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drone_missileHow ’60 Minutes’ Became a Pentagon Mouthpiece for Drone War.

FAIR’s sentiment is fine, it’s just they’re addressing an industry that doesn’t exist anymore.

On Clinton’s “Rich & White” take on it: Feminism of the Few Has No Place in a Nation for All.

On O-Bummer’s questionable legacy and the sorrow of Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Luis Videgaray, Mexican foreign policy and the open contempt for expertise.

The Red Scare stalks another victim…

The DOJ says it wants to make eyewitness testimony “more scientific” but that’s just not possible, people aren’t reliable witnesses.

Windows 10 Creators Update to rejig privacy settings in a move unlikely to please anyone.

Wal-Mart Plans More Job Cuts.

Misinformation Intern: My summer as a military propagandist in Iraq.

Lastly, via notisaidthepig: Running for president showed me how our elections are broken. We can fix them.

 

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  • Your Song of the Day….

    https://youtu.be/mLXQltR7vUQ

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    Farewell Obama

    Obama using his farewell address to make a sales pitch for political activism and running for office as the solution to people’s problems pretty much sums up modern liberalism. Snake oil politicians trot out this tired bullshit whenever they see the religious zeal surrounding them and their policy initiatives fading away.

    Does Obama really see his remarkable political ascendancy as part of any realistic aspiration for marginalized people? Power doesn’t just corrupt; it blinds you to the reality of your words while building you a
    throne atop which you can sit, privileged enough to avoid being victimized by the excesses of state capitalism.

    https://c4ss.org/content/47541

    • panem et circenses

      C4ss has some solid articles, unfortunately they allow “ancaps” a platform there alongside mutualists and other (real) market anarchists. I’m always wary when someone says “state capitalism” because it implies that there’s any other form of capitalism in existence, or even possible, usually in an attempt to justify the perverse and poorly conceived religion of “anarcho-capitalism” that dreams of a magical “free market” that doesn’t require a state.

      • panem et circenses

        Or worse yet, it makes the wildly inaccurate implication that the US government is a pseudo-socialist dictatorship like the USSR.

    • EdgarHF

      “political activism and running for office”

      Also known as being hand picked by the 1% and packaged.

      • Dosido3

        Kamala Harris, anyone?

    • kreskin

      I’m not going to waste one minute of time listening to that fountain of BS . Am glad to see him go .

      Slick’s legacy ? F A I L .

      • EdgarHF

        He has been a rousing success just not for 99% of the public.

      • Dosido3

        Same

      • towerofbabel

        Legacy: O

  • panem et circenses

    That blog by Wendi Muse is really solid. Feminism isn’t flawed. Hillary Clinton and her most enthusiastic supporters just aren’t truly feminists. Feminism is an intersectional movement inclusive to and cognizant of all forms of hierarchical dominance, and not the pursuit of putting a few (mostly white) women in positions of power within the kyriarchy for their own benefit and the disadvantage and exclusion of already disadvantaged women and other oppressed groups around the globe. Becoming accepted as a slave master while people less privileged than you are still slaves isn’t progress. Unfortunately thanks to its capitalist support and strong media voice, liberal bourgeois feminism drowns out the voice of true feminism that’s actually now recognized both among the majority of activists and the majority of modern academic feminists. Every feminist space I’m involved in is a radical left, intersectional and anti-capitalist space with revolutionary praxis. All that said, I look forward to reading more of her blog in the future because that article was really comprehensive, thanks.

    • kreskin

      Hillary Clinton and the V brigade have set feminism back a decade or two .

      • panem et circenses

        I hope you’re wrong, but there’s no doubt they’ve damaged the brand significantly. Fortunately there still seems to be a lot of growth in intersectional (and leftist in general) groups at the moment.

        • kreskin

          Liberals , the progressive movement ? I am not the least bit hopeful . Warren , Sanders and Clinton did incalculable damage , it’s permanent .

      • Dosido3

        I should be offended by the term V brigade, but it is what it is…vote for the V in vagina and not the v in values.

