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So you beat up Gato 1.4 times?
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https://twitter.com/RonPaul/status/894899791053942785

foolmo could probably go to this!
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https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/christopher-cantwell

Cantwell's response to this is that it does not meet the standards of SPLC because it is "entirely too accurate"
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https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exaggerated-differences/

the other scott A becoming increasingly redpill
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He was in TNA for like a year or so. Probably the biggest star* to come out of that thing they did that was like a fake American Idol for wrestling or whatever? Had like a year long feud with Al Snow that I think led to a match at BFG or something?

*not counting the tits on that redhead girl
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as if there's any non-trolling way to communicate in barrens chat
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totally doing that
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well technically this was work-related

and also no!

I also talked with Alaka for like 40 though and it was fine.
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Just talked on the phone with Hilary for 20 minutes!
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What sort of b8 code can I drop the next time I see him to let him know I know who he is

(and the cool part is my name there is different so he wont know its me)
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The Undertaker literally conjuring lightning is more believable than most cage match booking.
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So I'm hanging out in this camgirl room and some dude named "Icehawk2006" starts throwing money around.

Can't be, right? No way our Icehawk has money.
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https://twitter.com/juliagalef/status/894092020494381056

This is some pretty amazing journalism here.
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I'm more surprised that his campaign had the foresight to say "Actually he might run for President for real so maybe we shouldn't do this."
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/08/03/trump-was-almost-the-president-in-sharknado-after-sarah-palin-turned-down-the-role/?utm_term=.b68e916cf503

This CANT be real, can it?
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https://twitter.com/MATTHARDYBRAND/status/893635122532163584

bringing the pressure to Anthem one restaurant at a time
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Robo


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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/08/03/no-building-permit-for-australian-synagogue-it-might-draw-isis-supporter-terrorist-attacks-and-endanger-neighbors/?utm_term=.ab0bdc2f2adb

Australia bans the construction of a synagogue because they don't think the owners will be able to take sufficient measures to stop Muslims from blowing it up, which would endanger the community.
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I actually haven't been in over a year.

Music is usually girl's choice, so I guess you have to find a club where the demographics of the girls match what you think will result in music you like.
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lets compromise

strip club
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lol this aint happening
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dont worry ill manually share prager U videos with you on facebook
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http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/08/02/youtube-will-suppress-some-controversial-content-even-if-it-doesnt-violate-policies/

I applaud them for finally being honest and owning up to what we all know has been happening all along.
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The amount of over 40 women posting memes on my FB page for my birthday is somewhat disturbing.

Also Alaka called. I want to call her back but I'm also terrified.
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expensive and pointless

hence showing up in my feed

If Facebook doesn't have an advertising market segment literally named "#fakerich" I'm going to be disappointed
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https://picobrew.com/Store/products/pico.cshtml

This strikes me as the exact opposite of what homebrew is supposed to be about. FB targeted advertising strikes again!
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http://reason.com/archives/2017/07/28/why-the-left-cant-solve-global-warming

They also can't meme
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Dead jews*

Well Walter Block isn't dead yet!
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Lopen posted...

I don't personally consider specific sports shows a TV series. Mostly because there's nothing to really distinguish them from any given broadcast of the sport aside from minor things like the presentation, and there's no real continuity watching one sports show in a vacuum. I mean I prefer the Chicago announcers more but is it really enough to put WGN Baseball away from the others?

Different wrestling shows will have different match and roster styles, and generally have a plot that builds from week to week (or wishes it could)

I mean that's what they mean when they say "episodic" right?

That's why they can claim to be a longer running series than Monday Night Football, I assume
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Probably in that order if correct. What's fascinating is that I have seen only 1 new episode of The Simpsons in the past 12-15 years.

I feel like for me it's entirely possible that The Simpsons has more than like #2-5 combined
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ah fuck, I didn't even think about wrestling - entirely likely RAW takes #3 for me, but PROBABLY not 2...
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scarletspeed7 posted...

How do you define this? Most time spent overall, or highest rate of rewatch?

