The Refuge of the Toads

#9181

Speaking of Trump and big dicks, his wife looks like the porn star Madison Ivy. Google that shit.

#9182

Brive1987 wrote:Didn't James get all weak over Anita?

That rings a bell. Might look it up for historical accuracy.

I'm on a rare run of being up to date with the Pit (usually somewhere at least several pages behind), as I've been crook and was off work for three days this week.

#9183

Couch wrote:
Brive1987 wrote:Didn't James get all weak over Anita?
That rings a bell. Might look it up for historical accuracy.

I'm on a rare run of being up to date with the Pit (usually somewhere at least several pages behind), as I've been crook and was off work for three days this week.

Wasn't that he thought pitters were dismissing Anita (PBUH) out of hand because feminist, without considering her over riding amazing assets...err..something. But he was the supreme font of all knowledge on these matters cos of his 'deep infiltration' of the SJWs. :roll:

Plus he thought bewildered ape was an ok sort of ape, and Thunderfoot is a shithead..something...something.

Sorry, who were we talking about? :P

#9184

Couch wrote:
Brive1987 wrote:Didn't James get all weak over Anita?
That rings a bell. Might look it up for historical accuracy.

I'm on a rare run of being up to date with the Pit (usually somewhere at least several pages behind), as I've been crook and was off work for three days this week.

I understood Picard got tired of being the Pit's SJW. I think he still lurks occasionally, and all you have to do to summon him is say his name three times.

#9185

jugheadnaut wrote:
Really? wrote: Green was great at one point. If I'm not mistaken, she was a recovering Mormon when she started making her very sane videos. I also liked her videos where she would show off her cleavage and cheerfully lecture about how her cleavage is just cleavage and the viewer should just deal with it instead of getting all offended by seeing a small fraction of two boobs pushed together.
She was one of the better early new-atheist YouTubers, and I'm basing that opinion on her content and great personality at the time. The fact that she was stunningly beautiful and wasn't averse to flaunting her sexuality just added to this. That she went not just SJW, but full-retard SJW is a huge disappointment. Especially since she also has a big megaphone aimed at, apparently, young teen girls. So, yeah, I'm only too happy to point out the contemporaneous radical decline in her looks and speculate on the relationship between these two things.

Very tentative hypothesis: people who 'escape' from a religious fundamentalist background, are also more susceptible to falling into another essentially fundamentalist ideology.

Now someone like Brive should take a sufficiently large sample of ardent SJWs and count how many claim to have come from fundie upbringing.

#9186

jugheadnaut wrote:
Really? wrote: Green was great at one point. If I'm not mistaken, she was a recovering Mormon when she started making her very sane videos. I also liked her videos where she would show off her cleavage and cheerfully lecture about how her cleavage is just cleavage and the viewer should just deal with it instead of getting all offended by seeing a small fraction of two boobs pushed together.
She was one of the better early new-atheist YouTubers, and I'm basing that opinion on her content and great personality at the time. The fact that she was stunningly beautiful and wasn't averse to flaunting her sexuality just added to this. That she went not just SJW, but full-retard SJW is a huge disappointment. Especially since she also has a big megaphone aimed at, apparently, young teen girls. So, yeah, I'm only too happy to point out the contemporaneous radical decline in her looks and speculate on the relationship between these two things.

Jaclyn Glenn was more my type. When I first discovered YouTube atheists I tried watching a bunch of people I liked based on looks. In the end, Thunderf00t was the only person I could stand. The rest were all so vapid.

#9187

rayshul wrote:
Aneris wrote:Women experience everyday sexism all the time. You are just unware of it, because as nerdy, decent, or shy folks you have no idea how bad it really is. Ask women you trust and close to you: they know about groping and worse situations, and they might tell you. The younger (the prettier) they are, the more sexual harassment they experienced, especially around drunk men. The older they are, they tell you about being not taken seriously.

