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When do we start breaking ****? When do we start breaking ****?

12-06-2017 , 02:18 PM
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Originally Posted by FlyWf
Yeah, you did. And again, this SMP **** where you constantly cut out questions you're asked and instead respond to posts with this nonsensical preening is a bad look.



I absolutely did not. Did you read the ****ing letter? I believe you skimmed it looking for quotes about "love" but I don't think you read it. Though maybe "several paragraphs" is a big ask for you.

You accuse me of not "following the plot." What the **** are you even talking about? What the hell is the plot, if not the discussion about reactionaries coopting MLK? That was the plot. I followed it. You haven't engaged at all on that.

You thoroughly embarrassed yourself by responding to dth calling you out with these pseudo-rhetorical questions: "Who are these people? Why would they do such a thing? How do you know so much about them? Why did you choose to bring them up?" (you, racism, you're literally posting in this very thread, and you're literally posting in this very thread, respectively)

As we've seen, your opposition to social unrest extends to THROWING A TEMPER TANTRUM WHEN LIBERALS ARE MEAN ONLINE TO MILO. ****ing Milo!

So cut this constant lying ****. The issue for you is not "**** my enemy"(quotation marks there by you NOT to indicate a direct quote), the issue for you is that if anyone on the left or liberal side says that there IS an enemy it provokes an emotional breakdown.

Because you're the enemy. And you, at some level, know it. That's why you get so sad and so mad at the same time when some nice boy with some thoughts about Islam gets called a mean name online.



I don't think you even know what engagement is. If you were smart enough to see discussion and argument as honest exchanges of ideas, you wouldn't have the political and cultural beliefs you do.
That's pretty common around here.
12-06-2017 , 08:49 PM
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Originally Posted by TheMadcap
Your number 5, as written, would not stand up to much scrutiny. There could be a biological gap wrt empathy for people of different races but clearly most (if not all) of that can be overcome if people are convinced of the right arguments. The difference between how we would describe what is happening there highlights the point pretty well.
What the **** are you even talking about? "Biological gap"? How ****ing racist do you have to be to see an argument asserting that racism is real and that racists exist and read it as an argument that white people are biologically tuned to be less empathetic to non-whites. You cannot escape the premises of being insanely racist and you assume everyone else is. ****ing "biological gap" give me a ****ing break.


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5) People have a hard time honestly considering arguments that challenge their world view and so, when faced with one of the other points, they will look to find ways to protect their previously held beliefs.
For example, there's a guy in this thread who inexplicably adopted Martin Luther King as an avatar of his "no agitating too forcefully, now" reactionary bull**** and when challenged melted down into absolute gibberish.

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My suspicion (and this is probably going to be the last post I try to make on this subject ITT) is that the same impulse to protect previously held beliefs is precisely the reason you are having such a hard time with my argument. You have tied your identity to angrily yelling at people who you disagree with. You would rather ignore the point that I am trying to make (and brush off anything that you have no argument against by just attacking my motivations) rather than consider the fact that the way you approach these conversations is not morally justified. (If only because it leads to worse outcomes. As you would know if you had read my link)
TBH I don't know what point you were trying to make you're referring to here because you are, as noted, a GODAWFUL writer. But no? How about "no". Just as a rule of thumb, no.
12-06-2017 , 10:00 PM
It’s for the best that you don’t understand my writing Fly.

You desperately need to hear what I am saying but you probably shouldn’t be hearing it from me.
12-08-2017 , 04:50 PM
We start breaking **** when you stop making threads titled "When do we start breaking ****?" and instead break some ****.
12-12-2017 , 07:55 PM
I'm revolting!
06-11-2018 , 04:26 PM
Gotta be getting close, right.

The frog boil is working, they're doing it right before our eyes and ain't nobody doing ****.
06-11-2018 , 05:03 PM
Bread and circuses.

We could descend into illiberal democracy and I'm not sure there will ever be a breaking point absent some kind of black swan event.
06-11-2018 , 05:16 PM
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Originally Posted by dth123451
Gotta be getting close, right.

The frog boil is working, they're doing it right before our eyes and ain't nobody doing ****.
You won’t do ****.
06-11-2018 , 05:40 PM
Frog boiling has been going on for a long time. Like most problems, they only become obvious when they affect white people.

