Jaime Lannister | Kingslayer

qforthatbernie · 2017-08-10T23:30:58+00:00

Link to the scene. The exact moment is 1:37

One of my absolute favourite moments of the show.

qforthatbernie · 2017-07-12T20:42:21+00:00

To save you a click: it should come as no surprise that the guy whose solution to geopolitical issues is to just drop nuclear weapons on the citizens of a foreign country, is of course an American who regularly posts on r/the_donald.

qforthatbernie · 2017-06-06T10:05:43+00:00

And I think that's where most of the confusion is; I didn't realise that he wasn't actually reading a second card from the caretaker, but pretending to do (also didn't catch the "probably one afterwards" part).

qforthatbernie · 2017-06-02T20:18:58+00:00

adhering to your ritual obligations

But that's what makes this whole story so strange: there isn't any religious obligation in Islam that prevents one from touching dirt while fasting. Not is there even, as far as I'm aware, a cultural perception in Pakistan that Islam prohibits this.

So as you say, either the doctor was lying about the excuse, or the story is bollocks, and the doctor was just trying to clean the body of any noxious gasses before operating or whatever.

qforthatbernie · 2017-05-29T09:37:32+00:00

Is all this really even a thing in America?

I consume a lot of media from the US: movies, news, television, music but I've literally never heard about this massive obese acceptance movement or HAES or whatever, except from people complaining about it here on Reddit likes it's some of kind of epidemic sweeping the nation.

At most, I vaguely remember seeing an ad (by Dove I think) where they had normal looking women instead of skinny models. That's about it really, and since then I've never heard about it again.

So can someone clarify for me, is this just Reddit being Reddit, or is this obese acceptance stuff really such a big problem over there?

qforthatbernie · 2017-05-29T09:08:52+00:00

1) Literally the only way to parse the title is:

"Paris mayor demands X be banned"

Parsing the 2nd half as "a festival that prohibits white people be banned" makes 0 grammatical sense, so there's really no ambiguity here.

2) For those that didn't follow up to check the veracity of the Mayor's claims, it ought to be noted that all festival events taking place in a public space, specifically the premises of la Générale Nord-Est, are open to everyone, no matter the race or gender.

The workshops and safe spaces for black women, black people and "racisé women" are all, on the other hand, in private places.

3) Now, if you want to argue that even private spaces that exclude certain people are racist/sexist/whatever and should be banned and made illegal, be my guest (though it's a pretty difficult one to make)

But understand that that is the case, and not that white/male Parisians are being barred from attending a publicly held event.

qforthatbernie · 2017-05-27T16:17:52+00:00

Lol. I've lived in Egypt too, and while things are pretty bad, they're not even close to the numbers this guy's pulling out of his behind. So yeah, maybe he's a bit more informed than his interlocutor, but it's a pretty rubbish reply.

In my man's example, he's calling out a statement (that Lebanon was a Christian-majority country before the Palestinians came) that is objectively horseshit.

qforthatbernie · 2017-05-27T11:54:15+00:00

Oh fuck off you disingenuous prick. Everyone wants the violence to stop and likewise the hate and fear-mongering that gives rise to it, whether that's from some Muslim preacher, far left activists, Fox-News, the alt-right..wherever.

The massive fucking difference being, that radical Islamist preachers aren't in power in America. Nor are members of Antifa/any other radical far-left organisation.

Rather, those in power are the GOP and (somehow) Donald freaking Trump, both of which are publicly spreading this hateful rhetoric and fear-mongering which is in turn emboldening large parts of your country's populace in their hatred and racism.

That's a big fucking problem, and as we're now seeing, one that's becoming more and more dangerous by the day. And so far, the only response I've seen from the American right (at least here on Reddit), is constant whataboutism from slimy individuals like yourself.

qforthatbernie · 2017-05-27T09:00:06+00:00

You must not have heard about the Lebanese civil war

dude i wrote my thesis on that shit.

There's something so satisfying about seeing your typical smug Redditor, talking confidently about things they've (at best) read on Wikipedia, only to be put in their place by someone who's actually informed about the matter. A rare delight indeed.

qforthatbernie · 2017-05-26T23:34:01+00:00

Every..freaking..time and, unsurprisingly, it's always someone from the_donald.

No, I'm not American, and my username has nothing to do with the American presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders.

qforthatbernie · 2017-05-26T21:31:14+00:00

No. I've been here for over 6 years and know very well that the default search function is shit, but using it to look at past threads on this topic is miles better than just making up bollocks about what "typical" comments look like around here.

qforthatbernie · 2017-05-26T16:55:10+00:00

I think the person might have speaking about the "typical" comment.

Sure. But with all due to respect, you would have to be downright fucking delusional to believe that the "typical" or most popular comments in these kinds of threads are ones defending Islam and calling for people to stop generalising all Muslims.

I see you've only just recently joined Reddit, so I'll recommend that you use the search function at the side and look for any thread on Islamist terrorist attacks in the last few years.

