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I mean that sucks if that’s the case, in NJ it was just some dumb game where you’d punch the other person in the arm or maybe try the aforementioned nut slap. I was also lucky enough to go to a relatively large high school (~600 people/class) where there weren’t really many random beatings

Edit: yes getting randomly punched in the face would make an already dumb thing much worse.

10-24-2018 , 11:47 AM

#6652

DodgerIrish

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Quote:

Originally Posted by SuperUberBob

I don't go around looking for white nationalist propaganda and don't hang around those types in real life. So I don't know all the initialisms, hand signals, tattoos, and quotations that people use to justify their hatred. This was the first time I saw it in that context.

Wat?

10-24-2018 , 11:49 AM

#6653

.Alex.

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Jiggymike

Oh so you went to a school that didn't have that much bullying and you extrapolated that to assume that's the case for every school in the country?

10-24-2018 , 11:49 AM

#6654

SuperUberBob

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Quote:

Originally Posted by .Alex.

You're doubting and/or downplaying kids literally getting punched in the face for looking at someone's hand.

Who the **** gets punched in the face for looking at a person's hand? I never saw that happen before. How many jaws were getting broken in your school from that ****?

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Originally Posted by Jiggymike

I mean that sucks if that’s the case, in NJ it was just some dumb game where you’d punch the other person in the arm

Same in PA. It was stupid but not some attempt to beat the crap out of you. They did it to you and you did it to them.

10-24-2018 , 11:50 AM

#6655

DodgerIrish

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Originally Posted by Louis Cyphre

It was come up a dozen times in this forum and has been extensively discussed.

Way over. It's been discussed about a dozen times when it comes to Stephen Miller alone.

You completely ignored all-things Kavanaugh, Bob?

10-24-2018 , 11:50 AM

#6656

prana

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This is exactly how I remember it and ever witnessed it.

10-24-2018 , 11:58 AM

#6657

.Alex.

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Quote:

Originally Posted by SuperUberBob

Who the **** gets punched in the face for looking at a person's hand? I never saw that happen before. How many jaws were getting broken in your school from that ****?

Yea man who would ever punch someone at a school for no reason?

https://www.dosomething.org/us/facts...chool-violence

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In 2011, 20% of high school students were bullied at school, and 33% reported being involved in a physical fight in the last year.

In one month, nearly 6% of high schoolers stayed home because they felt unsafe at or on their way to school.

More than 7% of 9th through 12th graders reported being threatened or injured with a weapon on school property at least once in the last year. An additional 6% admitted to bringing a weapon to school for protection.

10-24-2018 , 12:01 PM

#6658

Namath12

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Yeah no one got killed or concussed I should have made that clear my bad.

10-24-2018 , 12:10 PM

#6659

prana

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Originally Posted by Namath12

Yeah no one got killed or concussed I should have made that clear my bad.

Our friends would mostly just give you a tiny shot to the arm that didn't even actually hurt. I remember a few that hurt minorly but really the biggest draw of the game was getting your buddy to look while in class/detention/confirmation, etc. This game never started any violence that I ever saw here.

10-24-2018 , 12:14 PM

#6660

SuperUberBob

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Quote:

Originally Posted by prana

Exactly.

Alex I'm sorry the circle game led to you getting bullied. It sucks. That wasn't the case for most people.

10-24-2018 , 12:16 PM

#6661

DodgerIrish

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Well I'm glad that we got to the meat of what Bob really wanted to talk about, apparently.

10-24-2018 , 12:23 PM

#6662

kerowo

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Quote:

Originally Posted by .Alex.

You're doubting and/or downplaying kids literally getting punched in the face for looking at someone's hand.

Do you have a cite for this other than just misinterpreting a stupid childhood game? Or is this knock-out pt 2 the Ok-ening?

10-24-2018 , 12:25 PM

#6663

kerowo

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Quote:

Originally Posted by .Alex.

Yea man who would ever punch someone at a school for no reason?

https://www.dosomething.org/us/facts...chool-violence

Annnnnnd the double down!

