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starspawn0

During one of his speeches, he referred to Polish people as "Pollocks" and Japanese as "Japs". He was like a proto-Trump. When the Justice Department's investigation got underway into the bribery case, he called it a "witch-hunt". When the press reported "unnamed sources" with inside information about the investigation, he attacked the press, and accused investigators of leaking. Journalists were subpoenaed and asked to reveal their sources. Agnew bec...
Today, 09:55 PM

starspawn0

... Agnew became even more popular among the hard-right. He got mountains of fan mail; journalists and investigators got hate mail.
Today, 09:57 PM

Raklian

It's much more attractive now to vote her out.
Today, 09:20 PM

wjfox

Is it really, though? Somebody has to replace her – and the other leadership hopefuls are genuine, bona fide lunatics. Boris Johnson, anyone??
Today, 09:25 PM

Raklian

How about yourself? You're pretty sane, considering.

XD
Today, 09:31 PM

wjfox

BBC chief political correspondent Vicki Young says it is her understanding that the prime minister's statement "is not going to be a moment where she calls a general election or resigns."
Today, 07:49 PM

wjfox

https://twitter.com/10DowningStreet/status/1108467384866603008
Today, 09:52 PM

Erowind

More of a corvette guy myself, ditto.
Today, 08:22 PM

Zaphod

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=610Amyhpzzk
Electric Jaguar E-type is more my thing.
Today, 09:23 PM

joe00uk

Well he's only like 63 or something isn't he so really he's not *that* old
Today, 07:57 PM

Erowind

Caltrek can't die. Once we start reversing aging we'll need him to help archive everything. EVERYTHING
Today, 08:21 PM

Sciencerocks

I am pretty sure he is posting but at a lower level. lol ;) I know cals post.
Today, 09:43 PM

Outlook

To an extent. There are some sexist lines in the Quran, but not to the level of assigning gender roles, and calling women inferior like in the bible. All men and women are equal except in faith, is the saying. The hadith and general tribal culture of the middle east is where the sexism comes from. Although there's also wonderful hadiths like this, narrated by Aisha: https://sunnah.com/bukhari/8/161
Yesterday, 11:49 PM

Erowind

Am i interpreting that verse correctly. That the first part is proclaiming it is wrong to compare women to animals. And that the second part is saying that women should not have to trouble men for their needs. Moreover, that they should be independent enough to tend to themselves?
Today, 12:19 AM

Outlook

She's responding to a hadith (https://sunnah.com/urn/1282980) that states thay your prayer is ruined if a donkey, dog, or woman passes you. She's offended, and says that the prophet prayed while she was laying front of him, and she only moved out of his way on her own volition. It's interpreted differently by different people.
Today, 12:52 AM

Outlook

https://i.imgur.com/c4jt321.png
Yesterday, 10:10 PM

Alislaws

Ugh, I don't really want to move to Ireland, but I will if Britain actually catches fire.

I think its more likely we'll just have a few riots and a horrible depression though.
Today, 12:20 PM

Alislaws

Or we'll vote in a corbyn Govt, go full socialist, and either end up with fully automated luxury communism, or as another failed-socialist tyranny.
Today, 12:22 PM

Alislaws

Also i'm pretty sure people had a intuitive rasp of newtons laws of motion for 100s of years before he got famous for them.
Yesterday, 03:19 PM

starspawn0

There are a lot of very intuitive theories in psychology that turn out to be *false*. I think the it's a good idea to find intuitive, correct theories about how sicknesses like nationalism arise.
Yesterday, 03:48 PM

Alislaws

I think nationalism is a mixed bag, On the one hand it is the ultimate "US Vs Them" set up. But on the other hand its the most encompassing "Us" group most people have ever belonged to.
Today, 12:24 PM

wjfox

George Bush was President. I used to laugh at all the ridiculously dumb things he said, though he was pretty tame compared to Trump.


Mar 18 2019 02:15 PM

Outlook

I was 7 back then so I have no concept of the timespan like you seniors do. It's actually near the start of my conscious life, damn.
Yesterday, 03:52 AM

Erowind

I was 9 years old in 2006. I would have been playing my ps2 and questioning god for the first time around then. Catholic school was a trip.
Yesterday, 10:28 AM

Erowind

Asteroid defense infrastructure please and thankyou.
Mar 18 2019 10:28 AM

Raklian

Erowind, we're too busy squabbling over the littlest of things, apparently.
Mar 18 2019 01:37 PM

Erowind

/\ Couldn't agree more
Mar 18 2019 08:02 PM

Jakob

Meanwhile some of us slave away to make the singularity happen.
Mar 18 2019 04:30 AM

Alislaws

What IS your philosophy about the technological singularity?
Mar 18 2019 02:24 PM

starspawn0

Many people in Europe and the U.S. don't know a lot about Arab, Persian, Middle-Eastern, etc. media, and probably look for the "BBC equivalent" -- maybe a little biased, but has high journalistic standards. Al Jazeera fits the bill; and as a bonus, they often have really good reports about happenings in the U.S. and Europe.
Mar 17 2019 11:56 AM

starspawn0

Then there are many leftists on Twitter who aren't as careful, who seek out the "authentic Middle-Eastern voice", just like they avoid chain restaurants and stores, and seek out local color authentic venues. Unfortunately, they fall for people like Sarah Abdallah, and take what she writes as the gospel truth.
Mar 17 2019 12:04 PM

starspawn0

As an aside: I think the quest for "authenticity" is really about "power". It's about not giving more power to the powerful; about how normal people not yet corrupted by power can be trusted to be "good".
Mar 17 2019 12:10 PM