Trump was upset that the results of his poll were mostly negative because democrats "rigged" it - i.e. because people responded to it in a manner that wasn't sucking his dick.

So, since he's a huge baby who overcompensates for everything, he threw out the results of that old poll and made a new one without any fill-in-the-blanks so people can't say mean stuff to him.

Also, half of the "questions" are actually just grammatically faulty statements and a good portion of them focus on his campaign and Hillary Clinton, despite the fact that he's already won.

This guy must have a really, really small dick.

Think about a post that says "Can we please try and be a little sensitive towards muslims?" It might be an upvotable line but what effect does it have on a community? It fractures them. It gets people thinking about whether or not their post is islamophobic and causes more stress amongst poster than they'd otherwise have.

Sounds a bit like they want some sort of space for themselves that might be considered safe from dissenting opinions.

Some form of...safe space, perhaps?

There exist people that wholeheartedly support Trump - a lot of people, in fact - and that just makes my head hurt.

Like...how? I understand a difference of opinion and, while I personally would honestly rather have Trump than Cruz because of issues that I feel strongly about, I don't understand how anyone can actually be pro-Trump. His entire campaign is just a massive exercise in appeals to emotions, and none of the largest talking points of his campaign have any depth to them.

Like, the only reasons that I imagine people support him is because they're either:

a) so radically anti-establishment that they will vote for whoever isn't part of the "typical government" and looks to have a chance at winning

b) non or single-issue voters that jumped ship once they noticed that Sanders wasn't gonna win because they're deathly afraid of not meeting the status quo

c) neckbeards that like Trump because he's "alpha", use "cuck" to describe any political or social opposition, think that Muslims are ruining Europe, and whose greatest fear in this world is biracial couples.

I honestly cannot fathom anyone who actually, legitimately supports Trump on all of his policies - what little there are.

And I'm still not asleep

Should I just try to stay up the whole day at this point, fam?

I've done it before

It was a grilled cheese with ham

Referring to something on the same level as a the movie Surrogate - bodies physically mechanical but outwardly indistinguishable from human bodies, flesh and function alike.

For the purpose of this discussion, assume that your brain could be uploaded to a hard-drive-like "brain" and that backups could be made.

Your robot body would be fully customizable so long as it stayed without the realm of humanoid, though more far-off "body mods" would likely be incredibly expensive. Think of it like a car, basically, only more universally available.

Assuming that you had the funds to acquire such a body, would you think it morally right to do so?

I'd say yes for obvious reasons but y'know it's discussions and shit.

Fucking feminists ruining everything. Did you know that ALL feminists say that men are terrible? Fucking generalizations, seriously. That's the exact thing that HITLER did. Honestly they're just a bunch of cucks who wanna make black people better. Uhhhh that's FUCKING RACIST?!?!!?

Jfc, I swear, they just wanna ban everything because it hurts their feelings. Well you can't just BAN things. BANNING things is CENSORSHIP and that's against my RIGHTS. ANY opinion, no matter how terrible, should be allowed to exist in the world.

Well, uh, except muslims. Fuck those brown, backwards-ass, barbarians. We should pretty much ban them from the U.S. or at least have some kind of way to keep track of them, you know? Any Muslim COULD be a terrorist, so we should ban all of them.

Back on track, though, it really grinds my gears when feminists say that men are terrible because some men rape people. Jsut because any man COULD be a rapist doesn't mean that they all ARE rapists, you know! I hate generalizations, and it really fucking annoys me how ALL of those feminazi CUCKS do this.

They just get offended too easily, tbh

In attempts to make my own Tabletop system because I'm a massive fucking nerd, I'm trying to amass a knowledge of many different systems so that I might borrow from them.

So far I'm reading over GURPS and W40K, and I already know plenty about D&D/Pathfinder and Savage Worlds.

Any other suggestions, lads?

Nasheedul ubah

Ubisoft may not be able to make a good game, but by god can they make a good trailer

Link more, lads

T4R

Why doesn't anyone use names from the other covenant races, lads?

Are sangheili to the weird halo fetishist community like wolves/foxes are to the furry community?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/paris-attacks-the-eight-terror-suspects-named-so-far-all-have-eu-passports-a6738821.html

I wanna be one of the cool kids

Are you ready for another thread that will get like a billion posts in two days and then die almost immediately because it's about a controversial topic and is being posted by your resident ooky-spooky ess jay dubble yew?

I bet you're not.

Well, buckle up, buckaroo, because we're DIVING THE FUCK IN anyways.

