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The more important question is this: how did they become this way? How did women treat them? What could have led them to such depths of depravity? Racism, sizeism, and anti-intellectualism should all be investigated for their part in this crime against the lesser half of our species.
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Interesting question: how has their[1] view of women been shaped by women's disgust and rejection of them? What THEY think of women...how about what women think of THEM? (there's that scary "them" again...why do we always use this word when we talk about people we don't understand and have no desire to understand?) A little understanding goes a long way. The desire to label men as objects, to say they are nothing more than pantyskirt perverts, dehumanizes men and makes them into complete monsters, undeserving of any sympathy or human dignity.
[1] The modern system of sex and gender would not be possible without a disposition to interpret the difference between genders as the difference between self and Other... having a sexual object of the opposite gender is taken to be the normal and paradigmatic form of an interest in the Other or, more generally, others. Since over 50% of people are women, their views must be taken as mainstream now.
The narrative is wrong here. Journalists are heroes, not villains. They are the hardworking people who ask the hard questions and bring the news to a grateful, if ignorant, public. You see, people will make the correct decisions if informed correctly by the Fourth Estate. I can think of no better standard-bearer for this zeitgeist (widely shared among journalists - get a few drinks in one and ask her) than the quote below:
"CBS News has a culture, has a history that for those of us who work here, is very real - that we see it as a sort of magical mystical kingdom of journalistic knights - and I know I can mentally hear people rolling their eyes, that's the way we feel."
Ex-CBS News anchor Dan Rather
This knight of journalism was run out of office by neocons for trying to show the world the truth about President Bush. It didn't work.:( We got four more years of Bush.:(:(:(
After being fired for his daring move to remove Bush and elect Kerry, Rather said, "In many ways on many days, [reporters] have sort of adopted the attitude of 'go along, get along. What many of us need is a spine transplant." The Texan added. "Whether it's City Hall, the State House, or the White House, part of our job is to speak truth to power." Powerful words, from a powerful man. The world needs more people like him, to tell stories according to the prevailing majority (among journalists, that is) narrative. We miss him.
In America, we have a name for people like you. That name is "teabagger". Change is not something to be afraid of, it's something to be embraced. By embracing change, we move further away from our racist past (which we will never leave behind, we will always be anchored to it, but it's good to move forward...you know...progress...as in Progressive) and into the shining multicultural future.
It's not caution, it's just plain rejection of The Other...of something different...of people whose skin doesn't look like ours. Why don't you crawl back into the primitive cave you came from, and the rest of civilization will continue going forward without you. Obviously, don't vote any more, either. Set us back 100 years and you'd be one of those people who thought that trains would make womens' uteruses fly out. Is there some sort of desert or arctic area we can deport you people to?
Uh...yes...if your opinion is racist, it is illegal. You didn't get the memo?
Racism doesn't require intent. You merely have to be white and do something that discriminates against people of color. Blocking entire continents based on the fact that they're not white certainly applies.
Pssh. Of course, you neglect to say that Norway is rich in petroleum resources, which pretty much solve the "endless buckets of money" requirement to make that system work. How'd socialism work out in China? Soviet Union? Cambodia? Venezuela today?
It's always hilarious when liberals turn pro-America and want the FBI to imprison dissidents for sedition. It was a phenomenon unknown before three years ago. Dissent is patriotism, remember? Forgot already, did we? Obama's mentor, Ayers, founded a violent leftist group that detonated a bomb in the US Capitol building.
P.S. You've gotten your arguments confused: the "left and right are the same" argument is reserved for use defending outrageous acts by liberals.
Ok, you realize this is a play right out of Saul Alinsky and Mao Zedong? For those of you who don't know (and who doesn't?) the way it worked was: the people don't realize they're oppressed. They need to be liberated and enjoy the benefits of a socialist government. We, the good guys, need to nudge the people along the holy path to goodness. So, we attack the government, the government attacks back, but we, the good people, make sure we're nowhere around so that the retaliation falls on innocents. These people, having been harmed by our provocations, provide recruits and financing for further revenge-motivated attacks. Repeat, etc. Dividing the country into factions? It's already happened, and it was done by leftists. You didn't see that map after the 2008 election: every state who voted the correct way was labeled "America" and the states who dissented were labeled "Dumbfuckistan".
Doesn't it suck when the enemy learns and uses your own tactics against you?
