The Culture War

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[boxedjoy]

good posts in this thread from padraig

 

[luka]

 

[Mr. Tea]

"Anyhoo, tune in next week when we'll show you how to make a delicious 'tangerine fuckhead'. Thanks folks!"

 

[john eden]

Looks like the Tories have cottoned on to the old NF tactic of outing commie teachers who are indoctrinating our children into anti-capitalism.

So kids are going to have to learn about how fucked the economic system and political class are through their own lived experience instead now, huh. Like I had to.

 

[sus]

 

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Twitter suggested this as another tweet I might like,

My favorite marketing phrase is Subaru's "partial zero emissions."

 

[constant escape]

Wow Subaru managed to divide zero? Whoda thought

 

[luka]

 

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These types are insufferable. The kind of people who base their entire personality around eating meat in response to a hypothetical vegan they imagine's forever judging them.

 

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[Mr. Tea]

These types are insufferable. The kind of people who base their entire personality around eating meat in response to a hypothetical vegan they imagine's forever judging them.

 

[Leo]

their president, that guy Enrique, speaks in a moderate tone, not like most of the other yahoos there. I can see how he could be a persuasive spokesperson.

what's the back story on why Gavin McInness quit?

 

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what's the back story on why Gavin McInness quit?

I dunno that he has. There was some court case where his stepping down would apparently help the guys on trial, so he claimed to have left the organisation. It all seems a bit fuzzy though.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Any thoughts on Barrett getting bollocked for using the "offensive" term, "sexual preference"? This is pretty crazy, if true, about Merriam-Webster changing a definition on the very same day:

Amy Coney Barrett Uses the Term "Sexual Preference" — Dems and Media Flip Out While Webster's Dictionary REDEFINES THE TERM

There is so much going on in this story, it's hard to know where to begin.

notthebee.com

Edit: that seems to be a pretty conservative website, but the story is available on several other sites, e.g. https://justthenews.com/nation/cult...xual-preference-merriam-webster-deemed-phrase and https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2082...er-barrett-using-phrase-during-senate-hearing

 

[sus]

I think it's factually established that dictionaries updated same-day; it's also factually established that almost every major democratic figure/politician has used the phrase in the last few years.

Some serious linguistic ret-conning going down

 

[sus]

On the same day most major left-leaning pubs are refusing to publish on the Hunter Biden allegations, which are shocking

I remember when the NYT devoted all its power to "debunking" the sexual assault allegations against Joe

A treatment they've literally never given any other MeToo-type allegation

What a joke, this. At least no one's fooled anymore

 

[sus]

Twitter took action on Wednesday by preventing users from sharing links to the story in tweets or direct messages.

 

[sus]

I guess this is the future: platforms and pubs deciding to confirm the most conspiratorial allegations of insane evangelicals about media bias