Poe's Law Thread
The first comment here - the Lib Dem's Christmas message
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Keep going Nick - you are one of the few honest politicians there are - take no notice of the bashers - just keep being who you are and your integrity will shine through. Better you in power than pure bullshitters who know they have no intention of carrying out their election promises.
Of course, the Lib Dems have been widely derided (vote share collapsed from about 25% to about 8%?) for going into a coalition government which necessarily involved compromising on some policies, most notably reducing tuition fee repayments rather than scrapping them.
I shouted down an abortion debate
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The idea that in a free society absolutely everything should be open to debate has a detrimental effect on marginalised groups. Debating abortion as if its a topic to be mulled over and hypothesised on ignores the fact that this is not an abstract, academic issue. It may seem harmless for men like Stanley and O'Neil to debate how and if abortion hurts them; it’s clearly harder for people to see that their words and views might hurt women.
Access to abortion impacts the lives of women, trans and non-binary people every day, and the threat pro-life groups pose to our bodily autonomy is real, not rhetorical. If you don’t believe me, visit any abortion clinic and witness the sustained aggressions of pro-life pickets.
In organizing against this event, I did not stifle free speech. As a student, I asserted that it would make me feel threatened in my own university; as a woman, I objected to men telling me what I should be allowed to do with my own body.
Access to abortion impacts the lives of women, trans and non-binary people every day, and the threat pro-life groups pose to our bodily autonomy is real, not rhetorical. If you don’t believe me, visit any abortion clinic and witness the sustained aggressions of pro-life pickets.
In organizing against this event, I did not stifle free speech. As a student, I asserted that it would make me feel threatened in my own university; as a woman, I objected to men telling me what I should be allowed to do with my own body.
I don't think this woman understand freedom of speech...
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“The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.”
-- Robert Anton Wilson
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C+=
C+= (pronounced either C-plus-Equality, or See Equality) is a feminist programming language, created to smash the toxic Patriarchy that is inherent in and that permeates all current computer programming languages.
Note: This is a programming language written by and for FEMINISTS, not WOMEN. LEARN THE DIFFERENCE!
C+= (pronounced either C-plus-Equality, or See Equality) is a feminist programming language, created to smash the toxic Patriarchy that is inherent in and that permeates all current computer programming languages.
Note: This is a programming language written by and for FEMINISTS, not WOMEN. LEARN THE DIFFERENCE!
Obvious satire. Or is it?
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“The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.”
-- Robert Anton Wilson
I usually love Everyday Feminism, they succeed in challenging my assumptions whilst also rarely straying over into gobbledegook (and even run articles on how feminist gobbledegook is discriminatory against those who can't understand it for whatever reason). I was pretty pleased to see them running a piece on speciesism, though I was annoyed that they tried to claim that all discrimination is a feminist issue. Then the article itself, oh dear...
It's still quite an interesting article, but I was tempted to call Poe when reading about "rape" on farms.
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