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Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#175076: Feb 19th 2017 at 8:44:23 PM

[up][up]Oh, the bastard is corrupt as sin. But I can't see any good coming from the US trying to oust him, that should happen internally if possible. Trump's administration, rightly or wrongly, will be perceived as acting in Moscow's interests if they take actions like that in Eastern Europe. If you want the Baltics to intensify their already crazy siege mentality, that's how you do it.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#175077: Feb 19th 2017 at 8:57:13 PM

Nothing on the standard sources yet but I'm hearing word of Milo Yiannopoulos being heard on video defending pedophilia.

He does have a denial up on facebook though: https://www.facebook.com/myiannopoulos/posts/851263248344905

edited 19th Feb '17 8:58:00 PM by sgamer82

BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#175078: Feb 19th 2017 at 9:03:17 PM

Everything around and about him is a nightmare, isn't it? Even if that isn't true.

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AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#175079: Feb 19th 2017 at 9:03:19 PM

I've no doubt Milo said it, just to be "shocking". That's who he is. That's what he does. He's a bad actor running a bad faith culture war for no reason beyond his own amusement and the fame that it brings him.

If Milo actually got everything he wanted, and set up the Neo-Nazi society he openly advocates for then he, as an openly gay man, would be the first one into the gas chamber. Followed shortly by my alt-right autistic cousin. Unlike my cousin, who is a moron (not because of the autism mind; he's just an idiot) Milo is smart enough to know this. His routine is performative bigotry, and if he were to ever wind up sharing a room with genuine hardcore Nazis, he'd have a panic attack (and for the record there is a portion of the Stormfront crowd that wants him dead for emasculating their movement).

edited 19th Feb '17 9:05:49 PM by AmbarSonofDeshar

Krieger22 Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018 from Malaysia Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: I'm in love with my car
Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018
#175080: Feb 19th 2017 at 9:10:08 PM

If I'm not mistaken, that was from Milo's appearance on Real Talk with Bill Maher which featured both of them bonding over their mutual transphobia. Oh, and that.

I'd love to see the results of locking Milo in a cage with a neo-Nazi, but I don't think they allow snuff films on pay per view.

I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot
vandro Shop Owner from The little shop that wasn't Since: Jul, 2009
Shop Owner
#175081: Feb 19th 2017 at 9:13:58 PM

Mala hierba nunca muere. He'd find a way to survive.

AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#175082: Feb 19th 2017 at 9:16:55 PM

[up][up]Milo's appearance on that show was awful. Maher seemed at times to be trying to shield him from the other guests on the panel, because "free speech" and other garbage. Larry Wilmore and Malcolm Nance shredded the little creep, and then Maher would try to come to his defense or hush them.

I linked this last year when we were talking about Milo. Thought I'd link it again. It's a pretty telling look into his mind and those of his deranged fanboys.

This culture war is being run in bad faith by bad actors who are running way off-script, and it’s barely begun, and there are going to be a lot of refugees.

edited 19th Feb '17 9:18:37 PM by AmbarSonofDeshar

Luigisan98 A wandering user from Venezuelan Muscat Since: Oct, 2013 Relationship Status: I <3 love!
A wandering user
#175083: Feb 20th 2017 at 1:23:17 AM

I know this may be unrelated but, do you guys think this episode may have some parallel of the current battleground in the USA?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8YlPlN-eI8

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tclittle Professional Forum Ninja from Somewhere Down in Texas Since: Apr, 2010
Professional Forum Ninja
#175084: Feb 20th 2017 at 5:36:12 AM

Hunters charged with shooting each other near the Texas-Mexico border blamed immigrants on the shooting.

"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."
Luigisan98 A wandering user from Venezuelan Muscat Since: Oct, 2013 Relationship Status: I <3 love!
A wandering user
#175085: Feb 20th 2017 at 5:37:35 AM

[up] Were they drunk?

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BonsaiForest Since: Jan, 2001
#175086: Feb 20th 2017 at 5:42:31 AM

Are there so many rallies nowadays that people are not noticing all of them? I know there's a bunch of "Not My President" marches planned for today, Presidents Day.

But I'd think the I'm a Muslim Too march where lots of non-Muslims wore headscarves and the like and identified as Muslim would be kind of a big deal. I'd also think (or hope) the Middle Eastern press would be covering it.

Even Fox News felt the need to cover it, if only to mock it.

tclittle Professional Forum Ninja from Somewhere Down in Texas Since: Apr, 2010
Professional Forum Ninja
#175087: Feb 20th 2017 at 5:49:06 AM

[up][up] Unclear, but considering it's Texas I wouldn't doubt it.

A Florida middle-schooler is being charged after confessing to throwing a block of wood at Trump's motorcade.

"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."
Euodiachloris Since: Oct, 2010
#175088: Feb 20th 2017 at 6:07:14 AM

[up]Oh, sweetie... Almost. It's eggs you go for! But, points for effort.

Wryte Since: Jul, 2010
#175089: Feb 20th 2017 at 7:17:28 AM

I've never cared for Maher, honestly. He's so smug and self-superior that even when I agree with him I find him slimy and irritating. He's the living, breathing example of the right's smug, self-superior "liberal coastal elite" boogeyman, and I'm saying that as a coastal liberal.