There is also research. Boys, for some reason, feel competition and role models inspire them to try harder. Girls, however, feel discouraged. Take this as an erisian incentive for introspection and thought, and fuck the SJWs and their postmodernist bullshit.
I can't tell if this is a joke? I can say I have 100% never experienced sexism of any kind.

Yep, i have to call bullshit on this too.

I give as good as I get. I deal with it stuff. If somebody tells a dirty joke, i tell a dirtier one. If some guy makes an innuendo, I offer him a pound and inch to show me his cock, and throw £3.50 at him. If a guy pisses me off, I start throwing around the office furniture. I can get away with murder compared to a man. Although... if there is a dirty job nobody wants to do, I do it and call the guys pussies for not having the balls. I compete with the guys. But I if there is something i can't be bothered to do, I can flutter my eye lashes and say, "I'm just a girl"...

Of course there are women who are not as confident as I am, so when they can't keep up with the banter, is that sexism?

So what about the shy men, when they haven't the wit or confidence to deal with it, is that also sexism.... or do we call it "life"?

Bring back National Service... for young girls. Let them do a year in the army, police, customs, or as a traffic warden. Women who think "life" is sexist need toughening up. We do not need to drag the whole of civilization into a safe space.

#9188

Shatterface wrote:I'd hate to see what comes up in a Google image search for Myerku. I joined the Pit about the time he flounced and some of his final posting is burnt into my retina.

Some things can never be unseen.

h/t Gumby

#9189

I'm still am not sure why Ghostbusters is getting all the attention. Surely something like High Rise is of more interest, as it explicitly includes themes of class warfare and social justice.

Anyone else looking forward to it?

[youtube]LKPghZ5cc_E[/youtube]

#9190

comhcinc wrote:What is an "Antwoord"?

If you have to Vraag, you don't know it.

#9191

Aneris wrote:Women experience everyday sexism all the time. You are just unware of it, because as nerdy, decent, or shy folks you have no idea how bad it really is. Ask women you trust and close to you: they know about groping and worse situations, and they might tell you. The younger (the prettier) they are, the more sexual harassment they experienced, especially around drunk men. The older they are, they tell you about being not taken seriously.

There is also research. Boys, for some reason, feel competition and role models inspire them to try harder. Girls, however, feel discouraged. Take this as an erisian incentive for introspection and thought, and fuck the SJWs and their postmodernist bullshit.

Probably time to get the hell out of Cologne.

#9192

DaveDodo007 wrote:
Aneris wrote:Women experience everyday sexism all the time. You are just unware of it, because as nerdy, decent, or shy folks you have no idea how bad it really is. Ask women you trust and close to you: they know about groping and worse situations, and they might tell you. The younger (the prettier) they are, the more sexual harassment they experienced, especially around drunk men. The older they are, they tell you about being not taken seriously.

There is also research. Boys, for some reason, feel competition and role models inspire them to try harder. Girls, however, feel discouraged. Take this as an erisian incentive for introspection and thought, and fuck the SJWs and their postmodernist bullshit.
Probably time to get the hell out of Cologne.

TOPICAL

#9193

https://kiwifar.ms/threads/slymepit-bre ... rds.18058/

The Pit has achieved apotheosis - there's now a dedicated Slymepit.com thread on the farms. But quick, don't let anyone know about the inner forums/back channel...

#9194

(the OP over there isn't me - I don't have a Farms account through I do read it for lols)

#9195

What I probably should have said now that I'm a little mellowed is...

Aneris are you okay?

#9196

HunnyBunny wrote:
Couch wrote:
Brive1987 wrote:Didn't James get all weak over Anita?
That rings a bell. Might look it up for historical accuracy.

I'm on a rare run of being up to date with the Pit (usually somewhere at least several pages behind), as I've been crook and was off work for three days this week.
Wasn't that he thought pitters were dismissing Anita (PBUH) out of hand because feminist, without considering her over riding amazing assets...err..something. But he was the supreme font of all knowledge on these matters cos of his 'deep infiltration' of the SJWs. :roll:

Plus he thought bewildered ape was an ok sort of ape, and Thunderfoot is a shithead..something...something.

