Praise from the King Sifter himself! Thank you SO much!
(btw, your new badge rocks hard-core)

In reply to this comment by Zifnab:
Major congrats on the diamond! Well done!

No, what counts is the intent of the joke. The other day, I was joking with a black friend and a white friend about how years ago a black friend of mine played a prank on someone, and the victim of said prank blamed me, and I joked that, "I can't believe they assumed I did it. There's a black guy standing RIGHT THERE!!!"

My black friend hearing the joke cracked up. It wasn't racist whatsoever. First off, he knew I wasn't serious. Secondly, the entire joke was pointing out that society often assumes blacks are guilty of crimes or wrongdoing simply because they're black. That's the entire point of the joke! It's not racist in the slightest! In fact, it's criticizing still present racism in society. If you can't understand that, then I don't know what to tell you other than your brain lacks the ability to comprehend context.

How can I defend Maher on some points and criticize him on others? It's really simple - he's a human being. Humans make mistakes, and can be correct. Maher is a bigot, I wasn't arguing that. I'm a bigot when it comes to people who lie or intentionally spread false information repeatedly. I have zero tolerance for people who do that. That's the definition of a bigot - zero tolerance for the ideas of some others. That's not the same as a racist. Nice try diverting that one.

About the sexism stuff, you are the one saying that Christians traditionally haven't been sexist, and the proof is it's been traditionally against physical abuse, etc. Well, that doesn't prove a lack of sexism. That's my entire point. If the bible says that wives must be submissive to their husbands, that's sexist! That means wives should do what they're told, and while it's more sexist to be told to "Make me a sandwich!" than something more respectful, it's still sexist that a woman must what she's told simply because a husband says so.

Finally, the bit about Maher's audience is laughable. Maher doesn't intentionally fill his audience with like minded sheep. I'm not sure you're aware of this, but people who agree with Maher tend to be the ones who go out of their way to see him live. I know... SHOCKING! While I won't dispute he tends to have more left wingers who agree with him, you must admit many times that's because those are the people who more often want to be on his show, and he's certainly gone toe to toe with the hard core conservatives quite frequently, such as Ann Coulter both on his show and in public debates. Finally, ANYONE to the left of you, you characterize as a neolib, lib, socialist, etc. So even the moderates on his show you won't acknowledge anyway, so your characterization of his guests isn't accurate in the slightest.

Thanks for playing though...

>> ^Winstonfield_Pennypacker:

No, you're a racist if you actually intend to put one race over another, etc. If I joke about a friend of mine who can't dance and call him 'white', that's not racist.
If a white guy jokes about a black man liking fried chicken & collard greens then that is racist. Joking about whites not being able to jump is racist. It is the very epitome of racism. You are perhaps trying to make some sort of vivisection between 'racism' and 'hateful racism'. I do not make such distinctions. Racism is racism. I don't care how light the shade of the racism is. I call it what it is. There's no such thing as innocent racism.
Did you not catch that I criticized him for characterizing all religious people as sexist?
Yes - but I don't get how you can give the guy a pass for being a bigot in one breath and criticize him the next. If he's a bigot then you shouldn't defend him, and quite frankly choosing to watch his show when you KNOW he's a bigot is tacit approval of bigotry. I'm sure if you met one, you'd find that some members of the Klu-Klux-Klan were "funny, and often insightful, even though I fundamentally disagree with them frequently." A bigot is a bigot, and should be shunned, shamed, and ostracized from society - not given a free pass because they make you chuckle sometimes.
If you expect the wife to clean the house, cook the meals, etc. simply because she's the female of the couple, that's sexist.
I agree. But showing someone respect is not 'treating them like delicate little flowers'. It is simple common courtesy. When you are in a monogamous relationship, there comes a time when people divvy out the chores. A man who refuses to help because 'it's woman's work' is an idiot and a sexist. Likewise a woman who just expects the man to work 9-to-5 and does not contribute to the household herself is also a sexist.

Finally, Maher only takes shots at those least likely to fire back?!
By and large - yes. That's why he fills his audience with ideologically favorable clapping sheep. It's why he loads his guest lists with like 90% leftist neolib radicals. It's why why he gives himself long spans of time to conduct uninterrupted diatribes instead of engaging in real debates with active opponents. He's a coward, a bully, and a bigot. That's what cowardly, bigoted bullies do.

Ha! Yes, I love you.

That comment was from a little while ago. I was hoping you'd notice sooner. Pretty good call, though, wouldn't you say?

In reply to this comment by blankfist:
You've been following me around the Sift the past couple of days flirting pretty hard with me. You okay, or you got something you want to say?

In reply to this comment by kymbos:
Oh dear, now he's arguing with himself online.

