Twitter's refusal to deal with the brigading and fuckery from
Well, everyone. Indeed, a large part of the issue is that they are very unbalanced in how they wield their banhammer, and that they specifically appointed organisations with explicitly sexist agendas to their 'Trust and Safety Council'.
It's not the "hard right" posting #killallmen or "Gotta kill every white man in a suit" or "rape all white girls". That last one was in all-caps.
Yeah, but they're suing the wrong people. They should be suing their parents for bringing them into a fucked up world.
If nobody had children then current levels of consumption and carbon release would be fully sustainable. The planet would recover in 3-400 years and non-human lifeforms would flourish.
Maybe I should sue the US government for not legislating against children.
Let's go with one gender, female, because that's what we all actually biologically start out as
No, we start out as male, female or interesting. At least 60 of the 63 genders are fundamentally variations on those three, so trying to define 63 may be useful when exploring sociology and biology but has no place in law or defining who can use a bathroom.
So the logical reaction to being called a racist is to elect an overtly racist leader?
When anything and everything is described as 'racist' the term loses its meaning. When people are told they're racist - even when they're not doing or saying anything racist - then they interpret someone else being described as racist as meaning that person is pretty fucking normal.
Trump may or may not be racist. Many of the people that voted for him may or may not be. All of them have been publicly described using that term, so why should they really care about it?
So you choose to prefer harrasing people (or exposing them to harrassment) who're different from you?
Being exposed to facts is not harassment. Being removed from an echo chamber is not harassment. Being asked to justify the bullshit being spouted is not harassment. Hearing other opinions is not harassment.
There are laws against harassment. Safe spaces are not required, and are very much not safe to many of the people made unwelcome in them.
there is nothing wrong about hating bigoted, willfully ignorant morons
Yes, there is. A moron by definition can't be expected to know bigotry is bad and ignorance should be educated. Why are you hating on people lacking in intellectual prowess?
Oh.. you're hateful bigot, and you're being wilfully ignorant. Are you a moron or should we hate you?
It's ok, I think we already know the answer: You're throwing labels like 'hateful', 'bigot' and 'moron' around because people actually dared to disagree with you.
Hate you? No, I lack the emotional energy. You're not worth it.
The EU now has even more reason to punish us for Brexit
Punish us? How? Bend us over Juncker's knee and spank us?
No, they'll be on their fucking knees begging for our trade. Especially when the rest of the union collapses.
this anti-intellectual politics
What's anti-intellectual about rejecting corruption, loss of sovereignty, loss of identity and reduced standards of living?
the racists and xenophobes in the UK
Look you fucking rabid cunt: Calling people racists and xenophobes and not trying to understand their entirely non-racist and non-xenophobic concerns is exactly how the media and the politicians have managed to create an environment where Brexit and Trump can win.
Stop throwing fucking labels around.
Australia's awful immigration system
What, the one that at least tries to prevent unmitigated mass immigration irrespective of the capacity of the host country to cope with it?
It may not be perfect but it's a fuck of a lot better than Merkel's "Please, everybody come and rape us" approach.
I wish I had paid more attention in language classes at school.
Well, I do too, but I still know enough French to get by on holiday, enough German to live and work in Germany, Switzerland, Austria or Hungary and enough English to live and work in most of Western Europe or anywhere in Scandinavia.
Just what's your problem here? As someone above suggested, just go and live in fucking Ireland. At least they've got some lovely countryside.
It's sexist/racist/xenophobic because we elected someone who is very clearly sexist/racist/xenophobic.
When the choice is between someone that sounds sexist/racist/xenophobic and someone that explicitly is sexist (ignoring the whole corruption side of things) it's a bit weak blaming the country for making a bad choice.
Obviously voting third party or spoiling the ballot was a better choice but that's a systemic issue.
it's highly questionable he'd have won against Trump despite the opinion polls supposedly making that claim
I'm not so sure. I think the Democrats had to work exceedingly hard to lose this one at all, any other candidate could well have pulled in 60% of the vote.
It's also a tad confusing if you're not fully up to speed on the latest numbering scheme.
I don't know how many prime ministers we've had in the UK, expecting me to know how many US presidents there have been is fruitlessly ambitious in itself, let alone requiring me to remember them in order.
Sadly that difference just isn't acknowledged or translated into improving outcomes for everybody.
Instead white males are systemically disadvantaged, as evidenced through current levels of educational attainment, exclusion from funding initiatives, lack of support in the workplace and conscious discrimination from employers.
I wouldn't support those disadvantages being applied to another race or gender, so don't expect me to support them being applied to white males either.
Trump is willing to use nuclear weapons as a means to an end.
Really? I've seen no evidence of this, no statements to that effect. Show some fucking sources because this has been a continual media fucking mispresentation of the type that's actually caused Trump to win.
banning entire races
Which race has he advocated banning? Actual quotes or written policy here please, because again, this sounds like you're making shit up.
