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Daehawk wrote:RonPerlman speaks on Trump's speech patterns

He does a great imitation.

That was brilliant.

I'd totally vote for Perlman.

Politics. Politics never changes.

Moliere wrote:Politics. Politics never changes.

How did I not know that before now?! That's awesome!

Paingod wrote:

Moliere wrote:Politics. Politics never changes.

How did I not know that before now?! That's awesome!

Not sure if this means you don't get my Ron Perlman reference.

Moliere wrote:

Paingod wrote:

Moliere wrote:Politics. Politics never changes.

How did I not know that before now?! That's awesome!

Not sure if this means you don't get my Ron Perlman reference.

I got it, but only because I scampered off and checked it. I just didn't know that was his voice. I thought it was awesome.

Kraken wrote:

Wasn't that technically Uhura's title, anyway?

Lil' help here?

Smoove_B wrote:Lil' help here?

Putin: Sanctions? Nyet! From this day forward, all diplomatic staff from decadent USA are required to go to renaissance faire three times a year, or face expulsion!

For reals.

Wow.

"Donald Trump is bored and tired. Imagine how bad he'd feel if he did any work."

is Newsweek a major publication or something most people ignore?

Vorret wrote:is Newsweek a major publication or something most people ignore?

Newsweek and Time are long-running weekly news magazines that have been in long decline since their most influential period in the 1950s-1980s.

For a long time they have had a reputation for "lite" coverage, but in the past few years Newsweek especially seems to have recovered some of its mojo and has been home to some major reporting.

Thanks! So we could expect a tweet

Holman wrote:

Vorret wrote:is Newsweek a major publication or something most people ignore?

Newsweek and Time are long-running weekly news magazines that have been in long decline since their most influential period in the 1950s-1980s.

For a long time they have had a reputation for "lite" coverage, but in the past few years Newsweek especially seems to have recovered some of its mojo and has been home to some major reporting.

I was a newsweekly diehard ever since high school. Newsweek, Time, and US News & World Report all jockied for my subscription each year and watching them fade away was painful. I didn't finally let go until Newsweek was sold to The Daily Beast in 2010. Glad to hear that they survived the transition to digital-only, although sometimes I do still miss getting a magazine in the mail each week.

Keep an eye on their sales and you can get some good periodicals on a regular basis for cheap.

It's not Time, but still another cover Trump can put on his wall!

Kraken wrote: I was a newsweekly diehard ever since high school. Newsweek, Time, and US News & World Report all jockied for my subscription each year and watching them fade away was painful. I didn't finally let go until Newsweek was sold to The Daily Beast in 2010. Glad to hear that they survived the transition to digital-only, although sometimes I do still miss getting a magazine in the mail each week.

I believe Newsweek returned to print after just a year or two of online-only. Apparently they're doing OK.

Isgrimnur wrote:Keep an eye on their sales and you can get some good periodicals on a regular basis for cheap.

Oh, magazines still flow here. Between us we get Science News, Esquire, the Atlantic, Vanity Fair, Boston, and sometimes others (I've been a SN subscriber for 45 years now, minus a couple of poverty-imposed hiatuses). Newsweeklies don't really serve much purpose in the internet age, but I did enjoy their digest format and features back in their day, and I still like flipping glossy pages.

This is why the GOP can win running such shitty candidates.

Maxine Waters Says Putin, Er, Pence Needs to Be Impeached After Trump

Rip wrote:This is why the GOP can win running such shitty candidates.

Maxine Waters Says Putin, Er, Pence Needs to Be Impeached After Trump

Meanwhile Republicans are a bastion of reasonable and well thought out calls for investigations.

Protesters march with Russian flag and project pictures of Putin onto Trump SoHo hotel

It's interesting how often the left gets away with threatening violence when someone voices an opinion they disagree with.

Moliere wrote: It's interesting how often the left gets away with threatening violence when someone voices an opinion they disagree with.

Do random Twitter users on the right ever pay a price for threatening violence like this?

It's interesting how often the "right" embraces their inner snowflake when they perceive that the "left" is getting away with something, like hyperbolic rhetoric for example.

Everyone knows that only right-wing assholes are supposed to talk shit.

Holman wrote:

Moliere wrote: It's interesting how often the left gets away with threatening violence when someone voices an opinion they disagree with.

Do random Twitter users on the right ever pay a price for threatening violence like this?

Yes

Am I supposed to know who Emily Gorcenski is or what she is referring to?

