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posted by janrinok on Wednesday August 13 2014, @05:26PM   Printer-friendly
from the turnabout-is-fair-play dept.

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A group of topless dancers in Ohio on Sunday turned the tables on a fundamentalist church that has picketed their club for almost nine years.

According to the Coshocton Tribune, at least six bare-breasted women, employees and friends of the Foxhole North club marched outside the New Beginnings Ministries church in Warsaw. Club owner Thomas George said that church members have come to his club every weekend for nine years to harass employees and patrons.
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The topless protesters have vowed to return every weekend until the church finds a new target.

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Tork on Wednesday August 13 2014, @05:29PM

    by Tork (3914) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday August 13 2014, @05:29PM (#80884)
    I suspect this was a clever way to get a free show.
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    • (Score: 2) by edIII on Thursday August 14 2014, @04:49PM

      by edIII (791) on Thursday August 14 2014, @04:49PM (#81325)

      Not that clever. It took nine years.... :)

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by VLM on Wednesday August 13 2014, @05:48PM

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday August 13 2014, @05:48PM (#80891)

    I hope this sparks a trend across the country.

    • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Blackmoore on Wednesday August 13 2014, @05:50PM

      by Blackmoore (57) on Wednesday August 13 2014, @05:50PM (#80893) Journal

      Hell; I'm not female; and I'd be happy to help protest. Damn fundamentalist need to leave the rest of us alone.

      • (Score: 5, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday August 13 2014, @05:59PM

        by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Wednesday August 13 2014, @05:59PM (#80899) Homepage Journal

        You and plenty of other guys, I imagine. Not just the fundamentalists though. All of the morality police on the left, right, and the assholes who pass the laws need to leave everyone the hell alone.

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        • (Score: 3) by Blackmoore on Wednesday August 13 2014, @06:21PM

          by Blackmoore (57) on Wednesday August 13 2014, @06:21PM (#80914) Journal

          Hell; I'd bring a protest sign telling lawmakers to keep their hands out of women's uterus' and in their own pants.

          • (Score: 0, Offtopic) by tangomargarine on Wednesday August 13 2014, @06:33PM

            by tangomargarine (667) on Wednesday August 13 2014, @06:33PM (#80920)

            Hell, I'd learn the proper use of semicolons.

            (a semicolon right before a conjunction is redundant and "hell" is an interjection which does not require a conjunction)

            A semicolon can be used between two closely related independent clauses, provided they are not already joined by a coordinating conjunction. Semicolons can also be used in place of commas to separate items in a list, particularly when the elements of that list contain commas.

            Neither is "hell" an independent clause as it lacks a verb.

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            • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 13 2014, @06:40PM

              by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 13 2014, @06:40PM (#80923)

              Fuck; you.

              Fuck can be a verb or a noun.

              • (Score: 0, Offtopic) by tangomargarine on Wednesday August 13 2014, @07:02PM

                by tangomargarine (667) on Wednesday August 13 2014, @07:02PM (#80939)

                Congratulations, you've constructed a "sentence" with no verb. Or were you going for a dependent clause/list or something? Because without context that makes no sense.

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                • (Score: 2) by velex on Thursday August 14 2014, @02:54AM

                  by velex (2068) on Thursday August 14 2014, @02:54AM (#81067) Journal

                  Ok, clarification is needed. The original "Hell" start of the sentence was an interjection, which I believe was the original objection. Interjections should be followed by a comma, not a semicolon. You've correctly pointed out that using a semicolon denotes two full statements, both of which need verbs.

                  • (Score: 2) by velex on Thursday August 14 2014, @03:02AM

                    by velex (2068) on Thursday August 14 2014, @03:02AM (#81069) Journal

                    Agh, I should further note that while it's common in many languages (not in English, though) to have an implied subject and sometimes an implied direct object, that's not the case in English. Thus, fuck (v.t.) can be a sentence on its own right as long as you're not speaking English. It would be more proper to say, "Fuck this shit," which still has the implied subject of I. To most properly say it, one would need to say, "I fuck this shit."

                    That's not even to speak to intransitive verbs, but generally, no matter what language, one needs at least a verb to express oneself. The example given to me as a child was, "God created." In that sentence, we see the subject being "God," and the intransitive verb, which needs no direct object, is "created." In normal, non-mystical usage, however, to create is usually transitive and thus requires a direct object.

                    • (Score: 2) by mhajicek on Thursday August 14 2014, @03:06AM

                      by mhajicek (51) on Thursday August 14 2014, @03:06AM (#81071)

                      Dude; the topic is strippers and you're arguing grammar.

