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You unhinged fucking idiot. Being anti-porn is its own political stance and can be included with any other political views.

Tell me, which of these references is 'alt right' (whatever the fuck that is):
https://www.psychologytoday.co...
https://www.verywellmind.com/h...
https://mentherapytoronto.com/...
https://www.gq.com/story/10-re...
https://www.feministcurrent.co...
https://www.bustle.com/article...
https://www.netmums.com/coffee...

How about some consistency in your outrage? If sexism is bad, then all forms of it are bad?

That is not how it works and you know it

Men cannot suffer sexism: https://www.bustle.com/article...,

Literally. Never.

We already knew the public wanted to keep net neutrality

Actually, no, we didn't. There never was a referendum. There were informal polls, but that's it.

The FCC comments aren't binding — and for a good reason: they are open exactly to the kind of abuse you are complaining about. Non-citizen participation (and foreigners openly campaigning), multiple participation, simple ballot-stuffing...

According to TFA, only 3.6% of the comments were "genuine", in the cited researcher's opinion... This would confirm both the insanity of treating the comments as binding in any way, and the truth of the statements made by the FCC, headed Ajit Pai, who is of Indian descent, regarding being under attack. The claim, you — a privileged American White — are calling "a lie" despite evidence and without any evidence of your own, making unprecedented allegations, that can only be motivated by racism.

Of course, having been exposed as a racist liar yourself, you'll simply shrug your narrow shoulders and yell: "BUT TRUMP!!!" — because lying is all you have.

Why change Roe vs Wade when you can just use your power as a judge to delay an abortion to the point where the pregnancy is far enough along that an abortion isn't advisable?
http://time.com/5390960/brett-...

For fairness here is an explanation of Kavanaugh's decision in the case:

https://www.bustle.com/p/kavan...

Oh noes. A pedophile thinks I'm racist. Whatever shall I do.

You might want to avoid having your identity and these little 'private thoughts' of yours become public in, say, Latino neighborhoods, black neighborhoods, or near Indian reservations. Then again, you do seem to be bat-bat shit crazy, and psychopathic tendencies are generally self destructive, so who know's what you'll do.

When your last little nerve of white supremacy and hatred snaps and you lose it, I hope your arresting officers treat you humanely on your little trip to the funny farm.

One does not simply refuse the Donald.

Is that you Ivanka? #MeToo

7 Trump Quotes About Ivanka That Will Make You Go WHOA

making new plastic is cheaper than recycling: http://www.businessinsider.com...

And according to this article, paper is actually more cost effective and reduces CO2 more than recycling plastic: https://www.bustle.com/article...

Why is it that supposedly educated people can't spell as well as the average fifth grader?

Well, since you asked..

Cut and pasted from another reply.

Well sure, let's talk your other points if pointing out garbage supporting claims is such a problem for you. How about the fact that race is in fact a social construct. The one-drop rule is alive and well in a social context https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org] . A person who is 3/4 white and 1/4 black is near universally seen as a black person in our society. This is not at all an unusual categorization either, around the world if your not a pure blood of the dominant race or close to you're seen as a separate race. Off the top of my head a good recent singular example of this in a global context was the last Miss Japan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
https://www.bustle.com/article... [bustle.com]

Half Japanese, born and raised in Japan, and yet not considered Japanese by many. Even looking at her, she's a lovely woman but no one would think "Japanese" which is why many Japanese were actually upset at her award.

At the end of the day, if a society labels you of a given race then that's what you are for any kind of practical purpose and that's the way it's always been.

Your naivety in regards to reality really is astounding.

Well sure, let's talk your other points if pointing out garbage supporting claims is such a problem for you. How about the fact that race is in fact a social construct. The one-drop rule is alive and well in a social context https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... . A person who is 3/4 white and 1/4 black is near universally seen as a black person in our society. This is not at all an unusual categorization either, around the world if your not a pure blood of the dominant race or close to you're seen as a separate race. Off the top of my head a good recent singular example of this in a global context was the last Miss Japan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://www.bustle.com/article...

Half Japanese, born and raised in Japan, and yet not considered Japanese by many. Even looking at her, she's a lovely woman but no one would think "Japanese" which is why many Japanese were actually upset at her award.

At the end of the day, if a society labels you of a given race then that's what you are for any kind of practical purpose and that's the way it's always been.

Have a look at his original staff and check who is left: http://time.com/4658499/donald... Of those who sometimes communicated their own opinions rather than simply defending Trump, there is only Kushner (family) and Pence (elected VP). Those that left include Bannon, Priebus, Flynn, McFarland, Walsh, Dubke, Spicer, Scaramucci, and more. https://www.bustle.com/p/all-t... We are looking at 3.5 more years of a delusional President who chooses divisive people for his staff and then fires anyone who gets under his thin skin. I can't see how competent people would agree to work there given what we know thus far.

