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Liberal Jonathan Chait Pens Microgressive Triggering Attack on "Political Correctness"

Worth a read. I put "political correctness" in quotes in deference to Noah Rothman's observation that the militancy of what we're seeing now may transcend the notion of "political correctness" and simply become full-on Stalinist thought control or Orwellian newspeak.

Whatever term you use, it is bad and getting worse.

So much so that even liberals are getting angry about it -- and exhausted by it.

I'll pass over the long recapitulation of the various anti-speech sins the left is guilty of later, though they're worth reading about. I just assume you've read them or need little convincing on this point.

On to conclusions:



At a growing number of campuses, professors now attach “trigger warnings” to texts that may upset students, and there is a campaign to eradicate “microaggressions,” or small social slights that might cause searing trauma. These newly fashionable terms merely repackage a central tenet of the first p.c. movement: that people should be expected to treat even faintly unpleasant ideas or behaviors as full-scale offenses. Stanford recently canceled a performance of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson after protests by Native American students. UCLA students staged a sit-in to protest microaggressions such as when a professor corrected a student’s decision to spell the word indigenous with an uppercase I — one example of many "perceived grammatical choices that in actuality reflect ideologies." A theater group at Mount Holyoke College recently announced it would no longer put on The Vagina Monologues in part because the material excludes women without vaginas. These sorts of episodes now hardly even qualify as exceptional.

...

But it would be a mistake to categorize today’s p.c. culture as only an academic phenomenon. Political correctness is a style of politics in which the more radical members of the left attempt to regulate political discourse by defining opposing views as bigoted and illegitimate. Two decades ago, the only communities where the left could exert such hegemonic control lay within academia, which gave it an influence on intellectual life far out of proportion to its numeric size. Today's political correctness flourishes most consequentially on social media, where it enjoys a frisson of cool and vast new cultural reach. And since social media is also now the milieu that hosts most political debate, the new p.c. has attained an influence over mainstream journalism and commentary beyond that of the old.

...

In a short period of time, the p.c. movement has assumed a towering presence in the psychic space of politically active people in general and the left in particular. "All over social media, there dwell armies of unpaid but widely read commentators, ready to launch hashtag campaigns and circulate Change.org petitions in response to the slightest of identity-politics missteps," Rebecca Traister wrote recently in The New Republic.

Two and a half years ago, Hanna Rosin, a liberal journalist and longtime friend, wrote a book called The End of Men, which argued that a confluence of social and economic changes left women in a better position going forward than men, who were struggling to adapt to a new postindustrial order. Rosin, a self-identified feminist, has found herself unexpectedly assailed by feminist critics, who found her message of long-term female empowerment complacent and insufficiently concerned with the continuing reality of sexism. One Twitter hashtag, “#RIPpatriarchy,” became a label for critics to lampoon her thesis. Every new continuing demonstration of gender discrimination --a survey showing Americans still prefer male bosses; a person noticing a man on the subway occupying a seat and a half — would be tweeted out along with a mocking #RIPpatriarchy.

Let me stop right here and offer Chait, and Rosin, some constructive criticism. It is as this point that the typical Political Correctness Mob Enforcer will object and say, "But we're just using Our Speech to mock Rosin; how can it be 'anti-free-speech' to employ our own speech? In fact, you're 'anti-free-speech' person here by attempting to de-legitimize my free speech vis a vis Rosin."

Chait doesn't address this; he just leaves this argument hanging for the PC Enforcement Goons to deploy. (And they will; they always do.)

They're wrong, but it needs to be said why they're wrong.

The reason is this: There is a difference between Rosin's rational argument and the coordinated attacks of a mob.

Mobs do not "argue." They intimidate or humiliate (or both). Mobs do not engage in an enlightened, reasonable dialogue. They shout ritualized chants. Mobs are not interested in persuading someone of their wrongness of their claims; they only care about shutting the speaker up, whether he's changed his mind or not.

An argument from a single author (or group acting together to write a single paper) is an instrument of reason; a mob which selects a target and then attacks that target with wolf-pack like tactics is an instrument of emotion.

Human beings are in fact hard-wired, as an evolutionary matter, to cringe before the baying mob; and they are further hard-wired to feel empowered by being part of an angry, screaming mob.

So it's not quite true that joining up with a mob is "speech" just like any other speech. The "speech" of a mob is emotionally abusive and personally intimidating -- and it is hardwired into our brains to find it such, when directed at we ourselves.

On the other hand, we're also hard-wired to really enjoy leading a mob against someone. It feels good. There is no denying that; I've felt damned good everytime I've joined up with a mob.

And it is precisely because it Feels So Good to engage in coordinated mob cruelty that thoughtful people must resist the lure and call out mobs where they see them.

Hannah Rosin was not dissuaded from making further public arguments along these lines because she was convinced she had been wrong in offering them originally. She was dissuaded from speaking further because of the threat of continuing group coordinated emotional attacks against her.

Thus, the frequent objection to PC Tactics: that they are "exhausting." Well yes, but why? Many arguments and claims are wrong, but we don't say they're exhausting too often. (Tedious, perhaps; exhausting, more rarely.)

We say things are "exhausting" when the speaker (or mob of shouters) decides to bypass the cool route of reason to advance the case and instead resorts to the emotional levers of group hazing, ritual chanting, coordinate ostracism and humiliation, and the inherent intimidation of a coordinated and angry mob acting, as mobs are want to do, without any reason or restraint.

And that is the difference.

Now, the PC Mob types will reject this distinction because -- and listen closely here-- most of them are Stupid and Inarticulate; most of them are in fact incapable, on a mental or emotional level, of making an academic or at least essay-like case.

They are in fact low-thinkers. It is no accident that they favor the brutish, the primate-like, the animal-level sorts of "persuasions" of group hooting and feces-throwing. They favor this because this is what they are capable of, and no other.

Thus, in a very real sense, to insist on the standards of rational discourse with such people does in fact predjudice them; it is the same as insisting a horse walk on two legs to enter a race. It is the same as disqualifying them outright.

They sense this, and so they reject these calls to employ the classic techniques of reason and analysis in making their case. They know such grounds do not favor their brains. They know yelling and coordinating Social Shaming is the most they're capable of.

Nonetheless, though such rules may in fact disqualify a number of base-thinkers from public argumentation, they must be insisted on all the same. They always were insisted on -- at least before the last round of democratization struck upon the idea that equality must now mean that a man's stupidity and ignorance should never be held against him -- and to continue ignoring them simply permits the hostile, seething emotional Coordinated Yelling of mob "argument" into a realm of enlightened exchange which, definitionally, must exclude such persons (or such tactics, at least).

If you don't understand the actual problem -- that the "speech" of the mobbers and shouter-downers is qualitatively different from the actual speech of those who deal in cooler, more lucid streams of communication -- then you cannot actually define what it is these PC Goons are doing wrong. On a surface level, of course, they are right-- they are just "using speech themselves."

But it's a toxic sort of speech, loaded with dark emotion and actual hatred which is entirely antithetical to dispassionate analysis.

In fact, the PC Goons seem to understand this more than the liberal critics of PC thuggery. Chait turns to discussing a women writer's forum called "Binders Full of Women Writers," in which minority women can't seem to help but play their PC Victim Cards on the non-minority women.

And they're very upfront at the Age of Enlightened Discourse had its chance already, and that the new Age of Screaming Hate At Everyone should be given its chance:


On July 10, for instance, one member in Los Angeles started a conversation urging all participants to practice higher levels of racial awareness. "Without calling anyone out specifically, I'm going to note that if you're discussing a contentious thread, and shooting the breeze … take a look at the faces in the user icons in that discussion," she wrote. "Binders is pretty diverse, but if you’re not seeing many WOC/non-binary POC in your discussion, it’s quite possible that there are problematic assumptions being stated without being challenged.” ('POC' stands for 'people of color.' 'WOC' means 'women of color.' 'Non-binary' describes people who are either transgender or identify as a gender other than traditionally male or female.)

Jesus Christ, that was already exhausting and he hasn't gotten to the exhausting part yet.



Two members responded lightly, one suggesting that such 'call-outs' be addressed in private conversation and another joking that she was a 'gluten free Jewish WWC' -- or Woman Without Color. This set off more jokes and a vicious backlash. 'It seems appropriate to hijack my suggestion with jokes. I see,' the Los Angeles member replied. 'Apparently whatever WOC have to say is good for snark and jokes,' wrote another. Others continued: 'The level of belittling, derailing, crappy jokes, and all around insensitivity here is astounding and also makes me feel very unsafe in this Big Binder.' 'It is literally fucking insane. I am appalled and embarrassed.'

The suggestion that a call-out be communicated privately met with even deeper rage. A poet in Texas: 'I'm not about to private message folks who have problematic racist, transphobic, anti-immigrant, and/or sexist language.' The L.A. member: 'Because when POC speak on these conversations with snark and upset, we get Tone Argumented at [these people fly off with rage when you suggest that They need to "police their tone," by which I mean frothing hatred, a little better themselves -- ace], and I don't really want to deal with the potential harm to me and mine." ...A white Toronto member, sensing the group had dramatically underreacted, moved to rectify the situation: “'ESUS FUCK, LIKE SERIOUSLY FUCK, I SEE MORE WHITE BINDERS POLICING WOC AND DEMANDING TO BE EDUCATED/UNEDUCATED AS IF IT’S A FUCKING NOBLE MISSION RATHER THAN I DUNNO SPEND TIME SHUTTING DOWN AND SHITTING ON RACIST DOUCHE CANOE BEHAVIOUR; WHAT ARE YOU GAINING BY THIS? WHAT ARE YOU DETRACTING? YOU NEED SCREENCAPS OF BURNING CROSSES TO BELIEVE RACIST SHIT IS HAPPENING? THIS THREAD IS PAINFUL. HUGS TO ALL THE WOC DURING THIS THREAD"

Chait notes, rather obliquely, that the PC system has created what is essentially a Speaker Caste System with some speakers' being in higher castes, and thus more privileged (and thus willing to churn out ALL CAPS RAGE without expecting to be called on it (and in fact getting even more ALL CAPS RAGEY if they are called on it)), and others being in lower castes, and thus quite disadvantaged, and only really permitted to apologize and beg forgiveness whenever someone in a Higher Speaker Caste demands they do.

It should be pointed out that the "exhausting" behavior that he documents is caused by this caste system. Good behavior is not in everyone's personal interest; rather, it is in the group's best interest, but, as in many cases, it is personally best for an individual if he is free to break the group's rules of decorum while everyone else in the group is required to follow them.

Privileging certain speakers -- the more female, the more black or minority, the more gay or trans or other sexual ethnicity -- thereby empowers them to break the normal rules of social interaction as they may please, resorting to personal attacks and ALL CAPS RAGE at the drop of the hat.

And then of course there are plenty of opportunistic and crude white people who will claim to be Honorary Minorities and thus entitled to use such tactics as well.

This is exhausting. All similar behaviors are exhausting. When people exhibit such exhausting behaviors, we generally exclude them from further participation, because we just won't put up with that crap.

But we have many people who now believe that they are Privileged to belong to a Higher Speaker Caste and may employ any number of emotionally-angry and abusive tactics in what should be rather light conversation (all academic conversation is "light;" compare it to talking to you doctor about a surgery) that are forbidden to everyone else, and in fact have been forbidden for 3000 years of intellectual history.

It's time to reinstate those rules -- for all comers. Even for those who claim some minority status which puts them above your White Man's "rules" of civilized debate.

Posted by: Ace at 02:08 PM




Comments

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1 FIST FVCKERS!

Posted by: Dirty Randy at January 27, 2015 02:09 PM (jjaLl)

2 I'll get the others.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2015 02:09 PM (TAu/7)

3 Barack Obama is a SCOAMT

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at January 27, 2015 02:10 PM (kff5f)

4 The attack of the Italicans!

Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2015 02:10 PM (TAu/7)

5 I take it Ace did not like this movie.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at January 27, 2015 02:10 PM (kff5f)

6 I feel all.....Italian

Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 27, 2015 02:10 PM (JpC1K)

7 Corgi lamp lit.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2015 02:11 PM (TAu/7)

8 The Corgis have been summoned

Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 27, 2015 02:11 PM (JpC1K)

9 "Chait notes, rather obliquely,"

I see what you did there.

Posted by: JPS at January 27, 2015 02:11 PM (4VBPQ)

10 At a growing number of campuses, professors now attach 'trigger warnings' to texts that may upset students, and there is a campaign to eradicate 'microaggressions,' or small social slights that might cause searing trauma.
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Nation of pussies.

Posted by: RWC - Shopping for Justice! at January 27, 2015 02:11 PM (fWAjv)

11 A theater group at Mount Holyoke College recently announced it would no longer put on The Vagina Monologues in part because the material excludes women without vaginas.
----------

What. The. Fu*k.

Posted by: RWC - Shopping for Justice! at January 27, 2015 02:12 PM (fWAjv)

12 This shit would stop if normal people just told these mouth breathers to kiss their ass every time they chimed in with one of the PC crap phrases.

Posted by: Vic at January 27, 2015 02:12 PM (wlDny)

13 BARREL!

and I'll believe Chait when he recants his own PC witchunts.

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 27, 2015 02:13 PM (/4AZU)

14 Mobs are not interested in persuading someone of their wrongness of their claims; they only care about shutting the speaker up, whether he's changed his mind or not.


Also not interested in jobs after graduation.
These snowflakes are gonna be hurting.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2015 02:13 PM (TAu/7)

15
In college I learnt two thing:

i) Racism is everywhere.
ii) Women, are and always have been, mistreated.

Posted by: Soothsayer of The Righteous And Harmonious Fists (-243 days left until climate chaos) at January 27, 2015 02:14 PM (q19mL)

16 I see Stalinists.

Much, much more should be made of all this. Zombie's work is a perfect example of how drawing aside the curtain and exposing the disgusting interior of the Left is the perfect way to split the Left and draw the country toward sane, reasonable people.

That's the idea, anyway. So let's equate these Stalinists with the Democrats at every single opportunity.

Posted by: Feh at January 27, 2015 02:14 PM (b8TSE)

17 Where was the trigger warning for the fcuking italics, huh? I've been microaggressed! You see him microaggressing me! You saw it, didn't ya?

Posted by: Insomniac at January 27, 2015 02:14 PM (2Ojst)

18 I must confess that I also exclude women without vaginas.

Posted by: eleven at January 27, 2015 02:14 PM (ykfyK)

19 >>. "Chait notes, rather obliquely,"

I see what you did there


you do? what did I do? I don't see what I did.

Posted by: ace at January 27, 2015 02:14 PM (E+pqw)

20 Vic at January 27, 2015 02:12 PM (wlDny)

That is exactly correct.

And somewhat obvious to those what frequent this blog.

Shame there ain't more of us, this problem would slink away whimpering.

Posted by: Motown Mope - we gone have mass transit soon at January 27, 2015 02:15 PM (xRHlK)

21 11 A theater group at Mount Holyoke College recently announced it would no longer put on The Vagina Monologues in part because the material excludes women without vaginas.
----------

What. The. Fu*k.
Posted by: RWC - Shopping for Justice! at January 27, 2015 02:12 PM (fWAjv)

How's that work, exactly? Sew them shut? Clean fill and asphalt? Spackle?

Posted by: Insomniac at January 27, 2015 02:15 PM (2Ojst)

22 >>Mobs do not "argue." They intimidate or humiliate (or both). Mobs do not engage in an enlightened, reasonable dialogue. They shout ritualized chants. Mobs are not interested in persuading someone of their wrongness of their claims; they only care about shutting the speaker up, whether he's changed his mind or not.

RINO!

Posted by: JackStraw at January 27, 2015 02:15 PM (g1DWB)

23 Benedict Cumberbund got called out for using the term "coloured actors" instead of "actors of colour."

Idiocracy.


Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at January 27, 2015 02:15 PM (V70Uh)

24 Where was the trigger warning for the fcuking italics, huh? I've been microaggressed! You see him microaggressing me! You saw it, didn't ya?


Who? Where? What?
--Vinny Barbarino

Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2015 02:15 PM (TAu/7)

25 Wait....were we supposed to read that?



That's huge.

Posted by: eleven at January 27, 2015 02:15 PM (ykfyK)

26
Wait, this is a Gamergate post, right?

Posted by: Soothsayer of The Righteous And Harmonious Fists (-243 days left until climate chaos) at January 27, 2015 02:16 PM (q19mL)

27 Did y'all see this:

http://www.dailycal.org/2015/01/20/occupy-syllabus/

These are the kind of tiresome leg humping know-nothing SJW's that are the face of the Democrat Party.

Posted by: Feh at January 27, 2015 02:16 PM (b8TSE)

28 "These snowflakes are gonna be hurting."

I'm melting, MELTing...

Posted by: Special and Unique Snowflakes Collective, Local #96 at January 27, 2015 02:16 PM (xRHlK)

29 I don't see what I did.
Posted by: ace at January 27, 2015 02:14 PM (E+pqw)


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_type

Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Smoked Sausages at January 27, 2015 02:16 PM (MbqmP)

30 excludes women without vaginas.
----------

What. The. Fu*k.
Posted by: RWC - Shopping for Justice! at January 27, 2015 02:12 PM (fWAjv)

How's that work, exactly? Sew them shut? Clean fill and asphalt? Spackle?



Thai ladybois.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2015 02:16 PM (TAu/7)

31 RWC:

Apparently the Vagina Monologues thing was triggering pre-operative trans-sexuals.

Watching these special snowflakes trying to out-compete each other for final victim status is hilarious.

Posted by: Kristophr at January 27, 2015 02:16 PM (6ROe1)

32 Rather than read all of Ace's post, I'll just award him a PhD here and now. It's long enough. And, if experience proves, insightful enough to merit a PhD.

Posted by: zombie at January 27, 2015 02:16 PM (K4YiS)

33 Ouch, just say "Some groups are more equal than others."

"Tow legs bad, four legs good,"

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 27, 2015 02:17 PM (+eQyZ)

34 I find the length of this post offensive and a little rapey.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 27, 2015 02:17 PM (8ZskC)

35 Political correctness is just codified female hysteria.

Posted by: Beef at January 27, 2015 02:17 PM (/q4N3)

36 I'm gonna take a flier here and assume Ace didn't like the movie.

Posted by: Insomniac at January 27, 2015 02:17 PM (2Ojst)

37 You know what cures political correctness? Killing that's what.

Posted by: Thin veneer of civility at January 27, 2015 02:17 PM (XzRw1)

38
That's huge.
Posted by: eleven at January 27, 2015 02:15 PM (ykfyK)

Thank you

Posted by: Sulu at January 27, 2015 02:18 PM (4OZqu)

39 Feh, not Democrat Party

The Emocrat Party.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 27, 2015 02:18 PM (+eQyZ)

40 one member in Los Angeles started a conversation urging all participants to practice higher levels of racial awareness

Yeah, sounds like something a typical [insert race here] would say.

Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Smoked Sausages at January 27, 2015 02:18 PM (MbqmP)

41 reductio ad absurdum now unnecessary, although the point is still lost on them.

Posted by: ed gibbon at January 27, 2015 02:18 PM (2rY8G)

42 O_o

o_O

...
...
...

Someone stop the world. I want to get off.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at January 27, 2015 02:18 PM (kff5f)

43 Ace raped you with his blog.

Posted by: eleven at January 27, 2015 02:19 PM (ykfyK)

44 Emocrat! I like it.

Posted by: Feh at January 27, 2015 02:19 PM (b8TSE)

45 If you like that post, then you'll love this -

http://www.dailycal.org/2015/01/20/occupy-syllabus/

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at January 27, 2015 02:19 PM (0HooB)

46 It's rape-y opinion pieces, like his one, that Progressives will outlaw in our next efforts to define and control free speech. Pretty soon, Ace will write posts saying we've always been at war with Eurasia (if he knows what's good for him, that is).

Posted by: ValJarJar at January 27, 2015 02:19 PM (FCsIb)

47 So... the opposite of Singularity is Mobularity?
I wonder if they will occur at the same time?

I have my suspicions about my Android Razr, but I don't want to confront it alone.

Posted by: jwpaine at January 27, 2015 02:20 PM (a3NCX)

48 44 Emocrat! I like it.
Posted by: Feh at January 27, 2015 02:19 PM (b8TSE)

If only they'd stick to listening to The Cure and cutting themselves.

Posted by: Insomniac at January 27, 2015 02:20 PM (2Ojst)

49 Primate-like?

Posted by: Joe Biden at January 27, 2015 02:20 PM (8ZskC)

50 16 I see Stalinists.

Much, much more should be made of all this. Zombie's work is a perfect example of how drawing aside the curtain and exposing the disgusting interior of the Left is the perfect way to split the Left and draw the country toward sane, reasonable people.

That's the idea, anyway. So let's equate these Stalinists with the Democrats at every single opportunity.

-------

Recently a commenter at Weasel Zipper said that the communist party decided long ago that the easiest way to gain power was to take over the democrat party. That is why Pelosi purged all the moderate dem reps.

Posted by: Chilling the most at January 27, 2015 02:20 PM (wWs6x)

51 "The Vagina Monologues in part because the material excludes women without vaginas"


_________

THE FUCK?????

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at January 27, 2015 02:20 PM (0LHZx)

52 I saw Women Without Vaginas open for Men Without Hats.

The men were luckier.

Posted by: Citizen X at January 27, 2015 02:20 PM (7ObY1)

53 Yeah Emocrat is good.


I'll use it.

Posted by: eleven at January 27, 2015 02:20 PM (ykfyK)

54 30 Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2015 02:16 PM (TAu/7)

Bradley Chelsea Brianna Manning my friend.....

Cis-Normative is no way to go through life son....


//Ru Paul

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 27, 2015 02:21 PM (/4AZU)

55
There are several reasons why I hate the Left. Near the top of the list of why I hate the Left is because they're so goddammed concern about how I think.
And they want to change the way I think, through either threats of punishment or brute force (punishment).

The Left is Islam, in this respect.

Posted by: Soothsayer of The Righteous And Harmonious Fists (-243 days left until climate chaos) at January 27, 2015 02:22 PM (q19mL)

56 If only they'd stick to listening to The Cure and cutting themselves.


Down the road, not across the street.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2015 02:22 PM (TAu/7)

57 I just love "women" without vaginas. If that's what you want to call them. Heh heh.

Posted by: Noted Pederast Hairy Reid at January 27, 2015 02:22 PM (7ObY1)

58 Citizen X, Pajama Boy is one of those Men Without Chests and Penii.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 27, 2015 02:22 PM (+eQyZ)

59 23
Benedict Cumberbund got called out for using the term "coloured actors" instead of "actors of colour."

Idiocracy.



Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at January 27, 2015 02:15 PM (V70Uh)

What about me?

Posted by: Child OF poverty at January 27, 2015 02:23 PM (klaU/)

60 Nation of pussies.

Actually, the correct term is "feminized."

#WASTF

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at January 27, 2015 02:23 PM (0HooB)

61 58 Citizen X, Pajama Boy is one of those Men Without Chests and Penii.

Yup. And let's not forget Chris Hayes.

Posted by: Citizen X at January 27, 2015 02:23 PM (7ObY1)

62 Not withstanding the profundity of reason that obviously went into the development of this post, if it's all the same to you, I will just continue my pat riposte when answering the proletariat of "political correctness";

Will you just please go fuck yourself?!

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb (Draft Sheriff Clarke '16) at January 27, 2015 02:23 PM (BZAd3)

63 I saw Women Without Vaginas open for Men Without Hats.


I saw Women Without Vaginas open for Women With Penis Envy.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2015 02:24 PM (TAu/7)

64 So what was the movie Ace is reviewing?

Posted by: Badda Bing 'now with Badda Boom' at January 27, 2015 02:24 PM (klaU/)

65 In all seriousness, there's nothing really to add to Ace's post. He's absolutely correct.

And, yes, Sooth, this does apply to GamerGate in that it is exactly the tactics employed by the Gaming media and their Prog-Tard allies.

I would go a little further on one thing, though. Even the ones who *could* make reasoned arguments choose demagoguery. They choose it because a) it's easier in the first place and b) automatically removes your ability to argue back.

When you say that (for instance) someone without at a Y chromosome is a woman and their opinion on the mater is of no consequence, the opposing side *could* (in theory, I suppose, though I don't know what it would be) write a reasoned response that explained why you should be allowed to "choose" your gender.

But if they do that, you can argue back. You might refute their arguments and they might not have any to counter your counter arguments. So instead they call you names like "homophobe" and "hater" or whatever- not because they're unable to make reasoned arguments (again- many can't, but some can), but because leveling the ad hominem makes any argument you submit de facto disqualified because of your supposed flaws.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at January 27, 2015 02:24 PM (kff5f)

66 I want to see the tweets!

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb (Draft Sheriff Clarke '16) at January 27, 2015 02:24 PM (BZAd3)

67 Maybe the WWVs just don't know where to look.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 27, 2015 02:24 PM (8ZskC)

68 "Pajama" is racist. It's from India and was taken by force into the English language by India's white colonialist oppressors.

You have been reported to the Authorities of Colour.

Posted by: Feh at January 27, 2015 02:24 PM (b8TSE)

69 That whole section about WCC, POC, call-outs.....someone explain to me what the hell it means? I really have no fucking idea what the story was about.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at January 27, 2015 02:24 PM (0LHZx)

70 55 Posted by: Soothsayer of The Righteous And Harmonious Fists (-243 days
left until climate chaos) at January 27, 2015 02:22 PM (q19mL)

Authoritarianism has been the problem for oh eleventy kajillion years of mankind...

these cocksuckers think they have shit wound out so well they have the spare time to perfect YOU....

They think mankind is perfectible on this mortal coil and the tools they want to use to do so ain't gentle.

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 27, 2015 02:25 PM (/4AZU)

71 >>>I'll pass over the long recapitulation

erm.

Thanks?

Posted by: Bigby's Signifying Hands at January 27, 2015 02:25 PM (3ZtZW)

72
brb, lookin out the window at all the snow

Posted by: Soothsayer of The Righteous And Harmonious Fists (-243 days left until climate chaos) at January 27, 2015 02:25 PM (q19mL)

73 Will you just please go fuck yourself?!

I precede that with, "So?"