        • Edwin

          I think the name is perfect. Vagina voters. (They make me ill.) They are sexists.

          (I don’t vote for people because they have a penis.)

          • towerofbabel

            They are sexist and isn’t it weird to see them the same what that Rush sees them? But Rush is an actual sexist just like them.

          • kreskin

            I even started using the term feminazi , it was definitely applicable !f

        • kreskin

          Don’t be offended when it’s the truth . That’s an Edwin original … by the way .

          • Edwin

            Is that one of mine? I didn’t know. It’s fitting if you ask me.

      • Edwin

        They’ve turned me off to feminism, for sure, and I have been a feminist lifelong. But if this is how they want to behave I want nothing to do with them. These modern “feminists” are hateful, dangerous and insulting.

        (I will still believe in equality, just want nothing to do with modern day feminism.)

        • towerofbabel

          Like I said above, I think there is emerging a new feminism among younger people.

          • Edwin

            Yes, and I hate it. Want no part of it: angry man-haters that live inside their safe spaces. Ugh.

          • towerofbabel

            No, a new, new feminism. It’s different.

          • towerofbabel

            Feminism has been weaponized by the neoliberal elite.

          • Edwin

            This chick tweeted that “straight white men are trash.”

            I am actually starting to like Tucker Carlson (a bit). +_+ Gawd, she’s a nasty piece of work.

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeDU6dCR9tA

          • Dosido3

            No, do not start liking Tucker Carlson. He’s a fake and an attention getter with no compass.

          • Edwin

            I doubt I’ll really like him, but boy has he smacked down some top Dims in recent weeks. And this Luca chick… Ugh! I can tell she has studied about safe spaces and trigger words in some university class. Ugh. I absolutely hate people like her. Ugh!

          • Edwin

            Her fake outrage, her womansplaining, her self-righteous douchebaggery.

          • kreskin

            Why do you hate women , Edwin ?

          • Edwin

            I am a well known misogynist. Ask Susie Madrak. She was the first to say to to my face (when I embarrassed their “team” about an article they churned out about their beloved Hillary.)

          • kreskin

            Madrak . LOL

          • Edwin
          • kreskin

            keeping an eye on the corporate elite … and voting for them ! LMAO !

          • towerofbabel

            “Ivanka’s incredible brand…”
            hmmm…now people are brands?
            With regard to this woman, I have dealt with this kind of “feminism” and it is as bad as male sexism.

        • Dosido3

          They are selfish misandrists that pose as feminists. I saw through them at a young age. I grew up in the seventies and I like men as much as I want equality.

          • Edwin

            I have always been pro-equality. It’s the only thing that ever made sense to me.

            What some people fail to notice is there are two sexes, they are different, and people need to get over it.

          • Ann Watson

            Egalitarian?
            Me too. ; )

      • towerofbabel

        I’m not sure. My daughter came in the other week and proclaimed that she was a new feminist. I think a lot of young women get it.

    • Dosido3

      I had been yelling that about Hillary to my daughters for the past 12 months…she’s not a feminist, she’s a token just like Obama was a token.

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  • kreskin
    • Dosido3

      Is that a real photo? Satire, protest or sincere? O.o

      • Looks like some typical DNC partisans, acting like idiots, to push inter-uniparty rivalries. DNC partisans are good at that, though, they’ve got a lot of experience making asses of themselves.

        • kreskin

          Jeff Sessions is a good old boy , racist to the core .

      • notisaidthepig

        I just saw a clip on Democracy Now. That’s real.

      • kreskin

        Real .

  • Dosido3
    • panem et circenses

      Yikes. I’ve seen the erasure of a lot of marginalized people, but this is the first time I’ve seen a liberal “feminist” erase the wage gap that effects all women in the US other than basically H and the Waltons.

      • Dosido3

        It’s so arrogant and delusional, just like the whole campaign.

    • panem et circenses

      Ha, I just noticed that Ben Norton was already on top of that.

      • panem et circenses

        And many others. She rightfully got completely roasted after that bullshit.

