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- 2015-03-06 09:48am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Muhammad sex simulator
- Replies: 31
- Views: 5691
Re: Muhammad sex simulator
The biggest problem I have with these analogies is that all they tell you is that Christianity/America can be "just as bad", and you kind of really have to stretch to find your examples. (Good luck proving that there do not exist significant opposition to abortion in Muslim societies, esp...
- 2014-03-07 05:49pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Police are not on your side, don't ask them for help
- Replies: 129
- Views: 19878
Re: Police are not on your side, don't ask them for help
And perhaps one of the reasons there is this endless, mutually hostile clash between the urban poor (mostly black) and the police is that a lot of children growing up in urban poverty do NOT learn this as their habitual reaction to police. They typically had less contact with (their very stressed a...
- 2014-01-02 02:29pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Knockout Game - A hate crime
- Replies: 47
- Views: 8351
Re: Knockout Game - A hate crime
The main problem with the notion of a "hate crime" is that it seems to imply that the reason behind an unprovoked attack is actually an important mitigating circumstance to the penalty for that crime. If some guy wants to beat the crap out of me for talking to his girlfriend, I don't thin...
- 2014-01-02 01:11pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Unemployment benefits for 1.3 Million Expire... Today
- Replies: 74
- Views: 11798
Re: Unemployment benefits for 1.3 Million Expire... Today
Speaking of just handing out welfare checks to anyone who asks for them: http://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/4100 ...Initially, the Mincome program was conceived as a labour market experiment. The government wanted to know what would happen if everybody in town received a guaranteed income, and spe...
- 2013-12-13 10:28am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: OP - The fast food worker's revolution
- Replies: 31
- Views: 4791
Re: OP - The fast food worker's revolution
Nice answer, and in a way you have shown part of the problem. Your minimum standard of living included high speed internet and a cellphone. I am not saying they shouldn't be there but one can live without both. Access to a phone is fairly necessary to get job offers. This isn't 1930, where the lack...
- 2013-11-15 06:56am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Six tons of illegal ivory to be crushed
- Replies: 75
- Views: 10207
Re: Six tons of illegal ivory to be crushed
Refer to the last paragraph of the article. Refer to this line: "A lot of this is beautiful art," Weisblut said. "And it's a shame to destroy it." It just seems to me we're turning barbaric practice into something even worse, by making all these deaths completely pointless. If t...
- 2013-11-14 08:12pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Incumbents lose, fallout ensues
- Replies: 85
- Views: 13119
Re: Incumbents lose, fallout ensues
Racism always has negative effects and is always wrong because it means treating people like an avatar of their skin color and who they're related to instead of like an actual person. Assuming that someone with the same skin color as you will naturally be more sympathetic to you or your cause is ve...
- 2013-11-14 07:11pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Six tons of illegal ivory to be crushed
- Replies: 75
- Views: 10207
Re: Six tons of illegal ivory to be crushed
[quote="Irbis"]Really sad, though I can't stop thinking maybe they should donate best pieces to public museums before crushing.
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Refer to the last paragraph of the article.
Plus, it's not like these are historically significant pieces. They are all under thirty years old.
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Refer to the last paragraph of the article.
Plus, it's not like these are historically significant pieces. They are all under thirty years old.
- 2013-11-14 04:30pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Incumbents lose, fallout ensues
- Replies: 85
- Views: 13119
Re: Incumbents lose, fallout ensues
I didn't know that first responders have lived as a racial underclass for 500 years. Huh, learn something new everyday. Plus, the voters aren't making blanket assumptions, they are deducing that a liar is a poor representative for them. After all, many black people have voted for white people, from ...
- 2013-11-14 12:54pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Six tons of illegal ivory to be crushed
- Replies: 75
- Views: 10207
Re: Six tons of illegal ivory to be crushed
You do know that lifting that ban is basically the same thing as telling poachers to go ahead and kill all the elephants they want, right? Yeah, I'm against most conservationist efforts. There are too many big, stupid mammals in the world. Anything that gets rid of a few is a good thing in my book....
- 2013-11-14 12:49pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Incumbents lose, fallout ensues
- Replies: 85
- Views: 13119
Re: Incumbents lose, fallout ensues
You're seriously trying to argue that racists shouldn't be mocked at SD.net? Have fun with that! It's like you have absolutely no understanding of context in the least and that what the black people were doing is not really racist in a meaningful manner ("let's elect someone who will understan...
- 2013-11-14 11:11am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Incumbents lose, fallout ensues
- Replies: 85
- Views: 13119
Re: Incumbents lose, fallout ensues
And? I just think it's bullshit that Ralin is basically going "lol, racist uppity blacks get their comeuppance" without examining the sociological reasons why minorities tend to vote for minorities and why a guy doing his damnedest to misrepresent himself and taking glee in duping the peo...
- 2013-11-14 11:08am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Six tons of illegal ivory to be crushed
- Replies: 75
- Views: 10207
Re: Six tons of illegal ivory to be crushed
Really sad. Here's hoping the ban on ivory is rescinded someday so travesties like this can stop happening. Maybe the artists shouldn't be using illegally-sourced ivory from poached elephants and we won't destroy their artwork. There are legal ivory sources around (mammoth ivory, primarily, and pre...