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at January 27, 2015 02:25 PM (0HooB)

74 Emocrats for Emocracy.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 27, 2015 02:25 PM (J0IP0)

75 Great job Ace. I see what you're saying, I just can't think of what can be don- oh, wait, I'm just going to ignore those types of "douche- canoes", because otherwise, my head will explode. How you think that deeply on the topic of those hair-trigger "aggressees" is much to your credit!

One small complaint.... I didn't see any reference to face-punching.

Posted by: Dirty Randy at January 27, 2015 02:25 PM (jjaLl)

76 69 Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at January 27, 2015 02:24 PM (0LHZx)

That would be by design....all you need to know is every acronym is someone told to hate you based on race, class, or creed my friend...

THAT is enough.

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 27, 2015 02:25 PM (/4AZU)

77 Apparently whatever WOC have to say is good for snark and jokes,'

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Thank goodness we don't have a commenters like that.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 27, 2015 02:26 PM (UdnZr)

78 I preface it with "Ah, so you're a company man."

Posted by: Feh at January 27, 2015 02:26 PM (b8TSE)

79 "... all academic conversation is 'light'"

In the humanities, perhaps.

In STEM fields, eh, not so much.

Posted by: torquewrench at January 27, 2015 02:26 PM (noWW6)

80 Is this actually a thing in real life? I keep reading about this kind of buffoonery taking place on the internet or on college campuses, but have never been witness to anything like it in places where actual people mingle and transact commerce.

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at January 27, 2015 02:26 PM (+lsX1)

81
one member in Los Angeles started a conversation urging all participants to practice higher levels of racial awareness

What a coincidence. I wanted people to practice higher levels of tolerance for perverted drunks from Delaware.

Posted by: Blue Hen at January 27, 2015 02:27 PM (Spluw)

82 I saw Vaginas Without Women at the 2009 Inaugural. It was the one bumbling the oath of office.

Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Smoked Sausages at January 27, 2015 02:27 PM (MbqmP)

83 That would be by design....all you need to know is every acronym is someone told to hate you based on race, class, or creed my friend...

THAT is enough.
Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 27, 2015 02:25 PM (/4AZU)

______

I get that. I just don't get what they were all arguing about.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at January 27, 2015 02:27 PM (0LHZx)

84 We're gonna need a bigger Thesaurus.

Posted by: Garrett at January 27, 2015 02:27 PM (bb0LB)

85 63
I saw Women Without Vaginas open for Men Without Hats.





I saw Women Without Vaginas open for Women With Penis Envy.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2015 02:24 PM (TAu/7)

-----

Hmmm, otherwise known as The What opening for The Who?

Posted by: BurtTC at January 27, 2015 02:27 PM (TOk1P)

86 People of Color. Colored People.

Ef it.

I'm going back to calling them Negroes.


Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at January 27, 2015 02:27 PM (V70Uh)

87 If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

Posted by: Gravity's Rainbow at January 27, 2015 02:27 PM (4OZqu)

88 80 Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at January 27, 2015 02:26 PM (+lsX1)

Punch a clock in the civil service or US military...

it's real SJWs brought their bullshit in in the 70s.

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 27, 2015 02:27 PM (/4AZU)

89 I want a T shirt that says...

I AM a Trigger Warning

Then in small print some legalese about

I will offend you...

Posted by: BB Wolf at January 27, 2015 02:27 PM (qh617)

90 I don't get how in the Humanities someone who can speak four languages is somehow God Himself.

You can speak fifteen languages and still have nothing to say.

Posted by: Feh at January 27, 2015 02:28 PM (b8TSE)

91 This post is why I don't tweet. Facebook is bad enough, I can only imagine what Twatter is like.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at January 27, 2015 02:28 PM (0HooB)

92 When you say that (for instance) someone without at a Y chromosome is a woman and their opinion on the mater is of no consequence, the opposing side *could* (in theory, I suppose, though I don't know what it would be) write a reasoned response that explained why you should be allowed to "choose" your gender.


If you physically can't get prostate cancer, (and not due to already having it removed due to cancer), you can choose any gender you want but male.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2015 02:28 PM (TAu/7)

93 I believe the term for this sort of post is "Acespreading".

Posted by: jwpaine at January 27, 2015 02:28 PM (a3NCX)

94 I'm going back to calling them Negroes.


Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at January 27, 2015 02:27 PM (V70Uh)

Just as long as you call

Posted by: Negroes at January 27, 2015 02:28 PM (4OZqu)

95 >>I'm going back to calling them Negroes.

In my lifetime, the politically correct term has gone from negro to colored to black to African American.

Meanwhile, I'm still white guy.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 27, 2015 02:29 PM (g1DWB)

96 I saw Women Without Vaginas open for Women With Penis Envy.
Posted by: rickb223

Close it!! Close it back up again!!!!

Posted by: Into the jaws of Death rode the six hundred....at the same time at January 27, 2015 02:29 PM (Spluw)

97 I'm too askeerd to comment.

Posted by: Soona at January 27, 2015 02:29 PM (/HX7u)

98 When they are brainwashed into thinking they are doing it for your own, tis far far worse than those who are doing as spite because people have been mean to them.

One will dump a turd in the punchbowl and just watch while the other will force you drink the punch for your own good.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 27, 2015 02:29 PM (+eQyZ)

99 "White Man Feeds Alligator, Hoping it Eats him Last."

Posted by: The Onion at January 27, 2015 02:29 PM (uqV2n)

100 83 Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at January 27, 2015 02:27 PM (0LHZx)

The US military which is marked by peaceniks mercilessly for its acronyms and jargon has NOTHING on the SJW class on cants and tongues Moo Moo....

why bother learning the bitch code when it changes and splits constantly?

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 27, 2015 02:29 PM (/4AZU)

101 Back when I was young and stupid, I thought there was some sort of greater wisdom that the enlightened leftist leaders had that would explain the apparent contradictions. Wrong. It was just irrationality.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 27, 2015 02:29 PM (UdnZr)

102 People of Color. Colored People.

Ef it.


Collard people eat collard greens.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 27, 2015 02:29 PM (W5DcG)

103
What makes PC types so exhausting is theyare soooo boring. I mean it comes down to a huge load of crap attacking the messenger. Because you are talking about the messenger, and not the message, the conversation just wilts.

By the way, global warming enthusiasts are lousy with exactly this type of PC crap - "Oh, you don't agree with me? You must be a science denier! Everyone - ignore him, he is a denier!"

Posted by: Arctic Joe at January 27, 2015 02:30 PM (F192H)

104 It looks like there aren't enough vaginas to go around, so some of you girls are going to have to share.

Posted by: Eric Stratton, Rush Chairman at January 27, 2015 02:30 PM (8ZskC)

105 #FIRSTWORLDPROBLEMS

Posted by: redc1c4 at January 27, 2015 02:30 PM (I8nxO)

106 91 This post is why I don't tweet. Facebook is bad enough, I can only imagine what Twatter is like.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at January 27, 2015 02:28 PM (0HooB)

__________

I have plenty of lib FB friends. But I never see shit like this. Yeah I'll see the occasional OBAMA IS AWESOME post, but never anything and mindbogglingly idiotic as arguing about WOCs and POCs and WCCs.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at January 27, 2015 02:30 PM (0LHZx)

107 We have left the 'Age of Reason'...

Posted by: BB Wolf at January 27, 2015 02:30 PM (qh617)

108 it's real SJWs brought their bullshit in in the 70s.


Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 27, 2015 02:27 PM (/4AZU)


So what is SJW's please? I've missed it completely.

Posted by: Badda Bing 'now with Badda Boom' at January 27, 2015 02:30 PM (klaU/)

109 101 Back when I was young and stupid, I thought there was some sort of greater wisdom that the enlightened leftist leaders had that would explain the apparent contradictions. Wrong. It was just irrationality.
Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 27, 2015 02:29 PM (UdnZr)

Gotcha!

Posted by: enlightened leftist leaders at January 27, 2015 02:30 PM (4OZqu)

110 Pretty sure that telling these self appointed petty tyrants to f#@$ off would eventually get the message across.

And if it doesn't, f#@$ 'em.

Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at January 27, 2015 02:30 PM (X+nFp)

111 How does this fit in with our 8th grade mean girls president? Isn't it sorta the same behavior?

Posted by: Arctic Joe at January 27, 2015 02:30 PM (F192H)

112 my lifetime, the politically correct term has gone from negro to colored to black to African American.

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You forgot Afro-Americans.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 27, 2015 02:31 PM (GUQh3)

113 I want to thank Presdent Obama for helping us make it through this Global Warming Snow Storm that hit Brattleboro this week. Thank You and we love you.

Posted by: Mary Clogginstien from Brattleboro, VT at January 27, 2015 02:31 PM (Sd++4)

114 Is this actually a thing in real life? I keep reading about this kind of buffoonery taking place on the internet or on college campuses, but have never been witness to anything like it in places where actual people mingle and transact commerce.


Observe those leaving HR departments with dismayed looks upon their faces.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2015 02:31 PM (TAu/7)

115

You don't see it in real life?

Perhaps you've heard the phrase "African-American" attached anything black?

Posted by: Soothsayer of The Righteous And Harmonious Fists (-243 days left until climate chaos) at January 27, 2015 02:31 PM (q19mL)

116 108 Posted by: Badda Bing 'now with Badda Boom' at January 27, 2015 02:30 PM (klaU/)

Social Justice Warriors....

ie the Campus Crusader Class...

although I would say SJJs b/c they are far more like Jihadists than Warriors.

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 27, 2015 02:31 PM (/4AZU)

117 I blame the perpetually aggrieved Germans always throwing Dresden in our faces and telling us we are anti-Germanic if we do not agree with them politically.

Posted by: Anthropology Guy at January 27, 2015 02:31 PM (e61y8)

118 Eric Stratton, Rush Chairman

You deserve a sequel.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 27, 2015 02:31 PM (J0IP0)

119 Person of Color - anointed victims who need help
Racism - worst thing in the world
Racist - practitioner of the worst thing in the world; SEE 'White People'
Raising consciousness - public worship, SEE 'Rabble-rabble-rabble.'


Posted by: Neo Puritans Dyctionary at January 27, 2015 02:31 PM (Zi7PZ)

120 White man's "rules" for civilized debate were originally created to keep pepole from knocking one anothers' blocks off. These people apparently want to get back to that state and are very ill-equipped to exist thus.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at January 27, 2015 02:31 PM (xSCb6)

121
"A theater group at Mount Holyoke College recently announced it would no longer put on The Vagina Monologues in part because the material excludes women without vaginas."

Another good reason - the vagina monologues are stupid.

Posted by: Arctic Joe at January 27, 2015 02:31 PM (F192H)

122 So what is SJW's please? I've missed it completely.
Posted by: Badda Bing


Social Justice Warrior

Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2015 02:32 PM (TAu/7)

123 "So what is SJW's please? I've missed it completely."

Social Justice "Warrior".

With irony quotes on the word Warrior.

Posted by: Kristophr at January 27, 2015 02:32 PM (6ROe1)

124 Love that Chait thinks that PC went into remission in the early '90s when Clinton was elected. To borrow from further on down the blog, a very "Plato's Cave" view of the world.

Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at January 27, 2015 02:32 PM (BvTwT)

125 Are we sure these "women without vaginas" aren't just holding the mirror wrong?

Posted by: jwpaine at January 27, 2015 02:32 PM (a3NCX)

126 Right. Mob tactics work.

They work because humans evolved to live in small tribes and villages with no government, no safety net, no food stamps.

Being ostracized meant death. We evolved to cower and grovel and apologize in the face of such mob attacks because the alternative was death. It's an instinctual reaction.

Standing up before a braying mob is exhausting because your higher brain is going against your lower brain and bodily instincts. You are forcing yourself to do something unnatural. The natural thing is to cave and agree to whatever the tribe wants so they'll still share the tribe's food and water with you.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at January 27, 2015 02:32 PM (ZPrif)

127 "Meanwhile, I'm still white guy."

you misspelled "honky"

Posted by: redc1c4 at January 27, 2015 02:32 PM (I8nxO)

128 Negroes, blacks, etc.

Some people call whites "Anglo's," which in my case would be racist. So far as I know, I have no Anglo or Saxon genes.

Besides, we don't call Asians "yellows," why do we call Negroes "blacks"?

Posted by: Baby when you call me, you can call me Feh at January 27, 2015 02:32 PM (b8TSE)

129 Back when I was young and stupid, I thought there was some sort of greater wisdom that the enlightened leftist leaders had that would explain the apparent contradictions. Wrong. It was just irrationality.

No. You just have to move far enough up the chain.

As it is said, "Behind every double-standard is a single standard which is merely unspoken."

There is no contradiction: you are wrong. It doesn't matter what about, it doesn't matter that you're agreeing with them, it doesn't matter if you're defending them. You are wrong.

Once you understand that they're coming from that angle (and you might even substitute "evil" for wrong, there), you can see how everything else falls into place.

And the first step, the very first step, was destroying the concept that there is a single Truth which applies to all things at all times in all ways.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at January 27, 2015 02:32 PM (kff5f)

130 Some (of us) find mobs and their behavior distasteful, and will fight against the rage of stupidity.
The rest of the PC crap? I do my best to ignore it.
Of course, I don't do the myfacetwit (which seems to be awfully similar to the old party line chats) either.

Posted by: anon a mouse at January 27, 2015 02:32 PM (/jpU8)

131 That women in binders bullshit is just what happens when you have a club made exclusively of women.

It's not really about anything but positioning themselves at the top of the bitch ladder and showing that they can out offend each other.

Same shit happens in mothering groups, but instead of bickering about mothers of color, they bicker about the evils of circumcision and the privilege of breast feeding.

Posted by: Lauren at January 27, 2015 02:32 PM (MYCIw)

132 The cant and chant of the Social Justice Warrior is to insulate the foot soldiers from that dangerous concept called Thinking for oneself.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 27, 2015 02:33 PM (+eQyZ)

133 Oh, and those irony quotes have caused SJWs to demand trigger warnings if you use the term SJW.

Posted by: Kristophr at January 27, 2015 02:33 PM (6ROe1)

134 OK finally read more of it

Was expecting to see some sort of nod to "....to privilege the hearer over the speaker's intent is to..."

heh

Posted by: Bigby's Signifying Hands at January 27, 2015 02:33 PM (3ZtZW)

135 Very good essay, Ace. (I've now read the whole thing.)

But it merits further elaboration on something that is happened in The Real World right now.

The "people who now believe that they are Privileged to belong to a Higher Speaker Caste" have started to move out from their protective coccoons (where guilt-hobbled whiteys allow the POC to emotionally abuse them), into the real-world meat-space, and either go ballistic or have meltdowns when people in the Real World don't treat them with the deference they get in PC Land.

They've started to believe that their high status is not some make-believe Mage Level in an online game, but is truly real. Watching the POC and WOC and all the rest crashing on the rocks of real life is very similar to watching some D&D boy emerge from his basement actually thinking that his cloak really does make him invisible and his Dwarf Sword really does make people freeze in their tracks.

Posted by: zombie at January 27, 2015 02:33 PM (K4YiS)

136
Social Justice Warriors....

ie the Campus Crusader Class...

although I would say SJJs b/c they are far more like Jihadists than Warriors.


Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 27, 2015 02:31 PM (/4AZU)

Perfect term. thank you much Sven.

Posted by: Badda Bing 'now with Badda Boom' at January 27, 2015 02:33 PM (klaU/)

137 The church choir I'm in has succumbed to this stupidity. Chirstmas carols, traditional hymns, all of them butchered.

it's cruel fun to ask if I'm still allowed to refer to God as 'he', or should I change it to "to whom it ay concern".
I've also made note of "Man caused disasters".

Posted by: doin' the choir hardcore at January 27, 2015 02:33 PM (Spluw)

138 " Is this actually a thing in real life? I keep reading about this kind of buffoonery taking place on the internet or on college campuses, but have never been witness to anything like it in places where actual people mingle and transact commerce. "


__________

My thoughts too. I never encounter this kind of insanity in my life, be it friends, professional and my circles of family/friends/bidness covers a pretty wide spectrum of politics.

It seems like there is a sub-sub-culture of insane people who do this shit, but somehow get their voices out in the mainstream.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at January 27, 2015 02:33 PM (0LHZx)

139 In my lifetime, the politically correct term has gone from fag to homo to pole smoker to gay.

Posted by: Thin veneer of civility at January 27, 2015 02:33 PM (XzRw1)

140 Best response ever - "I micro apologize for my micro aggression."

Posted by: Arctic Joe at January 27, 2015 02:34 PM (F192H)

141 Perhaps you've heard the phrase "African-American" attached anything black?

Me: "Outstanding! Which part of Africa are you from?"

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at January 27, 2015 02:34 PM (0HooB)

142 Weird that GatewayPundit still shows a Website Coming Soon message from GoDaddy to me, yet works for others. Perhaps the DNS change hasn't propagated across the whole internet.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at January 27, 2015 02:34 PM (ZPrif)

143 Freeze the target, polarize. It works.
It will always work because it attacks weak point in human nature.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at January 27, 2015 02:34 PM (ZPrif)

144 I think we may be reaching peak LibTard.

But then again maybe not.

Let's hope.

Posted by: Kreplach at January 27, 2015 02:34 PM (DDFkt)

145 Same shit happens in mothering groups, but instead of bickering about mothers of color, they bicker about the evils of circumcision and the privilege of breast feeding.
Posted by: Lauren
A privilege that ends with the first tooth.

Posted by: fathers notice this stuff at January 27, 2015 02:34 PM (Spluw)

146 I blame the perpetually aggrieved Germans always throwing Dresden in our faces and telling us we are anti-Germanic if we do not agree with them politically.
Posted by: Anthropology Guy



I tell them, "Don't make us come back".

Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2015 02:35 PM (TAu/7)

147
"The biggest fraud perpetrated on the American People is that the Left has noble causes; that they actually care about the poor, the minorities, the immigrant, the homosexuals, the environment, etc."

-- Shih Tzu

Posted by: Soothsayer of The Righteous And Harmonious Fists (-243 days left until climate chaos) at January 27, 2015 02:35 PM (q19mL)

148 and Gawd forbid one should politely ask a young man in a hoodie for a bus seat in the "reserved for handicapped" section while using a cane.

Posted by: OK, thanks, bye, above your White Man's "rules" of civilized debate at January 27, 2015 02:35 PM (ucB75)

149 The entertainment industry promotes most of this PC shit.

Posted by: Thin veneer of civility at January 27, 2015 02:35 PM (XzRw1)

150 Wait...wait, so they CALL THEMSELVES "Women in Binders?!"

What the fuck?

Posted by: Mitt at January 27, 2015 02:35 PM (jjaLl)

151 142 Weird that GatewayPundit still shows a Website Coming Soon message from GoDaddy to me, yet works for others. Perhaps the DNS change hasn't propagated across the whole internet.
Posted by: Costanza Defense


Works for me.

Posted by: zombie at January 27, 2015 02:35 PM (K4YiS)

152 the evils of circumcision and the privilege of breast feeding.
Posted by: Lauren at January 27, 2015 02:32 PM (MYCIw)

______

Circumcision is evil? I didn't know.

Breast feeding....I ran into that as well as a dad. You'd think I sold my kids into slavery because my wife didn't breast feed. Never mind the fact that she tried with both and it just didn't work. I did tell a couple of women to fuck off when they brought it up and never heard the topic again.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at January 27, 2015 02:36 PM (0LHZx)

153 women without vaginas, men without testicles, transvestites without make-up

oh sex, you are such a hot mess

it's so confusing, I'm all worked up - think I'll go put on some lipstick and twerk provocatively at the women's softball practice while eating beef jerky and surfing male porn

Posted by: Feh at January 27, 2015 02:36 PM (b8TSE)

154 So.

This Jonathan Chait who is now vocally decrying politically correct leftist witch hunts?

This would be the very same Jonathan Chait who was just five days ago in _New York_ magazine referring to those who have doubts about anthropogenic climate change as being "irrational" and "lunatic" and "unhinged", scoffing at their "bizarre ramblings", and openly calling for them to be disqualified from holding public office?

Well then.

Posted by: torquewrench at January 27, 2015 02:36 PM (noWW6)

155 It's a chicken or the egg argument, but I suspect this brainwashing is designed in part to allow the elite to control the mob no matter how contradictory or irrational the orders from the top are.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 27, 2015 02:36 PM (GUQh3)

156 It does have real power. Every government and large corp in America has Affirmative Action and Diversity policies that do privilege certain groups based on ethnicity, gender, and sexuality.

When CEOs and Governors and Presidents vow to become "More Diverse" -- they mean less white, less male, less Christian, and less heterosexual.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at January 27, 2015 02:37 PM (ZPrif)

157
I just looked out the window. Everything is white. So bright it hurts the eyes.

It got me to thinking: Is it fair that there's so much whiteness out there in one place?

Posted by: Soothsayer of The Righteous And Harmonious Fists (-243 days left until climate chaos) at January 27, 2015 02:37 PM (q19mL)

158 I prefer Social Justice Whitey. It's usually a more accurate description.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 27, 2015 02:37 PM (J0IP0)

159 132 Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 27, 2015 02:33 PM (+eQyZ)

My dear Ms Puma...

why on Earth would you EVER want to reason for yourself when *I* have thought shit out for you?

//SJW

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 27, 2015 02:37 PM (/4AZU)

160 Once you understand that they're coming from that angle (and you might even substitute "evil" for wrong, there), you can see how everything else falls into place.



If I WAS evil, they'd be dead.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2015 02:37 PM (TAu/7)

161 141
Perhaps you've heard the phrase "African-American" attached anything black?


I would like to buy that Ford F-250 in African-America with the Latino colored interior.


Posted by: Thin veneer of civility at January 27, 2015 02:37 PM (XzRw1)

162 That women in binders bullshit is just what happens when you have a club made exclusively of women.


That should've been shot down immediately as the lunatic bullshit it is.

"What on Earth are you talking about? Are you somehow comparing job applicants with some sort of sexual slavery? Have you gone nuts?"

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at January 27, 2015 02:37 PM (0HooB)

163 Alternative: Social Justice Wino.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 27, 2015 02:38 PM (J0IP0)

164
What do you call a woman without a vagina?

Posted by: Soothsayer of The Righteous And Harmonious Fists (-243 days left until climate chaos) at January 27, 2015 02:38 PM (q19mL)

165 It's not just in academia. My county's executive, a hard leftie, regularly sends out propaganda emails about equity, social justice, and training about micro-aggressions. The training is voluntary so far, but I expect it to eventually become mandatory as long as he remains in office.

Posted by: fly gal at January 27, 2015 02:38 PM (8TdcF)

166 "Circumcision is evil? I didn't know."

OMG, you have no idea. It is...well I don't know if there's an accurate analogy for how bad these women think infant circumcision is.

Basically, a bunch of women (very, very few men) have decided that circumcision is The Worst Thing Ever and proudly state that they will never "mutilate" their sons and anyone who does is guilty of child abuse.

Posted by: Lauren at January 27, 2015 02:39 PM (MYCIw)

167 This Jonathan Chait who is now vocally decrying politically correct leftist witch hunts? This would be the very same Jonathan Chait who was just five days ago in _New York_ magazine referring to those who have doubts about anthropogenic climate change as being "irrational" and "lunatic" and "unhinged", scoffing at their "bizarre ramblings", and openly calling for them to be disqualified from holding public office? Well then.
Posted by: torquewrench

if you would take note of a famous quote of mine, you'll understand perfectly.

Ahem: "Not me Frankie!!! I created you!!!"

Posted by: zombie Dr. Victor Franenstein at January 27, 2015 02:39 PM (Spluw)

168 154 Posted by: torquewrench at January 27, 2015 02:36 PM (noWW6)

You would be correct....

I suspect what the smart leftoids are realizing is they may have the presidency but the House and Senate are ours and we will push back.

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 27, 2015 02:39 PM (/4AZU)

169
Hint: the same thing you call your aunt who has balls

Posted by: Soothsayer of The Righteous And Harmonious Fists (-243 days left until climate chaos) at January 27, 2015 02:39 PM (q19mL)

170 What do you call a woman without a vagina?

Posted by: Soothsayer of The Righteous And Harmonious Fists (-243 days left until climate chaos) at January 27, 2015 02:38 PM (q19mL)


Useless?

**runs, hides**

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at January 27, 2015 02:39 PM (kff5f)

171 Even the spelling of my name is monstrous.

Posted by: zombie Dr. Victor Frankenstein at January 27, 2015 02:39 PM (Spluw)

172 What do you call a woman without a vagina?


Thai Surprise?

Posted by: eleven at January 27, 2015 02:40 PM (ykfyK)

173 The reason that we here at AoS, and people like us, are so terrifying to the SJWs, is that we don't respond properly to their bullying attacks.

People call me a racist and I just post this dictionary definition back at them:

racist - A statement of surrender during an argument. When two people or disputants are engaged in an acrimonious debate, the side that first says "Racist!" has conceded defeat. Synonymous with saying "Resign" during a chess game, or "Uncle" during a schoolyard fight. Originally, the term was meant to indicate that one side was accusing the other of being racist, but once it was noticed that people only resorted to this tactic when all other arguments had been exhausted, it acquired its new meaning of "indicating one's own concession of defeat."

People tell Ace he's micro-agressing them, he burps and scratches his balls.

People try to shame the hyper-aware pomo-conservative jedis, and get double-reverse-hsmaed right back.

By now getting cowed by their bullying, we've taken away their only weapons.

Posted by: zombie at January 27, 2015 02:40 PM (K4YiS)

174 What do you call a woman without a vagina?

Mr. President?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 27, 2015 02:40 PM (+eQyZ)

175 All the racialist language has run its course.

If you're American, you're American.

Unless you're here illegally, in which case you're "wherever you came from."

Posted by: Feh at January 27, 2015 02:40 PM (b8TSE)

176 What do you call a woman without a vagina? Posted by: Soothsayer of The Righteous And Harmonious Fists (-243 days left until climate chaos) at January 27, 2015 02:38 PM (q19mL) Useless? Hopefully the sammich making process doesn't involve this attribute.

Posted by: zombie Dr. Victor Frankenstein at January 27, 2015 02:40 PM (Spluw)

177 "Perhaps you've heard the phrase 'African-American' attached anything black?"

