No, if the Regressives were using their free speech, we wouldn't be in this mess. Instead, the Regressives decided they had perfect morality and anyone not part of their tribe was a racist / sexist / islamophobe / homophobe / etc, and more importantly, they decided shouting names at people and silencing their political opponents (and even moderates) was an appropriate substitute for debate and a good argument.
Which led to 4 -- well, lets be honest, 8 -- years of Trump.
So please clarify your argument. Clearly Trump fits into all of those categories with spades. You can add rich if you want.
"According to the American Bar Association, hate speech is "speech that offends, threatens, or insults groups, based on race, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, or other traits.""
Important Exception: Please be aware the following groups are exempt from this:
* Men * Straight People * White people * Conservatives
So, to spoon feed the argument: If you used the Hashtag "Kill All Men" on Twitter or elsewhere, you won't get punished.
But if I created the hashtag "Rape the Sluts?" How fast do you think I'd be thrown off Twitter?
Both are offensive. Both are hateful. But the regressive left makes coffee cups with one on it, and will ban you from twitter for the other.
The site that proudly hosted the fappening's pics.
The site that let a group called "coontown" run for years without any issues or concerns.
The site that runs "Shit Reddit Says," a doxing, harassment, and bullying network that the admins openly support.
The site that, to this day, has gigabytes of pirated music, porn, art, and software indexed on it.
NOW has a problem with free speech, because a conservative candidate's followers organized on it and beat the political candidate their admins supported?
All at the same time the faux-liberal, progressive news sites and other social media networks are making a push to censor any and all conservative new media outlets by calling them "fake news" and taking measures to do the same thing to conservatives using their sites?
According to the American Bar Association, hate speech is "speech that offends, threatens, or insults groups, based on race, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, or other traits." Quartz reports:
Please be aware the following groups are exempt from this:
* Men * Straight People * White people * Conservatives
Blizzard demands your Driver's license if you make the mistake of installing their 2 stage auth app on a mobile device and need to remove it without access to the device.
I hear trying to get your Guild Wars 2 account back if you lose access to the original email involves a copy of your Social Security Card, Birth Certificate, 2 Photo IDs, the original box + receipt, and a phone call to India.
I'm torn. On the one side, harassment has been redefined on the Regressive Left to mean "disagreed with a Radical Regressive Leftist." So when I hear there's people harassing people on social media, I'm reminded that some of the professional victims crying about this harass themselves for victim credentials, while others dox andharass others while running an industry blacklist of their enemies. Both of which are allowed to continue unopposed due to them sharing the politics of the people running the site.
Oh, and that's not even getting into the fact that the biggest Radical Regressive Leftist "anti-Harassment" campaign, "Crash Override Network," is actually a fake organization dedicated to organized harassment and doxing of people. (Yes, the abbreviation for this fake organization is "CON," and yes, the founder is an old SomethingAwful forum troll, why do you ask?)
So yeah, giving these sociopaths more tools to create a hugbox isn't good. We just saw an entire election be decided because one side refused to step outside of their bubble for 6+ months at a time.
On the other hand, this will let me block certain stupid shit like "problematic," "mansplain," and "KillAllMen." And I suppose letting people block racist hate groups like Black Lives Matter can only be a good thing.
While I think Hillary's career is effectively over, and I think Sanders would have ran a different campaign and won, I am actually talking about how they've spent the last few days rioting in the streets and calling half the country stupid racists for disagreeing with them. That won't work to win hearts and minds, no matter how it plays in the bubble.
Accurate as in some people had dinner with an "eccentric performance artist."
But also...
Accurate as in Spirit Cooking DOES involve all those things per the woman's own video.
Accurate as in the "performance artist" said during her Reddit AMA that it's only "art" when it's done in public for artistic reasons, when it's done in private she considers it something else entirely.
Clinton lost by a landslide in the only race that mattered -- the electoral college. She tied President Trump in the popular vote so far, but the count is still coming in, and it literally doesn't matter either way.
Trump won by a landslide.
The sooner the left accepts this fact the faster they can start trying to rebuild their party. Until they can at least accept the fact that half the country was at least accepting of the idea of a Republican administration they won't even begin to recover.
