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It means a few contradictory things.fbmf wrote:What is meant by "the dirtbag left"?
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One is people who are mean and don't care about your feelings and are jerks, but on the left, so they say the mean swears and insult people.
One is people who are "left" economically, but spend all their time railing against intersectionality/opposition to racism/sexism/and assorted queerphobias, basically advocating class reductionism.
Different people use it one of the other way that it ends up being not a very useful term.
The U.S. isn't a democracy and if you think it is, you are a rube.DSMatticus wrote:Kaelik gonna kaelik. Whatcha gonna do?
That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.
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I've seen dirtbag left usually come up where podcasts and YouTube channels are concerned. Usually describing a person who's left leaning but more offensive in some way.
I think Twitter is trash and is a bad barometer for politics so I can't say personally of I've seen it there but I've heard that like any other group identity on Twitter it spends a lot of time hurling shit at perceived enemies.
Of course as yet another pejorative you can really apply it to whoever you don't like so ymmv.
I think Twitter is trash and is a bad barometer for politics so I can't say personally of I've seen it there but I've heard that like any other group identity on Twitter it spends a lot of time hurling shit at perceived enemies.
Of course as yet another pejorative you can really apply it to whoever you don't like so ymmv.
The way I understand it, it sort of depends on who's saying it.fbmf wrote:What is meant by "the dirtbag left"?
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When liberals say it, they use it to mean "leftists who are mean" which basically means, leftists who converse the way we do here on the Den (lots of swearing, insults tossed off matter of factly, etc)
When conservatives say it, they basically mean "leftists." Which is to say, they use it to refer to actual leftist people, in general, distinct from liberals.
When leftists say it, they generally use it to mean leftists who, well, basically fail in some measure of leftism, usually by retaining some manner of bigotry or who are only very generally "leftist" by coopting leftism for their own bullshit.
For example, I would say Chapo Trap House dirtbag leftists because they are leftists, but retain a lot of ableism and casual racism and sexism in their views. And I would say INDECLINE is a bunch of dirtbag leftists because they're coopting leftist aesthetics to sell t shirts while also having very liberal politics (an example being their fat shamey Nude Trump statue)
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You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
A much more useful answer: Ask the person who used the word. Their response will be far more informative than anything we can tell you.
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why can't i stop thinking about vampires/zombies having a food fight? x.x
why can't i stop thinking about vampires/zombies having a food fight? x.x
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Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.
A jew, a catholic, and muslim are on a podcast. They talk about how the profit motive of capitalism causes engineering disasters, coping with the tragedy through absurdist humor. Sometimes the humor isn't enough to not be broken by the scope of tragedy. The self described dirtbag left of the Well There's Your Problem podcast with slides youtube channel.
Bring a box of tissues for the Grenfell Tower and Bhopal disasters, and don't forget to do a pronoun check on your way in.
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George Floyd's killer was arrested on third degree, or, depraved heart, murder. Along with a lot of people, I believe that the killing was at least 1st degree.
Is it possible that this charge could be upgraded during trial or whatever legal proceedings?
Is it possible that this charge could be upgraded during trial or whatever legal proceedings?
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
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FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
It wouldn't be upgraded "at trial" but it is certainly possible to upgrade the charge at some later point based on further investigation.Prak wrote:George Floyd's killer was arrested on third degree, or, depraved heart, murder. Along with a lot of people, I believe that the killing was at least 1st degree.
Is it possible that this charge could be upgraded during trial or whatever legal proceedings?
However, let's be clear: The autopsy report was just written to if not deliberately lie, be extremely misleading, and it took a precinct being burned to get him arrested making him the first cop in the history of the state of Minnesota to ever be charged with murder for an on the job murder.
If another cop precinct doesn't get lit on fire there isn't going to be an upgrade.
The U.S. isn't a democracy and if you think it is, you are a rube.DSMatticus wrote:Kaelik gonna kaelik. Whatcha gonna do?
That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.
Oh certainly. I'm just, like, trying to cling to whatever hope I can find right now, yknow?
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
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Yeah, to my mind the fact that you rarely see cops charged with so much as manslaughter tells me about everything I need to know about the odds of an upgrade happening. There's actually hypothetical just worlds where I can imagine being cool with 3rd degree murder and a full 25 in the pokey being the sentence in a case like this. But in those imaginary worlds we'd also be penning trigger happy cops on the regular and that demonstrably just doesn't happen. That it's merely the charge in this incident leads my most cynical self to believe that at worst we're looking at a not guilty verdict and at best he pleas down to something even lower.
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Depends but yes . . i have had that happen to me . .
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Shrapnel wrote:TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.
Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.
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Shrapnel wrote:TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.
Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.
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Ok, this is a weird question, but where does the stereotype that women doing something with their mouths is inherently attractive come from?
I get facial expressions which involve the mouth, but lots of movie have people giving advice like "Randomly stick a fingertip in your mouth, it makes you sexy" and this is supposed to be serious and I'm just not seeing it.
I get facial expressions which involve the mouth, but lots of movie have people giving advice like "Randomly stick a fingertip in your mouth, it makes you sexy" and this is supposed to be serious and I'm just not seeing it.
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I don't think it's any more complicated than:Thaluikhain wrote:Ok, this is a weird question, but where does the stereotype that women doing something with their mouths is inherently attractive come from?
I get facial expressions which involve the mouth, but lots of movie have people giving advice like "Randomly stick a fingertip in your mouth, it makes you sexy" and this is supposed to be serious and I'm just not seeing it.
1. woman puts {thing} in/near mouth
2. viewer imagines {thing} is his penis
3. profit
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