NEW YORK (Reuters) - California's utilities regulator has told SJW Group (SJW.
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N), New England's largest power utility, aimed at disrupting its merger with SJW Group (SJW.
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N) said on Monday it raised an all-cash offer to buy SJW Group (SJW.
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After SJW rejected a merger offer from California Water in April, California launched a tender offer in June to acquire SJW shares.
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Their review, published in the journal Systematic Reviews in 2016, also revealed that in studies pitting SJW against a placebo, SJW came out ahead.
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Connecticut Water Service's all-stock merger with SJW was valued at $183 per share in March, but the deal is worth $63.70 per share after a rise in SJW shares.
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The new proposal also sweetens terms for SJW by offering it up to two board seats and opening the possibility that SJW management would gain a role in the combined company.
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SJW shareholders would hold 60 percent of the combined company.
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SJW shareholders will own 60 percent of the combined company.
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Gavin McInnes displayed a triptych of photographs parodying SJW hashtags.
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"SJW is about power, its [sic] about control," one Redditor wrote.
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I love how Yara blatantly appeals to Daenerys' SJW feminazi leanings.
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In June, California launched a tender offer to acquire SJW shares.
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You should also not take SJW if you are on an antidepressant.
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Mock the "SJW campus snowflakes" that you fear will end Western civilization.
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In turn, SJW rejected a merger offer from California Water in April.
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Critics of the film blamed "SJW" characters like Tran for ruining the film.
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St. John's Wort (SJW) is an herb that grows naturally around the world.
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It's pretty clear that the Spider-Man panel isn't an anti-SJW screed.
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"Not interested in seeing another SJW [Social Justice Warrior] propaganda film," claimed another.
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Following CalWater's statement, SJW shares fell to trade 4.5 percent lower at $63.70.
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Even better, side effects were significantly lower for people on SJW than a medication.
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The problem with doctored or incorrectly labeled SJW has become serious, the ABC says.
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"Hey...good job making a shitty unrealistic SJW 'WWII' game!" wrote one on Twitter.
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Neurotic insecurities are a powder keg combined with a rage outlet and SJW mob.
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Eversource, Connecticut Water Service and SJW did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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And yet, certain subsections of the internet are defending Rin from a perceived "SJW" backlash.
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Last year, our reporter Joe Bernstein covered the rise of pro-Trump, anti-SJW media closely.
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Probably the biggest side effect of SJW is that it can interact with many common medications.
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As well as Eversource's pursuit of Connecticut Water, California Water is seeking to combine with SJW.
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Connecticut Water Service' all-stock deal with SJW in March valued it at $61.86 per share.
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It said SJW offered a significant premium, attractive earnings accretion, a robust dividend and benefits for customers.
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SJW is now big business, with the ABC noting that US sales reached $57 million in 2015.
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"Finally I can comment on those distasteful and totally misleading SJW articles on internet," one review says.
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi was bombarded with negative reviews that also cited "SJW ideologies" as a reason.
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A merger with SJW would create a $1.9 billion utility with customers in California, Connecticut, Maine and Texas.
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But other SJW products have been found to have food coloring and other unwanted additives designed to confuse laboratory tests.
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That is above the $68.25 bid CalWater made in April, which was rejected by SJW citing regulatory and financing concerns.
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Others described her as an "SJW," or "Social Justice Warrior," an alt-right insult for anyone who expresses progressive views.
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So I guess I'm glad that Cards Against Humanity decided to go Cards Sometimes for Humanity and make a SJW edition.
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They called me an SJW (social justice warrior), but I looked masculine enough that the Kotaku in Action Action never materialized.
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SJW shares were up 7.3 percent at $66.95 in after-hours trading, while California Water was up 7 percent at $42.90.
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One group member even created a timeline of "SJW Bullshit at Tech Conferences," lamenting cases where women spoke up against discrimination.
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San Jose-based SJW and Connecticut Water said in March that regulatory approval would only be required in Connecticut and Maine.