You have to admit you have a problem before you can fix it. I hope they can admit it before 2020, but so far I'm not impressed with the introspection.
(Before you rev up your ad hominems, I pinched my nose and voted for her despite the fact that she's further to the right than Trump on many issues.)
So you are equating war crimes on one side with the use of what may now be legal fundraising loopholes *pushed by the conservatives* on the other? Wow talk about cognitive dissonance.
She bragged about framing an Iranian citizen to try to trick one of our allies into war with Iran on false pretenses.
Has wikileaks ever confirmed they got the emails from a hacker? couldn't they be, lets say, leaked?
Doesn't matter. The source only is an issue because the people screaming about it don't want to discuss the content of the leaks.
The DNC is as corrupt as the GOP. That's the takeaway that the people who believe themselves to be the "good" guys are cognitive dissonancing themselves into a tizzy over.
Remember, Wikileaks were heroes when they were releasing Bush era war documents. Now that they're revealing that Hillary's campaign and the DNC have been illegally taking money from foreigners and using shell companies to circumvent laws about collusion with Super PACs they're the devil working with $szCurrentRival to undermine democracy itself.
He's an "idiot" that has called every single thing Trump was going to do this election. Every single one. Months, and in some cases a year before anyone else.
"The essay concludes, "You might enjoy my book because you're not sure if I'm really endorsing Gary Johnson or just saying so to protect my brand."
You had them going. They were totally buying it - you had just whooshed...almost everybody. And then you go and let the cat out of the bag like that. Now, only half of them are going to believe you're serious.
Yes, woosh is the sound the point makes as it goes over your head. He follows up EVERY blog post with something similar. It's a running gag. Even his twitter feed has that as his bio.
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Holy crap, $650? Did I miss a memo, or is that outrageously high?
And by that, I mean that certain groups are looking for scalps to collect to prove a point. This is why certain people can get away with doing things without rebuke.
If you kiss the ring, they'll leave you alone, as long as you profess to agree with their belief system 100% at all times. The problem is, their belief system shifts constantly.
In non-political, non-cultural circles we call this a cult mentality. In political and cultural circles, we call it Social Justice.
And woe betide you if you do something that helps the "enemy." Just look at Wikileaks for a hint at that. They were doing god's work until they threatened the Queen's election. Now they're horrific "Alt-Right" monsters under the personal control of Putin. (Note that the veracity of the documents isn't in question, just that Wikileaks are poopyheads for sharing.)
I get their/your point, but Guybrush may not be the best example. Day of the Tentacle (same studio and within a few years) had a neurotic female (co)lead and nobody got lynched.
That was years ago. Nowadays you couldn't make Day of the Tentacle, for several problematic reasons:
* Ableist: Makes fun of shy, nerdy scientists, which everyone knows represent all Autistic people, and making fun of nerds -- Unless they're Gamers who disagree with you on social or political grounds -- isn't acceptable. * Sexist: Women are put in danger, are assumed to be wrong, and are drawn showing secondary sex characteristics, all three of which are unacceptable. To wit: The woman is shown to be insane, and that means the writer thinks all women are irrational, overly emotional, psychopaths. For shame! * Racist: Has no black characters, which means it automatically fails the Social Justice T.O.K.E.N. test, and thus is inherently racist. In addition, the titular Tentacle is purple, which is a racist dog whistle meaning black character, and is shown to be both angry and using a gun -- in short, the Tentacle symbolizes oppression towards black people in Western society, and is the real hero of this story fighting his oppressors. Hashtag: TENTACLE LIVES MATTER! * Cultural Appropriation: Uses Tentacles, which are well known to be from Japanese culture. Using things from other cultures for any reason is cultural appropriation, which is always wrong.
The problem with professional outrage peddlers is that they can always, always find something to be outraged about. Combine that with social and economic rewards for finding offense with things, and you have a booming industry of Moral Crusaders looking for anything they can get mad and scream about.
Motherboard adds that it tested a few of the login credentials and that they worked.
I'm no fan of Infowars (although his trolling of The Young Turks was hilarious) but I'm really really hesitant to say this is kosher. Didn't they just break several laws about unauthorized access?
