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katamari Damassi wrote: ↑ I believe that "Rape is about power not sex" comes from the gospel of Susan Brownmiller.

Yep. Growing up as a young Feminist-minded leftie, Susan Brownmiller, Betty Friedan and to a lesser extent Andrea Dworkin and Shulamith Firestone, were gospel.

i continued my review / examination of the alt-right / trad movement by listening to 4 hours of 'Wife with a Purpose'. Very interesting. Very weird. And less simple than I imagined. She is a mormon who celebrates Polish catholicism. Her husband is atheist but attends church and supports their (6) k...

Flags and post love are fun, but marginal enough to get rid of.

https://archive.fo/bBcrP SJW male feminist talks objectification in comics and video games. At his trial. For child abuse. It's some fucking mad shit. I am amazed that such a psychopath exists. So he is going to try and pretend to teach feminism to other inmates about how to be better people? Bull ...

John D wrote: ↑
Thu Dec 07, 2017 6:43 am
I thought we had a specific Trump thread.... haha. Just don't want anyone mad at me about discussing Trump too much.

I've stopped! I now declare this thread a Trump-free safe space again :)

Sadly (or with some relief) I must report that fake Angelina Jolie horrorshow girl was fake.

he's going to go down in history as one of the worst US presidents in history, like Dubya before a speech "redeemed" him. OK, mark this, and let's reconvene about the subject when the US economy is booming, when ISIS is a memory, and he's brought peace to the Middle East, the Norks are subdued, Chy...

gurugeorge: Where did you get your info from? Trump owned 93% of Trump U. He settled for 25 million dollars, which was his students alleging fraud in civil court, so regardless of whether he was criminally charged he basically admitted to it in civil court. Mind you the judge was a dirty Mexican ra...

Should have said "it would be frankly absurd to ... " above, I didn't mean to suggest that's what you're doing.

gurugeorge: Where did you get your info from? Trump owned 93% of Trump U. He settled for 25 million dollars, which was his students alleging fraud in civil court, so regardless of whether he was criminally charged he basically admitted to it in civil court. Mind you the judge was a dirty Mexican ra...

Trump University was a clear scam. This is not true. It wasn't a university, strictly speaking, and didn't pretend to be, it was a business seminar series titled "university" as a marketing thing (like if Yngwie Malmsteen lent his name to a series of rock guitar lessons and it was called "Malmsteen...

https://twitter.com/h7t/status/936996847113199616 Charles Dickens got it all wrong. Yes! Lets end all holidays because someone somewhere might find it inconvenient or minorly objectionable or there are those who don’t have as much cash as others. This is the world run by SJW’s. All must live some d...

What impresses non painters (ie the general public ) most is a "skill" or "craft" and on that criteria (among many others) Rembrandt is always going to win out over Pollock. I love Rembrandt like many do. But Pollock isnt really about skill in the same sense and also doesnt have the "story telling"...

So Milo is coming to Canberra. Is it worth me going to Parliament House to see him? My sister wants to go to see the shit show. Are you kidding? He's probably the most entertaining live act on the planet at the moment. Who knows what will happen? Paint throwing! Nazi punching! Dwarf chucking! (Ok, ...

I read recently one possible contributory factor for why there's this current sex scandal moral panic going on that I think has some plausibility to it, although it's not exactly verifiable. It's because, on the most charitable interpretation (there are less noble interpretations of course) lots of ...

So when we object to laws that say that if a man and a woman both get drunk and both willingly have sex together, he's a rapist and she's a victim, the regressives genuinely can't grasp that point of view, because they're thinking religiously, not rationally. I'm still more inclined to the EP expla...

The basic starting point is: "can, or should, countries reflect distinct cultural milieus that correlate to shared values arising from history, tradition and shared aspiration all coloured by the unique element of 'place' " This really isn't a issue for Japan or China. It becomes an issue with poro...

Did someone slip stupid juice into the water supply? http://thehill.com/homenews/news/361070-ohio-gov-candidate-apologizes-for-bragging-about-sexual-history I think that Franken was just the beginning and it's going to get worse. Expect an intense scrutiny of the sexual lives of every important can...

Someone just gave a righteous and well-deserved reaming to Bill Nye on a Reddit AMA.

http://redstatewatcher.com/article.asp?id=104410

This article is a fairly ho-hum article about an anal sex class at Harvard. What I found interesting was a study cited in that article, which shows some correlations between teen pregnancy, the teaching of abstinence and the teaching of sex ed. The study seems to show that teaching kids abstinence ...