        • Dosido3

          and it all made no difference. She is probably paid to keep spewing Hillaryesque crap. The same Brock talking points are in bold on her Twitter feed. it’s like the DNC leaks didn’t happen!

  • Edwin
  • notisaidthepig

    Oh, I’m famous. I was mentioned in the Daily Links. Oink!

    • Dosido3

      I second that oink! 🙂

    • LOL. For some definition of “famous”!

  • EdgarHF
    • kreskin

      Sorry , Jimmy , this is a non story as far as I am concerned .Obama is done , he failed in Syria , Trump doesn’t give a rat’s ass about Assad , now the Americans are killing their ISIS allies … as are the Russians .

      The US and the Russians have definitely NOT been working together all along , they have completely different goals . The US wanted to oust Assad , Assad is a Russian ally . Hillary wanted to create and enforce a no fly zone when she Sec of state , force a confrontation with the Russians , serious stuff , this was no charade.

  • notisaidthepig

    That was a very interesting read about feminism.

  • Dosido3

    Another heaping helping of bullshit. This time featuring Alan From (and retweeted by that staunch “feminist” and bullshit pusher Sally Albright).

    Don’t be fooled. Populism won’t help Democrats win again
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/04/why-populism-wont-help-democrats-win-again

    Commenters are on it and telling the author to GFH in the kindest way possible.

    • notisaidthepig

      Oh, those comments were delicious!

    • Edwin
      • notisaidthepig

        What an idiot.

      • kreskin

        Not a genius , is she ?

        • Edwin

          I’m really getting very tired of these fake Clintonista feminists who’s mark in trade is hating men and then running for their safe space.

      • Dosido3

        That’s the one. I’m sure she thinks herself very clever…

        • Edwin

          You know, what does that even mean? I’m quite sure that when I worked in an office in Canada the women doing the same job as me got the same pay. Am I missing something?

    • kreskin

      The Democrats and populism ? That ship has sailed , it ain’t comin back .

  • kreskin

    60 minutes / the Pentagon . Mainstream media serves the government , not the people .

  • Edwin

    These little brats need a good spanking. +_+

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-y0TlV4bzw

    • “SJW” is a term of derision, used primarily by crazy right-tard “maninists” And the whole “Colleges are full of crazies” is another right-wing trope. So, clearly, I regard that video with more than a bit of suspicion.

      🙁

      • Edwin

        I’m just learning about this. (Overseas, you know.) I am both fascinated and repelled by it.

        PS Now I understand where these snowflakes are coming from. Ugh!

        • Damn. Disqus didn’t show me this reply, until i reloaded. ARGH!

          Anyways, it’s hard, to keep up with all the machinations of the right-wing’s various factions. I’m always learning about some new crap they’re up to. And they’re experts at using our basic sense of fairness and decency to make some horror seem reasonable (or some good a horror). Of course, once one gets a good look, their schemes are always revealed as slime, but most people never get beyond the surface.

          One think I like about our commenters here, is we’re always ready to go deep. 😀

          • Edwin

            I’m having more trouble with the machinations of the left these days.

          • Edwin

            I have watched a ton of videos online the last week. I’ve heard the students say in their own words. The left doesn’t mention it because it comes from the left. The right does speak up about it. I don’t think it’s a right-wing thing. They just have the guts to say this BS is going on.

          • From Wikipedia

            “Social justice warrior” (commonly abbreviated SJW) is a pejorative term for an individual promoting socially progressive views,
            including feminism, civil rights, multiculturalism, and identity politics.

            The accusation of being an SJW carries implications of pursuing personal validation rather than any deep-seated conviction, and being engaged in disingenuous social justice arguments or activism to raise personal reputation, also known as virtue signalling.”

          • Edwin

            Yes. That’s a perfect description. Thank you.

          • Edwin

          • A video can make it look like anything is true, even the opposite of what’s factual. 🙁

          • Edwin

            So can writing. Even the CIA writes reports full of lies these days. All we can do is look at a variety of sources which is what I have done, print and video.

