It's more like, oh, everyone farts, right? You're not either "a Farter" or "a Non-Farter."
The best analogy I've heard is calling out racism is like hygiene. If somebody says "you've got some dirt on your... [
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I'm always curious about people like Breitbart. Did he actually believe he was doing what was best for his country? Was he a charlatan because he believed everybody on the left was even more of a charlatan, like the cynical socialist politicians of... [
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I used to cook in an NYC restaurant (which will remain nameless) where we would be battering and frying a lot of things, and every 45 minutes or so, our hands would be so caked on with batter that we couldn't work anymore. So we'd dip our fingers in... [
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because he told me after listening to the teacher for 5 minutes, he starts thinking about something else (but won't tell me what it is)
OK. This part is a thing my mom couldn't understand when I said "something else", and I'd... [
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2 months ago
But I also understand crime statistics
Are you fucking kidding me? The whole point is that crime statistics are higher because black people get profiled, arrested, and blamed by the racist police force (and yes, every police force is... [
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2 months ago
Well anyway that's the way one particular interest group hopes to redefine "racism".
If by "one particular interest group" you mean "the entire discipline of the social sciences for the last 50 years", then... [
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2 months ago
What happens if you attend their show and you somehow manage to enjoy yourself anyway? Is that just collateral fun?
Also, you're overthinking it. [
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Sort of; Moore only wrote a 4 episodes for season 3, and didn't come onboard full-time until halfway through the season. There was a lot of things that made the show better, including learning from the first two seasons. Moore was just icing on the... [
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Also, I am coming to realize the extent to which Star Trek shaped my perceptions of romance, as it was really the only media I took in that dealt with love, sex, and feelings at all. I kind of expected girls I was interested in to react like the... [
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3 months ago
Haddock, I didn't know there was ever a Forbidden Planet on 59th street. It's more evidence to what I've gleaned from movies and old novels: that uptown used to not suck.
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3 months ago
Natural gas, contrary to this jim-jam, is not sustainable by any definition of the word, regardless of whether it's fracked. It's still a petroleum product, still releases greenhouse gasses when burned, and is still a limited resource.
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Walking along Eldridge St in Chinatown (take the B or D to Grand St and walk East) you will find many excellent little dumpling, soup, and bakery places that will have great food for less than 3 dollars. I prefer Prosperity Dumpling, but Vanessa's... [
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3 months ago
population is a function of food production.
I always thought population was a function of people fucking. [
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3 months ago
I really think the problem stems from a culture in which riding your bike became a billion-dollar industry.
or playing any games, really. I'm of the opinion that if we're gonna have pro sports, all major-leage teams should be seized by the... [
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3 months ago
seriously, what else can you do if your life and your child's life is in danger and the legal channels for dealing with it are unavailable to you? I think the Dixie Chicks had a song about this.... [
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3 months ago
Instead, your article suggests that women should be focused on making one shitty dude's life better.
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That's great, Egon, somebody blows their nose and you wanna keep it... [
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4 months ago
Politicians are the public face of a broken system, with nothing to hold up the facade with but their smiles and their posturing. [
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4 months ago
The article is just too pitch-perfect. I know people in park slope dangerously close to that level of smugness. [
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4 months ago
Help me, Rhonda, yeah
Get her outta my buuuuuuuuuutt [
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4 months ago
That video got less funny and more racist as it went on. [
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5 months ago
I knew Lena Dunham at Oberlin and she was probably the most annoying, shameless self promoter there. She was a part of a clique of bratty NY girls who all went to the same private schools and only hung out with each other. She's talented but I... [
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Really? There was an entire row of exclusively fixed gear bikes outside this supposed party? There wasn't one bike that wasn't fixed gear?
It's artistic generalization. Come on. Pedantry is
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6 months ago
Tribe has a connotations of a savagery, of a group not ordered by civilizations. The same way that it'd be kind of fucked-up to call say, Italians, a tribe and nobody ever would.... [
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6 months ago
Yo, for serious, even if he says he respects you, he's acting with a huge level of disrespect for you. This is a problem with lots of men: the combination of thinking they're expected to already know the answer to everything and not valuing... [
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6 months ago
While I respect Corvino's argument about not treating everyone against gay marriage as a bigot because that doesn't encourage dialogue, I can't say I agree entirely.
First, yes they're bigots, by definition. But bigotry isn't a permanent... [
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6 months ago
Yo, the speed with which Occupy was crushed and the disorganization of the Left is a direct consequence of the huge number of movement-dismantling activities that law-enforcement agencies are up to. They have more resources and money and time than... [
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6 months ago
Well, then let's talk about releasing a very conceptually and politically complex piece of art as an infectious dance track to be experienced by a lot of people who won't understand its intended context. What is there to say about that?... [
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7 months ago
Search the crap out of the house first. My grandparents kept accusing their caretaker of stealing stuff and then my mom would find it when she came over.
Indeed the "firing the maid/servant/caretaker because you think they stole... [
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7 months ago
Dude is on his way to being Vagina Products MacGyver [
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7 months ago
[sung to the tune of "Scotland the Brave"]
Do not rape anybody; do not rape anybody!
You're a man and accountable for yourrrrrrrrrrr-self!
Seriously, this is fantastic and the kind of thing that we should have been doing all along.... [
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7 months ago
The thing is that people who follow the recipe to the exact letter in fear of the slightest little thing fucking it up do so because they don't actually understand how food works (unless it's baking, that's different). Maybe one time they tried... [
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