What do we think bois? A sublime Poe or the inevitable end product of our fine education system?

She's no intellectual heavyweight , but she's alright. You can pick holes in her if you hold her to "Skeptic community" standards but she's not a moonbat. Suddenly, a section of the "skeptic community" decided to hold her feet to the fire over the website which she didn't make over a year ago which...

WHY IS THERE NO EDIT BUTTON GODDAMMIT.

I didn't want to give up smoking, I loved it but I got chest infections every year. I was persuaded to try vaping and never touched another cigarette. My little £40 "mod" ([url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Innokin-iTaste-Kroma-Starter-Kit/dp/B06XF3M1QB/ref=sr_1_3_a_it/262-0583197-0500563?ie=UTF8&qid=15...

I should add to that above post a further clarification. The Utopian response to godlessness is that everything is then plastic to alteration in a utopian direction (social constructionism). The end result of that line of reasoning is utilitarian AI operating a utopian snow globe. But everything is ...

NOMA is complete bullshit in my opinion... but... I am starting to think people can't handle life without a strong philosophy of duality. I have been what you would call a strong atheist since I was a young adult. I have usually felt that many problems where the result of people who believed in the...

Kirbmarc and gurugeorge are right. Jooz are behind SJWism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9P-YdqSEBA Only gurugeorge. I think that his idea goes way too much into conspiracy theory territory. I was talking about taking social sciences back from Po-Mo and made no mention of any Jewish conspiracies...

Hollywood is ailing, comics are fucked, I know there's a lot of grousing about SJWism there, but honestly there's perfectly reasonable economic explanations for the Hollywood collapse. A question a lot of people find themselves asking is "why not instead of one giant blockbuster a studio instead ma...

Surely you wouldn't classify all those fields as dead already. Most of them have already reached the peak of SJW influence and begun the decline. As mentioned a while back, SJWs are not presently working to accumulate further political capital, they are spending it, squandering it, at a frantic pac...

SJW-ism rots everything it touches - movies, art, education, mass media, politics, comics, videogames, sports, everything . It's the touch of death to turn anything with its own artistic or intellectual integrity into propaganda. Surely you wouldn't classify all those fields as dead already. Most o...

Nice academic youtuber I'd never heard of before, recommended by Prince of Queens and Karen Straughan, Benjamin A. Boyce, . His particular focus is the Evergreen events but goes more deeply into the theory behind SJW-ism, etc. I liked his Bret Weinstein interview. It's an interesting idea to think ...

Nice academic youtuber I'd never heard of before, recommended by Prince of Queens and Karen Straughan, Benjamin A. Boyce,. His particular focus is the Evergreen events but goes more deeply into the theory behind SJW-ism, etc.

Overall the problem with religion is that it encourages extreme tribalism: the message of religion is that the believers are the Chosen/Right/Pure people, who can do no wrong if they follow the Holy Books, so a true believer who is quoting the Holy Books must be right, and their actions must be jus...

More seriously and realistically, one does get the feeling that this new generation is going to be a bit like Saffy in AbFab - i.e. looking somewhat askance at the antics of their predecessor generations, sceptical of the official SJW consensus, etc. There is definitely a major generational shift c...

Been away absorbed in Plains of Eidolon , the latest update for the rather spiffy f2p multiplayer co-op third person shooter Warframe , which I'm still really into so I still won't be hanging around here much for a while longer yet; but I thought I'd just drop by with this amusing video from Geminey...

The reality is the EU has done nothing to improve the lives of the everyday working people of this country, they know it and far from being xenophobic thickos not knowing what they voted for they for once saw a life line in Brexit and took it. I'm old enough to remember there being no EU at a time ...

The University of Michigan is hosting Charles Murray. For some reason, they are allowing protesters to act like little children. I would like the police to arrest all of the people who are acting like children. https://twitter.com/robbysoave/status/918239288831172614 I was thinking about this the o...

Btw, re. Thomas Smith's use against Sargon of some survey re. gender prejudice in "blind" cv tests or whatever it was - I seem to recall a survey recently showing the opposite result, that people were more likely to favour female applicants in blind tests. Damned if I can remember what or where it ...

MarcusAu wrote:It would seem that Shoe0nHead is dominant...

...despite what has been reported.

I see what you did there. :naughty:

Btw, re. Thomas Smith's use against Sargon of some survey re. gender prejudice in "blind" cv tests or whatever it was - I seem to recall a survey recently showing the opposite result, that people were more likely to favour female applicants in blind tests. Damned if I can remember what or where it w...

