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| Topic | Republicans don't want the Navy to read books about racism. Trying to block it. |
| averagejoel 03/16/21 4:59:57 PM #110 | mft1 posted... if he's objectively wrong why are you now saying that you agree with him?I never said that I agreed with him. that's you making stuff up again --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Republicans don't want the Navy to read books about racism. Trying to block it. |
| averagejoel 03/16/21 4:57:06 PM #108 | mft1 posted... if you agree with that guy why did you phrase your post in a way that made it sound like you disagree?if you're talking about joe400001 or whatever the number is, then it's not merely that I disagree -- it's that he's objectively wrong --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Republicans don't want the Navy to read books about racism. Trying to block it. |
| averagejoel 03/16/21 4:44:48 PM #106 | mft1 posted... it wasn't an apology i mean it sounded like you said that because that's what the words you typed mean in context of the other postsit seems like you're the one who needs to make clearer posts --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Republicans don't want the Navy to read books about racism. Trying to block it. |
| averagejoel 03/16/21 4:21:58 PM #104 | mft1 posted... sorry it sounded like you were saying the left doesn't believe "everyone is always going to be racist" because you said it in response to someone who said that's what these books sayapology accepted. next time please engage with the actual things I say instead of making stuff up --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Republicans don't want the Navy to read books about racism. Trying to block it. |
| averagejoel 03/16/21 4:08:16 PM #101 | mft1 posted... can you make clearer posts instead of getting angry at people for misinterpreting you then?I was plenty clear, and I do not believe that you were misinterpreting me by accident --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Republicans don't want the Navy to read books about racism. Trying to block it. |
| averagejoel 03/16/21 4:05:27 PM #99 | mft1 posted... am i incorrect in reading this as you saying "everyone is always going to be racist" is not true?yes, you are incorrect, because that is not what I said. --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Republicans don't want the Navy to read books about racism. Trying to block it. |
| averagejoel 03/16/21 3:52:06 PM #97 | mft1 posted... how? you outright said everyone isn't always going to be racist which is a pretty surprising statement to a lot of people. so the obvious question is "what will it look like when everyone's notI did not say that though. I said this: "society is racist and that societal racism has an effect on the people raised in society" is not the same as "everyone is always going to be racist" because a lot of people think woke liberals are already acting pretty appallingly right now, it's pretty important to know what your end goal is don't you think?I don't know and I don't care. I'm not interested in talking about end goals right now. so you're not willing to respond to good faith questions from a stranger but you are willing to tell people to fuck off or call them racist, hmmmI do not believe for a second that your question was actually in good faith. that's your fault. --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Functionally Speaking: Whats the difference between...*JoJo Spoilers* |
| averagejoel 03/16/21 9:27:18 AM #30 | the latest arc in Hunter x Hunter actually has a better explanation of King Crimson than part 5 jojo does --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Is veganism even the most environmentally friendly approach? |
| averagejoel 03/16/21 8:51:42 AM #49 | the only real environmentally friendly approach would be ending capitalism --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Republicans don't want the Navy to read books about racism. Trying to block it. |
| averagejoel 03/16/21 1:04:35 AM #95 | mft1 posted... i don't understand the aggressionI'm not asking you to. your question was either disingenuous or stupid. and in either case it contributed nothing to the conversation what the end-goal of ending racism looks like is a perfectly rational question to the statement that racism isn't a perennial part of human nature that we're all capable of, but instead something that can be definitively eliminatedthat may be true in a vacuum, but there's a lot of other dumb shit being said in this topic. my aggression is perfectly reasonable. also: "racism isn't a perennial part of human nature" is not mutually exclusive with "we are all capable of being racist" racism not being an inherent part of human nature also does not necessarily mean that it can be definitively eliminated. it's a completely different question. how we might go about eliminating racism, and what a hypothetical society without racism might look like in the future, are also separate questions. I have thought about all these questions. I have read other peoples' thoughts on them too. I have some ideas on how to answer them. but I am not interested in discussing them (particularly the latter two) on CE in a topic like this with someone who does not show a good understanding of the earlier questions --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | when you buy the wrong "7 sins" |
| averagejoel 03/15/21 12:39:50 PM #8 | even setting aside the blatant sexual assault throughout, 7 Deadly Sins is terrible. it has some of the laziest writing I've ever seen in a work of fiction --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | I was watching Judas and the Black Messiah today. |
| averagejoel 03/15/21 10:15:14 AM #23 | they really focused too much on the informant. Fred Hampton was the more interesting character, and the movie was clearly about him (since it ends when he dies), but the pretense was that it was about the informant. if you want to tell a story about Fred Hampton and the Black Panthers that paints the FBI in a negative light, all you have to do is, you know, actually tell the story of Fred Hampton and the Black Panthers --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | 'Water/Fairy' |
| averagejoel 03/14/21 6:21:35 PM #8 | Gafemage posted... Has any Pokemon had a rise from lowbie to stardom quite like Azumarill?some possibilities off the top of my head: Kangaskhan Ninetails Mawile --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | your opinion about people that don't go to college? |