You're right, it isn't the left specifically, it isn't the right either, it's women.

The greatest advocates in support of sex workers are women, friend.

https://www.bustle.com/article...

I don't know where you're getting such bad information, but women and specifically feminists are leading the way in sex worker advocacy.

You prudish Americans. Actually its the opposite.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

https://www.bustle.com/article...

http://www.webmd.com/food-reci...

The lack of patent encumbered algorithms in MP3 means two things:

1. 1. The MP3 gstreamer codecs can move from the non-free repositories to free for Linux distributions. So no more complaints from software like Amarok about missing MP3 support libraries on your Linux desktops. That's one less step to setup Mint, Ubuntu, Fedora or openSuse. Even though there are plenty of reasons (CAD software, WMA support, etc) to seek out the non-official or non-free package sources I expect less use.
2. 2. Corporate users will be able to download, integrate and use the MP3 format in their projects with only a cursory approval from legal. I used to see quite a few video game projects use .ogg files and fmod for their sound. I expect to see more of them ship with MP3s instead.

Audio snobs won't stop arguing about the format of the week or FLAC verses DSD or the best bit rates on PCM encoded WAV files.

Mere consumers shall continue on with our plebeian fidelity sound as always.

Online buyers will continue to download low bit rate MP3s to squeeze a few more hundred tunes onto their Zune. Everyone you know will still play studio damaged music through tiny earbuds.

Is that how I ended up in Walley World? https://www.bustle.com/article...

... could well be sufficient for things to get saggier than titties at a 5th wave bra burning convention.

There is empirical evidence that bras actually increase sagginess.

Well I guess Trump is just that awesome he can golf and get more accomplished for the american worker then any other president.

That's bullshit. If Trump keeps playing golf every weekend, the cost of security in one year ($120M) will exceed the cost of security for Obama in eight years ($96M).

https://www.bustle.com/p/how-much-do-trumps-golf-trips-cost-his-mar-a-lago-visits-dont-come-cheap-46401

Sleepy hilary would still be deleting emails from her server.

More bullshit. Stop making excuses for Trump. He's unfit to serve as POTUS. The whole world knows it

You have no clue as to how much his almost-every-weekend visit to FL costs us as taxpayers and to the local community in which Mar-a-Lago is located.

In one month, it's predicted that he spent $10 million for his trips to Mar-a-Lago. He's done that for the last 2 months now, so he's probably close to $18-$20 million already. Obama spent $97 million over 8 years.

Don't forget to tally the near $1 million price tag that Palm Beach County has already had to spend of their own money for the extra police staffing and overtime while Trump is at Mar-a-Lago.

https://www.bustle.com/p/how-m...
http://www.vox.com/policy-and-...

Lets also consider the taxpayers cost for Secret Service to shuttle the Trump family around on constant vacations, and Melania's insistence of staying in New York, which itself costs a substantial amount of money for security on a daily basis.

You can be upset at welfare families all you want but your Emperor is consuming vast amounts of tax payer money simply for playing golf, and will be surpassing what Obama spent in a matter of months.

But please... don't let these facts remove you from your precious bubble of ignorance.

Hey look and listen.

How long do you think it's going to take Pence to stage a coup?

Or look at the difference between OJ's not being found guilty in his criminal trial but liable in his civil trial.

Civil trials are about liability only, not guilt or innocence.

The millennials intrinsically know the game is rigged against them.

Wah!

Oh, and every generation invented sex too. The game is rigged, and has been for a long time. When I first entered the workforce, the "common knowledge" was that there was no point in saving for retirement, inflation and jeebuz chryste we were all gonna die when the bombs are a-flyin overhead. So our go-go generation largely screwed itself over by acting in their own worst interests down the road.

The only thing not in short supply for so many of you is self pity. My generation had it as well, with the young males looking forward to involuntary conscription and the chance to get fucked up or killed in southeast Asia. You have to worry about being out of cell phone range.

Go to school and have a 50\50 shot of coming out of it with a good enough job to pay off the debt, work 2 to 4 jobs and try to move up in the world without an education and try to move up at a good company, or stay at home with Mom and Dad. Those are your choices.

Bullshit on the second, but let's back up a little.. The cost of education is a true problem that young people - actually everyone - have today. After decades of belittling anything but a 4 year college degree, where a bachelor's degree in philosophy or womyn's studies was touted as superior to a machinist, plumber or other blue collar work, and the willingness of people to pay for the worthless fields of study, we've reached the endstage where the economics are not there.

