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Amibguous Cad

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I thought she said she was assuming that it was a man for the purpose of the point so she could say "so marry one woman" and not homophobes are probably all men. At least that's how I understood it.

The joke also relies on homophobia (or traits correlated with homophobia) being unattractive to women.

Also, it holds out romantic/sexual attention from women as a reward for male virtue, which isn't a sentiment that I'm a fan of, either.
 

Linkura

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Glad he's getting back in the game
My husband sang "Bernie's back, alright!" in the tune to this when I read him the tweet.

Clearly trying to get on my good side.
 

Kirblar

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Oct 25, 2017
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The joke also relies on homophobia (or traits correlated with homophobia) being unattractive to women.

Also, it holds out romantic/sexual attention from women are a reward for male virtue, which isn't a sentiment that I'm a fan of, either.
It's a sentiment reflected in dating right now where the chasm between male and female political views is affecting it.
 

Manmademan

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You said, "it's not even close." It traditionally has been.

What's "visible" depends on where you're looking. If you're a member of twitter/youtube culture, I can see that stereotypical "figure" looking a particular way. For me? Growing up in the black church in LA, I can't say that some of the most homophobic and threatening language I heard growing up didn't come from the women I was raised around. So I honestly didn't even need to be varified by polling data to go, "....ehhhh..." at that particular bit of Warren's joke.

I'll cosign this. There's a very "interesting" tendency to assume that women-usually white women- are only reluctantly on board with toxic conservative positions like being against gay marriage and it's white cisgender males steering the ship.

Aint so. Women buy into that mess as enthusiastically as the men do- though they are somewhat less likely to shoot up malls and churches over it.

Growing up in several black churches as well I know EXACTLY what you're talking about with the homophobic language. It's as enthusiastic as it is universal
there.

It's a sentiment reflected in dating right now where the chasm between male and female political views is affecting it.

The kicker here is that it's usually "online" dating where this data comes from, and Rural america isn't really using Tindr or whatever as urban/suburban america does. The population density just isn't there to support it.

So yeah, where things like Tindr are popular and get a lot of use, the population is likely to be more urban- which isn't all that friendly to conservatism. Men are notoriously indiscriminate in who they connect with online, but for women? not so much.
 
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Good comedians push up (at bigots, the rich, even themselves). Shitty comedians (usually on the right) joke about how trans people are triggered and Millennials are too PC and need to shut up.
 

Mulberry

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Also, I'm disappointed that there hasn't been a Weekend at Bernie's" joke for that rally for his zombie ass campaign.
 

Royalan

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Oct 24, 2017
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I mean, the joke didn't really bother me. If it did, I'd have brought up that night. It didn't take me days to come to this conclusion.

I was more responding to that Nate tweet.
 

shiba5

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And guess who's golfing today.



Turkey's conflict in Syria took a major turn today. First alleged atrocities by Turkish-backed Arab militias, executing Kurds. US military officials tell me it's true, and they are DEEPLY concerned it opens the door to BOTH ethnic cleansing of Kurds and return of ISIS/Al-Qaeda
 
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This page has been some really illuminating observations and debates on social subjects. Wanted to say thanks.

About 95% of her leads have actually panned out - including her "Geraldo Moment" with the Trump tax summary which even then she conceded could have been leaked directly by Trump to throw off the scent - had value as an example of amateur hour obstruction - but Maddow's main skill is breaking down extremely complex political, criminal or legal ideas into plain concepts.

Plenty of people have an allergic reaction to her style but the information is top notch for the most part. What makes people think it's mass arrest porn is that she's typically explaining shit that SHOULD result in mass arrests.

And that dispersing the "fuzz" thrown up by the guilty and their spindoctors to obfuscate and make only the "new" crimes come readily to mind is worth its weight in gold in these times.

This entire sequence of Mike Pompeo going on a loop is weird as fuck:


 

adam387

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I saw I had 4 alerts, and I was like oh god what dumbass thing did I say now. Getting old sucks when you forget what you've said as you're saying it....

Also, any browser or browser add on that blocks Javascript will let you bypass the paywall.
 

Autodidact

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I saw I had 4 alerts, and I was like oh god what dumbass thing did I say now. Getting old sucks when you forget what you've said as you're saying it....
Sis, I wouldn't know, but I'll remind you to take your Metamucil. You take care on those stairs, now. At your age New Balances quickly turn into Old Unstables.
 

Scottt

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It is forever baffling to me how the GOP manages to function as an alliance between economic and social liberal/libertarianism and traditionalist religious conservatives/authoritarianism.
 

shinra-bansho

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This is a weird line of nitpicking and dissection of a good one-liner.

Warren made the subject of her joke a man - so she's shielding white women from blame?

Lolwut.

Besides, the demographic groups in the US more likely to oppose SSM... are men. And in particular men of color.
 

corasaur

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It is forever baffling to me how the GOP manages to function as an alliance between economic and social liberal/libertarianism and traditionalist religious conservatives/authoritarianism.


Iibertarians usually wind up turning into republicans with different PR lines because there's a common theme of "know your place." If you consider air pollution laws a greater injustice than polluted air, you're kinda telling the average person to shut up and take what their superiors decide they deserve.

It's just a different flavor of authoritarianism. Right-wing economic policy doubles as a right-wing social policy. Libertarians are always gonna have a high chance of just being Rand Paul
 

loquaciousJenny

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Oct 25, 2017
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Man YouTube just tried to sign me up for Trump news alerts in an ad, like it played and before I could ignore it dropped down with all my info already entered. Fuck this shit if I want to sign up for this garbage require me to follow a link or something
 

Sheepinator

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I glanced at Jim Jordan's twitter today. Wow that dude is busy there. 18 tweets today about the whistleblower and impeachment. He is rivaling Hannity with this defense of Dead Leader. One of his ridiculous questions is asking why the whistleblower took so long to come forward, therefore it can't be as bad as they say, LOL.

 
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