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It's funny because white nationalism = white supremacy

So.... no claims at all. Yer full of shit. /convo

No context vid + comments full of right wingers fantasizing about murder/assault. Much own.

Love how armed white supremacists are literally marching and chanting but someone being questioned about alleged sexual assault is the *real* mob mentality.

Lynch mob?? Was he beaten in the streets? Was his family ripped from him? Oh no they just asked him questions, he threw a baby fit, and he got a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the country. Poor guy.

The fuck is this drivel?

Where do you think "preference" stems from?

Lol @journalists being Marxists. I've read Marx, I know Marxists, I've identified as one before (different story). Peeps writing for WaPo or NYT or reporting for CNN are about as far from Marxism as can be. What kind of Marxists would deride yer Prez for threatening to nerf NAFTA? What kind of Marxist would stand behind the Justice Dept. and the FBI? What kind of fucking Marxist would defend the electoral/justice system in such a way as to place their hopes on midterms, 2020, and the Senate and special counsel investigations? 

Truthfully, the people writing these opinion pieces are run in the middle liberals and centrists. I have my own beef with them and their methods but not because they're extremists. Because they're the opposite. They're largely toothless and that's why liberals largely fail to retain power for any considerable length of time.

Foucault talked somewhat frequently about the relationship between the historicity (read: symbolic or non-natural) of classificatory groups and oppression. Our inability to think historically re the malleability and/or illusory nature of various taxonomies is an essential barrier to dismantling those attitudes. So like yer saying, race doesn't necessarily exist as a  transcendental signifier (inasmuch as sexual identity or gender don't either) but that doesn't stop individual actors or institutions from acting as if they did. It's part of the reason modern liberalism talks it's way into circles with identity politics.

Who are the people you worked with and what did they do that Alex Jones correctly reported on?

I think it's interesting when people assume that half the country is conservative or right-leaning when this isn't true. Also interesting that you think a distinction needs to be made between white nationalism and white supremacy as if either are anything more than outlets of status anxiety racism.

I think it's so funny when people overreact to a single game. He was playing a team with subpar defense and has his own defense to fall back on. If he plays even at an average level for the next five or six games maybe I'll hop on that wagon. Until then I'll stick to the facts.

Definitely. The first three books and the show are also similar enough to make reading through 1,000 page books not too intimidating. The last two books are where they diverge entirely but I think they're superior to the show.

That Voice obvi

It's funny I was initially a show watcher and didn't consider reading the books until I was waiting in between seasons. I think between 5 and 6. After I read the books it was over. It happened to coincide with (imo) the complete breakdown of the show from a writing perspective.

Black coffee with maybe a sugar packet is my preferred. Don't understand the fascination with creamer flavors and ice and all that.

Being offended by the anthem protests is the direct result of purposely obfuscating both the intent of the protests and what the signification of the particular mode of those protests (literally, physically what kneeling denotes in the context) means. Common opposition talking points also almost necessarily include racist dog whistles and complacency in the face of a long standing and endemic social ill. I usually try to understand the root of these types of conflicts to see where misunderstanding or misapplication of (generally) good moral feelings can come into play but in this situation it's racist idiocy plain and simple.

Ongoing shows that I'll make a point to stay kept up on would be Westworld, Preacher, Doctor Who, and Atlanta. Dramas worthy of rewatches include Lost, Mad Men, the first few seasons of Shameless (can't pinpoint where it got bad) and the first four seasons of Game of Thrones (can precisely pinpoint where it got bad lol).

Does this mean Bsh should post his sign ups now?

Reality stone: make Waluigi real and marry him.

I think it's important to note that just because an action has ties (or connections) to racism doesn't mean it's necessarily a racist action or that every person that performs that action is a racist. Answers to questions like these aren't usually aren't simple and have some nuance even if the action itself isn't particularly thought out.

That being said, in Western society it seems clear that certain preferences have ties to (historically) racist attitudes and conceptions of non-white peoples. Prioritizing lighter skin, avoidance of course hair, idolizing (mainly) white stereotypes of beauty, fetishizing some peoples as sexually servile or others as sexually animalistic etc. are historically encoded preferences with roots in racism and ties to racial stereotyping.