You may now begin the regular, tedious argument about an American site using American English. Please reply to this comment to continue the discussion on this topic, I'm sure none of the points have ever been made before and original insights will be heard.
Ah, gotcha. I knew there was some pat explanation of why this was all OK. All ahead with more fertilizer to make more food, so we can make more humans! What a great idea!
(The U.S. continued fighting for three more years. The end of the war is often given as 1975 with the fall of Saigon to the North Vietnamese)
No, wrong. The US was out of Vietnam by 1972. The Democrats in Congress cut off all funding to South Vietnam in a fit of spite after Watergate. They would be damned if Nixon would have any positive legacy whatsoever. They succeeded. The South Vietnamese were removed from any sources of supply and had to scrounge on the black market. They were hollow as a bell when the North Vietnamese broke the peace treaty and invaded in 1975.
The Israelis have learned from the last flotilla, and hacked international law to serve their ends. The law firm Shurat HaDin (motto: "Bankrupting Terrorism - One Lawsuit at a Time") has done a bang-up job worthy of admiration, even if you're one of those people who thinks (like Hamas, the recipient of the aid flotilla) that Israel has no right to exist. I really recommend reading the link above, it does a great job of laying out what exactly has been done. They wrote letters to the insurers of the boat, warning them that under international law they would be legally liable for the consequences of helping Hamas. They informed INMARSAT that continuing their service exposed the company to liability. And, most hilariously, the legendary Greek bureaucracy has helped tremendously. Once a complaint is filed and an investigation started, the Greeks aren't exactly known for efficiency. American government is a model of speed compared to this.
Some more interesting facts: there is no pressing need for the aid flotilla. The last convoy actually succeeded in making the Israelis open up land borders and things are super in Gaza now. If the goal was to actually deliver aid, then the flotilla could dock in Egypt and have the goods delivered overland, permission has already been granted. Of course, this offer was refused because that's not the goal of the flotilla. It exists only to remove Israel's legitimacy as an entity (in other words, the same goal as Hamas). Yeah, yeah, right, you don't believe me. OK, how about what Adam Shapiro, co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement and a board member of the Free Gaza Movement said at a speech at Rutgers (to enormous applause, by the way)
Free Gaza is but one tactic of a larger strategy, to transform this conflict from one between Israel and the Palestinians, or Israel and the Arab world...to one between the rest of the world and Israel.
Nobody in the Free Gaza movement gives a shit about being a delivery boy for rice and cooking oil. Journalists should really listen when organizations state their goals in public, but who gives a shit when the facts don't fit the narrative.
Wait until next year: Battleship: The Movie. Yes, Battleship, the children's guessing game, is being made into a movie. Monopoly, too. Really, it's not too far-fetched when one realizes that GI Joe and Transformers were created solely to promote a line of toys kids 12 and under. And wasn't Clue a great movie based on another hoary old game?
Careful, citizen. Opposition to the President is racism. You're not a racist, are you? Please check your skin tone in the mirror to make sure. If you are a racist, the only patriotic thing to do is to sign an organ donor card and drive your car off the freeway at 105mph.
Once upon a time, a Prince asked a beautiful Princessâ¦
"Will you marry me?"
The Princess said âoeNO!â
And the Prince lived happily ever after and rode motorcycles and went fishing and hunting and played golf and dated women half his age and drank beer and scotch and had tons of money in the bank and left the toilet seat up.
Surely your CJ teacher taught you that police have absolutely zero responsibility to protect the Great Unwashed. The courts have ruled on this, it's an established fact. Their only obligation is to catch the criminal after the crime has been committed, and honestly they aren't even very good at that.
Learn Chinese? Nah. It is stupendously difficult for native speakers of English to learn Chinese at a level that provides an advantage. It is even more difficult to learn to read. Not impossible, but just very difficult. Your time is better spent elsewhere. Tons of Chinese are learning the international language, English. Especially little kids. They will be quite fluent when they grow up in 10-20 years.
Oh, you're going to impress Chinese people in your country? Guess what Chinese do when they travel overseas? They deal with the ethnic Chinese native to your country. So, you're a hairy barbarian who speaks their language? Congratulations. They still won't do business with you, or hire you, or be impressed in any way.
Chinese is a freaking mountain. The more you learn, the harder it gets. And guess what: Chinese people don't even speak Chinese. Millions of them speak regional languages. Mandarin (putonghua) translates as "the common language". It was invented so that a giant country could have a dialect that could be used nationwide, a great advantage. Meanwhile, America is busy teaching foreign languages in its schools and anyone who thinks that a country should have a common language is attacked as a racist.