          • panem et circenses

            Yeah disqus isn’t loading new comments.

        • panem et circenses

          Who’s the fragile little snowflake again, rape victims wanting spaces that exclude potential predators to discuss their trauma, or the people who’ve never been raped crying about being excluded?

          • panem et circenses

            “Oh well you’ve been raped, well let me tell you something. I didn’t get to go into that room over there! Checkmate feminists.” – AntiSJW Man

          • Edwin

            Huh?

          • Edwin
          • Edwin

            Is it only about rape victims? No.

            No one is saying be offensive to rape victims.

          • panem et circenses

            That’s how the concept of safe spaces and making spaces safe from abuse began. It started with LGBTQ folks and rape victims asking for their own spaces free from harassment, and has spread somewhat to making campuses and other places free from harassment of any already marginalized people. Anyone who wants whine about that is free to do so, and they’re free to voice their disagreement if they’re so much of an asshole they actually would. In some groups there’s an effort to make the entire space safe from abuse and dehumanization of marginalized people. On most campuses, that’s still unfortunately far from the case. “SJWs” (aka activists) would like to change that and free them from abuse. Some people think that’s a bad thing, because they’re reactionaries or they have toxic opinions. I care fuck all what they think, but they’re welcome to use their “freeze peach” to throw tantrums about it.

          • panem et circenses

            And the idea that most campuses are leftist when they’re a part of the white capitalist establishment is a right wing fiction in itself.

          • Edwin

            I think you are jumping to a lot of conclusions, but as you have already decided I’m an asshole, I’m not going to waste my time discussing it with you.

          • Edwin

            I see you’re intolerant and judgemental also.

          • panem et circenses

            Damn right I’m intolerant. I’m not a “love trumps hate”, “free speech” even for racism, sexism, homophobia (etc), “tolerate the bigot and fascist” liberal.

          • Edwin

            You intolerance is triggering me and making me feel most uncomfortable.

          • panem et circenses

            If you had any idea how often I’ve seen this same type of mocking of “triggering” and “safe spaces” by actual neo Nazis it would hopefully give you pause about doing so yourself.

          • Edwin

            No it wouldn’t. How dare you compare me to neo-nazis. Seek help. You are way out of line.

            You have no right to come in here calling ma an asshole and neo-nazi because you don’t like my opinions.

          • panem et circenses

            I’m not the one literally posting alt right and MRA bullshit. If you don’t like being compared to the people whose reactionary shit you’re propagating, you should maybe consider not doing so.

          • panem et circenses

            I didn’t compare you to neo Nazis. You’re using your “freedom of speech” to associate yourself with them. I have no tolerance for reactionary right wing “antiSJW” garbage, but I’ve been relatively patient up until this point by pointing out some of the obvious flaws with these videos, though you’ve refused to acknowledge any of them.

          • Edwin

            Look past the source and see the message. Correctness to the nth degree is tyranny.

          • panem et circenses
          • Edwin

            Again with the neo-nazi shit. Is that what you tell everyone with whom you don’t agree? Grow up.

          • panem et circenses

            I didn’t mean to confuse you with that pic. Your statement reflected the person with the word “Liberal” on the shirt.

          • Edwin

            Please demean someone else. I am not interested in your smears.

          • panem et circenses

            “Please demean someone else” says the person who posted vids to demean student activists and said that you’d spank her if she were your child. You seriously need to grow thicker skin if you’re going to go around posting videos that call others “special snowflakes”.

          • Edwin

            Yeah sure. Have a nice day.

          • Edwin

            Here are some justice warriors who got told they made the staff leave early because they made the staff feel unsafe. Of course they totally deny it because they are fighting for safe spaces so they couldn’t possibly be making others feel unsafe.

            Why is it these people can’t see they are doing exactly what they decry. Is that what you do too?

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__iQGa0OkIs

          • Edwin

            Do you think it was OK of the students in the OSU video to oppress and terrorize the people that work in that building? Do those workers not have the right to feel safe in their workplace? Why did you not respond to this comment hours ago?

