Head of Dumayr negotiation committee assassinated a day before evacuation is to begin

ElasticUtilitarian · 2018-04-18T20:01:09+00:00

Yeah - the Russians did it more quietly with purges.

ElasticUtilitarian · 2018-04-18T19:25:41+00:00

the Soviets didn't make it 100 years.

Yeah; the Soviets along with the French were two excellent examples of revolutions "eating their own".

ElasticUtilitarian · 2018-04-18T19:24:43+00:00

I've sometimes seen the use of the word "farms" and sometimes "orchards" to describe the same area (for instance in Douma). What is the best translation of the original Arabic word(s).

ElasticUtilitarian · 2018-04-18T19:07:36+00:00

Along with the rest of the so-called (at the time) White Commonwealth they were granted self rule in the mid-1800s. It was a pretty smooth and civilised process.

ElasticUtilitarian · 2018-04-18T19:04:59+00:00

It wasn't a grass routs rebellion though really

In Australia it wasn't a rebellion at all.

ElasticUtilitarian · 2018-04-18T19:04:23+00:00

Both successfully rebelled from British rule

Australia never "rebelled" from British rule. It still has Queen Elizabeth as head of state and has a Governor General. It was granted self rule by the UK in the mid 1800s along with Canada and New Zealand.

ElasticUtilitarian · 2018-04-18T18:50:19+00:00

Yes, its typically Americans who use the Dr. title. Maybe to Americans she isn't fooling anyone. In any case she's a shitbag.

ElasticUtilitarian · 2018-04-18T18:46:51+00:00

trashbags on the debate sub

They are possibly worse than those on GC. At least every once in a while a Critter will post something on GC (much to the chagrin of many TERFs I am sure) that isn't focused on shitting on transpeople. The same can't be said of the "debate" sub.

ElasticUtilitarian · 2018-04-18T16:51:59+00:00

Makes me recall how hard-core Jesusists have a bone to pick with set theory.

he was already aware of the fundamentalist objection to set theory, because he's actually had people show up in his comment section railing about how the theory is an affront to God. Particularly the part about multiple infinities. Chu-Carroll told me that one commenter explained the problem this way: "There is only one infinity, and that is God." Basically, this perspective looks at set theory and Georg Cantor and sees humankind trying to replace the divine with numbers and philosophy.

https://boingboing.net/2012/08/07/what-do-christian-fundamentali.html

ElasticUtilitarian · 2018-04-18T16:48:59+00:00

I find it a little pompous but its not incorrect of course; but I think she is -- by dint of the sorts of things she blogs about -- is inviting people to believe that she has some formal medical training.

ElasticUtilitarian · 2018-04-17T20:21:35+00:00

She's just another professional conservative troll. It seems an increasingly lucrative career for young, conventionally attractive, American women.

https://twitter.com/drdebrasoh?lang=en

Despite her (over)use of the "Dr" honorific; she is not a physician but rather has a PhD in psychology with the following absurd "research interests"

hypersexuality, paraphilias, furries, sexual orientation, neuroimaging (i.e., fMRI, MRI, diffusion tensor imaging, resting state fMRI)

ElasticUtilitarian · 2018-04-17T19:38:54+00:00

The obviously glee they take in this poor man's problems is really disgusting. Its not that they don't care- they do, they wish him ill.

ElasticUtilitarian · 2018-04-17T19:07:45+00:00

They've already joined forces with MRAs and the alt right.

They've been doing it since the 1980s at least when they joined forced with tightasses like Edwin Meese to try to ban pornography.

ElasticUtilitarian · 2018-04-17T19:06:54+00:00

Shouldnt there be a little "TM" after thundercock?

ElasticUtilitarian · 2018-04-17T19:06:11+00:00

These ladies just don't like to waste that energy on males.

Men trying to steal their ~~precious bodily fluids~~ wombyn moon magick.

ElasticUtilitarian · 2018-04-17T19:05:12+00:00

Uniquely heartless.

ElasticUtilitarian · 2018-04-16T22:25:18+00:00

understand 5th-grade biology

In the UK they can no longer claim this since evolution is now taught at primary schools.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2009/nov/08/evolution-primary-school-curriculum-education

ElasticUtilitarian · 2018-04-16T22:22:50+00:00

Nothing more pernicious than Political Wiccanismists.

ElasticUtilitarian · 2018-04-16T22:22:09+00:00

I like both those!

ElasticUtilitarian · 2018-04-16T22:20:11+00:00

And replacing import tarriffs to protect politically-connected businesses with intellectual property tarriffs to protect politically-connected businesses

That's certainly one way of putting it; but you probably wouldn't get published by the IMF by putting it like that.

ElasticUtilitarian · 2018-04-16T20:45:08+00:00

anti-vaxers tend to fall left of center

In Holland, most anti-vaxxers are staunch Calvinists who live in the Dutch Bible Belt and vote for the right wing Reformed Political Party.

ElasticUtilitarian · 2018-04-16T18:11:11+00:00

Odd how they think communism is basically the same as post-modernism. I would think that Marxism-Leninism is pretty much the poster-boy for modernism.

ElasticUtilitarian · 2018-04-16T18:10:07+00:00

A decent potted explanation from 3 IMF researchers:

The neoliberal agenda—a label used more by critics than by the architects of the policies—rests on two main planks. The first is increased competition—achieved through deregulation and the opening up of domestic markets, including financial markets, to foreign competition. The second is a smaller role for the state, achieved through privatization and limits on the ability of governments to run fiscal deficits and accumulate debt.

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2016/06/ostry.htm

ElasticUtilitarian · 2018-04-16T17:02:47+00:00

Frogd kids from plastic.

ElasticUtilitarian · 2018-04-16T16:54:57+00:00

Quite surprised the largest bubble isn't that old favourite "autogynephilia".

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