I realized that all sanity had fled from public discourse in America when I heard it being insisted upon that a black British national, who had been born in Britain and had never visited the USA, be referred to not as black but as "African-American".

I entirely expect that the next time I go to the paint store, there will no longer be cans of black paint, but "African-American" paint.

Posted by: torquewrench at January 27, 2015 02:40 PM (noWW6)

178 I wish I could be a girl for one day so I could throat-punch Nicolle Wallace.

Posted by: Citizen X at January 27, 2015 02:40 PM (7ObY1)

179 She was dissuaded from speaking further because of the threat of continuing group coordinated emotional attacks against her.
___
Oh, don't worry the attacks aren't just emotional anymore...isn't that right Mr Mozilla Big Wig?

Posted by: Some SJW at January 27, 2015 02:40 PM (5DM9u)

180 We've all known for a long time that debating a leftist is a lost cause. Calm rationality is overcome by ear-piercing screams. Thus the chasm, that undeniable abyss that's dividing this nation. It really is Stalinist. And, yes, they've already done much damage to the 1st Amendment.

Posted by: Soona at January 27, 2015 02:41 PM (/HX7u)

181 The longest thing I ever read from Ace that wasn't a movie review. Or was it?

Posted by: dfbaskwill at January 27, 2015 02:41 PM (zllbf)

182 i call it Them letting their freak flags fly.

I could care less if tons of people with one neurosis or another want to have a voice.
however, it isn't enough to find fellow citizens that understand .
They demand ALL embrace their issues , applaud their mission , make everyone else Have an issue too.

i do hope you're right and They become as exhausted as most of us on the outside of the furor are.

Posted by: willow at January 27, 2015 02:41 PM (nqBYe)

183 What the hell is a woman without a vagina?

Please tell me about your relationship with your mother.

Posted by: Dr. Fritz Freud at January 27, 2015 02:41 PM (dVmLD)

184 wait a sec! isn't "trigger warnings" a "loaded" term? that sounds so weaponish; we must ban the use of that phrase.

Posted by: Waldo at January 27, 2015 02:41 PM (M1MpJ)

185 This post is begging for the Key and Peele Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Skit.

'...come in Black Falcon'.

Posted by: Garrett at January 27, 2015 02:41 PM (bb0LB)

186 By now getting cowed by their bullying, we've taken away their only weapons

=

By NOT getting cowed by their bullying, we've taken away their only weapons.

I HATE the "not/now" typo, because it always reverses the meaning of the sentence. Sigh.

Posted by: zombie at January 27, 2015 02:41 PM (K4YiS)

187 What do you call a woman without a vagina?

Her name.

Posted by: Feh at January 27, 2015 02:42 PM (b8TSE)

188 Basically, a bunch of women (very, very few men) have decided that circumcision is The Worst Thing Ever and proudly state that they will never "mutilate" their sons and anyone who does is guilty of child abuse.

I did a very little research (the doctor who delivered my son was very anti-circumcision) when my son was born. It seems (I can't remember much of it- I mostly laughed it off) to be born simultaneously of the Left's inherent antisemitism (circumcision is done by JOOOOS!) AND the Left's inherent apologia for Mohammedanism (and the fact that much of society points out that clitorectomies are female genital mutilation).

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at January 27, 2015 02:42 PM (kff5f)

189 Want to see what happens when these people get into positions of authority?

See: Revolution, Cultural -- China

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 27, 2015 02:42 PM (659DL)

190 173 Posted by: zombie at January 27, 2015 02:40 PM (K4YiS)

ab but zombie like we pointed back at the Green Nuthouse...

they SO want more weapons....

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 27, 2015 02:42 PM (/4AZU)

191 Circumcision. My psychologist cousin and his psychologist wife would not have son circumcised because...trauma. 4 yrs later after numerous infections, had circumcision. No trauma there.

Posted by: Badda Bing 'now with Badda Boom' at January 27, 2015 02:42 PM (klaU/)

192 Social Justice "Warrior".

With irony quotes on the word Warrior.


Posted by: Kristophr at January 27, 2015 02:32 PM (6ROe1)


Should've had the irony quotes on "justice."

Posted by: Jay Guevara at January 27, 2015 02:43 PM (oKE6c)

193 I think I'm going to default to a more traditional way of dealing with people who insist that I need to shut-up - yell out "You have offended the mighty Odin with your ceaseless caterwauling!" and smash a battleaxe into the center of their skulls.

That should get their attention I think.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Paranoia Punch with Electrolytes at the Outrage Outlet! at January 27, 2015 02:43 PM (hLRSq)

194 A pet peeve:

When did "call out" become a thing, particularly on the left? It's everywhere all of a sudden. From what I can tell, it now has taken the place of "challenge," "dispute," "argue with," and "criticize."

The term has been around for a long time, but I always understood it to describe a particular type of criticism: where someone, probably in a position of influence or authority, has been getting away with doing something objectionable for some time as a matter of course, and someone "calls out" that person for criticism in a speaking-truth-to-power sort of way. Now it seems that you can "call out" anyone on a blog just for saying something you disagree with.

Okay, maybe I'm totally wrong about this. But if nothing else, the term is overused.

Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at January 27, 2015 02:44 PM (xN1DB)

195 192 Posted by: Jay Guevara at January 27, 2015 02:43 PM (oKE6c)

You should put quotes around the SJW's neck...

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 27, 2015 02:44 PM (/4AZU)

196 Perhaps should tart up the riposte with some classical trappings, "Sir/Madam if my words doth offend thee, then hie thee off to a Monastery/Nunnery."

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 27, 2015 02:44 PM (+eQyZ)

197 193
I think I'm going to default to a more traditional way of dealing with
people who insist that I need to shut-up - yell out "You have offended
the mighty Odin with your ceaseless caterwauling!" and smash a battleaxe
into the center of their skulls.

I would like to subscribe to your newsletter if one is available.

Posted by: Thin veneer of civility at January 27, 2015 02:44 PM (XzRw1)

198 But, did the movie at least have a happy ending, Ace?

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 27, 2015 02:44 PM (4+IgA)

199 When they start nattering on about "climate change," simply nod sagely and respond, "Yes, Poseidon will not be amused."

Posted by: Feh at January 27, 2015 02:44 PM (b8TSE)

200 174
What do you call a woman without a vagina?

Mr. President?


Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 27, 2015 02:40 PM (+eQyZ)
--------------This deserves a *clap*

Posted by: Mitt at January 27, 2015 02:44 PM (jjaLl)

201 11 A theater group at Mount Holyoke College recently announced it would no longer put on The Vagina Monologues in part because the material excludes women without vaginas.
----------

What. The. Fu*k.
Posted by: RWC - Shopping for Justice! at January 27, 2015 02:12 PM (fWAjv)

A year or so back my hubby, who has long been interested in the tech and gaming industries, had me read a long, long article and ensuing comment thread on a Gawker website (I wanna say it was Jezebel) that was about an app being developed for women. The idea was that this app would help women figure out how to....ahem....stimulate themselves to orgasm by offering ideas of I guess different things they could try. Anyway, the app was deemed by the OP and a substantial chunk of the commenters to be offensive to transwomen because it did not include instructions or tips about self-stimulation for "women without vaginas."


I shit you not.

Posted by: Mandy P., lurking lurker who lurks at January 27, 2015 02:44 PM (KkVB6)

202 I've mentioned before, I have a friend who's black as can be, and all of his ancestry is West Indian.

He does NOT want to be called "African American."

As he says, there's no "African" in him, and that's not even the right continent.

He really gets pissed at that African American stuff being thrown at him.

Can't say I blame him.

Posted by: Citizen X at January 27, 2015 02:45 PM (7ObY1)

203 Stupid milquetoast sock......

Posted by: Dirty Randy at January 27, 2015 02:45 PM (jjaLl)

204 Watching the POC and WOC and all the rest crashing on the rocks of real life is very similar to watching some DD boy emerge from his basement actually thinking that his cloak really does make him invisible and his Dwarf Sword really does make people freeze in their tracks.
Posted by: zombie at January 27, 2015 02:33 PM (K4YiS)

You lie.

Posted by: Nigel Hothbottom, 4th level Shadowcraft Mage at January 27, 2015 02:45 PM (CAJL/)

205
Instead of a white guy, I now wish to be known as-

A Person of Rainbow.


since the color of my skin can go from

a pleasing pale white

to a delightful pink

to a light gold

to a noble bronze

to a light brown

to a fiery red

depending on how much sunlight I wish to partake in

Posted by: naturalfake, Person of Rainbow at January 27, 2015 02:46 PM (0cMkb)

206
Instead of a white guy, I now wish to be known as-

A Person of Rainbow.


since the color of my skin can go from

a pleasing pale white

to a delightful pink

to a light gold

to a noble bronze

to a light brown

to a fiery red

depending on how much sunlight I wish to partake in

Posted by: naturalfake, Person of Rainbow at January 27, 2015 02:46 PM (0cMkb)

207 It is the anonymity of the internet that assists the rise of PC behavior. When you cannot have a battleaxe placed into the center of your skull you tend to let your discretion sleep and your emotions free. Thus obnoxiousness does not get the come-uppance it deserves as happened in the days when men slammed battleaxes into skulls.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Paranoia Punch with Electrolytes at the Outrage Outlet! at January 27, 2015 02:46 PM (hLRSq)

208 What do you call a woman without a vagina?



Unhappy Ending.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2015 02:46 PM (TAu/7)

209 "Sir/Madam if my words doth offend thee, then hie thee off to a Monastery/Nunnery."


Hamlet was totes throwing his cisnormative micro-aggressions at Ophelia. And just look how she ended up.

Posted by: Citizen X at January 27, 2015 02:46 PM (7ObY1)

210 This may offend me. Not sure.


Oh well, better safe than sorry.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 27, 2015 02:46 PM (LA7Cm)

211 Posted by: naturalfake, Person of Rainbow at January 27, 2015 02:46 PM (0cMkb)


I liked it the first time..lol.

Posted by: Badda Bing 'now with Badda Boom' at January 27, 2015 02:46 PM (klaU/)

212 Very well put, ace.

According to any number of people on both the Right and the Left, I cannot exist. According to their, oh, I'm in a generous mood, so let's call it thinking, it is impossible that I exist. Thus, my very existence is negated. I don't mean my arguments or positions. I mean my existing as a being on this temporal plane is denied.

I have been told, to my face, that I am not actually female because of my politics.

I have been told, to my face, that I am not actually queer because of my politics.

I have been told, to my face, that I am not capable of believing the politics I believe or holding the positions that I hold because of my sexuality.

For the most part, most of the time, I find this hilarious. That my very existence drives people into screaming fits of existential crisis without my having to do anything more than breathe is ridiculous. And yet it does. I find it sublimely absurd.

For the most part. Most of the time.

But, as loathe as I am to admit this, I do, in fact, have actual human emotions. Those actual human emotions, as much as I dislike experiencing them, do take a toll.

The mob works. There are topics about which I have been silenced by mob tactics. There are spaces which are a no go for me because I have discovered, through very painful trial and error, that there is not one single solitary positive benefit that will inure to me by attempting to engage in argument and discussion. There will be only vituperation and pain. So I no longer speak on such matters and I no longer go to such places and I am silenced. Why? Because at the end of the day the only person responsible for my mental health is me and it is not worth it to deal with the pain.

Thus, I am silent.

Why do people use these tactics? Because they work.

Posted by: alexthechick - Listen to meee (and BC) at January 27, 2015 02:46 PM (mf5HN)

213 201 Posted by: Mandy P., lurking lurker who lurks at January 27, 2015 02:44 PM (KkVB6)

They are quite literally insane....

I sincerely have no wish to be their countrymen.

I advocate national divorce for both culture's protection b/c when they try to go cultural revolution on us I will not submit like the people in the Lubyanka Kennels or the Cultural Revolutions thousands blooms blossoming...

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 27, 2015 02:47 PM (/4AZU)

214 addendum; Not to imply everything is Not worthy of a discussion , But by their Behavior and shrieking demands They De-legitamize real issues even within an issue.

they numb even me, and i do care about people. But fgs. lets' discuss real issues without throwing in b.s.

Posted by: willow at January 27, 2015 02:47 PM (nqBYe)

215 Whooo!

My first double post.


No doubt in honor of my glorious rainbowhood.


Posted by: naturalfake, Person of Rainbow at January 27, 2015 02:47 PM (0cMkb)

216 "call out"

Practically every term of argumentation has been lost. When was the last time you ever heard a politician, activist, or media personality use the words "point," "premise," "logic," "refute," "confute," "contend," and the like?

No, it's all grotesquely exaggerated and disfigured.

Posted by: Feh at January 27, 2015 02:47 PM (b8TSE)

217 that was about an app being developed for women. The idea was that this app would help women figure out how to....ahem....stimulate themselves to orgasm by offering ideas of I guess different things they could try.


Shoe shopping! Purse shopping!

Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2015 02:48 PM (TAu/7)

218 215
Whooo!



My first double post.




No doubt in honor of my glorious rainbowhood.





Posted by: naturalfake, Person of Rainbow at January 27, 2015 02:47 PM (0cMkb)

*standing O'*

Posted by: Badda Bing 'now with Badda Boom' at January 27, 2015 02:48 PM (klaU/)

219 "Douche Canoe"! that is awesome!!

Posted by: S2 at January 27, 2015 02:48 PM (hUlmy)

220 205
Instead of a white guy, I now wish to be known as-

A Person of Rainbow.



I'm more of a golden brown. I very rarely burn (maybe 3 times in my life, lucky me!) but I do "tan" to a darker brown.

I wish to be known as A Golden Brown American

Posted by: Citizen X at January 27, 2015 02:48 PM (7ObY1)

221 They are in fact low-thinkers. It is no accident that they favor the brutish, the primate-like, the animal-level sorts of "persuasions" of group hooting and feces-throwing. They favor this because this is what they are capable of, and no other.

The entire nation has become one big Zoo.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 27, 2015 02:49 PM (IXrOn)

222 212 Posted by: alexthechick at January 27, 2015 02:46 PM (mf5HN)

You are entitled to your silence ma'am but I would never force it.

Your sexuality does not influence my desire to find common political cause with people.

Your sexuality has little to do with fiscal and economic policy....

Your politics do not define your crotch equipment...

I'm sorry we live in an insane asylum.

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 27, 2015 02:50 PM (/4AZU)

223 I advocate national divorce for both culture's protection b/c when they try to go cultural revolution on us I will not submit like the people in the Lubyanka Kennels or the Cultural Revolutions thousands blooms blossoming...
Posted by: Sven



More like a thousand heads blossoming.....

Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2015 02:50 PM (TAu/7)

224 They may rage away as long as they neither break my bones nor pick my pocket. If they try to do the former, they get ventilated. Try the latter, and they find out what a pissing match with a sociopath feels like.

Posted by: **shiftyeyes** at January 27, 2015 02:50 PM (evdj2)

225 No doubt in honor of my glorious rainbowhood.

You can add "green" after a few hours in the barrel.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 27, 2015 02:50 PM (J0IP0)

226 This page is nothing but trigger warnings

http://www.trashy.com/Valentine-2015-bycatalog.htm

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 27, 2015 02:50 PM (+eQyZ)

227 >>>I have been told, to my face, that I am not actually female because of my politics.

I have been told, to my face, that I am not actually queer because of my politics.

I have been told, to my face, that I am not capable of believing...


Low Blows.

Posted by: Garrett at January 27, 2015 02:50 PM (bb0LB)

228 >>....and either go ballistic or have meltdowns when people in the Real World don't treat them with the deference they get in PC Land.

I think that's part of the American Sniper (and previously, The Passion of Christ) meltdown over its success. Our betters have been telling us how to view the world, and apparently thought we were all on board with the 'soldiers are just baby-killers/stupid rednecks with no other options but now racked w/PSTD over evil Bush's war' meme. And per American Sniper's box office, we are not on board. And that just cannot be tolerated!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2015 02:50 PM (ABcz/)

229 Unless and until the consequences for such tactics once more come to include serious physical injury, it ain't happening, 'cause there's too many ways for them to avoid anything else.

A broken jaw or three has a wonderful deterrent value. (It also has the virtue of immediate effect.)

What? Legal repercussions? BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA! You'd think we had the rule of law or something...

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Unrepresented at January 27, 2015 02:50 PM (DT3rQ)

230 PC did die down a bit in the mid 1990s. The Bell Curve came out; Limbaugh has a TV show; people getting in trouble for racism when they were really just being assholes ("shut up you water-buffalo") were defended.

Chait's TNR also wasn't always PC. (It did put out a lot of bullshit and plagiarised material, but that's a separate issue.)

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 27, 2015 02:50 PM (mumXE)

231 That movie must have really sucked.

Posted by: rickl at January 27, 2015 02:50 PM (zoehZ)

232 @166 - But I bet they wouldn't touch a man who wasn't circumcised.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at January 27, 2015 02:51 PM (vg8iE)

233 Instead of a white guy, I now wish to be known as-

A Person of Rainbow.
___
Me too!

Posted by: Barack Obama at January 27, 2015 02:51 PM (5DM9u)

234 " When was the last time you ever heard a politician, activist, or media personality use the words "point," "premise," "logic," "refute," "confute," "contend," and the like? "


I didn't hear "free" or "shit" anywhere in there.

Posted by: LIV at January 27, 2015 02:51 PM (LA7Cm)

235 >>>What do you call a woman without a vagina?

Muslim, I think

Posted by: Bigby's Signifying Hands at January 27, 2015 02:52 PM (3ZtZW)

236 223 Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2015 02:50 PM (TAu/7)

One of Mao's little jokes during the great leap forward....

Leftoids love their little jokes....

Bronko Bama "dream of my father"(an avowed communist)

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 27, 2015 02:52 PM (/4AZU)

237 Person of Color was invented by radical Marxists specifically to demean and dehumanize white people. To Otherize. To define them by what they lack. Lacking color. Like someone who is sick and weak and ill and nauseous.

It's racist as hell. Everyone has a skin tone. A color. A hue. There's a range of skin tones. There's a greater range in lightness/darkness. That's a function of evolution and balancing the need for Vitamin D production vs protection from cancer-causing UV radiation.

Generally speaking the more northern latitudes your ancestors evolved to live in, the lighter your skin, to maximize Vit-D production. If your ancestors evolved closer to the equator with year round sun, you probably have darker skin.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at January 27, 2015 02:52 PM (ZPrif)

238 The comments section of the Chait article is pretty interesting.

True to form, there are a bunch of SJWs defending their silencing of speech with the old warhorse, 'but we're morally and ethically correct.'

Posted by: MJ at January 27, 2015 02:52 PM (oari7)

239 Is this a movie review?

Posted by: RUReadingthis at January 27, 2015 02:52 PM (1xtIS)

240 The #BlackLivesMatter bs shaming diners?

Animal House cafeteria scene.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2015 02:52 PM (TAu/7)

241 Instead of a white guy, I now wish to be known as- A Person of Rainbow

Eh, no.

Posted by: Paddu O'Furniture, leprechuan at January 27, 2015 02:52 PM (Spluw)

242 I loved this review of Animal Farm.

Posted by: The Mega Independent at January 27, 2015 02:53 PM (QCo5R)

243 I like "swarthy."

But now I'm grey, so the swarthy thing means less than it used to.

Posted by: Feh at January 27, 2015 02:53 PM (b8TSE)

244 Why do people use these tactics? Because they work.
Posted by: alexthechick - Listen to meee (andBC) atJanuary 27, 2015 02:46 PM (mf5HN)


How dare they define you! I think you should get yourself a battleaxe and tell these people that if you cared for their opinion you would smack the battleaxe into their skulls and search for their opinion yourself.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Paranoia Punch with Electrolytes at the Outrage Outlet! at January 27, 2015 02:53 PM (hLRSq)

245 The best apology for micro-aggressions is : "I'm sorry you're a f*cking asshole"

Posted by: Roy at January 27, 2015 02:54 PM (VndSC)

246 228 Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2015 02:50 PM (ABcz/)

Absolutely spot on...

part of why I think the right MUST go "ghetto" like the blacks did with BET and Jet....

our mere existence openly and successfully would enrage them....BUT hey far better we just scream at people for pointing out feeding the culture they hit us with is bad.

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 27, 2015 02:54 PM (/4AZU)

247 >What do you call a woman without a vagina?



Unholey.

Posted by: Garrett at January 27, 2015 02:54 PM (bb0LB)

248 Heinlein was right: Full citizenship only for those who serve in the military.

Posted by: Farmer Joe at January 27, 2015 02:54 PM (Ztfnl)

249 WTF? I thought that everyone liked me?

Posted by: zombie Trigger at January 27, 2015 02:54 PM (Spluw)

250 I have high color, especially if I drink or get mad, so basically, all the time. Does that count?

Posted by: toby928(C) Pale Penis Person at January 27, 2015 02:54 PM (evdj2)

251 145 Same shit happens in mothering groups, but instead of bickering about mothers of color, they bicker about the evils of circumcision and the privilege of breast feeding.
Posted by: Lauren
A privilege that ends with the first tooth.
Posted by: fathers notice this stuff at January 27, 2015 02:34 PM (Spluw)

Snit no it doesn't! Lauren's right, the mommy groups are nuts. The breast feeding ones will insist that it is child abuse to feed your child anything other than breast milk for the first year (oh, and formula is deemed poison), and that you MUST continue to breast feed until the child self-weans at 5 or so. That is not an exaggeration.

I nursed my second child and I think these ladies have gone off the deep end.

Posted by: Mandy P., lurking lurker who lurks at January 27, 2015 02:54 PM (KkVB6)

252 >What do you call a woman without a vagina?
-------------------

Mr. President?

Posted by: Roy at January 27, 2015 02:54 PM (VndSC)

253
Unholey.



*rimshot*

Posted by: toby928(C) Pale Penis Person at January 27, 2015 02:55 PM (evdj2)

254 Seinfeld was in on this early with the AIDS ribbon episode, and it only gets worse and worse.

Posted by: Dave S. at January 27, 2015 02:55 PM (U9CoL)

255 Well, you don't see this everyday.


http://tinyurl.com/yc95esc

Summary - woman born without a vagina becomes pregnant after her old lover catches her giving oral to her new lover. Knife fight ensues and she gets stabbed giving the sperm an entrance.

Posted by: RWC - Shopping for Justice! at January 27, 2015 02:55 PM (fWAjv)

256 What do you call a woman without a vagina? Unholey.
Posted by: Garrett

Case closed.

Dead end.
10 years married.

Posted by: zombie Trigger at January 27, 2015 02:55 PM (Spluw)

257 The eurasian split occurred after humanity left Africa, so Europeans and Asians are genetically closer related to each other, than either group is to Africans.

The term People of Color is ignorant and unscientific on multiple levels

1) Northeast Asians are lighter skinned than Southern Europeans. So swarthy southern Italians are white, but pale Japanese are People of Color
2) Genetically, euros, asians and hispanics are all closer related to each other than to sub-saharan africans.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at January 27, 2015 02:55 PM (ZPrif)

258 As with everything, this ultimately comes down just to power.

The left truly does not give a shit about any of their little crusades.

What they care about is that everyone claims to believe in the crusade, and more importantly follows the orders of those leading the crusade

This is how most lefties could support war against Saddam Hussein, until they decided war against Saddam Hussein was beyond the pale some time after the 2002 election, or how they can "out" and gay bait people who are in their way...etc...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 27, 2015 02:55 PM (5DM9u)

259 212 Posted by: alexthechick at January 27, 2015 02:46 PM (mf5HN)

---------------

What I don't get is, you'd seem to check off several boxes on Our Progressive Better's "List of Those We Must Protect and Swaddle in Our Most Benevolent Blankets of Love" - I'd think they'd try to gently bring you back into the fold, where, of course, they know you belong.....

Posted by: Dirty Randy at January 27, 2015 02:55 PM (jjaLl)

260 "Mobs are not interested in persuading someone of their wrongness of their claims; they only care about shutting the speaker up, whether he's changed his mind or not. "

They want scalps, nothing more. They want trophies and war booty for their pathetic team sport view of politics, and public, twitter led scalpings are their way of getting the spoils. Doesn't matter if it's Phil Robertson or Chris Kyle, the mob wants blood.

Posted by: UGAdawg at January 27, 2015 02:55 PM (c+vBe)

261 "You know what cures political correctness? Killing that's what."

Pretty much this.

But the concept has been bred out of us lo these many decades, so it won't happen.

Interestingly, killing to advance a belief has NOT been bred out of certain other peoples. So that will be fun and stuff.

Posted by: Jaws at January 27, 2015 02:55 PM (WKNX4)

262 >>>>What do you call a woman without a vagina?


trans female?
or male that self-identifies as female?
Chelsea?

I'm sure there are at least 20 other new labels for some version of non-vagina'd "woman" but that's all I've got...

Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2015 02:56 PM (ABcz/)

263 That needed to be repeated.

Posted by: Roy at January 27, 2015 02:56 PM (VndSC)

264 "Why do people use these tactics? Because they work."

Not only. They use them because they're invested in group politics. "Individual" is a bad word, the root of all evil.

Posted by: Feh at January 27, 2015 02:56 PM (b8TSE)

265 This is exhausting. All similar behaviors are exhausting.

I'm exhausted. But, that may be due to all the DVDA.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at January 27, 2015 02:56 PM (AFsCH)

266 There's a core of this thought that hits "regular" political correctness as well.

There's a world of difference between using a word as a pejorative slur, using it as a calm label-of-fact, and using it as a teasing jibe.

Picking one of my own labels at random: "Nerd" can hurt. Or it can accurately describe a bookish non-jockish computerish type of person. And it can elicit honest laughter by the 'target'.

Difference?
The pejorative has hate behind it.

The Left has collectively moved on to all pejoratives all day long. They aren't always the historical slurs - but they certainly lodge the wagonload of raw contempt into perfectly ordinary words. Like "privilege".

Posted by: Alan at January 27, 2015 02:56 PM (uq4RW)

267 No, it's all grotesquely exaggerated and disfigured.

Much as a child would do.

That's the problem with all this PC crap: it's childish in the extreme. Grownups don't deal with this pablum because grownups.

