You know what I hate? How the word empowerment lost its original use and context

Starving, you seem to forget that this board is mainly geared toward skeptics. “Fighting ignorance” means we place more value on verifiable facts and data, not opinions passed as fact.

You make some outrageous claims every once in a while that we feel we need to question. You said a while back liberals want everybody to wear less exciting clothing with drab colors. I didn’t understand how you got that idea, and you didn’t offer any supporting cites. You make a lot of sensational claims about liberal thinking that simply do not ring true, and you offer no explanation for how you came to such opinions. You just seem to accept such notions as established fact, and we wonder if you’re exposing yourself to toxic opinion sources. You also don’t seem to understand what’s going on in the present day, and think maxims from 30-50 years ago should apply.

That’s why you’re getting negative feedback. It’s not liberal boogeymen trying to ruin your life.

Have you noticed the conversation gets more productive when you switch from “SJW, BLM, Identity politics, etc.” and move to tax policy, infrastructure, health care, LGBTQ rights and other real political issues.

Yeah, the whole “liberal assertions” is a dead giveaway that our boy is an alt-righty trying to play the “Oh no, I’m actually <insert dubious claim>, I’m Just Asking Questions.”

Lucy, Just Asking Questions, or JAQing off, is a disingenuous way to play your hand that borders on trolling.

Oh for fuck sake’s, I wouldn’t be qualified enough to be an alt-righter to some of those lunatics anyways if I wanted to.

More serious you mean?

Dude, I know a guy from fucking INDIA, who changed his name to a generic all-american name and is seriously alt-right.

You talk just like them and throw out the same buzzwords. Walks like a duck, quacks like a duck…

Remember, whatever is the dominant culture is what I go against.
Our education, our music, our sports, our clothes, etc
Just look at the Grammy’s, I didn’t watch them and even I knew they were gonna be a joke.

Well that’s a goddamned stupid personal philosophy.

What if the dominant culture was “going against the dominant culture”? Then what would you do?

But so common for teenagers. I think at that age you’re trying to define yourself largely by what you aren’t. You rebel against everything because you’ve just figured out you’re allowed to rebel at all.

Unless you’re me. I was angelic.

So original in her black lipstick
Listening to some obscure band
But isn’t she pissed at all the other non-conformists
who listen to that same obscure band

It would be messy.

Chimera FTW.

I was going with:

Oh baby, look at you
Don’t you dance like Siouxsie Sioux
How long did it take to get that way
Such a terrible waste of energy

(…but then, I was that wannagoth at 16.)
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It’s ALWAYS the quiet ones. :dubious:

Yep. Typical. Rebel without a clue.

Lately we seem to have too many kids here. You want philosophy, I’ll give you my personal philosophy: when you get to a certain age, you feel you’ve dealt with enough poopy diapers to last a lifetime. You feel you deserve to associate with like-minded mature adults. Having to deal with somebody else’s kid’s metaphorical poopy diapers sometimes just seems like an unfair imposition.

I’m not exactly thrilled about having to deal with some of the incontinent adults around here either.

Hey, I’m not fat enough to be my own continent. But your momma…

Hey now! She’s on a strict see food diet.

Could you call her home? She’s sitting around my house…

Jesus Christ, when the fuck was that? That’s hilarious.