If I am not mistaken, The Northern League also has (or had) a separatist agenda, wanting to make norther Italy La Padania, it's own nation. This has to do with economic realities which they associate with beliefs about the southerners being too African or less white compared to the northerners or something along those…

First of all, I am glad that you have been able to help so many people. But if you think the AA is "all we have", while that may sadly be true in terms of accessibility, it is not true by a long shot otherwise. I don't know what kind of work you do with those in recovery, but that is the only reason I am replying to…

Meanwhile in Finland, Jussi Halla-Aho, a representative of the academic wing of his party and one of the most popular candidates in recent municipal and parliamentary elections (so he's an MP and member of the Helsinki city council) has in the past written the following things in his blog. He has never refuted or…

If you are living in a society where AA is the only affordable treatment option, or the one that is suggested first, I'd say that is a problem even if nobody was forced into treatment. There is this thing called evidence-based medicine I believe in, and the program was not created or adapted to its principles.

It obviously helps a lot of people, is easily accessible and a lifeline when there are few other places to go for treatment - I think it was in Gawker comments that someone called it "therapy for poor people", so it is understandable that members are quick to defend it.

I'd suspect a bit of dogmatic thinking when members are so quick to deny something because that is what AA tells them, despite the quickest search providing proof of the contrary:

That was a very good recap of some the recent storylines. You should be working for the WWE, as you piqued my interest enough to start following their shows again. I used to watch wrestling with a friend of mine, but now he's gotten into Brazilian jiu-jitsu and is more likely to be watching The Ultimate Fighter when…

I loved that they chose that music as well. I haven't followed wrestling in recent years, but when I was a baby I would keep my mother up all night crying, and the only thing on at night back then were WWF matches. Then when we moved around when I was small that was the only familiar thing that it seemed they showed…

There were some great lines in that clip... but nowadays they've gone all kissy-kissy and even have lesbians singing all over the WWE:

I hate that he concludes by saying he will be keeping quiet on these issues in the future. Now every reactionary bigot can hold him out as an example of the PC-crowd censoring dissenting views, despite the fact that he chose to leave the conversation himself when people started holding him accountable for what he said.

I agree that there are differences between men and women; differences inside the groups are larger than the differences between them. I myself, a straight woman have in the past been a bit of an asshole and negged on guys wih "successfull results" whether you're talking sex or long-term relationships (I'm not proud…

English is not my first language, which is one of the many reasons my writing my come off as turgid. Nonetheless I got a perfect score on the reading part of the TOEFL exam, and I'm pretty confident in presuming that anyone who has a problem with my prose, but not CascadinX1's grandiose posturing might have their…

She's like then Anti- Miley Cyrus.

You seem to have misinterpreted my judgement of your comment, so here it is as clearly as I can articulate it: Relatively good sophistry, but lacking actual intellectual originality or moral backbone and stylistically garish. But you provided at least someone worth formulating an argument against, because I did not…

Does that comparison still work if you tone down the hyperbole enough for it to be possible to be read as something other then an intentional misrepresentation of Dodai Stewart's argument?

They may speak a language we understand and worship some of the same gods, but theirs is a very different culture few of us are versed in well enough to know who according to their aesthetic standards is the most tastefully put together, and the looks of who among them should send us fleeing away from our computers in…

I, like many other listeners (probably Dodai included) are turned off by how impersonal and lacking any real character her rhymes are, so it makes sense to assume everyone in her videos, even herself included, to be paid actors. If she could better communicate that friendship and any other part of her reality in her…

Lol'd at the thought of PC-Ludovicoing. I have a storage room in the basement of my apartment building that I hardly use, so when I come across people who repeat edgy, controversial (read: reactionary and thickheaded) ideas and follow them by "but you're not allowed to say that", I'll feign shock and reply "B..but you…

As we all now, while refraining from addressing their targets directly, missionaries have throughout history instead employed reasoning and concrete examples as the main tools in their efforts to convert the sinful.

Could you expand on that simile? Do they believe they are doing good when in fact they are effectively destroying the indigenous culture? Do they think those they are addressing to be incapable of salvation if left to themselves and feel therefore justified in trying to gain control over them? Or are they just…