All this talk about the Bechdel test reminds me of the Galbrush Paradox, a related mess that was codified during GamerGate. During a discussion of noted con artist Anita Sarkeesian -- who has managed to run TWO wildly successful Kickstarter scams stealing close to half a million dollars from rubes -- and her completely unobtainable standards for female characters:
Absolutely not. If you can't tell a two bit con artist from one of your own, you really need to clean up your movement before you start 'suggesting' anything.
But maybe you're just naive and don't understand the problem. Do you know why there's so many white male characters in video games? Especially leads? Because no one cares about them.
A white male can be a lecherous drunk. A woman can't or it's sexist. Sexualizing women and what all. A white male can be a mentally disturbed soldier who's mind is unraveling as he walks through the hell of the modern battleeld. A woman can't or you're victimizing women and saying they're all crazy.
Consider Guybrush Threepwood, start of the Monkey Island series. He's weak, socially awkward, cowardly, kind of a nerd and generally the last person you'd think of to even cabin boy on a pirate ship, let alone captain one. He is abused, verbally and physically, mistreated, shunned, hated and generally made to feel unwanted.
Now let's say Guybrush was a girl. We'll call her Galbrush. Galbrush is weak, socially awkward, cowardly, kind of a nerd and generally the last person you'd think of to even cabin boy on a pirate ship, let alone captain one. She is abused, verbally and physically, mistreated, shunned, hated and generally made to feel unwanted.
Now, you might notice that I've given the exact same description to both of these characters. But here's where things deviate. While no one cares if Guybrush takes a pounding for being, for lack of a better term, less than ideal pirate, Galbrush will be presumed to be discriminated against because of her gender. In fact, every hardship she will endure, though exactly the same as the hardships Guybrush endured, will be considered misogyny, rather than someone being ill suited to their desired calling.
And that ending. She goes through ALL that trouble to help, let's call him Eli Marley, escape the evil clutches of the ghost piratess Le Chuck, it turns out he didn't even need her help and she even screwed up his plan to thwart Le Chuck. Why, it'd be a slap in the face to every woman who's ever picked up a controller. Not only is the protagonist inept, but apparently women make lousy villains too!
And that's why Guybrush exists and Galbrush doesn't. Men can be comically inept halfwits. Women can't. Men can be flawed, tragic human beings. Women can't. And why? Because every single female character reects all women everywhere.
The horrible truth ls you and Sarkeesian want to craft a box into which you can force every female character into. Some idiotic 'ideal'. Putting aside the stupidity of exchanging one unobtainable role model for women with another, this has the added problem of making all female characters exactly the same. And when all characters are exactly the same, that's boring And boring characters do not sell video games.
And when applied to film, this is why the Bechdel test fails. Because writing female characters is an identity politics minefield, and trying to give them any character development other than talking about the characters you ARE allowed to take risks with or write as less than perfect gets you in trouble with idiots writing for The Mary Sue or Jezebel, who then rile up a lynch mob at you.
Slashdot Mirror
"The So tell for cognitive dissonance."
Also, Strawman.
No, if the Regressives were using their free speech, we wouldn't be in this mess. Instead, the Regressives decided they had perfect morality and anyone not part of their tribe was a racist / sexist / islamophobe / homophobe / etc, and more importantly, they decided shouting names at people and silencing their political opponents (and even moderates) was an appropriate substitute for debate and a good argument.
Which led to 4 -- well, lets be honest, 8 -- years of Trump.
So please clarify your argument. Clearly Trump fits into all of those categories with spades. You can add rich if you want.
"According to the American Bar Association, hate speech is "speech that offends, threatens, or insults groups, based on race, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, or other traits.""
Important Exception: Please be aware the following groups are exempt from this:
* Men
* Straight People
* White people
* Conservatives
So, to spoon feed the argument: If you used the Hashtag "Kill All Men" on Twitter or elsewhere, you won't get punished.
But if I created the hashtag "Rape the Sluts?" How fast do you think I'd be thrown off Twitter?
Both are offensive. Both are hateful. But the regressive left makes coffee cups with one on it, and will ban you from twitter for the other.
So let me get this straight.
The site that proudly hosted the fappening's pics.
The site that let a group called "coontown" run for years without any issues or concerns.
The site that runs "Shit Reddit Says," a doxing, harassment, and bullying network that the admins openly support.
