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Off Topic / Re: Death Predictions for 2016
« on: July 10, 2016, 03:19:02 AM »
I'm gonna put down Zsa Zsa Gabor and Olivia De Havilland, they are both actresses who are like 100 now. Also Fidel Castro, why not
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Drama / Re: Jitankcigarette Black Lives Matter activists, hi-jacks threads.
« on: July 10, 2016, 02:50:49 AM »
Jitank something to understand is that you're never going to make a tribal user not tribal by arguing with them over the Internet. I think the best thing you could do to convince someone like that that all races are equal is to set an example and act well. I don't think you're really doing that for them, right now.
I wouldn't go as far as to say your account is unsalvagable but if I were you I'd try to stay out of drama and political threads for at least a few weeks, and maybe change your avatar. I know I learn to associate avatars with behavior and I'm not quite so quick to judge after someone changes theirs.
Nobody associates a political crusade positively on the Blockland Forums, and while some users have very strong opinions about politics, nobody appreciates it when those are brought up either as a thread of their own or in unrelated threads. Also, as I've said before BLM is extremely unpopular and I think you might be more persuasive if you distanced yourself from the, just as many vegans distance themselves from PETA.
I wouldn't go as far as to say your account is unsalvagable but if I were you I'd try to stay out of drama and political threads for at least a few weeks, and maybe change your avatar. I know I learn to associate avatars with behavior and I'm not quite so quick to judge after someone changes theirs.
Nobody associates a political crusade positively on the Blockland Forums, and while some users have very strong opinions about politics, nobody appreciates it when those are brought up either as a thread of their own or in unrelated threads. Also, as I've said before BLM is extremely unpopular and I think you might be more persuasive if you distanced yourself from the, just as many vegans distance themselves from PETA.
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Off Topic / Re: why dont straight shaving razors cut you
« on: July 09, 2016, 10:12:09 PM »
because the skin is soft enough to move rather than come into contact with the sharpest part of the razor. unless you use it at the wrong angle.
on the other hand, i'm growing out sideburns that look like pubes growing down my cheeks and loving it. they don't grow nearly fast enough. meanwhile i get a ghost mustache that looks awful if i go just a few days without shaving it
on the other hand, i'm growing out sideburns that look like pubes growing down my cheeks and loving it. they don't grow nearly fast enough. meanwhile i get a ghost mustache that looks awful if i go just a few days without shaving it
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Off Topic / Re: Petition to recognize BLM as terrorists.
« on: July 09, 2016, 09:58:38 PM »No, it's loving not holy stuffNo, his post had nothing to do with ego. He wrote that your claim was dismissive and thus suspicious. You posted the definition of "ego", so in keeping with the theme of irrelevance, I posted the definition of smegma. Do you really not know what smegma is?
Path was boosting his ego so thus, I posted that. You on the other hand just randomly pasted some stupid ass definition of some stuff about a snake with literally 0 context.
If you're going to make an brown townogy try not to be stupid about it
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Off Topic / Re: Petition to recognize BLM as terrorists.
« on: July 09, 2016, 09:54:05 PM »Okay what does this have to do with anything, or are you just highIt's equally irrelevant
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Off Topic / Re: Petition to recognize BLM as terrorists.
« on: July 09, 2016, 09:10:29 PM »Quote
Imagine that you're sitting down to dinner with your family, and while everyone else gets a serving of the meal, you don't get any. So you say "I should get my fair share." And as a direct response to this, your dad corrects you, saying, "everyone should get their fair share." Now, that's a wonderful sentiment -- indeed, everyone should, and that was kinda your point in the first place: that you should be a part of everyone, and you should get your fair share also. However, dad's smart-ass comment just dismissed you and didn't solve the problem that you still haven't gotten any!https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/3du1qm/eli5_why_is_it_so_controversial_when_someone_says/ct8pei1
The problem is that the statement "I should get my fair share" had an implicit "too" at the end: "I should get my fair share, too, just like everyone else." But your dad's response treated your statement as though you meant "only I should get my fair share", which clearly was not your intention. As a result, his statement that "everyone should get their fair share," while true, only served to ignore the problem you were trying to point out.
That's the situation of the "black lives matter" movement. Culture, laws, the arts, religion, and everyone else repeatedly suggest that all lives should matter. Clearly, that message already abounds in our society.
