pheonix561

Did a speech about the blues for my college speech class. Muddy Waters is as good as they say.
 

. turning the other cheek. beta manlet much?? it can also be interpreted in a sexual way, leaving you open to the gutteral owns of the swart races. fail.

. thou shalt have no god but me: uhh wow. huge red flag right there. like you needed any more proof after the way he treated his son. this guy is the definition of rape culture

. communion wafers - they ran out of actual body of christ two thousand years ago. look it up

. celibacy. this one actually owns. sorry but its true.

. hell: yeah sure put all my favorite people in one place. big punishment. the devil thinks hes so good at ironic torture but he's stuck on new sincerity. definite fail for everyone involved in that shitshow

. original sin - a hurr durr i cant nbelieve they found the day zero exploit i told everyone about. time to be mature and shut down the server forever

. crusades: BIG fail. bunch of cucks going to the desert to learn how to puppy boys. i cant even describe how epic this fail was.

my breakfast today was lovely:
 
1 cup of coffee - caribou coffee k-cup with a little bit of hazelnut coffee cream
1 bagel - cinnamon and raisin bagel thin with whipped cream cheese topped with sliced strawberries

Ctf Doublecross.

Rarely are any good servers ever playing that map, so It had been a while since I ever picked it up. The last time I played it was a time when I hadn't learned to use sticky jumping effectively yet. It was a time when I'd rather play pyro on that map, because my trusty demoman skills just didn't fit the bill of all the open area. But good lord did I learn to put those jumps to good use. Friendly engie sets up in enemy sewers, I tele and jump out of the shed out back, grab the intel, run back into enemy sewers for friendly engie who is waiting, recover at his dispenser, run back through the sewers, and sticky jump onto my friendly balcony. Cap, run back to the tele, and repeat. I suddenly am in love with this map.

oooooh time to look at the history books and see what they suggest
 
ok so, I see a lot of people justifying their arguments with appeals to capitalism and the idea that a free market will solve homophobia or any other form of bigotry (because the homophobes will be less popular as suppliers of goods and services and this will pressure them to change their ways). This appeal to the power of capitalism is perhaps true in some instances, but doesn't really apply here. The reason is simple; isolated bigotry is a very different beast from systematic oppression, and what we are dealing with in stuff like gay/civil rights is the latter.
 
To clarify, isolated bigotry is just any one guy or small collective of people being unusually racist/sexist/transphobic or whatever. They don't majorly influence the community but if you're someone they hate then they'll go out of their way to harass or demean you in some way. If they own a business they'll apply their prejudices to their practice but nobody approves of it so eventually things will sort themselves out. Systematic oppression is waaaaaay different. This is where a lot of people, perhaps even a majority of people, in a community will cooperate to maintain a status quo of bigotry against some other group. This group makes efforts to keep a status quo, actively preserving their way of life for any of a variety of reasons.
 
Going back to the historical part of my rant, first off I'll point out that most of the prejudice we deal with in America is of the systematic kind I mentioned above. Slavery, Jim Crow, the KKK, and even the condemnation of gay marriage are all systematic forms of prejudice. Do you know how many times capitalism has dissuaded systematic oppression? Zero times. Even when people lose money by turning away blacks or refusing to marry gay people, they still go on being prejudiced even if it runs their business into the ground. People hate breaking the status quo, even if the consequences are mild as public condemnation, so they get pressured into bigotry by the forces of prejudice in power. Everyone goes with the system, even when it's oppressive, forever or until some force outside the market (like the government) steps in and changes things)
 
I'd also like to point out that systematic oppression isn't necessarily a bunch of powerful people getting together and engineering a system by which the poor will always be poor, like some sort of Orwellian political system. Sometimes it's just a bunch of people slowly realizing they all don't like minorities or LGBT people so they implicitly cluster together in one community and scare off everyone they hate.
 
Anyway, let me wrap this up by saying I realize I'm mixing a lot of different kinds of oppression together, but nonetheless I think my point stands based on the history that backs it up. Whether it's black people not being allowed to sit on a bus or gay people not being allowed to get married, systematic oppression always ensures the status quo so well that markets can't fix the prejudice. Government or some other force has to step in and force the market to change, as history suggests these things will never fix themselves.
 
(also real quick, as to the whole "it's my right to decide when I do and don't want to offer goods and services to people" argument, that's generally considered invalid in America. If you're making business decisions on rationale that isn't financially reasonable, you're hurting the health of the market as a whole and the government can step in and put a stop to it. This is why we have things like government regulations; you aren't allowed to practice business in a way that significantly inconveniences your customers. And yes, denial of service is a significant inconvenience.)

end game: one massive, global, synchronized menstrual cycle
 
that's the secret weapon

Heres the synopsis 
 
"In 2071, roughly sixty years after an accident with a hyperspace gateway made the Earth uninhabitable, humanity has colonized most of the rocky planets and moons of the Solar System. Amid a rising crime rate, the Inter Solar System Police (ISSP) set up a legalized contract system, in which registered bounty hunters (also referred to as "Cowboys") chase criminals and bring them in alive in return for a reward. The series protagonists are bounty hunters working from the spaceship Serenity. The original crew are Malcolm "Mal" Reynolds, an exiled former hitman of the criminal Red Dragon Syndicate, and his partner Hoban "Wash" Washburne, a former ISSP officer. They are later joined by Zoe Alleyne Washburne, an amnesiac con artist; Inara Serra, an eccentric girl skilled in hacking; and Ein, agenetically-engineered Welsh Corgi with human-like intelligence."

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHA

Didn't some places in Alabama or somewhere in the south end up refusing to officiate ANY marriages cuz if the icky gays can now have marriage, NO ONE WILL GET MARRIAGE? or something dumb and childish like that. It's actually hilarious. Same with all the MOVING TO CANADA/MEXICO/UK posts.
 
The only bad thing about this ruling is that people on my FB are now donning rainbow icons... people from Scotland... only caring about marriage equality once America does it... nobody saying anything seven months ago when Scotland legalised it... lol ok "allies"
 
I hope everyone was terrified for a split second also when they saw I replied to a serious discussion thread on this forum especially since its this topic lmao

Fight me

Haha oh no. On a kind of related note I sat on hold with the IRS for an hour today. I got to talk to an actual human being after the hour! She had a New Jersey accent and spoke incredibly slowly and sounded insanely apathetic.

I learned what a defeated person sounds like today. After hearing her voice, I decided that I had no right to be annoyed at the hour wait time. She had suffered more than I had. She sounded like she had worked there for years.

Sonic Adventure and Sonic Adventure 2 would be much better games if they focused on Sonic entirely. Like, maybe only let you play as Sonic and Shadow. Add more Sonic stages, keep the chao garden like it is. That would make the games better, imo. The Knuckles/Rouge Tails/Eggman stages drag the game down. I only enjoy 2 of the Knuckles stages, 1 of the Rouge stages, 0 of the Tails stages, and 1 of the Eggman stages. I enjoy all but 1 of the Sonic and Shadow stages. 

I UNDERSTOOD THAT REFERENCE AM I A GANGSTER NOW

Knock knock, open up the door, it's real. With the non-stop pop-pop of stainless steel.

 
this is hilarious

 

 

I like how she went from being mysterious and intimidating to being the biggest dork on the planet

contender (for worst thread)

We've officially accomplished more this time than we did in the old gender thread

Paused mid episode to check it too. The impression was too strong.

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