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The more important question is this: how did they become this way? How did women treat them? What could have led them to such depths of depravity? Racism, sizeism, and anti-intellectualism should all be investigated for their part in this crime against the lesser half of our species.
Interesting question: how has their[1] view of women been shaped by women's disgust and rejection of them? What THEY think of women...how about what women think of THEM? (there's that scary "them" again...why do we always use this word when we talk about people we don't understand and have no desire to understand?) A little understanding goes a long way. The desire to label men as objects, to say they are nothing more than pantyskirt perverts, dehumanizes men and makes them into complete monsters, undeserving of any sympathy or human dignity.
[1] The modern system of sex and gender would not be possible without a disposition to interpret the difference between genders as the difference between self and Other ... having a sexual object of the opposite gender is taken to be the normal and paradigmatic form of an interest in the Other or, more generally, others. Since over 50% of people are women, their views must be taken as mainstream now.
This knight of journalism was run out of office by neocons for trying to show the world the truth about President Bush. It didn't work. :( We got four more years of Bush. :( :( :(
After being fired for his daring move to remove Bush and elect Kerry, Rather said, "In many ways on many days, [reporters] have sort of adopted the attitude of 'go along, get along. What many of us need is a spine transplant." The Texan added. "Whether it's City Hall, the State House, or the White House, part of our job is to speak truth to power." Powerful words, from a powerful man. The world needs more people like him, to tell stories according to the prevailing majority (among journalists, that is) narrative. We miss him.
It's not caution, it's just plain rejection of The Other...of something different...of people whose skin doesn't look like ours. Why don't you crawl back into the primitive cave you came from, and the rest of civilization will continue going forward without you. Obviously, don't vote any more, either. Set us back 100 years and you'd be one of those people who thought that trains would make womens' uteruses fly out. Is there some sort of desert or arctic area we can deport you people to?
Uh...yes...if your opinion is racist, it is illegal. You didn't get the memo?
Racism doesn't require intent. You merely have to be white and do something that discriminates against people of color. Blocking entire continents based on the fact that they're not white certainly applies.
Pssh. Of course, you neglect to say that Norway is rich in petroleum resources, which pretty much solve the "endless buckets of money" requirement to make that system work. How'd socialism work out in China? Soviet Union? Cambodia? Venezuela today?
Have you been investigated for racism yet? Keep the brown people out, and the good people have access. You're in the Tea Party, right?
"City" means "city", not "you can drive for 2 hours out of the city limits and yet still be counted somehow".
P.S. You've gotten your arguments confused: the "left and right are the same" argument is reserved for use defending outrageous acts by liberals.
Today's news: âFreedom Flotillaâ(TM) Organizer says Jews Are âPigsâ(TM).. Right there in his own fucking words. Speaking to a sympathetic audience in his own language - who would have thought someone would translate it?
Ok, you realize this is a play right out of Saul Alinsky and Mao Zedong? For those of you who don't know (and who doesn't?) the way it worked was: the people don't realize they're oppressed. They need to be liberated and enjoy the benefits of a socialist government. We, the good guys, need to nudge the people along the holy path to goodness. So, we attack the government, the government attacks back, but we, the good people, make sure we're nowhere around so that the retaliation falls on innocents. These people, having been harmed by our provocations, provide recruits and financing for further revenge-motivated attacks. Repeat, etc. Dividing the country into factions? It's already happened, and it was done by leftists. You didn't see that map after the 2008 election: every state who voted the correct way was labeled "America" and the states who dissented were labeled "Dumbfuckistan".
Doesn't it suck when the enemy learns and uses your own tactics against you?
Seriously, we've had this argument, you must be aware of its reply by now. Like e4-e5 in chess.
You may now begin the regular, tedious argument about an American site using American English. Please reply to this comment to continue the discussion on this topic, I'm sure none of the points have ever been made before and original insights will be heard.
Ah, gotcha. I knew there was some pat explanation of why this was all OK. All ahead with more fertilizer to make more food, so we can make more humans! What a great idea!
OK, let's say you go on vacation and nothing happens. Next time layoffs come around, you'll be perceived as non-essential.
So how many greenhouse gases are released during this "cooking off" period? How many carbon credits did you buy? None, right?