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Tiny pilot studies or case reports have also shown SJW might be effective for premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD), psoriasis, and atopic dermatitis.
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Other commenters say he won too many trophies as a kid and call him a social justice warrior, or SJW for short.
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More than one commenter on SJW confirmed Asher as the anonymous man she had named in a Medium piece the previous week.
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Other than slapping Last Jedi, their tweets were virulently pro-Trump, pro-NRA, and anti-"SJW," whatever they took that to mean.
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But then she went further: On June 5, she confirmed that she was dating a controversial "anti-SJW" vlogger, Chris Maldonado, a.k.a.
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"Seeing all the PC/SJW nonsense around me, I'm afraid that this can be the starting of Python becoming PCython," one developer wrote.
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KotakuInAction is home to more than 96,000 members who constantly rail against "political correctness" and "SJW" ideologies, especially related to the games industry.
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By endorsing a democratic candidate — coming out as a "raging SJW liberal" — this particular Redditor predicted that Swift would lose her conservative fans.
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Nobody's stopping you, and doing so will definitely teach those gosh-darn "SJW"s you love to hate so very much a lesson.
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" In practice, this means videos with names like "#SJW Feminist Festival Crashed By Crowder ... In Underwear," and "HIDDEN CAM: 'Stealing' Illegal Immigrant's Jobs!
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However, a source close to SJW said the company disagreed with CPUC's assessment and would respond formerly to the regulator in due course.
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According to the ABC, lotions and oils containing SJW can be spread on the skin to treat bug bites, sunburns, wounds, and even hemorrhoids.
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They use the term "social justice warrior" (SJW) to describe people they believe are more concerned with quotas than they are about comic books.
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Both groups campaigned stridently against what they believed was an SJW agenda, but could more accurately be described as a diverse slate of nominees.
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Right after the game launched, angry reviews criticized the "story riddled with anti-white propaganda and social engineering" as "absolutely atrocious [sic] SJW propaganda".
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Despite agreeing the SJW Group tie-up, Connecticut Water said on May 31 it would solicit other potential bidders over a 45-day period.
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That word — patriarchy — has become both overfreighted and evacuated of meaning; it's become the sort of SJW rhetoric that makes bros shut down and stop listening.
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CalWater later said in a statement it would withdraw both its revised bid and a separate tender offer for SJW shares, which it launched in June.
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SJW Group is the holding company for San Jose Water Company, which provides water services to 1 million people in the greater San Jose metropolitan area.
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SJW was advised by JP Morgan and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, with Connecticut Water's respective financial and legal adviser being Wells Fargo and Sullivan & Cromwell.
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In a political group called Pinochet's Anti-SJW Beach Resort (36,059 members), members cruelly evaluated the physical appearance of women and made racist and anti-Semitic jokes.
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SJW said it remained committed to the existing merger with Connecticut Water Service and that the deal remained on track to close by the end of the year.
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SJW, based in San Jose, California, provides water to more than one million people in San Jose, California and nearby communities and in Canyon Lake, Texas and nearby communities.
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What it really is: Shedding its noble original mission statement, MensRights has devolved into the sort of anti-SJW/feminist/women cesspool that comprises the rest of this list.
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The family has been the largest SJW Group shareholder for decades, the letter notes, adding that dilution to their stake could affect the operation of San Jose Water Company.
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The trolls descended upon Marvel comic editor Heather Antos for the following photographic evidence of her SJW values taking over and subsequently ruining comic books: It's the Marvel milkshake crew!
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They're also the words written on a mobile, titled SJW, hanging in Flood's latest solo show Paintings From The War For Social Justice at Ever Gold [Projects] in San Francisco.
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Under the agreement, Connecticut Water shareholders will receive 1.1375 shares of SJW stock for each of their shares, equating to a value of $61.86 per share, according to a joint statement.
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If you have tried SJW in the past and didn't find it effective, you may want to buy from another, more reputable, company before deciding the herb does not work for you.