Sorry, who were we talking about? :P

Yes, it's all coming back to me.

I reckon some percent of the shit that is (was?) flung Anita's way is myisognist and reactionary, but James and I would probably part company on that percentage. She's not unattractive; but she's def not on the spectrum where your tummy feels funny and your thoughts go mushy and your pants feel full.

Thundefoot's overall good value and makes me laugh, but I totally get that his hyperbole schtick isn't everyone's cuppa...

I remember now that JC blew up a bit about the micro-documenting of Elyse's spiral that was a thing here for a while, and he wasn't Robinson Crusoe there.

James Curruthers, James Curruthers, James Curruthers. Poof!

#9197

Git wrote:https://kiwifar.ms/threads/slymepit-bre ... rds.18058/

The Pit has achieved apotheosis - there's now a dedicated Slymepit.com thread on the farms. But quick, don't let anyone know about the inner forums/back channel...

I've seen Kiwi Farms mentioned a few times. What is it? A gathering of anteaters? Or a 4 chan type place.

#9198

Really? wrote:
jugheadnaut wrote:She was one of the better early new-atheist YouTubers, and I'm basing that opinion on her content and great personality at the time. The fact that she was stunningly beautiful and wasn't averse to flaunting her sexuality just added to this. That she went not just SJW, but full-retard SJW is a huge disappointment. Especially since she also has a big megaphone aimed at, apparently, young teen girls. So, yeah, I'm only too happy to point out the contemporaneous radical decline in her looks and speculate on the relationship between these two things.

https://studentaffairs.unm.edu/news/201 ... _green.gif
So now she has three boobs. What's the problem?

Laci Green looks a lot better when bra-less. Her boobs don't look like big bags of fat any more. When boobs are too big, they are just ugly. I realize that many others here will disagree with me on that! :)

#9199

So Nina Simone was apparently this important figure in the civil rights movement and Zoe Saldana was chosen to play her. Supposedly they tried to get Mary J Blige first but she declined or pulled out or whatever. Zoe was the backup. Now the cult of social justice is raking Zoe over the coals for not being "black enough." They even use the term "blackface."

Evidently it was fine when she played Uhura even though she's mixed, but using tan lotion to accentuate her already black skin is *ahem* beyond the pale. :bjarte:

Anyway. You might think that these unabashed, clearly racist, comments about Zoe Saldana from busybodies goes against everything that Nina Simone stood for.

Except perhaps not. Turns out, Nina Simone was actually pretty damn racist.

[youtube]c3ClwX7oyXk[/youtube]

And that's not saying anything about the comments from the Nina Simone estate to Zoe where they said, and I quote, "please take Nina's name out your mouth. For the rest of your life." Damn. That is vindictive as fuck.

#9200

Git wrote:https://kiwifar.ms/threads/slymepit-bre ... rds.18058/

The Pit has achieved apotheosis - there's now a dedicated Slymepit.com thread on the farms. But quick, don't let anyone know about the inner forums/back channel...

They've selected my thread with Steersman as "worth talking about". On the other hand they've also selected Creativity73 as a representative of the Pit.

#9201

Scented Nectar wrote: Laci Green looks a lot better when bra-less. Her boobs don't look like big bags of fat any more. When boobs are too big, they are just ugly. I realize that many others here will disagree with me on that! :)

So you are not a fan of Chesty Morgan then?

#9202

Git wrote:https://kiwifar.ms/threads/slymepit-bre ... rds.18058/

The Pit has achieved apotheosis - there's now a dedicated Slymepit.com thread on the farms. But quick, don't let anyone know about the inner forums/back channel...

Quick Steers get over there to explain how things are here.

