Board 8 > Freedom, Liberty, Ron Paul - Reject the politics of healthy eating [dwmf]

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http://reason.com/blog/2018/03/06/in-defense-of-gunsplaining

the content here is fairly basic but I do like the title
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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43308600

Belgium sexism law: Man who insulted officer first to be convicted

The man, who has not been named, was stopped in June 2016 for violating the highway code and told the officer that her job did not suit women.

A court in Brussels fined him 3,000 (2,690; $3,725). He can still appeal.

Hurting feelings becomes a crime. Yes, this is the trend we should be going towards....
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Only the president of the US should be able to punish people for hurting his feelings
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foolm0r0n posted...

Only the president of the US should be able to punish people for hurting his feelings

Exactly, hes in the highest office so rules dont apply
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Pokewars posted...

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43308600

Belgium sexism law: Man who insulted officer first to be convicted

The man, who has not been named, was stopped in June 2016 for violating the highway code and told the officer that her job did not suit women.

A court in Brussels fined him 3,000 (2,690; $3,725). He can still appeal.

Hurting feelings becomes a crime. Yes, this is the trend we should be going towards....

If this happened in the US he could be beaten or shot. Which is worse?
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what are you some sort of stupid free speech absolutist?

fighting words! fire in a crowded theater!
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xfd

my manager literally has a book on microaggressions on the shelf in his office

next to it: the art of war
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foolm0r0n posted...

Only the president of the US should be able to punish people for hurting his feelings

"The press is being mean to me, let's open up non-existent laws so we can sue them!"
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Pokewars posted...

Hurting feelings becomes a crime. Yes, this is the trend we should be going towards....

uh, hasn't insulting police officers been a crime for a gazillion years?
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SmartMuffin posted...

xfd

my manager literally has a book on microaggressions on the shelf in his office

next to it: the art of war

My head canon is that this was done on purpose.
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Also, casual swearing is significantly more common in the workplace in the California office than in Texas

Those darn hippies (bless their hearts)
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Mr Lasastryke posted...

Pokewars posted...

Hurting feelings becomes a crime. Yes, this is the trend we should be going towards....

uh, hasn't insulting police officers been a crime for a gazillion years?

I mean...the law isn't solely for cops. The woman just happened to be a cop.
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Pokewars posted...

I mean...the law isn't solely for cops. The woman just happened to be a cop.

oh ok, i didn't actually read the article. that's pretty silly then.
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https://twitter.com/flangy/status/971529101646356480?s=21

This McDonalds W thing is hilarious
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Wait that's actually real?

Ah it's only for the 1 day out of 365
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https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/anything

literally muffin's #fakerich strat
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also everyone in the SF office has those stupid apple airpod thingies
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Man gameFAQs ads are getting lazier and lazier

https://imgur.com/a/DRFX0
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Hey mine says if Im over 30
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https://www.gofundme.com/arm-the-homeless

If I ever vote, it'll be for him!
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https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/971941181796974593
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SmartMuffin posted...

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/971941181796974593

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/congress-trump-score/john-mccain/

Yeah man, what an obvious Democrat plant who votes with Trump only... 83% of the time.
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Good thing that RINO Jeff Flake is finally getting out of there, what with his:

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/congress-trump-score/jeff-flake/

85.7% of the time agreeing with Trump!
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Don't give a single fuck about those BS statistics. Everyone games that stat. Completely meaningless. Has to somehow be weighted by votes that are both contentious AND important. 99% of votes in Congress are totally irrelevant to everything.
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SmartMuffin posted...

Don't give a single fuck about those BS statistics. Everyone games that stat. Completely meaningless. Has to somehow be weighted by votes that are both contentious AND important. 99% of votes in Congress are totally irrelevant to everything.

Did you actually read what it is? He votes with the same position with the President 83% and 85.7%. The other percentages were just attempts to guess how they would vote based on other factors.

And secondly, if 99% of votes are irrelevant then why don't Dems have higher percentages outside of a handful of Red State Democrats? 42 of the 49 Dems are below 40%.
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And secondly, if 99% of votes are irrelevant then why don't Dems have higher percentages outside of a handful of Red State Democrats? 42 of the 49 Dems are below 40%.

They do that on purpose so that they look good on this exact statistic. Or to virtue signal or whatever. And conservatives did the same thing with Obama. It's completely and totally meaningless.
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CeraSeptem posted...

SmartMuffin posted...

Did they ever explain why a non-colonized isolated African state speaks English with a British accent?

How could you possibly think that's a British accent?

No but really
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after all these years you're still not used to muffin not responding to posts if he doesn't have a rebuttal?
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I mean obviously it's not the same as the accent people from England would have. But it's definitely a distinctive British flavoring with a strong African accent. It's a different accent from what "African countries colonized by France" has, to be sure.
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Left: Social media are public companies and they can have whatever censorship policies they want.
Also left: Trump's twitter is a public forum and it's unconstitutional for him to block people.
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SmartMuffin posted...

Left: Social media are public companies and they can have whatever censorship policies they want.

I definitely see more people on the right saying this (they're correct)
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SmartMuffin posted...

Left: Social media are public companies and they can have whatever censorship policies they want.
Also left: Trump's twitter is a public forum and it's unconstitutional for him to block people.

I actually buy that argument for the official POTUS account

Not his personal one though
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Then again, he has declared that tweets from his personal account are the only true official White House statements that exist, so in light of that I see the argument that his personal account shouldnt be able to block people either.
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SmartMuffin posted...

