This silly argument reminds me of a AJ+ video where the presenter tried to pin Asian cultures preferring light skin on white beauty standards. They even interview an Asian woman who basically says that light skin is an indicator of wealth (as rich people can linger insise and poors toil in the sun). It has been an…

You think Chinese people can’t think of dark face paint without doing the archival research on vaudeville productions? Your inability to think Chinese people can come up with bad ideas on their own is pretty racist. 

He isn’t justifying racism. He is explaining that racism isn’t a unique product of the US and we aren’t exporting it. It has existed everywhere because historically, ingroup/outgroup dynamics have been common.

They’d have a point if the timing system was a dude with a stopwatch. It isn’t.

That would defeat the purpose of the second amendment. The purpose is to stop the government from being tyrannical. Having a populace that is armed is an important check on authoritarianism. Obviously the military is better equipped, but a well armed populace can create enough losses to make military repression…

So you are saying I should invest in the fun market if I don’t think Trump is getting relected. Thanks for the tip! It turns out when your business is protected by the constitution, you don’t really have to justify what you do professionally, but working for Splinter, you already know that.

And if the article is about mass shootings, you wouldn’t need it to scale. You’d just need a dozen or so dedicated nuts a year to create the same mass shooting mayhem.

When you can put more than 100 rounds down range in a 30 seconds, does it make a difference? The only part that you couldn’t easily do at home is a rifled barrel (which you can still do at home, but isn’t as easy). If Pakistani militants can make perfect replicas with a drill press and a lathe, i can’t imagine a…

LMFAO. You realize that Wakanda is formed when one tribe took over four others. They are already colonizers. From there, they instituted a patrilineal monarchy with a highly stratified hierarchy. The kicker is that the country is an ethnostate obsessed with its own heritage and actively anti-pan African,…

Similarly for Christian terrorism, if you truly and legitimately believe that abortion is murder, it isn’t unreasonable to blow up abortion clinics (through that frame of belief). Although if your highest precept is stopping murder, you can’t really find canonical justification to bomb one with people in it.

Yeah. Look at all these non-dead kids isn’t remotely close to newsworthy compared to look at these dead and injured kids.

Over what period? If you go by incidents starting in the 1970s, it is left wing terror because they dominated the 1970s so heavily that it skews their very little activity in the 80s, 90s, and 2000s.. If you go by deaths, it’s Jihadist. If you go per capita (meaning size of population terrorists could pull from) it’s…

That’s because words have meaning and if you don’t have a motive, it is just mass murder. Can you tell me what viewpoint or ideology any of those shootings were meant to advance? If not, it isn’t terrorism. That doesn’t mean it isn’t as scary or horrible, but it does mean it isn’t terrorism.

Isha runs the “call everything racist for clicks beat.” Alex does the uninformed political commentary beat. Completely different section.

It’s exactly the same. We are saying the English pronunciation of their city’s name.

Bullshit. Every country has their own version of what locals call a place. Mexico doesn’t call the US the United States. They call it Los Estados Unidos, which while a direct translation isn’t how we pronounce it. English speakers call Deutschland Germany. Arabs call America Amreeka. Everyone does it. Quit being a…

What I never understood is why we don’t use phonetic English spellings of what locals call stuff. I am not worried about disrespecting them, just confused as to why Gerrmany is not Deutschland or Spain is not Espana.

Religious extremists are almost never crazy. They are just so devout that what they do is completely rational within their framework of belief. To wit, if you truly believe martyrdom will bring you immediately to paradise, it would be weird not to martyr yourself. That’s also why they don’t if they kill coreligionists…

I mean, I could make a fully auto machine gun with a drill press in a few hours. All the resistance guns from WWII have full instructions online. They would shoot faster than an AR. I guess my point is that people who commit mass shootings are like junkies trying to score heroin. They really really want to do so.

I think they are talking about it in the sense that some people enjoy a will they, won’t they vibe that doesn’t work for brother sister pairings. I assume those can still work for the non-hetero pairings.