Oh and if there are any farmers hopping over here for a quick recon, please ask Steersman to elaborate on his Nigger / Cunt hypothesis. That's the real paranoid MRA neckbeard stuff that goes on a lot in the backchannel (register & ask NecV for the password, it's a blast).

#9203

Kirbmarc wrote:
Git wrote:https://kiwifar.ms/threads/slymepit-bre ... rds.18058/

The Pit has achieved apotheosis - there's now a dedicated Slymepit.com thread on the farms. But quick, don't let anyone know about the inner forums/back channel...
They've selected my thread with Steersman as "worth talking about". On the other hand they've also selected Creativity73 as a representative of the Pit.

Damn ninja'd by sheep shagging farmers.

#9204

gurugeorge wrote:
Aneris wrote:It went from bad to worse, and did lead to to some form of dogmatism that resembles at times religious fundamentalism.
I disagree that post-modernism is a carbuncle on the Left, as a classical liberal I'd say it's a pretty inevitable logical outcome of the Left's support of failed things. After all the enthusiastic support for Soviet Russia through the early part of the 20th century, post-modernism developed after Khruschev's secret speech in 1956, where he admitted Stalin done wrong. But there's an earlier echo of it with Lenin's essay on imperialism as a response to the failed prediction of doom that Marxism had been constantly heralding from the last quarter of the 19th century through to the early years of the 20th.

It's the old "brushless fox" thing. Reasoned inquiry shows we we goofed. We can't possibly have goofed. So much for reasoned inquiry.

Really the whole Left (qua ideological/Marxoid) enterprise was a detour into a cul de sac. The whole thing needs to be stripped back to classical liberalism and let a new Left wing develop from that.

Again, as I've said, classical liberalism has two "wings" which (for convenience, though it's not really apt) you could call "Right" and "Left", "Right" liberalism (libertarianism) is more concerned with stability, conserving what's been achieved, sticking to the state maintaining its basic duties (particularly the "ground rules" negative rights); "Left" liberalism (progressivism proper, in the way that people of good will intend it to be) tries to extend beyond that, investigating more deeply the concept of "harm", and cautiously seeing if the State can't also do some positive things to help people. But it doesn't have that silly trust that anything the State sets out to do it can actually do (and not be counter-productive in the long run).

That's really all there is to it, and there should be a natural, healthy tension and to-and-fro between these two wings, but they're united in perception of the logic that the basic "negative" rights can't be breached in pursuit of the "positive" rights - or at least, they're always very aware that if they do so there's a trade-off between losing something more fundamental in the pursuit of something less fundamental (e.g. paradigmatically, if you want an equal outcome, you're going to have to face the fact that you're going to have to treat people unequally).

All this is totally opposed to the "normal" Left/Right division which is really has Populism as its "centre", and veers into Mob Rule on its Left and Authoritarianism on its Right. This "spectrum" is where you have the "horseshoe" effect.

For Left/Right polarized classical liberalism, on the other hand, it's more like an ameoba that's nudging forward experimentally - the overall effect is progressive, but there's a proper "conservative" element that's counselling caution at every step.

As with all these historical ironies, the SJW thing bringing thoughtful people of the Left and Right together and re-invigorating a sort of classical liberal core, is a beneficial unintended consequence of the shenanigans that's going to be very positive going forward.

Libertarians and progressives have a long future of continuing to swear at each other and call each other idiots, but there's going to be more of a sense of what's shared in the future.

Nicely put. Liberal progressivism is about carefully facing new issues, refusing to sweep them under the carpet and trying to propose what to do about them (with the implicit understanding that not everything might work, and that there are always consequences to every new choice). It's not about wrecking the system in the name of "absolute justice".

#9205

HunnyBunny wrote:
Kirbmarc wrote:
Git wrote:https://kiwifar.ms/threads/slymepit-bre ... rds.18058/

The Pit has achieved apotheosis - there's now a dedicated Slymepit.com thread on the farms. But quick, don't let anyone know about the inner forums/back channel...
They've selected my thread with Steersman as "worth talking about". On the other hand they've also selected Creativity73 as a representative of the Pit.
Damn ninja'd by sheep shagging farmers.