The entire thing is very similar to the outrage over the "Piss Christ" or over the Danish cartoons of Mohammed as a half-man half-dog. People sought out fame by triggering outrage and knew that they were testing boundaries, but nobody was really hurt by the attention-seeking behavior, and the respo...

One thing that strikes me about "I wouldn't even rape you" is that, while it's very obviously not a rape threat, it could be construed as implying that the woman concerned is (as it were) "too ugly to rape." But then that could be construed as implying that beautiful women are worthy of rape, which ...

The big thing in the 16th -18th centuries (the "old Left" idea, going back to my post to MarcusAu above) was to get rid of aristocratic privilege and have society be run, and the economy moved, by the people who are actually the best at things - the principle of meritocracy. That idea was then exten...

I saw that in his post debate analysis Sargon mentioned his agreement with Ben Shapiro, Thomas Friedman and JS Mill - and previously had good things to say about Thomas Sowell. And yet he states that he considers himself a centre left liberal. Most of the guys in that would probably not be on the l...

Amusing little cartoon tweeted by SkepTorr:-

Jordan Peterson's new personality testing website, Understand Myself - looks interesting.

Eating sweets and cakes causes momentary happiness too ... Obviously the act itself is pleasurable, it's designed to be, in an ancestral environment where there's a high infant attrition rate; but in the context of a civilization, it's the mid-to-long-term consequences of promiscuity that lead to u...

I'm coming round to the idea that the whole schtick that started with Freud and really kicked off big time in the 1960s, about sex being a liberating, recreational toy, is actually a great cause of unhappiness (much as it pains me to say it, because as someone raised in the 60s and 70s, I believed ...

Basically if you're an intersectionalist, you always identify as whichever "axis" of your identity gets you the most victim cred, while all opponents must be identified according to whichever grants them the least. Regardless, Zinnia asks "Do you feel like an automaton?" Which I can't help but thin...

Am I right to be suspicious that our very left-wing MSM has failed to tear into this, especially as Tommy Robinson is there? Only The Socialist Worker has given negative coverage with the Independent being balanced, the Evening Standard and Daily Mail being positive. I've been hearing on the grapev...

But libertarianism is against government bailouts and corporate welfare generally. It's difficult to see from here how firmly your tongue was in your cheek. Either none of those bank managers is libertarian, or libertarians are full of poo. Which of them is libertarian? ;) I'm pretty sure that if y...

Buzzfeed got a hold of a cache of emails belonging to Milo and Steve Bannon and have put together a piece about how the alt.right came together. https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/heres-how-breitbart-and-milo-smuggled-white-nationalism This... this is very good... I keep double checking that ...

What's wrong with private prisons? There are no more problems with private prisons than public ones as far as I can see. It's a silly idea even on paper. Prisons do not even remotely work in a market context. They're the classic libertarian fantasy solution of "anything government can do we can do ...

It's tautologically true that since we do exist, the universe logically necessarily must be conducive to our evolution, but it's not tautologically true that the universe had to be the type of universe that would lead to such beings as us existing. Or, to put it another way, the fact that the type ...

Here are samples of that moronic staredown thing Shives likes to do. You know, when he's berating you (yes YOU, dear viewer) for your failures and shortcomings, and suddenly he just stops and radiates loathing. For a ridiculously long time. Ooooh, so scary. These are from final minute of his Mythco...

The unsubstantiated conspiracy theory re. LV that I'm liking the most is something that came up on /pol/ - basically, Paddock was a spook or connected to spooks, probably the FBI, who were setting up some kind of entrapment scheme re. ISIS - either a gun-running entrapment scheme, or some sort of pr...

So far as we can actually tell, there is only this Universe - and it really is very odd that it should be both intelligible and conducive to the evolution of sentient creatures who are able to perceive and understand it. I agree with Kirbmarc the universe isn't necessarily intelligible, but also th...

The view nowadays is roughly that on the one hand you have symbols, with rules for shuffling them about in patterns - more or less just games with symbols - and on the other hand you have the world, with the only connection between the two being the possibility of "interpreting" the symbol system (...

(@jet_lagg, this response to Kirb is also partly relevant to what were talking about) It doesn't matter, for the purposes of the argument, whether the experimenter is firing up a "seed" which then flowers into a tiled pattern, or is overseeing an eternally shifting whole pattern. So does it matter w...

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