We've had foreign interference.
Ah, sweet sweet payback. Fucking reap it. Although.. there's a shortage of reliable evidence on this one too. We're slap bang in the middle of dodgy fucking dossier territory here.
We've had FBI interference.
Yeah, they should never have granted immunity to Clinton's staff, deleted evidence off those laptops or refused to prosecute something they admitted was gross negligence (but weasled out of by using other words).
We have a president elect who has openly encouraged the incarceration of political opponents.
I think you'll find most presidents have support incarceration of criminals. Running for office doesn't mean you're not a criminal.
Trump doesn't give a shit about America. He doesn't give a shit about the world. He only cares about one thing and that is Trump.
See, you've got an excellent point here that you've completed distracted us away from with your utter bullshit elsewhere. Just stop with the conspiracy theories, the media spin, the lies and focus on the shit that matters.
It's behaviour like yours which has left so many people feeling that politicians and the media don't represent them and opened the humungous fucking window that Trump's climbed straight through and into the Oval Office.
Maybe that's because nobody remembers Congress making it legal to murder US citizens abroad, yet that didn't stop Obama from creating a fucking list of people to kill.
Any brief summaries you could link, for the benefit of those of us that barely know the name Pence and couldn't find Indiana on a map of North America?
Obamacare in particular is an incredible achievement in the US, although it will probably get torn up now.
Not an achievement at all then. An incredible achievement would have changed the national expectations around provision of health care irrespective of personal wealth, in a way that led a subsequent president would focus on tweaks and improvements not tearing it up.
This is one reason Trump was never going to be as damaging to the US as Clinton would have been. Congress are going to heavily compromise Trump's ability to really hurt the country.
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Has anyone been threatened or harassed directly by those accounts
You mean, apart from the person they're calling to be assassinated?
You fucking imbecile*.
*This is slashdot not Twitter. I get to tell you what a cunt you are and don't get banned for it.
Being either belligerent or a racist is not allowed on twitter
Twitter's treatment of feminists and BLM proponents belies your claim.
Twitter's refusal to deal with the brigading and fuckery from
Well, everyone. Indeed, a large part of the issue is that they are very unbalanced in how they wield their banhammer, and that they specifically appointed organisations with explicitly sexist agendas to their 'Trust and Safety Council'.
It's not the "hard right" posting #killallmen or "Gotta kill every white man in a suit" or "rape all white girls". That last one was in all-caps.
Yeah, but they're suing the wrong people. They should be suing their parents for bringing them into a fucked up world.
If nobody had children then current levels of consumption and carbon release would be fully sustainable. The planet would recover in 3-400 years and non-human lifeforms would flourish.
Maybe I should sue the US government for not legislating against children.
Let's go with one gender, female, because that's what we all actually biologically start out as
No, we start out as male, female or interesting. At least 60 of the 63 genders are fundamentally variations on those three, so trying to define 63 may be useful when exploring sociology and biology but has no place in law or defining who can use a bathroom.
So the logical reaction to being called a racist is to elect an overtly racist leader?
When anything and everything is described as 'racist' the term loses its meaning. When people are told they're racist - even when they're not doing or saying anything racist - then they interpret someone else being described as racist as meaning that person is pretty fucking normal.
Trump may or may not be racist. Many of the people that voted for him may or may not be. All of them have been publicly described using that term, so why should they really care about it?
(see also: Homophobe and bigot)
So you choose to prefer harrasing people (or exposing them to harrassment) who're different from you?
Being exposed to facts is not harassment. Being removed from an echo chamber is not harassment. Being asked to justify the bullshit being spouted is not harassment. Hearing other opinions is not harassment.
There are laws against harassment. Safe spaces are not required, and are very much not safe to many of the people made unwelcome in them.
For a spec to be that good it's got to be written to the same precision as a computer program.
So just write the fucking code.
Given you're the sort of imbecile that can't even tell who he's talking to, I'm kind of struggling to worry about your views.
I agree with you, it's all dancing around the issue. It's not reproductive rights.
It's the choice around elimination of an unwanted parasite that endangers a woman's health.
I think that choice belongs to every woman about her own body, but I'm not actually pro-choice. I'm pro abortion.
there is nothing wrong about hating bigoted, willfully ignorant morons
Yes, there is. A moron by definition can't be expected to know bigotry is bad and ignorance should be educated. Why are you hating on people lacking in intellectual prowess?
Oh.. you're hateful bigot, and you're being wilfully ignorant. Are you a moron or should we hate you?
It's ok, I think we already know the answer: You're throwing labels like 'hateful', 'bigot' and 'moron' around because people actually dared to disagree with you.
Hate you? No, I lack the emotional energy. You're not worth it.
Generation X are ok. We realised a long time ago that we're never going to get a state pension and started making other arrangements.
Pity the millenials, for their only hope is selling whatever property they inherit.
The EU now has even more reason to punish us for Brexit
Punish us? How? Bend us over Juncker's knee and spank us?
