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28th November 2019, 09:30 | #41761 |
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RIP Clive James
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28th November 2019, 11:25 | #41762 | |
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28th November 2019, 15:49 | #41763 |
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Long time since I've heard that name. RIP.
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29th November 2019, 20:06 | #41764 | |
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30th November 2019, 13:50 | #41765 |
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A neighbour on a diagonal opposite us started what I thought was a mulcher at 6.30 this morning. I wasn’t too bothered by it but it was annoying the crap out of the mrs.
Went over there and the guy is mowing his lawns with a weed eater. He has totally wrecked his lawns including the roadside verge. After telling him to consider his neighbours and try again at least after 8 I felt sorry for the cunt. Would have offered him our lawn mower but we were going out and I didn’t have the trust to have him return it while I was out. Maybe next time.
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30th November 2019, 14:58 | #41766 |
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whatever you do don't mention that he was a Muslim
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1st December 2019, 02:18 | #41767 | |
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1st December 2019, 02:30 | #41768 |
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Goebbels would have been proud of the coverage of Islam these recent decades. Awful that it seems weird when the media starts to act appropriately, it will be darkly funny its clumsy approach as it tries to remember how to do that.
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1st December 2019, 22:06 | #41769 |
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On a side note,
"Khan was shot dead by officers after members of the public restrained him." Sounds a bit strange. The public restrained him and then they shot him? Does anyone have more info. Did they restrain him from the main attack, but he got loose? Did they shoot him why the public were holding him? |
1st December 2019, 22:12 | #41770 |
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If you're wearing bomb vest, fake or not, you should be shot on sight.
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2nd December 2019, 03:13 | #41771 | |
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2nd December 2019, 07:34 | #41772 | |
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2nd December 2019, 07:38 | #41773 | |
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2nd December 2019, 08:56 | #41774 |
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That being said, there's no useful profile of a mass shooter.
So we'll now be keeping a close eye on every evangelical Christian and/or Islamic person that may or may not come from a broken home, that may or may not have a mental illness, that may or may not have a gun license, that may or may not play violent video games. The only thing for almost certain? They're men. Ban men.
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2nd December 2019, 09:32 | #41775 | |
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Oh, you mean beliefs other than ours? Deaths at the hands of those who aren't us?
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2nd December 2019, 11:00 | #41776 |
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If you're after the profile of the average mass shooter, it'd be a 20-49 Christian white male from California with a gun license, in an office or a restaurant.
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2nd December 2019, 11:26 | #41777 |
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And we are perfectly justified in discussing the reasons that such people commit their killings.
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2nd December 2019, 12:49 | #41778 |
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We're not grown up enough for these discussions. We quickly are captured by unconscious prejudices which others see as opportunity to generate political capital from this lack of discipline.
Those who are sufficiently mature and disciplined are routinely ignored. For instance, is the public able to grasp the nuance of those with genuine political motivations as the basis of their behaviour and those having a breakdown that's fixated on the topics of the day? Would the public even care without the media prioritising any particular topic in its reporting?
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2nd December 2019, 13:10 | #41779 |
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I think this is one of the greatest problems of Western secular liberalism: people who aren't religious don't understand how powerful religion is. It's the weirdest thing; we (I mean, Western secular liberals) have forgotten how powerful ideas are.
Western secularists think this is a debate in which the best-articulated and most-rational arguments will win, and that these arguments are quite obviously those of the Enlightenment. Islamic fundamentalists want to kill and enslave everyone who doesn't convert to Islam. Western liberals: "oh but you see that's a metaphor for the clash of ideas" Jihadists: "no, we actually want to end your lives and enslave your women" Western liberals: "obviously that's a multilayered reference that needs to be unpacked from a standpoint of cultural subjectivity" Jihadists: "no, you must convert or die" Western liberals: (nodding) |
2nd December 2019, 16:13 | #41780 |
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Yeah, religion is powerful. Yeah, maybe we don't understand it very well.
But it's not dropping bombs on Yemen. It's not destroying the very environment we depend on to live. The dominant force on the planet, that everything else on the planet including the planet is currently in response to, is in the hands of Western secular liberalism. And we kill like fuck. Sure, we're not starving or gassing millions. We have another way, just killing enough so that we can get away with more killing. If we want to understand terrorism more, we need to look at ourselves, the power we have and how it's applied. Not jerk ourselves off wondering at the motivations of little people in little circumstances.
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2nd December 2019, 17:20 | #41781 |
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But they’re not little people. They’re martyrs. The guy shot in the head on London Bridge is in paradise. He died in the most noble and praiseworthy way possible. Right now there are mothers patting toddlers on the head and praying that one day their babies will be lucky enough to die like that themselves.
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2nd December 2019, 17:41 | #41782 |
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That's the story being sold.
My view is if we're selfish, it's simply not worth it. It's important people are free to seek out and understand these things. For transparency, for improved knowledge. But it's not worth pushing these things in the faces of people who would otherwise not seek to know about them. Well, it is of course, to the powers that be. It's a very effective tool for directing public discourse and therefore public support for particular interests. It's just terrible for the rest of us. That might be hard to see now, generations along this tool being put to dramatic use. Along with abstract pressures that leave people seeking answers to the problems in their lives. What with the convenient vacuum left by religion in Western secular liberalism, if someone's selling answers, there's no shortage of demand.
