If white supremacists weren't using religion as a vehicle for their white supremacy, it'd be something else. Maybe beating a dead horse here, but... I would take this even one step further: Religion is less a vehicle to justify white supremacy as White supremacy (and also religion) is a vehicle to ...

I'm hoping no one was sweating that accusation, but- I mean- I wouldn't have tried to express that observation if I didn't feel like I spent enough time amongst the privileged classes. There's a lot of propaganda (or maybe just inertia) around accepting the status quo and wishy-washy-ing away the vi...

No disagreement. Trying to speak to the feelings of cowards who wouldn't be comfortable with the amount of violence and cruelty their pleasure requires. Or perhaps the people seeking some kind of "heroism" by which to distinguish themselves. Also feel that "bigotry" makes demands...

Maybe it is reductive, but my feels is this: All the precarity you feel is caused by those Other, Lesser people not behaving as they need to to ensure prosperity for everyone. Cruel emphasis on "Lesser". The kindest feeling you can have in the voice is a "Noblesse Oblige". The fe...

Busting your chops here:
Why would the US and its foibles be represented by just one farcical allegorical species or culture?

I don't want to oversell it, but Buge and the Talking Tyrants are pretty adequate as a group.
Also, previous expansion relic grinds are a lot more tolerable with other sickos going through it with you.

Because too many of my friends are judgypants wearing assholes, they need tools to get on board and OK with the fact that Steven is a little dumb and a little annoying. My first try is usually "Bubble Buddies". If you don't like Steven and Connie being giant nerds together, you more or les...

sadly they are just "Talking Tyrants" on Sargatanas.
They do have a Lyrai who crafts hard... come to think of it I haven't seen them in the same room...

if only there were some way to fold this pile of assholes into the talking time pile of assholes
:-(
but i forgot this thread existed when i signed up

my heart actually sank a little before i realized that was you making a funsie :-(

The thing to remember about "it will be justification for this thing" logic is that these people already want to do whatever you're trying to prevent justifying. Where they cannot do it by fiat, they will manufacture justifications until one sticks.

Same thing for gutting the filibuster.

I think the distinction you want to make is that you don't think money should be unconditionally protected speech. Ideally, the point of protecting free speech is enabling democracy and fledgling political parties. Not to provide the plutocrat class with megaphones for their ideas.

Thanks for those tips. Managed to fix the problem! Good news I am not fucked! Story follows: So after blowing out my comically gross case I put the machine on using the mobo gpu. No problems. I plug the Radeon card back in (with MSIAfterburner on) and find problems start basically immediately as the...

Yeesh. So, yesterday my machine started having graphical glitches and failures, eventually requiring a hard reset. But it was also accompanied by sound-looping. Do I look first to the mobo, the psu, or the graphics card? EDIT: Looks like CPU heat rises really fast and accompanies the tearing. Could ...

"Voluntary" in that you don't have to do it, but the reprisals could be awful "voluntary" or actually voluntary?

Racism, Sexism, and the coming home to roost of 60 years of constant, zealous messaging about liberal policy in general and about 30 years of messaging about Hillary Clinton in particular.

:-(

.. That's just how I walk down stairs though.
I feel like I was lied to on many points about the premise.

TA wrote:I think strongly the opposite. Jasper's totally gonna end up fusing with a corrupted Gem at some point, and probably end up corrupted herself.

Amazing precognition.

I think I am fixed?
Or was?