Total # of episodes watched (including rewatches)
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1. The Simpsons (without question)
2. Animaniacs (fairly certain of this one)
3. Star Trek: The Next Generation (fairly confident, but not entirely, not sure what else it would be, MASH maybe)
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https://twitter.com/BostonGlobe/status/892485878731476993

#MakeTheSunGreatAgain
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An institute that holds up two Jews as its founding fathers seems like a poor venue to recruit Nazis.
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http://consultingbyrpm.com/blog/2017/08/a-tale-of-two-conspiracies.html

When I met Jeff Deist I thought he was a little awkward and weird and unimpressive, but you've gotta have some serious balls to drop a line like that during a speech that you know is going on Youtube immediately.
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Anthem will more than likely come to an agreement to stop the constant assault of slander from Reby and Matt and get something out of this, because otherwise they have absolutely nothing to show for it.

It keeps their name in the news.

It's certainly the only time *I* hear anyone talking about Impact anymore!
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What is Anthem's motivation to "agree to" anything?

It's not timely or costly for them to release the occasional press release saying "we own this and we will sue anyone who uses it."

You might say "But eventually they have to sue someone and THAT is costly" and I say "No they don't." BECAUSE Vince doesn't give a shit about this gimmick, he WON'T call their bluff. They won't ever have to sue, because Vince won't ever try anything, because he doesn't give a shit about any of this. Even if you promised him a 90% chance of winning the lawsuit, it doesn't matter enough to him to risk that 10%.

Maybe BROKEN is what inspired HHH or someone to bring up the idea in the first place, but I guarantee you Vince doesn't care. That's not why he pulled the trigger on bringing them back. To him, this is just another nostalgia act. No different from the million Outlaws and Dudleys nostalgia trips. Just another easy way to milk money from attitude era sycophants.
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and yeah, i don't get how muffin can say that it's completely understandable that guys try to pick up chicks at a libertarian conference WHILE ALSO claiming that libertarian chicks are "ridiculously rare." if there's 2% girls at a conference, and a lot of guys try to hit on them (because society tells them they should), doesn't that make the chances of success extremely slim?

And yes, but this works the OPPOSITE way you think it does!

Conventional wisdom says: "Your greatest odds of success are with people who share your interests." This changes the mental calculus from "How do I convince people to like me?" to "How do I find the libertarian girls who will obviously like me." It's not entirely rational (a lot of it is a self-defense mechanism to defend the ego) but that's how it works.

So what happens is, the 90% of men in the room know that the room is only 10% women. They know that the other guys in the room want the same thing they do. It ratchets up the competitive intensity. The logical move isn't just "try and hit on the women," but rather, it starts to become "hit on the women quickly" or "hit on the women aggressively just in case they can't tell that you're hitting on them." The pressure of having lots of competition inspires even more aggressive behavior than would otherwise exist. If you're a girl who IS going there to meet a man, that's exactly what you want. But if you're not, it's the exact opposite of what you want.

Consider that if libertarian women were common, if the conference had 60% women and 40% men, there would be no particular rush. There would be no concern. There would be no sense of "Holy shit MUST STRIKE NOW OR SOMEONE ELSE WILL GET HER."
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foolm0r0n posted...

Mr Lasastryke posted...

wouldn't it make more sense to hit on girls in a club, where there's a gazillion times the amount of girls and they're a lot more open to the idea of getting picked up than at a conference?

That's the perceived comparative advantage he was talking about. It's completely and blatantly disproven in every way after even 1 minute of thinking about it, but he argues that's what fuels their rationale.

No, the concept of comparative advantage is quite sound (basically all of economics, including mainstream economics, is based on it, so good luck arguing this).

The fact that libertarian males have a comparative advantage vis-a-vis libertarian females COULD be wrong, but I doubt it is. It's probably true that they do, and if you understand comparative advantage, you would understand how this makes sense.

What you could be right about is that "therefore, hit on only libertarian girls" does not necessarily follow. That the cost of seeking them out and the punishment of failure is too high. But libertarians, rationalists, and the socially awkward are unlikely to realize this. And all the "reasonable sounding" people in society tell them the opposite. It's only PUAs and male feminists who say "just go hit on randos at bars" and both of those groups are deemed non-credible for various reasons.
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it's more important that you can actually apply those principles to present-day issues

What is "libertarian" about demanding individuals sacrifice their own best interests to serve the greater good? That's the exact opposite of libertarianism.

Hitting on women is not an act of aggression. It does not violate the NAP.
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I think the biggest consideration here is that Vince doesn't seem to care. So long as Anthem/JJ puts on ANY sort of public face that they aren't giving up on this, it's not worth Vince's time/effort to do anything that might get him in any sort of trouble or legal liability down the road.
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scarletspeed7 posted...