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Many people (mostly men) involved think that any kind of discussion is hellbent on destroying the sacred tenets of the genre, sticking the "SJW lefty PC bullshit" where it does not belong.
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Disclosure of the revised offer from Eversource comes as a 45-day period where Connecticut Water agreed to solicit other potential deals to its planned SJW merger is about to end this weekend.
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CalWater's new offer for SJW of $70 per share, detailed in a market filing, represents a premium of 12 percent to the stock's Monday close and values the company at about $1.45 billion.
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How about Robert Downey Jr. relentlessly points out microaggressions against female contemporaries until he develops a reputation for being "difficult" and every day on Twitter 4,000 eighth graders call him an "SJW cuck"?
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CalWater announced late on Monday a revised all-cash proposal to acquire San Jose-based SJW for $70 per share, valuing it at around $1.45 billion, having had a lower bid rejected in April.
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Keep in mind that clinical trials have not verified this effect of SJW, although there are a few animal studies that suggest it, so a placebo effect could be at least partially at play.
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"We have seen instances where there are people who claim to be Nazis, but are in fact on the payroll of various SJW [social justice warrior] groups," and trying to damage Gab's reputation, he said.
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The tie-up between SJW and Connecticut Water proposes creating the third-largest investor-owned water and wastewater utility in the United States, with an equity value of around $1.9 billion, serving 1.5 million customers.
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"The combination will establish a premier organization with substantial opportunities for new investment across a diverse set of geographies and an improved ability to serve our customers," said Eric Thornburg, chief executive of SJW Group.
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CalWater had announced late on Monday a revised offer to acquire San Jose-based SJW for $70 per share in cash, valuing it at around $1.45 billion, after a lower bid was rejected in April.
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The episode is the latest in a contentious four-way water utility merger battle that emerged after Connecticut Water and SJW Group announced in March they planned to combine, with California Water Service Group also involved.
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" When another foolish man complained that a male-only event would never be "approved" by social justice warriors, the Drafthouse responded, "We're actually still waiting on our SJW certification of this event, but crossing our fingers!
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Explaining its position, Connecticut Water said its merger with SJW continued to offer superior shareholder value going forward, but an offer from Eversource worth in excess of $69.50 per share would represent "reasonable" value for the business.
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Green discussed what she viewed as her nebulous status as a "social justice warrior" or SJW — a derogatory term the alt-right has applied to feminists and progressives, which has become common parlance in ideological internet debates.
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As an herbalist in suburban Baltimore, Maryland, and the author of The Simple Guide to Natural Health, St. Ours knew that SJW is in a category of herbs called "nervines," which are believed to impact the nervous system.
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For example, six officers were a member of a group called "Anti-SJW Pinochet's Helicopter Pilot Academy," a reference to the Chilean dictator's practice of murdering dissidents by throwing them out of helicopters flying over bodies of water.
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If your online tribe leans feminist, then you probably follow people who have already condemned this bit of incel-ebration, while the reverse will be true for comics superfans who seek to protect their fiefdom from SJW sniping.
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Instead, some disdainful viewers are outraged that showrunner Damon Lindelof's Watchmen is too "political," too entrenched in "identity politics" — too "SJW" ("social justice warrior") — in ways that they think writer Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons's original comic wasn't.
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NEW YORK, Aug 17 (Reuters) - SJW Group has rejected the latest takeover offer from California Water Service Group , SJW's chief executive officer told Reuters on Friday, as it remains focused on completing its acquisition of Connecticut Water Service Inc.
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"The board, after careful review with our advisers and management, decided to stay the course with Connecticut Water, as we believe in the power of the deal which we have," SJW CEO Eric Thornburg told Reuters in an interview.
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Although SJW has long been part of European folk medicine, according to the American Botanical Council (ABC), it was relatively obscure until the late 1990s, when the first European studies documented its effectiveness for treating mild to moderate depression.