But even there, you don't have to play the game if you are willing to think for yourself. Way back whne in the early 70's against the demands of my high school advosors, and even a sit down with the principle and cautions sent to my parents, I took both academic and vocational (electronics) majors in High School. Served me well throughout life.

Have a male child today, what's his chances of procreating? 50\50. You tell me how you're going to manage that many impoverished, pissed off, and heavily armed men.

That's a social construct, definitely not one made by my generation. Its the overshoot of the feminist movement, where young ladies have been taught that sexual harassment is almost anything they don't like. https://www.bustle.com/article...

Where a wolf whistle is accorded the same level of seriousness as full blown sexual assault.

That posters comment is just one.

Meh, people have been telling me to die in a fire since I was in grade school. Don't act like millennials invented raging.

Pew researches studies on marriage and rates people are having kids are pretty conclusive here if you care to look.

And I agree. Even way back when, I put my limit at 1 offspring. After that it was snip snip.

There's millions of people who are stark raving mad, just like the above poster. They are enjoying what time they have left before an economic crash or collapse. 2nded the bullet in the head comment. 100% what millennials feel about how they've been fucked over.

Oh golly gosh. Your attitude is characteristic of how millenials have been fucked over, but not in the way you think it is.

Raised by parents who might have been well meaning, but have done immense damage to you by not allowing you to grow up. I've seen millennial children in diapers until they started preschool, as their parents tried to slow the growing up process. I've seen millennial children not have a free moment among themselves as they were shuffled off from one lesson, sport or camp, always under the strict supervision of an adult. Never an unsupervised moment. Then it was made worse by the self esteem movement, where children were taught they, the singular chi

Just as the oppressed Blacks can not themselves be racist, women can not possibly be sexist.

You know what stops mass shootings? Ironically, the same thing that allows them to happen in the first place: guns.

If just one patron of that night club last week had a gun, they could have put one between the shooter's eyes when he first started shooting and fewer people would have died. If more people carried, more people would think twice about using guns to commit crimes.

Sure, that wouldn't be the case if guns didn't exist but, oh, look at that. They do.

More restrictions really don't help. Look at France; strict gun laws just ensure that, when gun crimes occur (and they will), they're more devastating than they would be if an armed citizen had been there to stop them.

Exactly! Mod this Up!!!!

As I said to someone the other day, that would have been a LOT different outcome at a Country 'n' Western or Biker Bar (because presumably SOMEONE would have been armed). Truth is, the gunman probably wouldn't have even TRIED to shoot-up such a place.

Just ONE person with a gun could have made that more like FIVE people shot instead of over ONE HUNDRED.

Oh, and all the talking-heads that are squawking that "No one on a Terror Watch List should be able to even BUY a gun" CONVENIENTLY IGNORE the facts that

1. The Orlando gunman WAS NOT ON ANY "WATCH LIST" (he was at one time, but then he was "cleared")

2. These "Watch Lists" are EXTRA-JUDICIAL in nature. That is, they require exactly ZERO DUE PROCESS to be placed-on; the criteria (if there are any) are ENTIRELY opaque, and you play absolute HELL getting OFF of one. So, do you REALLY want a Government that has the POWER TO REMOVE YOUR FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS with ZERO DUE PROCESS? No Thankyouverymuch!

First they came for...

You know what stops mass shootings? Ironically, the same thing that allows them to happen in the first place: guns.

If just one patron of that night club last week had a gun, they could have put one between the shooter's eyes when he first started shooting and fewer people would have died. If more people carried, more people would think twice about using guns to commit crimes.

Sure, that wouldn't be the case if guns didn't exist but, oh, look at that. They do.

More restrictions really don't help. Look at France; strict gun laws just ensure that, when gun crimes occur (and they will), they're more devastating than they would be if an armed citizen had been there to stop them.

Wasn't something like this portrayed in House of Cards?
Also, would love to see some evidence to the fact, though I have to admit it doesn't sound so farfetched.

Hi, same AC here.

Or maybe it'd just be a result of the book focusing overmuch on the Mobile Infantry to the near exclusion of anything else, but if you weren't insistent on using it as a tool of spite, you would likely have a good position in demonstrating Heinlein's excuses for his sexism.

I don't even know what you are trying to say here. Let's break this apart.

"Focusing overmuch on the MI"? It was a coming-of-age novel about a young man finding his place in the world, and his joining the MI had a huge impact on him. Also it is a short novel and there is no room in it for meandering. I'd say the focus was just right. In fact, I wish there had been more action scenes; Heinlein wrote them so well.

