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And I know how it should start, since it's the perfect foreshadowing for just how dumb this thing is. (from an NYT Dec. 30, 2017)
About three weeks earlier, Mr. Papadopoulos had been told that Moscow had thousands of emails that would embarrass Mrs. Clinton, apparently stolen in an effort to try to damage her campaign.
Exactly how much Mr. Papadopoulos said that night at the Kensington Wine Rooms with the Australian, Alexander Downer, is unclear. But two months later, when leaked Democratic emails began appearing online, Australian officials passed the information about Mr. Papadopoulos to their American counterparts, according to four current and former American and foreign officials with direct knowledge of the Australians’ role.
The hacking and the revelation that a member of the Trump campaign may have had inside information about it were driving factors that led the F.B.I. to open an investigation in July 2016 into Russia’s attempts to disrupt the election and whether any of President Trump’s associates conspired.
A drunk Papadopoulos loudly bragging to an Australian diplomat in a London Bar about how Russia is helping their campaign. How much better of a cold opening could you get?
Edited by megaeliz on Jan 16th 2019 at 4:16:11 AM
It's incredibly rare, it's basically only a thing that happens on social media (even then it happens at nothing like the frequency of other abuse), where yes you can see people sending death threats and racial abuse at people while claiming to be doing so in the name of social justice.
I refuse to humour such people by pretending they actually care about social justice, they're petty bullies trying to find cover.
Edited by Silasw on Jan 16th 2019 at 9:10:05 AM
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranWhen I think of the negative type of SJW, I always think of left-wing Moral Guardians. The only difference between them and their conservative counterparts is a (mostly) sympathetic Freudian Excuse. They're what I'd like to call "Social Justice Whiners". Of course, that's the strawman version, and I hope most equality advocates don't fall into this stereotype.
ASAB: All Sponsors Are Bad.People who call themselves Social Justice Warriors, in my experience, do so to mock the people who use it as an insult.
Like if you're going to be called that for having views anywhere on the left, you might as well call yourself one. So I get why people do it.
But I'm not talking about the ones that hurl abuse.
I also think that general discussion of the "SJW" topics is not for this thread.
Here, Trump is hemorrhaging support
because of the shutdown. Slow but steady.
The way you speak makes it sound like the average SJW-identifier partakes in such behavior, even though all we have is your anecdotal evidence which you yourself describe as "rare."
It sounds like saying "we should stop identifying as feminists because TER Fs."
Neat, but nothing to get too excited about. He'll get the bounceback when he ends it, but hopefully it'll cause him to, you know, end it to get said bounce.
If he does cave before the Dems, how do you think he's going to spin this? He keeps digging himself deeper and I can't fathom a way that even he could spin this as a win for himself. I'd imagine he'll just jump on and exaggerate whatever concession the Dems do make and talk about how the 5.7 bil for the wall was just a negotiating ploy, and that this (smaller amount of money for something saner) was what he really wanted.
Edited by Larkmarn on Jan 16th 2019 at 4:49:59 AM
Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.I've never heard SJW used by anyone but an alt-righter or someone mocking alt-righters.
Honestly it's an interesting slur because the people it's aimed at tend to find it more amusing than offensive, like "why yes, I do care a lot about social justice." So basically all it does is mark the user as "the sort of person who thinks this is an insult" without actually offending anyone.
Edited by Clarste on Jan 16th 2019 at 1:54:39 AM
I've seen a fair bit of this. Most recently, a You Tuber I follow made a video urging people to vote in the midterms, giving actual examples of tangible damage done by Trump and the Republicans, while also being clear to not blame any specific voter or not.
The video was still flooded with dislikes, and on comments some other videos he had on other things, there were a bunch of comments complaining about how he's become a "villain" and "just like Tumblr" which was just so...
Edited by LSBK on Jan 16th 2019 at 4:04:18 AM
We just had a hilarious video demonstrating what exactly is a SJW. Why are we still discussing stuff like 'who uses the word' and 'how frequent SJW are'? It's a thing, we know it when we see it, it's obnoxious, lots of people misapply it as a slur in the same way that lots of people use 'fascist' incorrectly, to mean anyone to the left or right of my position. They're still legit terms describing real things.
One of my best friends is an SJW. She gets angry at white rappers for rapping while white, and at any rapper who isn't using rap to 'fight oppression'. She thinks the Clintons are implicated in a paedo ring. She can be a pain to be around. But she's very active in a number of charities helping vulnerable people very very tangibly, so I love her very much.
Peter Coffin argues that SJW, and their politics built around shaming, offense, and exclusion, are one among many groups emerging as a result of capitalist cultivated identity and thought leadership, of incentive systems that reward takedowns and outrage as methods to seize attention, which is the currency in the marketplace of ideas, and also literal currency in the forms of views, ad revenue, and patrons. The following video shows a few good examples of what we're discussing.
Sorry, I missed that. Which posters are mod?
Edited by Oruka on Jan 16th 2019 at 2:43:11 AM
The mod in question is Septimus Heap
, though he could've "put the hat on" to turn his post pink, since that indicates a moderator posting something in that specific capacity rather than as a normal poster.
As for an appropiate thread, I've been direct to Politics in Media
.
Let's observe the evolution of the GOP along the years through the evolving... opinion pieces... of Ben Shapiro, Mr. "Facts Don't Care About Your Feelings".
Speaking of his catchphrase, Natalie Wynn did a beautiful breakdown of his obsession with misgendering people. But that's a topic for another thread.
CNN is breaking that Rudy Giuliani, while still contending that Trump himself didn't collude with Russia, he can't be sure if others members of the campaign didn't.
Is there another reveal coming from Mueller soon, or did Giuliani just make his biggest mistake yet?
EDIT: Here's an article: https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/16/politics/rudy-giuliani-cnntv/index.html
Edited by Rationalinsanity on Jan 16th 2019 at 11:28:38 AM
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Also:
Do you have any actual proof of this? Because this is a pretty damn big accusation you're making, and to be honest, I've never even seen anyone identify themselves as an SJW, so this is the first I've ever heard about that as well.
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