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When researchers at the Rand Corporation, a nonprofit global policy think tank, looked at 35 studies using the herb for mild-to-moderate depression they found that, for their participants, SJW was just as effective as taking an antidepressant.
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All the modern day Internet 'supervillain' (or social justice warrior/SJW, if you prefer) has to do is pout out their call to action, which will disseminate onto sympathetic fellow forums, and watch as their adoring fans pile in.
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The "SJW" label is a huge and successful weapon in the alt-right's arsenal; it paints feminists as manipulative, oversensitive, shrill women who attack men with claims of sexism at the tiniest of provocations while rejecting their sexual advances.
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It is also a day after SJW said the planned merger was still on course to complete in the fourth quarter of 2018, after the California Public Utilities Commission said it would study whether it needed to review the transaction.
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A term relatively interchangeable with "SJW," Tumblrina is an insult aimed at young, alt-looking lefty women, as Tumblr is a social media platform containing multitudes of liberal-minded youngsters who can occasionally lay on the self-righteousness a little thick.
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It's the same group that claimed responsibility for lowering the score of Star Wars: Episode VIII: The Last Jedi in December 2017, complaining that the film included "SJW" concepts by featuring prominent female characters that spoke down to the film's male characters.
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"CalWater is financially disciplined, and after repeated attempts to engage with the SJW board of directors, we believe it is in our stockholders' best interests to withdraw our proposal and focus on other opportunities," said Martin Kropelnicki, president and CEO of CalWater.
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Friday's moves were the latest twists in a four-way water utility merger saga that began in March when SJW and Connecticut Water announced they would combine to create the third-largest investor-owned water and wastewater utility in the United States.
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Yesterday's "Midday MAGAthread" included anticipation for a political protest that never happened: "Lady Gaga is a complete liberal SJW piece of trash and she will be up there (I guarantee) putting on the biggest freak show you have ever seen," wrote rsashe1980.
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"The SJW are out in full this morning....the disappointment on your faces when I don't go to jail will be worth all your harassment...," the younger Flynn wrote, using an acronym for "social justice warriors," a pejorative often used in reference to liberals.
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"The board, after careful review with our advisers and management, decided to stay the course with Connecticut Water, as we believe in the power of the deal which we have," said Thornburg, who joined SJW in November after a decade as CEO of Connecticut Water.
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Opponents of the all-female Ghostbusters reboot have been virulently voicing their distaste with the film's new direction since it was first announced in 2015, claiming its more diverse (albeit, still mostly white) casting decision "ruined their childhood," or was part of a nefarious SJW agenda.
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Men who deploy the "SJW" attack seek to reestablish control and agency over the cultural conversation by ridiculing progressive attempts to seek greater diversity and representation in media, and to dismiss basically anything that could be deemed "multiculturalism" or representation (see: Gamergate and this year's Ghostbusters backlash).
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The video that sparked YouTube's decision featured several such topics, including DeFranco's opinions about a so-called "Social Justice Warrior" (SJW) who was caught on a leaked video harassing a Lyft driver, the release of convicted rapist Brock Turner from prison, and Chris Brown's recent police stand-off.
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If, on the other hand, you dig smart, intricate black/thrash but "don't care about politics" and want them kept out of your entertainment (or you outright hate leftist politics, or think all leftists are liberal SJW snowflakes or whatever other nonsense)... honestly, you'll still probably like this.
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I experience this feeling often: Every time a male comedian gets into some sort of trouble with the public, people expect female comics to take a side, to either defend him to our last breath or join the "SJW bloggers" and be forever banished from the cool kids' table.
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But in a June 8 letter to John Tang, SJW's vice president of regulatory affairs, the General Counsel for the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), Arocles Aguilar, said it was directing SJW to seek CPUC's approval for the tie-up by June 29, under an article concerning changes of ownership.