            Is it OK for these “justice seekers” to terrorize other innocent people to get their way?

          • panem et circenses

            Yes, they were perfectly fine. I saw the video of a bunch of students of color, mostly young women, sitting there peacefully while a couple white guys explained how they’d be removed by the cops. If someone doesn’t feel safe by a group of poc protesters occupying a space peacefully, fuck them.

          • Edwin

            and the office workers? fuck them?

          • panem et circenses

            If they actually were concerned about the students I saw in that video, then yes, but I believe the statement about their “safety concerns” was just an administrative ploy to silence the dissent of those students, like how a lot of cops are “in fear for their life” when they end up putting a bunch of bullets into someone’s back.

          • Edwin

            I see. So without any evidence you just call them liars, even though their work space has been invaded and these students plan to stay overnight.

            I was at the wrong end of a group of boys who cried wolf. I had to write up a report. I was grilled by the vp then the principal. I had to apologize. I was put on notice. It was so much bullshit I left when my contract was up and so did two other teachers who got roped into the mess.

            They explained to me that one of the boys in the class is a “gang leader” and he instructed the other boys to ignore me, harass, me, give me a hard time and do everything they could to make my year miserable… just for kicks!

            But schools want parents’ money so they cater to the whims of these little brats and bend over backwards to do anything to keep that money rolling in.

            In the meantime they drive teachers to the edge of despair and their are either fired from their jobs of resign (as 3 of us did.)

            But don’t worry about people like us. This little snowflake was traumatized thinking someone might think it was a good idea to arrive at a party dressed as “Little Black Sambo” or something.

            She should be expelled. She is a menace to society.

          • Edwin

            Look you’re obviously a way way way WAY way better person than me so why don’t you hit the streets and save some real people instead of haranguing me. Take your sanctimonious bullshit with you.

          • Edwin

            I feel marginalized and uncomfortable with this comment.

          • panem et circenses

            “No one is saying be offensive to rape victims.”

            You really don’t know the ideology of the groups whose propaganda you’re consuming.

          • Edwin

            Thanks for tipping me off.

    • panem et circenses
      • Edwin

        Are you going somewhere?

        • Edwin
          • Edwin
          • panem et circenses

            “Shrieking girl” because she raised her voice to someone being condescending and unwilling to criticize their actions? It wasn’t a safety issue, it’s an issue of cultural appropriation. This uploader is erecting their own strawmen to knock down and you appear to be uncritically absorbing it, for whatever reason. The “house master” is a liberal who likes to talk over people trying to articulate harm, and call themselves an “ally” because they feel like they aren’t a racist and have done enough in the past to slap that label on for themselves. You’re taking the side of a person who’s basically Hillary Clinton.

          • Edwin

            Yes, I see. I guess you shriek at people like that yourself when you don’t get your way. Nice. Very classy and persuasive.

          • panem et circenses

            I do my best to neither “shriek” at people nor talk down condescendingly and tone police those from less privileged groups attempting to express why they’re feeling marginalized and uncomfortable with something.

          • Edwin

            Aren’t you special. A real treat.

            I guess it’s OK to talk down to me and call me an asshole. I need to go to my safe space, ya big bully.

          • Edwin

            Halloween costumes.

            She’s shrieking about a costume someone might potentially wear in the future. Not that anyone has worn, but someone MIGHT wear. Yet she’s oppressed. JeeZuz!!!

          • panem et circenses

            She is oppressed, daily. Most people are in various ways but women of color in particular. The letter about the Halloween costumes was just the initial event. It was the talking over and dismissing the people of color who brought their concerns to the faculty, and refusal to admit that he, as someone in a position of authority at both the university and in society that doesn’t face the same struggles, may have made a mistake by overlooking something that became a bigger issue.

          • Edwin

            Maybe she should go home to mommy and daddy.

