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SJWs are getting close to arguing that by reporting on world events news agencies are inherently evil and exploitative.

Yes, brilliant, do that.

I'm still mixed on Brexit. People are free to disagree but IMO the primary problem with the EU isn't something that really affected the UK at all, and it's lack of a sovereign currency. This is a problem compounded by the EU's infatuation with austerity, which is the economic equivalent of bleeding ...

Cool. Hollywood is catering to a crowd that wants to make the majority of the movie's prospective audience unwelcome or uncomfortable in attending. What could go wrong? Sure, maybe itll be another financial catastrophe, but at least they'll be able to blame the shunned demographics that took the cu...

Speaking of WEIT, someone be sure to let Jerry know about Dan's sunny disposition toward the worst country on Earth.

I'm glad someone on Twitter took the time to acquaint Dan with the recent story of the escapee who apart from being shot at as he attempted to flee the country was found infested with disease and parasites despite being assigned to a critical role as a border guard. As someone at WEIT pointed out wh...

"If white people hadn't interfered and we had access to a magic space metal that can do almost anything we'd be so far advanced."

Someone on another forum said they really liked the MCU movies for establishing a sort of baseline of blockbuster quality. At worst the movies are "fine." Sometimes they're rather excellent. But by being consistently good enough, they set a standard for big dumb popcorn movie fare. If your movie isn...

In case anyone doesn't know, RT scores are simply "what percentage of critics said this movie was at least okay?" People getting upset over one movie getting a better RT score than another movie they think is better is nonsense. And doing so with regard to films that are older than Rotten Tomatoes o...

Black Panther's 98% has nothing to do with "blocking hate speech" because the professional critics aren't the ones leaving retarded jigaboo trolling fuckery, not even the bottom of the barrel blog reviewers. What they're refering to is user review astroturfing. User reviews are tabulated completely ...

Fucking hell.

Early hominids that still had dark fur had light skin underneath it as chimps still do, because fur and melanin kind of do the same job protecting from sunlight. Our skin darkened as we lost our fur then lightened again as we migrated north to less oppressively sun-drenched climes. So yes, we're all...

PZ's lust for flesh trips him up again. chigau (違う) 5 February 2018 at 10:40 pm Are they tasty? PZ Myers 5 February 2018 at 10:43 pm All crayfish are tasty. chigau (違う) 5 February 2018 at 10:47 pm PZ don’t eat animals. Who are you? I'll give him a pass on this one. I've got marginally more respect ...

Kirbmarc wrote: ↑ Nobody cares about PZ Myers anymore, not even enough to tell him he's an idiot.

But in the age where social media has ruined the lives of those who've done far less to deserve it, it's galling that a career dickhead like Myers is allowed to burn out quietly.

More recently: Steven Pinker: The alt-right uses some true facts which aren't often discussed in academia or in the news to create a narrative which supports their white identity politics. We need to discuss those facts from a more rational perspective, to counter the alt-right narrative. Stormfron...

I just can't help but laugh at the idea put forth by the TERFs that society is rallying behind transwomen because hey, they're dudes, and us dudes gotta stick together, as that's so demonstrably untrue. To the extent that society has accepted the trans, it's mostly because they've been browbeaten an...

I have mixed feelings about Rose McGowan, I think she's got one foot in the asylum. No doubt she's been hurt, but now she's got to base her life off a mixture of the pretense of being "strong" and profiting off victimization, including taking $100k worth of hush money. On the one hand, she seems to...

I've observed it so many times and yet it's still infuriating how in any TERF vs transfem argument they always fire past each other in an effort to see who can blame men the most. Benson's lot are convinced that the reason people side with the transwoman against McGowan is that since "she's" biologi...

It gets brought up every so often but it's very probable that within the lifetimes of some of the people posting here now, we'll have a society in which a large proportion of its eligible workforce is permanently unemployable. Willing and able to work, but utterly superfluous.

Cainaji wants you to know that she knows all the backchannel secrets, too: https://i.imgur.com/9N8S6h5.png "not only do you know nothing, but we know more" Well geez, Peez, some people would consider knowing more than nothing to be the bare minimum rather than something to brag about. But I guess i...

Myers, you tit, I wouldn't throw a nickel at you or Carrier even if I was a good enough shot to aim square between the eyes. I don't think any other anti-SJWs are lining up to prop up a fifth-rate never-was either. I do think it's not out of the realm of possibility that Carrier has talked some suga...

