Topic: Culture Wars (Read 78123 times)

Büge · « **Reply #720 on:** September 07, 2012, 07:54:03 AM »

http://wonkette.com/482695/worlds-worst-woman-and-worlds-richest-woman-are-coincidentally-very-same-person

Thad · « **Reply #721 on:** September 07, 2012, 08:02:09 AM »

Yeah, saw that on BoingBoing the other week. Managed to refrain from responding to her "Spend less time drinking" with the first retort that popped into my head.

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #722 on:** September 07, 2012, 09:19:53 AM »

Yeah, POOR PEOPLE, maybe if you spent less time drinking and more time working hard and pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, you too could be born into an incredibly wealthy family.

Brentai · « **Reply #723 on:** September 07, 2012, 10:44:17 AM »

I'd eat some cake, lady, but it looks like you already got to all of it.

Mongrel · « **Reply #724 on:** September 07, 2012, 10:47:30 AM »

Meanwhile the Occupy movement has fucking VANISHED. Even in Quebec where they had massive student protests fairly recently, the movement barely registered during the actual provincial election.

I mean, I know I was pretty damn cynical about them, but I figured there'd at least be a few diehards carrying a torch of some kind.

nope.avi

Thad · « **Reply #725 on:** September 27, 2012, 10:21:20 AM »

I really am kind of enjoying how right-wingers suddenly support unions now that football scores are involved.

Brentai · « **Reply #726 on:** September 27, 2012, 10:45:49 AM »

I almost replied "Conservatives would thow their support behind pedophilia if you got football scores involved" as a joke.

...

Fuck.

Sharkey · « **Reply #727 on:** September 27, 2012, 02:06:08 PM »

That made me actually look for the karma button for the first time in ever, and of course it's gone. Big yellow taxi, etc.

Büge · « **Reply #728 on:** October 01, 2012, 09:53:08 AM »

Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed legislation that would protect domestic workers

He also vetoed the TRUST act.

Does he have something against immigrants, or what?

Mongrel · « **Reply #729 on:** October 01, 2012, 11:27:20 AM »

California Uber Alles (Dead Kennedys)

Thad · « **Reply #730 on:** October 01, 2012, 01:05:26 PM »

On the plus side, he signed a ban on conversion programs for gay children.

Brentai · « **Reply #731 on:** October 01, 2012, 02:54:18 PM »

Which fills me with mixed feelings; I live in a state where it's illegal to suggest to people that they shouldn't be gay, and where it's ALSO illegal for gay people to get married. What's the standard here?

Obviously the standard is "whatever is popular at the time"; gay-hating was in 4 years ago, now it's, like, totally out. Which is good overall, I guess, but this sort of whimsical double-standard is one of the ways this state tends to exemplify the absolute worst traits of a democracy. The law is completely arbitrary and the budget is prioritized by whoever cries the hardest.

Royal☭ · « **Reply #732 on:** October 01, 2012, 04:39:13 PM »

That's a bit glib, though, isn't it? Jerry Brown wasn't governor in 2008, when prop 8 passed. And prop 8 was a ballot initiative launched as a reaction to a state Supreme Court ruling. It seems like the actual elected officials want some form of civil rights for homosexuals. It just seems the people who elect those officials don't want that? Probably has a lot to do with the rest of the state's resentment of San Fran.

Thad · « **Reply #733 on:** October 01, 2012, 07:33:26 PM »

Quote from: Brentai on October 01, 2012, 02:54:18 PM

I live in a state where it's illegal to suggest to people that they shouldn't be gay

Well, no, not really. People can suggest it all they want, short of sending them to horrifying re-education camps.

Mongrel · « **Reply #734 on:** October 17, 2012, 03:21:42 PM »

Rabbi Writes Patronizing Letter To Sarah Silverman, Has His Ass Handed To Him By Her Dad

Friday · « **Reply #735 on:** October 17, 2012, 03:23:40 PM »

WARNING

WARNING

OLD MEN

Büge · « **Reply #736 on:** October 18, 2012, 03:31:27 PM »

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/10/17/conservative-publication-smears-young-woman-who-asked-debate-question/

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The article, published anonymously, alleged that Katherine Fenton’s Twitter account “reveals that purple Joose is her choice to get blackout drunk and she has a history of getting wet at happy hour.” The article also highlights sexually suggestive messages Fenton allegedly sent from her Twitter account.

The Twitter account cited in the article no longer exists.

Classy.

Catloaf · « **Reply #737 on:** December 11, 2012, 06:21:07 AM »

I think this is the right thread to post this in...
So, Michigan's republican-dominated state legislature is set to ram right-to-work down our throats today.

It really is odd how a state like Michigan which is so solidly democratic on a federal level is so damn republican locally. Like most of Michigan's cultural problems, I blame Howell (where the KKK headquarters is, for those who don't remember) and the white Detroit-suburbs.

Good news for school kids at least, as so many teachers are protesting that many school districts don't have school today.

Yeah, they forced it through a lame-duck session and tied a spending thing to it so that it can't be knocked over to a public ballot proposal and subsequently defeated by overwhelming public disapproval. Sneaky bastards.

Shinra · « **Reply #738 on:** December 12, 2012, 01:17:15 AM »

Oh boy. Well, if the other right to work states are any indication, this probably will fix a lot of unemployment problems in Michigan. It'll also make sure all those people with good jobs don't have good jobs anymore. 11 dollars an hour on the assembly line, here we come! Benefits, shmenefits. It's employment at will, buster.

am I dick for saying that I'd rather see 8% of our country unemployed than see 20-30% or more of our country have shitty jobs?

Brentai · « **Reply #739 on:** December 12, 2012, 03:31:24 AM »

No? The employment metric is one of the biggest "Look over there!"s in our country. You can pretty easily drop that unemployment number while actually raising the number of people who are living in poverty, and that's pretty much the plan on both sides right now.

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