Actually people in Switzerland prefer goats.

Like this goat-kin:

http://i2.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article ... 5/Goat.jpg

#9206

NoGodsEver wrote:PZ is looking forward to Ghostbusters, which, given his taste in film, is as good an indication as any that it will probably be utter shit. That, and the execrable trailer. Not only were there no laughs from that trailer, there were no smiles.

Too scared not to like it unless someone in the SJW leadership thinks that it is problematic and then he will have always disliked it.

#9207

Kirbmarc wrote:
HunnyBunny wrote:
Damn ninja'd by sheep shagging farmers.
Actually people in Switzerland prefer goats.

[.url=http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news ... up-6251934]Like this goat-kin:[/url]

[.img]http://i2.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article ... 5/Goat.jpg[/img]

I've been to Switzerland a few times, never seen any goat shagging.

I was referring to the kiwi farm tribe though. I spent holidays as a teen on a kiwi sheep station helping with shearing & snipping off lamb testicles :twisted: . I've seen things :whistle:

#9208

HunnyBunny wrote:
I've been to Switzerland a few times, never seen any goat shagging.

I was referring to the kiwi farm tribe though. I spent holidays as a teen on a kiwi sheep station helping with shearing & snipping off lamb testicles :twisted: . I've seen things :whistle:

Just reading your posts I can tell that you are a bit of a dag.

#9209

MarcusAu wrote:
HunnyBunny wrote:
I've been to Switzerland a few times, never seen any goat shagging.

I was referring to the kiwi farm tribe though. I spent holidays as a teen on a kiwi sheep station helping with shearing & snipping off lamb testicles :twisted: . I've seen things :whistle:
Just reading your posts I can tell that you are a bit of a dag.

I vaguely thought 'bush oysters' to be an urban myth (unlike 'bush porn').

Then I went lambing for the first time and sure enough they had a 45gallon drum over the branding fire and and were tossing freshly tugged off lamb balls on them til they sizzled then shaking a salt in them and tossing them back between greedy gulps of milky tea.

It was barely 9am and I so very hung over. That's my excuse.

Every third pair or so were tossed to a pair of very spirited blue heelers.

#9210

Git wrote:(the OP over there isn't me - I don't have a Farms account through I do read it for lols)

What does it do?

#9211

rayshul wrote:What I probably should have said now that I'm a little mellowed is...

Aneris are you okay?

Aneris often makes the claim women experience sexism regularly. I tend to ignore it as him having one of his moments:)

#9212

JackSkeptic wrote:
rayshul wrote:What I probably should have said now that I'm a little mellowed is...

Aneris are you okay?
Aneris often makes the claim women experience sexism regularly. I tend to ignore it as him having one of his moments:)

I haven't seen her mention it before, and okay if it's a regular thing... I'm just like it seems out of character, maybe something happened to her to upset her.

#9213

Michael J wrote:
NoGodsEver wrote:PZ is looking forward to Ghostbusters, which, given his taste in film, is as good an indication as any that it will probably be utter shit. That, and the execrable trailer. Not only were there no laughs from that trailer, there were no smiles.
Too scared not to like it unless someone in the SJW leadership thinks that it is problematic and then he will have always disliked it.

The trailer is horrible. The acting is flat and oddly forced, the jokes are cringe-worthy and the black ghostbuster seems to be written like a terrible stereotype.

Even from a "progressive" point of view the trailer seems more dated than the first two Ghostbuster movies.

In the original films Winston Zeddemore was a cool, suave man who acted as the straight man to Peter Venkman, the smarmy asshole, Ray Stantz,the childlike enthusiast, and Egon Spengler, the socially impaired and emotionless (bordering on the sociopathic) scientist.