Yet another product of a feminized society. Mommy will never correct her precious little snowflake. Any widdle thing it says is just so cuuuute...*pinches cheek*

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at January 27, 2015 02:57 PM (0HooB)

268 How dare they define you! I think you should get yourself a battleaxe and tell these people that if you cared for their opinion you would smack the battleaxe into their skulls and search for their opinion yourself.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Paranoia Punch with Electrolytes at the Outrage Outlet! at January 27, 2015 02:53 PM (hLRSq)

The battleax is too unwieldy for most people. I recommend the Dutch klewang cutlass, partly because it's light, deadlyand maneuverable and partly because it has a really cool name: 'klewang'.

Posted by: troyriser at January 27, 2015 02:57 PM (CAJL/)

269 258

BANG

Posted by: Feh at January 27, 2015 02:57 PM (b8TSE)

270 Ironic that leftist (and some on the right) group behavior strongly resembles the commenters on a zombie blog

Lefty Fascist Goons is a derelict blog, but the behavior of those still there is very much mainstream on the internet

Posted by: kbdabear at January 27, 2015 02:57 PM (GrXXa)

271 The term People of Color is ignorant and unscientific on multiple levels

----

It's also racist as hell, much more racist than the "colored person" formulation.

Posted by: @JohnTant at January 27, 2015 02:57 PM (eytER)

272 Well this was a nice post.
I was thinking this mostly transpired in the "text" environments, but then I think of the goons showing up at the "brunches" and shouting out -- I don't know -- people's names they feel were victims of something or other.

It's moved to public spaces as well.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 27, 2015 02:58 PM (IXrOn)

273 I read the whole thing and now my head aches. I think I'll take a couple of white aspirin.

AoS has a few announced WoCs, and I always enjoy debating and snarking with them. Of course, I am deeply interested in their particular viewpoints as they are going to come at some things from a different history and perspective. But here's the thing on this -- I know they are going to respond in a rational manner. Just as almost everyone else here does.

The goal is not domination, but persuasion and being informative. I value that.

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 27, 2015 02:58 PM (cJXzr)

274 >>They want scalps, nothing more.

Not quite: scalps + putting fear in anyone else who might have considered doing the same so they self-censor.
Don't wanna be the next Emanuel Goldstein, amirite?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2015 02:58 PM (ABcz/)

275
It is time for the Men Of Paleness establishment (MOPEes) to reassert themselves -


ENOUGH OF THIS FCUKING "DEBATE" - GET IN THAT KITCHEN AND MAKE ME A FCUKING SAMMICH!

Posted by: Hello, I'm Math... and I am one heartless bitch(TM) at January 27, 2015 02:58 PM (dq4fo)

276 No really

I'm wondering what an FGM woman thinks about the Vagina Monologues now.

Posted by: Bigby's Signifying Hands at January 27, 2015 02:58 PM (3ZtZW)

277 What I don't get is...

Think of Leftism as being a sort of cheap Islam knock-off.

Complete with the issues with apostasy.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Unrepresented at January 27, 2015 02:58 PM (DT3rQ)

278 Feel like a lot of this could have been avoided if Ted Knight loosened up membership access for Bushwood CC. Or maybe if G_d had been able to strike down a few more Christain preachers. To think we laughed at that dreck.

Posted by: Anthropology Guy at January 27, 2015 02:58 PM (e61y8)

279 Imagine if we used Person of Lightness as a catch-all for all non-blacks like we use Person of Color for all non-whites.

It would obviously, and correctly, be seen as an attempt to Otherize and ostracize black people and something outisde all the rest of humanity.

That's exactly why the Left forced Person of Color on the world.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at January 27, 2015 02:58 PM (ZPrif)

280 How dare they define you! I think you should get yourself a battleaxe and tell these people that if you cared for their opinion you would smack the battleaxe into their skulls ankles and search for their opinion yourself.



FIFY.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2015 02:58 PM (TAu/7)

281 Heinlein was right: Full citizenship only for those who serve in the military.

Posted by: Farmer Joe at January 27, 2015 02:54 PM (Ztfnl)


Maybe once we're recovering from the Burning Times. But there are too many unspoken assumptions (and a few spoken ones that are not currently true) in Heinlein's universe for that to work at current.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at January 27, 2015 02:59 PM (kff5f)

282 268 Posted by: troyriser at January 27, 2015 02:57 PM (CAJL/)

Smatchet troy....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smatchet

B/C Welsh Trench Knife is well "Xenophobic"

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 27, 2015 02:59 PM (/4AZU)

283
You call them men.

If you think calling them trans-whateverthefuck that means you're open-minded. It doesn't. It means you're a dumb ass.

Posted by: Soothsayer of The Righteous And Harmonious Fists (-243 days left until climate chaos) at January 27, 2015 02:59 PM (q19mL)

284 Just a hunch, but if Twitter disabled their hashtags for a week, the mobs would lose their main organizing tool

Posted by: kbdabear at January 27, 2015 02:59 PM (GrXXa)

285
What's that saying about open-minds and holes in the head?

Posted by: Soothsayer of The Righteous And Harmonious Fists (-243 days left until climate chaos) at January 27, 2015 03:00 PM (q19mL)

286 Not quite: scalps + putting fear in anyone else who might have considered doing the same so they self-censor.
***
Indeed, terrorism, which political correctness is, works.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 27, 2015 03:00 PM (5DM9u)

287 Not quite: scalps + putting fear in anyone else who might have considered doing the same so they self-censor.
Don't wanna be the next Emanuel Goldstein, amirite?



I could do a wicked Ted Bundy.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2015 03:00 PM (TAu/7)

288 I have high color, especially if I drink or get mad, so basically, all the time. Does that count?
Posted by: toby928(C) Pale Penis Person at January 27, 2015 02:54 PM (evdj2)


It makes you a Person of Choler, I think.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Paranoia Punch with Electrolytes at the Outrage Outlet! at January 27, 2015 03:01 PM (hLRSq)

289 What I don't get is, you'd seem to check off several boxes on Our Progressive Better's "List of Those We Must Protect and Swaddle in Our Most Benevolent Blankets of Love" - I'd think they'd try to gently bring you back into the fold, where, of course, they know you belong.....
Posted by: Dirty Randy at January 27, 2015 02:55 PM (jjaLl)



That's not how it's done. Alex is a blasphemer. A heretic. She is someone who, as she noted, by her very existence disproves many of their claims. She endangers their grip on certain positions and segments of voters by her existence.

She can't be brought back, she must be destroyed. Obliterated. The very memory that someone like her existed must be eradicated.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 27, 2015 03:01 PM (da5Wo)

290 Was Chait paid by the word?

Posted by: Feh at January 27, 2015 03:01 PM (b8TSE)

291 MLK's dream is truly dead.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at January 27, 2015 03:01 PM (fIv/H)

292 284 Posted by: kbdabear at January 27, 2015 02:59 PM (GrXXa)

Twatter is a SJW haven...

so is Facebook

so is Reddit

etc etc

a lot more fun to Hijack their Hashtags

#Breitbart316

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 27, 2015 03:01 PM (/4AZU)

293 262
>>>>What do you call a woman without a vagina?

SCOAMT

(to quote AllenG)

Posted by: 1bulwetweft at January 27, 2015 03:02 PM (TR90z)

294 Book was better.

Posted by: HoboJerk, Completely Unreasonable at January 27, 2015 03:02 PM (E8IHS)

295 You can add "green" after a few hours in the barrel.

Don't you mean "person of phosphorescence?"

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at January 27, 2015 03:02 PM (0HooB)

296 If it seems like the Left hates white people, it's mostly because they do.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at January 27, 2015 03:02 PM (ZPrif)

297 You know those Salem Trials, Nazi Pogroms, KKK Lynchings, etc

EVERY proggie joining a hashtag mob will tell you that they would NEVER be like that lynch mob in "To Kill A Mockingbird" because they're "educated" and "only HATERS do that"

Most of America has devolved into Boy Band Fangirl behavior

Posted by: kbdabear at January 27, 2015 03:02 PM (GrXXa)

298 but then I think of the goons showing up at the "brunches" and shouting out -- I don't know -- people's names they feel were victims of something or other.



What am I? A zit!
--John Belushi

Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2015 03:02 PM (TAu/7)

299 What we're seeing is a journey back to the dark ages. History does repeat itself.

Posted by: Soona at January 27, 2015 03:03 PM (/HX7u)

300 Person of Color

Well, I'm a Person of Color, then. Who isn't?

Posted by: Feh at January 27, 2015 03:03 PM (b8TSE)

301 1. normal people should just say no.*

* but they won't because...

2. The mobs of shutins just wanking are basically the same 20 people retweeting death threats to anyone who will take them seriously, which is any corporation that is held captive by the diversity lawyers protection racket.

Also, these are kids going to school, right? What do they know and when did they get annointed as better than us because they're really really concerned about the 1.5% of the pop who are the ghey or the POC/WOC field?

We should burn down these colleges and make these kids pick fruit.

Posted by: joe-impeachin44 at January 27, 2015 03:03 PM (3g9q6)

302 The music plays louder and louder.

Posted by: toby928(C) Pale Penis Person at January 27, 2015 03:03 PM (evdj2)

303 Was Chait paid by the word?

Posted by: Feh at January 27, 2015 03:01 PM (b8TSE)


Was ace?

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at January 27, 2015 03:03 PM (kff5f)

304 Generally speaking the more northern latitudes your ancestors evolved to live in, the lighter your skin, to maximize Vit-D production. If your ancestors evolved closer to the equator with year round sun, you probably have darker skin.

If that is true, then people with high melanin content in their skin living further from the equator would absorb even less Vitamin D then people with low melanin and be unhappier, perhaps downright miserable. I can't think of any example of miserable people with high melanin content living in this country - so far from the equator, so you must be wrong.

Posted by: SE Pa Moron at January 27, 2015 03:04 PM (zxQ4h)

305 There is no place for merit in a power structure that is based on 50% Dedication to a Cause, and 50% Ass-licking.

Posted by: The Mega Independent at January 27, 2015 03:04 PM (QCo5R)

306 >>>She can't be brought back, she must be destroyed. Obliterated. The very memory that someone like her existed must be eradicated.

Ooh like the One Ring but I dunno who her Gollum is

Posted by: Bigby's Signifying Hands at January 27, 2015 03:04 PM (3ZtZW)

307 301 Posted by: joe-impeachin44 at January 27, 2015 03:03 PM (3g9q6)

a LOT of the nation's ills would be solved by razing the newsies and the campus crusaders and their dwellings to the ground Carthage style...

let Berkeley and Harvard be arid salt glazed monuments to the cost of undermining civil order.

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 27, 2015 03:05 PM (/4AZU)

308 Our ancestors must be looking at us and shaking their heads.

"Angelo, look down there. Their civilizations are circling the drain and all they can talk about is their skin color."

Posted by: Feh at January 27, 2015 03:05 PM (b8TSE)

309
What is it with people today, espeically women, that have to self-identify exactly Who They Are?

You see these insecure dopes on TV when someone asks Who are you? They answer, I am: a single mom, a lover, a daughter, a beautiful woman in my own way, and a real estate agent/lawyer/social worker.

WHY THE NEED FOR CONSTANT SELF-AFFIRMATION??

Posted by: Soothsayer of The Righteous And Harmonious Fists (-243 days left until climate chaos) at January 27, 2015 03:05 PM (q19mL)

310 Tarzan, Lord Greystoke, was a fiction of the early twentieth century. An Englishman raised by apes in the jungle, he seems perhaps an imaginative anticipation of later historical developments. "Nature imitates Art" as Oscar Wilde wrote.
-- An Anthropologist's Notes, Frame I

... while a dozen more of the obstreperous MFers were marched off in temporary arrest chanting the Humanist Credo of prohibitions. No anthropoid Apes, ... and No Zoanthropy. All chanted in staccato hoots that reminded one of an animal pack raucously communing. ...
pg 13-14

Beyond Humanity by Justin Leiber. TOR Science Fiction. 1987.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 27, 2015 03:05 PM (+eQyZ)

311 306 Ooh like the One Ring but I dunno who her Gollum is

BC

Posted by: 1bulwetweft at January 27, 2015 03:05 PM (Fr8iN)

312 What I don't get is, you'd seem to check off several boxes on Our Progressive Better's "List of Those We Must Protect and Swaddle in Our Most Benevolent Blankets of Love" - I'd think they'd try to gently bring you back into the fold, where, of course, they know you belong.....
Posted by: Dirty Randy at January 27, 2015 02:55 PM (jjaLl)



The worst punishments are always reserved for apostates.

Posted by: alexthechick - Listen to meee (and BC) at January 27, 2015 03:05 PM (mf5HN)

313
oh and MY SEX LIFE, LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT IT!

Posted by: Soothsayer of The Righteous And Harmonious Fists (-243 days left until climate chaos) at January 27, 2015 03:06 PM (q19mL)

314 That's not how it's done. Alex is a blasphemer. A heretic. She is someone who, as she noted, by her very existence disproves many of their claims. She endangers their grip on certain positions and segments of voters by her existence. She can't be brought back, she must be destroyed. Obliterated. The very memory that someone like her existed must be eradicated.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 27, 2015 03:01 PM (da5Wo)


--------------------------------------


Agree. It's why communists/fascists hate people who do just fine without the government interfering in their lives.

Posted by: Soona at January 27, 2015 03:06 PM (/HX7u)

315 You know... my mom once read some article by... somebody. A Leftist, I'm sure. She read it to me (I was like 10).

Basically it said: "When I'm tired, I'm black. When I'm sick, I'm black. When I'm sun-burned, I'm black. When you're tired, you're pale. When you're sick, you're green. When you're sun-burned you're read. And you call me 'colored?'"

Which is just a long way of saying, "I'm so old, I remember when remarking that Blacks were a different color than Whites was racist."

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at January 27, 2015 03:06 PM (kff5f)

316
True to form, there are a bunch of SJWs defending their silencing of speech with the old warhorse, 'but we're morally and ethically correct.'



Posted by: MJ at January 27, 2015 02:52 PM (oari7)


Then the proper response should be...

"no, you are not, therefore by your OWN standards you must be silent.... see how it works?'

Posted by: BB Wolf at January 27, 2015 03:07 PM (qh617)

317 Was ace?

It's the meth.

True story. We had a landscaper move into our neighborhood once who started using meth after living there a few months. Suddenly, the guy couldn't stop working. He landscaped his entire yard, then he started mowing other peoples lawns at night, and planting things. One of my neighbors came home to find a flower garden in their yard where once there was none.

It was ... interesting, until he and his family had to go on the lam from the police.

Posted by: toby928(C) Pale Penis Person at January 27, 2015 03:07 PM (evdj2)

318 >>WHY THE NEED FOR CONSTANT SELF-AFFIRMATION??


Bingo. How about: I don't care what's in your pants or what you do in the bedroom, just as long as you use the correct bathroom/locker room and don't pester me about which personal pronouns you prefer.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2015 03:07 PM (ABcz/)

319 314 Posted by: Soona at January 27, 2015 03:06 PM (/HX7u)

I need Worker's Paradise like I need a hole in the head...

//L Trotsky

DONE!

//J Stalin

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 27, 2015 03:07 PM (/4AZU)

320 EVERY proggie joining a hashtag mob will tell you that they would NEVER be like that lynch mob in "To Kill A Mockingbird" because they're "educated" and "only HATERS do that"
___
Always believe rape victims...lynch Tom Robinson!!!!

Posted by: Some SJW at January 27, 2015 03:08 PM (5DM9u)

321 Why do people use these tactics? Because they work.


Even here, of all places

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, Keeper of the Guards, returned from 1080 exile at January 27, 2015 03:08 PM (fwARV)

322 194 A pet peeve:

When did "call out" become a thing, particularly on the left? It's everywhere all of a sudden. From what I can tell, it now has taken the place of "challenge," "dispute," "argue with," and "criticize."


Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at January 27, 2015 02:44 PM (xN1DB)



A pet peeve of mine (one of many, I'm afraid): "reach out" to someone. Are we all now E.T.? Can we just contact someone?

A more recent one: inappropriate use of "assassinate" and "execute" as intensified versions of "killed" or "murdered."

Eventually, at this rate, we'll all just be grunting to each other, since the meaning of any remaining words will be so unclear and ambiguous that there'll be no point in using them.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at January 27, 2015 03:08 PM (oKE6c)

323 bottomline? Did ace like the movie?

Posted by: Nip Sip at January 27, 2015 03:08 PM (m6zoZ)

324 This reminds me of an idea that I've been kicking around for a while as I've noticed the silencing/shunning tactics of the left: our collective concept of "free speech" is coming apart.

Two things happen whenever someone is shouted down, shunned, bullied into resigning, boycotted, etc.: (i) someone complains about "free speech"
; (ii) the response is "that only means the government can't punish you for speaking." Both the left and the right do this - the left more than the right lately, because they're the ones who are likely to boycott your company because of how you feel about gay marriage. But left and right are both fond of the idea. I've seen people on both sides use that XKCD "they're just showing you the door" comic.

There's only one problem with that: it's wrong.

"Free speech" and the First Amendment's speech protections are two different things. The former is a cultural value; the latter is a law. It's true that the 1A only means that the government can't shut you up, and doesn't protect you from social sanction. But valuing "free speech" is more than simply recognizing that the government shouldn't punish speakers. If we value "free speech," we're committed as a culture to the exchange of opinions. We treat the people with whom we disagree with respect. We engage with their ideas. We let our opponents speak, and they let us speak.

You can't say that you're committed to "free speech" if you try to get someone fired for having views that have no bearing on the performance of his job. You can't use shunning or social sanctions to coerce someone whose opinions are different from yours. You may be right on the merits, and your position on that particular issue may be the only moral one. Still, if you try to shut other people up through social sanctions, you're not in favor of free speech. If you are incapable of having a friendship with someone with differing political views, you are not in favor of free speech. At best you're in favor of legal protections for speech, but not in favor of the cultural value of free speech.

I'll admit to what I'll call practical hypocrisy on this. Okay, we can't let everyone speak. There are some positions - "kill the Jews," for example - that are out-of-bounds. And I suppose the response to what I've written is, "yeah, well, your position on Issue X is almost as abhorrent to me as antisemitism." I'm still working through a response to that, and on figuring out where the boundaries are. But I would say that a good starting point is to acknowledge that even on most issues that we feel passionately about, the split is at most 2/3 to 1/3. Those 1/3 probably aren't insane or fundamentally evil. Let them speak.

Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at January 27, 2015 03:08 PM (xN1DB)

325 TL;DR

Posted by: FDR's Television at January 27, 2015 03:08 PM (81IdR)

326 317 Posted by: toby928(C) Pale Penis Person at January 27, 2015 03:07 PM (evdj2)

Medicinal Meth for Detroit?

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 27, 2015 03:08 PM (/4AZU)

327 AtC, you forgot one more existential paradox of Proggie Borgs

Your appreciation of the Second Amendment

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/219832025536727403

Posted by: kbdabear at January 27, 2015 03:08 PM (GrXXa)

328 self-affirmation

It's like walking around with a singles ad hanging around your neck.

I'm guessing it's because people are straight-up lonely.

Posted by: Feh at January 27, 2015 03:09 PM (b8TSE)

329 I recently came across the term "gas-lighting" in re: sociopathic behavior - this is exactly what all this is - a massive gas-lighting of our entire culture by people incapable of feeling remorse ...

Posted by: Joe at January 27, 2015 03:09 PM (e5rWY)

330
speaking of music,

lastnight I asked if anyone remembered QUARTERFLASH

turns out that the lead singer, Rindy Someone, actually plays the saxophone in Harden My Heart. The whole band are good musicians.

Also: Remember BERLIN? Remember No More Lies? Remember Terri Nunn?

Posted by: Soothsayer of The Righteous And Harmonious Fists (-243 days left until climate chaos) at January 27, 2015 03:09 PM (q19mL)

331 299 What we're seeing is a journey back to the dark ages. History does repeat itself.

Posted by: Soona at January 27, 2015 03:03 PM (/HX7u)

I think it's more to the point a journey back to socialism, national or otherwise.

I always wondered how things like 1930's Germany happened, but it is clear to me today that no society has a shortage of willing soldiers. We laugh at the thought of an army of Pajama Boys actually accomplishing anything, but remember that they're the ones currently steering us down the sh*tter. As Isl*mists often regrettably demonstrate, destruction is easy.

Posted by: The Mega Independent at January 27, 2015 03:09 PM (QCo5R)

332 259 212 Posted by: alexthechick at January 27, 2015 02:46 PM (mf5HN)

---------------

What I don't get is, you'd seem to check off several boxes on Our Progressive Better's "List of Those We Must Protect and Swaddle in Our Most Benevolent Blankets of Love" - I'd think they'd try to gently bring you back into the fold, where, of course, they know you belong.....
Posted by: Dirty Randy at January 27, 2015 02:55 PM (jjaLl)

To use the Empress's own terminology, she is an Unperson to them because they can't use her sex or sexuality to their advantage.

I don't want to compare myself too much to ATC, because I suspect she gets a lot more shit along these lines than I do, but you see it all the time amongst lefties towards any women who don't agree.

I'm a woman so I should count, right? Except I'm white, straight, married (and only once), have children, happily gave up my career to stay home with them, and a homeschooler to boot. The lefties might....might forgive me all that IF I spouted the usual white guilt, social justice, kill all the babies abortion lines that are appropriate for women in their movement or have. But since those are all the polar opposite of my beliefs, I don't count as a woman. My opinion is BS and I've been brainwashed by the patriarchy. I am a deviant from the Woman plantation.

I can't say exactly what ATC's experiences have been, but I suspect she gets that crap AT LEAST twice as much because of her sexual preferences in addition to having lady bits.

Posted by: Mandy P., lurking lurker who lurks at January 27, 2015 03:09 PM (KkVB6)

333 let Berkeley and Harvard be arid salt glazed monuments to the cost of undermining civil order.


Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 27, 2015 03:05 PM (/4AZU)


Yup.... until people see it... its hard to understand what College has become today...

How the Groupthink and speech codes are brainwashing an entire generation...

And as you need a degree to get a job in media now... we are seeing the bitter fruit of that twisted vine...

Posted by: BB Wolf at January 27, 2015 03:10 PM (qh617)

334 Obliterated. The very memory that someone like her existed must be eradicated. Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 27, 2015 03:01 PM (da5Wo)


Hence getting a battleaxe. Once she fortifies behind a curtain wall of dead bodies she would be invincible.

"Want some of this, huh? I got a whole pallet of "Olde Tudor Two-Hand" I'm itching to use!"

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Paranoia Punch with Electrolytes at the Outrage Outlet! at January 27, 2015 03:10 PM (hLRSq)

335 She can't be brought back, she must be destroyed. Obliterated. The very memory that someone like her existed must be eradicated.

Ooh like the One Ring but I dunno who her Gollum is
Posted by: Bigby's Signifying Hands



Her precious is step-stool. "And one step-stool to rise above it all!"

Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2015 03:10 PM (TAu/7)

336 I'm old enough to remember when people tried to avoid victimhood instead of actively seeking it out.

Posted by: @JohnTant at January 27, 2015 03:10 PM (eytER)

337 311 306 Ooh like the One Ring but I dunno who her Gollum is

BC

Posted by: 1bulwetweft at January 27, 2015 03:05 PM (Fr8iN)



I....I'm not even sure how to take that.

Lol.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 27, 2015 03:10 PM (da5Wo)

338 What about those sexually attracted to horses? Do they have special status?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Andrew Mendoza at January 27, 2015 03:10 PM (HR2G8)

339 Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 27, 2015 03:01 PM (da5Wo)

-------------

Ah, well then, that's real-world proof of someone's earlier comment about harsh punishments for apostasy being a part of the Progressive Way... and how light and humorous it is that Raving Jihadists feel exactly the same way.....

Posted by: Dirty Randy at January 27, 2015 03:11 PM (jjaLl)

340 A pet peeve of mine (one of many, I'm afraid): "reach out" to someone. Are we all now E.T.? Can we just contact someone?

Mine is "sharing" instead of just telling someone about something. That one's a guaranteed eyeroll.

Thanks, but I don't want your "thought cooties."

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at January 27, 2015 03:11 PM (0HooB)

341
http://www.pinterest.com/ pin/219832025536727403

Yes please.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, Keeper of the Guards, returned from 1080 exile at January 27, 2015 03:11 PM (fwARV)

342 332 Posted by: Mandy P., lurking lurker who lurks at January 27, 2015 03:09 PM (KkVB6)

The main reason gamergate has had the success (overstated IMHO) it has had is the females who say "I am not your shield" to the SJWs...

it's sad it came to that but it is there.

AtC is a potential "I am not your shield"....

that makes her dangerous.

My wife has a "not your shield" in her make-up.... I am glad we are not in an organization where that is an issue much.

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 27, 2015 03:12 PM (/4AZU)

343 I, for one, would very much like to see Alex with a battle-ax.


*scribbles notes for MoMee*

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, Keeper of the Guards, returned from 1080 exile at January 27, 2015 03:12 PM (fwARV)

344 WHY THE NEED FOR CONSTANT SELF-AFFIRMATION??
-----------------------------------

Because they never aged emotionally past 12.

Posted by: The Mega Independent at January 27, 2015 03:13 PM (QCo5R)

345 Her precious is step-stool. "And one step-stool to rise above it all!"
Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2015 03:10 PM (TAu/7)



Dt Mtn Dew....all over the keyboard and monitor.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 27, 2015 03:13 PM (da5Wo)

346 I wish I knew how to stop this. The cultural marxists have taken over an ever larger swath of humanity.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at January 27, 2015 03:13 PM (ZPrif)

347 Her precious is step-stool. "And one step-stool to rise above it all!"
Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2015 03:10 PM (TAu/7)


Or get to shoulder height for a throat punch.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Paranoia Punch with Electrolytes at the Outrage Outlet! at January 27, 2015 03:13 PM (hLRSq)

348 I wish I knew how to stop this. The cultural marxists have taken over an ever larger swath of humanity.

We've got this.

Posted by: Gods of the Copybook Headings at January 27, 2015 03:13 PM (kff5f)

349
liberal Jonathan Chait

Why do we still call these leftist totalitarians liberals? I understand that Chait is "calling out" his fellow leftists, but he's still a piece of shit totalitarian.