The site that, to this day, has gigabytes of pirated music, porn, art, and software indexed on it.
NOW has a problem with free speech, because a conservative candidate's followers organized on it and beat the political candidate their admins supported?
All at the same time the faux-liberal, progressive news sites and other social media networks are making a push to censor any and all conservative new media outlets by calling them "fake news" and taking measures to do the same thing to conservatives using their sites?
Forgive me if I'm a bit suspicious.
Strawman Argument. I did not say anyone was oppressed.
No one in the Western World (especially the US) is oppressed.
Please be aware the following groups are exempt from this:
* Men
* Straight People
* White people
* Conservatives
Blizzard demands your Driver's license if you make the mistake of installing their 2 stage auth app on a mobile device and need to remove it without access to the device.
I hear trying to get your Guild Wars 2 account back if you lose access to the original email involves a copy of your Social Security Card, Birth Certificate, 2 Photo IDs, the original box + receipt, and a phone call to India.
I'm torn. On the one side, harassment has been redefined on the Regressive Left to mean "disagreed with a Radical Regressive Leftist." So when I hear there's people harassing people on social media, I'm reminded that some of the professional victims crying about this harass themselves for victim credentials, while others dox and harass others while running an industry blacklist of their enemies. Both of which are allowed to continue unopposed due to them sharing the politics of the people running the site.
Oh, and that's not even getting into the fact that the biggest Radical Regressive Leftist "anti-Harassment" campaign, "Crash Override Network," is actually a fake organization dedicated to organized harassment and doxing of people. (Yes, the abbreviation for this fake organization is "CON," and yes, the founder is an old SomethingAwful forum troll, why do you ask?)
So yeah, giving these sociopaths more tools to create a hugbox isn't good. We just saw an entire election be decided because one side refused to step outside of their bubble for 6+ months at a time.
On the other hand, this will let me block certain stupid shit like "problematic," "mansplain," and "KillAllMen." And I suppose letting people block racist hate groups like Black Lives Matter can only be a good thing.
That's a great map. Wanna see another great one?
This one.
The Dems have a problem and until they admit it we're going to see the Right resurgent. Making excuses isn't going to help.
While I think Hillary's career is effectively over, and I think Sanders would have ran a different campaign and won, I am actually talking about how they've spent the last few days rioting in the streets and calling half the country stupid racists for disagreeing with them. That won't work to win hearts and minds, no matter how it plays in the bubble.
Yes, accurate as in the email existed.
Accurate as in some people had dinner with an "eccentric performance artist."
But also...
Accurate as in Spirit Cooking DOES involve all those things per the woman's own video.
Accurate as in the "performance artist" said during her Reddit AMA that it's only "art" when it's done in public for artistic reasons, when it's done in private she considers it something else entirely.
Clinton lost by a landslide in the only race that mattered -- the electoral college. She tied President Trump in the popular vote so far, but the count is still coming in, and it literally doesn't matter either way.
Trump won by a landslide.
The sooner the left accepts this fact the faster they can start trying to rebuild their party. Until they can at least accept the fact that half the country was at least accepting of the idea of a Republican administration they won't even begin to recover.
You have to admit you have a problem before you can fix it. I hope they can admit it before 2020, but so far I'm not impressed with the introspection.
(Before you rev up your ad hominems, I pinched my nose and voted for her despite the fact that she's further to the right than Trump on many issues.)
You forgot "accurate."
No, she didn't.
That's why she lost.
4 years of bitching about that will just lead to another Trump landslide in 2020.
So you are equating war crimes on one side with the use of what may now be legal fundraising loopholes *pushed by the conservatives* on the other? Wow talk about cognitive dissonance.
She bragged about framing an Iranian citizen to try to trick one of our allies into war with Iran on false pretenses.
Yes, she is as evil as Bush.
Has wikileaks ever confirmed they got the emails from a hacker? couldn't they be, lets say, leaked?
Doesn't matter. The source only is an issue because the people screaming about it don't want to discuss the content of the leaks.
The DNC is as corrupt as the GOP. That's the takeaway that the people who believe themselves to be the "good" guys are cognitive dissonancing themselves into a tizzy over.