So your dispute with Matt doesn't start with Matt, but with the sum total of everything everyone everywhere ever said bad about Trump? Okay. In unrelated news, seems like that one crazy bitch from the other day wrote a bitch-blog about Singal and he perhaps unwisely acknowledged it (although without...

I feel like I've seen this before.

"Trump's doing great!"
"Trump's not really had much impact on anything yet and the things you think are going to be great in the future likely won't be based on past trends."
"Aha, so you admit Trump isn't doing terribly! Gotcha!"

VickyCaramel wrote: ↑
Sun Jan 14, 2018 7:16 am
I should have bet money.

Yeah making wagers and then declaring yourself the arbiter of the outcome would be a pretty great racket if anyone here were dumb or trusting enough to take you up on it.

People like Melissa McEwan have won the intersectional game. They're managed to spin enough of a sob story/victimhood narrative and now their demands are law, you can't approach them or even send them messages without performing some ritual of humiliation, you MUST listen to them and believe them, ...

VickyCaramel wrote: ↑ I bet you can't tell us why he is a cunt without making an emotional argument.

She said while the Pit is presently voting on the Cuntie awards, because "cunt" status has no concrete, objective qualifications, and can be subject to a simple opinion poll.

The welfare system has a lot of perverse incentives,which conservatives rightly point out create disincentives to work, disincentives to marry, etc. Trouble is, 9 times out of 10, it was conservatives who either put them there or pressured that they be included, because the alternative is maybe some...

Old_ones wrote: ↑ Manning is trying to primary challenge an incumbent senator. That's really hard to do, and I doubt she wins. Even good candidates don't usually take down incumbents from their own party.

Wu got a sequel act before her own run even concluded.

Something I've noticed among SJW haters of EvoPsych: They love to take potshots at pre-agricultural "hunter/gatherer" societies, insisting they were really more like "scavenger/gatherers." I hope they realize they're maligning not merely ancient, long-dead brown people, but lots of modern day out of...

To the shock of no one Hemant has nothing to say about Pinker and Peezus, despite it having blown up big enough to merit an op ed in the NYT. He retweeted Jesse Singal's original post, but added no words of his own and seems unlikely to bother with an article.

I'll admit I'm surprised. I wasn't aware that someone who can't legally vote is still allowed to run for office. I guess there's a reason for that.

Anyway basically they're doubling down on the smears, trying to paint Pinker as an alt-right sympathizer for having criticized the SocJus. Never mind that he's one of the biggest donors to the Democratic Party in academia. No, he criticized our sacred cows and didn't talk about the alt-right in a w...

Note that I honestly have no idea who this person is, I was just trawling for mentions of the Bearded Taint's name on Twitter and this person kept popping up.

Ain't got time to be doin' with archiving the whole thing but you can peruse her feed yourself. Here's that last bit though:

Crazy Twitter lady makes 30+ tweets defending Little Paul from all the mean people giving him grief, accuses them of being "cultists" and "Pinkerites." Suggests PZ, herself, and some other dolt send in their own NYT op-eds to counter Singal's.

Whoops looks like his courage failed. I guess his base are just as foolish as everyone else for believing he ever said it.

I think if Trump just dropped his pants and took a shit on stage some people would applaud him for the novelty. "Only Trump."

Yeah America's really got a problem with all those Sudanese running around, hanging out by the Home Depot, etc.

You either cheat or you don't cheat. There's no such thing as micro-cheating. Ogling someone isn't cheating, nor is thinking about them during sex with your partner, nor is getting oral sex off her sister in the toilets during your wedding reception. That's just being human. You've sinned in your h...

Paul says it's okay to share the clip because he's seen the full video the extra context doesn't change anything, honest, guv.

What a tool.

He's the The Smearing Atheist. That's what he does, that's what he enjoys doing, that's why anyone still cares about him. Who knows what he'll do next, maybe he'll accuse Neil deGrasse Tyson of being a white supremacist, or maybe he'll argue that Jerry Coyne is a Nazi. "Keep clicking for more names...