LordMortis wrote:Am I supposed to know who Emily Gorcenski is or what she is referring to?

No, but you're supposed to be able to figure it out if it matters to you.

LordMortis wrote:Am I supposed to know who Emily Gorcenski is or what she is referring to?

Presumably she's referring to the guy that was fired by Google for publishing a memo stating that women are genetically incapable of being good at technology.

Moliere wrote:

Holman wrote:

Moliere wrote: It's interesting how often the left gets away with threatening violence when someone voices an opinion they disagree with.

Do random Twitter users on the right ever pay a price for threatening violence like this?

Yes

It's interesting how often the right gets away with it. Yay, they're both interesting!

Max Peck wrote:

LordMortis wrote:Am I supposed to know who Emily Gorcenski is or what she is referring to?

Presumably she's referring to the guy that was fired by Google for publishing a memo stating that women are genetically incapable of being good at technology.

That's not what he said. He said men and women are different. Breaking news! He also said that Google doesn't have a diversity of opinion. Ironically he was fired for voicing an opinion that might be contrary to what others thought.

Moliere wrote:

Max Peck wrote:

LordMortis wrote:Am I supposed to know who Emily Gorcenski is or what she is referring to?

Presumably she's referring to the guy that was fired by Google for publishing a memo stating that women are genetically incapable of being good at technology.

That's not what he said. He said men and women are different. Breaking news! He also said that Google doesn't have a diversity of opinion. Ironically he was fired for voicing an opinion that might be contrary to what others thought.

The freshly learned Google story is much more interesting to me than unknown's impudent fantasy of starting a fight in the google work place.

Moliere wrote:He said men and women are different.

CNN

A source told CNN Tech that James Damore, the employee behind the memo, was fired by the company. A person inside the company said Damore was no longer in an online directory that lists every Google (GOOGL, Tech30) employee on Tuesday.

Damore said in an email to Bloomberg that he was fired for "perpetuating gender stereotypes."

Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal, Reuters and others have reported that the engineer who wrote the memo, James Damore, has been fired. Damore has filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board. Google has declined to comment.

Damore shared his manifesto internally last week. In the post, Damore claims to "value diversity and inclusion." But he takes issue with Google's approach, which he sees as overly political and alienating to "non-progressives."

"When it comes to diversity and inclusion, Google's left bias has created a politically correct monoculture that maintains its hold by shaming dissenters into silence," he writes in the memo. "This silence removes any checks against encroaching extremist and authoritarian policies."

Damore went a step further, however, by arguing that women are not biologically fit for tech roles.

Vice has the full document embedded here.

Employees at Google also confirmed that James Damore, the name signed in the document, continued to discuss the themes contained within the document on internal discussion boards at the company through at least Sunday.

Moliere wrote:

Max Peck wrote:

LordMortis wrote:Am I supposed to know who Emily Gorcenski is or what she is referring to?

Presumably she's referring to the guy that was fired by Google for publishing a memo stating that women are genetically incapable of being good at technology.

That's not what he said. He said men and women are different. Breaking news! He also said that Google doesn't have a diversity of opinion. Ironically he was fired for voicing an opinion that might be contrary to what others thought.

He got fired for creating a controversy that put his employer in an unwanted spotlight. He got to enjoy his freedom of speech, and also the consequences of that speech. It's a win-win situation.

Moliere wrote:

Holman wrote:

Moliere wrote: It's interesting how often the left gets away with threatening violence when someone voices an opinion they disagree with.

Do random Twitter users on the right ever pay a price for threatening violence like this?

Yes

Curious about your due diligence. Did you check to see if said tweets are still on her twitter? I did and they appear to be removed (presumably by twitter and I guess why you had to use a screen shot). Oh and did you check to see if they are banning antifa accounts threatening violence? (Hint: the answer is yes but I don't know of any big purges like last years you are linking to here)

Sorry but you appear to be working on a pretty strong confirmation bias. I agree with you on some of this stuff (including the Evergreen case to a degree) but the lack of fairness in your telling of the story makes me think this is more about a pet issue for you than uncovering reality. Has there been any other alt right purges since last years? Yes they have probably banned more alt right accounts threatening violence, but then again how many accounts are there in the antifa side to ban vs the alt right? Do we even know that detail? I sure don't and am not about to jump to a bunch of conclusions because some alt righters are bent for a private company banning them from their forum. I guess there's probably a Masters social science research project waiting to happen if you are so inclined.