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                    • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Thursday August 14 2014, @02:36PM

                      by tangomargarine (667) on Thursday August 14 2014, @02:36PM (#81260)

                      I think the implied subject in "Fuck." is "you" as it's an imperative, i.e. "You fuck (non-transitive)."

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            • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Blackmoore on Wednesday August 13 2014, @06:53PM

              by Blackmoore (57) on Wednesday August 13 2014, @06:53PM (#80932) Journal
            • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday August 14 2014, @01:39AM

              by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday August 14 2014, @01:39AM (#81053) Journal

              'Das Komma befindet sich zwischen den umschließenden Anführungszeichen und es sollten einfache statt doppelte Anführungszeichen verwendet werden.' [2] [wikia.com]

              Sieg heil [wikia.com]

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        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 14 2014, @07:10AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 14 2014, @07:10AM (#81122)

          Not just the fundamentalists though. All of the morality police

          Isn't the definition of a fundamentalist someone who wants to force their view on everybody, like the "morality police"?

          • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday August 14 2014, @12:30PM

            by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday August 14 2014, @12:30PM (#81210) Homepage Journal

            Not exactly. Fundamentalists generally implies religious connotation. The morality police extend far beyond anything resembling religion. You have the anti-smoking types, the you must wear seatbelts types, the PC police, both sides of any debate on what children should be taught in school, gun grabbers, anyone who has views on how YOU should raise YOUR children, etc... Basically anyone who's ever said "There should be a law against X" or "X should be mandatory".

            So, yes, fundamentalists are a part of it but by no means the whole.

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      • (Score: 2) by Snow on Wednesday August 13 2014, @08:06PM

        by Snow (1601) on Wednesday August 13 2014, @08:06PM (#80954) Journal

        That depends.... How big are your man-titties?

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 13 2014, @08:11PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 13 2014, @08:11PM (#80956)

        Hell; I'm not female; and I'd be happy to help protest.

        Well, whatever you do, just don't do it topless. Please! Please, just don't do it! I'm begging you! For the love of humanity...just don't do it!

      • (Score: 2) by Rivenaleem on Thursday August 14 2014, @09:07AM

        by Rivenaleem (3400) on Thursday August 14 2014, @09:07AM (#81153)

        As a man, I feel it is our duty to turn up and show our ... support for these harassed women.

        #makeitrain

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 14 2014, @09:47AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 14 2014, @09:47AM (#81164)

          #makeitrain

          Make iTrain? You think Apple should enter the transportation business? ;-)

    • (Score: 5, Insightful) by bucc5062 on Wednesday August 13 2014, @06:07PM

      by bucc5062 (699) on Wednesday August 13 2014, @06:07PM (#80904)

      I would agree. Sadly, even topless dancers have more sense than most extreme zealots. As fundamentalist zealots have no real thinking mind, they can be put into automatic mode and continue on in a destructive way without stopping, or at least they die, for theirs is a "Righteous" fight, powered by "God" who cannot be stopped. In my view, they are just one step away from being used as a suicide bomber.

      Topless dancers got brains (or most of them) and realize, at some point, they are trying to change the mind of machines, not people and they rightly give up as a waste of their time. Besides, why give it away when come Monday, some of those righteous people will be covertly checking out Zelda's new moves on the pole around 1 AM.

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      • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Blackmoore on Wednesday August 13 2014, @06:31PM

        by Blackmoore (57) on Wednesday August 13 2014, @06:31PM (#80917) Journal

        Well, I agree with the protests. sure - you aren't going to change the minds of the fundamentalists -but you are going to change public opinion. and that is even better.

        Why do you think public opinion about Gay Marriage is changing? The fundies haven't changed views; the rest of the public has. Why? you expose the weakness in the religions argument; and you have to prove to society that you are just another person trying to get by without hurting other people.

        as far as i can see the truly virulent fundies are one step away from becoming a terrorist themselves. and when you look at them next to people who are trying to peacefully protest; or just go about with the same civil rights; Fundies look damnedly dangerous.

        • (Score: 1) by emg on Wednesday August 13 2014, @07:59PM

          by emg (3464) on Wednesday August 13 2014, @07:59PM (#80952)

          "Why do you think public opinion about Gay Marriage is changing? The fundies haven't changed views; the rest of the public has."

