Longknife

Your answers will determine if I run for president or run for cashier of the local grocery store.

Does this forum even have women that post here?

I find it hard to believe you "didn't mean to start all this" when your unsolicited reply started with: Yeah I know, was stupid on my part. I guess what I mean is I expected a reaction, but not THIS MUCH of a reaction. So now I feel dumb and wreckless.

YA I KNO was dumb of me, but still.

Jesus holy ****, sorry everyone. Didn't mean to start all this.

I remembered it was my birthday cause I'm fkn pro and stupid.

Hi, you didn't ask me. Don't give a ****, here's my answer: You remind me of my grandfather in some ways. He was absolutely spineless and followed orders to a ridiculous degree. Like I could tell him to go punch my father in the face and the only thing that would stop him from doing so is if my father ordered him NOT to punch him in the face before it happened, at which point he could order him to come murder me and I better hope I get a chance to give an order before it happens. Think this was his coping mechanism to absolve himself of any guilt from having been a Nazi. Dunno the details but sounds like he worked a machine gun and gunned down a LOT of people, so I imagine it left him with some serious scars. But you don't come across as spineless in that sense. You come across as so god damned absorbed with your image and with being a good person that you as a person have little substance to your name. You do things based on how good they're perceived to be, with that actually taking precedence over your own impulses and gut feelings. I mean sure enough, here you are defending Gawker when some of their own workers and witnesses worked against them in court all because Gawker says progressive stuff and progressive = good right? So opposition = bad? And you're failing at objective thought as you sit here focusing on Hulk Hogan as if that has **** all to do with this. Dude if Hitler has a sex tape leaked, Hitler still has a right to a trial. There is no "yeah but you stole a wallet that time so nope the court system never helps you." But let's not focus on that so much, cause this is about you. You focus on being perceived as good, you don't seem to react on your ACTUAL thoughts, opinions or emotions. No, you silence those. Great example: I will confess that I am very cautious around the transgender community because probably a third of the transgender individuals I've met are damned crazy, in my opinion. They'll look in a mirror and see the sexiest woman alive, complimenting themselves, then ask for a compliment and I'll be sitting there thinking "dude I can see your ****ing adam's apple and you still have a man-jaw, let's be real here." I also think one should acknowledge that biology IS going to work against transgender individuals in the sense that, for example, biology is smart: what men consider a nice ass is often a sign a woman can provide safe childbirth, and did you know attractive people tend to have higher IQs? Your body tries to advertise all it's strengths and problems: there's an evolutionary reason why warts or a bad scent will disgust people for example. And for transgender individuals? Your body is gonna recognize "something is wrong." It won't feel disgust (usually), it won't feel anger or hate, but it DAMNED WELL won't feel attraction. As such, if I meet a transgender individual that can calmly admit to being transgender and understand they stand out like a sore thumb and rarely (if ever) attract their desired gender, but the gender swap makes them feel better all the same? More power to these people. The ones I've met that seem to be living in this fantasy world where OMG IM A WOMAN NOW AND EVERYONE THINKS I LOOK FEMININE AND I MUST NEVER ACKNOWLEDGE MY PAST NAME AGAIN!!! Yeah, they can gtfo. I keep my distance from these individuals not because transgender individuals bother me, but because delusional individuals bother me (I've met women who've attempted to lie to me and others about their fake boobs; same **** here, that bothers me), and sadly the delusion quota in the transgender community - in my experience - has been high. Nowhere near a majority, but still high. I've met three such individuals in my lifetime, which is three more than I cared to meet. I do not think my reaction is abnormal, offensive or strange. I just explained to you my reasoning, I in no way think anything I said was unreasonable. At no point did I state I was against transgender individuals or their rights; they deserve all of that. All the same, yes if I meet a transgender individual, I'm gonna be asking in my head if this is gonna be a normal one of a "I AM THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN EVER I WAS NEVER A MAN WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT" one. And the moment I get a hint of the latter type, I'm gone. Now let's talk about you: I can imagine you having the same impulses where you see a transgender individual and your mind/body reacts with a "NOPE." That's natural. But what I can't imagine is that you'd admit to this....actually I could imagine you saying it now that I've brought it up solely for the sake of trying to come across as relateable, but admitting to it on your own, without someone else provoking it out of you? No, you'd claim there's no issue whatsoever, because you wanna be a good person. You'd NEVER admit to anything that can remotely resemble prejudice, because what would people think!! You've gotta continue trying to look like the nicest, most morally good person ever! And so you lie. You lie to yourself, you lie to others. You convince yourself you don't have these impulses, you tell everyone those impulses don't exist. But in doing so, you fail to sit down and critically ask yourself who you are, what makes you tick and why you think the way you do. On two seperate occassions, I have respectfully confessed my "prejudices" towards the transgender community to a transgender individual. On both cases, we had a meaningful discussion that helped me understand myself and the transgender community better. The second individual was even happy to hear me say what I said, and then began complaining that so many people now "fetishize" or use the transgender community for political statements without understanding them themselves. They'll sit there and claim ridiculous things like anyone who doesn't find a transgender person attractive is a prejudice bigot, or they'll attempt to downplay how serious a gender change is, the result being that actual experts or support groups are sometimes laughable because they've been fed bull**** by some hipster SJWs who just said **** to make the trans community feel more accepted rather than speaking about what they truly are and what problems they truly face. (wish I could recall the exact details, sadly this convo took place two years ago) I'm not afraid