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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...

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...

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...

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".

Like the French Resistance and the Nazis? Ok, odd ethical position to take...

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...

Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? :up: :up:

@"ssu" To deny yourself extra-legal options is not a prerequisite to being ethically engaged. That doesn't imply that the obverse positioning justifie...

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...

Like the small fringe cabal of fine neo-nazis that murdered Heather Heyer in Charlottesvile? The police clearly handled that great.

They never had any gloves to begin with. Makes handling the levers of power a bit fiddly.

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...

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...

Oh cheers, it's as much poetic prose/thinly disguised slice of autobiography as poem. A lot of wordplay and fun with sounds. :smile:

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,...

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...

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...

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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...

*Washes hands and leaves the scene.*

As long as it's not Heineken. :vomit: :wink:

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...

/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...

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...

Serves to emphasize the way the different variants/words are used. And the evidence suggests the divergence will continue. You basically just called m...

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.

You might try being a little more subtle the next time. Cheerio.

No, it only has by region.

:cheer:

Haha, the perfect crosspost @"Wallows" :grin:

/uploads/files/r0/jm5vg6usm8c3wwfb.jpg :party: :party:

I'm feeling lucky.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VQSJ7Y41I0

(Of course, that's searches rather than frequency in online text.)

Interesting. "Nigga" wins out online. /uploads/resized/files/o5/ih09odj8icmfq47w.png https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=nigga,...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsF0BoJSeqA

I get the point. I was being facetious there.

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 ...

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...

What's your point? Reddit users have short attention spans and bad memories? Relevance to Shoutbox suggestion?

Cheers. :up:

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.

I only do wishy-washy leftist liberal. I'd probably invite Obama or some other useless prick like that.

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I think it might be worth a pop. All it takes is a few emails.

A corporate Dem like Biden could win. All he needs is Pennsylvania and Florida. Bernie could potentially win too but it'd be harder.

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...

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...

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 ...

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...