#NeedsMoreLikes

[anon68287401]

Request list to be deleted from partially, welcome thread, lounge archive

Can I just request that the pics I posted of me doing vodka shots with Trump and Putin be deleted? The ones of me, Putin, and Flynn can stay; I think the Times has those already, anyway.

[TobinL]

Transparency - changes to the BBS

I think people are noticing some cognitive dissonance between: Instead of "regular" being handed out according to public, algorithmic rulesets based on participation over time, it is now handed out based on private criteria determined at the whims of an individual? Instead of communicating in a "lounge" category which is visible to anyone who attains "regular" by the public, algorithmic rules, there is now a group of @regulars who communicate only in hidden PMs? At least in these two deci…

[Melizmatic]

Brewers Association to "crack down" on sexist beer ads and labels

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[davide405]

Interesting shirt from this weekend's Trump rally

Yes I am. I'm heavily involved in WolfPAC and other groups, and regularly meet with my state representatives. They're probably sick of hearing from me by now, and if you give a damn about what's happening to this country, yours are sick of hearing from you too. Well, yes and no. I can't help being outraged on the internet, or in meatspace either, because this country just went tits up. It was actually tits up long before November 8th, but nobody listened to me then, and now that Donald Trump…

[moosemalloy]

How can you live like this?!

Honestly? Bullying. I think you'll find that capricious, powerful bullies, especially those getting their comeuppance are a regularly pilloried baddie on the bbs. Think about how wild the discussion was, especially on Reddit, when the United debacle went down. I think maybe half of the top 25 threads were on the topic. Everyone, pretty much, has experienced it during their lives and I guess we become fairly inured to the experience as we grow older, "dignity comes from within" and all that…

Great idea for a thread, and a great answer. So many of our social ills can be traced to bullying, and the tolerance (heck, often the overt celebration) of bullying.

[TobinL]

Man forced to surrender his "offensive Star Trek license plate

How about this conversation? Offender: [something someone takes offense to] Offendee: hey, that's offensive! Offender: oh, sorry. I didn't mean to be, why is it offensive? Offendee: [explains why it's offensive] Offender: oh, I see. that's understandable, but I was actually referring to [thing that isn't offensive] Offendee: oh, I see. that's understandable, but you might want to avoid that phrase now that you know people are offended by it. Offender: I sure will! People who say offensive th…

[Melizmatic]

Man forced to surrender his "offensive Star Trek license plate

OK, I've weighed how to respond to this in a way that's remotely acceptable socially and might not violate message board rules. Because my initial intended response … wasn't, and would. What you said there? It's not just wrong. It's multiple levels of wrong, and some of those levels are a "gee, this commenter might be a Nazi" type of wrong. Blaming the Jews and their refusal to assimilate For. The. Fncking. Holocaust. is a good way to, at best, start rumors behind your back that you're at …

[SenorSchaffer]

Code Pink activist laughed at Jeff Sessions, now faces a year in prison

It just amazes me that this makes it past people's smell test. Some of the same people who were defending Coulter's right to "free speech" (as interpreted as her right to be paid by a private entity to give a speech to a particular assembled group of people in a particular place) can say, "Well, Fairooz broke the rules so them's the breaks." The first amendment grants freedom of religion, freedom of speech and freedom to petition governments to address grievances. The law always cares more abo…

[anon26304152]

Death is freedom: Republicans pass Obamacare repeal bill

Truly they are “The Stepford Wankers”.

[LockeCJ]

That thread is a fantastic example of how valuable community members like @anon50609448 are.

[ChuckV]

Trump not welcome on Ellen DeGeneres show

I think I prefer the old Modus.

[Mindysan33]

The new Republican health care bill classes rape, PTSD, and domestic abuse as excludable pre-existing conditions

Fail, baby; FAIL.

Seriously folks… do we have that sort of a memory here that we forget what this is riffing off of?

[milliefink]

All feminists want to be raped, says Red Pill Reddit thread boss. Is he New Hampshire State Rep. Robert Fisher?

Thank you. Representation matters, aka this picture with US representatives congratulating themselves over the passage of the health care bill in the House: [image] It was with some trepidation that I clicked on this thread, but I could not stay away. If I could say one thing about the subjugation of one sect over another and have it truly sink into deep, deep consciousness, it is this about sexism: When women discuss casual and overt sexism (up to and including its most shocking form, rape)…

[milliefink]

Yet another white guy cast in a non-white starring role

Well, I suppose that would seem equivalent if you completely ignored history. White people have been enforcing white cultural norms by co-opting and covering over existing culture for centuries. Whitewashing roles is just one aspect of that. If you replace a black or Asian part in a production with a white person, that representation is gone. Whiteness is simply too omnipresent to be erased by putting a person of color in the role of a white historical figure. Also, because so few roles are wr…

[anon26470017]

Gendered objectification

So, this is very interesting… it's got spoilers and it's very much Not Safe For Work:

Just, just because

[LockeCJ]

Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell, RIP

I treat people who are suicidal, as well as survivors of suicide loss. I think part of the difficulty is that people often assume that suicide is the result of "selfish" thinking ("My life is terrible/It will never get better/They'll miss me when I'm gone") when it is just as likely to be the result of "burden" thinking ("People would be happier/free/relieved if I was gone"). Both kinds of suicidal thinking are pure garbage. These kinds of thoughts are not exclusive to depression diagnoses. It's…

For @Mangochin, also because it’s awesome.

[Melz2]

Attraction vs Objectification

Welp, I’m glad we got that sorted then. So now that no women anywhere in the world are being treated like second-class citizens, I guess all us feminists can go do something else now. Oh, was that too sarcastic? Maybe it’s just that my lifetime of experience as a woman is the total opposite of your statement. And maybe I’m just tired of my experiences being ignored because you’d rather live in your bubble than believe the women who tell you what their lives are like.

[Slartibartfast]

Thanks, Melz. This is my first link in NeedsMoreLikes.

[Melz2]

De nada.

Here’s another one that needs All the Likes, even though I still believe the post that contains it should not have been split:

Attraction vs Objectification

Louis CK. He’s a funny man, his observations are very keen, his temerity is laudable. Yet his observations on the stupidity of culture do not look beyond the cultural constructs that underlie it. He knows a thing is wrong, he rages against its stupidity yet fatalistically accepts that that’s the way things are. It is part of his charm. But that’s not THE problem. You were meant to look at it that way.Objectification happened even before you saw it. This is objectification: [image] But so …

[TobinL]

for a brand new mutant here

Who makes the clips that keep bread bags closed?

Since the Atlas Obscura does not reference them, here is some more information about Occlupanids, and their taxonomy, and their incredible diversity. http://www.horg.com/horg/?page_id=2

you have to click the link he pasted to get it.