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I think we as atheists have probably swung too far towards tolerance and polite quiet. We should swing back towards publicly criticising the repression, hypocrisy, deception, untruths, bigotry, cruelty and nonsense of religions. even on Tumblr the Catholics have stopped feeling any sort of shame! the CATHOLICS!!!
what Chinese phrase is being translated as that ubiquitous "hurt the feelings of the Chinese people" because surely no phrase in English is more lacking in dignity. it can't possibly sound that pathetic in original Mandarin.
I feel like “hurt feelings” is a term that we‘ve come to view as inherently childish because we heard it so much at school as little kids, but it doesn’t inherently have to refer to something trivial. Though how serious insults and offenses against honor are to be taken is still a controversial question.
I’m sure people are blowing billions but the amount of money bet does not equal the amount of money lost. When you bring $100 to the roulette table and make minimum bets, you’re probably going to lose and win back and lose your money again at least two or three times over before you finally end up at $0—if not like ten times over.
You could say “$500 worth of bets were made” if a guy lost $100, gained it back, lost it again, gained it back again, and then lost it again. But he is only $100 poorer than when he started.

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This compromise means that US political parties are strange institutions, quite unlike political parties in other democratic countries. It would be barely overstating the case to say that the US simply doesn’t have political parties. The two major US political parties are perhaps best viewed not as civil society organizations but as features of the US electoral system; in this interpretation, the US effectively has a two-stage “runoff” electoral system like the French presidential election system, where anyone can run in the first round and the top two vote-getters then run head to head. But unlike in France, the first stage of this runoff is organized on roughly ideological lines, where candidates who choose to label themselves as vaguely left-of-center run in a separate first-round election from candidates who choose to label themselves as vaguely right-of-center. In this analysis, becoming a “member” of a major party means no more than deciding which first-round election to vote in. The parties aren’t so much civil society organizations that have their major internal decisions shaped by electoral law, as features of the electoral law that for historical reasons are named after formerly significant institutions in civil society.
Seeing people about how rude it was for the DSA to primary out democrats reminded me of this post.
that's certainly been a recurring headline of this conflict
Actually, they find that term judgmental and offensive, they self-identify as a That-Which-Gives-Life-Meaning Cult. And they're saying that they're gonna Give Meaning to the Life of one hostage every hour until we agree to stop producing antibiotics so that nature can take its intended course. Or until all the hostage's lives are super meaningful. Whichever comes first
"waste all your movement's goodwill demanding annoying symbolic concessions from normies then fail to achieve anything meaningful" - vladimir lenin, in his famous work What Is Not To Be Done
Then demand MORE symbolic concessions while insulting the people from whom you demand them. Make it as unpleasant as possible even to concede things to you.
Do you know how toddlers are prone to grabbing a box of Cheerios, taking some kind of toddler action, and finding Cheerios highly dispersed? And it's like way easier to take a toddler action than it is to gather unto yourself the Cheerios?
Basically the toddler has no way of knowing before it happens that a toddler action could have consequences anything like this.
It's basically always wrong to kill them for this.

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Not to sound like an ass but almost half of Jewish people around the world are Israeli and almost half live in the US, the vast majority of the latter being at least liberal Zionists - even if they condemn the Gaza genocide, many still believe in Israel’s right to exist. Every major Jewish organisation is extremely Zionist, with synagogues all over the world regularly auctioning off Palestinian land with little to no pushback and ousting actual anti-Zionist Jews from their communities. It’s an uncomfortable conversation but I think ‘Zionism isn’t Judaism’ said in the current day is a little silly when you take all of this into account, Judaism and Jewish communities are entrenched in Zionism as of now.
every single prot institution in the US and basically the entire German state is equally Zionist but you people don't freak out about whether Werner Herzog or Beyonce are secretly Zionists. Never mind that you are stretching the truth here more than a little - though I agree it's silly when people pretend Judaism has nothing to do with Zionism. It's literally a religion that textually believes to be gods specialist boys who were given special rights to some land.
but also yeah sorry I think you're fucked in the head a bit if you hear a Jewish name in passing and either panic google if they're a Zionist or demand from others to know if they're a zionist.
