The Off Topic Topic

[garbon]

I'm a little nostalgic for the times when only far-rightwingers were in favor of racial and cultural purity: http://reason.com/blog/2016/10/26/video-uc-berkeley-protesters-built-a-hum

Student protesters at the University of California-Berkeley gathered in front of a bridge on campus and forcibly prevented white people from crossing it. Students of color were allowed to pass.

Yeah.

Tell us how you feel about these protesters?

Then, replace with "white people" with Jews, and answer again.

Just curious.

What is with you people and the Jews?

[MadImmortalMan]

The post office requires an appointment for passport renewal stuff, and the only way to do that is to call them. So I called them. Two hours ago. It's still ringing.

I just put the phone down on the desk and fired up Rimworld.

[CountDeMoney]

The post office requires an appointment for passport renewal stuff, and the only way to do that is to call them. So I called them. Two hours ago. It's still ringing.

I just put the phone down on the desk and fired up Rimworld.

  I've had to call the Post Office as well;  put me on hold until the office closed at 4:30.  Click.

[Jacob]

Tell us how you feel about these protesters?

I don't know enough about these protesters to have an opinion, and I don't know the provenance of the reporting enough to tell how accurately it describes the events and context.

Nonetheless, like you, I prefer my left wing politics without a focus on racial and cultural purity in the mix; which is why I agreed with your post.

Then, replace with "white people" with Jews, and answer again.

Just curious.

I prefer my left wing politics without anti-semitism in the mix.

That wasn't too difficult, to be honest.

[Hamilcar]

Nonetheless, like you, I prefer my left wing politics without a focus on racial and cultural purity in the mix; which is why I agreed with your post.

I may have unfairly tarred you these last few weeks then. I apologize. 

[Admiral Yi]

Nonetheless, like you, I prefer my left wing politics without a focus on racial and cultural purity in the mix; which is why I agreed with your post.

Which type(s) of purity do you prefer your left wing politics to have?

[Jacob]

Nonetheless, like you, I prefer my left wing politics without a focus on racial and cultural purity in the mix; which is why I agreed with your post.

I may have unfairly tarred you these last few weeks then. I apologize. 

I'm sure there's plenty we can disagree about

[Jacob]

Nonetheless, like you, I prefer my left wing politics without a focus on racial and cultural purity in the mix; which is why I agreed with your post.

Which type(s) of purity do you prefer your left wing politics to have?

I'm honestly not that big on purity - I'm much more interested in pragmatic solutions.

[The Brain]

I admire your pragmatism.

[Habbaku]

My pragmatism is the purest.

[DGuller]

replace with "white people" with Jews,

We'd need more nurses and paralegals.

[Josquius]

What is wrong with some people.
On the metro the chairs are arranged so on one side you have a block of 4 facing each other, 2 backwards and 2 forwards, and on the other side a block of 2 facing each other.
I get onto a pretty much empty metro and sit on one of the blocks of 2. Have it to myself.... and some woman comes and sits directly opposite me.
There are plenty of empty blocks. But she commits this grievous etiquette faux pas. Some people....

[Liep]

What is wrong with some people.
On the metro the chairs are arranged so on one side you have a block of 4 facing each other, 2 backwards and 2 forwards, and on the other side a block of 2 facing each other.
I get onto a pretty much empty metro and sit on one of the blocks of 2. Have it to myself.... and some woman comes and sits directly opposite me.
There are plenty of intake blocks. But she commits this grievous etiquette faux pas. Some people....

An even bigger faux pas would've been to tell her how much of a faux pas she was committing.

[Liep]

A Danish anti-EU party is having a bit of trouble after receiving EU-funds for EU related projects and then spending the money on various non EU stuff such as dinners and travels. Their reaction was quite interesting: We'll just pay it back, just an honest mistake. Oh you won't take it back without an investigation? Why not, no harm done if we pay it back. WHY WON'T YOU TAKE IT BACK? Typical Brussels wasting money.

[alfred russel]

What is wrong with some people.
On the metro the chairs are arranged so on one side you have a block of 4 facing each other, 2 backwards and 2 forwards, and on the other side a block of 2 facing each other.
I get onto a pretty much empty metro and sit on one of the blocks of 2. Have it to myself.... and some woman comes and sits directly opposite me.
There are plenty of intake blocks. But she commits this grievous etiquette faux pas. Some people....

An even bigger faux pas would've been to tell her how much of a faux pas she was committing.

tyr should have tried striking up a conversation. maybe she thought he was cute.