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- The Middle East Has fractured to the point where it's an unrecoverable mess. We supported revolutions in hope of giving rise to a democracy, only to find out the revolutionaries are even less interested in democracy than the dictators who ruled them. Many of them want to instill radical Islamic rule giving rise to groups like ISIS who literally overshadow Al Qaeda. We are literally looking at a generational conflict that will go on for centuries. We are facing the reality the only stabilizing force that ever existed for many countries in the Middle East were brutal murdering dictatorships and the world would have been better off if we left them the hell alone.
- Russia is acting like a gigantic dick. And a lot of it has been deliberately orchestrated just to keep political opposition confused and off-balance. And it's working. It's working so well there is evidence the rest of the world is adopting the policy just so political powers can retain office.
- Robin Williams. I can't even bring myself to say anything about this.
- Mythbusters fired the build team. FUCK.
- Gamergate. As much as we tried to make it about gaming journalism it degraded into a head pissing contest between the sexes. Any hope of reforming a journalistic industry eventually died when it was drowned out by constant bickering about how wrong the other side was.
- Zero tolerance policies have stood their ground despite the fact they have proven to not work and if anything the concept is spreading to piss-poor moderating everywhere amateur moderating takes place. The concept of measured response has not only been abandoned, the concept has a growing number of detractors who are arguing measured response is offensive and unfair and those detractors are often the people running things. The very idea of measured response is being shot down by people in charge in favour of a hair-trigger responses that require little or no judgement or wisdom.
- Political parties still deny that global warming or climate change is a real thing. In many modern countries like Australia there has even been a steady reversing trend against environment protection despite the fact the damage to the environment has become more extreme with each passing year.
- Social Justice Warriors. There is a genuine issue about lack of accountability from authority, but the rallying point is almost always around people who went out of their way to make trouble for the law. Yet there are countless people who are the victims of death by law enforcement, such as people being shot to death when the police no-knock raid the wrong house, and no one gives a shit about them. This makes it impossible for me to sympathise with the movement.
- SWATTING. I can't even get the police to show up at my house when some drunk picks a fist fight with me in my own front yard, but some asshole living on the other side of the world can SWAT my ass in five minutes and it costs them nothing.
- Death threats on the internet have way too much disproportional attention and response. Some twat who thinks I said something mean to them on twitter can bum rush me with the RCMP. In real life I have had my life threatened (to my face) on dozens of occasions by drug addicts, drug dealers, belligerent drunks, and all around assholes when I worked in a hospital and not a single one of them ever spent a night in jail for it. Not one, and they never will. But people want to rush me off to federal prison because I went out of my way to point out that Anita Sarkeesian is a fraud and a personality cult.
- And last but not least Netflix announced it's dropping My Little Pony. Just fuck you, alright? FUCK YOU.
Cultural Appropriation is a war on culture itself
Whining about cultural appropriation has become nothing more than attacking people who have the ability to create. It's an excuse for talentless people to go after people they're jealous of. Take a look at who is the target of complaints about cultural appropriation.
Artists, http://www.torontosun.com/2017/05/02/cancelled-toronto-art-showcase-the-latest-example-of-political-correctness-gone-wrong
Musicians, http://www.thefader.com/2014/12/16/6-pop-stars-guilty-of-cultural-appropriation-in-2014-1
Writers, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/01/novelists-cultural-appropriation-literature-lionel-shriver
Poets, http://time.com/4025
Criminalizing Offensiveness Abandons Liberal Roots
When I was a kid there was a group of people who tried to morally micromanage our lives. They didn't like our clothes. They didn't like our music. They didn't like our hair. They didn't like the TV shows we watched. They didn't like our comedians telling dirty jokes. They didn't like us partying, getting drunk, getting high, or having sex. They were pretty much a crazed bunch of control freaks obsessed with telling us what to do in every facet of our lives, right down to how to dress, how to vote, how to pray, who to fuck and how to fuck them. They were exclusively religious conservatives, who all around, simply did not care for the
Trolls are NOT ruining the internet.
I read Time Mazine's story in 'How Trolls Are Ruining The Internet" and here's my rebuttal to this namby pamby whingebag bullshit. Trolls aren't ruining anything, people just have pretty shit things to say, and so what? When the hell has that not been true in the whole of human history?
I find it IMPOSSIBLE to feel sorry for anyone who feels threatened by anything on the internet. And I'm always going to react negatively to any push for dealing with the problem through legislation. You want the GOVERNMENT to regulate how people express themselves? Fuck that shit, how the hell can that end in any way but bad? Litigation and law enforcement i
Gawker. Good bye and good riddance to bad rubbish
A bunch of amateur bloggers who obviously skipped the ethics course in journalism (if any of them ever took a journalist course) goes down in flames this week after they lost the Hulk Hogan lawsuit. Tom Scocca wrote a sorry-ass little whingebag article lamenting freedom of press, which is inevitable whenever any tabloid rag goes down in flames from a liability suit. "OH WOAH IS US! BILLIONAIRES HAVE SUBVERTED THE CONSTITUTION!" This is one problem you can't blame on the disproportionate favouring of the wealthy in the legal system.
The problem is a sex tape is not a story. Outing a closeted gay billionaire is not a story. Gawker ran on the
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YES! Especially the bit about the social justice warriors. In 2014, I saw a lot of people - many of them (former?) friends - jump on the bandwagon and nobody's watching the watchmen. I know someone who was put in physical danger due to social justice vigilantes.