- 2013-11-14 08:45am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Incumbents lose, fallout ensues
- Replies: 85
- Views: 13119
Re: Incumbents lose, fallout ensues
And? I just think it's bullshit that Ralin is basically going "lol, racist uppity blacks get their comeuppance" without examining the sociological reasons why minorities tend to vote for minorities and why a guy doing his damnedest to misrepresent himself and taking glee in duping the peop...
- 2013-11-14 08:02am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Incumbents lose, fallout ensues
- Replies: 85
- Views: 13119
Re: Incumbents lose, fallout ensues
Do you think everyone has the same access to the Internet and free time to do it? Has the same instinctive mindset to immediately look up candidates online? Is able to find sufficient information (everything google finds now is either related to this news story or is his own website. remember, loca...
- 2013-10-18 02:51am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: VW Plant Opens Door to Union and Dispute
- Replies: 31
- Views: 4790
Re: VW Plant Opens Door to Union and Dispute
They should join the Wobblies or the IWA instead of the UAW. Also, states with more unionized workers tend to be much stronger economically than those with fewer unionized workers. But I suppose the Republicans have been more about oligarchy than a strong middle class and working class after the Dix...
- 2013-08-24 08:22am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Two black teens attack & Kill WW2 vet
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3194
Re: Two black teens attack & Kill WW2 vet
Oh, hey, look at this shit. http://www.deathpenalty.org/article.php?id=54 •Those who kill non-Latino whites are over three times more likely to be sentenced to die as those who kill African-Americans. •Those who kill non-Latino whites are over four times more likely to be sentenced to die as those w...
- 2013-08-14 10:10am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Guns are like cars, right? Right??
- Replies: 26
- Views: 3047
Re: Guns are like cars, right? Right??
Conversely, the states with the highest gun ownership tend to be very rural, and while they may be poorer than dirt, they don't have the same problem with concentrated, economically hopeless and shitty populations that give rise to extreme urban crime rates... and therefore have minimal need for gu...
- 2013-07-30 01:36pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Senior Pakistan Taliban figure explains why they shot Malala
- Replies: 92
- Views: 15069
Re: Senior Pakistan Taliban figure explains why they shot Ma
Let me ask you a question, fuckwit. Between the United States and Al Qaeda, which one has a history of deliberately targeting civilians? Is it the one that intentionally bombed Cambodia? Or the one that declared any village in certain areas of Vietnam to be entirely occupied by the Viet Cong, and t...
- 2013-04-13 12:50pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: The Purge Trailer
- Replies: 50
- Views: 14928
Re: The Purge Trailer
Well yeah, but we're posting on a site dedicated to debating who would win in a fight between Star Wars and Star Trek . If I can't argue about silly things here, I'm not sure what the point is. I've been here for 3 years longer than you. I'm well aware of the original purpose the site. And I don't ...
- 2013-04-13 10:54am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Margaret Thatcher dies at 87
- Replies: 130
- Views: 20567
Re: Margaret Thatcher dies at 87
The funeral is not for her benefit. She's dead and gone. The funeral is for the benefit of people who want to pay their respects. That is a good cross-section of the population, and much of the cost is security to deal with unruly protestors - who very much deserve to pay for problems they are caus...
- 2013-04-13 10:44am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Georgia’s Rep Gov. Refuses to Endorse Integrated Prom
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2606
Re: Georgia’s Rep Gov. Refuses to Endorse Integrated Prom
Wait... racial integration... in the 10s? Wasn't that supposed to have happened about 50 years ago, or at least 20-30? What the fuck does this story have to do with the new millenium? More on-topic, I've checked Wilcox County in Wikipedia's Grand Hall of Truth by Consensus. It has a population of 8...
- 2013-04-13 10:26am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: The Purge Trailer
- Replies: 50
- Views: 14928
Re: The Purge Trailer
Why are you trying to inject sense into something that doesn't make sense? It's pretty obvious that the entire premise exists to try to tell a story with some sort of theme that is supposed to be quasi-deep. The setting is there to tell the story (which is exactly how it should be), however, the pro...
- 2013-04-10 11:46am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: The Purge Trailer
- Replies: 50
- Views: 14928
Re: The Purge Trailer
Inane, pointless drivel. However, now that we know that the entire premise is totally nonsensical bullshit, I have to wonder what was the point in making the movie. Aside from trying to rake in money with an "edgy" horror film. I'm personally thinking this is going to be some ham-fisted &q...
- 2013-04-09 08:41pm
- Forum: Gaming, Electronics and Computers
- Topic: Electronic Arts named the worst company in America – again
- Replies: 34
- Views: 5002
Re: Electronic Arts named the worst company in America – aga
As atrocious as EA is as a game-publisher/developer, they do have a point that they shouldn't be considered worse than major polluters and the people who helped destroy the world economy.