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Pearl Jam tried to fight them at the height of their popularity back in the 90s, they lost.
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Doom_Art posted...

EternalDivide posted...

You know. Then quit. Enough of this crap. Is the guy a saint? Obviously no. But he didn't force them. He didn't rape them.
You can't force the willing.

Uhhhhhhhhh

So what you are saying is that you should not be able to work without being sexually harassed?
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A conservative talkshow host being an intellectually dishonest piece of shit? Man, who saw that coming?
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The entire purpose of this move is to send more business to the coal industry and anyone who pretends otherwise is intellectually dishonest.
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I've only ever played the PSX version.
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RebelElite791 posted...

Vodka is absolute trash, and drinking anything in shots is trash.

This. If it isn't high enough quality that it's worth actually tasting and enjoying, you shouldn't be drinking it.
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Because im not a religious fanatic, nor do I want religious fanatics running my government. I also work in manufacturing for a living so im pro union because without the threat of unionization my company would be paying me eight dollars an hour.
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NINExATExSEVEN posted...

mario2000 posted...

NINExATExSEVEN posted...

You're surprised that people are partaking in identity politics after years of "fuck you white people" coming from minorities and the left.

Seriously are you surprised?

"hey minorities tend to have it a little harder in life in you so just be aware of that" =/= "fuck you white people"

I agree with you though that minorities might have it harder. But put yourself in a white persons shoes who sees all these minorities insulting them and their culture and their skin etc instead of bringing up issues in a polite well mannered way.

Regardless of wealth, or status or identity, if somebody or a demographic is constantly blamed, mocked and insulted, they WILL get sick of it eventually.

The reason i stopped being a progressive and liberal is because of that. I just couldn't take it anymore and decided to stop caring about others and focus on self interests instead.

Brown people hurt my feelings so I decided that it was ok to not treat them like human beings.
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The Admiral posted...

Saying dumb shit online and posting Pepe doesnt make someone a neo-Nazi or white suprmacist. You guys suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome have diluted those terms so much that no one takes you seriously when you use them anymore.

Guys carrying swastikas marching down the street chanting blood and soil are in fact nazis.
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Run and grab my gun.
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Funkydog posted...

ScazarMeltex posted...

Funkydog posted...

ScazarMeltex posted...

It's not a good idea to let the president or government in general decide which churches get tax exempt status. I despise Scientology as much as any sane thinking person but this is road you don't want to go down.

I mean, Scientology isn't a religion. It is just a scam and abusive cult that threatens those who speak ill of them.

Then prosecute them to the full extent of the law. The Catholic church has easily done as much damage to individuals as Scientology, seeing as how there was/is an institutional cover up of the molestation of thousands of children over the last 50-60 years, but you don't see Trump calling for an end to their tax exempt status. Why? Because they are a mainstream religion.

People involved in that should be charged and jailed. And many have been, afaik.

Not nearly enough, not really even a good percentage. The following contains all the collated data from 1950-2016.
http://www.bishop-accountability.org/AtAGlance/USCCB_Yearly_Data_on_Accused_Priests.htm
Then there is also this UN report from 2014 that shows that the Vatica "systematically placed preservation of the reputation of the church and the alleged offender over the protection of child victims."
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u-n-report-vatican-policies-allowed-priests-rape-children-n22531

Look, like I said, I agree with every single bad thing said about scientology. It's a creepy pyramid scheme cult, but letting the Government pick and choose starts a bad precedent and would allow the dismantling of freedom of religion in this country based on the preferences of whatever regime happens to be in power.
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Funkydog posted...

ScazarMeltex posted...

It's not a good idea to let the president or government in general decide which churches get tax exempt status. I despise Scientology as much as any sane thinking person but this is road you don't want to go down.

I mean, Scientology isn't a religion. It is just a scam and abusive cult that threatens those who speak ill of them.

Then prosecute them to the full extent of the law. The Catholic church has easily done as much damage to individuals as Scientology, seeing as how there was/is an institutional cover up of the molestation of thousands of children over the last 50-60 years, but you don't see Trump calling for an end to their tax exempt status. Why? Because they are a mainstream religion.
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It's not a good idea to let the president or government in general decide which churches get tax exempt status. I despise Scientology as much as any sane thinking person but this is road you don't want to go down. Personally I don't think any church should be tax exempt, but it's all or nothing. Otherwise you start allowing the persecution of religions the government doesn't like via removal of their tax exempt statuses.
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Would they give you two weeks notice if they were going to get rid of you? If the answer is no why do the feel the need to give them something they wouldn't give you?

In most states the only thing a former employer can tell a prospective new one is hire date, departure date, and whether or not you are eligible to be rehired. If you have an individual person there you would like to use as a reference then I would just ask them personally if you can list them on the professional references portion of your resume.
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Coffeebeanz posted...

The lack of self-awareness amongst Democrats never ceases to amaze me. That must take a lot of Kool Aid.

At least the GOP is just a bunch of conspiracy theory nutjobs. That I can understand. Democrats seem to be made up of a bunch of echo chamber yes-men.

