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by Akhlut
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...
by Akhlut
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...
by Akhlut
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...
by Akhlut
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...
by Akhlut
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...
by Akhlut
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...
by Akhlut
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...
by Akhlut
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.

Sigh :cry:

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.
by Akhlut
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 ...
by Akhlut
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....
by Akhlut
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...
by Akhlut
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...
by Akhlut
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...
by Akhlut
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...
by Akhlut
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...
by Akhlut
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...
by Akhlut
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...
by Akhlut
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...
by Akhlut
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...
by Akhlut
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 ...
by Akhlut
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...
by Akhlut
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...
by Akhlut
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...
by Akhlut
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...
by Akhlut
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.