Just watch this clip:

[youtube]NFX4fmldZFs[/youtube]

The new black Ghostbuster seems to me to be the "sassy black woman" stereotype. If you want to be subversive and progressive, why don't you make the black character the smarmy asshole or the unemotional scientist?

#9214

Michael J wrote:
NoGodsEver wrote:PZ is looking forward to Ghostbusters, which, given his taste in film, is as good an indication as any that it will probably be utter shit. That, and the execrable trailer. Not only were there no laughs from that trailer, there were no smiles.
Too scared not to like it unless someone in the SJW leadership thinks that it is problematic and then he will have always disliked it.

They are already on the warpath because one of the black characters was not a scientist. Maybe the makers were worried she would be attacked for wearing the wrong shirt? Of course, she is the boring strong black woman trope...zzzzzzz. Anyway, Myers will see what other SJW's think before giving his well thought out and expert opinion. After all, that's what being an Ally means, having no opinions of your own.

#9215

Winston was meant to be the main character in the original movies, but then they cast Bill Murray and it all went out the window.

#9216

Did I link you guys to Leslie Jones's comment on the "black lady isn't a scientist" stuff? She has a level headed take on it.

I really like how giant she is.

#9217

rayshul wrote:Did I link you guys to Leslie Jones's comment on the "black lady isn't a scientist" stuff? She has a level headed take on it.

I really like how giant she is.

#9218

Couch wrote:James Curruthers, James Curruthers, James Curruthers. Poof!

Oops. Wrong demon.

And don't call him poof.

#9219

fuzzy wrote:"Students speak out against Yiannopoulos"
http://pittnews.com/article/69187/news/ ... nnopoulus/
Marcus Robinson, president of Pitt’s Rainbow Alliance, said after leaving the lecture on Monday, he felt unsafe on campus for the first time.

“So many of us shared in our pain. I felt I was in danger, and I felt so many people in that room were in danger. This event erased the great things we’ve done,” Robinson said. “For the first time, I’m disappointed to be at Pitt.”

Robinson suggested that the University should have provided counselors in a neighboring room to help students who felt “invalidated” or “traumatized” by the event.

I just want to smack this sniveling dumbfuck. Repeatedly and hard. This victimhood-fetishizing, anti-freedom-of-speech, trigger-warning safe-space culture on college campuses needs to fuck off. Now.

#9220

Gumby wrote:
Marcus Robinson, president of Pitt’s Rainbow Alliance, said after leaving the lecture on Monday, he felt unsafe on campus for the first time.

“So many of us shared in our pain. I felt I was in danger, and I felt so many people in that room were in danger. This event erased the great things we’ve done,” Robinson said. “For the first time, I’m disappointed to be at Pitt.”

Robinson suggested that the University should have provided counselors in a neighboring room to help students who felt “invalidated” or “traumatized” by the event.
I just want to smack this sniveling dumbfuck. Repeatedly and hard. This victimhood-fetishizing, anti-freedom-of-speech, trigger-warning safe-space culture on college campuses needs to fuck off. Now.

There are those times you'd wish the Vietnam war was still going on, and people like Rainbow Robinson were drafted. Not to kill him, just to teach him a lesson in relativity.

On the sunny side, those university news items are so preposterous everybody's laughing their arse off.

#9221

Not only that, but according to the article Fuzzy linked to, the administration is groveling before the whining students and promidinfg to work with them to "make the campus what they want it to be". Ugh.

Has no one figured out that attendance at Milo's speech was I entirely voluntary, and the thumb suckers should have just not attended if they didn't like Milo's views?

They're pissed that the university allocated funding that ended up going to pay Milo's expenses. In other words, speakers that they like should be funded, but speakers they don't like shouldn't be. They're using their safe space tears to censor speech they don't like and as I said, the college seems to have caved. This seems so... un-collegey. In earlier times colleges were full of different and clashing groups of people who held differing viewpoints. Now apparently only one viewpoint is allowed. Disgusting.