Posted by: Soothsayer of The Righteous And Harmonious Fists (-243 days left until climate chaos) at January 27, 2015 03:13 PM (q19mL)

350 She can't be brought back, she must be destroyed. Obliterated. The very memory that someone like her existed must be eradicated.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 27, 2015 03:01 PM (da5Wo)

Right on, brother. And the very fact that these "High Caste" idiots cannot seem to see the very real danger to civilization that lies just a little further down their chosen path is beginning to scare me more than a little.
I think Mark Twain said something to the effect that the intelligence of a mob is that of the dumbest person in the mob divided by the number of people in the mob!

Posted by: Hrothgar at January 27, 2015 03:14 PM (ftVQq)

351 I, for one, would very much like to see Alex with a battle-ax.

Baruk Khazâd! Khazâd ai-mênu!

Posted by: toby928(C) Pale Penis Person at January 27, 2015 03:14 PM (evdj2)

352 I'm old enough to remember when people tried to avoid victimhood instead of actively seeking it out.
***
that's the problem with our privilege (not kidding) us normals have the bomb, the culture, and the looks and the only thing the barbarians can use against us, whether they're iraqi fedayeen, palestinians, LGBTetcetc, fat SJW nerds, or etc, is our guilt, basically holding their patheticness in front of us as a guilt bomb-shield.

so is born the victimhood cult.

Posted by: joe-impeachin44 at January 27, 2015 03:14 PM (3g9q6)

353 "What about those sexually attracted to horses?"


Give it ten years (maybe less) and someone somewhere will be suing a city or county or their discriminatory public decency laws.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 27, 2015 03:14 PM (LA7Cm)

354 The Quarterflash set from the US Festival was great.

Posted by: Garrett at January 27, 2015 03:14 PM (bb0LB)

355 Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at January 27, 2015 03:08 PM (xN1DB)

Well said Sir!

Free speech is a Natural Right which the Constitution says the Feral Government may not infringe upon.

As a Natural Right, it is inherent unto yourself... and while the Constitution does not protect you from OTHER people trying to limit your speech...

Its also does not diminish that it IS a Natural Right.

Posted by: BB Wolf at January 27, 2015 03:14 PM (qh617)

356 Everybody wants to be the Indian now.
Nobody wants to be the Cowboy.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at January 27, 2015 03:14 PM (ZPrif)

357 Posted by: Mandy P., lurking lurker who lurks at January 27, 2015 03:09 PM (KkVB6)


Dude. You have to put up with the Mommy brigade telling you that *every single thing you do* is wrong and horrible and terrible and you are not a True Mother Who Loves Her Children.

Yeah. I don't put up with anything that comes within a 100 miles of that.

Posted by: alexthechick - Listen to meee (and BC) at January 27, 2015 03:15 PM (mf5HN)

358 Progressiveness aka Kommunist Killers are very much like Islam. In Joseph Campbell's book on Occidental mythology he even makes this comparison.

Save there is no intangible god in the Communist state, the state is god.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 27, 2015 03:15 PM (+eQyZ)

359 313
oh and MY SEX LIFE, LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT IT!

Posted by: Soothsayer of The Righteous And Harmonious Fists (-243 days left until climate chaos) at January 27, 2015 03:06 PM (q19mL)


I do not need to hear about harmonious fisting.

Posted by: wooga at January 27, 2015 03:15 PM (HR2G8)

360 Yep...some people think they've got the whole world figured out when they're 12 and that's right where they stay.


Or so it seems.

Posted by: eleven at January 27, 2015 03:15 PM (ykfyK)

361 In my experience, the tendency to shut up when assaulted by these tactics is less due to emotional exhaustion than it is due to fear of physical harm instigated by an apparent psychopath and his buds.

But the emotionally exhausting part of it really is there, too.

Savages.

Posted by: no at January 27, 2015 03:15 PM (XhzIO)

362 Alex with a Battle Ax....

my old neighborhood from the fiorst tour through Columbia's "Midget of Colour" tempting me to buy him a mini sledge hammer....

friends don't let friends shop for the vertically challenged.

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 27, 2015 03:15 PM (/4AZU)

363 People who can't stand microagressions seem very - aggressive. Without descending into Freudian bullshit, simple logic and intuition suggests that binding one's emotions and opinions into the PC straitjacket might be creating stress points in other areas of one's psyche that tend to erupt unpredictably over minor slights, as with that Toronto whitey.

I'm not saying this like some Reich-esque "repression = pathology" analysis. Freud and Reich started from the faulty thesis that sexuality was "repressed" (in the sense of dammed up, denied and stifled) in Victorian and post-Victorian society when in fact it was still around. You just didn't have gays parading down main street in assless chaps. Freud was popular because people were fascinated by sex, not really "repressed" as he expressed the term.

PC is more like the repression Freud spoke of, made real. It doesn't allow you to sneak off to the "gentleman's club" of free thinking and get your free expression freak on. There's no secret space left to indulge your "Islamophobia" or your taste for off-color jokes about Thai she-boys. The Thought Police are everywhere, and most importantly, in your own head since childhood, as you are taught by coercion and shaming to police your own thoughts and damn yourself for failing to live up to the unliveable contradiction of hating hate, except when it's directed as cis-normal male white blah blahs, when it is to be reveled in in the "Two Minute" sense of Orwell.

Bottle people up like that, and the rage will start escaping containment at the untested weak spots.

Posted by: SocietyIs2Blame at January 27, 2015 03:15 PM (QKIQb)

364 I wish I knew how to stop this. The cultural marxists have taken over an ever larger swath of humanity.

----

I kind of blame the Boomers. I think what we're seeing are the fetid stinking remains of the whole Me First thing they pioneered back in the 60s. Their parents had seen real horror and were perhaps too indulgent of them during their formative years.

It's too pat of an answer, but it's where I start when I think about where this crap came from.

Posted by: @JohnTant at January 27, 2015 03:15 PM (eytER)

365 and the only thing the barbarians can use against us, whether they're iraqi fedayeen, palestinians, LGBTetcetc, fat SJW nerds, or etc, is our guilt, basically holding their patheticness in front of us as a guilt bomb-shield.


#NotWorking

Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2015 03:15 PM (TAu/7)

366 I, for one, would very much like to see Alex with a battle-ax.

Baruk Khazâd! Khazâd ai-mênu!

Posted by: toby928(C) Pale Penis Person at January 27, 2015 03:14 PM (evdj2)


T'dr'duzk b'hazg t't!

Posted by: Gods of the Copybook Headings at January 27, 2015 03:15 PM (kff5f)

367 All these prog fags are bullies. Punch 'em in the face, and they run away.


Why don't more people punch more people in the face?

Posted by: Beefy at January 27, 2015 03:16 PM (yn6XZ)

368 A more recent one: inappropriate use of "assassinate" and "execute" as intensified versions of "killed" or "murdered."Eventually, at this rate, we'll all just be grunting to each other, since the meaning of any remaining words will be so unclear and ambiguous that there'll be no point in using them.
Posted by: Jay Guevara

And note that murder victims are often referred to as having "passed" or "died". There's an incentive here to diminish the impact that violent crime has, while simultaneously distorting the legitimate actions of the state.

Posted by: Blue Hen at January 27, 2015 03:16 PM (Spluw)

369 I personally welcome our new POC, WCC and WOC overlords

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at January 27, 2015 03:16 PM (0LHZx)

370 Off, Apocalyptic sock!

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at January 27, 2015 03:16 PM (kff5f)

371 "I wish I knew how to stop this"

How do you stop an infection? Cauterize, apply topical anti-bacterial or anti-viral agents, multiply antibodies, boost all-over immune system.

First, though, drive up its cost.

Posted by: Feh at January 27, 2015 03:16 PM (b8TSE)

372 340 A pet peeve of mine (one of many, I'm afraid): "reach out" to someone. Are we all now E.T.? Can we just contact someone?

Mine is "sharing" instead of just telling someone about something. That one's a guaranteed eyeroll.

Thanks, but I don't want your "thought cooties."

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at January 27, 2015 03:11 PM (0HooB)


If someone says 'we need to have a conversation about'..... I say no... and walk away...

or immediately turn off the TV...

Posted by: BB Wolf at January 27, 2015 03:16 PM (qh617)

373 but I also get the feeling that these are, like the dawning upon obama of his lame duck status now that he has no congressional shield, the last, lame duck days of the collegiate SJW class. They too will be scoured by sunlight in a year or two, definitely by President Walker. 2016 should bring in a new GOP class who* will protect the base, the country, and our borders and punish the institutionalized tax payer funded liberals.

* I wish I could believe this.

Posted by: joe-impeachin44 at January 27, 2015 03:16 PM (3g9q6)

374 "A theater group at Mount Holyoke College recently announced it would no longer put on The Vagina Monologues [blah blah blah]"

The reason given for this is irrelevant. Let the celebration begin.

Posted by: no at January 27, 2015 03:17 PM (XhzIO)

375 "Meanwhile, I'm still white guy."

Interesting.

I generally insist on being referred to as "Germanic-Celtic-with a side order of Native American-American" whenever someone insists on being referred to as African or Asian or whatever hyphenated American.

Posted by: Special and Unique Snowflakes Collective, Local #96 at January 27, 2015 03:18 PM (xRHlK)

376 >>People who can't stand microagressions seem very - aggressive.....Bottle people up like that, and the rage will start escaping containment at the untested weak spots.


Heh, well-said. You've also just described Muslims who are all "call my religion violent and I'll keel you!"

Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2015 03:18 PM (ABcz/)

377 If a woman has 2 vaginas, would it be The Vagina Dialogues?

Posted by: bergerbilder at January 27, 2015 03:19 PM (8MjqI)

378 Everybody wants to be the Indian now.
Nobody wants to be the Cowboy.



I do. Cowboys win.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2015 03:19 PM (TAu/7)

379 373 Posted by: joe-impeachin44 at January 27, 2015 03:16 PM (3g9q6)

Nobody on the right will nutpunch the SJWs with the power of the purse...

and in allowing the cult of credential to sell the idea that a degree is the ONLY way to succeed we have in fact given the passive-aggressive left the Neutron Bomb of budget defense...

"if Preznit Walker cuts my budget YOUR kid is doomed!"

//Democrat 1-120,000,000

We need to get jobs back

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 27, 2015 03:19 PM (/4AZU)

380 The silver lining in all of this: the PC police have made everything illegal now. So even the most ardent followers of PC will be guilty of a crime. Might lead to some wake up calls.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at January 27, 2015 03:20 PM (0LHZx)

381 "people who can't stand microagressions"

i.e. neurotic

Posted by: Feh at January 27, 2015 03:20 PM (b8TSE)

382 I generally insist on being referred to as "Germanic-Celtic-with a side order of Native American-American" whenever someone insists on being referred to as African or Asian or whatever hyphenated American.


Posted by: Special and Unique Snowflakes Collective, Local #96 at January 27, 2015 03:18 PM (xRHlK)


Celtic American.... who really wants to go back to the old ways...

Like... when Celts had a few bad years... they would sacrifice their King to appease the gods...

/looks at Obama, raises eyebrow...

Posted by: BB Wolf at January 27, 2015 03:20 PM (qh617)

383 http://www.pinterest.com/ pin/219832025536727403

Yes please.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, Keeper of the Guards, returned from 1080 exile at January 27, 2015 03:11 PM (fwARV)


Linky no worky.

Posted by: alexthechick - My preeecciiiooouuusss at January 27, 2015 03:20 PM (mf5HN)

384 Special Snowflake Emocrats all the way down.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 27, 2015 03:20 PM (+eQyZ)

385 apparently a lot of humans don't know what to do with the spare time freed up by not having to find food and shelter.

Posted by: azjaeger at January 27, 2015 03:20 PM (Dv5a0)

386 I do. Cowboys win.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2015 03:19 PM (TAu/7)


Hi, ya.

Posted by: Tony Romo at January 27, 2015 03:20 PM (kff5f)

387 the mob wants blood.

Let's give them some. Theirs.

Posted by: Thin veneer of civility at January 27, 2015 03:20 PM (XzRw1)

388 I wish I knew how to stop this. The cultural marxists have taken over an ever larger swath of humanity.
Posted by: Costanza Defense at January 27, 2015 03:13 PM (ZPrif)


------------------------------------------


It'll be stopped the same way this insanity has been stopped before: With fire.

Posted by: Soona at January 27, 2015 03:20 PM (/HX7u)

389 but I also get the feeling that these are, like the dawning upon obama of his lame duck status now that he has no congressional shield, the last, lame duck days of the collegiate SJW class. They too will be scoured by sunlight


Would prefer to use a cheese grater.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2015 03:21 PM (TAu/7)

390 The cops were clearly racist dammit!!


http://tinyurl.com/mpx3oza


'Hey, let me use your gun!' Deondrae Hall asked a Florida detective walking into the Boynton Beach Police Department headquarters. 'I need to use your gun to take care of some ni**as who robbed me,' Hall explained.

When his request was turned down by the cop, Hall petitioned a second officer who was leaving the precinct. 'Hey I need to use your gun!,' he said.

Posted by: RWC - Shopping for Justice! at January 27, 2015 03:21 PM (fWAjv)

391 Posted by: alexthechick - Listen to meee (and BC) at January 27, 2015 03:15 PM (mf5HN)

Honestly, I ignore most of those idiots anyway. Avoid them at all costs, if possible. But I will say that the mommy blogger thing is, in all probability, a small subset of the population. They're all over the interwebs, but much more rare in person. The vast majority of folks you come across in meatspace may have their opinions about how I raise my kids, but very few will actually say it out loud. Of course, those who would are usually the most obnoxious ones, but it's really not that bad on the grand scale of thing.

The lefties on the other hand are a good chunk of all the population. I'm guessing 20% hard core with at least another 10% at least moderately committed to those principles. And a large chunk of the rest of civilization that is so afraid to push back against "popular opinion" and the PC culture that they'll go along with the destruction of others simply to avoid being destroyed themselves. That's a lot harder to get around. Those are the folks I have the hardest time with in meat space.

Posted by: Mandy P., lurking lurker who lurks at January 27, 2015 03:21 PM (KkVB6)

392 And note that murder victims are often referred to as having "passed" or "died". There's an incentive here to diminish the impact that violent crime has, while simultaneously distorting the legitimate actions of the state.


Ugh. A few years ago, read a young female forum moderator telling people to take care not to offend anyone on the anniversary of the 9/11 "accident".

Language is being destroyed in an Orwellian fashion. We're getting closer to that double-plus-un-good speak.

Posted by: CM at January 27, 2015 03:21 PM (0NdlF)

393 ..."yeah, well, your position on Issue X is almost as abhorrent to me as
antisemitism." I'm still working through a response to that, and on
figuring out where the boundaries are..."
Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at January 27, 2015 03:08 PM (xN1DB)

------------------------

I can't think of any opinion that could genuinely illicit that kind of response; the person you're talking to would have to be exaggerating their "offense", if not outright lying about it ...

Nice post, I agree with it all......

Posted by: Dirty Randy at January 27, 2015 03:21 PM (jjaLl)

394
On the other hand, we're also hard-wired to really enjoy leading a mob against someone. It feels good. There is no denying that; I've felt damned good everytime I've joined up with a mob.








Screw you guys.

Posted by: Seattle Peace Blimp at January 27, 2015 03:21 PM (TIIx5)

395 Alex,

Try this.

http://tinyurl.com/nxs5923

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, Keeper of the Guards, returned from 1080 exile at January 27, 2015 03:21 PM (fwARV)

396 Linky no worky.

Posted by: alexthechick - My preeecciiiooouuusss at January 27, 2015 03:20 PM (mf5HN)


I think there's a space between a slash and 'pin'

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at January 27, 2015 03:21 PM (kff5f)

397
speaking of muslims...

Ever notice that that fat pig michael moore never once tweeted What Would Allah Do? after a muslim terror attack?

That piece of shit moore has had harsher words for George Bush and Chris Kyle than ANY muslim terrorist. What does that tell you?

Posted by: Soothsayer of The Righteous And Harmonious Fists (-243 days left until climate chaos) at January 27, 2015 03:22 PM (q19mL)

398 Special Snowflake Emocrats all the way down.


Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 27, 2015 03:20 PM (+eQyZ)



I got to use 'special snowflake' at work today!!

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, Keeper of the Guards, returned from 1080 exile at January 27, 2015 03:22 PM (fwARV)

399 That piece of shit moore has had harsher words for George Bush and Chris Kyle than ANY muslim terrorist. What does that tell you?
Posted by: Soothsayer of The Righteous And Harmonious Fists (-243 days left until climate chaos) at January 27, 2015 03:22 PM (q19mL)

Nothing that I did not already know

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 27, 2015 03:22 PM (nzKvP)

400 "if Preznit Walker cuts my budget YOUR kid is doomed!"

//Democrat 1-120,000,000


Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 27, 2015 03:19 PM (/4AZU)

_____________


Heard on the radio today and ad by some local union here pushing the city to pass a law mandating paid time off. The sob story of course was a single mom who had a sick child, but because the evil (Republican of course) employer didn't give her time off, she had to send the kid to school.

Do you WANT YOUR CHILD exposed to her sick kid? No? Then call your city council and tell them to vote yes on this issue.

I wanted to drive into someone.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at January 27, 2015 03:22 PM (0LHZx)

401 "apparently a lot of humans don't know what to do with the spare time freed up by not having to find food and shelter."


Our biggest problem. Too many people have too much free time and nothing to fill it with. They go looking and this is what we get.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 27, 2015 03:22 PM (LA7Cm)

402 Posted by: alexthechick - Listen to meee (and BC) at January 27, 2015 02:46 PM (mf5HN)

You are dangerous - a free radical that might start a chain reaction of free thinking that could shatter the very foundations of their cult.

Posted by: votermom at January 27, 2015 03:22 PM (cbfNE)

403 That piece of shit moore has had harsher words for George Bush and Chris Kyle than ANY muslim terrorist. What does that tell you?

That he's not completely insane?

Posted by: toby928(C) Pale Penis Person at January 27, 2015 03:22 PM (evdj2)

404 That piece of shit moore has had harsher words for George Bush and Chris Kyle than ANY muslim terrorist. What does that tell you?

Posted by: Soothsayer of The Righteous And Harmonious Fists (-243 days left until climate chaos) at January 27, 2015 03:22 PM (q19mL)


That he's apparently well-fed before terrorist attacks. The guy gets cranky when he's hungry.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, Keeper of the Guards, returned from 1080 exile at January 27, 2015 03:23 PM (fwARV)

405 Well.... I think the Horde will be asking for her number. They even might have a few heist ideas in mind. And will bring their own zip-ties I bet.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 27, 2015 03:23 PM (+eQyZ)

406 Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 27, 2015 03:12 PM (/4AZU)

Exactly. I feel no "sisterhood" for those who hate my son simply for having a Y chromosome or would enslave all my children to the government monster.

Any form of Absolute Moral Authority/Absolute Moral Guilt based on a circumstance of birth can only be detrimental to society.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 27, 2015 03:23 PM (GDulk)

407 We said that we disagreed with what they said but would die for their right to say it. They were like "cool, thanks!".

Posted by: The Mega Independent at January 27, 2015 03:23 PM (QCo5R)

408 We need to get jobs back

I really wanted to respond to whomever it was earlier today who mentioned that if someone gets attached to the gubmint teat, they'll never get off of it.

I believe you can change that mindset by creating an incentive to have more than the gubmint will give you. It's called capitalism, something which we haven't seen or enjoyed in quite a while. But that would require ridding ourselves of Prog/Coms in addition to making sense, so forget it.

Shit, I just talked myself out of my own argument. Nevermind.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at January 27, 2015 03:23 PM (0HooB)

409 Did the movie end with Jonathan Chait in the volcano?

Posted by: NCKate at January 27, 2015 03:23 PM (EBMYe)

410
In before the "Ewok writes a movie review" jokes!

.
.
.
.
Ahh, hell.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 27, 2015 03:23 PM (TIIx5)

411 395
Alex,

Try this.

http://tinyurl.com/nxs5923

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, Keeper of the Guards, returned from 1080 exile at January 27, 2015 03:21 PM (fwARV)

Whoa. Thanky for Linky...is that raaaacist to say it that way?

Posted by: Badda Bing 'now with Badda Boom' at January 27, 2015 03:23 PM (klaU/)

412 Alex,

Try this.

http://tinyurl.com/nxs5923
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, Keeper of the Guards, returned from 1080 exile at January 27, 2015 03:21 PM (fwARV)



Why, yes, yes, I do think I will try that.


Also now I really want a battle ax.

Posted by: alexthechick - My preeecciiiooouuusss at January 27, 2015 03:23 PM (mf5HN)

413 eventually, there will be a breed of GOP who knows how full of shit the msm4dnc shit storm complex is and ignore the dying pleas of a defunded ACORN....and alraza, lacasa, PSU thugs, over funded collegecrats etc etc


because

in red states the new ground is seeded with shit that works. Think about it, low cost colleges in Tx or TN that has no fat in the form of genderbender studies.

Posted by: joe-impeachin44 at January 27, 2015 03:24 PM (3g9q6)

414 I shall insist that you all call me a European-American

Posted by: kbdabear at January 27, 2015 03:24 PM (GrXXa)

415 So AtC, I'd be interested to read how you became a Moron. Guest post?

Posted by: Feh at January 27, 2015 03:24 PM (b8TSE)

416 Same shit happens in mothering groups"

Do not get Mrs. Mouse outside of a glass or two of decent red wine and ask her about the days when she was in NICU, or as she has called it "The Bitch Factory"...

Posted by: anon a mouse at January 27, 2015 03:25 PM (/jpU8)

417 Also now I really want a battle ax.


It's coming to the MoMee.

*Not even a little bit kidding.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, Keeper of the Guards, returned from 1080 exile at January 27, 2015 03:25 PM (fwARV)

418 Also now I really want a battle ax.

Posted by: alexthechick - My preeecciiiooouuusss at January 27, 2015 03:23 PM (mf5HN)



This business will get out of hand. It will get out of hand and we'll be lucky to live through it.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 27, 2015 03:25 PM (da5Wo)

419 Has *anyone* been able to get Cspan3's coverage of the Benghazi hearings to connect? I have tried and tried, but it never gets downloaded...
http://tinyurl.com/maq35bp

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 27, 2015 03:26 PM (vPh3W)

420 Do you WANT YOUR CHILD exposed to her sick kid? No?



"Then support mandatory vaccinations".


*Heads assploding*

Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2015 03:26 PM (TAu/7)

421 Posted by: Mandy P., lurking lurker who lurks at January 27, 2015 03:09 PM (KkVB6)

-------------------------

Good points Mandy...

I really feel bad for you conservative ladies, overall you take more shit than us guys....

I wish I could share some of my White Male Privilege with you... but, you know.... kinda need it for myself....heh.


Posted by: Dirty Randy at January 27, 2015 03:26 PM (jjaLl)

422 367 All these prog fags are bullies. Punch 'em in the face, and they run away.


Why don't more people punch more people in the face?
Posted by: Beefy at January 27, 2015 03:16 PM (yn6XZ)


How YOU doin'?

Posted by: lawyers at January 27, 2015 03:26 PM (AFsCH)

423 There's a point a which one departs with rational arguments because its useless to argue cogently with militancy. You can destroy their arguments with facts, provide demonstrably true examples and even opinion based on well-founded supposition. But acolytes of extremist philosophy won't change or alter course- and no one should expect them too. It is by very definition, irrational because it is the work of zealots.

I make the following analogy quite often and get called many names for it. But in the end it i demonstrably true: contemporary liberals are not different than the Taliban or IS, it's just a matter of degrees and methods. Liberals simply apply their philosophy by infecting institutions such as the media and schools with their sophistry. They enforce it by bullying, a takeover of the leadership structure and changing rules, norm and mores to suit their needs. That's done without debate and enforced in an authoritarian manner.

That can't go on forever and be tolerated by rational people. People rise up against that type of totalitarian, dogmatic action. And it never ends well for the perpetrators.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 27, 2015 03:26 PM (GGCsk)

424 Hey AlextheChick, would a real version of this work?
http://tinyurl.com/ocrunqo

So who got to be your designated Special Snowflake Washington Nearsider?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 27, 2015 03:26 PM (+eQyZ)

425 @390 - 'Excuse me, sir, but while this country does have Obamaphones and, supposedly, Obamacare, we do not yet have Obamaguns. You'll have to go buy your own firearm in the private sector.'

Posted by: JEM at January 27, 2015 03:26 PM (o+SC1)

426 406 Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 27, 2015 03:23 PM (GDulk)

Yup my wife has only a son, should her devotion to "the sisterhood" have her hate him?

The left telegraphs their rage/fear at apostates with the ferocity they attacked Palin/Cruz/Cain/West/Scott....need I go on.....

"not your shield" destroys the efficacy of their primary weapon they are too lazy to put down.

I'd sell all discretionary shit I own to back a Black man or woman who said "equal is equal" with passion to the black community and made it stick....

This "I are more victim" shit is killing the nation.

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 27, 2015 03:27 PM (/4AZU)

427
Did the movie end with Jonathan Chait in the volcano?

Posted by: NCKate at January 27, 2015 03:23 PM (EBMYe)







So, happy ending.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 27, 2015 03:27 PM (TIIx5)

428 we do not yet have Obamaguns. You'll have to go buy your own firearm in the private sector.'
Posted by: JEM at January 27, 2015 03:26 PM (o+SC1)

Well that's good, since I actually want my firearm to WORK

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 27, 2015 03:28 PM (nzKvP)

429 393 Dirty Randy

I can't think of any opinion that could genuinely illicit that kind of response; the person you're talking to would have to be exaggerating their "offense", if not outright lying about it ...
----------

I think we may be getting there with gay marriage.

Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at January 27, 2015 03:28 PM (xN1DB)

430 Anna:


Okay. Bitch session. Sorry Horde. Feel free to scroll past this.


So. One of my jobs is keeping track of and reserving the law enforcement vehicles for our gun carriers. Policy dictates (and I know this because I fucking wrote the policy) that I have 24 hours to respond to a request. (Or eight business hours.)

Thursday, at (nearly) 7pm (I'd already gone home for the day), a request came in. Friday (my day off) at about 4pm, I answered the request and made the reservation.

Yesterday, I received an email asking why it took me more than 24 hours to respond to the request. I forwarded the original request as well as my reply and noted the times.

I received an additional response: "I understood it was technically less than 24 hours, but you were not timely. Please set up a meeting with me when I get in on Tuesday (Monday is her day off) to discuss your failure to respond in a timely fashion to requests."