No, they'll be on their fucking knees begging for our trade. Especially when the rest of the union collapses.
this anti-intellectual politics
What's anti-intellectual about rejecting corruption, loss of sovereignty, loss of identity and reduced standards of living?
the racists and xenophobes in the UK
Look you fucking rabid cunt: Calling people racists and xenophobes and not trying to understand their entirely non-racist and non-xenophobic concerns is exactly how the media and the politicians have managed to create an environment where Brexit and Trump can win.
Stop throwing fucking labels around.
Australia's awful immigration system
What, the one that at least tries to prevent unmitigated mass immigration irrespective of the capacity of the host country to cope with it?
It may not be perfect but it's a fuck of a lot better than Merkel's "Please, everybody come and rape us" approach.
I wish I had paid more attention in language classes at school.
Well, I do too, but I still know enough French to get by on holiday, enough German to live and work in Germany, Switzerland, Austria or Hungary and enough English to live and work in most of Western Europe or anywhere in Scandinavia.
Just what's your problem here? As someone above suggested, just go and live in fucking Ireland. At least they've got some lovely countryside.
It's sexist/racist/xenophobic because we elected someone who is very clearly sexist/racist/xenophobic.
When the choice is between someone that sounds sexist/racist/xenophobic and someone that explicitly is sexist (ignoring the whole corruption side of things) it's a bit weak blaming the country for making a bad choice.
Obviously voting third party or spoiling the ballot was a better choice but that's a systemic issue.
it's highly questionable he'd have won against Trump despite the opinion polls supposedly making that claim
I'm not so sure. I think the Democrats had to work exceedingly hard to lose this one at all, any other candidate could well have pulled in 60% of the vote.
It's also a tad confusing if you're not fully up to speed on the latest numbering scheme.
I don't know how many prime ministers we've had in the UK, expecting me to know how many US presidents there have been is fruitlessly ambitious in itself, let alone requiring me to remember them in order.
Sadly that difference just isn't acknowledged or translated into improving outcomes for everybody.
Instead white males are systemically disadvantaged, as evidenced through current levels of educational attainment, exclusion from funding initiatives, lack of support in the workplace and conscious discrimination from employers.
I wouldn't support those disadvantages being applied to another race or gender, so don't expect me to support them being applied to white males either.
Trump is willing to use nuclear weapons as a means to an end.
Really? I've seen no evidence of this, no statements to that effect. Show some fucking sources because this has been a continual media fucking mispresentation of the type that's actually caused Trump to win.
banning entire races
Which race has he advocated banning? Actual quotes or written policy here please, because again, this sounds like you're making shit up.
We've had foreign interference.
Ah, sweet sweet payback. Fucking reap it. Although.. there's a shortage of reliable evidence on this one too. We're slap bang in the middle of dodgy fucking dossier territory here.
We've had FBI interference.
Yeah, they should never have granted immunity to Clinton's staff, deleted evidence off those laptops or refused to prosecute something they admitted was gross negligence (but weasled out of by using other words).
We have a president elect who has openly encouraged the incarceration of political opponents.
I think you'll find most presidents have support incarceration of criminals. Running for office doesn't mean you're not a criminal.
Trump doesn't give a shit about America. He doesn't give a shit about the world. He only cares about one thing and that is Trump.
See, you've got an excellent point here that you've completed distracted us away from with your utter bullshit elsewhere. Just stop with the conspiracy theories, the media spin, the lies and focus on the shit that matters.
It's behaviour like yours which has left so many people feeling that politicians and the media don't represent them and opened the humungous fucking window that Trump's climbed straight through and into the Oval Office.
Maybe that's because nobody remembers Congress making it legal to murder US citizens abroad, yet that didn't stop Obama from creating a fucking list of people to kill.
See what Pence did in Indiana
Any brief summaries you could link, for the benefit of those of us that barely know the name Pence and couldn't find Indiana on a map of North America?
Mainly because at the start of the year it was excessively over-valued. A correction was due.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fin...
But it's ok, keep blaming someone else for your own lack of financial planning.
Obamacare in particular is an incredible achievement in the US, although it will probably get torn up now.
Not an achievement at all then. An incredible achievement would have changed the national expectations around provision of health care irrespective of personal wealth, in a way that led a subsequent president would focus on tweaks and improvements not tearing it up.
If it's that easy to dismantle, it's pretty shit.
GOP owns the entirety of government.
No. They don't have the president.
It's one of the more beautiful ironies of the whole situation.
This is one reason Trump was never going to be as damaging to the US as Clinton would have been. Congress are going to heavily compromise Trump's ability to really hurt the country.
There is only one Strong Bad Email.
#58, source of more sore throats than any other know forms of Internet media. And that's before the thatched roofed cottages.
What cheating?
How can a game cheat? It does what it's programmed to do, that's not cheating, that's game design.
Dislike the design, but calling it cheating? Really?