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12 October 2020 at 08:13 AM
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by Inso0

Luciom started this and I won't speak for him, but if there were any "ELI5 how we test for intelligence in the lab" articles or videos you want to share, I'd consume them. If I gave the wrong impression that I have empirical data on this topic, I apologize. If I had to give a short-notice, make-it-up-as-you-go report about the topic of racial tendencies, my talk would focus on

Fair enough, my understanding was you were defending the view.


by Inso0

You'll have a hard time finding a post where I say, "Evolution is BS".Don't bother looking. I don't want you wasting your time on a Friday afternoon. You will likely find posts taking jabs at replacing the idea of a God/creator with "X billion years of cumulative freak accidents leads from nothingness to apes throwing feces at each other on the Internet", but the basic concep

I see you are skillfully dodging my question. Do you prefer my flourish and the elephants with the wings in the ark story or not?


by coordi

this ****in sucks too

How does the Ice agent know what this clown was doing? If somebody comes up on the back of my car I'm considering it a threat.

You people like to put yourselves into these situations and then cry when bad things happen.


#1 rule of weapon discipline is don't point a gun at someone you don't intend to shoot and nobody has the power to murder someone for taking a picture of their car.

Being a giant scared pussy isn't a good reason to threaten to murder someone for holding a phone


It wont be long before we have criminals imitating ICE because they appear to just do whatever they want with zero oversight and it takes about 100$ worth of equipment to get all the identifiable markings of an ICE agent


by mongidig

How does the Ice agent know what this clown was doing? If somebody comes up on the back of my car I'm considering it a threat.

You people like to put yourselves into these situations and then cry when bad things happen.

You consider everything a threat because you’re weak minded.


by coordi

It wont be long before we have criminals imitating ICE because they appear to just do whatever they want with zero oversight and it takes about 100$ worth of equipment to get all the identifiable markings of an ICE agent

I just read today that ICE agents have been grabbing people, wearing a mask covering their faces, plain clothes, no badges, and without identifying themselves.

How the hell is anyone supposed to know that this isn't a kidnapping by a criminal organization? What happens when someone shoots one of the agents?

Most Americans, and pretty much every Republican, would say it's perfectly legitimate to kill someone trying to kidnap them or a family member. I certainly wouldn't blame anyone for doing that - what is the Trump regime going to say or do about it?


That’s exactly what I said a few pages back. These masked up, unmarked “officers” have got to ****ing go. There’s no defense for this gestapo nonsense.

Not only is it insane for a civilized society, but the copycat bad actors are an inevitability.




I didn't connect the dots until someone pointed the dots out to me...


Where did you get the image? Stormfront? That's really offensive.


by MSchu18

I didn't connect the dots until someone pointed the dots out to me...

Connect the dots for us. What does this image mean, to you?


I'm all for more lenient moderation but this is taking the piss and shouldn't be allowed.


by Gorgonian

Connect the dots for us. What does this image mean, to you?

MSchu prefers to post bait and then never address any questions.


by corpus vile

I'm all for more lenient moderation but this is taking the piss and shouldn't be allowed.

I don’t get it shrug


by Montrealcorp

I don’t get it shrug

The bottom rack is Watermelon


by Montrealcorp

I don’t get it shrug

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watermelon...


by Inso0

Is it bigotry to claim Border Collies are on average better behaved and more intelligent than Bulldogs? How is it nonsense to claim that the same mechanisms that create geographic similarities in height, facial structure, risk of certain diseases, etc, wouldn't also govern personality, behavior, or types of intellect? These are all ultimately physical traits as well, but not

But we pretty much already know the answer. There's very small or no difference between the intellectual abilities of the average person of any race or ethnic group. There is a much much higher difference difference between 2 random members of any race or ethnic group.

Or to make it clear rather than adding a bunch of statistics jargon

If you put an average white guy and an average black guy in separate rooms and feed them a bunch of generic intelligence/knowledge questions you likely won't be able to tell them apart no matter how long you take. But if you did the same thing with a white doctor/lawyer/engineer vs a white rural conservative maga trump supporter you'll be able to tell in 1 minute just with generic intelligence type questions.


by Montrealcorp

I don’t get it shrug

I don't either. Juneteenth, which is not known over here, apparently celebrates the liberation of the last American slaves by Union troops in Galveston, TX. Watermelon is associated with those celebrations.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/histo...

However, a supermarket in Atlanta, GA has been criticised for selling cakes iced to look like watermelon, which is claimed to be 'mockery', and the allegedly controversial cakes have been withdrawn from sale.

https://www.today.com/food/groceries/kro...

Why this is controversial, and what point MSchu thought he was making, I have no idea.


It was already linked if you just read

[quote=wiki] Southern White resentment against African Americans led to a politically potent cultural caricature, using the watermelon to disparage African Americans as childish and unclean, among other negative attributes.[/quote]


Is this the episode where we pretend we don't know about the watermelon thing?


by ecriture d'adulte

It was already linked if you just read

And I already linked the association of watermelon with Juneteenth, if you just read. The fact that the cakes were iced to look like watermelon, rather than being actual watermelon cakes (and watermelon cakes are a thing and are considered 'festive':-- https://cookinglsl.com/watermelon-fruit-...), seems pretty trivial.


It's a well known anti black stereotype and I very much doubt MSchu had altruistic intentions here, considering the dubious shite he usually posts.


by corpus vile

It's a well known anti black stereotype and I very much doubt MSchu had altruistic intentions here, considering the dubious shite he usually posts.

Quite, and God knows what he's on about, but I doubt that the supermarket in question is run by the KKK.


by 57 On Red

And I already linked the association of watermelon with Juneteenth, if you just read. The fact that the cakes were iced to look like watermelon, rather than being actual watermelon cakes (and watermelon cakes are a thing and are considered 'festive':-- https://cookinglsl.com/watermelon-fruit-...), seems pretty trivial.

I'm explaining to you why some people find it offensive, which you claim to not get.


by ecriture d'adulte

I'm explaining to you why some people find it offensive, which you claim to not get.

I get that the offence taken is factitious. It's just a slightly misjudged marketing gag. Other countries have real problems, you know.

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