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#175090: Feb 20th 2017 at 7:44:13 AM

I mean, even before he went full bigot he was still an insufferable prick who did very little good.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
carbon-mantis Collector Of Fine Oddities from Trumpland Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: Married to my murderer
Collector Of Fine Oddities
#175091: Feb 20th 2017 at 8:15:31 AM

Once claimed that fucking germ theory was a conspiracy. Dunno why people still bother caring about him.

edited 20th Feb '17 8:15:42 AM by carbon-mantis

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#175092: Feb 20th 2017 at 8:32:13 AM

When either choice is going to fuck you, you shouldn't offer them the lube.

You'd rather get f*cked without?

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Pseudopartition Screaming Into The Void from The Cretaeceous Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
Screaming Into The Void
#175093: Feb 20th 2017 at 8:55:48 AM

[up][up] I've only seen two episodes of his show. My dad watches it, and thought I'd be interested in episodes that Neil Degrasse-Tyson and Bill Nye were on.

On the first one, Maher started in with some bullshit about the course of scientific progress only being dictated by a few geniuses like Newton and Einstein (which is nonsense), and the second involved Maher and Fran Lebowitz spouting the usual garbage about my generation being lazy and entitled (Nye defended us, and so did one of the other guests, I think it was Elahe Izadi?).

There's other more serious reasons why I don't like the guy, but those are my super petty ones.

AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#175094: Feb 20th 2017 at 9:03:00 AM

I personally get tired of being lectured about my health by the world's biggest, proudest stoner. He'll rail about how we eat too much fattening food. He'll rail about the "dangers" of GMOs. And then he'll go back to bragging about how he spends every free minute of his life high out of his mind. Addicts—and if he does even a fraction of the drugs he boasts of doing, he's an addict, not a casual user—don't get to lecture other people about their life choices.

Lanceleoghauni Cyborg Helmsman from Z or R Twice Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: In my bunk
#175095: Feb 20th 2017 at 9:41:59 AM

There IS a difference between regular recreational use and addiction, though depending on the drug the line may be so thin as to be nonexistent. Not that I'm anything close to well-read on the subject, but cannabis has relatively few side effects and little risk of addiction from what I recall.

edited 20th Feb '17 9:42:19 AM by Lanceleoghauni

"Coffee! Coffeecoffeecoffee! Coffee! Not as strong as Meth-amphetamine, but it lets you keep your teeth!"
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#175096: Feb 20th 2017 at 9:43:44 AM

Physically no but it can be extremely habit forming and yes, you can get addicted to it a lot easier than you think.

Oh really when?
Euodiachloris Since: Oct, 2010
#175097: Feb 20th 2017 at 9:50:00 AM

[up][up]Unless you don't realise you're carrying neurogenetics that predispose you to cluster A personality disorders. Because if you're not disordered or full-blown schizophrenic, you will become that when you throw cannabis at your brain chemistry. It's just a matter of when you started, how much you take and just how many nodes you've got for the stuff to find and to switch to the on position to determine how badly and how soon you hit trouble.

About 25%-30% of the population have that as a nice surprise waiting for them. Yet, it makes them feel so good as it wreaks havoc on their neurology, to the point most cannot stop even after they get the diagnosis. -_-

This is not factoring in what happens with just straightforward addictive personalities, although there is some overlap. But, give or take, a total of about 40% of people are genetically at greater risk than most realise when they toke.

edited 20th Feb '17 9:56:58 AM by Euodiachloris

tclittle Professional Forum Ninja from Somewhere Down in Texas Since: Apr, 2010
AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#175099: Feb 20th 2017 at 10:01:01 AM

but cannabis has relatively few side effects and little risk of addiction from what I recall

One in ten users wind up dependent according to the last batch of stats I saw. Which is a lot less than become dependent on say, nicotine or heroin (9/10), but a hell of a lot more than become dependent on alcohol (0.3 to 0.5/10).

As for few side effects, again, as compared to what? Compared to heroin? Sure. Whole lot of regular users, from Bob Marley to my late uncle, are dead from cancer though. There are also links between usage and chronic bronchitis and other lung infections. And that's without talking about the potential psychiatric effects listed [up][up].

I'm in favour of legalization for a variety of reasons. But God do I get tired of the notion pushed by some of my fellow advocates that it's "completely safe". My uncle is dead, my father is crippled for life because of a guy who drove under the influence, my aunt did herself permanent psychiatric damage, my cousin can no longer leave her home for any length of time because she can't sleep without it, and one of the guys I ran with in second year university wound up institutionalized after he detached from reality.

It may not be more dangerous than alcohol, but it's not less dangerous either. And if Maher was lecturing people on how badly they eat only to then brag about how much he liked getting hammered every day of his life, I don't think anyone would be defending him, or claiming he wasn't an alcoholic.

This is not factoring in what happens with just straightforward addictive personalities, although there is some overlap

Tell me about it. Various forms of autism and addictive personality run in my family, and the sheer number of family members who've gotten themselves in trouble with alcohol or drugs of one kind or another could fill a decent sized AA/NA meeting.

edited 20th Feb '17 10:14:38 AM by AmbarSonofDeshar

IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#175100: Feb 20th 2017 at 10:06:00 AM

Senators want Russia-related materials preserved{CNN}

About this part of that article:

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer of New York said on the Senate floor Thursday that "there is real concern that some in the administration may try to cover up its ties to Russia by deleting emails, texts and other records that could shine a light on those connections."

But her -IS SHOT-.

edited 20th Feb '17 10:08:30 AM by IFwanderer

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV

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