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Wednesday, October 1, 2008 09:51 PM

And isn't this really the whole history of 'civilization'?

I stand to lose my life savings and pension but I don't care as long as the bad guys lose and Obama wins the election. I'd rather eat out of cans than see KKKarl Rove continue to rule and gloat on Fox every night. Despite (and because of) two heart surgeries and a stroke, I work out every day to be either strong enough to contribute to the revolution or to live long enough to see the bad guys pay. I don't believe in hell so I want to see the punishment on earth. Wouldn't it be fun to sink one's fist so deep in one of these idiot's big white bellies that it would take a while to pull it back out. I dream of that sucking sound as I stand on their head and try to wrench my arm back so I can get a second shot at them. yeah, I'm a little angry, so stay out of my way.

For the evil to hide amongst us and to shield itself evermore from harm as it milks the rest of us?

Why else are all the machinations of so called civilization necessary? It is all ultimately reprogramming camps designed to throw us off the scent.

Thursday, October 2, 2008 08:51 AM

Live up to your name much?

Dude - you are the perfect example of the kind of paranoid, irrational loon that's dragging us all into a morass of ignorance and stupidity. Why don't you shut the fuck up with all your misguiding whining about "liberals" and "the elite" and actually do something useful with your life you dumb fuck? Nobody wants to hear you stupid neocon crackpots ranting your discredited nonsense anymore.

so liberals are perfect, huh? untouchable maybe, living gods stooping to walk among us mere humans?

if you know me from my post, you would know I attack the right and the left equally, mostly because they are the power structure and they share that role in our world of holding down the fort and trying to thwart others from thinking for themselves.

I am centrist libertarian. The only thing I have in common with the trailer trash that keeps voting in evil like Bush is that I also have two eyes and two ears.

You erroneously attack "liberals" for thinking we "know everything" when the entire basis of our belief system is rational skepticism: that is doubt, tempered by reason.

Liberals are quite deluded much of the time. Sorry to have to break this truth to you.

Doubt, tempered by reason? There is the problem. How about "open mindedness, tempered by reason, with a dollop of doubt about one's own mind and the limits of knowledge"? Too complicated for your simple mind, huh?

You, on the other hand, are a fatuous idiot and a loudmouth who bases his whole worldview on disinformation, stereotypes, paranoia, disinformation and emotion rather than facts. Guess what, asshole - the rest of us are sick of that crap and decent, educated people are not going to deal with your brand of bullshit anymore. Your proudly willful ignorance is an artifact of the Bush era. You are officially irrelevant. Get used to it. -- BabyGrumpus

Decent and educated? That is most definitely not most people on the left. Many are indecent. Most THINK they are educated, but reciting the programming one is being fed is NOT education.

Sorry you are so grumpy, I will try to talk down to you next time so you understand better.

Thursday, October 2, 2008 02:40 PM
Original article: Sex with robots = feminism?

Thanks for reminding me once again why I,

despite adoring San Francisco as a city, find the people there pathetic man-hating bitches, the women AND the men.

Now, lets' not get onto why a woman who so deapises men gets front page treatment in an official rag, I mean newspaper, in this country.

So, look, I'm all for women having sex with robots if it turns them on, but I'm confused. Is pornographic robot sex feminist because it eliminates the potential for violence against women -- and does it, really?

I get the feeling if all violence by men against women were to cease (already a low percentage as it is, and again, who are these women CHOOSING over and over?) women would consider themselves to be violently assaulted by their teevee remote or by the alarm clock in the morning, or maybe by their toothbrush. It is a need among SOME women, like air, find something to BLAME.

Is it feminist because a woman can't be exploited by a robot sex partner -- even if she's performing for a human audience?

What fun would sex be then in these women's minds? I would think a woman might go pick fights with random men just to get them to mistreat her in the way she wants to be mistreated.

Then again, maybe I underestimate women, and that there are no women who go out of their way to choose abusive men because it pleases them to be abused.

Is it feminist because it allows a woman to get pleasured without pleasuring a man, which somehow maintains the political purity of her pleasure?

This I understand. I consider feminism AT CORE to be about this-- I suspect MOST PEOPLE DO. Only the woman is deserving of pleasure. The inferior man must suffer and pay for his pleasure, and preferably also be denied it anyway.

Is it that asking for and demanding the sexual -- and sexy -- respect that one wants in the bedroom isn't as feminist as simply replacing men with literal sex machines? Is it feminist because we all know feminists not-so-secretly hope to annihilate the entire male species and replace them with robots that can simulate emotions -- including a belief in equality -- and never ever forget to put the toilet seat down?

Anyway, nice to think it is masculist or humanist of me to pleasure myself with my hand or with a vibe or whatever convenient implement I choose. There is something to learn from women. Like that infamous Onion article was once titled (I paraphrase) "Woman Empowered By Everything".

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