          Most of the public never cared about 'gay marriage', and mostly still don't. None of the gay folks I know cared or care about 'gay marriage'. The only people who really seem to care about 'gay marriage' are a few activists on both sides.

          • (Score: 5, Informative) by dcollins on Wednesday August 13 2014, @11:27PM

            by dcollins (1168) on Wednesday August 13 2014, @11:27PM (#81023) Homepage

            Bullshit. In the last 15 years public support for gay marriage has risen from 28% to 53%. That represents a change of mind for a quarter of the population, or some 75 million people in less than a generation, such that the majority now think it should be valid. Your unsourced anecdotes are not representative.

            http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/03/attitudes-toward-homosexuality-and-gay-marriage/ [aei-ideas.org]

            • (Score: 1) by Nollij on Thursday August 14 2014, @12:21PM

              by Nollij (4559) on Thursday August 14 2014, @12:21PM (#81205)

              I think he meant that it's not a BIG issue to most people. Yes, people have an opinion, but how far are people willing to go for that opinion? It's certainly lower on the list of priorities than the economy, foreign wars, etc.

              OTOH, in 2004, it was used as a tactic to get people to come to the polls, so they would also vote for Bush.

      • (Score: 3, Insightful) by tangomargarine on Wednesday August 13 2014, @06:35PM

        by tangomargarine (667) on Wednesday August 13 2014, @06:35PM (#80921)

        Any demographic except Even-More-Extreme Group Y is going to come off well in a comparison with Extreme Group X.

        Just because you don't like people with strong religious beliefs does not make them the worst demographic ever.

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        • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Blackmoore on Wednesday August 13 2014, @07:03PM

          by Blackmoore (57) on Wednesday August 13 2014, @07:03PM (#80940) Journal

          I'm sorry - there is a very strong difference in the activities of fundamentalists (of any religion) and the activities of other people who believe. Now I could sit here and pick apart Christians, as i once was one, but I will not. I could also show the existence of fundamentalist Atheists, and bad behavior of one or two cases.

          the real argument here is any church or organization that attacks people on moral ideals is one step away from violence. We saw this with fascists in Germany, we've seen this in witch hunts and lynchings here in the US.

          If you want to see that organization defeated - you have to get public opinion on your side and make it a social pariah.

          • (Score: 5, Insightful) by tangomargarine on Wednesday August 13 2014, @07:31PM

            by tangomargarine (667) on Wednesday August 13 2014, @07:31PM (#80946)

            Nazi Germany wasn't really about morals--it was about political ideology. Hitler hated communism so strove to set up his own system to oppose it. And then, y'know, power corrupts and all.

            Yes, he also hated Jews, but I don't think he was really proposing an alternate system of morals so much as "just fucking kill any Jews you find" (and that was actually for Jewish economic and political reasons, not because of religious Judaism). For what it's worth, there was a denomination of Christianity in Germany that backed him up the whole time, but past a certain point anybody who didn't got cut off at the knees anyway. I don't believe Hitler himself had much of any religious beliefs, although he was all about destiny and personal responsibility (supposedly as Führer he was supposed to be The Guy who stood in front and defended* Germany on the world stage).

            It just irks me that the general mood on TOS/SN seems to be "religion is the prime source of evil in the world." People are idiots in general; if they don't do stupid things for one reason, they'll quickly find another.

            *Hey, we have a Department of Defense, right? And they're the ones who wage war? :)

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            • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 14 2014, @12:02AM

              by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 14 2014, @12:02AM (#81030)

              While there are plenty of people on TOS/SN that are against a particular brand or the religious in general, I would not go as far as saying it is the general mood. Users of both sites seem to be against judgement from basically any angle (religion, political correctness, racism, sexism, nationalism, other -isms).
              If you lower your threshold to 0/-1, then it would be difficult to find any highly rated comment (at least on the old site) that doesn't have a reply that counters the view (no true Scotsman, terrorists/gangbangers/Westboro Baptists are a fringe group not representative of the whole, #notallmen/women/whites/blacks/foreigners, etc.).

            • (Score: 2) by monster on Thursday August 14 2014, @09:15AM

              by monster (1260) on Thursday August 14 2014, @09:15AM (#81157) Journal

              Nazi Germany wasn't really about morals--it was about political ideology. Hitler hated communism so strove to set up his own system to oppose it. And then, y'know, power corrupts and all.

              It is a simplification to put it that way. Nazism was retroactively shown that way after WWII because communism was the new boogeyman, something so evil that even those evil nazis would hate. That and the easy theory that most germans had been deceived by their government and didn't even know was going on was the way to justify the quick change in allegiances between the allies (otherwise siding with the nazis wouldn't have been accepted by the public).