to admit to any thought that goes through my mind because what purpose is there in ever lying to myself? When I was 14 I saw a documentary on an assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler. In it, they determined a table leg saved Hitler's life by diminishing how much of a blast from a suitcase bomb hit him. To try and make everyone feel better about those terrible results, one of the German war veterans in attendance said they think Hitler had to survive that, because he believed that had Hitler died that day, he would've died a hero rather than a villain, because this was before his artocities came to light. That blew my mind. The idea that the guy who's synonymous with the word "evil" almost died a hero...? Blew my mind. It made me realize...do my friends like me, or do they only like the ILLUSION of me that I've presented? Of course I only show them my best traits, of course I hide my worst....but what's the point in that? I do want to be judged. I do want people to know who I truly am, and that way, I can know if people truly like and agree with me or not. Even if the world determined I was a terrible person, all the same I am who I am and I should be proud of who I am, and wear my personality on my sleeve like a badge of pride. ....Then there's you. Sometimes I read your post and I feel like you're my antithesis. I get the sense that you and I are, in many ways, complete opposites. Every post of yours is so polite it could make school children nauceous. Every single discussion has to end peacefully or on a good note or it'll bother the hell out of you. At all times, you have to remind people you're progressive, you care about women (weird to me that it's ALWAYS women) and you're a good person. I look at that and say what point is there in forcing a convo to end on a good note? You can't do that; you're kidding yourself and lying to yourself, because if a convo ends on a bad note, it ends on a bad note. And the constant reminders about how much you care about women or in this case, the workers at Gawker, just comes off as total bull. In my mind, you're either a troll, or you're a sad little man who is so haunted by fears that people might perceive you as a bad person or that you ARE a bad person, that you let those exact fears govern your every opinion, to the point where the opinion forms before the reasoning behind the opinion has even made sense in your brain. Hey, what I'm saying may hurt, but it's called "honesty," and as I've said you can learn a lot from it. Every post you make comes across as the most fake, disingenuine thing ever. You're like the definition of those guys that ask "how was your day" purely for the politeness of it but don't actually care or pay attention to the answer. I mean I have no doubt that you're gonna respond to this post with something along the lines of "oh ok this is a very helpful post and I thank you for your input!" What I do doubt is if you actually read it. So many of your posts are just empty statements that fail to say anything beyond "good point." You never explain why or how, you never explain your reasoning, you never provide evidence you actually read or comprehended what anyone says to you, you never do anything. And hell, you never voice criticism ever unless it's deemed allowable by your weird overly-progressive moral compass. So yeah, if I'm being as frank as possible, you seem like a sad individual who is living your life letting the opinions of others govern who you are and how you should act, all out of fear of being perceived as bad or evil or something. You hear "WOMEN GOOD, MEN BAD" and repeat it like a friggin' caveman without being able to explain ANY of the reasons behind your logic, and why? Because one they're not logical and two it's not YOUR false logic to begin with. You just parrot all the "good karma" political stances you've heard without bothering to comprehend them (if that's even possible), and that's evident by how poorly you argue them....if at all. As I said, your posts are nonstop empty statements devoid of any substance, and it always seems evident that you're more concerned with your image and seeming like a good person than you are in....well, actually having a god damned debate. Seriously though, here's a challenge for you: quote one post for me in this entire thread where you actually make an argument. You'll find that all of your arguments are "I don't think so." That's it. You just disagree without stating why. Anyone else on these forums, whether I agree with them or not, I can expect them to explain to me why they think the way they do. But you? You cannot even back up any of your own stances or beliefs, and I'm personally of the opinion your opinion about Gawker "changed" not because we actually convinced you, but because you noticed you were the ONLY person in the entirety of the forums that was opting to defend them, thus you perceived what you're doing must be "bad" and caved not because you actually listened to anything anyone said, but because for you, life is just a desperate attempt to be perceived as a good person. Well I'll tell you, it's not working. I've said before, quite frankly, that I don't respect your opinions, because as I just pointed out, I don't think your opinions have any reasoning behind them. Why would I give time of day to a person who has their opinions solely due to peer pressure or some other weird social phenomina with their thinking pattern? I respect those who can say "I am against strong criminal charges for false rape accusations because A, B, and C," not those who say "I am against strong criminal charges for false rape accusations because it is wrong and I have always been a nice man who respects women and is concerned with achieving equality for them." Nothing that you say makes anyone think "wow what a nice guy!" Infact I'm often sitting here thinking "wow what a fruit" or "Bruce is the poster child for that saying 'Don't be too open-minded or your brain will fall out.'" I also think there's probably a lot of people that think you can be rather passive aggressive, which if you didn't know, can be a very ugly personality trait to have. Yes that's a wall of text, and yes that's a wall of text that neither you nor anyone else asked for. All the same, I posted it because quite frankly, if you go through this thread, it's "Everyone else vs. Bruce's drunk-as-hell moral compass." Half the thread is you grasping at straws and attempting to downplay Gawker's horrendous acts. And why? Because they're on your "side" and they're "good progressives." ....That's another pet peeve of mine: people that blindly defend others on their "side" without actually asking if they agree with that person or group whatsoever. But I've ranted enough. Point is that quite frankly I think you irritate the ever-living hell out of a lot of people, it's just some are more reluctant than others to say it.