Oh there is no disputing that the democratic party could fuck up a wet dream.
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Cj_WlLL_VVlN posted...

The Admiral posted...

With all that said, it is good to see CA liberals pissed off at having to pay federal taxes now that the rest of the country is no longer subsidizing their state. Now you know how the rest of the country feels.

But California is one of the few states (almost all blue) that pays more to the fed than they receive? Why don't you go harp on all those welfare states in middle and southern America?

Because all those welfare states in the south and midwest generally vote republican.
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Coffeebeanz posted...

Genocet_10-325 posted...

Coffeebeanz posted...

Clearly I underestimated the amount of time it would take Democrats to resume their smug overconfidence.

Well, we did recently have two huge wins, one in a purple state and one in a deep red state.

Against a fucking pedophile abandoned by his own party

The party, including Trump, still endorsed him. I fail to see how being endorsed by the president is being abandoned by your party.
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not__shawn__z posted...

California is literally the worst state. It's a shithole. It's such a beautiful, gorgeous state and it's ruined by laws, politics, homeless and illegals. It makes me so mad that such a nice state was ruined by a bunch of politicans

It's such a shitty state that it's economy pays for the entirety of the south's problems.
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__Y2JosHBK___ posted...

ScazarMeltex posted...

I'd like to see the feds try to cut off federal aid and then California simply refuse to pay federal taxes. Then I can watch and laugh all the states that California effectively subsidizes panic as they realize that they need California far more than Cali needs them.

Is water an issue for California? Sure. But if they weren't paying federal taxes to subsidize shithole southern states and flyover country they could actually put that money into desalinization plants and fix their water problem.

What is California gonna do without water, food and fuel? They would collapse hard without the Midwest

I addressed you water question. You do also realize that the California grows huge amounts of food for the midwest right? The Midwest mostly grows grain to feed to cows.
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I'd like to see the feds try to cut off federal aid and then California simply refuse to pay federal taxes. Then I can watch and laugh all the states that California effectively subsidizes panic as they realize that they need California far more than Cali needs them.

Is water an issue for California? Sure. But if they weren't paying federal taxes to subsidize shithole southern states and flyover country they could actually put that money into desalinization plants and fix their water problem.
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cjsdowg posted...

For those who don't remember. This was the guy killed in the Wal-Mart.

The cop who killed him said..

"When I first observed John Crawford ... he had a rifle in hand about to raise it up," Williams said. "He had it in a low ready position and he was turning toward us with the rifle, which, at the very least, is an imminent threat to me, which is why I fired the rounds.

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We have video of what happen. He was on the Cell phone when he kill. A low ready postion is one where you have two hands on the gun and have it aimed down to the ground ready to aim and fire as seconds notice. This was not the position that gun Crawford was in. But hey this happen in a State that isn't South Carolina so nothing to see here.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/ohio-officer-felt-imminent-threat-walmart-shooting-52134955

Whaaaaat? A cop make a false statement to cover his ass?
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chill02 posted...

electricbugs2 posted...

chill02 posted...

imagine owning a testosteroneless vehicle

Imagine being so full of testosterone that it makes you so fucking dumb that you pay for gas when you don't have to.
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daftpunk_mk5 posted...

28 hours is a joke
Fucking lazy bums

I work 60-80 hours a week in medicine, which is already a hell of a lot harder job than these bums are doing.
Personally I dont think theres anything magical about a 40hour workweek or 9-5 and think that hours should be flexible, but theres no excuse to only work 28 hours a week and expect a full-time salary. Thats just pathetic.
Also Unions are a cancer.

And here kids we see the end result of the brainwashing of the working class. Exploited and proud.
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ITT: anyone unwilling to grind away as many hours of their as their company wants them to is lazy.
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AmonAmarth posted...

ScazarMeltex posted...

Being proud of something you didn't either accomplish or help accomplish yourself is fucking dumb.

so black pride and lbgt pride is dumb to you to also right?

Pretty much yeah.
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Ahh yes the shockmaster.
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XII would have been good with a different main protagonist. Basch or Ashe should have been the main. You can still have Vaan and Penelo if you want as people who join you after helping you out in some fashion, but having Vaan as the main was wrong.
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They tried way to hard to sell glacier's gimmick. They would go on about how he went and trained at all these different monasteries and shit. You could tell the announcer's were just like "oh fuck this nonsense"
I'm not really sure why he was never really much more than a glorified jobber, or a guy who beat up jobbers but never rose past undercard status.
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Yeah the right would never completely co-opt a symbol that means something else entirely....I mean
they only did the exact same thing with the swastika.
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Mal_Fet posted...

Darkman124 posted...

i am all for nuclear but it isn't what is killing coal, and it isn't a long term solution, more intermediate-term

How is nuclear not a long-term solution

It's MANY times more efficient than solar is

Yes but what do you do with the waste?
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r4X0r posted...

ArchiePeck posted...

Well, obviously you need to work to some sort of plan of progression as well as working hard.