              In reality, Nazism was a combination of political, ideological and religious traits directed mainly against the jews. It put the jews as the root cause of all the bad things that happened to Germany, from destruction of their purity of blood, destruction of their national pride with their usury and opression of the german people with their control of international banking or working against their Lebensraum [wikipedia.org] to even acting directly to harm Germany from the inside with the "stab in the back". To gain acceptance to that hatred, it used many ways, including religion [wikipedia.org], putting jews as "those how killed Christ" and "even hated by Christ", though it was not their main attack to them and the Nazi party hadn't got a "religion of state" and didn't care as long as the people was with their Führer. The Nazi party was also anti-communist (they viewed communism as against their objective of racial order and purity) but even in their later propaganda they used to put them as allies of the jews against Germany and not as their main antagonist.

    • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 13 2014, @08:13PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 13 2014, @08:13PM (#80957)

      I hope this sparks a trend across the country.

      What kind of trend? For topless dancers to show up at church on Sunday morning? Would certainly make things a bit more interesting!

  • (Score: 5, Funny) by wonkey_monkey on Wednesday August 13 2014, @06:17PM

    by wonkey_monkey (279) on Wednesday August 13 2014, @06:17PM (#80911) Homepage

    "Uh, no, see, I was in there protesting."

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    • (Score: 2) by khallow on Thursday August 14 2014, @02:46AM

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Thursday August 14 2014, @02:46AM (#81064) Journal

      As a society, we used to admire perseverance in the face of um, adversity.

  • (Score: 5, Funny) by maxwell demon on Wednesday August 13 2014, @06:18PM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Wednesday August 13 2014, @06:18PM (#80912) Journal

    In other news, the church ceremonies now have an unprecedented number of visitors. ;-)

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday August 13 2014, @06:32PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Wednesday August 13 2014, @06:32PM (#80918) Journal

    Seriously guys, un-cool. Young children could have been exposed to those breasts. Or worse, babies might have even seen them!

    • (Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 13 2014, @07:24PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 13 2014, @07:24PM (#80943)

      Pictures or it didn't happen

  • (Score: 4, Funny) by mrider on Wednesday August 13 2014, @07:35PM

    by mrider (3252) on Wednesday August 13 2014, @07:35PM (#80947)

    n/t

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    • (Score: 2) by mrider on Wednesday August 13 2014, @09:40PM

      by mrider (3252) on Wednesday August 13 2014, @09:40PM (#80978)

      Feel free to mod me redundant. I didn't see the post by A.C. about 11 minutes faster than mine. :)

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by cafebabe on Wednesday August 13 2014, @09:04PM

    by cafebabe (894) on Wednesday August 13 2014, @09:04PM (#80970) Journal

    I accessed the article because I was hoping for good pictures. I was disappointed.

    More seriously:-

    Although [nightclub owner Thomas] George does not have any pending legal actions, he said the demonstration was part of gathering material for a selective enforcement lawsuit he might file.

    George intends to show how local authorities deal with New Beginnings churchgoers outside his business is not the same as how his people are dealt with when in front of the church.

    Two previous injunctions to keep protestors at least 100 feet away from the strip club about 9 miles up the road from New Beginnings on US 36 were denied.

    "We want to let (church members) know how it feels to be under scrutiny," George said. "They come up every weekend. They're very abusive and certainly not Christian-like, not what I read in my Bible. I have to point out the hypocrisy I see and not stand by and let this go on week in and week out."

    George said he was concerned about children being exposed to the nudity. He also apologized to the residents and other churches in Warsaw not affiliated with New Beginnings for being exposed to what he knew was an extreme, but necessary, measure.

    The church appeared to be expecting a protest but their actions have impacted impartiality:-

    Tarps were hung around the back of the church, which was used by most parishioners, including children, to enter and exit. The church also paid to have an off-duty Coshocton County Sheriff's Office deputy on the property to monitor the situation.

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    • (Score: 3) by VLM on Wednesday August 13 2014, @09:41PM

      by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday August 13 2014, @09:41PM (#80979)

      "George said he was concerned about children being exposed to the nudity."

      I've noticed its the pedos who get the most worked up about kids seeing nudity, just sayin, maybe because when they were kids themselves, that was when their own interests were developed toward kids. Normal kids without the weirdo hangups don't seem to be affected much one way or the other, or care.