#9222

"promidinfg"? Really? The one time I trust autocorrect to work properly...

#9223

MarcusAu wrote:
Scented Nectar wrote: Laci Green looks a lot better when bra-less. Her boobs don't look like big bags of fat any more. When boobs are too big, they are just ugly. I realize that many others here will disagree with me on that! :)
So you are not a fan of Chesty Morgan then?

Nope. Can't say I'm a fan. I just don't get the appeal. Bags overstuffed with fat. :puke-huge:

https://javaadvenlu.files.wordpress.com ... c02b16.png

#9224

On closer inspection it looks like the college, in a letter at the bottom of the article, did maintain that their policy is to fund differing viewpoints, even ones they don't agree with. So that's good, even though a couple members of the administration were making accommodating sniveling noises. Its the student body president that wants the college to change the way speakers are funded so that no one with wrongthink can get in. Mea culpa.

#9225

Next up ... Rhond Rousey or Fallon Fox?
[youtube]sOAqwxK0Jp4[/youtube]

#9226

JackSkeptic wrote:
rayshul wrote:What I probably should have said now that I'm a little mellowed is...

Aneris are you okay?
Aneris often makes the claim women experience sexism regularly. I tend to ignore it as him having one of his moments:)

Him?

[youtube]DhrZxSoLmgA[/youtube]

#9227

Gumby wrote:Not only that, but according to the article Fuzzy linked to, the administration is groveling before the whining students and promidinfg to work with them to "make the campus what they want it to be". Ugh.

Has no one figured out that attendance at Milo's speech was I entirely voluntary, and the thumb suckers should have just not attended if they didn't like Milo's views?

They're pissed that the university allocated funding that ended up going to pay Milo's expenses. In other words, speakers that they like should be funded, but speakers they don't like shouldn't be. They're using their safe space tears to censor speech they don't like and as I said, the college seems to have caved. This seems so... un-collegey. In earlier times colleges were full of different and clashing groups of people who held differing viewpoints. Now apparently only one viewpoint is allowed. Disgusting.

What also annoys me is those that blackball, censor and whine are in the minority. They are hurting the basic rights of other students who are not invested in extremist political culture or too scared to speak out.

But when a professor such as Myers applauds the closing of a student rag rather than be unhappy diverse opinions are being shut down, no matter how bad or offensive, the students who wish to speak out have no chance. Totalitarians rule now and the ones who are suffering are the silent majority who have been striped of their basic rights with no recourse.

Most Professors and Administrators should keep out of academia. They have no interest in actual education and the free exchange of ideas, the very purpose of the institutions who pay them. They are total frauds.

#9228

Brive1987 wrote:
Aneris wrote:
Brive1987 wrote:Aneris / German speakers.

In German does Weltkreig have any deeper meaning than boring old "world War". Somehow I don't think it meant in 1914 what we might think it meant in 2016.

Im calling bullshit on the idea of a global war of competing international nation states (and their agendas) being a conscious thing before the 1930s.

I am happy to add the pit to my bibliography :lol:

https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weltkrieg
In my perception, its merely the name for the thing. For Germans it was simply the war against other European nations, and in fact just another war. Other places played little to no role role in the German perception. In fact, at the time, the perception was that nations or realms were at war all the time, and Germans were often on the short end of the stick, thanks to German/Holy Empire local patriotism. The centralised powers were France, Britain, and Russia and others who already divided the world among each other. They were quite annoyed when Ze Germans became a force in central Europe. From that view, things look somewhat less clear cut.
So Welt = a world comprised of Europe and associated colonies? Cool, and thanks.

No, but Germany's colonial age was late and relatively short and the trenches were in European mainland, somewhat close. It's more of a world war for other nations because of conflicts in colonies (through weird alliances) or because the Brits drew in people from their world-wide Empire. But in perception from a German point of view: they invaded Belgium to get around the French defenses and tried this quickly so that they would avoid a two-front war against the Russians.