"insistent on using it as a tool of spite" If you are chiding me for sneering at SJW's, well, guilty as charged. But SJW's have a theory that minorities can't be racist and women can't be sexist, and I have yet to see an SJW get bent out of shape over mistreatment of a male. (Did you know that men can literally never be victims of sexism?) So I guess I'm doubling down on the spite; sorry about that, but still doing it.

"Heinlein's excuses for his sexism"? Remember that he was born in 1907, and was a product of his environment. Starship Troopers was written in the 1950's. So yes he did not imagine females serving in the future infantry, but he went out of his way to give females a major role in the Navy. The thing about females being better at math is unconvincing; likely there should have been at least some males who were good pilots in the future. He did that on purpose and I like it. (By the way, in Stranger in a Strange Land, at one point Jubal Harsaw is thinking about what would happen if a homosexual tried hitting on Mike, and Harsaw figures Mike would know there was something wrong with them. Then in Heinlein's last novels there were some endearingly clumsy attempts to integrate gay people into the stories and even "Slipstick" Libby was retconned as a trans woman. A lot of people accuse Heinlein of being sexist and such, but I think he transcended his origins and was as unsexist as anyone of his background could be.)

Heresy is perhaps the wrong word, as that implies there is simply a matter of religious doctrine to it,

Congratulations, you caught my implication. Well done. I chose that word because most people would not take it well if we were to propose to take away universal voting and require voting to be earned (but with universal opportunity to earn the vote). People get loudly butthurt when we propose such mild restrictions on the vote as requiring ID ("racist!!!" as though it were harder for some races to acquire ID than for others?). Of course it would be completely unacceptable to return to the bad old days of "literacy tests" where the white guy was asked something easy, and the black guy was asked something ridiculously hard... if you were thinking of accusing me of wishing for those bad old days, don't bother.

To treat it the way you are, is to ignore the arguments made at the time under the banner of a perception that it's just bickering with no real value to it, and while you perhaps don't intend it, it tends to lend a whiff of legitimacy towards the policy of exclusion, without giving a nod towards those grounds presented for inclusion.

All of this is pointless, as I wasn't talking about the past at all, but the future as portrayed in Starship Troopers, where one must earn a vote. I implied that talking about that would be treated in a manner similar to how heretics are treated -- not well.

the core of the problem with the idea of earning is that it is all too easy to corrupt the system

And the core of the problem of not requiring ID is that it is all to easy to corrupt the voting. Even if we aren't going to earn votes, I'm going to have to insist that only we cast our own votes, and we need to stop voting after we are dead. "Vote early, vote often" isn't a very funny joke to me.

but they are intelligent enough to recognize that a President Clinton would be vastly better for their interests than a President Trump;

I don't know...he's picked up a lot of unique followers, some of whom would pick Trump over Clinton.

Sanders listed five demands that he would require of [Clinton] before he gave his official endorsement. Sanders' strict requirements include: a single-payer health care system, tougher regulation of the finance industry, a $15 per hour minimum wage, closing corporate tax loopholes, and a legitimate effort to address climate change. Let's break down where Clinton currently stands on these issues. Clinton has said that a single-payer health care system will never happen; she has received generous campaign donations from Wall Street; she would support a $12 hourly minimum wage rate. Clinton and Sanders have both proposed increasing taxes on the rich, and Clinton released a climate change plan in July 2015.

It's not exactly simple. He won't support her the way she is. He's completely committed to his issues with the corrupt ways of the Democratic party. And the Democratic party has not supported him much at all during the primaries. They've done nothing for him, so I wouldn't expect him to do much for them.

Unfortunately you've been bitten by the progressive non-scientific but called Gender Neutrality which views both genders as being the same in all areas, and blaming of culture for corrupting them into gender stereotypes. Here is some scientific articles that you won't read that explain why you are not correct.

http://www.livescience.com/226...

http://www.bustle.com/articles...

http://io9.gizmodo.com/5879647...

The problem is, that we tend to take the outlier as the rule, when trying to break norms. We should accept that norms are those for a reason, while not excluding those that are outside those norms. There will be girls who like trucks, and boys that like dolls. Blaming stereotypes solves nothing and doesn't actually progress understanding.

Eventually if nobody fits in the seats, then people will stop booking seats on that airline. On the other hand, some people might think that stand up seating similar to the SkyRider would be a welcome option on shorter flights if it meant lower ticket prices. It's like saying that people shouldn't be able to operate a hostel or a capsule hotel because a large percentage of the population doesn't find that type of accommodation adequate, when it works well for a large number of people.