Struggling to progress further in your current job? Go to night school and get more qualifications, etc. Many people just settle for failure rather than put in that sort of effort.

It's easier to bitch and moan and demand freebies and a higher minimum wage than it is to actually work hard and succeed.

An 18 year old who graduates and joins a trade, with some hard work and some skill, will be living comfortably by his mid 20s.

Until republicans come bust his union. Then he ends up working for half what he did before.
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Darkman124 posted...

since 2014 the fracking boom caused natural gas prices to plummet by something like 80%

it will be the dominant force in our energy grid for a very long time imo

if you want to know what's killing coal it isnt "libtrd policy" it's "fracking made it obsolete"

renewables did grow by 15% over the last 3 years but it's just not enough. needs to be much faster

Hey woah there, lets not go confusing conservatives with things likes fact sir. Coal is dying because those no good libruls killed it.
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Being proud of something you didn't either accomplish or help accomplish yourself is fucking dumb.
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I have it but I haven't yet played it. I'm still fucking traumatized by the first hour of episode 4 from the original game.
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Stellaris is a blast and the mods for it make it even better.
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UnholyMudcrab posted...

Skye Reynolds posted...

A lot of Christians like atheist or anti-theist artists.

Just because we don't see eye to eye on issues of religion doesn't mean that we can't enjoy good music, good comedy, and so forth.

Except Ayn Rand's ideology is entirely and fundamentally incompatible with Christianity and Christian values

Yeah the entire ideology essentially comes down to "fuck you, got mine". Not something i'm entirely sure Jesus was willing to get behind.
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Questionmarktarius posted...

ScazarMeltex posted...

Hell in even in modern times in places without stability you will get groups like Kony's Lord's Resistance Army and stuff like what happened during the collapse of Yugoslavia.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/07/polish-democracy-destroyed-constitution-media-poland

Yeah, i've been keeping pretty close track of what's going on in Poland, what with their ugly history of antisemitism in the pre ww2 . If the Kaczyskiites can jam through their agenda and slowly dismantle Poland's constitution you'll be setting the seeds for some ugly shit to follow.
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EverDownward posted...

hyperpowder posted...

Islam is bad, just like crazy conservative Christians are bad.

You know, you're right. I'd much rather take the Islamist that would chop my head off for disobeying Allah than have to suffer the silent judgment of a Christian when I'm not in their presence. Better to be stabbed from the front, than in the back!

Again, any analysis of history will tell you that the only thing stopping Christians from doing all the same shit the Muslims do is that they primarily live in places where they have a separation of Church and State. When they didn't, historically they murdered the shit out of people who didn't agree with them. Hell in even in modern times in places without stability you will get groups like Kony's Lord's Resistance Army and stuff like what happened during the collapse of Yugoslavia.
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Capn Circus posted...

WhinyZach posted...

This happens every where Islam is the majority. You're not allowed to be jewish/christian in muslim run countries.

People can say it's erdogan, and it partially is, but this is a sweeping problem in islamic countries.

On the contrary christian countries don't have this problem, so ya, I'd say it's a problem with islam, and not all religion.

But what about the Crusades 800 years ago!

Because of that we should be more understanding and let whatever happens happen, right?

Most "Christian countries" aren't really trying to govern by the rules of christianity, because most of those countries are western style democracies that have a separation between church and state. If you don't think that evangelicals in the US would do similar things given free reign you haven't been paying attention.
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Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

StridentArremer posted...

s0nicfan posted...

Turkey is a perfect use case for what happens when Islam takes hold of your society

You mean this is an example of why religion - and any religion - should be kept separate from state affairs. It doesn't matter what the population believes as long as religion is constitutionally removed from all levels of government.

"But Christianity!!!"

Can you show me where the Vatican is trying people for treason over wrongthink?

The entirety of the European and American History up until about 200 years or so ago is full of various branches of Christianity murdering people who don't agree with them. No Government should be run according to the rules of a religion. Any religion.
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3khc posted...

@Zikten The TV series showed the transition from the old acrobatic style to a more realistic sword fight.

Rebels SPOILERS

Take note how Ben initially starts the bout in his PT fighting stance (pointing fingers), but he switches to something a bit less showy. Darth Maul begins his attack with a flip and fancy twirls. Obi-Wan counters and kills Maul in three moves. It's a very good scene.

The Second stance that Obi Wan moves into in that duel is the stance that Qui-Gon used during his duel with Maul in Phantom Menace.
It's also a bit more accurate into how most duels between swordmasters actually went in real life.
I feel like when you take into account all of the media available that Dooku is clearly the greatest duelist. He basically schools Obi-Wan and Anakin time and again over the course of the Clone Wars television series.
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Zeeak4444 posted...

Trumps second and Hillary is first for women.

Pretty sad state of events.

Musk 4th is criminally low with the other 29 listed.

Musk is a man of science and engineering. I'm actually surprised he rated that high in this country full of religious fanatics, anti-vaccers, and flat earthers.
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4 is still my personal fave, but I voted for 6 because it's objectively a better game.
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Something something heritage something.
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