AFSamizdat

3594 pts · November 23, 2013


You may be less or more informed than others.

But the fire department is actually the water department.

6 months ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 0

Well said. Thank you.

6 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I think you're reading something entirely different from my message. Truth and reconciliation requires both acknowledgement of harms, but also how we can move forward and make things better. What system do we propose to help a mother who has drug/alcohol abuses, no stable home? Sorry isn't going to cut it. She will need help, and leaving children in a broken home isn't the solution.

6 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

How rare indeed it is that we know all the details of someones life before it ends, that we should use that as a guise to say that they deserved the worse. I don't agree with Charlie's messages, but for people to celebrate his death is equally vile to the message he spreads.

6 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Otherwise we might expect in some Star-Trek future (which ironically features foster care), that we mend all abuses, physical, mental, financial or otherwise, that give rise to parents incapable of parenting.

6 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

True but your initial comment suggests that foster care is part of the problem, when it's a bandaid to the broken homes and/or system. Norwegian countries are often held on a pedestal of excelling in human rights, which, have foster homes/a child welfare system. These systems, for the foreseeable future, will always be required, as a safety net for our most vulnerable, to no fault of their own.

6 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

True. I think this identifies the fine line to walk on in these circumstances. It's still possible that by ostracizing the expression of the arts because of human rights abuses, there will be the unintended effect of insulating the population from wanting change/questioning the status quo. I think this is especially true in comedy. Even if you can't explicitly make fun of the Saudi family.

6 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I listened to her speak live. We tend to agree with the surface of her messages, but she has some hot takes that don't get a lot of attention (population control, anti-GMO).

6 months ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

Be funny. Everyone else's moral grandstanding be damned.

6 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

My wife's family was a foster home for some time. The children they would care for come from very broken homes and families.

6 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

the open commerce of ideas and art and as a result become even more closed, paranoid and insular."

6 months ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 3

The pop singer and humanitarian Sting has likewise spoken out about this concept in the past when defending his performance in Uzbekistan in 2009. “I am well aware of the Uzbek president’s appalling reputation in the field of human rights as well as the environment,” Sting said at the time. “I made the decision to play there in spite of that. I have come to believe that cultural boycotts are not only pointless gestures, they are counter-productive, where proscribed states are further robbed of

6 months ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 3

Many of these shootings are not politically motivated it seems (drugs, arguments, suicides etc.).

6 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Can I be upset with both?

6 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I'm under the impression that decomposition isn't entirely atmospheric CO2 or methane, whereas burning it would be (or at least greater). Decomposition would include some proportion that is consumed (fungi, insects, protists etc.) and converted into other forms of stored carbon (top soil is 50-60% carbon).

6 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

What a strange correlation you made.

6 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

The fact that it's claimed that most fallen leaves are burned from residential areas raises an eyebrow. Or that residential leaf collection once a year would provide sufficient quantities of material to process for scale/maintain staff/sell product.

6 months ago | Likes 29 Dislikes 0

Iunno, dead hangs feel pretty good.

6 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

He might be a furry though.

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Car crashes don't go boom and people live. So crash doesn't mean boom and death?

7 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

It's not gay if you're on top.

7 months ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Kids need camp. Give them AIDS.

8 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

What

8 months ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

So?

8 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 8

I dislike her response, not because she's right or wrong about Rogan, but that she can be so quick to judge, and cast you aside.

8 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

Assuming the brains have elsewhere to go. As for Canada, we're also experiencing a shortage of jobs and cuts from the research sector.

8 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The community constantly complains about everything despite liking the game and sticking around.

8 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

How many snowbirds is that?

8 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

What are you saying exactly?

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