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yes i have no life. what of it?

what harm does my not having a life do to you? is it, like, illegal?

2) Harry Potter is a kids book and adults reading it are morons

3) LOTR is Harry Potter for grown-ups (and thus still shit)

4) Freedom of speech won't feed my children

5) David Elleray's denial of Chesterfield a legitimate 3rd goal in the 1997 FA Cup semi-final was an act of class war.

Hum dee dai la la hum dei dei la la la la la
Hum dee dai la la hum dei dei la la la la la
Kids!"

(1st person to mention 'Australia' is 1st on the boat...)

hashtags are more toxic to the US political climate than all the corporate money in the world

The left is unhealthily obsessed with moral purity.

man alive otm

the left a lot of my leftist friends who post a lot on facebook and a few writers they admire, basically

the left are the worst

ban strollers

xp- actually Hurting, iirc i follow Doug Henwood on facebook because of a post you made on ilx about how he's fun to follow as a cipher into intra-left squabbles. too hooked on hatereading to unfollow :(

The left is unhealthily obsessed with moral purity.

#mindBlown

xp I generally like Henwood, he just has a lot of weird hangers-on.

ah that wasn't clear, i meant hate-reading his comment threads and intra-left squabbles he links to. i like henwood a lot, even if he's a little too partisan/hard left for my taste. i actually met him under hilarious circumstances in montreal last summer. he was tweeting about feeling embarrassed to be seen reading HRC's memoir (which he was reading for the review that turned into his controversially designed book) at a montreal cafe, and i looked over and saw him at a neighbouring table with the book on his lap!

Wow @ 2002 opinions. I've been pretty solidly pro-choice and anti-death penalty for a long time.

not every shooter is a terrorist

pretty uncontroversial there. if you're talking about the planned parenthood thing, almost no one in the media is calling him a terrorist. he's just a disgruntled gentle guy who was having a bad day and just happened to be near planned parenthood. these things happen

Such a hapless goofball. You can't help but love him!

i don't know if this is controversial or even an opinion but i do believe that if pro-life activists believe what they say about abortion is true (that it is literally murder and there has literally been one of history's greatest genocides going on in the US for years) there should be way more clinic shootings. think about the kind of behavior you would condone if you felt it was designed to stymie an actual genocide. otoh from the beginning of this year: "If we were in 30's Berlin we'd all be Nazi's," so maybe not.

Not everything in the respective threads are racist/sexist/antisemitism

how dare you

"otoh from the beginning of this year thread" i meant

I sometimes feel similarly about people who are vegetarians/vegans for animal rights reasons. Why don't they at least push for anti-meat legislation more often?

I don't see how there is much of a case for abortion being a genocide by this definition, though, even if you think it is murder.

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think about the kind of behavior you would condone if you felt it was designed to stymie an actual genocide

you could go all the way up to genocide minus one

fair enough - i was using genocide loosely to mean the intentional murder of huge quantities of people in a systemic manner. i don't think they're being discriminated against on account of their race or religion. xp

Pet breeds basically = killing dogs and cats for ornament and amusement.

And yet it's socially acceptable, even classy.

"Ooh, lovely dog! Is that a Glaswegian Sproinger Spaniel?" "Yes!" "I love their temperament. And such majestic bearing!"

"May I pet your dog? What breed is she?" "She's an Ethiopian Sticklefoot. Yes, it's rare for E-Stickies have this golden color, but she took a ribbon for Best in Show last month!"

I get that people may want a pet that works well for their household and lifestyle.

But with millions of dogs and cats being put to sleep for lack of a good home, any and all intentional breeding is like throwing gas on the fire. And failing (or refusing) to spay/neuter is equally reckless.

News flash: dogs don't give a shit about whether they're a Norwegian Bumbleneck or a Mexican Cockless. If an intentionally-bred pet is beautiful or noble, bully for you... but as for the practice as a whole, why not footbinding, or toddler bonsai?

I sometimes feel similarly about people who are vegetarians/vegans for animal rights reasons. Why don't they at least push for anti-meat legislation more often?

I'm (recently) vegan for a lot of reasons, not just animal rights, but I think greater public awareness of the consequences of factory farming and animal-based diets is more effective than legislation at this point. Also I'm not necessarily a bleeding-heart animal lover. I'm more interested in seeing people significantly reduce their consumption of meat/dairy/eggs/etc than in seeing everyone go fully vegan. Though at the rate humanity is trashing this earth, at some point most of us will be forced to give up animal consumption.

Or we'll populate the seas w/ plankton and consume vast amounts of fish?

people don't push for anti-meat legislation because it has absolutely no chance and it makes meateaters incredibly angry to even discuss the concept. otherwise reasonable people get visibly shaken and angry and begin yelling at good friends and ruining dinners and family gatherings, and even after the tension thaws out a little bit, during future gatherings there are countless side-remarks that fly around the room about how such and such was on the dinner menu to accommodate "the vegan" (even if you're not a vegan) and assumptions that the non-meateater is deeply disappointed at everyone around them and probably thinks they're a bad person because of how they eat meat. if somehow anti-meat legislation was ever seriously brought to the floor i'd strongly consider protesting against it just so that i didn't have to listen to the nauseating comments that everyone has on the issue. there's a stereotype about the vegetarian/vegan ruining everyone's good fun and lecturing everyone, but in my experience it's always been the veggies just eating their food and attempting to have a normal meal while numerous (well-meaning!) (?) friends and acquaintances interrogate them about what they are and aren't eating and why.

but i'm not bitter! i'm not bitter!

all of that was supposed to be read using the funny satirical jokey guy voice

ppl who get angry that vegans exist should be executed

basically

how about ppl who get angry that meat-eaters exist?