Renzatic on 5/9/2019 at 03:54
Quote Posted by Tony_Tarantula
If you actually believe that, then put your money where your mouth is. I'll wear a hat for a Democrat candidate of your choice and you wear some gear for a Republican candidate (I'll go easy on you and make it not Trump). First one to be experience harassment or assault loses the bet.
Alright. I'll go ahead and fire up the Transsexual Muslims for Gun Control And Also Barack Obama campaign somewhere out near buttfuck, Alabama. I'M SO GONNA WIN THIS BET!
june gloom on 5/9/2019 at 16:59
Quote Posted by Tony_Tarantula
I'd offer to buy you a beer and some joints to help you chill out, but you'd probably show up and shoot me instead.
It's fucking hilarious that you're so terrified of me, a random stranger on the internet who lives thousands of miles away. Aren't you supposed to be the big bad military man? Or are you just the stolen valor cuck I always knew you were?
Renzatic on 5/9/2019 at 17:26
Where were you when the super fast plane took its detour to Antarctica, Toll? Inquiring minds demand answers!
Tony_Tarantula on 7/9/2019 at 01:25
I forgot to address the Dershowitz thing.
My bad on that one. I forgot that everything is completely black and white such that citing someone or saying anything remotely positive about any aspect of that person's history means that you love them so much you'd literally suck their cocks, and saying anything negative about that person means you passionately hate them.
Grow up.
He's a piece of shit and I have said some things to that effect. In this instance I believe the victims because their testimony is extremely consistent right down to independently providing accurate description of the accused's genitals.
The reason I linked that is that the consensus TTLG opinion is that the idea of the left being more dangerous due to their access to institutional power is an idea so incredibly stupid that it isn't even worth addressing seriously.
When a Harvard Law professor comes out and says it blows up that framing because I highly doubt anyone here is going to come out and say that they're smarter than a Harvard Law Emeritus professor. The man's professional and academic credentials demonstrate a genius level IQ so we can dispense with the notion that my assessment is solely the domain of idiots. also shows that someone can be coming at the issue from literally the exact opposite perspective (Dershowitz represents almost everything I oppose about the current state of the world) and come to the same conclusion.
But that's something I notice a lot browsing places like Gawker and Occupy Democrats (the #1 news source for Democrats according to Facebook metrics). There seems to be a predominant attitude that the party line is the only sane and rational one, so therefore anyone who comes to a different conclusion is by definition stupid. Most of the top rated comments on any given political Gawker post will be ones to the effect that Trump voters are just SO stupid. That idea doesn't hold up when you get people like Ivy League professors who dissent from the "acceptable" opinion because that type of person has vastly superior "smart" credentials to the people patting themselves on the back for being so smart.
Gray on 17/9/2019 at 02:17
This is just another reason why I love you.
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For the conservative republicans: in a non-gay way, clearly. For his opinions. Get your heads out of your asses, and other people asses. Shoo! Shoo! Go back to your mistresses and being hypocritical about the sanctity of everybody else's marriage.
SubJeff on 19/9/2019 at 16:14
So what does TTLG think about Justin Trudeau in blackface?
Pyrian on 19/9/2019 at 17:02
Quote:
Speaking to reporters Wednesday night, following TIME's publication of the photo, Trudeau apologized: “I shouldn't have done that. I should have known better and I didn't. I'm really sorry.” When asked if he thought the photograph was racist, he said, “Yes it was. I didn't consider it racist at the time, but now we know better.”
Meh?
Gray on 19/9/2019 at 17:46
I've not seen the photo yet, but I've certainly made some jokes 35 years ago that could be considered racist, because I didn't know any better. That is ignorance, not malice. I didn't even speak to a black person until I was 20 and at university, because there were none around, I come from a very small town where everybody was white and had the same three last names. Racism wasn't really thought about, because there were no other races there.
But I've never blacked up.
I'll never understand what it's like to be on the other side of this argument, but I do try. Maybe it's wildly offensive and you feel violated. I'm not as stupid now as I was when I was 17. Oh wait, I'm actually more stupid, but I am a little bit more culturally aware than I was back then. Perhaps it's the same for Trudeau. I don't resent Michael Gove for snorting cocaine 20 years ago, I resent him NOW for his stupid politics. We all have a past. Some of it less than glorious. I'm not proud of mine but I try to do better. Maybe some day I'll manage to become a nice person.
I'm certainly a much warmer, more open, kinder, gentler loving person than I used to be. I try to tone down my sarcasm as much as I can. In my mind, I don't think I'm racist or homophobic, but there are probably still remnants of it in there from the bad old 1970s that I have not yet been able to shake off. It's a work in progress. And if someone as old and thick as me is working on it, I bet younger smarter people like Trudeau will beat me to it, or already have.
So yeah, that is my speech in defence of Trudeau. Not just because he's young and hot and I want to hit that. Cue the stupid gay jokes I was just trying to avoid. I'm just saying we all make mistakes.
The boring truth is that I just like him for his policies. Not his clothes catalogue lower tier modelling skills.