You've been following me around the Sift the past couple of days flirting pretty hard with me. You okay, or you got something you want to say?

In reply to this comment by kymbos:
Oh dear, now he's arguing with himself online.

I wish them well.

We had some hard core hippies who wanted our Food Coop to go in this direction. We couldn't see it as being capable of actually paying the workers a living wage.

But we are a small town -- maybe there are enough hippie types in Austin to make it work.

I really do hope it makes it.

Belly laugh.

I belly laughed when I read this.

In reply to this comment by kymbos:
Oh dear, now he's arguing with himself online.

>> ^jmd:

Hardcore usually means you get the answers right.


He placed #1 in the top ten with :30, beating the next guy by 2:09. In this situation, I'd say that's pretty hardcore.

Your video, Hard Core Who Wants to be a Millionaire Contestant, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

This achievement has earned you your "Pop Star" Level 7 Badge!

>> ^ponceleon:

fail


I'd be more than *happy to fail for $25,000

>> ^bareboards2:

I stopped watching this vid after 90 seconds because it was, well, idiotic.
I find hard-core atheists to be just as irrational as hard-core religious types. Just as dogmatic and sure that they are correct.
Life is not black and white.
He actually nails it on the head. He states early on in the vid: "Your comforting little world view matter[s] more to you than the truth."
Well, yes. It does. That is why people are attracted to religion. It comforts them. "Truth" doesn't. They are scared. Humans evolved with this tendency.
You can rail and rail and rail all you want, but you can't "logic" people out of a trait that stayed with us as we evolved over thousands of years.
It is profoundly irrational to try to argue people out of religious faith.
Stick to keeping religion out of schools and out of laws. That is rational.
Invading people's hearts and minds and trying to control them is just what fanatically religious people do.
I love Hitchens and Sam Harris. I love their logic.
This vid? Blech.


I doubt the point of this vid (or the comic it stems from) is to convince theists, but rather to vent and let viewers vent by proxy. That's the impression I got anyway.

I stopped watching this vid after 90 seconds because it was, well, idiotic.

I find hard-core atheists to be just as irrational as hard-core religious types. Just as dogmatic and sure that they are correct.

Life is not black and white.

He actually nails it on the head. He states early on in the vid: "Your comforting little world view matter[s] more to you than the truth."

Well, yes. It does. That is why people are attracted to religion. It comforts them. "Truth" doesn't. They are scared. Humans evolved with this tendency.

You can rail and rail and rail all you want, but you can't "logic" people out of a trait that stayed with us as we evolved over thousands of years.

It is profoundly irrational to try to argue people out of religious faith.

Stick to keeping religion out of schools and out of laws. That is rational.

Invading people's hearts and minds and trying to control them is just what fanatically religious people do.

I love Hitchens and Sam Harris. I love their logic.

This vid? Blech.

> ^gwiz665:

@<a rel="nofollow" href="http://videosift.com/member/spoco2" title="member since August 21st, 2006" class="profilelink">spoco2 Stop in the name of american squeamishness. This skates the edges, certainly, I expected that the explicit blowjob part would be its doom, but I think this is siftable. If there wasn't an executive order not to sift porn and if people weren't so overly diligent in interpreting that, it would have sifted fine too.


Don't even try to make this be about people being 'prudes'. There are places for that sort of thing, and the sift is NOT one of them, it's not us being prudish about the content, it's about us not wanting it on THIS SITE. One of the things about this place is that it's pretty much work safe, even the NSFW stuff is fine for most workplaces. THAT was nowhere NEAR being safe for any work place, and it is, whether you like it or not, hard core porn. As soon as there is a dick in a mouth or other orifice it is porn.

We all know you like your porn gwiz, and that's fine, hell, I have no issue with it myself, but get your porn fix elsewhere and keep it away from here. Why must you keep trying to bring it here? *sigh* Are you on some crusade to make the sift a pornocopia? Just leave it be.

I play WoW casually most of the time. Every once in awhile when I have time I get all hard core and raid. I've never had to quit just outright...sometimes I don't log on for months. I come back though when I feel like it because it's still fun for me. I understand some people in controls their lives but I don't know how it did that to this guy.

I mean LOOK a this NOOB! His characters Suck! I'd delete them if I was that sad!

That's what I call some Hard-Core Drumming!

>> ^GDGD:

Who knew you played such awesome games Ant.
>> ^ant:
brief
Haha, it reminds me old Action Quake2/AQ2's glitches/bugs (e.g., stuck bodies).



I was a hard core computer gamer (Windows/DOS/Apple //c) for years after Atari 2600. For the last few years, I haven't had time and I still have tons of games (Crysis, World in Conflict, C&C3:KW, demos, betas, etc.) to play.