The problem is that, in practice, the world doesn't work the way. You see the film Nightcrawler? You know the part where Renee Russo tells Jake Gyllenhal that she doesn't want footage of a black or latino person dying, she wants news stories about affluent white people being killed? That's not made up out of whole cloth -- there is a news bias toward stories that the majority of the audience (who are white) can identify with. So when a young black man gets killed (prior to the recent police shootings), it's generally not considered "news", while a middle-aged white woman being killed is treated as news. And to a large degree, that is accurate -- young black men are killed in significantly disproportionate numbers, which is why we don't treat it as anything new. But the result is that, societally, we don't pay as much attention to certain people's deaths as we do to others. So, currently, we don't treat all lives as though they matter equally.
Just like asking dad for your fair share, the phrase "black lives matter" also has an implicit "too" at the end: it's saying that black lives should also matter. But responding to this by saying "all lives matter" is willfully going back to ignoring the problem. It's a way of dismissing the statement by falsely suggesting that it means "only black lives matter," when that is obviously not the case. And so saying "all lives matter" as a direct response to "black lives matter" is essentially saying that we should just go back to ignoring the problem.
TL;DR: The phrase "Black lives matter" carries an implicit "too" at the end; it's saying that black lives should also matter. Saying "all lives matter" is dismissing the very problems that the phrase is trying to draw attention to.
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Off Topic / Re: Petition to recognize BLM as terrorists.
« on: July 09, 2016, 09:06:23 PM »lmao what major news source would publish something polarizing and not side with the leftWall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, the Las Vegas Review, the Dallas Morning News, New York Post...
Even FOX News would be a more reliable source than an Illuminati conspiracy website.
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Off Topic / Re: Petition to recognize BLM as terrorists.
« on: July 09, 2016, 09:04:05 PM »
I'm lazy for not watching 15 minutes of footage? Seems like the effort falls upon you to summarize, dude. My claims sit on their own.
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Off Topic / Re: Petition to recognize BLM as terrorists.
« on: July 09, 2016, 09:00:45 PM »
Listen up Insert Name Here² , I don't support Black Lives Matter. I'm just not dense enough to think they are terrorists or could be even conceivably be labelled as a terrorist organization. I'm also not going to waste 15+ minutes of my life watching those videos. Feel free to summarize.
Tu quoqueNo, the fact that he's delusional seems like a pretty straightforward reason as to why he is not a reliable source of information. Find me a major newspaper publishing that same statement.
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Off Topic / Re: Petition to recognize BLM as terrorists.
« on: July 09, 2016, 08:57:33 PM »
Keyword "cnn.com"
Humble Water Filter Merchant also believes that The Illuminati controls the Earth and puts chemicals in the water to keep us sedated against their oppressive regime.
Humble Water Filter Merchant also believes that The Illuminati controls the Earth and puts chemicals in the water to keep us sedated against their oppressive regime.
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Off Topic / Re: Petition to recognize BLM as terrorists.
« on: July 09, 2016, 08:53:56 PM »
BLM has never "organized a riot". They will organize protests. Whether protesters turn violent or not is up to them, and they alone will be held responsible for their actions.
But they weren't real BLM supportersI support the Better Business Bureau. If I go shoot up my local Walmart I am not a BBB Terrorist, I am a terrorist who happens to support the BBB. Who they support doesn't even matter.
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Off Topic / Re: Petition to recognize BLM as terrorists.
« on: July 09, 2016, 08:47:37 PM »I want to remain neutral on this situation, but I am confusedBecause you can't label a movement as a terroristic organization. They do not hold the structure that would allow us to note a difference between "Terrorist" and "Supporter". CIA supporters are not terrorists. CIA members are terrorists. We can label CIA a Terrorist Organization because they are organized and structured, with a clear distinction between members and supporters
Why the forget are we debating over the definition of Organization and Movement instead of focusing on the loving topic
Just saying
It's like trying to label the concept of Jihad as a terrorist organization. It's not an organization, it's a movement,.
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Off Topic / Re: Petition to recognize BLM as terrorists.
« on: July 09, 2016, 08:44:10 PM »Who gives a stuff about "WAH THEY'RE NOT AN ORGANIZATION WAAHH." They're acting like terrorists and deserve to be labeled as such.Dude, I really don't think you get it. You can't label something that isn't an organization as a terrorist organization. What would be the specification to be labelled a terrorist? Holding up a BLM sign?! Being a black protestor? "They" aren't acting like terrorists--starfishs are acting like terrorists. BLM h as never endorsed violence in any form.
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Off Topic / Re: Petition to recognize BLM as terrorists.
« on: July 09, 2016, 08:39:28 PM »You're saying it doesn't matter what the law says about their status--except it literally does because the petition is asking for them to be labelled (legally) as a TERRORIST ORGANIZATION. And you can't do that to something that doesn't hold the status of an organization.
did you even read what i typed