Then this happened:

When we last saw our douchetrepid boss, she was yelling at me for not hitting a metric that I very clearly hit (and on my day off, no less). This morning, there was a follow-up conversation wherein I re-established the fact that I hit her previously-agreed-upon metrics:



Boss: Nearsider, I'm just not happy with how long it took you to respond to XXXXs request.

Me: I understand. I know XXXX's (our Presidential Merit Fellow) always been given special treatment in an off-the-record kind of way. If you'd like to re-visit our established time-frames, I'd be happy to go over that with you so that we don't run into this in the future.

Boss: Well, no. You didn't hit the metrics as it is. Just make sure you're answering people on time from now on.

Me: Boss, you first said that I only had 24 hours to respond. I pointed out that I hit that metric. Then you told me I also only had 8 business hours, whichever is less. I pointed out that I hit that metric as well, even though I was on leave. The request came in at 7pm and I had addressed it by around 3pm the following day. That's well within the established limits.

Boss: Agree to disagree.

Me: No, Boss. Not 'agree to disagree.' This isn't opinion. It's empirical. These numbers aren't open to interpretation. It's not opinion. It's math. It's like the full moon or the changing of the tides, it just IS. I hit your metrics. You're still unhappy about how long it took, and that's okay. I understand, and I'm happy to re-write the limits to account for this incident. What I'm not willing to do is let my performance evaluation be negatively impacted because one special snowflake called you at home, at 10pm, because no one had answered his three-hour-old request yet.

Boss: We'll discuss this later.


I'm in so much trouble.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, Keeper of the Guards, returned from 1080 exile at January 27, 2015 03:29 PM (fwARV)

431 "You've also just described Muslims who are all "call my religion violent and I'll keel you!"

The shared rage at the Privileged Other is what creates the bizarro "unity" between "Queers for Palestine" - entirely one sided, of course, as there are precious few "Palestinians for Queers." The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Until my "friend" decides to turn me into a Pez dispenser for my sexual preferences

For the Muj, it's also about envy - blame the Other for why he's blowing past your camel on the freeway in his Mercedes on the way to help your Tyrant of the Month pump more oil out of the ground to finance his next hookers booze and blow junket to Macao, while you bust your own hump for 18 hours farming sand and thinking of evening scores some day.

For Christians, salvation is about an eternal reward in exchange for a life of humility, turning the other cheek and doing the right thing. Islam is sold as payback in the here and now, not deferred gratification. Yes, 72 virgins and all that, but the fun starts today.

Posted by: SocietyIs2Blame at January 27, 2015 03:29 PM (QKIQb)

432 Watching the TV about the costal flooding in Mass. I mean flooding sucks not matter when but it must really suck in freezing temps

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 27, 2015 03:29 PM (nzKvP)

433 428 we do not yet have Obamaguns. You'll have to go buy your own firearm in the private sector.'
Posted by: JEM at January 27, 2015 03:26 PM (o+SC1)

Well that's good, since I actually want my firearm to WORK

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 27, 2015 03:28 PM (nzKvP)


Sure there are.... you just have to apply under the correct Fast and Furious program...

Posted by: ATF at January 27, 2015 03:29 PM (qh617)

434 414 I shall insist that you all call me a European-American

**

Just call me a real american.

Posted by: joe-impeachin44 at January 27, 2015 03:29 PM (3g9q6)

435 I do. Cowboys win."

*wonders off to find the Tom Landry/Washington Redskins American Express commercial*

Posted by: anon a mouse at January 27, 2015 03:29 PM (/jpU8)

436 Proof that there is some good in all religions.

http://tinyurl.com/nlk2dov

Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 27, 2015 03:29 PM (We+ZB)

437 Glad I've avoided the mommie brigade!
Never liked mommy blogs (a little to Munchausen by proxyish for my taste) and stopped reading mommy-type magazines early on after reading an article in a popular one that basically endorsed hiring a foreign nanny (wink, wink) under the table to avoid getting the IRS involved, etc.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2015 03:29 PM (ABcz/)

438 Ace or rd, this deserves attention.. CNBC decides to run an article explaining how Clint Eastwood really isn't all that and big whoop Am. Sniper his "biggest" hit. Shameful. ( comments are awesome) http://www.cnbc.com/id/102368640

Posted by: Yip at January 27, 2015 03:29 PM (84SRe)

439 I really feel bad for you conservative ladies, overall you take more shit than us guys....

*********

I dunno if it's that or if it's just that there's a hell of a lot more peer pressure in Woman World.

Posted by: Mandy P., lurking lurker who lurks at January 27, 2015 03:30 PM (KkVB6)

440 "Also now I really want a battle ax."

It helps keep meetings on point and moving along a lot better than Roberts' Rules of Order.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Paranoia Punch with Electrolytes at the Outrage Outlet! at January 27, 2015 03:30 PM (hLRSq)

441 we do not yet have Obamaguns. You'll have to go buy your own firearm in the private sector.'
Posted by: JEM at January 27, 2015 03:26 PM (o+SC1)

Well that's good, since I actually want my firearm to WORK

Posted by: Nevergiveup


Pulling the trigger and having the magazine or cylinder fall out is always bad juju.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2015 03:30 PM (TAu/7)

442 Also now I really want a battle ax.

MIL jokes in 5, 4, 3, 2, ..........

Posted by: 1bulwetweft at January 27, 2015 03:31 PM (Fr8iN)

443 in red states the new ground is seeded with shit that works. Think about it, low cost colleges in Tx or TN that has no fat in the form of genderbender studies.
Posted by: joe-impeachin44 at January 27, 2015 03:24 PM (3g9q6)

_________

Obama's free college plan is based in large part TN's very own free college plan.

Yeay?

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at January 27, 2015 03:31 PM (0LHZx)

444 Sooooo, Horde. Nearsider will be needing a new job in the VERY near future.

Anybody got any leads?

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 27, 2015 03:31 PM (da5Wo)

445 >>I wish I could share some of my White Male Privilege with you...

I believe the approved term is I want to put my White Male Privilege in you.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 27, 2015 03:31 PM (g1DWB)

446 The lefties on the other hand are a good chunk of all the population. I'm guessing 20% hard core with at least another 10% at least moderately committed to those principles. And a large chunk of the rest of civilization that is so afraid to push back against "popular opinion" and the PC culture that they'll go along with the destruction of others simply to avoid being destroyed themselves. That's a lot harder to get around. Those are the folks I have the hardest time with in meat space.
Posted by: Mandy P., lurking lurker who lurks at January 27, 2015 03:21 PM (KkVB6)



That's because it is now a virtue in certain quarters to reject social decorum. That is what tone policing means. When you say to someone who is being just horrible to others "Hey. Please do not be so horrible." now you are in the one in the wrong.

It's power. It's all about power and fear and shaming. There are those who believe, in their heart of hearts, that hunting down the real life identify of some anonymous commenter and then getting that person fired and picketing their house and frightening their family is the height of moral rectitude.

There is no reasoning with that position.

Look. There is all kinds of stuff I don't say in all kinds of forums (no, really!) because it's rude. Because it's hurtful to people who, yes, may have hurt my wee delicate feelings but who didn't mean me harm and who would be upset to learn they did so. Because ruining someone's dinner is just flat out mean.

Because, hell to the yes, I am a better person and I was not raised by the stupid wolves.

Posted by: alexthechick - My preeecciiiooouuusss at January 27, 2015 03:32 PM (mf5HN)

447 Marshawn Lynch -- "I'm here so I won't get fined".


He just kept repeating with every question.

Posted by: eleven at January 27, 2015 03:32 PM (ykfyK)

448 433 428 we do not yet have Obamaguns. You'll have to go buy your own firearm in the private sector.'
Posted by: JEM at January 27, 2015 03:26 PM (o+SC1)

Well that's good, since I actually want my firearm to WORK

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 27, 2015 03:28 PM (nzKvP)


Sure there are.... you just have to apply under the correct Fast and Furious program...

Posted by: ATF at January 27, 2015 03:29 PM (qh617)


Yes Infidel! Its all about being in the right program...

Posted by: ISIS member armed as a Syrian Resistance Fighter at January 27, 2015 03:32 PM (qh617)

449 "There's a point a which one departs with rational arguments because its useless to argue cogently with militancy."


Hence yelling "You have offended the mighty Odin with your ceaseless caterwauling!" and slamming a battleaxe into the middle of the skull. Hard to argue against that response.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Paranoia Punch with Electrolytes at the Outrage Outlet! at January 27, 2015 03:33 PM (hLRSq)

450 Sooooo, Horde. Nearsider will be needing a new job in the VERY near future.

Anybody got any leads?



Republic of Texas.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2015 03:33 PM (TAu/7)

451 Do not get Mrs. Mouse outside of a glass or two of decent red wine and ask her about the days when she was in NICU, or as she has called it "The Bitch Factory"...

Would that be a Neonatal Unit?

Before BBoy Squared was born, I used to go to the hospital where the Daughter of Satan worked and rock (and feed and change and talk to) newborns in her unit. Some of their parents were dirt poor and couldn't get up there to do the parenting thing. I enjoyed that greatly and wouldn't mind doing it again, except I'm a dude and probably wouldn't be welcome in that capacity anymore.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at January 27, 2015 03:33 PM (0HooB)

452 It's the Chinese Cultural Revolution, or the French Revolution, over and over again.

I used to think, geez, those people waving little red books are nuts! Now I see it on campuses and in the media. Of course it is exhausting and it will burn itself out eventually. But in the meantime, stand clear of the mob. They are out of their minds.

Posted by: PJ at January 27, 2015 03:33 PM (cHuNI)

453 The Mayor of Boston is asking people not to shovel snow back into the street. OK, well how about this, in my neighborhood in NJ i will stop shoveling snow back onto the street when you stop plowing that 6 foot berm in front of my driveway

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 27, 2015 03:33 PM (nzKvP)

454 Boss: Agree to disagree.Me: No, Boss. Not 'agree to disagree.' This isn't opinion. It's empirical. These numbers aren't open to interpretation. It's not opinion. It's math

Been there, lived through that.

Boss: "I'm sorry that you feel this way"
Me (Mr Tact): "It's not a feeling; it's a conclusion or an observation. I feel tired, hungry, bashful, grumpy or dopey. I observed this (whatever) and concluded (whatever). And i can produce the reasons for the conclusion."

That's why weasel words like "happy" and "feelings" appear. As if anyone cares about my feelings.

Posted by: Blue Hen at January 27, 2015 03:33 PM (Spluw)

455 450 Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2015 03:33 PM (TAu/7)

ACTUALLY Nearsider should drop his resume to Red State Civil Services ANYWAY.....

but I think he'll be fine.

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 27, 2015 03:34 PM (/4AZU)

456
Because, hell to the yes, I am a better person and I was not raised by the stupid wolves.


Duh. Wolves can't use battle-axes.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, Keeper of the Guards, returned from 1080 exile at January 27, 2015 03:34 PM (fwARV)

457 Because, hell to the yes, I am a better person and I was not raised by the stupid wolves.

Posted by: alexthechick - My preeecciiiooouuusss at January 27, 2015 03:32 PM (mf5HN)


Hey now! Don't blame us for this... we keep discipline in the pack, and don't let Betas dictate...

Posted by: Big Bad ALPHA Wolf at January 27, 2015 03:34 PM (qh617)

458 This is exhausting. I'm needing a nap to recuperate. Or lunch is putting me to sleep.

Posted by: Reginald Smythe-Beufort at January 27, 2015 03:34 PM (mB42u)

459
Marshawn Lynch is very hard to like. A lot like Corey Dillon.

He's no Emmit Smith, that's for sure.

Posted by: Soothsayer of The Righteous And Harmonious Fists (-243 days left until climate chaos) at January 27, 2015 03:34 PM (q19mL)

460
Here you have it guys, female ejaculate is just pee.
http://tinyurl.com/k3gnwby

Posted by: maddogg at January 27, 2015 03:34 PM (xWW96)

461 Also now I really want a battle ax."

Trust me - this is better:
http://tinyurl.com/kuoo3v2

(it's the 36 inch Stanley Tools FatMax Wrecking Bar. 3 feet of wicked ass steel. A genuine fun time for all)

Posted by: anon a mouse at January 27, 2015 03:34 PM (/jpU8)

462 Also now I really want a battle ax.

Posted by: alexthechick - My preeecciiiooouuusss at January 27, 2015 03:23 PM (mf5HN)


Here you go, my Queen

http://tinyurl.com/q7bw8wz

Posted by: Sean Bannion, Chief of the Logistics Directorate, People's Democratic Republic of Alextopia at January 27, 2015 03:35 PM (V+kmg)

463
418 Also now I really want a battle ax.

Posted by: alexthechick - My preeecciiiooouuusss at January 27, 2015 03:23 PM (mf5HN)


This business will get out of hand. It will get out of hand and we'll be lucky to live through it.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 27, 2015 03:25 PM (da5Wo)


And by battle ax, she means a battleship.

Where she can take helm on her Mighty Stepladder of Awesome, wearing a cute little captain hat and a sexy sailor uniform.

Posted by: CM at January 27, 2015 03:35 PM (0NdlF)

464
Oops, wrong link.
Female ejaculate is just pee.


http://tinyurl.com/pmujjxj


Posted by: maddogg at January 27, 2015 03:35 PM (xWW96)

465 Where authoritarianism lives, it's only a matter of time until the guillotines come out.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 27, 2015 03:35 PM (GGCsk)

466 Before BBoy Squared was born, I used to go to the hospital where the Daughter of Satan worked and rock (and feed and change and talk to) newborns in her unit. Some of their parents were dirt poor and couldn't get up there to do the parenting thing. I enjoyed that greatly and wouldn't mind doing it again, except I'm a dude and probably wouldn't be welcome in that capacity anymore.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at January 27, 2015 03:33 PM (0HooB)



1) that is a very kind thing you did

2) it's not the fact that you're a guy, it's security. who is allowed into a NICU unit is tightly controlled for several reasons.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 27, 2015 03:35 PM (da5Wo)

467 You'll have to go
buy your own firearm in the private sector.'

Only if you're white.

Posted by: S Warehouse Fork Lift Operator at January 27, 2015 03:35 PM (XzRw1)

468 457 Posted by: Big Bad ALPHA Wolf at January 27, 2015 03:34 PM (qh617)

A beta steps up we cow him, he remains uncowed we mount him...he still wants to start farming we eat him....

//Properly Obedient Sub-Alpha Wolf

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 27, 2015 03:36 PM (/4AZU)

469 467
You'll have to go

buy your own firearm in the private sector.'

Only if you're white.

Posted by: DHS Warehouse Fork Lift Operator at January 27, 2015 03:36 PM (XzRw1)

470 >>I'm in so much trouble.

Aw, hell, I had a boss like that. total fruitloop. My performance review from her was filled with statements like "She tries really hard to..." and "She really cares about providing quality work..."

I had to keep injecting "...and succeeded in accomplishing x, y and z."

A few years after leaving that co. I heard that she had left the industry and became.....a relationship expert!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2015 03:36 PM (ABcz/)

471 Marshawn Lynch

I love that guy. My favorite is his "Yeah" interview.

Posted by: Feh at January 27, 2015 03:36 PM (b8TSE)

472 The good thing about twitter mobs is they are over quickly. Usually you just have to brass it out for a day or two and the mob will move on to the next target.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at January 27, 2015 03:37 PM (ZPrif)

473 This post has a plethora of aggression and micro-aggression triggers that runs throughout it's entirety.

Tastes good.

Posted by: Meremortal at January 27, 2015 03:37 PM (1Y+hH)

474 >>The Mayor of Boston is asking people not to shovel snow back into the street. OK, well how about this, in my neighborhood in NJ i will stop shoveling snow back onto the street when you stop plowing that 6 foot berm in front of my driveway

When I lived in Boston I had my own parking space behind my condo. It was just a piece of blacktop big enough for a car but it was worth its wait in gold. Parking in Boston blows.

Shoveling time was always a game of moving snow, guy next to me would throw it in my space, I would throw it back in his, plow would bury both of us and the cycle would continue until spring.

They used to dump the snow in the bay but all the salt and chemicals were giving us fish with 3 eyes and feet so now its just moving the shit around until it melts.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 27, 2015 03:37 PM (g1DWB)

475 ok this thread got long - did anyone explain the italic/oblique thing to Ace yet?

Posted by: BlackOrchidDefendsTheIHM at January 27, 2015 03:37 PM (pS66t)

476 445
>>I wish I could share some of my White Male Privilege with you...



I believe the approved term is I want to put my White Male Privilege in you.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 27, 2015 03:31 PM (g1DWB)

-----------------------------
Can't believe I screwed that up!!!

Posted by: Dirty Randy at January 27, 2015 03:37 PM (jjaLl)

477
remember how small and cute the Hobbitses' weapons looked compared to the humans'

Posted by: Soothsayer of The Righteous And Harmonious Fists (-243 days left until climate chaos) at January 27, 2015 03:37 PM (q19mL)

478 Washington Nearsider you really walked into the trap. You already on the sh*t list over previous incident. Should have made the reservation within an hour of the email. Especially if the idiot making the request is already in the special protected class.

Been down this road myself, its ugly. Its pillar and post I know. It was your time off. But that don't matter with them.

I still vividly remember the NOSC one time calling me at my house past 10pm to tell me our email server was down. Asked if they wanted me to drive in. They said no, it can wait. *thud*

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 27, 2015 03:37 PM (+eQyZ)

479 Posted by: Sean Bannion, Chief of the Logistics Directorate, People's Democratic Republic of Alextopia at January 27, 2015 03:35 PM (V+kmg)


You know, I once knew a dude with that nic. But I'm pretty sure he's dead. Hasn't been around much lately.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 27, 2015 03:37 PM (da5Wo)

480 Yeah. Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. NICU.
A pretty intense place at times...

Posted by: anon a mouse at January 27, 2015 03:38 PM (/jpU8)

481 Here you go, my Queen

http://tinyurl.com/q7bw8wz
Posted by: Sean Bannion, Chief of the Logistics Directorate, People's Democratic Republic of Alextopia at January 27, 2015 03:35 PM (V+kmg)



Hell yes.


And by battle ax, she means a battleship.

Where she can take helm on her Mighty Stepladder of Awesome, wearing a cute little captain hat and a sexy sailor uniform.
Posted by: CM at January 27, 2015 03:35 PM (0NdlF)


Maaaaybe.

Posted by: alexthechick - My preeecciiiooouuusss at January 27, 2015 03:38 PM (mf5HN)

482 459 Posted by: Soothsayer of The Righteous And Harmonious Fists (-243 days
left until climate chaos) at January 27, 2015 03:34 PM (q19mL)

Heh...Corey Dillon....

He was All-Felon in College man....

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 27, 2015 03:38 PM (/4AZU)

483 @460
Here you have it guys, female ejaculate is just pee.
http://tinyurl.com/k3gnwby

Posted by: maddogg


hahahaaa... I KNEW it!

Posted by: Reggie Love at January 27, 2015 03:38 PM (84SRe)

484 I'm kinda bth ways on the Marshawn Lynch thing.


Player interviews are stupid because the questions are stupid and the answers are boring because stupid questions.

But no interviews at all would seems so impersonal.

Posted by: eleven at January 27, 2015 03:39 PM (ykfyK)

485 I think we may be getting there with gay marriage.

Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at January 27, 2015 03:28 PM (xN1DB)
--------------------------
Yeah, shit, didn't think of that one....

Posted by: Dirty Randy at January 27, 2015 03:39 PM (jjaLl)

486 When I lived in Boston I had my own parking space behind my condo. It was just a piece of blacktop big enough for a car but it was worth its wait in gold. Parking in Boston blows.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 27, 2015 03:37 PM (g1DWB)


Word

::: fist bump :::

Try parking in Cambridge in a neighborhood full of passive-aggressive Harvard and MIT profs during a snowstorm.

Speeeeeeeecial.

Posted by: Sean Bannion, Chief of the Logistics Directorate, People's Democratic Republic of Alextopia at January 27, 2015 03:39 PM (V+kmg)

487 Part of the constant butthurt over everything is that many of these Special Snowflakes come from well off homes and have no genuine problems to be resolved.

Hence, the pained wailing about #MalePrivilege while women in Africa and the Middle East primary concerns are having enough to eat or hoping that their batshit crazy husband doesn't chop them up for showing a square inch of skin in public

If we underwent a catastrophic economic crisis, few people would have time to whine about microagressions or bother listening to them for 5 seconds before telling them to shut the fuck up, we have REAL shit to worry about

Posted by: kbdabear at January 27, 2015 03:39 PM (GrXXa)

488 Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 27, 2015 03:37 PM (+eQyZ)

Agreed.

However.

They don't pay me enough to have a work computer turned on and signed in all day every day - particularly not during my off-time.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, Keeper of the Guards, returned from 1080 exile at January 27, 2015 03:40 PM (fwARV)

489 478 Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 27, 2015 03:37 PM (+eQyZ)


Heh.....

now say it along with me....

The federal Government deserves to police labor law in the private ranks b/c..."they follow it so well themselves"

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 27, 2015 03:40 PM (/4AZU)

490 Where she can take helm on her Mighty Stepladder of Awesome, wearing a cute little captain hat and a sexy sailor uniform.
Posted by: CM at January 27, 2015 03:35 PM (0NdlF)


If you only knew.

If.

You.

Only.

Knew.

Posted by: Sean Bannion, Chief of the Logistics Directorate, People's Democratic Republic of Alextopia at January 27, 2015 03:40 PM (V+kmg)

491 430 nearsider

Your job is to survive.

Your boss finds you threatening. More words = more threatening.

Say the same thing in fewer words. That may allow her to agree with a less threatening fact.

If you're respectful, she'll feel good about her "laying down the law," and you'll escape.

Then go find another job if possible. Sounds like a mini-hell. You'll have the rest of your happy hours to one-up shitty boss stories.

Posted by: Feh at January 27, 2015 03:40 PM (b8TSE)

492 Apparently the Vagina Monologues thing was triggering pre-operative trans-sexuals.

The punch line is that the college in question has no transsexuals in attendance, so there was literally nobody who could attend that could be offended in that way.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 27, 2015 03:41 PM (B/VB5)

493 Must have been one hell of a movie.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 27, 2015 03:41 PM (PuQW/)

494 Apparently the Vagina Monologues thing was triggering pre-operative trans-sexuals"

From Transylvania?

Posted by: anon a mouse at January 27, 2015 03:41 PM (/jpU8)

495 2) it's not the fact that you're a guy, it's security. who is allowed into a NICU unit is tightly controlled for several reasons.

Yeah, being a nurse's hubby helped. But I never had to fill out any forms or anything, since they all knew me anyway. This was 35 years ago.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at January 27, 2015 03:41 PM (0HooB)

496 Nearsider: Take to HR ASAP. Say, "This is what happened, this is why, here's the published policy and the emails showing the times involved." Then say, "I feel I may be subject to harassment or retaliation based on the fact that I asserted I had adhered to published policy."

Then, if she starts something, you've already got it on file with HR, and she's the one in hot water.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at January 27, 2015 03:31 PM (0LHZx)

Federalism FTW! I don't care if Tennessee finds some way to offer "free" (that is: taxpayer subsidized) college to their residents. I'm not on the hook for that.

I *do* care if I'm expected to pick up the bill for someone's AA in Underwater Basket Weaving from Topeka Community College.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at January 27, 2015 03:42 PM (kff5f)

497 That thing you triggered in your mouth.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 27, 2015 03:42 PM (PuQW/)

498 Then go find another job if possible. Sounds like a mini-hell. You'll have the rest of your happy hours to one-up shitty boss stories.

Posted by: Feh at January 27, 2015 03:40 PM (b8TSE)

I'm truly tired of working in a place where testifying against my chain of command on the Hill to some sub-committee is part and parcel of the job description.

I hereby pledge, by my life, my treasure and my sacred honor, that whoever hires me/gets me hired can have a hand in (and a signed copy of) my resignation letter.

It's gonna be epic.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, Keeper of the Guards, returned from 1080 exile at January 27, 2015 03:42 PM (fwARV)

499 Sean and BCochran, need a ruling before waking the Empress on this one

http://www.e2046.com/product/Army/22475/

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 27, 2015 03:42 PM (+eQyZ)

500 I take it Daughter of Satan is an ex?


Didn't quite understand that part.

Posted by: eleven at January 27, 2015 03:42 PM (ykfyK)

501 Seems these peoples will fail. In any group setting to create a working group will follow Forming, Storming and Norming. That a bunch of gays, wymym, transgender, and all around fucktardery the concept of Norming is a non-starter.

Posted by: Super Creepy Rob Lowe at January 27, 2015 03:42 PM (oDCMR)

502 >>Try parking in Cambridge in a neighborhood full of passive-aggressive Harvard and MIT profs during a snowstorm.

My favorite was Southie when the guys would put lawn furniture and shit in a space to "save" it.

Word to the wise, if you ever find yourself in Southie and see a chaise lounge in a shoveled out space, do not move it. Your welcome.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 27, 2015 03:43 PM (g1DWB)

503 "If we underwent a catastrophic economic crisis, few people would have time to whine about microagressions or bother listening to them for 5 seconds before telling them to shut the fuck up, we have REAL shit to worry about "

Interesting take on this. I've heard that more than a few folks have

Posted by: anon a mouse at January 27, 2015 03:43 PM (/jpU8)

504 Allen - NoGo. HR Director is the lady who cancelled a billet when she discovered I was the one selected.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, Keeper of the Guards, returned from 1080 exile at January 27, 2015 03:43 PM (fwARV)

505 C-Span is crapping the bed.

Gowdy looks like a retard.

Posted by: DHS Warehouse Fork Lift Operator at January 27, 2015 03:43 PM (XzRw1)

506 Chait:

"I am white and male, a fact that is certainly worth bearing in mind."

What a douche.

Posted by: Feh at January 27, 2015 03:43 PM (b8TSE)

507 So we're bringing weapons to the next MoMee? Masai spear too much before six p.m.?

Posted by: All Hail Eris at January 27, 2015 03:43 PM (8dpRy)

508 Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 27, 2015 03:42 PM (+eQyZ)

Yikes. (in a good way).