Hey, GFW's Broken trademarks were rejected by the Patent Office.

All of them.

Meltz has declared this makes no difference (although I'm not sure why)
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The problem is those dudes are taught that they should proposition women EVERYWHERE. This is bad already in bars where they think they should ask out every woman no matter what availability she is signaling, but it's CRITICALLY worse when at a professional conference where NO ONE is there for sex.

Just because someone isn't "there for" sex doesn't mean they won't agree to a date in the right set of circumstances. I thought we've gotten past this. There is no "wrong time" or "wrong place" for someone who is handsome and charismatic. And there is no "right time" or "right place" for the socially awkward nerd.

So long as the nerd believes he has a comparative advantage (something libertarians understand very well!) with libertarian women, it makes logical and rational sense for him to target libertarian women. And if libertarian women are ridiculously rare (which they are), he may never have a chance to approach so many ever again. He'd be stupid NOT to go after them!

Why would you NOT choose to do that, if you cared AT ALL about your community (libertarianism, games, whatever)?

You're really confused as to why libertarians are reluctant to subordinate their individual interests to those of a larger collective? Really?

As much as I oppose social shaming, I think it's the only solution that may actually work. Good luck convincing libertarians they need to sacrifice their own individual chances of happiness in order to better serve the needs of the collective, whether that collective is libertarianism (at least that's an ingroup for them), or women in general (which is an outgroup).

"If you try and hit on any women here we will make you unemployable" may be morally dastardly, but at least it would probably work.
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http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/01/gender-imbalances-are-mostly-not-due-to-offensive-attitudes/

I think a lot of this was directly inspired by numerous comments I made on one of his previous posts!

Particularly this part:

If women in these communities feel harassed more often, it’s more likely to be a result of gender balance than a cause of it. That is, if we dectuple the male-to-female ratio while holding the sexual-harasser-ness of each man constant, then each woman faces ten times more sexual harassment.

My argument in his previous post was basically: "It may very well be true that libertarian events present a hostile environment for women - but this is a result of having an imbalanced gender ratio and an imbalance towards socially awkward and low status men. If you put 100 awkward male nerds in a room, tell them their only hope of happiness is to meet someone who share their values, then drop 10 females wearing badges that say 'I share the interests of awkward nerds' into the room, what on Earth do you expect to happen?"

It's not that an imbalanced gender ratio proves sexism, it's that an imbalanced gender ratio leads to sexually aggressive behavior - which is commonly defined as equivalent to sexism. I think one potential solution here isn't just "yell at libertarians to be less sexist and shame anyone who makes a sandwich joke" but rather, stop having cultural memes that insist shared interests are required for romance. This is actually one area where the left-libs (foolmo) and the PUAs seem to agree. The trick to getting dates is to do the exact opposite of what most people tell you to do. Don't go to activity/belief based events hoping to meet "like minded people." Go to bars and ask out every woman in the bar. Even IF you strike out, at least it won't reflect poorly on your political ideology, and IF you get laughed out of the place, at least you're getting laughed out of some dumb bar (who cares) and not a libertarian conference (you probably do care)
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It's like you didn't even read Scott Adams explainer on this topic!

http://blog.dilbert.com/post/153956923691/dck-pics-explained
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I guess that's true. Women are definitely conditioned to believe that being propositioned for sex is highly offensive and probably illegal.
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https://twitter.com/Olivia4Naked/status/891550125973221376

setting her two apprentices against each other - more genius!

It's still no substitute for the original, but Poppy is getting a lot better at this. Really getting the hang of it.
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https://www.unilad.co.uk/funny/single-woman-turns-tables-on-men-and-sends-them-unsolicited-pictures-of-her-vagina/

xfd @ being so stupid to not know exactly how this would turn out

I guess this is what happens when you believe that gender is a social construct and men and women are basically the same except for social conditioning.
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But why would I ignore the 40 years after that, including today, where the military has launched hundreds of major military operations and massively grown the military, while avoiding the draft?

This does not, in any way, imply that a draft would shrink the military or result in fewer wars.

But if we look back to the last times drafts actually happened, the military was large and major (and highly pointless) wars were being fought.

There is no historical precedent at all for the draft shrinking the size of the military or resulting in less war. Your idea is based on nothing more than random theorycraft.
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