All hail the brave pro-rape faction of the Teeming Millions!

[John_Stamos_Left_Ear]

https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=861606

I’m not cutting and pasting anything. It really starts up the last few days. It’s quite revealing and does include a few of the usual suspects here, so that’s nice. Ultimately Dopers can read and come to their own conclusions and decide if they would want their daughters to ever meet the lot of them.

[EddyTeddyFreddy]

'Tis a useful opportunity to expand one’s ignore list, I must say.

[El_Kabong]

@John_Stamos'_Left_Ear

I’m not cutting and pasting anything. It really starts up the last few days. It’s quite revealing and does include a few of the usual suspects here, so that’s nice. Ultimately Dopers can read and come to their own conclusions and decide if they would want their daughters to ever meet the lot of them.

I haven’t got a daughter, but if I did I might want to have her meet some of them (in a public setting, of course) so I could say, “See these guys? You really want to steer clear of them.”

[Sunny_Daze]

There have been a few new names making appearances in the last day or so. I wonder if there’s some weird psychological condition kicking in. A person starts to argue a position and then just can’t give it up. Their arguments get more and more outlandish and before they know it they’re advocating child prostitution in Thailand.

I think the Kavanaugh thread may win a prize for spawning the most Pit threads. There are 4 at least right now.

ETA: I think it’s 7 Pit threads.

[Ambivalid]

Is there any clue as to where in the 67 pages of that monstrosity of a thread one might look to find anything noteworthy? I know you dont want to cut and paste but I have no idea what to do with that link. Hints? Clues? Anything?

[Little_Nemo]

@Ambivalid

Is there any clue as to where in the 67 pages of that monstrosity of a thread one might look to find anything noteworthy? I know you dont want to cut and paste but I have no idea what to do with that link. Hints? Clues? Anything?

Here’s some of the posts that seem to be drawing the most attention:

@Starving_Artist

Perhaps the problem lies in the fact that I don’t think what she alleges to have happened to her is all that serious. During the days of my own youth such occurrences during drunken parties was fairly commonplace, and the reaction of the girls involved was usually that the guy was just a drunken asshole and then they forgot about it.

You do raise an interesting point though, which is that Ford may have felt shame for having put herself in the position where such an attack could occur. She was underage, in a swim suit, at a party where alcohol was flowing, there was no adult supervision, and with boys who were known to become sexually aggressive when drinking. I can certainly see how she would feel a certain sense of responsibility for what happened to her (though I doubt anyone here will profess the same), and that she was probably also fear of her parents finding out.

@UltraVires

In 1982, that was called “trying to get laid.” In 2018 it is sexual assault. I’m not endorsing it, but in the interests of having an open conversation on a message board, let’s not just attack people and debate the merits.

@Starving_Artist

I have two words to say about this hysterical, exaggerated nonsense:

Bill Clinton!

You people have no room…and by no room, I mean ZERO room…to talk!

This is all 100% politically motivated. Ford was not harmed. Whatever groping happened, happened over her clothes. There was no skin-on-skin contact and she was able to get away fairly easily. None of this is true of Bill Clinton if we’re to go by the same type of evidence. So where was your outraged screeching then? Hmm?

Further, impassioned, wrongheaded Democrats all over this country have striven continually to get rapists, wife-beaters and murderers,- especially if they’re from gangs, the worst source of this kind of behavior - released from prison as early as possible, if not off altogether on technicalities. And of course many of these have gone on to commit more actual rapes and more actual murders, and thereby do more actual harm.

So give me a friggin’ break with your self-righteous howling over this relatively minor incident that very well may not have actually happened. You people actually need someone like me around here to at least try to keep your feet on the ground, your heads out of the clouds, and to at least try to advance the concept of proportionality.

