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Author Topic: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread  (Read 1275083 times)

MetalSlimeHunt

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Re: PoH's Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #3060 on: September 19, 2012, 08:17:37 pm »
Its a long story.
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« Reply #3061 on: September 19, 2012, 08:20:00 pm »
Generally discussion about this.

I'm not sure of the origin story though, it had something to do with Vector, didn't it?
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« Reply #3062 on: September 19, 2012, 08:21:31 pm »
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Re: PoH's Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #3063 on: September 19, 2012, 08:23:38 pm »
I think I'll keep boycotting Chik-Fil-A anyway. Zaksbys is much better and doesn't close on Sundays.
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Re: PoH's Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #3064 on: September 19, 2012, 08:57:41 pm »
Heck, I don't even know the origin story of the original thread. I really ought to add a "what is this thread about" section to the first post. I feel like we'd get more newcomers to the discussion that way.
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Re: PoH's Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #3065 on: September 19, 2012, 09:04:43 pm »
Vector decided to make a "bad things from a left-wing perspective" politics thread with an emphasis on feminist issues.  I don't think there's anything else to say about the origin.
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Re: PoH's Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #3066 on: September 19, 2012, 09:05:38 pm »
The feminist thing totally fell apart when she left though, I didn't notice that.
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Re: PoH's Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #3067 on: September 19, 2012, 09:12:50 pm »
No one here is really involved in feminist issues afaik :( So no one to post interesting or rage worthy events.
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Re: PoH's Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #3068 on: September 19, 2012, 09:16:36 pm »
I didn't even realize that was an explicit intention of the original thread. I thought it just ended up in there sort of organically.
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« Reply #3069 on: September 19, 2012, 09:17:16 pm »
Well, most of us here are well...men.  I'm not saying that men can't be feminists, it's just that generally women know more about women's issues than men do, and I would rather not opine on a subject I'm not all that familiar with.
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Re: PoH's Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #3070 on: September 19, 2012, 09:30:13 pm »
Thinking about it I'm not sure if it's really a thread we need, especially considering the absence of other general politics threads.  The previous thread kindof functioned as a blog of sorts (Vector posts about the issues she's concerned with), but this thread just kindof hangs around attracting arguments about whether it's exclusionary until someone desperately posts a random link to try and change the subject.

Maybe we could do with another thread that isn't restricted to those on the left wing?  Kindof like "post a recent development and explain why you think it is bad, then debate that point".
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« Reply #3071 on: September 19, 2012, 09:39:34 pm »
Vector also tended to read a lot of blogs about feminist issues, and similar stuff. Though it's good to note that while she was a pretty big feminist, she didn't exclusively talk about feminist issues, although there were several big debates regarding feminist issues and battles of the sexes...
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Re: PoH's Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #3072 on: September 20, 2012, 12:30:12 am »
Quote from: Pnx on September 19, 2012, 09:39:34 pm
battles of the sexes

It'd solve the looming overpopulation problem at least.
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Re: PoH's Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #3073 on: September 20, 2012, 12:31:37 am »
There isn't a "looming overpopulation problem" since the birth rate is expected to start going down really soon.
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Re: PoH's Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #3074 on: September 20, 2012, 12:39:47 am »
Quote from: kaijyuu on September 20, 2012, 12:31:37 am
There isn't a "looming overpopulation problem" since the birth rate is expected to start going down really soon.

Because of the battle of the sexes, we already went over this.
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