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BrickHorn

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  1. My son and I caught part of the Rifftrax 2019 SF Sketch Fest episode the other night on Pluto. The animated PSA from the LA Sheriff’s department is one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a while, and the British PSA about power line safety was almost as good. Lately, The Starfighters, Danger, Death Ray!, The Legend Of Boggy Creek 2, and Cave Dwellers have all been in heavy rotation.
  2. @Brisketexan - Read this paper. Antisemitic attitudes are low on the left, especially compared to the right. And they are lower on the far left than in the center left. The idea that there’s a strain of antisemitic thought on the far left is unfounded. The idea that any antisemitism on the far left is even remotely in the ballpark of the far right — or anywhere else on the political spectrum — is just absurd bullshit. Antisemitism exists. But the far left is the group least prone to it.
  3. “Unless Saudi Arabia kills an American. If that happens, I’ll kiss their leaders’ asses.”
  4. See my previous post. That kick was pure karma.
  5. I felt really bad for the dude lying on the ground out cold from a kick to the head while on the ground… until I rewatched the video and saw that he attempted (and whiffed) a similar bitch move a few seconds earlier. And then I read the article and it looks like the knocked out dude was a PARENT. And if you watch closely, he jumped in to attack a guy who was sucker punched by another parent who also sucker punched a player. Dipshit got what he deserved. Karma, motherfucker.
  6. So he’s a gnostic who realizes that Jesus was a fictional allegorical character?
  7. Agreed, but to be clear: he’s not the second best guitarist from Fleetwood Mac, either.
  8. Yours truly. I had manual windows on my vehicle into the 2010s.
  9. Your definitions are fucked and you’re reading them wrong.
  10. Tell that to the victims of Ami Popper and Baruch Goldstein.
  11. And look how far you’ve come! You’re now a dumbass passionate 50-something year-old.
  12. We do?
  13. Exactly. Go do charity in a nice, safe neighborhood where people aren’t so fucking needy all the time.
  14. Next they will lay siege to White Castle.
  15. To be fair, she did graduate valedictorian of Barry University, which is one of the *checks notes* 435 most prestigious universities in the United States. With her track record at Barry, I’m confident Loomer could have maintained a passing GPA even at a far more rigorous school such as Texas Tech or Sam Houston State.
  16. Huh. Weird. Not sure why I thought to make a whole sarcastic post about the dangers of assuming things when you said all along that you were assuming something. Sorry about that.
  17. And aside from jumping to conclusions, rushing to judgment, and blindly accepting inflammatory claims, assuming is probably the best thing to do at this point.
  18. +rep for correct spelling of “ordnance.”
  19. “In war, truth is the first casualty.” The mass media rushing atrocity stories to print is unsurprising to say the least. Best to take a breath and wait for further investigation to clear things up. But that’s not how human beings work, for the most part.
  20. *ordnance
  21. I used “universal” in a far more limited sense. It’s limited to the set of moral systems we observe. It isn’t universal in some metaphysical sense, as if the entire cosmos is filled with uniform morality rules. It’s just that the overwhelming majority of human cultures generally agree on the same basic principles. So the idea that morality differs culture to culture and is thus “relative” in that sense just doesn’t play out in fact… even though it’s also not objective. And another thing: depending on how you define the bounds of a “culture,” morality differs more within any given culture than between cultures. Psychopaths, for example, employ a very different morality than do the rest of us.
  22. No. There is no basis for determining objective moral truth in my view. There are moral systems that exist and, because they all result from running the same process under similar enough circumstances, they share common features. But that doesn’t mean those common features are “right” in any objective sense or that different circumstances would not produce very different moral rules. You set up a false dichotomy. Seems like everyone pretty much saw right through it.
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