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MelisandeScott 8 points ago +8 / -0

Apparently King Louie perpetuates stereotypes about black people.

dah fuck? King Louie is based on Italian-American band leader, Louie Prima. You know, THE GUY THAT VOICES THE CHARACTER IN THE MOVIE. He was famous for writing classic jazz songs like "Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)" back in the 1930's and his band were known for doing all sorts of silly antics during their performances in Vegas. That's why the Jungle Book animators chose them to play the monkeys.

But I guess actual history doesn't matter anymore.

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MelisandeScott 1 point ago +1 / -0

Yes. A cluster with southern European populations mixed with East Asian legacy. That is not the same as the genetics of the Greek people.

You also ignored the link I posted on the Greek genocide, where it states the Ottomans murdered large portions of the remaining ethnically Greek population. There was also a population exchange in 1923, where Greece took in as many of the remaining Anatolian and Pontic Greeks as they could. Turkey didn't want Greeks in their country anymore.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_exchange_between_Greece_and_Turkey

Anyway, I wasn't trying to spend all day arguing about this, and I'm not the person you were originally arguing with before the Greek genetics statement either. Have a good weekend.

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MelisandeScott 1 point ago +1 / -0

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_studies_on_Turkish_people

Several studies have concluded that the genetic haplogroups indigenous to Western Asia form the largest part of the gene pool of the present-day Turkish population

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_genocide

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MelisandeScott 1 point ago +1 / -0

Greece and Turkey are genetically almost indistinguishable, and always have been (Greece invaded, Turkey invaded, back and forth)

That is extremely untrue. Greeks are more genetically similar to Southern Italians and Sicilians. Turks are descended from Asiatic steppe people. There was some admixture during various invasions, but not enough to make the two groups even close to being "indistinguishable".

Modern Greeks are also still very similar genetically to their Mycenaean ancestors, who lived before Turks were anywhere near Anatolia.

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MelisandeScott 39 points ago +39 / -0

Boogaloo Boys memes populated their pages and feeds
Their plan was foiled by undercover agents and an FBI informant

Yep. Absolutely reeks.

Especially since just last week, Michigan courts stripped the governor of her emergency powers that allowed her to keep the state locked down. Now she's suddenly splashed all over the news as the victim of violent Trump supporters.

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MelisandeScott 6 points ago +7 / -1

Yeah, I knew a couple chicks in the 90's that claimed to be "witches", and they would constantly say "it's ok because it's white magic, not black...it's all about love and healing" and blah blah blah. Sounded kinda like hippies with a veneer of neo-paganism that made them feel exotic and interesting in lieu of an actual personality.

I think a lot of tumblr feminists and other psychos are into it now though because they all want to be Harry Potter.

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MelisandeScott 1 point ago +2 / -1

It is. I'm a different "marginalized group" than you, but I've been running into the exact situation you are with some of my friends and extended family. They saw someone promoting an oppression narrative on TV or social media and suddenly it's part of their identity. For some of them, it really is just a trendy brand they're wearing and I have no doubt that they'd completely drop it and deny they ever believed it if it suddenly fell out of fashion with their favorite celebrities. In the meantime though, they're all in some sort of virtue signal arms race, posting grandiose statements and obviously fake stories about oppression, trying to see who can top each other.

My signaling that I haven't bought into the narrative like they have just means I'm not as cool as them, or I'm just not as enlightened as them. Nothing I say has any meaning outside of that. Like the other poster said, might as well be talking to a wall.

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MelisandeScott 13 points ago +13 / -0

Reminds me of that Taybot fiasco a few years ago where the bot quickly started embarrassing Microsoft with it's politically incorrect Tweets. They had to lobotomize it to make it more feminist and PC.

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MelisandeScott 8 points ago +8 / -0

It used to be owned by a married couple (man and woman). Then the husband embezzled a bunch of money and spent it on hookers. Then he divorced his wife and married one of the hookers. As far as I know, the old wife was bought out of the company and the husband still runs it with his new ex-hooker wife.

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MelisandeScott 29 points ago +29 / -0

good optics

That, and to avoid a bunch of made up rape allegations that stall proceedings, like what happened last time with Kavanaugh.

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MelisandeScott 8 points ago +8 / -0

Then after he got called out for bashing that artist, he said the real reason he was upset was because the cover art was so "sexist" and behind the times and not appropriate for the type of "strong women of great integrity" that he writes.

That being said though, I have no doubt the Reddit circlejerk OP is referring to is ridiculous and disgusting. Way too many people over there love dancing on someone's grave. Especially over political differences.

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MelisandeScott 10 points ago +11 / -1

Yeah, I'm having a hard time telling what their intention was with certain things. I know the showrunners are a bunch of progressive idiots, but some stuff this season that I suspect is supposed to be "social commentary" is coming off as funny instead of deep.

I've also seen more than a few people online comparing Stormfront to "white feminists" rather than Trump or the alt-right, which I also find hilarious.

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MelisandeScott 3 points ago +4 / -1

firmly believe women are superior.

That's giving them a little too much credit. They believe whatever social media tells them to believe.

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MelisandeScott 8 points ago +8 / -0

Yes. There was a ton of REEEEEEEing about it at the time.

And if you notice the last few months, there's been a lot of articles like this one trying to convince everyone that those same female voters suddenly love Biden and hate Trump.

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MelisandeScott 10 points ago +10 / -0

Its the most basic "you are considered lower class, so therefore you are always wrong" possible.

This is so true

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MelisandeScott 14 points ago +14 / -0

DENIER

They really need to just start calling people "heretics" and get it over with.

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MelisandeScott 18 points ago +18 / -0

Oh look, the Boogaloo Boys again. The group that no one (including people on /pol/ or /k/) had ever heard of until the media started writing hit pieces about it. And who mysteriously had a Wiki page written by the same woman that controls the Wiki page on "Incels" the same day the hit pieces started.

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MelisandeScott 4 points ago +4 / -0

Have you seen any of the videos involving them getting arrested? Most of them are screaming "You can't do this" and "What is happening" whike bawling their eyes out.

A lot of them sound like kindergarteners that have never been told "NO" before. Their parents clearly did the world a disservice by not slapping the shit out of them a long time ago.

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MelisandeScott 20 points ago +20 / -0

Yeah, I was always taught "you don't talk about politics or religion in polite company" . It was considered the epitome of rudeness. Now that I can't fucking get away from those discussions, I understand why it was considered so impolite.

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MelisandeScott 15 points ago +15 / -0

The memo posted in another thread says all offices are directed to identify and cancel any contracts they have with third party trainers.

In the meantime, all agencies are directed to begin to identify all contracts or other agency spending related to any training on "critical race theory", "white privilege," or any other training or propaganda effort that teaches or suggests either (1) that the United States is an inherently racist or evil country or (2) that any race or ethnicity is inherently racist or evil. In addition, all agencies should begin to identify all available avenues within the law to cancel any such contracts and/or to divert Federal dollars away from these unAmerican propaganda training sessions.

I think it's unlikely that they'll be able to start firing the actual employees that support this garbage right away, but at least it's throwing a little support to the employees that are against it. We'll just have to wait and see how it plays out.

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MelisandeScott 3 points ago +3 / -0

I feel a little bad for laughing as hard as I did at this comment. Just a little.

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