This week's thread will be much less confusing and drawn out than the last one - mostly because I'm not going after any specific community using stupid-ass terms that I came up with to harangue people (What? It's not like I don't know that I'm a dickbag, I just think I'm a dickbag for the right reasons.). No, no - today we will be discussing society as a whole and its attitudes towards that of masculinity and femininity, the roles these play in society, and how these effect the way that society views a multitude of issues including LGBT rights but also the rights of straight, cis women and men.

Let's get started, lads.

Like any good high school English Language III class should have taught you, a good essay will begin with the thesis statement after establishing the tone and purpose. Since I can think of no better way to start this off, we'll just go with that bullshit and work our way from there: society as influenced by western values (note that I'm not saying that western values aren't great. I'm not some fuckin' bullshitty weeb that thinks all our problems could be solved by closer emulating some moshi moshi desu shit.) has an inherently negative opinion of femininity as a trait on average, and things associated with said trait are continued to be negatives at face value.

You can argue all you want about "pussy pass" bullshit and other ways that people like to argue that women have more privilege in society than men, but the fact is that for a VAST amount of history, women have been INCREDIBLY disadvantaged in comparison to men. Disproportionate advantages and prejudices still exist in today's society as well, of course, but the massive ravine has closed over the years into a pretty damn small gap, so that's not the sort of thing I'll be focusing on today - gender stereotypes and societal discrimination against women may be related to the topic I'm discussing, but it's a whole different can of fuckin' worms, it is.

Whichever one caused the other, women were usually held to generally be worse than men in pretty much all facets of life (save for childcare and cleaning, I guess) until very recently, and there also exists a very negative view on femininity. This negative view may not be as prevalent, since most people don't usually think of women as the "lesser sex" in the modern day, but the sentiment is still very much there despite it being mostly subconscious.

To start off with the type that most on this board will relate to, let's look first at cis, straight people. Clothing, to be more exact. Whatever the crazies on the far corners of Tumblr might like saying, clothing is gendered - it may have been defined as such by society, sure, but you can't deny that a full tuxedo suit is much more masculine while a billowy ball gown is much more feminine due to how we define those things as a society. Why, then are women dressing in men's clothes so much more well-respected? A woman dressing in her boyfriend's boxers, or wearing his loose t-shirt, or wearing pants, or wearing a suit - none of these things are looked at negatively. Hell, a few are looked at as playful or sexy. But the response to a fully straight man wearing a dress, panties, bra, blouse, or any other of a number of feminine articles of clothing? Usually it's either defined as a very odd and private fetish or as homosexual urges.

Moving a bit further, let's move on to homosexuality. Up until recently, homosexuality was not widely accepted, and still remains hated in many smaller communities. However it is often joked about that the "LGBT" acronym is ordered from least to most accepted, and I'll be using those first two letters for this example. Lesbians were typically (and still are, really) heavily fetishized and talked up, and many people who would speak out against homosexual behavior in men would still find two girls going at it to be lovely. Now, all assertions of which one a straight man might be attracted to aside - as true as those statements may be - we're talking about society's attitudes towards an action, not which one you wanna bust a nut to on a lonely friday afternoon. Gay men are often stereotyped as flamboyant, sassy, stuck-up, obsessed with fashion, or a number of other traits that all boil down to that same notion of feminine traits - likely due to the fact that if anybody wants to fuck another dude, they've got to be like a girl, right?

And then on to the final point and the one I naturally most relate to - trans issues. Any time trans issues are brought up, the focus is VASTLY centered around trans women (that would be male to female, for those of you not in the know, like myself and most other trans individuals present on this site) despite the fact that numbers tend to show a decently equal amount of FtM and MtF patients. Trans men are almost NEVER mentioned in any sorts of debates or discussions involving transgender rights, and are even generally shown to be more accepted by society even if they do not fully pass.

So what am I trying to say with all of this, then? Well, as I mentioned earlier, I believe that society in general holds a negative connotation with femininity. Basically, all these points boil down to the following: women attempting to be more like men, whether in body or the pure showing of masculine traits, is seen as a fun, on-issue, and possibly even sexy or admirable trait. Men attempting to be more like women is seen as weak, pathetic, "beta", and any other number of words typically used to describe said genre of a man that doesn't wish to perfectly emulate Sean Connery's Playboy James Bond.

Post your thoughts and/or rants and/or slurs or whatever. I'm finna eat dinner, so I'll respond when I'm back.

Thought I posted in Gaming, fam

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