#9229

The Schlieffen Plan pretty much guaranteed how the early part of WW1 would go and explains why it was Belgium the UK ostensibly went to war over.

#9230

#9231

#9232

ffs wrote:

Yep, I agree with Blu. This shit is getting proper mental.

#9233

ffs wrote:

I found that article all the more amusing because the advert which was slap bang in the middle was for the Open University.

#9234

ffs wrote:

I really have to wonder if there is a board over at 4chan with a bunch of wags saying things like, "Say she's not black enough, lol"

#9235

Gumby wrote:
fuzzy wrote:"Students speak out against Yiannopoulos"
http://pittnews.com/article/69187/news/ ... nnopoulus/
Marcus Robinson, president of Pitt’s Rainbow Alliance, said after leaving the lecture on Monday, he felt unsafe on campus for the first time.

“So many of us shared in our pain. I felt I was in danger, and I felt so many people in that room were in danger. This event erased the great things we’ve done,” Robinson said. “For the first time, I’m disappointed to be at Pitt.”

Robinson suggested that the University should have provided counselors in a neighboring room to help students who felt “invalidated” or “traumatized” by the event.
I just want to smack this sniveling dumbfuck. Repeatedly and hard. This victimhood-fetishizing, anti-freedom-of-speech, trigger-warning safe-space culture on college campuses needs to fuck off. Now.

It really is kind of ridiculous. What nightmarish scenario now comes to him about life on campus? That gangs of Milo's dangerous faggots are going to assault him? That right wing groups emboldened by, what?, a gay conservative, are going to threaten him? Look, Marcus, the type of rightwing thugs who really mean to do you harm are probably not listening to a gay man.

On another note, Milo is a charming, funny man. Unfortunately, listening to him is a little like eating cotton candy: at first you think it's the only thing you want to do for the rest of your life. But you get sick of it pretty fast.

#9236

Aneris wrote:No, but Germany's colonial age was late and relatively short and the trenches were in European mainland, somewhat close. It's more of a world war for other nations because of conflicts in colonies (through weird alliances) or because the Brits drew in people from their world-wide Empire. But in perception from a German point of view: they invaded Belgium to get around the French defenses and tried this quickly so that they would avoid a two-front war against the Russians.

At the start of the Great War in 1914, many European nations were still engaged in a true clusterfuck of alliances, some of them dating back to the mid-19th century, some of them possibly even confidential. Technically it was the invasion of Belgium that drew the Brits into the war because of some very old treaty with the Belgians, although they arguably were searching for an excuse for a fresh little foreign war.

From there, things went downhill (figuratively).

#9237

youtubers I used to like when I was into atheism activism, female edition.

1) lacey green 2)rkwatson 3)ZOMGitschris (if i got those names correct)

Today, here I am as a liberal democrat listening to Britebart and Infowars because the msm is so fucking bad. WTF?!?

#9238

Git wrote:https://kiwifar.ms/threads/slymepit-bre ... rds.18058/

The Pit has achieved apotheosis - there's now a dedicated Slymepit.com thread on the farms. But quick, don't let anyone know about the inner forums/back channel...

Fuck! We have metastasized.

#9239

Scented Nectar wrote:
MarcusAu wrote:
Scented Nectar wrote: Laci Green looks a lot better when bra-less. Her boobs don't look like big bags of fat any more. When boobs are too big, they are just ugly. I realize that many others here will disagree with me on that! :)
So you are not a fan of Chesty Morgan then?
Nope. Can't say I'm a fan. I just don't get the appeal. Bags overstuffed with fat. :puke-huge:

https://javaadvenlu.files.wordpress.com ... c02b16.png

Fat?

Not sure you have the stuffing correct.

http://www.sanfranciscoplasticsurgerybl ... 24x469.jpg

#9240

ffs wrote:

Geez, and I thought the GOP debate last night was going to be the most ridiculous thing this week.