[El_Kabong]

@Little_Nemo

Here’s some of the posts that seem to be drawing the most attention:

@Starving Artist

Further, impassioned, wrongheaded Democrats all over this country have striven continually to get rapists, wife-beaters and murderers,- especially if they’re from gangs, the worst source of this kind of behavior - released from prison as early as possible, if not off altogether on technicalities. And of course many of these have gone on to commit more actual rapes and more actual murders, and thereby do more actual harm.

Wow, those fantasy Democrats are really awful. They ought to be ashamed of themselves, and I’m glad all that horrible behavior hasn’t bled over into the real world.

[Ambivalid]

Thanks Little Nemo!

[Kobal2]

@El_Kabong

Wow, those fantasy Democrats are really awful. They ought to be ashamed of themselves, and I’m glad all that horrible behavior hasn’t bled over into the real world.

I take it you haven’t received this month’s newsletter yet ? We’re focusing our efforts on springing the Aryan Nations out till at least mid-November. I know, I was surprised too !

[Monty]

This is about Starving Artist?

@EddyTeddyFreddy

'Tis a useful opportunity to expand one’s ignore list, I must say.

Completely agree. SA has been on my ignore list for quite some time now. That’s really made reading the boards a much more enjoyable experience.

[Balthisar]

I think we have a rule wherein we’re not allowed to say who’s on whose ignore lists. Just a friendly word of caution before things start to explode here.

[Ludovic]

I was under the impression that it’s allowed in the Pit, but I may be mistaken.

[Snarky_Kong]

@Ludovic

I was under the impression that it’s allowed in the Pit, but I may be mistaken.

Yup. Also, fuck Starving Artist.

[Sunny_Daze]

Different Pit Thread for that.

Look for Magiver, and Hurricane Dikta. There are several others who aren’t leaping to mind right now.

Ambivalid it’s not hard to see them. Just open the last page or two of the thread and they’re everywhere. Asserting that the multiple women are running a smear campaign, JAQing off about why anyone finds the women credible, talking about how Kavanaugh’s life is going to be ruined over a some teenage hijinks that EVERY MAN has done. It’s mind blowing.

[Eonwe]

I kind of stopped reading that thread after a while, but this one from early on encapsulates it all for me:

@Bricker

I’m already looking forward to the retirement of RBG or Breyer, hopefully before Trump leaves office.

I can’t stand Trump, but man, his judicial nominations make the other shit sandwich ingredients palatable.

Locking in a conservative supreme court is more important than standing up against any other harm the GOP does to our country, or standing up for women and sexual assault victims, apparently.

“You can grab 'em by the pussy and move on them like a bitch as long as you fuck the Dems in the ass while you do it” is the mantra of the current GOP.

[Procrustus]

@Sunny_Daze

Different Pit Thread for that.

Look for Magiver, and Hurricane Dikta. There are several others who aren’t leaping to mind right now.

Ambivalid it’s not hard to see them. Just open the last page or two of the thread and they’re everywhere. Asserting that the multiple women are running a smear campaign, JAQing off about why anyone finds the women credible, talking about how Kavanaugh’s life is going to be ruined over a some teenage hijinks that EVERY MAN has done. It’s mind blowing.

That tripe about “ruining” his life really got to me yesterday (I even dashed off an angry email to Senator Graham who said the same thing). At worst he gets to keep his lifetime appointment to the DC Court of Appeals. Hardly a ruined life.

[Gatopescado]

Too much, too soon.

[Bryan_Ekers]

@Eonwe

I kind of stopped reading that thread after a while, but this one from early on encapsulates it all for me:

Remember the AlaBork!

[AK84]

@Procrustus

That tripe about “ruining” his life really got to me yesterday (I even dashed off an angry email to Senator Graham who said the same thing). At worst he gets to keep his lifetime appointment to the DC Court of Appeals. Hardly a ruined life.

So you are ok with a suspected rapist on the most influential Court of Appeals in the land?:dubious:

[74westy]

@AK84

So you are ok with a suspected rapist on the most influential Court of Appeals in the land?:dubious:

Can you quote where Procrustus said he/she was ok with it?