Kratesis

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Case in point: @Kratesis who will just willingly ignore any counter arguments with passive topic changes and off-hand snark.

@Dynamo Frokane

But on a more serious note, that is an interesting criticism Dynamo. I am both surprised and not surprised. I am surprised that you would characterize me as ignoring counter arguments and being snarky when your modus operandi consists of avoiding any position which could possibly face criticism while simultaneously launching snarky memes and ad hominems from the sidelines.

At the same time I am not surprised. Attacks on the character of this threads debaters is what you do and you will go to great lengths to find something to attack. Look how far back you went to find quotes to throw at Poohead. Not quotes which provided evidence to support your argument on some point of political contention but quotes to mock and belittle him for claims he had made about his romantic and personal life. I disagree with Poohead on many things but that left a bad taste in my mouth.

Now you want to toss a few ad hominems at me which I suspect is a way to avoid taking a concrete position on anything but still getting in a few jabs. I suspect you avoid taking a position because what if you were verbally beat up and embarrassed by a superior debater? It is easier to toss out a few attacks at the characters of the debaters in this thread because no one can provide evidence in defense of their character on the internet without "doxing" themselves. The character of other debaters is the perfect target! You get to belittle someone else and position yourself as their superior while avoiding any possibility of being proven wrong because your claims can't be falsified.

If you said "your argument sucks because of X,Y and Z" then you would run the risk of being embarrassed when they provided evidence that proved your claims wrong. But when you say "you personally suck because of X, Y and Z" all they can do is say "that's not true."

But when the focus of your comments is not on the flaws of other's position or the strengths of your own position but instead on the flaws and foibles of other's character then you aren't really telling us anything about that person's flaws. We know everyone has personal flaws. When you went back I don't know how many pages to find quotes from Poohead to belittle him with you didn't tell me anything about Poohead but you told me a lot about you.

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@Dynamo Frokane

I'm sure you'd like that

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I have to disagree with my fellow conservatives in regards to climate change. It is both real and the result of human activity.

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This is not mine but it was requested to be put forward. I certainly feel it is about as close to truth as a green text post can be whilst still remaining a form of entertainment.

Anon Summarizes Current Events

@The Harbinger of Ferocity

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, '/pol/ was right again'.

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@Silver Carrot In many ways I would agree.

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@Silver Carrot 4chan must be a time machine lol.

@The Harbinger of Ferocity

I believe their domain is largely in Spam

They're rousing the proletariat against us.

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Yeah we've had actual communists in this thread before. Have we had Nazis yet? They're all over /pol/ right now but I'm not sure if they've spread yet.

(What ever happened to the communist guys anyway?)

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Don't like the licence requirements in Cali? Practice somewhere else.

@Penny

This is a law that you can be imprisoned for violating. Imprisoning people for a disagreement over pronouns is an unjust use of the powers of government. No one should be force to uproot their life and move to another state or face almost a year of imprisonment because they express disagreement with a client.

I thought jail for smoking weed was bad enough but now we have jail for pronouns.

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@Penny

Now assume that you had a male nurse whose co-workers consistently called him by a female name (not his own). He has made it clear that this is unwelcome and offensive. He has asked them to stop and they continue to do so.

What you have described is man whose colleagues are jerks, not a title seven violation. They may or may not be in violation of a company policy but the law requires unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, or other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature for a given behavior to qualify as sexual harassment.

Furthermore the situations being compared are not the same. In the example you give a man is bullied by his colleagues, who address him with a name that is not his. But that is different than a situation where one individual makes a claim (that they are a certain gender) and those around them do not believe their claim and elect to not behave as if it is true.

That is clear cut workplace bullying and sexual harassment and practically any HR officer would agree with that.

The opinions of a human resources department are not relevant.