Jesus ****. I mean this really puts things in perspective about just how painfully difficult defending Gawker must be. Take a look at this little exchange if you haven't seen it already.

He's also making a strong case for Ftard of the Year award. I mean I gotta be frank here, I'm starting to have serious doubts Gawker HAS a legal team. This is starting to hit a point where I would at least be reviewing the legal team for professional misconduct. I mean there's only so much a lawyer can do when assigned to guard an idiot, but at the same time....do they NOT have the common sense to speak to their lawyers at all before posting half this ****?

Gawker continues to plead with judges to raise the amount in damages they're expected to pay to Hulk Hogan.

Those 7 points seem reasonable to me, which ones dont you think is shaming ? Mods how have you not banned this guy? I mean....it's getting pretty blatant.

Posting this here just because lord knows these forums don't need another full topic on this kinda stuff, but: http://imgur.com/PyxkgX7 Ok, so let's set aside the whole SJWs vs. non-SJW crap for a second. In the most objective neutral way possible, anyone should be able to look at this and see that #5 blatantly contradicts #4, and yet this is a university class. Any form of study that contradicts itself *that quickly* should be subject to extreme scrutiny and some serious questions about the value of the class. And yet this isn't exactly a one-off; you can find dozens of stories about various little gender studies classes or the like with varying degrees of sketchy teachings, yet universities continue to embrace this stuff. Why? I'm posting this because I'm genuinely curious. I'm posting this in hopes someone here has contact to a college dean, someone involved with these studies, a professor, whatever, and that someone can shed light on why on earth universities - places that are supposed to be beacons of knowledge - are teaching subjects so blatantly lacking in quality or actual knowledge. Even Theology, an area of study that any atheist would be hesitant to acknowledge as valid, is a subject that will teach it's students plenty of history, culture, interpretations, snippets of languages etc, so if a zealous atheist were to knock on theology's door and demand to see actual tangible knowledge that's taught rather than blind matters of faith, Theology could provide what's demanded of it. Theology is a subject that even an atheist could study and feel as though they've learned something worthwhile, despite the obvious conflicts at hand. But this...? You cannot teach something that contradicts itself every two seconds. There is no method to this. There is nothing being critically assessed. There's nothing of value here. That seems like the most obvious thing in the world to me, yet universities continue to teach this stuff here and there. Can anyone explain why?

Dear god, you're right! Those poor people are gonna have to find new jobs where they actually benefit society! Oh the humanity!

Maybe people who volunteer to blow themselves up are just...fukn dumb.

You're a strange man to show compassion for a faceless corporation that makes money off of gossiping about people's private lives and blatantly violating the law in the most shameless manner possible, part of which I assure you helped to influence the judge to give them such a strong sentence. A defendant who shows remorse over their actions or that seems to have made an honest mistake...? That's a defendant who doesn't benefit much from excess punishment. A defendant who practically taunts the person they've offended as well as mocking the legal system? Better ****ing believe that judge is gonna bitchslap the crap out of that defendant with the largest punishment possible. They brought that much upon themselves. But here you are showing sympathy for a faceless corporation whose business it was to sell rumors and gossip, yet you don't see the hypocrisy of paying for sex workers while condemning the practice of sex work, thereby objectively not offering the "sympathies" you claim to want to offer those people by supporting the very system they're a part of. Ya ok.

Understatement of the year, dude doesn't have a single fan outside the USA.

BUT MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM I didn't even get time to studyyyyyyyyyy

These lyrics are astonishingly beautiful to me for a makeshift fan cover.