            BTW I am gay and grew up when being gay was “wrong” and “evil” and it was OK to hate on us. I have been spit on, trashed, beat up, fired from a job, hauled off to jail and abused by pigs. Never would I stand in a courtyard and shriek at faculty over some Halloween costume some one MIGHT wear in the future. The little brat should be expelled.

          • panem et circenses

            I’m queer and grew up where gay bashing anti-gay slurs were the norm, and almost nobody in the area would even consider coming out because they might not survive it, so I understand a bit of that. But that makes me even less inclined to dismiss and mock people of color who attempt to explain why something makes them feel uncomfortable, not more so.

          • Edwin

            Hello. Halloween costumes no one has yet worn. You do understand that, don’t you?

            This chick is ruining peoples’ lives. She needs to be expelled. I think she is the most terrible kind of person out there.

          • panem et circenses

            You keep reducing it to Halloween costumes when the discussion I saw in which she sat patiently for at least several minutes before speaking up in frustration was what was really problematic. And she didn’t ruin anyone’s life by raising her voice for a few seconds. If only the voices of a single woman of color had that kind of power.

          • Edwin

            Keep on fighting your “good fight”. I ain’t the least bit interested.

            What does she think happens when she steps out into the real world? She is in one of the most privileged places on earth and is surrounded by a sea of caregivers and she can’t even handle that. I think she is a disgrace.

          • panem et circenses

            You think universities are safe places for young women, LGBTQ folks and people of color? Try hanging out in feminist or other civil rights groups for a while and listen to the endless flow of horror stories about life at universities and maybe you’ll change that perspective. Just don’t go in mocking victims or you’ll rightfully be kicked from those “safe spaces”. Campuses aren’t immune to any of the abuse and discrimination that you apparently believe only happens in the so-called “real world”, and hopefully these young people take that activism with them when they leave.

          • Edwin

            The world is a tough place. I wish it weren’t but it is. I know from first-hand experience.

            It doesn’t give me the right to freak out on people who “trigger me” (for some reason) but have done nothing wrong. I know there isn’t a safe space around every corner. I don’t want to be mollycoddled by anyone. I think it’s time these people wean themselves of safe spaces and learn some street smarts, like I did. That’s what gets you through, not running to an authority figure every time you feel scared.

            How many people are around that faculty member in the Halloween video? He is there alone. There are about 30 angry people surrounding him. What about HIS safe space? Fuck him because he is a privileged white guy?

            I can tell you it’s darn frightening. But he is a white male so fuck him. He is the enemy. He is bad. He deserves that shit.

          • panem et circenses

            I don’t want anyone to learn to hide their problems and accept the world for what it is, I want them to change it. And the young people I saw didn’t go running to an authority figure, they confronted authority. It was the university (in the OSU vid) who went running to the authorities.

          • Edwin

            You don’t change the world with a new form of tyranny. And that’s what these people are doing. It’s no better than the old tyranny, just different masters.

          • Edwin

            Can I ask how many classes you’ve taught? Have you ever worked at a school or university? (I have. At both.)

          • panem et circenses

            What makes you the arbiter of what’s the right way to confront your oppressors? It sounds an awful lot like the people who think BLM should be less “aggressive” about not wanting cops to shoot people of color anymore, which is basically the same as the majority of white folks felt about the civil rights movements in the 60s (or any other civil rights movements).

          • Edwin

            Her oppressor???!! Oh, please. Up your dose for fucks sake.

            You know this is about Halloween costumes, before the fact. Before Halloween has even happened. just in case someone wears something they may not like. Nothing has even happened yet. Her fucking oppressor, sure thing.

            Learn WTF you’re talking about before you start shrieking at other posters like an asshole. Her oppressor my fucking ass.

            The New Intolerance of Student Activism
            A fight over Halloween costumes at Yale has devolved into an effort to censor dissenting views.

            http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/the-new-intolerance-of-student-activism-at-yale/414810/

            Yale Lecturer Resigns After Email on Halloween Costumes

            A Yale lecturer who came under attack for challenging students to stand up for their right to decide what Halloween costumes to wear, even to the point of being offensive, has resigned from teaching at the college, the university said Monday.

            https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/08/us/yale-lecturer-resigns-after-email-on-halloween-costumes.html

            I’m sure she doesn’t mind having her career destroyed because she thought university students could sort out costumes on their own.

