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Author Topic: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread  (Read 1289985 times)

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Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #11205 on: January 08, 2016, 09:32:05 am »

Is that such a bad thing?
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Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #11206 on: January 08, 2016, 09:40:51 am »

Sense of superiority at this community compared to others is a longstanding Bay 12 cornerstone.
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Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #11207 on: January 08, 2016, 10:18:04 am »

Is that such a bad thing?
It's just not because of some pinnacle of reason and kindness.
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Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #11208 on: January 08, 2016, 10:21:35 am »

I dunno. I think it's probably a bit of both. Maybe the shitposting was a filter, but it still means that the nicer people tend to be the ones left. Then there's the fact that this is linked to DF - most people who come here have at least attempted the game, most have succeeded. It takes a certain mind set to persist with DF, one that the average troll may not have.
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Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #11209 on: January 08, 2016, 10:52:00 am »

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Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #11210 on: January 08, 2016, 11:12:18 am »

Sense of superiority at this community compared to others is a longstanding Bay 12 cornerstone.

In my experience, it is a cornerstone of any and all internet communities, other than /b/. At /b/, everyone knows it is a hive of scum and villainy, and revels in it.

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Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #11211 on: January 08, 2016, 11:39:42 am »

Well the only other forums I've actively participated in are the MSPA and Roblox ones, so out of my sample yeah Bay12 is the best by a long way. It's just not really saying much.
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Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #11212 on: January 08, 2016, 11:45:29 am »

The Cologne chief of police has been suspended of his duties, because of the way he communicated the situation on New Years Eve in Cologne as 'being under control', while in reality, the police was outnumbered, and completely helpless, and because he has withheld information from / misinformed the public regarding the nationality of the perpetrators.

In other news, the Swiss artist Milo Moiré, well-known for her nude performances, travelled to Cologne for a 10 minute protest in front of the central station (don't look if nudity offends you):
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Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #11213 on: January 08, 2016, 11:48:31 am »

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Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #11214 on: January 08, 2016, 12:03:13 pm »

Is public nudity not a crime in Germany?
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« Reply #11215 on: January 08, 2016, 12:21:24 pm »

I don't think it is, as long as it serves a societal purpose (like art, or protest). Which is likely why the police in the background do nothing. They're probably there to protect her from extremists.
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Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #11216 on: January 08, 2016, 02:51:47 pm »

I wonder if I could convince her that there's a societal reason for her to protest in my bedroom.

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Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #11217 on: January 08, 2016, 03:12:58 pm »

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« Reply #11218 on: January 08, 2016, 08:30:06 pm »

There's reports coming in now from Sweden, Finland, Switzerland and Austria, about sexual assaults during New Year's eve.
The Helsinki police reports "having prevented a second Cologne". They claim to have had intel about mass sexual assaults being planned for New Year's Eve, and deployed reinforcements from other police districts in the country to Helsinki.
Despite their increased prescence, police recieved many complaints about sexual harrasment on a central square where about twenty thousand people had gathered to celebrate. More harrassment complaints came from the central station area, where apparently a group of 1000, mostly Iraqi refugees had gathered.

Three refugees have been arrested. The adjunct chief of police, Ilkka Koskimaki, told the French media that 'this is a completely new phenomena for Helsinki, we have never seen anything like this in previous years"

- heh, it's almost like an exact copy of what the cologne chief of police said -

One country nextdoor, In the Swedish city of Kalmar, at least 15 young women were sexually assaulted, has been announced by the Swedish police. The victims were surrounded by a large group of people on a busy square in Kalmar, and touched indecently. The police have found two suspects, both refugees, and are looking for more perpetrators.

And then there's the Swiss police, reporting that dozens of women have been robbed, and six of them also sexually harassed by "people with a dark skin".

Finally, the Austrian police reports that several women have filed similar complaints in Salzburg.

Police forces are now investigating if those mass assaults in the different cities / countries were a coordinated action.
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Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #11219 on: January 08, 2016, 08:31:00 pm »

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