[evollove]

FGM doesn't need editorializing, it's so awful. I think that's why the editorializing is so suspicious. Frankly, pieces like that make me wonder what the real story is and I go in search of a better source.

But yes. It makes me feel gross to say it, but Western culture is kinda sorta better than some others. Sorry. But it is.

[Severian]

Originally Posted by h8kurdt

You've read a newspaper before, right?

And tbh, I don't know how you can be unbiased about FGM. Just other cultures do it doesn't mean you can't denounce it to hell and back. Cunts who do this shit should be strung up.

One of the worst excuses I ever hear anyone say is "oh, but that's their culture". As if that absolves anyone of this sort of thing. These people think they're being liberal and open-minded when actually they come across as total fucking morons.

WHOAH WHOAH WHOAH...

FGM IS horrifying, awful, disgusting, inexcusable, no question. But NEWSPAPERS should NOT fucking say that. Its actually an extremely important part of the whole journalistic writing approach. An editorial or opinion piece can go nuts with this shit, but it’s the opposite of news to fill a news story with loaded modifiers and value statements. It’s antithetical to the entire practice.

Have a quote from someone who says it’s awful. That’s what a journalist would do. You absolutely do not, EVER, write value-statements in a way that makes it seem as though the NEWSPAPER has an opinion.

Yes I’ve read newspapers. I work for one. Fucks sake dude. I’m not defending FGM, I’m attacking shit journalism.

And it’s true that I have no experience with the culture, so I can only offer a one-sided opinion on it all. Even though that opinion is that it’s gross and horrifying and inexcusable.

I’d lose my job if I wrote an article like this.

Don’t put words in my mouth, fam.

[Severian]

Originally Posted by evollove

FGM doesn't need editorializing, it's so awful. I think that's why the editorializing is so suspicious. Frankly, pieces like that make me wonder what the real story is and I go in search of a better source.

YUUUP.

[tesla69]

Deep down the list of amendments is No 1096, which aims to “prohibit multichannel video programming distributors from being required to carry certain video content that is owned or controlled by the Government of the Russian Federation”.
Submitted by John McCain on behalf of Lindsey Graham, both of whom are veteran Republican hawks, the provision says a distributor working in US jurisdiction “may not be directly or indirectly required” to carry video content that is “is owned, controlled, or financed (in whole or in part) by the Government of the Russian Federation”.

[ilduclo]

Right wingers are ready to protect all the women from scary immigrants, just ask em

[Severian]

Originally Posted by ilduclo

Right wingers are ready to protect all the women from scary immigrants, just ask em

Right-wingers are totally ready to protect women from everything, including pesky decision making and the ability to obtain positions of power. Super chivalrous.

[demonrail666]

au contraire ...

 

[ilduclo]

odor contrail

[h8kurdt]

Originally Posted by Severian

WHOAH WHOAH WHOAH...

FGM IS horrifying, awful, disgusting, inexcusable, no question. But NEWSPAPERS should NOT fucking say that. Its actually an extremely important part of the whole journalistic writing approach. An editorial or opinion piece can go nuts with this shit, but it’s the opposite of news to fill a news story with loaded modifiers and value statements. It’s antithetical to the entire practice.

Have a quote from someone who says it’s awful. That’s what a journalist would do. You absolutely do not, EVER, write value-statements in a way that makes it seem as though the NEWSPAPER has an opinion.

Yes I’ve read newspapers. I work for one. Fucks sake dude. I’m not defending FGM, I’m attacking shit journalism.

And it’s true that I have no experience with the culture, so I can only offer a one-sided opinion on it all. Even though that opinion is that it’s gross and horrifying and inexcusable.

I’d lose my job if I wrote an article like this.

Don’t put words in my mouth, fam.

I dunno. It's tabloids. That's their way of writing as moronic as it is. Fact is, there's such thing as unbiased media. Some are just better at hiding it than others.

The Daily Mail here is the perfect example of a paper trying act high class when it's nothing more than gutter press.

[evollove]

Wow. I'm surprised at how emotional I got when I heard about John McCain effectively killing a shitty health care bill.

He'll no doubt do something soon which will piss me off, but right now, I feel like getting some chick pregnant and naming the kid after him.

[The Soup Nazi]

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

wrong thread rob

demasiada mota! xD

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

I wish. no hay suficiente mota!!!!!!

Rob speaky the Spanish? I did NOT know that. (Well, technically it's Castilian, as "Spanish" could also mean Galician, Catalan or seriously weird shit like Basque).

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi

Rob speaky the Spanish? I did NOT know that. (Well, technically it's Castilian, as "Spanish" could also mean Galician, Catalan or seriously weird shit like Basque).

el estado en españa no es multilingüe

y no te burles de tus ancestros que según unamuno la república de chile fue creación vasca.

[The Soup Nazi]

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

el estado en españa no es multilingüe

y no te burles de tus ancestros que según unamuno la república de chile fue creación vasca.

YOW! I didn't mean my post to mock Spain (again, didn't even know Rob was Spaniard or a Spain resident or who knows what) and all I said about the Basque language is that it is "weird" (Wikipedia: "Linguistically, Basque is unrelated to the other languages of Europe and indeed, as a language isolate, to any other known language."). Dontcha fly off the handle, Symbols. That frying pan will boomerang the heck back to you.

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi

YOW! I didn't mean my post to mock Spain (again, didn't even know Rob was Spaniard or a Spain resident or who knows what) and all I said about the Basque language is that it is "weird" (Wikipedia: "Linguistically, Basque is unrelated to the other languages of Europe and indeed, as a language isolate, to any other known language."). Dontcha fly off the handle, Symbols. That frying pan will boomerang the heck back to you.

no man. castilian is spanish. lengua es imperio.

robigator is a nuyorican by birth, tejano by adoption

where the hell have you been for the past decade or two? these are known facts

mira ésto (y ya no jodas con las tildes que me limpio el culo con la academia)

https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inmi...vasca_en_Chile

[The Soup Nazi]

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inmi...vasca_en_Chile

Look, just because you posted it, I'll read it, BUT... Dude. Dude! I come here to get AWAY from this shit. And wretched shit like a certain musical group you recommended that I don't even have the stomach to mention so let's just say it rhymes with "high bass". To the fiery pits with all that. I cannot live in that world. I would disintegrate molecularly. So I come to this sanctuary. To play. With my toys.

[The Soup Nazi]

OK, back on topic, from The Washington Post:

A short history of 'dotard,' the arcane insult Kim Jong Un used in his threat against Trump

"It's pronounced dō-tərd (as in DOE-turd), and searches for the term spiked following Kim's statement, Merriam-Webster noted."

 

Priceless...

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi

Look, just because you posted it, I'll read it, BUT... Dude. Dude! I come here to get AWAY from this shit. And wretched shit like a certain musical group you recommended that I don't even have the stomach to mention so let's just say it rhymes with "high bass". To the fiery pits with all that. I cannot live in that world. I would disintegrate molecularly. So I come to this sanctuary. To play. With my toys.

¿pero con el fútbol sí?

[Severian]

My Spanish isn’t good enough to keep up with this thread.

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by Severian

My Spanish isn’t good enough to keep up with this thread.

please don't blame bad hombres or say that daca is caca

what languages do you speak?

[Severian]

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

please don't blame bad hombres or say that daca is caca

what languages do you speak?

English. Enough Spanish to get through a month in Madrid. Enough French to get through a few weeks in Paris. Both when I was like 19. So... English.