That doesn't mean people are conscious of these ties or that racially discriminatory preferences are tied to malice. But just as well these are not natural attitudes inasmuch as not being racially discriminatory isn't unnatural. I think it takes quite the reductionist viewpoint to justify a racial preference as being encoded biologically.

This also ties in to fetishizing stereotypes employed in the reverse such as with black men (animalistic, subjugator) and Asian women (servile, subjected). Black women interestingly are commonly subject to both of these attitudes simultaneously (exclusionary and fetishizing). These attitudes are also well documented in the new niches set up in gay online dating (specifically regarding Middle Eastern/Indian men).

These attitudes should change. They likely will not be changed by calling those people racist even if their preferences are rooted in the unconscious history of fetishization, white idolation, or outright racism. Weve seen in years past a general digging in the heels effect when a debate begins with morak aggrandizing (even if the feelings at the root of such a position are justified). Showing the historical discontinuity regarding preference and it's historical (even generational) malleability is a good place to start.

Listed five of my top scenes/events from the books that either weren't included or were radically changed in the TV series. Hard to leave out things like the Kingsmoot, the Stannis/Renly parlay, and the Stoneheart reveal but this shtt is still hot imo.

•Alys Karstark's marriage to the Magnar of Thenn at The Wall. Probably the most beautifully written chapter of the last book (maybe the series). Shows the narrative vision Martin has been pushing throughout the series regarding the Northerners and the Wildlings and allows Jon to bring something beautiful to fruition even in his disappointment that the "pale girl on a dying horse" wasn't his sister Arya after all.

•Theon's introductory chapter as Reek and later his escape with Jeyne Poole. His entire arc in Dance with Dragons is great but the first and last are standouts among standouts. Makes the show's cheap portrayal of his arc appear both base and impotent by comparison through its course depiction of his torture and inability to allow any action to remain off screen (a choice of Martin's which paid off immensely imo).

•Jon connington and Aegon landing in Westeros and retaking Griffin's Roost. Highly emotional reunion for Connington to his former home and I'm looking forward to how this plays out in Winds of Winter now that we know they're on their way to attack Storm's End with Arianne Martell joining as an envoy from Dorne.

•Littlefinger's reveal of his plan to marry Sansa (Alayne) off to Harry "The Heir" Hardying. Both pushes things forward narratively as it shows his true motivations re: smugging Sansa from KL and brings fully to light her tension in playing her role as "Alayne". Recognizing herself as a pawn while simultaneously learning to be a player in her own right.

•Asha Greyjoy's experiences and character development after her capture by Stannis at Deepwood Motte. Not a single chapter or incident but her role in the latter half of ADWD shows her connecting with the Other (a Mormont) and beginning to grow out of her deep seated Iron Island ideology. Snappy dialogue and some seemingly early payoff in her revealed dialogue in Theon's released "Winds of Winter" chaper.

Lot of family names I'd be willing to draw on. Shannon, Jimmy, or Morris are potentials. I'm drawn to "S" names more specifically with names like Shea and Sebastian.

Trubisky's stats leading to week 4 are illuminating. He averaged less than 200 yards per game passing (591 over three games). His TD-INT ratio was also a whopping 2:3. Throw in a (maybe top 3) defense and a Bucc offense allowing north of 300 yards passing per game and a QB rating of 117.1 /game and his outing is shown for what it really was: an anomaly. An enjoyable one to watch absolutely but an anomaly nonetheless. 

Also what is a top QB? Top 5, top 10, top half in the league? Trubisky is nowhere near proven enough to be in the same league as Rodgers, Brees, Rivers, Wilson, Ben, or Brady and hasn't shown enough of a flash to be up there with Cousins, Goff, Mahomes, Luck, Wentz, Mariota, or Watson.

just off handedly naming QB's more talented and accomplished place him out of the top ten. And that's not even bringing up midle tier guys who have had their moments like Ryan, Dalton, Taylor, Bradford, and Tannehill who at least have shown competent enough to land starting positions.

TD;LR Trubisky fcking sucks and the Bears will finish third in the division this year.

Here from DDO. Logged in for fun to see it abandoned (would love the scoop on that). Sad to see that after seven or so years on and off. Here for mafia and maybe some votes here and there.