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Aneristic Illusions / Re: How does one go about "positively" proving one is "not" a racist?

« on: January 15, 2017, 06:15:04 pm »

And what you said was that having sex with people of different races is a way to prove you aren't racist, which is just stupid. But I'm getting the impression that that's how you roll.

Or, you could always look back and see that I didn't say that, but whatever. I guess it's easier for you to just follow on in your blind and inaccurate assertions. Not the first time you've decided to go that path.

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Apple Talk / Re: Do impossible thoughts exist?

« on: January 14, 2017, 04:35:49 pm »

If the terms are undefined, the question is meaningless.


Ugh, sophists.

Agreed

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: How does one go about "positively" proving one is "not" a racist?

« on: January 14, 2017, 04:01:57 pm »

I didn't know there was a magical force-field that prevents racist people's genitals from contacting the genitals of people of different races. Huh.

I guess all that slave owner rape never happened... what a relief for history, huh?

"sweet, romantic intercourse" != rape

It also != proof of an absence of racism.

Apparently you completely missed what I was saying in some desperate search to argue against me, but that's ok, I've gotten used to you being a pseudo intellectual with a poor sense of humor. Cheers!

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Apple Talk / Re: Open Bar: Fake News, Fake Bar

« on: January 14, 2017, 03:57:26 pm »

To be fair, this is the Open Bar.

Which is, also to be fair, not usually home to the degree of dick-waving I expect to see everywhere else on Peedee.

The dick-waving quotient increases by about 748% any time Thwack decides to grace us with his presence. He's still PeeDee-ing like it's 2006.

What can I say, sometimes elements of times past should return. There is a lot to be said for not taking yourself too seriously, and there are some here that really need to remember that.

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: Calling it now: Dems snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in 2016.

« on: January 14, 2017, 03:49:24 pm »

I actually wouldn't be half surprised if it was your own guys.  If I wanted to create the perception Russia was fucking with the US, to build political and public support for more aggressive cyber-operations against them, this is what I'd do.

But it could also be the Russians fucking with you, a non-state actor or even dumb technical/human error, though very coincidental if so.

I don't know how much weight this carries, but a friend of mine seems to be about one step removed from Assange. He's pretty adamant that the hacks came from the CIA. Obviously I don't know, but this guy doesn't seem to have a reason to lie about what he's been told. Of course, whether he's been lied to is another matter.

I guess I'm just throwing more speculation into the pot of Who Fucking Knows.

Not even.  Assange was so blatantly in the tank for Trump, it's gotta be the Russians.

As you all try to piece this mess together, let's not forget the history of how Assange came to be known. He started off with the stated purpose of acting against the U.S. and other western nations that kept state secrets. He has a history of releasing information that's directly harmful to the U.S. and its interests. Let's also remember that Russia has a long and documented history of using cyber attacks and disinformation to directly interfere in governments with interests counter to theirs. Lastly, there is still the need/call to apply Occam's Razor to the world of international intelligence operations.

I've personally had too long of an involvement with the intelligence community to be able to, trusted to, or desire to comment much further on this.

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: How does one go about "positively" proving one is "not" a racist?

« on: January 14, 2017, 03:33:37 pm »

I didn't know there was a magical force-field that prevents racist people's genitals from contacting the genitals of people of different races. Huh.

I guess all that slave owner rape never happened... what a relief for history, huh?

"sweet, romantic intercourse" != rape

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Apple Talk / Re: Do impossible thoughts exist?

« on: January 14, 2017, 03:29:43 pm »

If I had the ability to think impossible thoughts, would a brain that is limited by possibility have the ability to process the discussion of my impossible thought to the point where it could even recognize the impossibility of the thought being discussed?

Please define the bolded.

By defining impossible, would I not be limiting impossibility to that which is merely possible to those without the ability to process impossible thoughts?

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Apple Talk / Re: Do impossible thoughts exist?

« on: January 13, 2017, 03:29:53 pm »

If I had the ability to think impossible thoughts, would a brain that is limited by possibility have the ability to process the discussion of my impossible thought to the point where it could even recognize the impossibility of the thought being discussed?

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: How does one go about "positively" proving one is "not" a racist?

« on: January 13, 2017, 03:25:45 pm »

Wait, are we really asking for sound logical proof of a negative, or can we just go with an answer like "sweet, romantic intercourse with members of all other ethnic groups and races"?

I mean, it would at least be an enjoyable way of proving you're not a racist.

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Apple Talk / Re: Open Bar: Fake News, Fake Bar

« on: January 13, 2017, 03:22:26 pm »

To be fair, this is the Open Bar.

Which is, also to be fair, not usually home to the degree of dick-waving I expect to see everywhere else on Peedee.

That's fair.

But isn't it also fair to consider it acceptable to bring said dick-waving to the Open Bar, as it's featured throughout the rest of the forum?

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Apple Talk / Re: Open Bar: Fake News, Fake Bar

« on: January 12, 2017, 08:42:53 pm »

To be fair, this is the Open Bar.

And to be fair, you can be a bit of a cunt.

That's pretty rich coming from you.

That's also fair.

But to be fair, it's only fair that you agreed.

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Apple Talk / Re: Open Bar: Fake News, Fake Bar

« on: January 12, 2017, 07:17:30 pm »

To be fair, this is the Open Bar.

And to be fair, you can be a bit of a cunt.

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Apple Talk / Re: Open Bar: Fake News, Fake Bar

« on: January 11, 2017, 08:46:16 pm »

Yeah, I get that everyone thinks the first one was a masterpiece but people are allowed to be wrong. It was good, but nothing special. It really took the second film to fully explore the horrors of not only the xenomorphs but of the inevitability of humanity's demise at the hands of its own greed.

If Star Trek is space socialism, the Alien quadrillogy is space libertarianism and that, I'm afraid, is the vastly more likely real-life future. And if that doesn't scare you, well, we're motivated by very different things I guess.

No, I think the issue is that Alien is actually a horror film, while Aliens is an action film.

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: News Stories Which Highlight the Structure of the System

« on: January 11, 2017, 08:44:45 pm »

This is way too on the nose.  I need help verifying this is real.

https://www.morganlewis.com/news/chambers-partners-names-morgan-lewis-as-russia-law-firm-of-the-year

The tax lawyer Trump used at todays press conference to explain away his conflicts of interest is apparently from MorganLewis.

It wasn't the American office, but the Russian office of the American firm that Trump uses for his lawyers.

http://www.chambersandpartners.com/chambers-europe-awards-2016

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: Calling it now: Dems snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in 2016.

« on: January 11, 2017, 04:42:14 pm »

Putin/Trump presidency vice presidency? Would that be Preferable to Pence?

Depends on your definition of better. A Pence presidency would be an assault on the 1st Amendment via his attempts at instituting a theocracy. Trump has been attacking the 1st via press/speech, as well as the 4th, 5th, 8th, and 14th, as well as his cabinet nominations generally being people who want to destroy their department, or are corrupt as hell.

Is is better to have an administration that wants to watch the system burn, or one that's throwing gasoline on the fire while whistling?