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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Define "really right wing," Europeans have a No True Scotsman attitude towards American liberals, like, "So, you're saying you don't throw dissenters into gulags and seize the means of production? How incredibly quaint!"
SJW's tend to be despised by mainstream liberals (like myself), actually, mainly because they embody the worst stereotype of the American left. Like, the people I know who mock them the most have unabashedly leftist views.
And, to be honest, it seems to reach a fever pitch in colleges. I rarely see working professionals who still behave like that. The realities of a working life tend to iron out a person's eccentricities for the better. When you're in college, especially when you're in one of those nonsense liberal arts majors that are pretty much sustained through the proposition of increasingly wacky ideas, the engine that fuels the sort of discourse that SJW's thrive on is self-sustaining.
edited 10th May '16 7:09:24 PM by CrimsonZephyr
"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."Indeed. SJ Ws are those kind of nutcases that protest groups distance themselves from because they make them look bad.
Also, the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center re-examined Sanders' proposals and found that everyone (except the wealthy) would have a net gain if they got implemented
, to the tune of an average of $9,000 in higher taxes, but $13,000 in benefits. Those at the top-tier would see a net loss of $111,000 in 2017, though.
However, it'd also balloon the deficit to $18-20 trillion over the next decade, so...
edited 10th May '16 8:09:46 PM by ironballs16
"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"Much like the Radical Islam issue, I think the SJW thing is legitimate issue that gets blown way out of proportion (mainly by people with agendas). I think the majority of so-called SJ Ws will mellow out with age and experience.
I've seen some crazy SJW type stuff on Cracked articles, like saying Louis CK is sexist for saying vaginas are beautiful instead of tough, or saying this one scene in a video game is sexist for having a girl cry, or other annoying things.
My favorite example of SJW-craziness is when a University yoga class got canceled because of connections to ‘oppression, cultural genocide’. [1]
Nate Silver made a couple of tweets
about how we shouldn't put much emphasis on the polls this early on. I'd wait until after the conventions before getting too concerned.
edited 10th May '16 8:31:02 PM by Demonic_Braeburn
Any group who acts like morons ironically will eventually find itself swamped by morons who think themselves to be in good company.![]()
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Yeah, I've heard that too. Yes, it's a lot of money to spend, but it will all be worth it in the long run, except for the deficit (and I have no idea how we would fix that).
Not to mention we wouldn't have to raise taxes as much if we cut the military budget a bit so we're not spending a full half of our GDP on the military.
edited 10th May '16 9:23:40 PM by theLibrarian
Clearly you don't know what the hell you're talking about. What is that, an "All Socialism Is Stalinism" trope, combined with "All Europeans Are Smug Aristocrats"?
@Fighteer's "it's not just" speech, couldn't you simply have used bullet points to convey "all of those things together"?
edited 11th May '16 12:18:18 AM by TheHandle
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.(AP) Trump says he plans to use rallies, not Big Data and GOTV
to drive his campaign's voters to the polls in November.
(NYT) Ted Cruz Backers Seek to Control Convention Platform
edited 11th May '16 1:00:27 AM by PotatoesRock
Actually, Bats, the Rally thing is basically Trump shooting himself in the foot. Not using GOTV + Targeted voter data in this day and age is almost suicidal.
As to the Senate:
Basically the complaint is that since Facebook is a nigh monopoly/utility, it should act unbiased and use any news sources for its feeds instead of prioritizing "Liberal" media sources for news content.
As well, they're basically whining that they let things get deregulated for so long, that the deregulation blew up in their face that Facebook doesn't have to follow regulatory standards regarding media content, when it's the biggest media and news platform on Earth.
Also, most news websites increasingly rely on Facebook to aggregate them to get any viewer numbers worth a damn to stay in the black.
The biggest media platform on the Earth is run by a left wing Silicon Valley Billionaire.
edited 11th May '16 1:45:18 AM by PotatoesRock
Colbert has taught me that there's a dating site for Americans looking to escape Trump to Canada. Called Maple Match
. The Internet is amazing.

@Fry: We're legalizing marijuana in half-steps because there's a growing consensus that it makes no fucking sense to imprison someone on felony charges for smoking some weed. The fact that the wheels are coming off of marijuana law is an effective distraction from actually fixing the prison-industrial complex and mass incarceration, which is the engine that drives America's drug policy.
Until then, a rational discussion of drug policy won't happen because the money is against it, and money=speech.
edited 10th May '16 7:02:20 PM by Ramidel