10-24-2018 , 12:40 PM

#6664

.Alex.

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Originally Posted by kerowo

Do you have a cite for this other than just misinterpreting a stupid childhood game? Or is this knock-out pt 2 the Ok-ening?

Do I have a cite for a game where the purpose is to hit another person without their consent being used by bullies? Nah dawg I don't, you'll have to use your imagination.

10-24-2018 , 02:17 PM

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Johnny Truant

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This is a surprise.

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White nationalist Richard Spencer’s wife, Nina Koupriianova, accused him of physically, emotionally and verbally abusing her over the course of their eight-year marriage, according to documents and exhibits filed in court as part of their divorce proceedings.

Koupriianova said the abuse, which she documented in the form of transcribed conversations, emails, photographs and even a chat with the National Domestic Violence Hotline, continued throughout the course of their eight-year marriage and included incidents that occurred while she was pregnant.

“Incidents of physical abuse include being hit, being grabbed, being dragged around by her hair, being held down in a manner causing bruising, and being prevented from calling for help,” Koupriianova alleged in a court brief filed in the case in Flathead County, Mont., saying she had been “reluctant to call police or seek an order of protection for fear of further reprisal” by Spencer. “Much of the abuse has occurred in the presence of the parties’ children.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...=.171b093b8a8a

10-24-2018 , 02:38 PM

#6666

kerowo

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Quote:

Originally Posted by .Alex.

Do I have a cite for a game where the purpose is to hit another person without their consent being used by bullies? Nah dawg I don't, you'll have to use your imagination.

Well, except you aren't hitting someone without their consent, and you specifically mentioned being punched in the face. You over reacted and tried to fit a stupid game into some anti-bullying narrative that you want to brow beat the rest of us with. All you have to do is stop posting about it and you'll maintain some dignity about it.

We both know you won't though.

10-24-2018 , 03:24 PM

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California College Republicans release 2018 platform that is quite a piece of work

The article links to the full platform, which I am quoting below. I hope this is a lesson to anyone who thinks millennials are somehow less idiotic than their boomer parents.

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Lastly, it is the official position of CCR that Antifa is a domestic terrorist organization, and thus, we will pursue all legal avenues available to us to weaken, and ultimately destroy, Antifa, snuffing out its presence in academic institutions.

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Moreover, we strongly oppose administrators’ attempts at social engineering insofar as it discriminates against people whose beliefs differ from those of the campus far left. For example, many universities mandate long, onerous “diversity trainings” and similar activities that amount to pure indoctrination sessions, and in doing so, mandates that students affirm the dicta of the ivory tower fringe left.

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We are committed to eliminating any and all such sessions, as they are pedagogically unnecessary and rather blatant attempts to squelch legitimate dissent against the anti-Western, anti-American ideology of the left.

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Furthermore, we staunchly oppose universities’ demands that we as students fund various programs affiliated with degenerate and murderous activities that simply do not represent the views or beliefs of many students. For example, many universities fund the provision of birth control and abortion to students as part of their subsidized health insurance, and some even fund campus sex stores offering sexual paraphernalia heavily subsidized by students.

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Similarly, we firmly oppose degeneracy on campus and refuse to fund fellow students’ sexual satisfaction. In addition, ethnic, women’s, and sexually deviant “community centers” and “theme dormitories” that engender ethnic nationalism, racial animus and encourage degenerate behavior go against everything we believe as conservatives, and we flatly refuse to fund them.

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While we hesitate to call for the active seeking out of conservative faculty, we ask university department chairs to ensure that they give conservative academics in their fields a fair shot at hiring rather than solely recruiting and hiring leftists for ideological purity.

If you thought that was good, let's get into the part where they engage in outright hate speech!