A community I was a part of over 7-8 years ago just made efforts to track me down and finally found me. I'm not quite sure what to say or think. Like on one hand it's flattering. They said they missed me cause I'm a funny, charming, intelligent guy, and thus out of nowhere they're like "we need to find him again and make sure he's doing alright." On the other hand...I'm not doing alright. Like ok, I'm a ****ing child in this regard: I "run" from my problems in this sense. I was kinda raised to feel like I'm only as important as my accomplishments. Not sure how to describe it. Like I'm not one of those jerkholes that's like "you work at McDonalds? What a loser..." Yo screw off with that crap, show respect to everyone. At the same time, I was held to high expectations and I was raised to always feel like I had to accomplish something for people. It's only over recent years that I've come to terms with the fact that while my mother does indeed love me and would take a bullet for me like any mother would, she doesn't respect me. I am not here to be an individual with my own ambitions, my own motives and my own desires. No, I am here to be prestigious and successful so she can brag to her friends and reap the benefits of whatever well-paying job she pushes me towards. Being raised by an attitude like that has I guess had some profound impact on me where if I cannot talk to a person in such a way that I'm making them happy or entertaining them or whatever, then I feel like a problem and don't want to be there. As such, I don't know how on earth I would talk to a group that, last they knew of me, my life was going great. I'd just feel like a disappointment or a failure, and then I have this attitude of "better to not talk to them so they don't have to know the bad stuff or worry about me." But I mean this can get ridiculous. I mean I've got a friend I basically cut ties with because she wanted to invite me to her wedding after we hadn't spoken for a year, and I couldn't bare to go there and just be like "ya I'm doing ****ty." And that **** IS painful, cause then I feel ****ty for not responding (as I should), but I don't know what to say either. I just always feel like I'll worry or disappoint people, and I don't wanna do that. And to top that off, mom is also PSYCHO ****ING OBSESSIVE. I'm talking like, I moved across the damned Atlantic to get away from her and now she's trying to figure out how to buy property IN MY TOWN so she can live next to me. I could move to freaking Japan and she'd be looking up tips on learning Japanese or some crap. So in that light, yeah, it does weird me out a bit and make me feel uncomfortable when someone tries to track me. Reminds me too much of a very uncomfortable relationship with my mom and freaks me out, and then I'm just wanting to run even more. Makes my commitment issues go "god pls no." But here I am sitting here asking myself "wut is life" cause I know these guys and know they mean no harm, and I'm catching myself potentially respectfully declining some form of reunion, and it's just got me thinking a lot.

I come here for politics and all of you are talking about banging vampires. Well ok then. Gee I wonder why American politics are so warped.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueQ0TfVGxU4 Michael Winter was my Godfather. Mom approached him and his wife (also disabled; told Japan to **** off when she got fed up of their horrendous treatment of her for her disability) when I was an infant, basically desperate and wanting advice on how to raise me since she knew nothing about raising a disabled child. Not only did they give her sound advice (to raise me just as she would any other child and not give me special treatment), they actively became a part of my life. He died about 2-3 years ago, this video popped up yesterday thanks to his wife and I just caught wind of it. Sad that he's gone, but happy to know that he was recognized for being the good guy that he was. Been thinking a lot about him today.

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/11/politics/donald-trump-chicago-protests/index.html I'm not sure what you mean? Yes I am Hilary supporter, many people are. I'm not sure what you getting at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQoOtrHG96k I refuse to believe that you are SO blind that you cannot see that line for what it is. That line was obviously a rehearsed humblebrag that she was told to say. That line is akin to "I have a confession to make. If elected as president, I cannot help but spend three hours out of my day each day donating money to starving orphans and sick puppies. I'm sorry America, I hope I haven't let you down with this, but it's just who I am. I can't stand to watch those poor things suffer, even if it gets in the way of my work." I'm sorry, but I firmly believe you have to be an idiot to not see the intent behind that line. It's a humblebrag. A dishonest humblebrag that her campaign told her to try and drop into the debate somewhere, where she gives this impression she's ashamed of something that the American people would actually view as a good thing. And yeah, it's not even true. The very fact that that statement was made contradicts the context of the statement itself. I reference that line because it's easily the most painful line of any debate I've seen thusfar. It is, in my opinion, the epitome of lying in politics, yet apparently people can't pick up on that. If you are asked a question about why the American people don't trust you, and your only response is to attempt to lie to them again, then wow. That should say worlds about Hilary as a candidate and as a politician, but instead, the world being what it is, of course there's thousands of idiots that buy into it. In my world, that line would singlehandedly unravel and tank her campaign, since it's just so obvious and filled with so many delicious ironies that only sink her credibility, but I know we don't live in my world. So all I can do is sit here in awe at the fact that Hilary could not have delivered a more obvious political line/lie and she's not even gonna need to pay for it because people are just that stupid.

....Adam's Apple? Chin?

Please tell me people aren't stupid enough to fall for Hilary's "I am not a politician" humblebrag. Watching that **** is painful just because I know there's bound to be people stupid enough to fall for that ****.