Everybody knew that people would wear out. People don't have the patience to fight long run if their own lives are comfortable. It's when people feel the effects that they fight if they can afford the time off from their 60 hour a week job that they have to keep the lights on.
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Originally Posted by dth123451
Gotta be getting close, right.

The frog boil is working, they're doing it right before our eyes and ain't nobody doing ****.
06-11-2018 , 05:45 PM
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Originally Posted by dth123451
Gotta be getting close, right.

The frog boil is working, they're doing it right before our eyes and ain't nobody doing ****.
Ah you had to cover your TSLA short and you are pissed off. I get it but you were warned man, numerous times. Getting your stock advice from TS is not smart.
06-11-2018 , 05:52 PM
Here are some Trump related boycotts anyway. I think at least that LL Bean one shouldn't be on there and you know, some of these are more reasonable than others.

https://grabyourwallet.org/
06-11-2018 , 05:55 PM
I just started Handmaid's Tale this weekend, which invokes the frog boiling analogy, and I have to say there are some pretty clear points in the flashbacks where anyone can tell the water is boiling. When they outlaw women having jobs or property, uh, pretty sure you should have gone to Canada yesterday.
06-11-2018 , 06:31 PM
Big assumption Canada is safe from electing a Trump type themselves. I assume more polite versions exist up there.
06-11-2018 , 06:36 PM
The biggest province just elected one.
06-11-2018 , 06:40 PM
stop with that. No relation between Trump and Ford besides people who don't like Ford.

Trump probably has a <10% approval rating in Canada
06-11-2018 , 07:11 PM
Most recent stat I found was 20%.
06-11-2018 , 07:19 PM
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Originally Posted by wheatrich
Big assumption Canada is safe from electing a Trump type themselves. I assume more polite versions exist up there.
"i'm sorry, but i'm going to have to call for a complete and total shutdown of muslims entering canada."
06-11-2018 , 07:27 PM
17% approval , 72% disapproval according to the best I could find as of last September. Popularity has declined since then I'm sure. There's also the liar factor in polls where people vote for things they don't actually believe because it is a poll which skews #s slightly away from the poles(0% and 100%)
06-12-2018 , 12:43 AM
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Originally Posted by dth123451
These mother****ers aren't going to stop. They have the power to rig elections. They don't give a **** about the rule of law.

When?
Power to rig elections? Isnt that a conspiracy theory and against the rules?
06-12-2018 , 01:58 AM
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Originally Posted by preki
Power to rig elections? Isnt that a conspiracy theory and against the rules?
The title of this thread is a result of posts like this. The continuation of behavior like this, en masse, will eventually result in physical violence. This is not good. Even worse, it will arguably be a rational response. Think things through...
06-12-2018 , 02:44 AM
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Originally Posted by dth123451
Gotta be getting close, right.

The frog boil is working, they're doing it right before our eyes and ain't nobody doing ****.
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Originally Posted by 2/325Falcon
You won’t do ****.
Yeah, this. Big difference between talking **** from the safety of your keyboard, and getting off your fat ass and actually doing something. Even if it's just volunteering for your local/state election campaign.
06-12-2018 , 03:21 AM
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Originally Posted by TeflonDawg
The title of this thread is a result of posts like this. The continuation of behavior like this, en masse, will eventually result in physical violence. This is not good. Even worse, it will arguably be a rational response. Think things through...
show me proof of a rigged election
06-12-2018 , 07:53 AM
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Originally Posted by preki
show me proof of a rigged election
DNC superdelegates... Ask Bernie about 2016 Democratic Primary and Hillary about it in 2008.

I'm also wondering when the Democratic Party rank-and-file will stop putting up with knowing their votes don't matter.
06-12-2018 , 12:38 PM
Get everyone you know to vote. Don't even advocate. Just get people out. Make sure everyone you know is registered and prepared. It's all we can do for now. One party is content to sell out everything genuine to the American democracy that they've always hated anyway. Just vote.
06-12-2018 , 06:43 PM
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Originally Posted by preki
show me proof of a rigged election
Whether the election was rigged (by whatever your definition of rigged is) or not is not the point.

The point is you are either being deliberately obtuse or blatantly ignorant in the post by you that I quoted. You're either really, really stupid or you're being a massive troll. At best, your mentality and thought process is disturbing. At worst, you are a scumbag and infuriating large swaths of the American population. There have been riots. There has been violence. Your behavior is not preventing more. It's provoking more.

      
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