Some of this is because a lot of the content in the books can be... well, it's porny. The normal webcomic issues don't have this problem, but a lot of the Patreon exclusive content is various nudes, porn comics, or quick side stories.
*sighs, turns over "DAYS SINCE LAST MASS SHOOTING IN AMERICA" sign to 0*
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Fucking called it. He complained about having to answer questions about the shooting in the rain, and considered canceling the FFA event because of a "bad hair day."
Fuck him. Fuck the GOP. And fuck you if you voted for these shitbags. You get your armband just like them.
figmentPez
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Student shot at Butler High has died, police say. A classmate is in custody.
"Ryan Kenyon, a junior, said when the school went into lockdown, students were told to go to the nearest classroom and to be quiet.
Ryan said they stayed there for 90 minutes, the first block of classes of the day. Students were allowed to go to their normally scheduled second class, he said."
I mean, only one student was killed. So obviously you just continue on.
Considering they're currently in control of the House, Senate, White House and Supreme Court, one could quite confidently state that the terrorists have already won. Just not the brown boogeymen in turbans people like to scare you with.
Whoa whoa whoa...
Didn't you just try to chastise people for using the term "white trash", saying "It's funny, but also quite wrong - labelling people... is just as much generalizing and dehumanizing as the other way around"?
And didn't you also recently ask "Why is it OK to put these people - no matter how offensive their viewpoints - down?"
So that's all wrong, but you're comfortable calling Republicans terrorists?
Hypocrite.
A) Something can be wrong and I can still do it. I know speeding is bad and dangerous, and I'll call people out on it, but that doesn't mean I've never speeded (sped?) in my life.
B) I didn't say labeling - I specifically talked about calling a group of people trash. Which is dehumanizing them.
C) I didn't say Republicans. I said terrorists control those groups. I feel perfectly validated and OK saying that actual, real life, terrorists have taken control of the Republican party. The leadership of the Tea Party and the Trump movement is made up of people who really do meet all of the requirements to be called a terrorist. Here, have the Wikipedia definition:
They are actively using indiscriminate violence against some groups and the threat thereof (which used to be on that Wiki page too, huh) to achieve their political goals.
Also,
D) It's called using exaggeration to make a joke. Look it up.
EDIT: Nevermind. I stand by what I said, I think you were calling all Republicans terrorists. I think you're being disingenuous.
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I wasn't; that's the big difference between what I intended (not necessarily what I communicated) and what I read (not necessarily what is intended) from those posters.
There are most definitely still good Republicans out there (there are, after all, good people on both sides) (that was a joke, see?). One can only hope those good Republicans will come to see the bad ones for what they are and do something.
See, here in Belgium we have a fascist party - well, they changed their name after they got convicted for racism and inciting hatred and all that, but they're still the same people. I have no problem saying each and every one who votes for them is an idiot and a racist. On the other hand, we also have a right-wing conservative neo-liberal party. I don't particularly like them, but that doesn't mean their voters are bad people - just people I happen to disagree with.
In the USA, those parties (and others) all get mixed together, just like on the left side you get pretty much everything from social-democrats over green over socialists all the way to feminazi extremists all bundled together. That you can only choose between two means you often get a choice between two centrists, or between two extremes, where both make you uncomfortable. I can *understand* (though not necessarily agree) why a deeply religious person might not ever be able to vote for someone in favor of abortion. However, by now, the Republican party has leaned so hard into the extreme neofascist way of thinking, I do feel that anyone still supporting them is, even if not a racist themselves, actively helping to keep racism alive and kicking; while not necessarily a nazi themselves, actively helping to push the USA towards a neo-nazi state; even if not themselves in favor of oppression of minorities, actively helping in doing so.
And while I may have said "labeling", I meant it in the context of that discussion: labeling them as trash. It really surprises me people don't see the problem with that. Calling the Jews vermin wasn't a big deal for most of Germany in 1938, either, because, well, that's pretty much what they were, right?Not worth it to be considered a "real" person, and their opinions certainly don't matter as much as that of a Real German. Dehumanizing (through) labels are horrible, dangerous, and the beginning of the end of the legitimacy of any movement using that tactic.
Calling someone out for what they are is one thing; sticking a label on them to create a rhetoric is another.
There are most definitely still good Republicans out there (there are, after all, good people on both sides) (that was a joke, see?). One can only hope those good Republicans will come to see the bad ones for what they are and do something.
See, here in Belgium we have a fascist party - well, they changed their name after they got convicted for racism and inciting hatred and all that, but they're still the same people. I have no problem saying each and every one who votes for them is an idiot and a racist. On the other hand, we also have a right-wing conservative neo-liberal party. I don't particularly like them, but that doesn't mean their voters are bad people - just people I happen to disagree with.