Remember, Wikileaks were heroes when they were releasing Bush era war documents. Now that they're revealing that Hillary's campaign and the DNC have been illegally taking money from foreigners and using shell companies to circumvent laws about collusion with Super PACs they're the devil working with $szCurrentRival to undermine democracy itself.
Can't. The UK has had the entire Ecuidorian embassy signal jammed for over a year now.
OK, no more Dilbert. Scott Adams is an idiot.
He's an "idiot" that has called every single thing Trump was going to do this election. Every single one. Months, and in some cases a year before anyone else.
"The essay concludes, "You might enjoy my book because you're not sure if I'm really endorsing Gary Johnson or just saying so to protect my brand."
You had them going. They were totally buying it - you had just whooshed ...almost everybody. And then you go and let the cat out of the bag like that. Now, only half of them are going to believe you're serious.
Yes, woosh is the sound the point makes as it goes over your head. He follows up EVERY blog post with something similar. It's a running gag. Even his twitter feed has that as his bio.
Did they mention any possibility of Project Fi support with these new phones, or is it time to look at the older 5x / 6p models once they go on sale?
Holy crap, $650? Did I miss a memo, or is that outrageously high?
If you kiss the ring, they'll leave you alone, as long as you profess to agree with their belief system 100% at all times. The problem is, their belief system shifts constantly.
In non-political, non-cultural circles we call this a cult mentality. In political and cultural circles, we call it Social Justice.
And woe betide you if you do something that helps the "enemy." Just look at Wikileaks for a hint at that. They were doing god's work until they threatened the Queen's election. Now they're horrific "Alt-Right" monsters under the personal control of Putin. (Note that the veracity of the documents isn't in question, just that Wikileaks are poopyheads for sharing.)
I get their/your point, but Guybrush may not be the best example. Day of the Tentacle (same studio and within a few years) had a neurotic female (co)lead and nobody got lynched.
That was years ago. Nowadays you couldn't make Day of the Tentacle, for several problematic reasons:
* Ableist: Makes fun of shy, nerdy scientists, which everyone knows represent all Autistic people, and making fun of nerds -- Unless they're Gamers who disagree with you on social or political grounds -- isn't acceptable.
* Sexist: Women are put in danger, are assumed to be wrong, and are drawn showing secondary sex characteristics, all three of which are unacceptable. To wit: The woman is shown to be insane, and that means the writer thinks all women are irrational, overly emotional, psychopaths. For shame!
* Racist: Has no black characters, which means it automatically fails the Social Justice T.O.K.E.N. test, and thus is inherently racist. In addition, the titular Tentacle is purple, which is a racist dog whistle meaning black character, and is shown to be both angry and using a gun -- in short, the Tentacle symbolizes oppression towards black people in Western society, and is the real hero of this story fighting his oppressors. Hashtag: TENTACLE LIVES MATTER!
* Cultural Appropriation: Uses Tentacles, which are well known to be from Japanese culture. Using things from other cultures for any reason is cultural appropriation, which is always wrong.
The problem with professional outrage peddlers is that they can always, always find something to be outraged about. Combine that with social and economic rewards for finding offense with things, and you have a booming industry of Moral Crusaders looking for anything they can get mad and scream about.
Or, as we succinctly call them -- SJWs.
I'm no fan of Infowars (although his trolling of The Young Turks was hilarious) but I'm really really hesitant to say this is kosher. Didn't they just break several laws about unauthorized access?
All this talk about the Bechdel test reminds me of the Galbrush Paradox, a related mess that was codified during GamerGate. During a discussion of noted con artist Anita Sarkeesian -- who has managed to run TWO wildly successful Kickstarter scams stealing close to half a million dollars from rubes -- and her completely unobtainable standards for female characters:
And when applied to film, this is why the Bechdel test fails. Because writing female characters is an identity politics minefield, and trying to give them any character development other than talking about the characters you ARE allowed to take risks with or write as less than perfect gets you in trouble with idiots writing for The Mary Sue or Jezebel, who then rile up a lynch mob at you.
And with one decision Facebook ruins any goodwill they had and guilt I had about blocking their ads.
Popups. Talking ads. Redirects. Full page bullshit. PDF malware. Any of these make me feel completely justified in blocking ads.