porno by candle light, and small pox.
One last thing, the Beatles fucking sucked get over it.

Sincerely, 2014

Seriously, I am with you. Nostalgia is stupid, and I hate it.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#3
February 22, 2014, 08:37:16 AM
All the people who are all, yeah everything was awesome BEFORE I GOT OLD. Dudes, you are conflating you being NOT OLD with things being awesome. Shit, yeah, it was awesome being young FOR YOU, because you were young and privileged, that doesn't mean things were awesome for everyone else who wasn't privileged. It's not like being young was awesome BECAUSE gays couldn't hold hands in public.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#4
February 22, 2014, 08:41:08 AM
Oh yeah, being young was awesome because when I was young black people couldn't buy property outside of the King neighborhood, right? Therefore, I got older because of the dissolusion of Portland's Red Line.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#5
February 22, 2014, 08:42:42 AM
Quote from: /b/earman on February 22, 2014, 08:40:35 AM
My hatred is the assbags who go on and on about real men, and women sitting down and being a lady.

YEAH

When I was young women knew their place, therefore my becoming older is a result of women becoming independent.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#6
February 22, 2014, 08:43:30 AM
A variation: I would be getting laid if women knew their place.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#7
February 22, 2014, 08:48:58 AM
Another variation: If it weren't for feminism, I would be an alpha male.

AKA: if it weren't for feminism, I would be having sex.

AKA: I don't believe that natural selection applies to me at all.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Reginald Ret

#8
February 22, 2014, 10:46:30 AM
Quote from: /b/earman on February 22, 2014, 09:00:43 AM
Women like giant monster trucks right? I mean if she doesn't dig this barbed wire tattoo it's because she's gay, or is bad in bed.
Or a slut.
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#9
February 22, 2014, 11:21:08 AM
I've got no problem with nostalgia, I've got a brain full of cool memories of the past. They're fun to remember, occasionally relive or whatever but ranking these on a greater or less than scale, in comparison to the present or (even more ridiculously) an unknown potential future?

There has never been a better time than now. There never will be.

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Red

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February 23, 2014, 07:36:10 AM Last Edit: February 23, 2014, 07:39:53 AM by Red
Let's hit another common "traditionalist". He lives with his parents, drives a car full/made of garbage, works a minimum wage job with horrific hours, refuses to eat anything that isn't junk/meat and treats women like second class citizens. He never has any relationship last more than a month or two if he dates at all, but this has to be the woman's fault for not having "traditional values" like him.

He uses his "traditional values" to justify his pathetic life choices and demands that you respect him for waving the "tradition" flag. Expect him to rage if you remotely mention anything near feminism. Some even rage at just egalitarianism. Women paying bills/handing money? FEMNAZIS! She doesn't want kids? OMGGTFO!

While we're at it: FUCK STEAMPUNK.

Steampunk = people who are nostalgia-blinded by the Victorian era yet are too scared to leave their computers behind.

Where cyberpunk at least has the grace to look to the future, steampunk looked at the future, wet itself, and decided to pretend it's over 100 years ago. Then they slapped brass gears and some fake wood panelling on an Ipad so they can pretend it's "alternate universe tech" because they just can't live without youtube. Yes, we really were better off with mass social and sexual repression, women being treated as second-class citizens unable to even vote, rampant Syphilis outbreaks, zero labor laws, and coal smoke blotting out the sun. Great choice.

Bonus points: there's a large overlap between the guys in my first paragraph and Steampunks. I'm pretty sure it's not a coincidence.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#11
February 23, 2014, 04:54:28 PM
I think I'm going to like you, new person.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Salty

#12
February 23, 2014, 07:34:29 PM
To be fair, all that sexual repression did give birth to the vibrator.
The world is a car and you're the crash test dummy.

Red

#13
February 23, 2014, 08:16:26 PM Last Edit: February 23, 2014, 08:20:27 PM by Red
Quote from: Alty on February 23, 2014, 07:34:29 PM
To be fair, all that sexual repression did give birth to the vibrator.
Good things should come out of bad eras. If they don't, then it means we've been wasting our time and should get around to fixing the crap parts of our time period to better our lives.

Focusing on the bad parts and pretending that they're good or even acceptable by current standards (or any standards at all in some cases) is like putting gold dust on a turd and pretending it's a gold nugget. You're only wasting valuable time and resources to fool yourself and everyone around you will think you're a jackass for doing it.

Re-enactment loophole: If you are accepting the good AND bad parts of an era you are emulating while acknowledging that the bad parts are still bad and shouldn't be in this era, but are including them anyway in order to keep perspective then you're good in my book. It's the people who whitewash/ignore the bad parts or even pretend they aren't bad that deserve ire!

Faust

#14
February 23, 2014, 08:33:06 PM Last Edit: February 23, 2014, 08:35:59 PM by Faust
Quote from: Red on February 23, 2014, 07:36:10 AM
Let's hit another common "traditionalist". He lives with his parents, drives a car full/made of garbage, works a minimum wage job with horrific hours, refuses to eat anything that isn't junk/meat and treats women like second class citizens. He never has any relationship last more than a month or two if he dates at all, but this has to be the woman's fault for not having "traditional values" like him.

He uses his "traditional values" to justify his pathetic life choices and demands that you respect him for waving the "tradition" flag. Expect him to rage if you remotely mention anything near feminism. Some even rage at just egalitarianism. Women paying bills/handing money? FEMNAZIS! She doesn't want kids? OMGGTFO!

While we're at it: FUCK STEAMPUNK.

Steampunk = people who are nostalgia-blinded by the Victorian era yet are too scared to leave their computers behind.

Where cyberpunk at least has the grace to look to the future, steampunk looked at the future, wet itself, and decided to pretend it's over 100 years ago. Then they slapped brass gears and some fake wood panelling on an Ipad so they can pretend it's "alternate universe tech" because they just can't live without youtube. Yes, we really were better off with mass social and sexual repression, women being treated as second-class citizens unable to even vote, rampant Syphilis outbreaks, zero labor laws, and coal smoke blotting out the sun. Great choice.

Bonus points: there's a large overlap between the guys in my first paragraph and Steampunks. I'm pretty sure it's not a coincidence.
Steampunk is horribly superficial. It tends not to examine its core eras of the time and is explicitly form over function to a comedic degree: Clockwork guns etc.

However, there is something odd about them. We invaded a steam punkforum about six or seven years ago now. We tried trolling them, we just found that they were really nice about the whole thing. They live in their own world blissfully unaware of those around them including those that wish to upset them, so in that regard I'd say leave them off.
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