Posted by: 1bulwetweft at January 27, 2015 03:44 PM (Fr8iN)

509 I still vividly remember the NOSC one time calling me at my house past 10pm to tell me our email server was down. Asked if they wanted me to drive in. They said no, it can wait. *thud*
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 27, 2015 03:37 PM (+eQyZ)



One of my old bosses called someone who was in the emergency room at the time.

I got a call in Canada asking for help on something and my response of "I don't work for you anymore" was met with "So you aren't going to do it?" Weird how the signal dropped right after that.

Posted by: alexthechick - My preeecciiiooouuusss at January 27, 2015 03:44 PM (mf5HN)

510 It'll be stopped the same way this insanity has been stopped before: With fire.

Posted by: Soona at January 27, 2015 03:20 PM (/HX7u)

And bullets. Lots and lots of bullets.

Posted by: Dandolo at January 27, 2015 03:44 PM (wyI5D)

511 I dunno if it's that or if it's just that there's a hell of a lot more peer pressure in Woman World.

Posted by: Mandy P., lurking lurker who lurks at January 27, 2015 03:30 PM (KkVB6)
----------------------------------
That's probably it...here in upstate NY, we don't a lot of Pajama boys getting up in our faces about all this crap, and if they did, well, it's doubtful they'd be doing it twice...

Posted by: Dirty Randy at January 27, 2015 03:44 PM (jjaLl)

512 I hereby pledge, by my life, my treasure and my sacred honor, that whoever hires me/gets me hired can have a hand in (and a signed copy of) my resignation letter.

It's gonna be epic.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, Keeper of the Guards, returned from 1080 exile at January 27, 2015 03:42 PM (fwARV)


Workin' on it!!!!

Geeez.

Posted by: Sean Bannion, Chief of the Logistics Directorate, People's Democratic Republic of Alextopia at January 27, 2015 03:44 PM (V+kmg)

513 487 Part of the constant butthurt over everything is that many of these Special Snowflakes come from well off homes and have no genuine problems to be resolved.

Hence, the pained wailing about #MalePrivilege while women in Africa and the Middle East primary concerns are having enough to eat or hoping that their batshit crazy husband doesn't chop them up for showing a square inch of skin in public

If we underwent a catastrophic economic crisis, few people would have time to whine about microagressions or bother listening to them for 5 seconds before telling them to shut the fuck up, we have REAL shit to worry about
Posted by: kbdabear at January 27, 2015 03:39 PM (GrXXa)

___________

Age old problem. Society gets rich, people start acting like douches and lose the empire within a few generations.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at January 27, 2015 03:44 PM (0LHZx)

514 Hey, who ate my comment?

Posted by: anon a mouse at January 27, 2015 03:44 PM (/jpU8)

515 ISIS terrorists killed 9 people in a Tripoli hotel today, 1 American among them

Quick, scour Youtube and find a scapegoat to arrest!

Posted by: kbdabear at January 27, 2015 03:44 PM (GrXXa)

516 And lime.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 27, 2015 03:45 PM (PuQW/)

517 Player interviews are stupid because the questions are stupid and the answers are boring because stupid questions.

But no interviews at all would seems so impersonal.


If a player doesn't want to give interviews, he shouldn't have to. 'I made my statement on the field' should suffice.

Posted by: toby928(C) Pale Penis Person at January 27, 2015 03:45 PM (evdj2)

518 Posted by: All Hail Eris at January 27, 2015 03:43 PM (8dpRy)


Nope. Acceptable.

If you bring a weapon, you can't wear pants though.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, Keeper of the Guards, returned from 1080 exile at January 27, 2015 03:45 PM (fwARV)

519 "Okay. Bitch session. Sorry Horde. Feel free to scroll past this."

I think it's on-topic. Denying reality is the heart of PC. You're the bad guy whether you're saying "24 hours is 24 hours" or "if you have a Y chromosome and a dick, you're a guy."

The litmus test for a practicing or potential conservative (in the modern sense) is whether you think words should reflect reality, not shape it. White lies are for polite dinner conversation, not politics and law.

Posted by: SocietyIs2Blame at January 27, 2015 03:46 PM (QKIQb)

520 Workin' on it!!!!


So will Nearside change his nic to Alextopian Nearsider? Inquiring minds want to know.

Posted by: CM at January 27, 2015 03:46 PM (0NdlF)

521 "Douche canoe"??

Posted by: Mystery Meat at January 27, 2015 03:46 PM (tvTBx)

522 So will Nearside change his nic to Alextopian Nearsider? Inquiring minds want to know.

Posted by: CM at January 27, 2015 03:46 PM (0NdlF)


I think that'd be negotiable.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, Keeper of the Guards, returned from 1080 exile at January 27, 2015 03:46 PM (fwARV)

523 ISIS terrorists killed 9 people in a Tripoli hotel today, 1 American among them Quick, scour Youtube and find a scapegoat to arrest!

it was me. What can i say; despite all evidence to the contrary, i'm a spontaneous kinda guy.

Posted by: spontaneous mortar barage at January 27, 2015 03:46 PM (Spluw)

524 Oh, and to clarify: the NICU was next to the newborn unit, but since I was robed, with a mask and gloves, I could walk in there occasionally if things were calm.

Babies need to hear calm voices and noises, especially preemies.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at January 27, 2015 03:46 PM (0HooB)

525 Posted by: Mikey NTH - Paranoia Punch with Electrolytes at the Outrage Outlet! at January 27, 2015 02:53 PM (hLRSq)

"If I want your opinion I'll read it from your entrails."

Posted by: SDN at January 27, 2015 03:47 PM (Ao5fh)

526 Moo makes a good suggestion about HR.

Posted by: Feh at January 27, 2015 03:47 PM (b8TSE)

527 I have gotten that type of phone call also AlextheChick. Six months after I left that place, the boss who hated me well his chosen pet replacement called me up to ask if I remembered the password to a router. Told him don't remember sorry.

Mentally I was thinking, "Per regulations you were supposed to change that after I left."

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 27, 2015 03:47 PM (+eQyZ)

528
So we're bringing weapons to the next MoMee? Masai spear too much before six p.m.?

Posted by: All Hail Eris at January 27, 2015 03:43 PM (8dpRy)








Halberds FTW. Spears suck.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 27, 2015 03:47 PM (TIIx5)

529 HR Director is the lady who cancelled a billet when she discovered I was the one selected.

You're f*cked.

Though, at the very least, document everything very well and keep copies of your own.

That said... what is it you actually *do*?

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at January 27, 2015 03:47 PM (kff5f)

530 Too long. Didn't read.

Posted by: gewa76 at January 27, 2015 03:48 PM (S9rS1)

531 If a player doesn't want to give interviews, he shouldn't have to. 'I made my statement on the field' should suffice.
Posted by: toby928(C) Pale Penis Person at January 27, 2015 03:45 PM (evdj2)

__________

But it's in their contract.

It's the equivalent of you going to a meaningless meeting. It's pointless, nothing is accomplished, and is a total waste of everyone's time. But you go because it's part of your job.

Giving stupid answers to stupid questions is part of an NFL player's job.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at January 27, 2015 03:48 PM (0LHZx)

532 Posted by: All Hail Eris at January 27, 2015 03:43 PM (8dpRy)


Yes, but the "weaponry" will be limited to Hitachi Magic Wands.

What could go wrong?

Posted by: Sean Bannion, Chief of the Logistics Directorate, People's Democratic Republic of Alextopia at January 27, 2015 03:48 PM (V+kmg)

533 I listened to the podcasts posted earlier. Not bad.
I can't listen to the HQ ones any longer than I can listen to a speech by TFG.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 27, 2015 03:48 PM (PuQW/)

534 526 Moo makes a good suggestion about HR.


I believe that is AllenG's suggestion. Moo Moo is not so helpful.

Posted by: CM at January 27, 2015 03:49 PM (0NdlF)

535 alexthechick: "I got a call in Canada asking for help on something and my response of "I don't work for you anymore" was met with "So you aren't going to do it?" Weird how the signal dropped right after that."


I got one of those once. Escalated it to my boss, who laughed his head off, and passed it to the CEO for giggles.

He made those stupid fuckers pay his company $20k to have me sort out their tech issue over the phone.

Posted by: Kristophr at January 27, 2015 03:49 PM (6ROe1)

536 >>My favorite was Southie when the guys would put lawn furniture and shit in a space to "save" it.

Yeah, it *seems* a$$hole-ish, and yet...I lived in Watertown for years, where there is a parking ban for the winter months (so you can only park on one side of the street. Every damn time I shoveled in front of my apartment (a two-family home) one of my neighbors would pull out of his/her driveway and park in it. It was this passive-aggressive game or something.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2015 03:49 PM (ABcz/)

537 HR departments work for the company; not the employees. They work most with managers, not workers.

Unless the manager is a pain, or doing something that cannot be hidden, there is always an incentive to side with management.

Posted by: spontaneous mortar barage at January 27, 2015 03:49 PM (Spluw)

538 Let me be totally un-PC and this is from someone that used to call herself a feminist.

It was a mistake to give women the vote. It was a mistake to let them take part in things like politics. it was especially a mistake to let women drive men from teaching at elementary schools. Children are no longer exposed to any sort of logical thinking. The downside to women in the public arena has proven to be too large and I wish it were otherwise. We have too many young women that are basically mentally deranged. (What else would you call someone that thinks you become a woman by declaring yourself one, even if you a physically a male?)

I don't know how we pull back from this. I guess if we lose the war with Islam, they'll take care of it for us. It is so painful to see that descendants of strong, pioneering women have become these fearful, whining creatures.

Posted by: notsothoreau at January 27, 2015 03:50 PM (5HBd1)

539 Because, hell to the yes, I am a better person and I was not raised by the stupid wolves.

Posted by: alexthechick - My preeecciiiooouuusss at January 27, 2015 03:32 PM (mf5HN)

Amen, and I'm right there with ya.

Posted by: Mandy P., lurking lurker who lurks at January 27, 2015 03:50 PM (KkVB6)

540 526 Moo makes a good suggestion about HR.

__________

Huh?

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at January 27, 2015 03:51 PM (0LHZx)

541 Oh I'm willing to go full Frazetta at the next meatup. Edged weapons are kinda my thing anyway, and it's been a hell of a year, so I intent to release my pent up aggression the Horde way.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at January 27, 2015 03:51 PM (8dpRy)

542 534 on 526 about 496

Ha, maybe I've been too long on the thread.

Posted by: Feh at January 27, 2015 03:51 PM (b8TSE)

543 That said... what is it you actually *do*?

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at January 27, 2015 03:47 PM (kff5f)


Data/trend analysis in conjunction with criminal fraud investigations, project/program management, grant/appropriations law and various other sundry tasks as assigned.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, Keeper of the Guards, returned from 1080 exile at January 27, 2015 03:51 PM (fwARV)

544 Posted by: notsothoreau at January 27, 2015 03:50 PM (5HBd1)

---------------------

Yowsa! Can't argue with that!

Posted by: Dirty Randy at January 27, 2015 03:51 PM (jjaLl)

545 I have gotten that type of phone call also AlextheChick. Six months after I left that place, the boss who hated me well his chosen pet replacement called me up to ask if I remembered the password to a router. Told him don't remember sorry.

Mentally I was thinking, "Per regulations you were supposed to change that after I left."
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 27, 2015 03:47 PM (+eQyZ)


On my way out the door at the Old Firm, I reminded the office manager that she needed to change all the passwords to everything, and I meant every single thing, since I had root rights and I knew all the passwords. She blew it off because oh I know you'll never do anything. Now, she was right, I wouldn't, but that's not the point now is it?


Posted by: alexthechick - My preeecciiiooouuusss at January 27, 2015 03:51 PM (mf5HN)

546 "If I want your opinion I'll read it from your entrails."
Posted by: SDN at January 27, 2015 03:47 PM (Ao5fh)


You have any relevant experience with pillaging and burning? Because we are hiring. You must provide your own battleaxe, however the horde provides the longship.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Paranoia Punch with Electrolytes at the Outrage Outlet! at January 27, 2015 03:51 PM (hLRSq)

547 ACE,

Think of the whole thing as a two-step judo move.

How would one be able to voice and perpetuate ideas that have no moral or rational justification in a solid healthy society?

First, you introduce the concept of 'Tolerance'. And by tolerance you really mean being able to voice things that would otherwise be destroyed on rational, logical or moral grounds.

'Piss Christ' is a great example. It is "art" you see, and it is supposed to be "tolerated".

Then, once you sufficiently flooded and brainwashed the society with your nonsense, you introduce 'Political Correctness'.

It's purpose is to, once again, do something that cannot be accomplished in an open ideas debate - to shut out moral and rational arguments that destroy your nonsense. You simply prevent them from being heard.

Whereas, 'Tolerance' is meant to get your "ideas" in the door, 'Political Correctness' is now supposed to kick all other ideas out and shut the door closed.

So yes, you are correct about Stalinist nature of the matter. But it's really quite simple and specific goals driven.

Posted by: Russian at January 27, 2015 03:52 PM (uingK)

548 Halberds FTW. Spears suck."

For short range/hand to hand fun I'd like to try a long handled/weighted "no rebound" mallet. Picked on up at a yard sale for a buck - it's way cool, and can deliver a "punch" that's just incredible but I haven't really had much need for it.

Yet.

Posted by: anon a mouse at January 27, 2015 03:52 PM (/jpU8)

549 542 534 on 526 about 496

Ha, maybe I've been too long on the thread.
Posted by: Feh at January 27, 2015 03:51 PM (b8TSE)

________

Mind.
Blown.

WHOA!

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at January 27, 2015 03:52 PM (0LHZx)

550 Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at January 27, 2015 03:51 PM (0LHZx)

He was confused. Don't worry, no one was complimenting you on purpose.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at January 27, 2015 03:53 PM (kff5f)

551 Oh I'm willing to go full Frazetta at the next meatup. Edged weapons are kinda my thing anyway, and it's been a hell of a year, so I intent to release my pent up aggression the Horde way.
Posted by: All Hail Eris at January 27, 2015 03:51 PM (8dpRy)

Cold Steel Laredo Bowie in a Mike Sastre River City Southern Comfort sheath.

Posted by: troyriser at January 27, 2015 03:53 PM (CAJL/)

552 ...created what is essentially a Speaker Caste System with some speakers' being in higher castes, and thus more privileged (and thus willing to churn out ALL CAPS RAGE without expecting to be called on it (and in fact getting even more ALL CAPS RAGEY if they are called on it)), and others being in lower castes, and thus quite disadvantaged, and only really permitted to apologize and beg forgiveness whenever someone in a Higher Speaker Caste demands they do.

FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCKETY FUCK

Posted by: New Phone at January 27, 2015 03:53 PM (H5L2c)

553 >>Yeah, it *seems* a$$hole-ish, and yet...I lived in Watertown for years, where there is a parking ban for the winter months (so you can only park on one side of the street. Every damn time I shoveled in front of my apartment (a two-family home) one of my neighbors would pull out of his/her driveway and park in it. It was this passive-aggressive game or something.

Oh yea, I remember seeing people getting into really heated fights over a shoveled out spot. One of the things I don't miss about living in the city.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 27, 2015 03:53 PM (g1DWB)

554 Sub-Alpha

There's already a word for that.

Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Beta Meat Patties at January 27, 2015 03:54 PM (MbqmP)

555 Was yestaeerday's attack on Michael Moore a mob attack? Or was it a horde attack? Is there a differrence between a mob and a horde?

Posted by: bergerbilder at January 27, 2015 03:54 PM (8MjqI)

556
She blew it off because oh I know you'll never do anything. Now, she was right, I wouldn't,

Posted by: alexthechick - My preeecciiiooouuusss at January 27, 2015 03:51 PM (mf5HN)









*snort*

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 27, 2015 03:54 PM (TIIx5)

557 Is there a differrence between a mob and a horde?"

Your Emperor is proud to give you...

The Barbarian Horde!

Posted by: anon a mouse at January 27, 2015 03:55 PM (/jpU8)

558 Re Benghazi: They must have shot Elijah Cummings up with a tranquiler before the hearing. No foam coming from the corners of his mouth.


Posted by: Thin veneer of civility at January 27, 2015 03:55 PM (XzRw1)

559 On my way out the door at the Old Firm, I reminded the office manager that she needed to change all the passwords to everything, and I meant every single thing, since I had root rights and I knew all the passwords. She blew it off because oh I know you'll never do anything. Now, she was right, I wouldn't, but that's not the point now is it?
Posted by: alexthechick
You? never.. Us? Well, we're a different kettle of rotting fish.

Posted by: Everyone who reads Craigslist at January 27, 2015 03:55 PM (Spluw)

560
It does have real power. Every government and large corp in America has Affirmative Action and Diversity policies that do privilege certain groups based on ethnicity, gender, and sexuality.

When CEOs and Governors and Presidents vow to become "More Diverse" -- they mean less white, less male, less Christian, and less heterosexual.Posted by: Costanza Defense at January 27, 2015 02:37 PM (ZPrif)

--------
You forgot--- less qualified.

Posted by: Darth Randall at January 27, 2015 03:55 PM (6n332)

561 I think nearly every ad on Craigslist is fake.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 27, 2015 03:56 PM (PuQW/)

562 Posted by: Washington Nearsider, Keeper of the Guards, returned from 1080 exile at January 27, 2015 03:51 PM (fwARV)

Hrm. I know what most of those words mean in isolation.

I actually know someone in the DC area with Booz Allen Hamilton. They do lots of government contracting stuff (mostly IT from what I know, but I don't know everything they do). I could probably get you in contact with him.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at January 27, 2015 03:56 PM (kff5f)

563 Oh I'm willing to go full Frazetta at the next meatup. Edged weapons are kinda my thing anyway, and it's been a hell of a year, so I intent to release my pent up aggression the Horde way.
Posted by: All Hail Eris at January 27, 2015 03:51 PM (8dpRy)


Just highlighting this for the fortunate few of the Horde who will be at NoVAMoMeeIII

#NotAEuphemism

Posted by: Sean Bannion, Chief of the Logistics Directorate, People's Democratic Republic of Alextopia at January 27, 2015 03:56 PM (V+kmg)

564 Hordes have hotter chicks.

Posted by: eleven at January 27, 2015 03:57 PM (ykfyK)

565 Exactamudno there AlextheChick. Not because I would. But because someone more loosely wrapped might.

Then again I did a threat assessment on the network and realized how easy it would be to bring it all down and never step on site. If I did step on site because the site main switch room was not centrally buried but one wall was exterior brick...

And when I pointed out these issues I was told there was no money.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 27, 2015 03:57 PM (+eQyZ)

566 *snort*
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 27, 2015 03:54 PM (TIIx5)



Hey, I wasn't about to go to jail.

Posted by: alexthechick - My preeecciiiooouuusss at January 27, 2015 03:57 PM (mf5HN)

567 "I received an additional response: 'I understood it was technically less than 24 hours, but you were not timely. Please set up a meeting with me when I get in on Tuesday (Monday is her day off) to discuss your failure to respond in a timely fashion to requests.'"

At which point you should have moved to retain counsel, notified HR that you were retaining counsel, and requested that the meeting with your boss be delayed until both HR and your attorney could attend.

I've seen a damn near identical scenario wherein someone got racked up by management over failure to perform duties during a pre-filed, management-approved off day, and got fired _even though the employee handbook said specifically_ that off days are just that.

What saved them was careful recordkeeping and a rather bad-tempered arbitrator from the Department of Industrial Relations who ruled against the employer and slapped them with a considerably sized penalty. The employee handbook governs.

Posted by: torquewrench at January 27, 2015 03:57 PM (noWW6)

568 Now, she was right, I wouldn't, but that's not the point now is it? "

You're a nicer person than me. I posted several of the lower level passwords on the old company's intranet...
and it still took them a month to get around to it all.

Posted by: anon a mouse at January 27, 2015 03:57 PM (/jpU8)

569 >>Oh yea, I remember seeing people getting into really heated fights over a
shoveled out spot. One of the things I don't miss about living in the
city.

Never got into a fight - I'm not confrontational, It's just that I shared a driveway, so we needed the space in front of the house in order to switch spots w/in the driveway.

But one time I had to park at the opposite end of the street (no snow, just no spaces closer to home) and not only did the person in the house I had parked in front of come out and give me the death-stare but she left a really nasty note on my car about what would happen if I parked there again. On the *street*. People get cray-cray over that stuff.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2015 03:58 PM (ABcz/)

570 561
I think nearly every ad on Craigslist is fake.

It's a Grifters paradise.

Oh, you meant sex ads....

Posted by: Thin veneer of civility at January 27, 2015 03:58 PM (XzRw1)

571 564 Hordes have hotter chicks.

Remember the Order!

Rape, Pillage, THEN Burn!

Posted by: CM at January 27, 2015 03:58 PM (0NdlF)

572 I think nearly every ad on Craigslist is fake.

Dear Craigslist Forum

Posted by: toby928(C) Pale Penis Person at January 27, 2015 03:59 PM (evdj2)

573 Remember the Order!

Rape, Pillage, THEN Burn!


Now you tell me.

Posted by: anon a mouse at January 27, 2015 03:59 PM (/jpU8)

574
564 Hordes have hotter chicks.

Remember the Order!

Rape, Pillage, THEN Burn!

Posted by: CM at January 27, 2015 03:58 PM (0NdlF)









No, you ALWAYS burn before you rape........because it's more romantic in the firelight.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 27, 2015 03:59 PM (TIIx5)

575 I think nearly every ad on Craigslist is fake.

Not every one.

The ones with pics of fat chicks are real.

Jus' sayin'

Posted by: Sean Bannion, Chief of the Logistics Directorate, People's Democratic Republic of Alextopia at January 27, 2015 04:00 PM (V+kmg)

576 Players give bland stock answers to everything because saying what you really think in this day of OUTRAGE!!!!!11!!! may cause massive problems nobody wants to deal with

There were a few players who said what they really think about Michael Sam. After the predictable lynch mobs and condemnation from the Anointed Priests on ESPN, along with a demand from Roger Goodell that they come up with an apology very quickly, they were ordered to undergo "sensitivity training"

I'm a player, I give those bland scripted answers too. Who needs that shit

Posted by: kbdabear at January 27, 2015 04:00 PM (GrXXa)

577 Loot, rape, pillage, and then burn.

Posted by: Groo the Wanderer at January 27, 2015 04:00 PM (PuQW/)

578 564 You forgot scatter the stones and salt the earth.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at January 27, 2015 04:01 PM (tf9Ne)

579 Political correctness allows thugs to justify their crimes, politicians to lord it over their betters, and enemies to go un-named. This can't be allowed to continue. America needs to wake up and smell the coffee.

Posted by: Eromero at January 27, 2015 04:01 PM (go5uR)

580 >>I'm a player, I give those bland scripted answers too. Who needs that shit

Bull Durham. "I'm just happy to be here...."

Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2015 04:01 PM (ABcz/)

581 I intent to release my pent up aggression the Horde way.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at January 27, 2015 03:51 PM (8dpRy)


Um, that's NSFW.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, Keeper of the Guards, returned from 1080 exile at January 27, 2015 04:01 PM (fwARV)

582 Who wants to be the Keymaster?
http://www.e2046.com/product/10123

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 27, 2015 04:01 PM (+eQyZ)

583 I'm a player, I give those bland scripted answers too. Who needs that shit
Posted by: kbdabear at January 27, 2015 04:00 PM (GrXXa)


Annnnnnnd, now you know why a Bill Bellichick press conference is like watching paint dry.

Posted by: Sean Bannion, Chief of the Logistics Directorate, People's Democratic Republic of Alextopia at January 27, 2015 04:01 PM (V+kmg)

584 Loot, rape, pillage, and then burn."

Is that before or after the Number Six dance?

Posted by: anon a mouse at January 27, 2015 04:01 PM (/jpU8)

585 Is there a differrence between a mob and a horde?
Posted by: bergerbilder at January 27, 2015 03:54 PM (8MjqI)


Hordes pillage first, then burn. Mobs are stupid and do it the other way around.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Paranoia Punch with Electrolytes at the Outrage Outlet! at January 27, 2015 04:02 PM (hLRSq)

586 Pulling the trigger and having the magazine or cylinder fall out is always bad juju.
Posted by: rickb223
-------

You are optimistic.
I figure the weapon will use the embedded electronics to transmit your location, video of the target, and your biometrics to Holder's office. There, the validity of use will be decided by a panel, and the weapon will, or will not, be remotely enabled. Some time within 6 mos.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 27, 2015 04:02 PM (l1zOH)

587 Regarding that link in the side bar to Rand Paul's FAIR Act it makes the following statement.


Under civil asset forfeiture laws, law enforcement agents can seize
property, cars, cash, even houses, suspected of being connected to
criminal activity without charging the property owner with a crime.
Asset forfeiture laws are intended to disrupt organized crime,
especially drug trafficking, but civil liberties advocates say that in
practice they just as often target regular citizens for petty or
nonexistent crimes.



That statement is NOT true. They can not legally steal someone's home without due process meaning being convicted of a crime. They are doing it and in some cases getting away with it. However, every time they have been challenged in court they have been shutdown and had to also pay court costs.

Posted by: Vic at January 27, 2015 04:02 PM (wlDny)

588 Relativism stating there is no absolute truth is an absolute truth.

Posted by: Gods of the Copybook Headings at January 27, 2015 04:02 PM (Moh0M)

589 Mob - what showed up for Gaylord's inaguration

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 27, 2015 04:02 PM (+eQyZ)

590 Have ye Horde heard of the Hobbit re-cut? Any thoughts?

Posted by: CM at January 27, 2015 04:03 PM (0NdlF)

591 Who wants to be the Keymaster?
http://www.e2046.com/product/10123"

*holds up a dollar bill*

Posted by: anon a mouse at January 27, 2015 04:03 PM (/jpU8)

592 I could probably get you in contact with him.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at January 27, 2015 03:56 PM (kff5f)


I never say no to employment opportunities.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, Keeper of the Guards, returned from 1080 exile at January 27, 2015 04:03 PM (fwARV)

593 Saudi Arabias State Run TV Blurs Out Michelle Obamas Face For Not Wearing Islamic Headscarf

Weasel Zippers

Now THAT is something I can get behind
, and what a big behind it is

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 27, 2015 04:03 PM (nzKvP)

594 Posted by: notsothoreau at January 27, 2015 03:50 PM (5HBd1)

Honestly, I think we'd be here anyway. Because men are largely driven by their desire to obtain women, and thus will adopt a lot of postures and opinions they wouldn't otherwise in order to attract women.

