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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
argumate
argumate

“Movies will be free after the revolution!”

Movies take the work of hundreds, sometimes thousands, of people. How will we decide where to allocate our resources for the best results?

shlevy

Centralized committee!

argumate

Yes! The State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television smiles upon you!

mitigatedchaos

shtpost visual shtpost the mitigated exhibition what even is this blog the invisible fist the iron hand the red hammer
the-grey-tribe
argumate

whenever I see a shop or product branded as Noun Heaven I wonder if that implies the existence of Noun Hell.

argumate

dagny-hashtaggart said: There is a hell for nouns, and I can take you there

my vocabulary is ready

squareallworthy

Pizza Haven, Pizza Refuge, Pizza Internment Camp

argumate

Pizza Special Economic Zone, Pizza Autonomous Region, Pizza Killing Fields

the-grey-tribe

Pizza Dimension, Pizza District, Pizza Prefecture, Empire of Pizza, Pizza County, Pizza Inc., Pizza State of Mind

darcevonflue

Pizza Co-Prosperity Sphere

the-grey-tribe

Did you mean Large Pizza Co-Prosperity Sphere?

mitigatedchaos

Hold it right there.

I’ve already trademarked Greater North American Pizza Co-Prosperity Sphere for my new line of pizza dealerships stores franchises.

I don’t want you interfering before I can even have my first experimental prototype hexagonal tiling pizza printed, much less before I can complete the baking instructions for the Cheesy Icosahedron Crust pizza.  

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silver-and-ivory
argumate

the boy scouts should accept girls because boy things are cool and it would be discrimination to keep them out, whereas the girl scouts don’t need to worry about accepting boys because lol

silver-and-ivory

this is misandry (not letting boys do stuff) + misogyny (not valuing stuff girls do)

this combination is often called transmisogyny but in this case I don’t think that makes sense

mitigatedchaos

Columnists Question New “Gender Neutral” Scouting Organization

“To bring any ideology into this world, it must have followers who are willing to die,” declares enigmatic leader of NAU Youth Corps

While orienteering, first aid, cooking, and survival “useful skills,” many commentators question the group’s mysterious leader, whose true identity is a mystery

Choice of uniforms, paramiltary-style training exercises also points of concern

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wirehead-wannabe
wirehead-wannabe

@kontextmaschine wanna help me understand what the hell is going on here?

mitigatedchaos

I agree with another poster - this may actually be for right-wing purposes, and thus subversive.  (Yes, subversive.)

…which has me quietly laughing behind my screen.

I heard about it offhand, and was thinking maybe I didn’t approve because more and more, there aren’t male spaces anymore, while female spaces are allowed to exist with questioning only from the fringes.

But a long time ago, I did think they should be unified.  After all, we aren’t getting a national youth corps anytime soon that will teach American children leadership skills, first aid, and knot tying while stuck in real-time and unconnected to the Internet.

Noting that this may be to undermine the left/liberalism of the Girl Scouts has me thinking that on net, I approve.  The Feminist groups that are acting unsure about this can probably sense that their power is being attacked, but probably don’t fully understand how.

Scouts Canada has been unified for some time, IIRC.

But where will boys get those single-gender development experiences now?  Hmn.

politics

learn-tilde-ath asked:

If you would, could you please say some thoughts (even yay/nay/mu) on this policy proposal? : When taking the census in order to determine the number of house seats for each state, people who the state has revoked franchise/voting-rights from (as part of result of being convicted of a crime) don't count towards the population of the state for the purpose of determining number of house seats.

This seems reasonable to me on first reading.

My late night tired concern is that the census might not update the house seats fast enough to account for changes in policy or something.

It could act as a pressure against the politicians to be Tough On Crime, or at least for them to use whatever means they can to try to strip their opposition from voting.  On the other hand, I’m not sure I want certain convicted criminals voting until they are, at least, out of prison again.

I may return to this later.

asks learn-tilde-ath politics policy

Should a man living alone with a robot be able to adopt a child?

Submit your answer as a reblog of this post.  For full credit, write at least 800 words in double-spaced format, then discard the double-spacing by posting it to Tumblr.  Remember, plagiarism is against Tumblr University’s Academic Integrity Policy.

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collapsedsquid
collapsedsquid

According to National Geographic, the researchers, from Arizona State University, analyzed minerals in fossilized ash from the most recent mega-eruption and found changes in temperature and composition that had only taken a few decades. Until now, the magazine reported, geologists had thought it would take centuries for the supervolcano to make the transition.

The discovery, which was presented at a recent volcanology conference, comes on top of a 2011 study that found that ground above the magma reservoir in Yellowstone had bulged by about 10 inches in seven years.

Maybe it can blow up just enough to cool the planet a few degrees.

mitigatedchaos

Not even joking, “if you don’t knock it off with the global warming, the Chinese may blow up a supervolcano without your approval to try to cool the planet” is a tack I have tried using on some right-wingers.

samueldays asked:

I sort of want to argue with you about your recent quoting of the Second Amendment, but first I think I should know with what mindset you're quoting it. Principle of extrapolation? Restriction to be worked around? Law? Representation of certain mindset? Something else?

Shitposting.

Well, not entirely shitposting.  

Let’s be honest.  That policy is not going to happen.

Most Americans don’t care enough about civil defense, the gun owners will fight it out of fear that lefitsts will try to use it to take all their guns, groups of leftists will try to use to take all the gun owners’ guns, and so on.

Yes, it’s intended to take a touch of the spirit, of a militia for defense of the country, the distribution of power among the people…

But mostly it was just to be a wacky compromise proposal under Nationalist terms to present what such an alternative might look like.  …if it wouldn’t be immediately expanded to try and seize the guns.  And for comparison with the Swiss.

Although I’m not joking that I’d like to see martial arts as part of high school curricula in other posts.

politics asks samueldays