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@"ssu" Here's another claim: The overwrought objections to antifa's moderate levels of extralegal activity are based on said group's lack of political...
May 19, 2019 at 23:04
What about violence by "justice" states? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preventive_war "A preventive war is a war or military action initiated to preve...
May 19, 2019 at 22:36
Now you're adding qualifications to what was a sweeping statement. Keep adding a few more and we may get to agreement. I'm saying forget the "politics...
May 19, 2019 at 22:23
No idea what you're talking about. But putting everyone who uses violence on the same ethical terms is madness. And yes, the FR were the "terrorists".
May 19, 2019 at 22:16
Like the French Resistance and the Nazis? Ok, odd ethical position to take...
May 19, 2019 at 22:12
My point here is that not even being able to countenance the fact that some illegal antifa actions/assaults might be ethically justified makes you the...
May 19, 2019 at 22:08
Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? :up: :up:
May 19, 2019 at 22:00
@"ssu" To deny yourself extra-legal options is not a prerequisite to being ethically engaged. That doesn't imply that the obverse positioning justifie...
May 19, 2019 at 21:54
But if there had been enough antifa to beat the living shit out of those guys and prevent the killing, they'd have been labelled a terrorist threat. M...
May 19, 2019 at 21:43
Like the small fringe cabal of fine neo-nazis that murdered Heather Heyer in Charlottesvile? The police clearly handled that great.
May 19, 2019 at 21:41
They never had any gloves to begin with. Makes handling the levers of power a bit fiddly.
May 19, 2019 at 21:28
Yes. This. Feel free to run anything you want by me btw (either here or by PM) for an opinion FWIW. I don't often read poems I see here more then once...
May 15, 2019 at 23:42
Really appreciate your interest. You would probably see more than I consciously intended. It came out in bursts and seemed right and I'm aware of cert...
May 15, 2019 at 23:11
Oh cheers, it's as much poetic prose/thinly disguised slice of autobiography as poem. A lot of wordplay and fun with sounds. :smile:
May 15, 2019 at 22:50
Yes, sure: Whale burps noisily along, patter of footsteps and the stink of his brain, unhappy alliance… …Take me down to the underground… An old song,...
May 15, 2019 at 22:33
I didn't get the intent of the format but it struck me as 'right' anyhow. And as I said I find that difficult. For example, I have a written version o...
May 15, 2019 at 22:30
The rhythm works better for me at the start than towards to the end. But I'm mostly impressed with some of the imagery like the photograph/pictogram b...
May 15, 2019 at 22:19
:up:
May 15, 2019 at 21:57
Ironically, this OP originally got caught in the spam filter. I haven't seen anything else there though or in the change log where mod edits are store...
May 15, 2019 at 13:45
*Washes hands and leaves the scene.*
May 14, 2019 at 21:49
As long as it's not Heineken. :vomit: :wink:
May 13, 2019 at 20:51
I just rolled a die. The laws of probability told me there was an over 80% likelihood that a 6 wouldn't show up. But it did. So, excuse me for not tak...
May 13, 2019 at 19:46
/uploads/resized/files/2c/0t8sk25u6z9umfai.png The numbers so far say otherwise. And he'll be strong in the right places. Barring some accident, he ha...
May 12, 2019 at 20:09
I was considering posting that too. For some reason talking heads like Shapiro feel they're owed an easy ride and can't handle difficult questions. Se...
May 12, 2019 at 19:15
Serves to emphasize the way the different variants/words are used. And the evidence suggests the divergence will continue. You basically just called m...
May 12, 2019 at 19:12
In: Bannings  — view comment
Banned @"George K" for being banned member @"sunknight". Seeing as this is a returning banned member, I'll leave this as an announcement and reclose.
May 11, 2019 at 20:06
You might try being a little more subtle the next time. Cheerio.
May 11, 2019 at 20:00
No, it only has by region.
May 10, 2019 at 21:42
:cheer:
May 10, 2019 at 21:25
Haha, the perfect crosspost @"Wallows" :grin:
May 10, 2019 at 21:23
/uploads/files/r0/jm5vg6usm8c3wwfb.jpg :party: :party:
May 10, 2019 at 21:22
I'm feeling lucky.
May 10, 2019 at 21:19
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VQSJ7Y41I0
May 10, 2019 at 21:19
(Of course, that's searches rather than frequency in online text.)
May 10, 2019 at 21:04
Interesting. "Nigga" wins out online. /uploads/resized/files/o5/ih09odj8icmfq47w.png https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=nigga,...
May 10, 2019 at 21:03
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsF0BoJSeqA
May 10, 2019 at 20:41
I get the point. I was being facetious there.
May 10, 2019 at 17:12
We are currently doubling our membership year by year so at our current rate of growth, by 2050, we will have surpassed Reddit and by 2100, we should ...
May 10, 2019 at 17:10
I just typed in 'philosophy' in the search bar in Reddit btw and about half the conversations were about something called a 'Philosophy purity cleanse...
May 10, 2019 at 16:59
What's your point? Reddit users have short attention spans and bad memories? Relevance to Shoutbox suggestion?
May 10, 2019 at 16:56
Cheers. :up:
May 10, 2019 at 16:47
We had a whole thread on that, and a poll too as far as I remember, and listened to both sides with the way we have it now coming out on top.
May 10, 2019 at 16:47
I only do wishy-washy leftist liberal. I'd probably invite Obama or some other useless prick like that.
May 10, 2019 at 16:36
:scream:
May 10, 2019 at 16:35
I think it might be worth a pop. All it takes is a few emails.
May 10, 2019 at 16:33
A corporate Dem like Biden could win. All he needs is Pennsylvania and Florida. Bernie could potentially win too but it'd be harder.
May 10, 2019 at 16:32
Oh, I don't mean about quality content. Quality is OK in my view. I mean things like attracting guest speakers or getting more articles up or whatever...
May 10, 2019 at 16:29
There may be a case for a "Suggestions for improvement" thread though. Kind of a Kaizen for the community. We're limited in what we can do with the so...
May 10, 2019 at 16:22
As long as you don't read or respond to any of the actual argument by linguists that there is a case for considering usage as fundamentally different ...
May 10, 2019 at 16:18
It comes down to full context. Here on the forum, for example, we're writing so we can use scare quotes to make mention absolutely clear. Harder to do...
May 10, 2019 at 15:37