      So the normal adult guys will love it, the normal adult chicks will get all jealous of "their" men drooling at other probably younger better looking (and much less clothed) chicks, the normal kids won't care one way or the other, and the pedos will get all wound up about "saving the children". Thats pretty much how it rolls.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 14 2014, @09:23AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 14 2014, @09:23AM (#81160)

        You don't understand. It's not about the nudity, no kid would be scarred for life for seeing a tit. But a kid seeing it might start to ask questions (the horror!), questions their parents don't want to be asked because they are about that-thing-you-don't-even-name.

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Blackmoore on Wednesday August 13 2014, @09:46PM

      by Blackmoore (57) on Wednesday August 13 2014, @09:46PM (#80983) Journal

      Well now; wouldnt the strip joint have the right to "shield" the club by erecting a nice blue tarp between the protesters and the club?

      frecripsesake it's just boobies. nearly everyone has them. Do they bathe while dressed? Children are not going to freak out over boobs.

      the men..

    • (Score: 1) by Nollij on Thursday August 14 2014, @12:26PM

      by Nollij (4559) on Thursday August 14 2014, @12:26PM (#81208)

      Unfortunately, the more likely scenario is that a new (local) law will be passed, banning women from being topless in public. They'd still be able to protest, but it wouldn't be newsworthy.

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Lagg on Wednesday August 13 2014, @09:50PM

    by Lagg (105) on Wednesday August 13 2014, @09:50PM (#80986) Homepage Journal

    Every time I see an instance of these bible thumpers harassing and outright stalking people but still claiming moral superiority I have to wonder just how they get away with it even in 2003. But then I remember that there are hopelessly naive people, even on this very site, that will bring out the old card of "but that religion isn't my version of it. Mine is best. You're just blaming the bad one!". Naturally this is completely false and has historically proven to be with the "best" cultists killing the "evil" ones. So, is it just these cultists that are the bad eggs or shall this observation be a repeat of another [soylentnews.org] post of mine recently?

    and people wonder why I get vitriolic when I see this stuff. I get vitriolic because cultists legally stalk women, and that's exactly what this is. Better get that through your head too else you'll start allowing new Westboros to pop up (who will of course then claim to be better than that other Westboro).

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    • (Score: 2) by Rivenaleem on Thursday August 14 2014, @09:18AM

      by Rivenaleem (3400) on Thursday August 14 2014, @09:18AM (#81158)

      >"but that religion isn't my version of it. Mine is best. You're just blaming the bad one!"

      The Bible states that everyone is a missionary for God. They were specifically instructed to go forth and spread the faith. If they truely believe their version of religion is best they are obligated to go to the bad ones and convert them. Now, they should also be converting heathens, but I'd really like that they get their own house in order first.

  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 14 2014, @12:58AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 14 2014, @12:58AM (#81041)

    Perhaps the Christian group will hold a fully nude counter-protest, allowing them to turn the other cheek.

    • (Score: 2, Funny) by deimtee on Thursday August 14 2014, @01:49AM

      by deimtee (3272) on Thursday August 14 2014, @01:49AM (#81059) Journal

      The christians don't need to be fully nude to turn the other cheek. They could just wear those leather pants with the arse cut out.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 14 2014, @03:03AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 14 2014, @03:03AM (#81070)

    Seems like everytime there is a story that isn't hardcore tech, someone shows up to complain [soylentnews.org] that it is off-topic for this site.

    And yet this story, about religious hypocrisy and boobies, is about as far afield as you can get from whatever charter we have here, is completely unprotested. I'm not saying this story should never have been posted, I'm saying all the whiners are hypocrites.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 14 2014, @10:25AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 14 2014, @10:25AM (#81178)

      Because boobies IS people.

    • (Score: 2) by Blackmoore on Thursday August 14 2014, @01:39PM

      by Blackmoore (57) on Thursday August 14 2014, @01:39PM (#81235) Journal

      Hey; I'd love to expand the scope of the site. Soylent news IS people. not just science and tech but economics and politics.. and stuff like this.
      I cant wait till we can set up new sub-sets and let more discussions happen.

    • (Score: 1) by Chillgamesh on Thursday August 14 2014, @02:30PM

      by Chillgamesh (4619) on Thursday August 14 2014, @02:30PM (#81257)

      It's because soylent news is really a good old boys club thinly veiled behind the guise of software hobbyists.

      We aren't here (on this site) because we like software. Software is here because it is one of the things we like.

      We also like a good excuse to embarrass and harass religious bigots.