This is all true but I also personally find it both immoral and distasteful to treat people this way based on their ethnicity. Like, even if you pulled out all the stats and showed conclusively that jews really were significantly more likely to be hardcore zionist compared to the general american protestant population, I don't think the systemic effects downstream of treating everyone of a certain race or ethnicity with suspicion are worth what little benefit there is to investigating everyone who's name ends in -stein (or whatever jewish stereotype has triggered you this time).
That's just a fundamentally deleterious and divisive mindset to have.
duuuuuude you have GOT to come out tonight we're enacting cruelty upon those who have transgressed so badly that we can justify any act against them... and you KNOW we're interpreting our delight as moral righteousness... Yeah it's fucking crazyyyyyyy get an Uber
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The ol' reblog-and-block
"This jackass has the gall to compare my culture and the concept of intellectual property, how heinous! Anyway, this story was made by my bloodline so you aren't allowed to reproduce that story or elements thereof without our permission. This is different than intellectual property because I hate intellectual property so it can't be similar to anything I think. It can't have anything to do with blood-and-soil nationalism because ideas don't have traits or components, they are fully formed and indivisible and exist only due to people choosing to be evil for no reason."
College football's latest existential crisis, summarized:
Medium-term background: Over the last ten and especially last five years, college football has gone from the fiefdoms of stuffy provincial old farts so devoted to the mirage of amateurism that programs could get in trouble for putting cream cheese on bagels, to a free-for-all wild west where players go shopping for new teams every season and whoever has the biggest firehose of money wins. This is in large part because the athletes being unpaid in the first place was never legally sustainable and only lasted so long out of inertia and coordination issues. If you're pro-labor it's a good and necessary thing overall, but for smaller programs, their fans, and anyone with a bit of romance about the game, it's been a disaster. On a related note, sports gambling has gone from something only legal in a handful of US cities to infinitely accessible to anyone with a smartphone over the same five years. Some would say these are both part of the same trend, namely very rich people getting to do anything they want because no one gives a shit about rules or ethics anymore, but that's neither here nor there.
Short-term background: A year or two ago, Texas oil billionaire Cody Campbell basically bought the Texas Tech athletic program. Tech has historically been a B-to-C-tier team with a massive chip on its shoulder thanks to never being able to get past the A-tier schools. Campbell is now chairman of the board of regents, i.e. the boss' boss' boss of most of the other people in this story. This past offseason he paid $5 million to recruit a quarterback named Brendan Sorsby, previously with Indiana and Cincinnati.
Last few weeks: Sorsby is outed as having a massive gambling addiction, from the stereotypical "up 'til 3 AM betting on Malaysian soccer" stuff to betting individual balls and strikes in baseball games to (brace yourself) betting on his own teams to lose or underperform. For example, to paraphrase a redditor's take, 'he saw his teammate struggling and instead of wanting to help him get better, he put a hundred bucks on the guy to get Under 2.5 Catches next game'.
From most of the Chicago White Sox in 1919 to Pete Rose in 1989, any professional athlete who has done anything remotely like this has been banned for life from their sport and made persona non grata. But again, college sports is a lawless wasteland right now and Cody Campbell didn't get rich by taking losses on his investments, no sir. He paid for Sorsby and Sorsby's gonna play. After the NCAA (college sports' governing body, a shambling rotten corpse of its former cream-cheese-outlawing self) seemed to have finally found a rule they could enforce without a labor-law suit bitchslapping them, banning Sorsby, Campbell more or less went judge-shopping until he found a retired judge willing to issue an injunction allowing Sorsby to play.
To be clear, Campbell and his puppets (head coach, athletic director, university president; their collective inability to shut the fuck up throughout this has led people to suspect that Campbell basically ordered them to go all-offense in PR.) aren't disputing that Sorsby is a gambling addict who bet on his own team to lose. They're saying that it would be discrimination against the mentally ill to not allow him to play. The words the judge used were 'irreparable harm'. Analogies spread on reddit over the last few weeks have included "holding AA meetings in a bar", "letting a drunk driver go scot-free because alcoholism is a disease", and "a banker caught stealing from customer funds getting a promotion".