| averagejoel 03/14/21 5:57:04 PM #4 | I say 3, but I'm talking in the abstract. as in, that's what I would say if tuition were free, and if there weren't a pandemic turning classes into glorified netflix. if we're talking about the US specifically then probably a 4. if we're talking the US right now then 4 or even 5 --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Independent report speaks of "Chinese genocide" of the Uighur |
| averagejoel 03/14/21 11:46:05 AM #205 | the whole notion of a "communist country" is an oxymoron. unless you somehow think that a society can be stateless and also be considered a country --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Republicans don't want the Navy to read books about racism. Trying to block it. |
| averagejoel 03/14/21 11:41:27 AM #83 | joe40001 posted... If he rejects anybody who claims to be "not racist" how is he not rejecting the possibility of being not racist?you should consider engaging directly with what people say instead of making stuff up --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Republicans don't want the Navy to read books about racism. Trying to block it. |
| averagejoel 03/13/21 5:35:58 PM #69 | joe40001 posted... All those things literally say being "not racist" is impossible and is a cover for racism.they're saying the latter, but not the former It is literally saying it is impossible to be "not racist"no, it literally is not It argues you can only be racist or anti-racist and anti-racist still frames things through the lens of racial discrimination.it's pretty clearly talking about the way "not racist" gets used in reality, not the term itself in the abstract The book would reject the goal of working towards a post-racist or post-racial society where everybody is treated equally.I'm all in favour of a Death of the Author approach, but this is extrapolation with no evidence. it's straight-up Weekend At Bernie's of the Author It's not saying "don't judge people by the color of their skin." It's saying "judge people by the color of their skin, but in the opposite way a racist would."where is it saying that? --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Republicans don't want the Navy to read books about racism. Trying to block it. |
| averagejoel 03/13/21 5:20:28 PM #55 | ledbowman posted... good luck changing human nature. don't wear yourself outhuman nature is always changing lol --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Republicans don't want the Navy to read books about racism. Trying to block it. |
| averagejoel 03/13/21 5:19:29 PM #54 | joe40001 posted... No the book says you can't be "not racist".the evidence you've chosen does not actually demonstrate your claim --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Republicans don't want the Navy to read books about racism. Trying to block it. |
| averagejoel 03/13/21 5:17:39 PM #50 | mft1 posted... so when will racism be overracism is not a singular event. contribute to the conversation or shut the fuck up --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Republicans don't want the Navy to read books about racism. Trying to block it. |
| averagejoel 03/13/21 5:06:59 PM #36 | joe40001 posted... Huh, I actually agree with you."society is racist and that societal racism has an effect on the people raised in society" is not the same as "everyone is always going to be racist" --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Independent report speaks of "Chinese genocide" of the Uighur |
| averagejoel 03/13/21 3:30:39 PM #181 | Phynaster posted... You know what im referring toI don't care what you're referring to. I am stating a fact. --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | C/D The simplest explanation is usually correct |
| averagejoel 03/13/21 2:35:39 PM #5 | PMarth2002 posted... huh. i've always heard it paraphrased the simplest explanation is usually the right one.you've probably also heard it used a lot outside of the context of competing scientific hypotheses --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | C/D The simplest explanation is usually correct |
| averagejoel 03/13/21 2:19:07 PM #3 | I'm definitely not okay with that idea without further qualification PMarth2002 posted... I'm not actually sure i agree with occam's razor come to think of it.occam's razor is about the explanation that makes the fewest assumptions, not about whether or not it's actually simpler --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Independent report speaks of "Chinese genocide" of the Uighur |
| averagejoel 03/13/21 1:54:37 PM #177 | Phynaster posted... Lol yall gotta stick together ehharassment is moddable. that includes tagging someone after they tell you not to --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | whats your waist size? |
| averagejoel 03/13/21 1:51:01 PM #10 | I've been a size 30 since I was like 14 --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Independent report speaks of "Chinese genocide" of the Uighur |
| averagejoel 03/13/21 1:46:55 PM #174 | Shablagoo posted... Youre probably right that I should and I think the moderators would agree its harassment, I just rarely mark a post unless its something like blatant racism or homophobia.if you ask them to stop tagging you and they continue to do so, they will get modded. I've done it several times before --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | How quickly can you name this celebraity? |
| averagejoel 03/13/21 7:17:29 AM #2 | that's Gary Busey --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Was DevsBro right? Do you think he might have been? |
| averagejoel 03/13/21 7:15:57 AM #2 | no, and I don't think it matters. but I'm sure you can find 3 semi-related wikipedia articles to read on the matter --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | anyone remember a 90s tv series called ''x files''? |
| averagejoel 03/13/21 6:40:50 AM #2 | imagine if you added the letters S and E to the X files. it would be the X-es files. excess files. haha way too many files lol --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | So, who here has recently watched Avatar: TLA on Netflix? *Spoilers* |
| averagejoel 03/13/21 6:37:36 AM #4 | I watched it as it came out. my friend and I bought the whole thing on DVD... 14-ish years ago I think? it's very good. probably the single show that most informed the way I watch tv shows --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | "Ethically non monogamous" LOL |