Left: Social media are public companies and they can have whatever censorship policies they want.
Also left: Trump's twitter is a public forum and it's unconstitutional for him to block people.

this is you not understanding again that these are actually different individuals unrelated to each other saying these things because you see "left" as one big homogeneous group.
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Jakyl25 posted...

Then again, he has declared that tweets from his personal account are the only true official White House statements that exist, so in light of that I see the argument that his personal account shouldnt be able to block people either.

Should this apply to every politician, or just him?

I think it's a particularly interesting debate also in the context of Twitter occasionally deleting "offensive" tweets from GOP candidates.
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SmartMuffin posted...

Jakyl25 posted...

Then again, he has declared that tweets from his personal account are the only true official White House statements that exist, so in light of that I see the argument that his personal account shouldnt be able to block people either.

Should this apply to every politician, or just him?

I think it's a particularly interesting debate also in the context of Twitter occasionally deleting "offensive" tweets from GOP candidates.

GOP candidates or sitting GOP representatives? Because the former should be acceptable and the latter would obviously be that gray area people
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GOP candidates or sitting GOP representatives? Because the former should be acceptable and the latter would obviously be that gray area people

I would say it's probably more important to protect the speech of candidates than sitting representatives. What is "trying to influence the outcome of an election" if NOT censoring one party during elections exclusively?

Also what percentage of tweets from sitting politicians do you think are communicating meaningful policy announcements that are not readily available elsewhere?
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Because as a candidate, you're a private citizen. Whereas if you win, you're now a public servant.
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SmartMuffin posted...

Jakyl25 posted...

Then again, he has declared that tweets from his personal account are the only true official White House statements that exist, so in light of that I see the argument that his personal account shouldnt be able to block people either.

Should this apply to every politician, or just him?

I think it's a particularly interesting debate also in the context of Twitter occasionally deleting "offensive" tweets from GOP candidates.

I think most politicians who are actually savvy enough to use Twitter themselves have a personal account and an official government agent account. In ALMOST EVERY CASE, I think the personal account should do what it wants, but blocking people from the official account should be, at the VERY least, heavily discouraged. Not sure about lawsuit-worthy but Im on the fence.

Trump is a unique case because he specifically told us never to trust official White House statements which have on more than one occasion contradicted his tweeted stances. This is why we have judges, to figure this shit out.
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SmartMuffin posted...

Also what percentage of tweets from sitting politicians do you think are communicating meaningful policy announcements that are not readily available elsewhere?

This is the problem I just outlined with Trump. Sometimes his tweets CONTRADICT policy announcements
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SmartMuffin posted...

I think it's a particularly interesting debate also in the context of Twitter occasionally deleting "offensive" tweets from GOP candidates.

Whats an example of this just so I know what we are talking about

Theyve come out and said that Trump has violated their terms of use, but because he is President, his tweets are by definition newsworthy and are allowed to stay up. Even when he is personally attacking other Twitter users.
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https://twitter.com/AmandaMarcotte/status/971598444266770432

damn looks like foolmo is alt-right after all
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that's pretty accurate, actually.
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SmartMuffin posted...

I mean obviously it's not the same as the accent people from England would have. But it's definitely a distinctive British flavoring with a strong African accent. It's a different accent from what "African countries colonized by France" has, to be sure.

To close the loop on this: https://slate.com/culture/2018/02/an-interview-with-black-panthers-dialect-coach.html

tl;dr: The cadence is based on Xhosa, and the accents themselves are varied because the Wakandans are actually five tribes that have somewhat different origins. You don't hear this, because you don't have an ear for it, but it's definitely not British.
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https://twitter.com/smod4real/status/972977475864084480

I choose to believe this was scripted, because... I just can't....
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SmartMuffin posted...

https://twitter.com/AmandaMarcotte/status/971598444266770432

damn looks like foolmo is alt-right after all

If I believed in prescriptive identity then I would be a gay white homophobic arab SJW alt-right jew
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/doomsday-climate-scenarios-are-a-joke-1520800377?mod=trending_now_3

While the world economy stagnates, the model projects, cold countries will achieve almost unimaginable wealth. Iceland supposedly will achieve annual per capita income of $1.5 million by 2100, more than double that of any other country except Finland ($860,000). Mongolia, which currently ranks 118th in per capita income, is supposed to rise to seventh, at which point the average Mongolian will earn four times as much as the average American. Canadas economy becomes seven times as large as Chinas.
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Mongolian beef trucks on every corner!
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Just saw black panther. Holy shit that's not and English accent in the slightest. It's clearly Arabic inspired or something if you have to make a comparison.
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The movie was good though. It felt way more like a Bond movie than anything, mostly spy and tech stuff with very little in-suit action except for the obligatory paint-by-number final battle.

The themes had about as much nuance as a Marvel movie can have, but it was still pretty interesting with hyper-isolationism vs hyper-interventionism. Nothing controversial or risky in there at all though. The follies of traditionalism/nationalism was shown, but also traditionalism had a big part in the victory, and all the good guys remained deeply nationalist. Also multiple good guys were strongly interventionist as individuals, including the American who was somehow a good guy despite doing literally only bad things the entire movie. It's honestly impressive how inoffensive they made the movie given how it's entirely about politics.

There was a theme which was way more subtle and nuanced though which I didn't expect (and which I can't relate to at all), which is the idea of ancestral connection and going back to your roots but through the eyes of your new culture. Best exemplified by the bad guy's theme song which was just a generic dramatic Marvel theme but with a sick hip hop beat mixed in.
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