MSB, SJW, and other acronyms
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@insomniac7809 I get that, I guess I just don't get the people who want the label and are trying to take it back. I mean, does doing good need a label? If you stand for something, stand up for it. I'm not saying being an SJW is a bad thing, but if I ever used it, it would be using it on people who are already acting like asshats in the first place.
Again it goes back to the whole intent thing and not really being able to read tone in writing.
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@ganymede Your Maximum Ganymede would be grinding people's gears while they laugh.
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@roz said in MSB, SJW, and other acronyms:
Your Maximum Ganymede would be grinding people's gears while they laugh.
Maximum Ganymede sounds like the best WWE wrestler identity or the worst sexual position I could conceive of.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
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@ganymede Why can't it be both, and a finishing move?
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@ganymede said in MSB, SJW, and other acronyms:
@roz said in MSB, SJW, and other acronyms:
Your Maximum Ganymede would be grinding people's gears while they laugh.
Maximum Ganymede sounds like the best WWE wrestler identity or the worst sexual position I could conceive of.
What would be your entry song?
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@insomnia I mean, I don't think it's that hard to get. It's a label that's supposed to be a negative, somehow, but why the hell should people who it's applied to shy away from it? At all?
The connotation of the swastika in Western society is Nazis. The connotation of identity-related slurs is to reinforce a negative social position of the identity they refer to (which is how neutral terms can become slurs over time as they take on the negative social connotation). SJW just means that the person being labelled as such supports a thing that they do, in fact, support. Which is, as perceived by the recipient and by a literal reading of the term, justice and doing good. Why the hell shouldn't people jump into that particular brier patch?
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@ganymede said in MSB, SJW, and other acronyms:
The E would never pay for that. If they would they would have let Daniel Bryan keep it.
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I would definitely chime to to the confirm the mentions above of people living in different countries, which is going to lead to very different views on what is 'left' or 'right'.
I am pretty sure that even the most authoritarian mainstream political views in the USA do not include a monarchy, hereditary nobles or having a 'House of Lords' instead of a senate. Though a state (Christian) religion might be more mainstream.
But even the right wing here in the UK are overwhelmingly in favour of a fully tax funded national health system, centralized police, nationally funded primary and secondary education, etc.
Still most 'Centrists' from a US perspective tend to come across to the average person in the UK as pretty extreme right wing with an often quite frankly disturbing and quasi religious faith in 'the free market' with 'capitalism' and 'socialism/communism' repeated like mantras for 'good things' and 'bad things' respectively.
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@packrat FWIW, I'm a US registered Independent, socially liberal, fiscally leaning conservative. Which essentially means: 'filthy heathen hippie who thinks we should pay our bills and not blow endless tax dollars on absurd and needless shit'.
To understand politics in the US, you essentially have to understand that at this point, 'absurd shit' can be defined as 'health care for children of low income families' or 'tactical underpants', depending on who you're talking to.
...it doesn't make any more sense if you live here, soaking in it, either. It really doesn't.
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@surreality said in MSB, SJW, and other acronyms:
@packrat FWIW, I'm a US registered Independent, socially liberal, fiscally leaning conservative. Which essentially means: 'Fuck you, got mine.'
ftfy
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@mood HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA no.
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Isn't there a political section for all this shit?
He/Him
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@tinuviel It's also a personal attack in a forum not allowing such, but. <shrug>
But yeah, the people who make less than poverty line wages, don't get or take any gov't assistance even though they qualify for all manner of stuff, and let people live in their house free of charge when in times of need are so totes all about 'getting theirs'. I literally do not have enough eyeroll for this bullshit.
Sorry, @mood, but I'm going without tactical underpants, so I am unwilling to pay for a pair for you with the taxes we pay every year without complaint. If this makes you sad, maybe ponder why someone wants to shoot you in the groin so much you feel you may need them?
Oh fucking well.
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@surreality said in MSB, SJW, and other acronyms:
but I'm going without tactical underpants
I don't know why but I have the image of boxer-briefs with a built-in holster and flashlight...
He/Him
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@tinuviel The 'sock upgrade', of sorts.
Is that a tactical flashlight in your pants, or are you happy to see me?
(Maybe someone didn't have to say it... )
Oh fucking well.
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@surreality Oh bby I don't think you ever flash light.
He/Him
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@tinuviel Well, if I had a tactical flashlight, I've got one of those parts that's a word everyone's arguing about, so I already have a place to holster it.
Clearly, women have it made in the 'somewhere to store a tactical flashlight in their groin region' department.
It's having to do the splits to find your keys that suuuuuuuuuuuuuucks.
Oh fucking well.