In the USA, those parties (and others) all get mixed together, just like on the left side you get pretty much everything from social-democrats over green over socialists all the way to feminazi extremists all bundled together. That you can only choose between two means you often get a choice between two centrists, or between two extremes, where both make you uncomfortable. I can *understand* (though not necessarily agree) why a deeply religious person might not ever be able to vote for someone in favor of abortion. However, by now, the Republican party has leaned so hard into the extreme neofascist way of thinking, I do feel that anyone still supporting them is, even if not a racist themselves, actively helping to keep racism alive and kicking; while not necessarily a nazi themselves, actively helping to push the USA towards a neo-nazi state; even if not themselves in favor of oppression of minorities, actively helping in doing so.
And while I may have said "labeling", I meant it in the context of that discussion: labeling them as trash. It really surprises me people don't see the problem with that. Calling the Jews vermin wasn't a big deal for most of Germany in 1938, either, because, well, that's pretty much what they were, right?Not worth it to be considered a "real" person, and their opinions certainly don't matter as much as that of a Real German. Dehumanizing (through) labels are horrible, dangerous, and the beginning of the end of the legitimacy of any movement using that tactic.
Calling someone out for what they are is one thing; sticking a label on them to create a rhetoric is another.
Emphasis mine there. Isn't that sentence fragment contradictory, and against your wiki-quoted definition of terrorism? If it's targeted, it's not indiscriminate. If it's indiscriminate, it's not just some groups. A good "positive" definition of a terrorist event (by your wiki standards) would be something like the Train Bombings in Spain a while back, where they weren't targeting a specific group, but trying to inspire terror "everywhere". I'd argue that the wiki definition you quoted is the problem here, as it excludes a lot of things that many (most?) would consider terrorism.
Just wondering if you want to say what you're trying to say in a different way is all, as your current sentences about it are confusing IMO.
Yeah, how many of the 10000 troops do YOU think are going to defect to Mexico?
--Patrick
Nah the troops will be gone after the midterms. If republicans win, it'll be a successful ploy that they keep in mind for 2020. If democrats win the troops will be needed to enforce the new martial law.
Are you saying the Democratic Party’s agendum is to institute totalitarian rule? Or that too many Democrat victories will “Now or never!” force the Republicans’ hand and make them try to declare the elections null and void, and all what goes with that?
—Patrick
GasBandit
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He obviously means the latter.
Dave
Staff member
Yeah, whenever I see I post all I can think is, "That blots guy is so subtle."
GasBandit
Staff member
This is exactly the same thing my wife said.
That, or because it was college night, that he was trying to punish/threaten college students for skewing the vote more Liberal.
—Patrick
Okay. I'll bet he has a lack of "incidents" with women.
Looks like he lived with his mom and the police had to be called six months ago over a "domestic incident".
A neighbor said Long's mother "lived in fear" of what her son might do, saying when police were called to the house earlier this year "it took them about a half a day to get him out of the house."
Not sure if that counts, honestly.
A neighbor said Long's mother "lived in fear" of what her son might do, saying when police were called to the house earlier this year "it took them about a half a day to get him out of the house."
Not sure if that counts, honestly.
Called it.
https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/201...RGtstqEv0ERshrbQX1uNEToxA7bxEyJKkdxbsjHB25Al0
Thousand Oaks Gunman’s High School Coach Speaks About Sexual Assault
The Thousand Oaks shooter’s high school track coach says that he assaulted her.
“I turned on the news and I was watching it and when they said his name my jaw just dropped,” said Dominique Colell.
Ian David Long is the name this former high school coach hadn’t heard in a long time. But it’s one she never forgot.
“He attacked me. He attacked his high school track coach,” said Colell. “Who does that?”
For the former Newbury Park High School track coach this day has been full of emotions — from sadness to guilt. Because she never filed charges against Long after she says he assaulted her his senior year.
Colell says it happened during practice when someone found a phone and she was trying to figure out who it belonged to.
“Ian came up and started screaming at me that was his phone,” said Colell. “He just started grabbing me. He groped my stomach. He groped my butt. I pushed him off me and said after that — ‘you’re off the team.’ ”
But Colell says she was encouraged by other coaches and the school to accept an apology to not ruin his future in the Marine Corps.
https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/201...RGtstqEv0ERshrbQX1uNEToxA7bxEyJKkdxbsjHB25Al0
Thousand Oaks Gunman’s High School Coach Speaks About Sexual Assault
The Thousand Oaks shooter’s high school track coach says that he assaulted her.
“I turned on the news and I was watching it and when they said his name my jaw just dropped,” said Dominique Colell.
Ian David Long is the name this former high school coach hadn’t heard in a long time. But it’s one she never forgot.
“He attacked me. He attacked his high school track coach,” said Colell. “Who does that?”
For the former Newbury Park High School track coach this day has been full of emotions — from sadness to guilt. Because she never filed charges against Long after she says he assaulted her his senior year.
Colell says it happened during practice when someone found a phone and she was trying to figure out who it belonged to.
“Ian came up and started screaming at me that was his phone,” said Colell. “He just started grabbing me. He groped my stomach. He groped my butt. I pushed him off me and said after that — ‘you’re off the team.’ ”
But Colell says she was encouraged by other coaches and the school to accept an apology to not ruin his future in the Marine Corps.
What a surprise.