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2nd December 2019, 20:53 | #41783 | |
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3rd December 2019, 00:34 | #41784 | |
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On this topic I strongly recommend a book that has completely blown my mind:
Yasmine Mohammed, "Unveiled: How Western Liberals Empower Radical Islam" For clarity in articulating the Islamist position I also recommend the Islamic State recruiting magazine Dabiq. The production values and professionalism of the production are impressive. The typography is unsurprisingly beautiful, and there are pictures of cute kittens! And ironic hipster photos of Sigmund Freud! They may be a bunch of religious nutcases but their communications game is pro-tier. Dabiq No. 15 has a really interesting chapter entitled "Why We Hate You & Why We Fight You" addressed to the secular West in general. I'll excerpt the good bits: Quote:
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3rd December 2019, 06:30 | #41785 |
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Clarion Project was founded by Raphael Shore - a Jew or is that illegal, and I have to call him Israeli? His twin brother Ephraim Shore runs "HonestReporting" - a pro-Israel media watchdog. Clarion Project has a dubious reputation as being anti-Islam and pro-Israel. The same donors that fund Clarion Project also fund anti-climate change propaganda.
You linked to Dabiq issue 15. Dabiq issue 7 PDF has interesting font properties. It "contains" (although does not make use of) MyriadHebrew-Bold. No mention of any Arab fonts, despite being from allegedly Arab origin. Even my Chromebook has Arab fonts enabled, because an Iraqi has used it, and they tend to use Arab writing for some things. Not these well funded, pro-tier Arabs that make the ISIL propaganda. They prefer Hebrew fonts enabled by default. I don't have Hebrew fonts enabled, because I don't have Jews on my computer. Issue 7 also issues a warning to Mossad spies, from an interview with a Mossad spy that was caught spying on ISIL, not to spy on ISIL. Just in case you thought ISIL was Mossad, they've clearly written that they're not friends with Mossad. But they didn't cut off his head. They published his picture in a magazine. Even though he's clearly an enemy, and a non-believer. That they want to kill, by your well-funded-by-Jews anti-Islam logic. Issue 15 includes Hebrew fonts AND Arab fonts, but in that issue they actually use the symbols that would require it. Now, I'm not saying everything rotten and phony somehow leads to Jews, but in this case, it kinda looks like Jews to me. Why does Israel keep being connected to anything dodgy? I think you're hating the wrong group dude.
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3rd December 2019, 07:39 | #41786 |
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I think that as a society if we don't actively differentiate between Islam and radical Islam then yes this does empower radical Islam.
It is important to discuss radical Islam but it seems to be difficult to do without stigmatising non-radical Islam and the resultant alienation that makes people vulnerable to radicalism. I think any discussion needs to happen while at the same time embracing non-radical Islam. Something like communicating through actions that hey you guys are alright, you guys are us, it's those guys we don't like.
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3rd December 2019, 11:25 | #41787 | |
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3rd December 2019, 11:31 | #41788 | |
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3rd December 2019, 12:12 | #41789 |
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You're the one spreading propaganda without even checking to see where it came from. At least I recognise that things I read may not be true and look for sources/evidence to verify it.
I'm happy being "insane" as you put it. I've always been this way, surely you've noticed. It doesn't bother me. Shame on your Hebrew PDF and hating Arabs on command.
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3rd December 2019, 14:59 | #41790 | |
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I don't think we're ever going to get rid of religion so we should probably focus on the bad kinds rather than Muslim = Bad
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3rd December 2019, 16:22 | #41791 | |
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3rd December 2019, 18:19 | #41792 |
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That would be a response to a media narrative that doesn't adequately acknowledge that radicalism is separate from mainstream Islam & so perpetuates a shitty time for people harming no one.
Being more responsible about how the situation is analysed would go along way in not creating that response.
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3rd December 2019, 20:37 | #41793 |
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is d27 antisemitic lol this is new
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4th December 2019, 10:15 | #41794 |
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Cute little quote I read recently: The price we pay for free speech and debate is free speech and debate.
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4th December 2019, 19:44 | #41795 | |
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Plot twist: My surname is originally Jewish (Poland), to the best of my knowledge. I thought maybe Ab's point was originally about media bias, and not about Islam per se, but then he went on to spew propaganda about Islam, and seems to be convinced that he's too smart to be fooled by bullshit. Ideas are dangerous, but not the ones he latches on to! I assume he thinks he's being a responsible citizen by making sure he's an informed Islamophobe, rather than a plain old bigot. I mean, if your racism is justified, you're not a bad person, are you?
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5th December 2019, 20:17 | #41797 |
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the beginnings of my “is this a terrible client?” checklist:
- First meeting, they say “you can trust me” - They ask you “so how are we tracking?” - The first thing they ask is “so how does this affect the budget?” - When you recall what was said, they say “I didn’t say that” - They say “we’re doing this work at risk, and so are you” - they say “we’re probably going to lose money on this job. And you will probably lose money too.” |
6th December 2019, 23:28 | #41798 |
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GMG: Quoting employment law to my employer is embarrassing (but at least they've documented their requirement to breach the law.)
OMG: I can just look the law up online, point it out. As a concerned employee looking out for the good of the company of course.
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7th December 2019, 22:54 | #41799 |
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I've probably been playing too much Darkest Dungeon, but what with the smoke from NSW giving it a reddy-yellow hue, the moon has a pustular wound vibe going on. It's grotesque and fascinating.
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8th December 2019, 10:06 | #41800 |
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