(The U.S. continued fighting for three more years. The end of the war is often given as 1975 with the fall of Saigon to the North Vietnamese)
No, wrong. The US was out of Vietnam by 1972. The Democrats in Congress cut off all funding to South Vietnam in a fit of spite after Watergate. They would be damned if Nixon would have any positive legacy whatsoever. They succeeded. The South Vietnamese were removed from any sources of supply and had to scrounge on the black market. They were hollow as a bell when the North Vietnamese broke the peace treaty and invaded in 1975.
Is a bunch of young Israeli lawyers working round the clock sustained only by Diet Coke, falafel and cigarettes about to pull off the legal equivalent of the Six-Day War? A really good link which you should read. Here is another.
The Israelis have learned from the last flotilla, and hacked international law to serve their ends. The law firm Shurat HaDin (motto: "Bankrupting Terrorism - One Lawsuit at a Time") has done a bang-up job worthy of admiration, even if you're one of those people who thinks (like Hamas, the recipient of the aid flotilla) that Israel has no right to exist. I really recommend reading the link above, it does a great job of laying out what exactly has been done. They wrote letters to the insurers of the boat, warning them that under international law they would be legally liable for the consequences of helping Hamas. They informed INMARSAT that continuing their service exposed the company to liability. And, most hilariously, the legendary Greek bureaucracy has helped tremendously. Once a complaint is filed and an investigation started, the Greeks aren't exactly known for efficiency. American government is a model of speed compared to this.
Some more interesting facts: there is no pressing need for the aid flotilla. The last convoy actually succeeded in making the Israelis open up land borders and things are super in Gaza now. If the goal was to actually deliver aid, then the flotilla could dock in Egypt and have the goods delivered overland, permission has already been granted. Of course, this offer was refused because that's not the goal of the flotilla. It exists only to remove Israel's legitimacy as an entity (in other words, the same goal as Hamas). Yeah, yeah, right, you don't believe me. OK, how about what Adam Shapiro, co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement and a board member of the Free Gaza Movement said at a speech at Rutgers (to enormous applause, by the way)
Nobody in the Free Gaza movement gives a shit about being a delivery boy for rice and cooking oil. Journalists should really listen when organizations state their goals in public, but who gives a shit when the facts don't fit the narrative.
The above comment is exactly what is wrong with movies today. Scriptwriters are frigging morons.
Wait until next year: Battleship: The Movie. Yes, Battleship, the children's guessing game, is being made into a movie. Monopoly, too. Really, it's not too far-fetched when one realizes that GI Joe and Transformers were created solely to promote a line of toys kids 12 and under. And wasn't Clue a great movie based on another hoary old game?
Careful, citizen. Opposition to the President is racism. You're not a racist, are you? Please check your skin tone in the mirror to make sure. If you are a racist, the only patriotic thing to do is to sign an organ donor card and drive your car off the freeway at 105mph.
Once upon a time, a Prince asked a beautiful Princessâ¦
"Will you marry me?"
The Princess said âoeNO!â
And the Prince lived happily ever after and rode motorcycles and went fishing and hunting and played golf and dated women half his age and drank beer and scotch and had tons of money in the bank and left the toilet seat up.
The End
Surely your CJ teacher taught you that police have absolutely zero responsibility to protect the Great Unwashed. The courts have ruled on this, it's an established fact. Their only obligation is to catch the criminal after the crime has been committed, and honestly they aren't even very good at that.
Learn Chinese? Nah. It is stupendously difficult for native speakers of English to learn Chinese at a level that provides an advantage. It is even more difficult to learn to read. Not impossible, but just very difficult. Your time is better spent elsewhere. Tons of Chinese are learning the international language, English. Especially little kids. They will be quite fluent when they grow up in 10-20 years.
Oh, you're going to impress Chinese people in your country? Guess what Chinese do when they travel overseas? They deal with the ethnic Chinese native to your country. So, you're a hairy barbarian who speaks their language? Congratulations. They still won't do business with you, or hire you, or be impressed in any way.
Chinese is a freaking mountain. The more you learn, the harder it gets. And guess what: Chinese people don't even speak Chinese. Millions of them speak regional languages. Mandarin (putonghua) translates as "the common language". It was invented so that a giant country could have a dialect that could be used nationwide, a great advantage. Meanwhile, America is busy teaching foreign languages in its schools and anyone who thinks that a country should have a common language is attacked as a racist.
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