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Elle Since: Jan, 2001
#130351: Jul 14th 2016 at 9:26:25 PM

[up][up]That then would be another point on which I differ from them. Business wields power, power can be abused, something needs to check against abuses and the free market doesn't seem to do it so it may as well be government.

[up]The Republicans would probably fall into several splinter groups including but not limited to Tea Party, Evangelicals, Trump-ists and estranged moderates.

Alternately, the Dems might come to their own crisis and split into center-left and far-left but that seems further out so far.

edited 14th Jul '16 9:28:26 PM by Elle

Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#130352: Jul 14th 2016 at 9:27:06 PM

At this point all the options suck. I used to like the Greens but Stein seems to have gone off her rocker at some point in the last four years.

AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#130353: Jul 14th 2016 at 9:27:58 PM

Article on Tim Kaine. After reading it and a few others I don't get the complaints from the left about him. Yes, he's not Warren. He's hardly a conservative Democrat though.

[up][up][up]You'll simply get a refashioned Republican Party in one form or another, possibly with a name change.

[up]Stein wants to take left-wing votes from the Democrats, and that unfortunately requires embracing some of the worst elements on the fringe left and Internet left. She's appealing not solely, but in a large part to, the group that the pragmatic left sometimes refers to as the "Progressive Unicorn Brigade". The good news is there hopefully aren't enough people like that to sabotage the Democrats.

edited 14th Jul '16 9:32:56 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
#130354: Jul 14th 2016 at 9:29:30 PM

Twitch will be livestreaming the Democratic and Republican National Conventions with chat.

Expect a solid wall of "Cuck", bigotry and Stormfront talking points.

I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot
Elle Since: Jan, 2001
#130356: Jul 14th 2016 at 9:34:18 PM

Twitch has a lot of awesome communities but the big events are a magnet for racist and sexist trolling. Youtube comments if they were happening in real time.

edited 14th Jul '16 9:35:15 PM by Elle

AdricDePsycho Rock on, Gold Dust Woman from Never Going Back Again Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Rock on, Gold Dust Woman
#130357: Jul 14th 2016 at 9:34:42 PM

Why do people use the word "cuck" now? I saw some stupid meme of some people the internet took to calling "Carl the Cuck" and "AIDS Skrillex"

Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?
AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#130358: Jul 14th 2016 at 9:35:26 PM

[up]As in "cuckold". Someone who is not man enough to keep his women in line and loyal to him. Gag. Thank the so-called "Men's Rights Movement".

Thought this was kind of fun.

edited 14th Jul '16 9:35:49 PM by AmbarSonofDeshar

wehrmacht belongs to the hurricane from the garden of everything Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
belongs to the hurricane
#130359: Jul 14th 2016 at 9:36:09 PM

it's weird to me because "cuckold" was a fairly obscure word I saw pretty much nobody using until recently.

Ssj3Gojira Arashi Shigehito from The Event Horizon Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
Arashi Shigehito
#130360: Jul 14th 2016 at 9:36:31 PM

[up][up] I always hated that thing; have no idea why anyone would have a fetish for that.

edited 14th Jul '16 9:36:43 PM by Ssj3Gojira

Let's see if you can get past my Beelzemon. Mephiles, WARP SHINKA!
Elle Since: Jan, 2001
#130361: Jul 14th 2016 at 9:36:40 PM

It's short for "cuckold", an old term for a man whose wife is an adulterer, with the implication that he's pathetic for being unable to control her.

(Uber-[nja])

edited 14th Jul '16 9:37:25 PM by Elle

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
#130362: Jul 14th 2016 at 9:37:22 PM

Stormfront users are surprisingly forwards with their preferred fetish, namely cuckoldry. Something about white women being stolen from their white husbands by black men.

It's like that part of the manosphere doesn't even try pretending that they aren't General Ripper expies that aren't allowed to make officer in the military for good reason.

edited 14th Jul '16 9:39:12 PM by Krieger22

I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot
Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#130363: Jul 14th 2016 at 9:37:54 PM

There's also a strong element of miscegenation to many cuckold fetishes: the idea of having one's wife taken by a black man, in particular...

edited 14th Jul '16 9:38:27 PM by Fighteer

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#130364: Jul 14th 2016 at 9:41:28 PM

The stuff that comes out of Stormfront, as anyone who frequents FSTDT—or god forbid Stormfront itself—can tell you is always a special mix of sexist, racist paranoia, coupled with a good dose of low self-esteem.

AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#130365: Jul 14th 2016 at 9:45:40 PM

Started on /v/ with a story about Anthony Burch and his marital problems if I recall, around when all that... business was going on. Then proceeded to get spammed by the alt-right as a generic meaningless insult to the point you can get called a "cuck" for being the one to do the cuckolding. Also to the point I'm seeing people on the left cracking jokes about characters getting "cucked" because they were on the wrong side of a love triangle or even a pair of crackships, oddly enough.

AdricDePsycho Rock on, Gold Dust Woman from Never Going Back Again Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Rock on, Gold Dust Woman
#130366: Jul 14th 2016 at 9:46:19 PM

The alt-right is stupid as fuck. They poison everything they touch.

Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?
AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#130367: Jul 14th 2016 at 9:47:57 PM

Often while failing to even see themselves as on the political right.

Elle Since: Jan, 2001
#130368: Jul 14th 2016 at 9:48:02 PM

With any foresight (and I know there are at least a couple cool people in the ranks of Twitch admins), the stream channels will have autoban lists of the most obvious slur words and competent (read: brave) moderators.

AdricDePsycho Rock on, Gold Dust Woman from Never Going Back Again Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Rock on, Gold Dust Woman
#130369: Jul 14th 2016 at 9:48:54 PM

Seriously, some of the alt-right are actually atheists, from the looks of it. The sheer irony of atheists being as backwards as the Christians they claim to be better than just astounds me.

Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?
AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#130370: Jul 14th 2016 at 9:50:14 PM

Too many of them are the angry loner type who didn't get a date to the prom and have never recovered from it. Others start out with seemingly progressive viewpoints, but are unable to distinguish feminist critiques of the patriarchy, or minority critiques of whites, from attacks on themselves, and go off to sit in a corner and rail about how "feminists are devoid of logic" and "whites are a victimized class" and the like.

edited 14th Jul '16 9:52:40 PM by AmbarSonofDeshar

Elle Since: Jan, 2001
#130371: Jul 14th 2016 at 9:52:24 PM

Jackassery is non-denominational. :P

AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#130372: Jul 14th 2016 at 9:53:36 PM

In some cases it's even apolotical. I've met some people on the left, who vote left-wing, and yet express classic alt-right sentiments about women, minorities, etc, usually just dressed up slightly differently.

AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#130373: Jul 14th 2016 at 9:55:26 PM

A lot of it is pretentious edgelords suffering from delusions of grandeur. It sucks because now a large amount of people on the left also categorically hate atheists too due to the perception that we're all fedora-wearing racist white men or anti-Semites and Islamophobes.

edited 14th Jul '16 9:57:03 PM by AlleyOop

AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#130374: Jul 14th 2016 at 9:57:09 PM

Sadly many of the most visible atheists echo sentiments like that. Look at Sam Harris, Bill Maher, the late and unlamented (at least by me) Christopher Hitchens, etc. They're all figures who got tainted with Islamaphobia to one degree or another.

Elle Since: Jan, 2001
#130375: Jul 14th 2016 at 10:00:28 PM

I haven't run into that but then I'm not an atheist of the militant sort. Your faith is your business, until you try to make it other people's business.


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