The entire college football world, which had spent the last five years tearing itself apart over TV money and private equity, immediately united against Campbell and Tech. Several colleges wiped any games with Tech in any sport from their schedule, their conference intimated that they can and would expel them by member vote, the attorneys general of Oklahoma, Utah, and Kansas all promised to take action. And to be clear this was a truly existential, all hands on deck crisis: if the athletes are taking dives for money, then there is no sport. It's a bunch of mercenary hustlers dressing up like football players to pretend to play football. Even the vampiric sportsbooks themselves don't want this: nobody bets on fixed matches.
Bear in mind also it's not out of the question that Sorsby could be arrested for this: he was under 21 for much of this and sent money across state lines for family and friends to gamble with. So Campbell got his own lawyer: Ken Paxton, Texas state AG and current senate candidate. While Reddit hates every Texas Republican politician, the Texan posters do seem to regard Paxton as uniquely stupid and incompetent. He was impeached three years ago, which, how do you manage to do that as a Republican AG in Texas?
Anyway, this is where my law-fu gets a little weak, but apparently Paxton's filing on Tech and Campbell's behalf was so incompetently written, so wildly aggressive without any authority to actually see it through, that it opened up his clients to legal vulnerabilities that wouldn't have existed otherwise and sets the prosecution up for a thorough beatdown. So, late last night, Tech dumps mutually parts with Sorsby, rumored to have kept around half of his $5 million payday for barely avoiding becoming the Shoeless Joe Jackson of football. Campbell gets told "no" for the first time in years and loses millions of dollars for nothing. Paxton was (admittedly they say this every time) apparently in a tight race with Democrat James Talarico, and now he very publicly has argued that the 5th-most-popular college team in his own state should let their quarterback fix games for gambling rings because his billionaire sugar daddy threw a tantrum over it. May end up mattering, may not.
Everything in the world has been like this for the last six years.

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“this is what your toddler nieces and nephews watch on Disney+ every day” and it’s just Cocomelon branded Jalisco New Generation Cartel beheading videos followed by improperly time-cut videos of E-tier Disney Channel teen slaves doing painfully bad choreography in direct-to-home-release musicals.
If you're arguing with a Marxist-Leninist, I think it's a bit silly to claim that the USSR was imperialist—there is a particular understanding of that term within Leninism, and while there's no reason to give Lenin's definition precedence over any other, it remains the case that on a practical level if you accuse the Soviet Union of imperialism you will quickly find yourself enmeshed in pointless semantics. This is a waste of everyone's time, and the solution is to re-phrase your fact claims in less fraught language.
So let me say it this way: the Soviet Union maintained the territory conquered by the Russian Empire in Central Asia and the Caucasus, and elsewhere. The Soviet Union continued the forced settlement of nomadic groups, the Russification of minority peoples, and the environmental exploitation of land in conquered areas. They drained the Aral Sea to grow fucking cotton in Uzbekistan. And the USSR engaged in settler colonialism, continuing the displacement of indigenous populations in Siberia and Central Asia that started under the Russian Empire, and continuing the build up of largely ethnically-Russian industrial and population centers in the greater Russian east.
But, of course, none of this was lead by finance capital, you see. Can't be an empire if the empirializing isn't lead by finance capital. Obviously. Rookie mistake.
This kind of thing is why marxism-leninism, the ideology developed by the ruling bureaucracy of Russia, is neither marxism nor leninism. The whole point of Lenin's writing on imperialism is that he was trying to grapple with the existence of imperialism as the basis for strategising for the working class movement to smash it.
Stalinists took this analysis and transformed it into a set of fixed religious dogmas. Just as bureaucratic state capitalism was built on the wreckage of revolution, Stalinist self-justification was built on the wreckage of revolutionary theory.
So there ends up with this wanky justification for all the shit you described, based on quoting chapter and verse of the collected works of lenin. Rather than theory leading practice (which informs theory), theory exists to provide rhetorical cover for practice. And this shit wrecked most of the left for the twentieth century, and the after-effects (dogshit versions of anti-imperialism, etc) continue to fuck with us today.