Posted by: Mandy P., lurking lurker who lurks at January 27, 2015 04:04 PM (KkVB6)

595 Political correctness, and Islam allows thugs to justify their crimes, politicians to lord it over their betters, and enemies to go un-named. This can't be allowed to continue. America needs to wake up and smell the coffee.
Posted by: Eromero
----
Edited for completeness.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 27, 2015 04:04 PM (l1zOH)

596 I'm a player, I give those bland scripted answers too. Who needs that shit


Posted by: kbdabear at January 27, 2015 04:00 PM (GrXXa)



You're gonna have to learn your clichés. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play it one day at a time."

Posted by: Crash Davis at January 27, 2015 04:04 PM (qh617)

597 582 Who wants to be the Keymaster?
http://www.e2046.com/product/10123

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 27, 2015 04:01 PM (+eQyZ)

I want to be the Keymaster's personal photographer

Posted by: kbdabear at January 27, 2015 04:04 PM (GrXXa)

598 Honestly, I think we'd be here anyway. Because men are largely driven by their desire to obtain women, and thus will adopt a lot of postures and opinions they wouldn't otherwise in order to attract women.
Posted by: Mandy P., lurking lurker who lurks at January 27, 2015 04:04 PM (KkVB6)


I mean, seriously, those jeans are really very slimming on you.

Posted by: Sean Bannion, Chief of the Logistics Directorate, People's Democratic Republic of Alextopia at January 27, 2015 04:05 PM (V+kmg)

599 Now THAT is something I can get behind"

Us to. We fit! ...

Posted by: The Four Horsemen at January 27, 2015 04:05 PM (/jpU8)

600 The ones with pics of fat chicks are real.



Jus' sayin'

Posted by: Sean Bannion, Chief of the Logistics Directorate, People's
Democratic Republic of Alextopia at January 27, 2015 04:00 PM (V+kmg)

And you know this, because...?

Posted by: Hrothgar at January 27, 2015 04:05 PM (ftVQq)

601 593 How can you be sure it isn't the other end?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 27, 2015 04:05 PM (PuQW/)

602 Vic: They are hoping for a settlement. Once in a while they get someone who's legal strategy is Aries muros percussit; nunc ne missionem demus.

tinyurl.com/qcwfa34

Posted by: Kristophr at January 27, 2015 04:05 PM (6ROe1)

603 Here's why bland answers are good for players.

"I just love my beard. Moses had one; Genghis Khan had one. Just good guys man. Jesus had one too." - Michael Bennett D-lineman Seattle.

Stick to the script, it's your friend.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 27, 2015 04:05 PM (g1DWB)

604 And you know this, because...?
Posted by: Hrothgar at January 27, 2015 04:05 PM (ftVQq)


Field research for a thesis in Cultural Anthropology.

That's my answer, and I'm sticking with it.

Posted by: Sean Bannion, Chief of the Logistics Directorate, People's Democratic Republic of Alextopia at January 27, 2015 04:06 PM (V+kmg)

605 here, you want loony? from "truth out" mid 2013:

At this crucial moment for reproductive freedom and abortion access, the abortion rights movement stands at yet another crossroads: How do we adequately address and include those who have abortions but are not women?

We must acknowledge and come to terms with the implicit cissexism in assuming that only women have abortions. Trans men have abortions. People who do not identify as women have abortions. They deserve to be represented in our advocacy and activist framework. Honestly, I am guilty of perpetuating that harmful myth, both in my rhetoric and framing. I often frame abortion restrictions as misogynistic attacks meant to control women's reproductive lives, and that is true. But abortion restrictions also affect the lives of people who aren't women, and they hinder trans men and gender-non-conforming people and others who were Designated Female at Birth (DFAB) from accessing abortion care, as well.

http://tinyurl.com/pjvrhrm

Posted by: mallfly at January 27, 2015 04:06 PM (bJm7W)

606 Posted by: Sean Bannion, Chief of the Logistics Directorate, People's Democratic Republic of Alextopia at January 27, 2015 04:05 PM (V+kmg)

Lol.

Exactly!

Posted by: Mandy P., lurking lurker who lurks at January 27, 2015 04:06 PM (KkVB6)

607
If anyone can find video of the 2014 National Debate (or something) winners, it will take your breath away.

Privileged Higher Speaker Caste took the prize.

Posted by: CJ at January 27, 2015 04:06 PM (9KqcB)

608 I never say no to employment opportunities.

Email me: dedicatedtenther at the gmail thingy.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at January 27, 2015 04:07 PM (kff5f)

609 The guy who flew drone onto WH lawn works for The Gubmint. Per guest on Hannity radio show.

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 27, 2015 04:07 PM (2cS/G)

610 Hordes pillage first, then burn. Mobs are stupid and do it the other way around.
Posted by: Mikey NTH


Which is why they are left with crap.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2015 04:07 PM (7OF+y)

611 Gowdy twisting his faux outrage knob.

Posted by: Thin veneer of civility at January 27, 2015 04:08 PM (XzRw1)

612 They looted Taco Hell's of frozen pitas.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 27, 2015 04:08 PM (PuQW/)

613 Posted by: mallfly at January 27, 2015 04:06 PM (bJm7W)

That made my headmeat all hurty.

Speaking of, where did Ace go? Will we hit the 1000 comment mark again before he posts?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at January 27, 2015 04:08 PM (0HooB)

614 609 lincolntf,

TOP MEN

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 27, 2015 04:08 PM (zFLZx)

615 You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play it one day at a time."

Posted by: Crash Davis at January 27, 2015 04:04 PM (qh617)

"I don't care if I'm not starting, I just want to win"

Posted by: kbdabear at January 27, 2015 04:08 PM (GrXXa)

616 Well, this figure kit will definitely offend the SJW crowd once released

http://www.e2046.com/product/Mammon+Bikini+Version/22303/

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 27, 2015 04:09 PM (+eQyZ)

617 602
Vic: They are hoping for a settlement. Once in a while they get someone
who's legal strategy is Aries muros percussit; nunc ne missionem demus.

tinyurl.com/qcwfa34


Posted by: Kristophr at January 27, 2015 04:05 PM (6ROe1)

What they are looking for is LIV that will roll over and take it.

Posted by: Vic at January 27, 2015 04:09 PM (wlDny)

618 That's my answer, and I'm sticking with it.

Posted by: Sean Bannion, Chief of the Logistics Directorate, People's
Democratic Republic of Alextopia at January 27, 2015 04:06 PM (V+kmg)

Most excellent response. I'm writing that one down for personal use, er, um, for a friend to use!

Posted by: Hrothgar at January 27, 2015 04:09 PM (ftVQq)

619 mallfly - WTF??? I mean WTF!!! These people are seriously sick..., insane.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 27, 2015 04:10 PM (l1zOH)

620 Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at January 27, 2015 04:08 PM (0HooB)

Maybe he went out for an afternoon walk?

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 27, 2015 04:10 PM (GDulk)

621 and others who were Designated Female at Birth (DFAB) from accessing abortion care, as well



They were because they are.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2015 04:10 PM (7OF+y)

622 Posted by: Lincolntf at January 27, 2015 04:07 PM (2cS/G)


YEah.... right... just like that drone that crashed with all the Heroin in it....

He was making a Whitehouse delivery...

Posted by: BB Wolf at January 27, 2015 04:10 PM (qh617)

623 Vic: Exactly.

"Take it" includes admitting to guilt on some made up charge, and paying a fine to keep the house.

Posted by: Kristophr at January 27, 2015 04:10 PM (6ROe1)

624 605 Mallfly,

A smart GOP would hand Jason Matera 100,000 get such "wisdom" on film and have the close be "this person votes...do you?"

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 27, 2015 04:11 PM (zFLZx)

625 Maybe he went out for an afternoon walk?

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 27, 2015 04:10 PM (GDulk)

Do fitness trackers track in the snow?

Posted by: Thin veneer of civility at January 27, 2015 04:11 PM (XzRw1)

626 AllenG got anything for someone who really no longer likes IT but that is the skill set? Besides support staff to four cats and erstwhile writer?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 27, 2015 04:12 PM (+eQyZ)

627 Do fitness trackers track in the snow?
Posted by: Thin veneer of civility at January 27, 2015 04:11 PM (XzRw1)


Yes, but Ewoks generally do not.

Posted by: Sean Bannion, Chief of the Logistics Directorate, People's Democratic Republic of Alextopia at January 27, 2015 04:12 PM (V+kmg)

628 "The Left has collectively moved on to all pejoratives all day long. They
aren't always the historical slurs - but they certainly lodge the
wagonload of raw contempt into perfectly ordinary words. Like
"privilege".:



Or white. Or male.

I never imagined such ordinary words could twisted and used to express such hate and derision. The people that have done this are insane. Like criminally, evil insane.

Posted by: George Orwell de Leon at January 27, 2015 04:12 PM (1BQGO)

629
623 Vic: Exactly.

"Take it" includes admitting to guilt on some made up charge, and paying a fine to keep the house.


Posted by: Kristophr at January 27, 2015 04:10 PM (6ROe1)


Estimates are that only 3% of Criminal cases ever get a trial in the US...

Rest are plea bargained down, ie... Legal Extortion.

Posted by: BB Wolf at January 27, 2015 04:12 PM (qh617)

630 A smart GOP would hand Jason Matera 100,000 get such "wisdom" on film and have the close be "this person votes...do you?"


Posted by: Sven10077 at January 27, 2015 04:11 PM (zFLZx)
Ah Sven, haven't lost that sense of hope yet, eh?

Posted by: Hrothgar at January 27, 2015 04:12 PM (ftVQq)

631 Oh, okay, fine, here's your house back. Shame about us letting the fire department use it for practice.

Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Smoked Sausages at January 27, 2015 04:13 PM (MbqmP)

632 Posted by: Thin veneer of civility at January 27, 2015 04:11 PM (XzRw1)

LoL. It's so nice here in Houston I completely spaced the awful weather in the NE. Hope all the 'Rons and 'Ettes there are warm and well.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 27, 2015 04:13 PM (GDulk)

633 AllenG got anything for someone who really no longer likes IT but that is the skill set? Besides support staff to four cats and erstwhile writer?

Err... no?

You could probably move to the business end (BA, sales, whatever). Where are you located?

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at January 27, 2015 04:13 PM (kff5f)

634 Wasn't it the WCC in the 1980s who released the first non gender Bible?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 27, 2015 04:13 PM (+eQyZ)

635 We must acknowledge and come to terms with the implicit cissexism in assuming that only women have abortions

This is beautiful.

Posted by: Stan, PFJ (Peoples Front of Judea) at January 27, 2015 04:13 PM (Spluw)

636 Seven hours away in Jackson, MS

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 27, 2015 04:14 PM (+eQyZ)

637 He works for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. "We've got fuckin' rocket blasters and laser beams firing at us, totally fuckulated our space engine, gonna land on Juniper, see if they have any Space Weed.". Paraphrasing Ricky from TPB

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 27, 2015 04:14 PM (2cS/G)

638 630 Hrothgar,

One nice byproduct of self-inflicted traumatic brain injury is faith in the GOP springs eternal...

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 27, 2015 04:14 PM (zFLZx)

639 Y'all are giving her battleaxes and I haven't even scrounged that bear-shaped mace for her yet?

I totes give up, yo.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Unrepresented at January 27, 2015 04:15 PM (DT3rQ)

640 Don't know if I have any contacts out in MS. Most of mine are clustered here in DFW. My DC Contact just happens to be a friend who used to live here (he was one of my gaming buddies).

I can ask him if he knows of anything, but you'd probably be just as well off doing a job-search on your own.

Sorry.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at January 27, 2015 04:15 PM (kff5f)

641 Seven hours away in Jackson, MS

I was in Jackson once. Once.

Posted by: toby928(C) Pale Penis Person at January 27, 2015 04:15 PM (evdj2)

642 One nice byproduct of self-inflicted traumatic brain injury is faith in the GOP springs eternal...
Posted by: Sven10077 at January 27, 2015 04:14 PM (zFLZx)


Pfffft.

I got mine the old fashioned way - on the business end of a 120mm mortar.

Geez. You kids.

Posted by: Sean Bannion, Chief of the Logistics Directorate, People's Democratic Republic of Alextopia at January 27, 2015 04:16 PM (V+kmg)

643 Its all good AllenG, thanks.

Best be back to writing then.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 27, 2015 04:16 PM (+eQyZ)

644 Y'all are giving her battleaxes and I haven't even scrounged that bear-shaped mace for her yet?

Bear-shaped?

Unless it's bear-cub-shaped, sounds too large for her to wield.

Posted by: CM at January 27, 2015 04:17 PM (0NdlF)

645 Brother Cavil: "Y'all are giving her battleaxes and I haven't even scrounged that bear-shaped mace for her yet?



I totes give up, yo."

I considered offering her one of these, but it is taller than she is:

http://www.nihonzashi.com/kanabo_tv/453358.jpg

Posted by: Kristophr at January 27, 2015 04:17 PM (6ROe1)

646 Re Benghazi hearing:

Gowdy: How many people does the State Department employee

Asst Sec of State: 70, 000

SEVENTY THOUSAND !!!

Posted by: Thin veneer of civility at January 27, 2015 04:17 PM (XzRw1)

647 The base plate? No wonder you became a tanker...

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 27, 2015 04:17 PM (+eQyZ)

648 Ace must be taking what aussie would call a "walkabout." Which means "searching for frozen hobos."

Hobocicles!

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at January 27, 2015 04:17 PM (0HooB)

649 642 Sean Bannion,

IN my defense it was post campaign '96....

Somehow the 10 pound sledgehammer felt GOOD after Bob Dole...

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 27, 2015 04:17 PM (zFLZx)

650 This mace is just right.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 27, 2015 04:18 PM (PuQW/)

651 Robert Kraft has a large set. He's demanding that the NFL apologize to the Patriots if they can't figure out who deflated Brady's balls.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 27, 2015 04:18 PM (g1DWB)

652 651 Robert Kraft has a large set. He's demanding that the NFL apologize to the Patriots if they can't figure out who deflated Brady's balls.

Probably His wife...

Posted by: hello, it's Me Donna ....again at January 27, 2015 04:18 PM (Bn6aD)

653 Robert Kraft has a large set. He's demanding that the NFL apologize to the Patriots if they can't figure out who deflated Brady's balls.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 27, 2015 04:18 PM (g1DWB)


He'd better be right.

Posted by: Sean Bannion, Chief of the Logistics Directorate, People's Democratic Republic of Alextopia at January 27, 2015 04:19 PM (V+kmg)

654 Robert Kraft has a large set. He's demanding that the NFL apologize to the Patriots if they can't figure out who deflated Brady's balls.
Posted by: JackStraw

Tell the bastard that the coaches of the NFL will read it from the sidelines. the filthy prick can lip read it like he does everything else.

Posted by: Blue Hen at January 27, 2015 04:19 PM (Spluw)

655 Posted by: George Orwell de Leon at January 27, 2015 04:12 PM (1BQGO)

There's a sort of corollary between the high priests of the legal system where only the "holy" credentialed lawyers/judges can properly interpret the true meaning of the law; islam where almost anyone can declare himself a credentialed goat fukcing imam able to properly interpret the koran; and PC where only the SJW anointed can properly interpret common words that have been in constant use in the English language for centuries.

Posted by: Hrothgar at January 27, 2015 04:19 PM (ftVQq)

656 LoL. It's so nice here in Houston I completely spaced the awful weather in the NE. Hope all the 'Rons and 'Ettes there are warm and well.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette


Yeah. 75 and sunny in Dallas. Easy to overlook the crappy weather that some of the horde has to put up with.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2015 04:19 PM (7OF+y)

657 Probably His wife...
Posted by: hello, it's Me Donna ....again at January 27, 2015 04:18 PM (Bn6aD)


His wife died two years ago.

Posted by: Sean Bannion, Chief of the Logistics Directorate, People's Democratic Republic of Alextopia at January 27, 2015 04:19 PM (V+kmg)

658 643 Anna Puma,

Wife or I'll hire you for "Moron Estates" were we to get it rolling...

Office work or Solar farm work.

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 27, 2015 04:19 PM (zFLZx)

659 Posted by: hello, it's Me Donna ....again at January 27, 2015 04:18 PM (Bn6aD)

Or Ryan Tannehill(sp?) (profootballmock reference, for those not in the know).

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at January 27, 2015 04:20 PM (kff5f)

660 Yeah, Kraft is justifiably annoyed with the League. It's all leaks and rumors and vague, contradictory, accusations. So much for Goodell and Kraft being too cozy.

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 27, 2015 04:20 PM (2cS/G)

661 Posted by: Hrothgar at January 27, 2015 04:19 PM (ftVQq)

Who are you, and what have you done with AmishDude?

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at January 27, 2015 04:21 PM (kff5f)

662 Who are you, and what have you done with AmishDude?

I was mildly discombobulated to read the comment and realize it was not AmishDude.

Posted by: CM at January 27, 2015 04:22 PM (0NdlF)

663 Nood snow

Posted by: Sean Bannion, Chief of the Logistics Directorate, People's Democratic Republic of Alextopia at January 27, 2015 04:22 PM (V+kmg)

664 Nood up.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2015 04:22 PM (7OF+y)

665 31 inches and still snowing at my Mom's place in Worcester, by the way.

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 27, 2015 04:22 PM (2cS/G)

666 Nood Snowmaggedon.
Or maybe Nood movie review. Could go either way.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at January 27, 2015 04:22 PM (kff5f)

667 31 inches and still snowing at my Mom's place in Worcester, by the way.
Posted by: Lincolntf at January 27, 2015 04:22 PM (2cS/G)


My Mom is up to 36" in Millis and the snow is still coming.

Posted by: Sean Bannion, Chief of the Logistics Directorate, People's Democratic Republic of Alextopia at January 27, 2015 04:23 PM (V+kmg)

668 Nice post, Ace!

At risk of bringing a cheery voice to this discussion, the mob mentality works in the other direction, too.

I've never been one to join a hashtag campaign on Twitter except when it comes to my favorite sports teams. It's very much like being part of the crowd at the stadium - the mob you reference, except in a fun and harmless way. We even call ourselves a Country or an Army, and negative tweets are treated like actual spectators booing the team: Some join in, others futilely ask that it stop because real fans don't do that.

Thankfully, the mob doesn't rule under these circumstances. Must be that I cheer for teams with great fan bases.

Posted by: FireHorse at January 27, 2015 04:23 PM (aQssP)

669 Political Correctness = "My thoughts must never be criticized, your thoughts must never be heard."

Posted by: Null at January 27, 2015 04:24 PM (xjpRj)

670 Who are you, and what have you done with AmishDude?

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at January 27, 2015 04:21 PM (kff5f)

You noticed we are never in the same room at the same time, eh?

Posted by: Hrothgar at January 27, 2015 04:26 PM (ftVQq)

671 Oooh! Oooh! Aaaah! Aaaaah!

Posted by: Hooting Apes at January 27, 2015 04:27 PM (ZKzrr)

672 I think it's a huge failing of those of us on the right that we aren't using every tool at our disposal to articulate this realization in the minds of the general public. The "Republicans are anti-science" meme has spread widely amongst millenials and Gen Y, meanwhile leftists literally purged one of the most prominent living scientists from his laboratory for making politically incorrect statements in private (Watson became the first Nobel recipient ever to sell of his Nobel prize, partially for money due to the loss of his regular income from the purge, partially in protest of leftist authoritarianism. Why isn't this talked about more?), with almost nobody taking notice.

I shouldn't have to go to some random dude's Wordpress blog to find a compilation of recent political purgings or faked rapes/hate crimes. Something very unusual is going on, and people should be noticing it.


Posted by: reform highlander at January 27, 2015 04:27 PM (xf3KI)

673
I got mine the old fashioned way - on the business end of a 120mm mortar.

Geez. You kids.

Posted by: Sean Bannion, Chief of the Logistics Directorate, People's Democratic Republic of Alextopia at January 27, 2015 04:16 PM (V+kmg)








Pro tip: after hanging a round, don't look down the tube to see if it fits.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 27, 2015 04:27 PM (TIIx5)

674 "Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to."
- Theodore Dalrymple



PCism was brought to our shores in the '30s by various "authors" from the School of Marxism at Frankfurt to do exactly what we see it doing.

Control what a man is allowed to say and you control what that man allows himself to think.

Posted by: Grimmy at January 27, 2015 04:28 PM (uUsh9)

675 That last post (672) was supposed to include links

http://tinyurl.com/vpm2o

http://tinyurl.com/ohz5pdw

Posted by: reform highlander at January 27, 2015 04:28 PM (xf3KI)

676 Office work or Solar farm work.

Get along, little photons.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at January 27, 2015 04:29 PM (0HooB)

677 you lost me at "Noah Rothman"...

Posted by: Shoey at January 27, 2015 04:36 PM (jdOk/)

678 I hesitate to question or correct our host, but "political correctness" is a Stalinist term and always has been.
It is Stalinism defined. Hitler and Stalin once had a pact, --correct-- but it was no longer "politically" correct to say so once Hitler attacked Russia. You disappeared from this life and your form from old photographs if you did. There is a political officer on board the sub in "Hunt for the Red October", if you recall.

Orwell and others (Koestler??) just identified and described it. Who is Noah Rothman? If he doesn't know this he is a dunce and I'm glad I don't know who he is.

I don't mean to be pedantic for we, unlike Rothman, know this, but we must quickly and completely come to terms with what and who we are dealing it. STOP treating this like the behavior of boorish people. Fatal mistake.

"Political Correctness" has been a term in American politics for over 20 years now. It signaled their arrival. If it is seen as full on Stalinism only now it is because they are so powerful and confident and their many sheep like culty followers so numerous they voted them in.

Alas, in earlier times people at TNR would have never permitted them to succeed. But the vain boomer hipster dumb asses encouraged them and gave them all the cover and tools and power to succeed. They'll be sorry and rather than annoyed they should be scared.

Posted by: (not JJ) Sefton at January 27, 2015 04:39 PM (wi0rD)

679 Studies using animal models are indicated.

Posted by: melanerpes at January 27, 2015 04:54 PM (NrMfX)

680 You know what - ultimately its gonna be ok. People who Are this wound up and oversensitive are going to Darwin themselves right the fuck out of the gene pool.

Problem solved.

Posted by: fugazi at January 27, 2015 04:56 PM (IaoXa)

681 Mobs do not "argue." They intimidate or humiliate (or both). Mobs do not engage in an enlightened, reasonable dialogue. They shout ritualized chants. Mobs are not interested in persuading someone of their wrongness of their claims; they only care about shutting the speaker up, whether he's changed his mind or not./i]

Four legs good. Two legs bad.

Privileging certain speakers -- the more female, the more black or minority, the more gay or trans or other sexual ethnicity -- thereby empowers them to break the normal rules of social interaction as they may please, resorting to personal attacks and ALL CAPS RAGE at the drop of the hat.

Some... are more equal than others

Posted by: Zombie George Orwell at January 27, 2015 05:01 PM (0Ew3K)

682 Probably the best thing you've written lately.

AND you had to wade through an entire Chait piece to do it, too. Take a few days off. You've earned it.

Ps. I hear vodka can eventually clear the residual Chait infection from your brain before it spreads. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Posted by: Adjoran at January 27, 2015 05:34 PM (QIQ6j)

683 They are winning the fight over language. Witness Ace's use of the term "Privileging". I never encountered the word until recently but now it is a deravitive of an unavoidable and regular slander of all whites

Posted by: typo dynamofo at January 27, 2015 05:39 PM (1DiJX)

684 The most striking thing about the response on twitter is the hatred of whites, males and straight people.

Posted by: typo dynamofo at January 27, 2015 05:41 PM (1DiJX)

685 Let's put it another way; they're free to speak even if they're pinheaded jerks about it. Where they aren't free is to try to silence and destroy people with that speech. Its wrong and unethical (and against their stated positions on liberty tolerance, etc) to attempt to eliminate and crush opposition in a democracy.

Its illegal to stir up fights with deliberately provocative speech that any reasonable average citizen is driven to rage by. Its illegal deliberately use speech to cause panic and destruction or incite others to do so.

Should it be illegal to use speech to deliberately attempt to ruin, destroy, or silence people?

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 27, 2015 05:42 PM (39g3+)

686
I will say that now I see how some of the trolls that show up here think by reading that "exhausting" portion of the post. Basically, they're crazy.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 27, 2015 05:44 PM (Qs8ZN)

687 I call People of Color, People of Choler, because all they ever do is rant incoherently.

Posted by: LGoPs at January 27, 2015 05:51 PM (OAHNF)

688 women without vaginas

Are they still required to take out the garbage, and kill spiders?

Posted by: franksalterego at January 27, 2015 06:12 PM (Fh+WR)

689 California's "water shaming" falls into the same category - red-brown Stalinist fascism.

Posted by: 13times at January 27, 2015 06:49 PM (WHVu+)

690 So what's da issue with the vagina monologue being canceled that yous don't like? Some of us bitchez piss standing up.

Posted by: Rosie O'Donnell at January 27, 2015 07:30 PM (25SHv)

691 I agree. Too often, we see things like "Hey, Douchbag!" as the opening line of someone's idea of an argument.

Posted by: zerk at January 27, 2015 10:31 PM (dFBkj)

692 "People who Are this wound up and oversensitive are going to Darwin themselves right the fuck out of the gene pool. "
~fugazi

I don't think this is correct. While I agree these folks don't breed at reproductive levels, they control the levers of culture. They don't breed new PC monsters, but they have been and continue to be very successful at *converting* otherwise normal people into PC monsters. I am pessimistic and, given its success so far, I believe this tactic will work for a long, long time.

Posted by: zerk at January 27, 2015 10:35 PM (dFBkj)

693 This article is a perfect example of why Ace Rules, and why ace.mu.nu is one of the true gems of the internet. It does my head no end of good to know that there are people like Ace out there.

Great way to start my day! THANKS ACE YOU DA MAN :-)

Posted by: DeputyDirectorHiggins at January 28, 2015 12:14 PM (IxEWc)

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