          • panem et circenses

            Up my dose? Now you’ve gone from alt right talking points, to an MRA video to mocking mental illness. You should maybe consider not crawling around the sewers of the “alt right” internet for a bit, because the stench is rubbing off big time.

            If people were ready to sort out not being racism, sexist, transphobic, etc on their own those phenomena wouldn’t be so prevalent. You’ve actually been mocking those people working to sort it out.

          • Edwin

            Did you read those articles I posted? Is that alt-right? NYT and The Atlantic.

            I look at all kinds of stuff on the net. Lefties don’t post things that are not flattering to identity politics because it is their thing so you have to look at rightie stuff. I don’t have a problem with looking at both sides. maybe you should take your head out of the sand and realize the left is lying to us about a lot of things.

            You don’t like the message I am posting so you are smearing me like a typical Clintonite CTR would do.

          • panem et circenses

            You’re posting alt right and neoliberal Pro-Clinton sources to back up your points. I looked at both the content and the sources, both are seriously lacking. There’s a reason lelfties don’t post “anti-idpol”, “anti-SJW”, “anti-PC” stuff: it’s because it’s reactionary.

          • Edwin

            I’m not part of the herd. Don’t need to be corralled. I think for myself.

          • panem et circenses

            “Political correctness is ruining everything” isn’t some type of unique, progressive free thinking idea. It’s the cornerstone of the alt right.

            You apparently felt personally attacked, because I pointed out the reactionary nature of those videos, and it’s only natural to feel defensive when being called out on something. But the ‘anti-SJW’ rhetoric is an attack on all the minorities and activists working hard to fight against the systems of oppression in place and make life more tolerable for those who’re the most fucked over on a daily basis by society.

            My opinions on things are sometimes terrible, but I try to do my best to self-criticize and try to do better. But I guess I’m not a free thinker who’s living on the edge of accepting right wing ideas as my own. I’ll leave you with that.

          • Edwin

            Yes please do. Get on your goddamn snotty high horse and leave me alone. Your bullshit is laughable.

            These poor kids “traumatized” (the horror) by what someone might wear as a costume before Halloween has even arrived. And you support that nonsense. All I need to know.

            Have you ever taught or worked in a school? Do you know how this stuff plays out in real life? I do. I have seen it first hand. It will destroy education. It makes teachers ill and ruins teachers’ lives. But fuck them. They don’t deserve any consideration. They are hateful monsters oppressors, after all. They went into the job to terrorize these hapless little tots.

          • Edwin

            –>> “Political correctness is ruining everything”

            Your words, Not mine. But I do think it has gone way too far.

          • Edwin

            The Atlantic and NYT are alt-right now?

          • Edwin

            Here’s some of my propaganda I watched yesterday.

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTU3hxgr2Kc

          • Edwin

            Civilization. A person of university age accepted into one of the most prestigious institutes on the planet ought to know how to handle herself a little better than gnashing, screeching and wailing in a public courtyard. Perhaps you think it’s OK, but then that speaks to your character.

    • notisaidthepig

      I enjoyed this.

      • Edwin

        Thank you. I’m glad someone could see this is an issue with a lot of layers.

  • Not sure if this has already been posted here, had to share it though.

    “David Brock: Dear Senator Sanders, I’m with You in the Fight Ahead”
    https://medium.com/@DavidBrock/dear-senator-sanders-im-with-you-in-the-fight-ahead-ffd42ae989bb#.n511prcls

    no substance worth reading. Just good ol’ laughs at the absurdity of it all.

  • Damn, Disqus. It just decided to show me the last 12 hours worth of comments!

    • Edwin

      I think it’s the same everywhere. You have to refresh. 🙁

      (What a pos system.)

  • Thursday’s links are here, to amaze and confuse! 😀

  • Edwin

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