| averagejoel 03/12/21 3:39:49 PM #12 | skermac posted... maybe our ethics are different than yours? Its all goodyeah, that's what I'm saying. I don't think that poly relationships are unethical. I just generally take issue with anyone ascribing the label "ethical" to themselves or something that they're doing --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | "Ethically non monogamous" LOL |
| averagejoel 03/12/21 2:47:50 PM #3 | I mostly take issue with the idea of someone deciding whether or not something they're doing is ethical. "consensual" would almost certainly be a better word for it --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Games like Hollow Knight? |
| averagejoel 03/12/21 8:45:34 AM #15 | the next thing I played after Hollow Knight was Celeste. it's a straight-up platformer. it's really really hard --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Independent report speaks of "Chinese genocide" of the Uighur |
| averagejoel 03/12/21 12:43:53 AM #103 | Blue_Dream87 posted... Shab is really gonna dodge the question and argue with literally Proudclad?the thing is that western media by and large refuses to apply the same level of scrutiny to allies of US imperialism. so it's pretty clear that they don't care about the act of genocide itself and are only reporting on this in the first place because it's happening in china --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Epic vs Steam vs Gog |
| averagejoel 03/12/21 12:34:45 AM #5 | itch --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | The perfect girl but she's super into cottagecore |
| averagejoel 03/12/21 12:04:41 AM #7 | in my experience, women who are into cottagecore are not into men --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Do you consider yourself a "shoe guy?" |
| averagejoel 03/11/21 1:03:57 PM #21 | I have: a pair of fairly high-end general-use shoes a pair of sneakers a pair of steel-toed shoes a pair of sandals a pair of black dress shoes a pair of winter boots a pair of rubber boots --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | The trumpet is the most underrated instrument |
| averagejoel 03/11/21 10:35:32 AM #12 | DepreceV2 posted... Baritonethe baritone is actually more closely related to the Cornet than to the trumpet or the tuba. the Euphonium, though, is pitched the same as a Baritone and more closely related to the Tuba. but the soprano version of that is the Flugelhorn, not the Trumpet --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | The trumpet is the most underrated instrument |
| averagejoel 03/11/21 10:28:47 AM #4 | underrated how? --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | ?what's worse, being a murderer or being a rapist |
| averagejoel 03/09/21 9:20:18 PM #12 | who cares? --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | How do you know if you're not a virgin? |
| averagejoel 03/09/21 11:43:00 AM #5 | have you said "fuck" at the same time as someone else? if you have, you are no longer a virgin --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Was Scorsese correct... Marvel movies aren't cinema |
| averagejoel 03/09/21 11:36:48 AM #148 | Smashingpmkns posted... 1. There were only a handful of studios producing movies back then, the situations were similar if not worse. There were 5 major studios that ran the show and 3 smaller studios that ate peanuts.in other words, the answer to my first question is No. --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Do you like the song The Bones? |
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| Topic | Was Scorsese correct... Marvel movies aren't cinema |
| averagejoel 03/08/21 7:57:37 PM #143 | Smashingpmkns posted... Lol so are you mad that comic movies are over saturated or that they make a ton of money? Because western movies were demonstrably saturated the industry more than these comic movies could ever hope to be and a good majority of them were garbage soulless movies made by committee to appease to brain dead moviegoers. We're arguing like 3 different things right here and for some reason you're focusing on the money, which is proof that this super hero fatigue isn't hitting any time soon.some questions: were all (or almost all) of the westerns produced by a single gigantic media conglomerate? were theatres forced to screen movies from said gigantic media conglomerate to stay afloat? did said gigantic media conglomerate have, as part of the rights for screening their films, a minimum number of times that their new western be screened in order for theatres to be allowed to screen it at all (thus forcing the theatre to not screen potential competitors)? in other words, was the "oversaturation" of westerns actively stifling the creation and screening of films that were not westerns? --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | happy International Working Women's Day |
| averagejoel 03/08/21 1:49:01 PM #16 | Hexenherz posted... Why does not feeling a compulsion to make every topic a cheap gimmick topic supporting terrible ideologies automatically make me "love Nancy Pelosi".you sound mad --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | happy International Working Women's Day |
| averagejoel 03/08/21 1:37:44 PM #7 | Hexenherz posted... Oh look at this, TC can't make a single simple fucking topic about international women's day without turning it into some stupid communist propaganda.feel free to make your own topic about how much you love Nancy Pelosi or whatever --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | are you smarter than the average person? |
| averagejoel 03/08/21 1:08:22 PM #28 | don't know. don't care. I'm not even sure I believe in intelligence as a concept, let alone the idea that it can be measured. certainly there's no satisfactory way of determining how smart "the average person" is or how smart any given person is in relation to that --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Was Scorsese correct... Marvel movies aren't cinema |
| averagejoel 03/08/21 12:50:07 PM #137 | GameGodOfAll posted... So?can you point out where he claimed to be an authority on what is and isn't cinema? --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Ice cream sandwich or drumstick? |
| averagejoel 03/07/21 7:43:28 PM #3 | I would gladly eat either one on a hot day. I think I'd take a drumstick over an ice cream sandwich though, just because it's part crunchy --- peanut butter and dick |
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