Unrelated to the Pinker debacle but spotted this while twatter-trawling and it's too funny not to share:

I keep hoping Myers's latest fuckup will be the one that finally gets him raked over the coals, but it seems unlikely as those with access to rakes seem to look at him as a smelly dog turd they just want off their lawn, and raking it over coals seems like a great way to ruin a perfectly good rake an...

You know when Aneris went a bit loopy for a bit I found it wasn't possible to put Pit mods on ignore for a bit while they get their shit together. Didn't think it would be a problem again so soon.

Fuck, maybe I'm the one who needs a break from here.

I see talk of Western identitarianism as a short path to people honestly arguing that we need to all convert to Christianity. Lots of appeals to consequences and other ridiculousness flying around. It's honestly a bit surprising. Maybe if that one lady with the 15 kids or whatever who visited the Pi...

The way Trump shittalks everyone who leaves his administration just makes him look like a bigger idiot for having hired them in the first place. I was repeatedly told that having a revolving door in the White House meant that Trump was just iterating his team, trying to find the very best guys. Well...

There's just something perverse to me about the idea that the best way to protect liberal, individualist values is through the application of conservative, groupish values to counter competing conservative, groupish values from elsewhere. Bit of staring in the abyss going on there.

Conservatives complain about low native birthrates.
Conservatives also complain about tax credits aimed at encouraging larger families.

"Gay marriage" is so far down the list of concerns it's absurd to even consider it a factor. Shit, gay people can and do still find ways to reproduce.

My 20 yo son got his first $50 fine for not exiting his university pre-exam study to attend to some rando local council vote. A poor student did the mental calculation and decided he would rather pay $ than participate. Let that sink in. I'm confused. Are you trying to argue that voting isn't all t...

PZ has a post up about how the upcoming The Atheist Conference looks to be another flop. Why is the atheist movement failing? k_machine 3 January 2018 at 11:13 am In retrospect, it seems like the post 9/11 atheist movement was nothing but a movement designed to dehumanize Muslims as they were being...

I'm sympathetic to the Starship Troopers idea, as long as service isn't just in the military, but any kind of voluntary civic service. If you want a say in how your nation is ruled, do something for it, even if it's just many hours of cleaning streets or helping elderly people. Plenty of countries ...

It bugs me when people refer to <50% population as a "minority." If you're still the largest demographic, the term is "plurality."

I wonder if he's had a talk with Caine on his backchannel. Because as far as I've seen, he hasn't publicly acknowledged her illness, not even when she commented about it in one of his blog posts. If he's actually snubbing her... then he'd better get ready for Exodus II. Orbit Redux. Could even a ba...

Besides. Enough Democrats were more than happy to facilitate the invasion of Iraq. They were either incompetent or believed in the mission. Or made their decision based on information which was only later proven to be both faulty and deliberately misrepresented, which is what many of them claim. I ...

The SocJus movement gives little thought to large-scale economics, it's all about "quotas in tech/business/politics" or "rape culture on campus", which are a very high-end middle-class/upper class issue. It's Trickle Down for the regressive sect. If we focus on giving more benefits to already-relat...

Note the assumption that strengthened democratic freedoms = support for the Dems. I don't see any particular reason why universal healthcare, sensible regulation of Wall Street and such like could not be taken up by a reformed GOP. I think the assumption is that Dems pushing popular ideas would mak...

https://twitter.com/brive1987/status/946204572912979968 Whoever Peez is quoting, I can't say I disagree with too much of the second paragraph, although I do consider much of it to be pie-in-the-sky thinking. I think Dems reforming themselves would be a good thing not simply for the sake of crushing...

Lying asshole is lying. https://imgur.com/TIn2jkw.png https://imgur.com/TvygYRO.png She's always lied about being meatless, posting carnivore plate selfies between declarations of vegetarianism. And now she's going to torture her dog, only so she can lord her unbending skepticism over us poseurs :(...

Is this the potholer in question? https://www.youtube.com/user/potholer54/videos Not very many videos. But it would not be unusual for there to be an inverse relationship between quantity & quality. I was just assuming it was. He doesn't do many vids because he isn't about drama or subscribers. He'...

Random thought: Certain segments of the left, especially the regressive left, love anti-American sentiments and those who espouse them, but they also happen to live in America and support American politicians, so they're kind of half-hearted about it. Someone like Assange who lives elsewhere and dis...

So what you're saying is genetic engineering is cucking yourself with science and you don't even need a strapping bull?

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