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CCR also stands to counter threats to American national security that fester on college campuses. Many universities even reward organizations such as Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), and Muslim Student Unions/Associations (MSU/MSA) that propagate hatred against the Jewish people and Israeli, and more broadly Western students and communities. These institutions support such organizations in commissions anti-semitic propaganda, including official BDS resolutions against Israel and student organization recognition, funding, and speakers. Both of these organizations, through connections with American Muslims for Palestine, Council on American Islamic Relations, and the Islamic Society of North America, have ties to the terrorist organizations Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. The institution of CCR will continue to work to combat the anti-American and anti-Semitic biases that Hamas/Muslim Brotherhood affiliates such as SJP and MSU groups and BDS efforts attempt to bring to our campuses to wield against our fellow students. We recognize that the Muslim Brotherhood has extensive tentacles in our country, including on our college campuses. Thus, to ensure the security of our fellow Americans for generations to come, CCR is committed to combating Islamist forces and their evil ideology on college campuses, in any manifestation they may take.

Muslim Student Unions = evil Islamist ideology, extensive tentacles of the Muslim Brotherhood on our campuses!

I only got through half of it, reading this is ****ing exhausting tbh

10-24-2018 , 03:37 PM

#6668

goofyballer

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Oh I forgot the single best part

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We also reject “LGBT” and “women’s” centers as supportive of behaviors that violate natural law and engender discord between the sexes, respectively. Finally, we also reject the transgender farce and its associated ideology, and we refuse to legitimize the mental illness masquerading as “transgenderism.” We thus condemn the existence of all such degenerate classes and refuse to fund them.

MILLENNIAL REPUBLICANS, everyone

10-24-2018 , 03:52 PM

#6669

Slighted

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Originally Posted by goofyballer

Oh I forgot the single best part

MILLENNIAL REPUBLICANS, everyone

millenials are't in college anymore. the youngest millenials are like 24.

this is genZ or iGen.

10-24-2018 , 04:10 PM

#6670

Strontium Dog

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Nothing new though is it.

10-24-2018 , 04:44 PM

#6671

ReasonableGuy

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So I guess these guys are just going with the following equivalence?

Republican = conservative = reactionary fundamentalist Christian

10-24-2018 , 04:49 PM

#6672

goofyballer

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Woman who reported racist harassment on Facebook may have stopped a school shooting

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Koeberle Bull had never met the man who contacted her on Facebook — calling her a “wanna be” black woman and telling her that he hoped her “black children gets hung for you being so stupid.”

Worried for her biracial children, the 40-year-old mother of three said she contacted local authorities in Lumberton Township, N.J., telling them about the chilling Facebook message she received from a stranger three states away, in Kentucky.

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Kentucky State Police officials said the man, 20-year-old Dylan Jarrell, was found last week with a firearm and more than 200 rounds of ammunition, posing a “credible and imminent” threat to two school districts in western Kentucky. He was arrested on two counts of second-degree “terroristic threatening” and one count of harassing communications, according to police.

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According to an image of the message that Bull provided to The Post, it read: “There’s no such thing as white privileged . . . I hope your black children gets hung for you being so stupid. They have all the same rights we have now a days so please you and your monkey children go die.”

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When Kentucky troopers went to question him Thursday, he was leaving his home in Anderson County, Ky., with a firearm and ammunition, a Kevlar vest and a “detailed plan of attack,” according to state police.

Thank god this guy had an unquenchable urge to harass strangers on Facebook with racist rants, I guess?

10-24-2018 , 05:08 PM

#6673

fuluck414

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Originally Posted by Slighted

millenials are't in college anymore. the youngest millenials are like 24.

this is genZ or iGen.

Ya, millennials really get the shaft. It's not our fault it rolls off the tongue.

10-24-2018 , 05:18 PM

#6674

Doctor Zeus

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.alex. Getting downtrodden by partisans for fighting bullying is pretty off the hook right now. Literal excuse of “it’s just a game between kids” given by people. Given the proof that equivalent phrases such as “boys will be boys” provides legitimacy for he Brett Kavanaugh debacle it’s just mad that people will get drawn in to this ****.

These guys are like- Alex seems reasonable but I disagree with him ergo something he says that’s completely compaatable with the political system I agree with must be wrong