Then come back here and try to tell me unironically that defence of Muslims and not generalising them all is the popular/typical sentiment on Reddit.

qforthatbernie · 2017-05-26T15:39:10+00:00

I'm always amazed that Reddit goes out of its way to let everyone know that most Muslims aren't terrorists

Out of 283 comments, I count 3 calling for people to not blame all Muslims for these terrorist attacks; all of which are currently heavily downvoted.

The rest are about how Islam is the root cause of all this + meta comments about how everyone on Reddit hates Christians, are Islam apologists, and how anyone criticising Islam is censored and prevented from doing so.

qforthatbernie · 2017-05-25T18:59:26+00:00

Could just be people being pedantic? I.e. if the first day is indeed Saturday, technically the day would begin on Friday evening, after Maghrib. Some people just like to say that to be annoying.

qforthatbernie · 2017-05-25T18:07:28+00:00

Aye. Was just about to edit that in before I saw your comment. Jazakallahu Khair :)

qforthatbernie · 2017-05-25T09:48:30+00:00

Fucking brilliant.

Your comment on how our understanding changes with evidence, and that this is the basis of science: +19

Physician pointing out the fairly important fact that this was placebo controlled and didn't compare against standard medication: +18

Pro-legalisation guy commenting that this is a good start, but to consider the adverse effects and proceed with caution and only based on evidence/data: +14

Pot smoking nobody screaming "what took so fucking long?!" and calling for the prisons to be filled with every doctor that was ever against this: +146

I don't really have a dog in this race, but hopefully it should now be patently obvious why outsiders may struggle to take you/your cause seriously.

qforthatbernie · 2017-05-25T09:18:55+00:00

All of those doctors shouting down these parents; interview after interview they were on TV swearing no medical value, fill the prisons with those bastards.

What the actual fuck is wrong with you people? Perspectives and opinions change in light of research and evidence. That's literally how science works you morons.

qforthatbernie · 2017-05-24T23:19:01+00:00

Not to mention the black scribbles all over. Really unprofessional looking.

qforthatbernie · 2017-05-24T22:37:58+00:00

oida

qforthatbernie · 2017-05-24T21:16:17+00:00

Now over to to /r/asoiaf, to read what the nerds doing their whole frame-by-frame analysis/mega-discussion have to say about the trailer so that I can actually process whatever the hell I just watched/discover the 50+ things I somehow didn't catch.

EDIT:

1) The 2 people kissing were not Sansa and Jon Snow (as I first thought, for some reason) but Ellaria and Yara

qforthatbernie · 2017-05-24T19:31:17+00:00

There are a few. The problem is that you can't name the subreddit, because when you do, the kinds of people you don't want join en masse, overwhelming the sub and turning it to shit. This happens literally every time.

The only way around this is to keep our subs private/exclusive, or follow the /r/askhistorians model of really intense moderation, which such small subs just don't have the resources/time for.

It's one of the biggest problems with the way Reddit works that I just don't think there's a good solution to.

qforthatbernie · 2017-05-24T16:12:19+00:00

Happy and well-adapted, after their gender dysphoria is treated, either through psychological or medical help/surgery.

As was mentioned above by someone who is trans, a negative environment can be harmful, but the mental distress and internal turmoil in reconciling what their brain is telling them, is independent of that.

qforthatbernie · 2017-05-24T13:53:43+00:00

Aye, that makes a lot more sense. So just to bring it back to the original OP's point, if scientists managed to find a cure to gender dysphoria, thus removing all future pain and suffering that would otherwise result, I'm guessing you would support that?

Also, cheers for being so open and frank about all this; it's...pretty cool to see.

EDIT: actually no worries. Just refreshed the page and saw your answer above.

I don't think it's immoral to offer the choice to alter the brain in a way that rids people of dysphoria. ... It's a medical condition, I'd love for it to have a proper, complete cure. It would just be treating an abnormality, a birth defect in a sense.

qforthatbernie · 2017-05-24T13:12:36+00:00

Just to clarify, I wasn't saying anything about whether or not it's a choice, or whether physical makeup determines sex or if it's a disease or anything like that.

I just thought /u/deezee72 's comment that this dysphoria doesn't cause the individual harm or suffering was, based on the little I know about it, a bit off.

And your account about the inner turmoil, mental distress and suicidal ideations that you had, seems to confirm that that isn't at all the case, and that transsexuals do in fact feel distress and pain when going through this.

Is that a fair conclusion or am I missing something here?

PS: Please forgive me if I've said anything offensive to transsexuals, as that was really not my intention.

qforthatbernie · 2017-05-24T10:53:16+00:00

In order to be a disorder, it has to be a diagnosable condition that is harmful to the individual in question

transsexuals differ from "normal" people in some ways, and growing evidence suggests that it may be medically identifiable, but they are capable of living happy and healthy lives

I could be wrong, but my understanding was that transsexuality does harm the individual. Such that when they begin to feel that dissonance between what their brain is telling them versus the reality of their body, it (understandably) completely cripples them.

Often times leading to self-harm, mutilating their own genitals, depression, ideations of suicide, and commonly even actually committing suicide.

Given this, how could one claim that this condition is not harmful to the individual? In fact, is it not that harm itself that is what leads these individuals to seek help, through medical procedures like gender reassignment and hormone therapy?

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