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In its filing, Eversource said the latest rejected offer also included raising the per-share price to $66, should Connecticut Water not have to pay any break-up fee relating to its SJW tie-up, as well as a higher payout should it fail to complete the acquisition within a certain timeframe.
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Yabut, 29, is remembered by some as a coder who, back in late 2016, tried and failed to launch his own so-called "non-SJW" version of The Onion Router (Tor) after forking its source code, and for trying to win the attention of a former Tor employee who'd been widely accused of sexual misconduct.
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"Of any herb I could prescribe, St John's Wort is the one with the most herb-drug interactions," says Lila Massoumi, clinical associate professor of psychiatry at Michigan State University and the chair of the American Psychiatric Association Caucus on Complementary & Integrative Psychiatry, who says she does not generally recommend SJW to her patients.
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And, of course: "Men Who Are Very Upset with Me." This was my first experience with being called a "feminazi" and an "oppressive SJW" unironically (though of course this is a drop in the bucket compared to the flood of hate mail by which many women, particularly women of color, in online spaces are deluged every single day).
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We can perhaps also say that certain malicious entities are holding up a (black) mirror to the political correctness they abhor – aka the modus operandi of their SJW foes – and using the same single issue megaphone method, aka the bounce back amplification made possible by follower-based tech platforms, to win (or so they would argue, as Yiannopoulos has) the Internet's 'culture wars'.
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The casting of the film's four stars — Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones — was declared to be a "SJW" capitulation to "political correctness," and Jones, the only woman of color in the cast, became the target of a particularly hateful online assault led by self-styled provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos (who was eventually banned from Twitter as a result).
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In a viral Facebook post, popular progressive writer Ranier Maningding minced no words about why Green's behavior poses a serious problem for people of color: 1.5 MILLION subscribers, and she can walk away from ALL OF THAT and still be loved and have her needs met because she's white.... Laci Green is one of the most known, if not the most known SJW on Youtube.
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There was also Breitbart News, where provocateurs like Milo Yiannopoulos fed raw meat to a rabid anti-Clinton, anti-globalist, anti-SJW, and Islamophobic base; Glittering Steel, where Bannon made Leni Riefenstahl-ish movies about the corruption of the Clintons and the need for populist outsiders; and Cambridge Analytica, the data firm that helped bring us Brexit and that could provide sophisticated analysis and targeting to campaigns like Trump's.
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One review, posted by a user named Johnny S, read at the time: If you like stunning visuals, superficial character development, a choppy, incoherent, illogical plot, plot holes, SJW concepts such as capitalism is bad, animal abuse is bad, "make love not war", every bad guy being a white male, and neutering every positive protagonist male in this movie, or you are only a casual fan of Star Wars, you'll probably like this movie.
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Birds with human arms have cropped up on the websites of shiny modern media companies, in the pits of the internet where men's rights activists and anti-SJW crusaders slip political opinions into the images, amid the comfortable, easy humor of Tumblr, and on Reddit — a unique community with the reach of a modern media company, the lawlessness of golf rush town, the despicable chaos of an MRA forum, and boundless spontaneity and creativity.
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Songs like "Incel Warfare" and "The Fetishization ov Asian Women Despite a Demand for a Pure White Race (Outro)" illustrate the collective's masterful grasp on the trope-filled subcultures of underground neo-fascist black metal and 4chan-based "SJW-triggering" internet trolls; their thunderous disdain for those who dwell at the crux of that Cheeto-dusted realm is a balm to the soul of anyone who's witnessed this particular strain of edgelord scum in action.
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In a world where Revolver's much-maligned Hottest Chicks in Hard Rock (formerly Hottest Chicks in Metal) issue still exists, where entire websites are dedicated to "protecting" metal from "SJW lefty PC bullshit," and where men's rights forum The Return of Kings (AKA Misogyny Central) covers #metalgate (whatever that was,) I feel pretty safe saying you'd be hard-pressed to find a woman who hasn't encountered some sort of sexist behavior whilst participating in the cock forest that is extreme metal.
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