Public Shaming C/D?

i was definitely outraged when that congressman from maine--i think--posted awful things about emma gonzalez

But at the same time he now has a team of people (adults) coaching him on never admitting to a single impure thought.

I'm getting more and more baffled as to how the US treats teenagers in generally...

never admitting to a single impure thought

boy, will his confessor be surprised!

xpost If a teenager isn't a white boy they are definitely part of ms-13 or a drunk slut who was asking for it or they will be shot on sight for looking thuggish and older than 12.

Okay guys, new year, new tweet storms. It's time to talk Covington Catholic. https://t.co/mQEDwEFkPT

Pull up a chair. I think we're going to be here a while.

— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) January 23, 2019

This is the best take I’ve read

Hat tip mordy

god

You have to read on to get the take

no

Alright. Simon H is telling me in another window that mcardle is a libertarian. I don’t think it’s really relevant though.

Adults, however, can be expected not to yell anti-gay slurs, or bang a drum in a stranger’s face.

this is basically the crux of the article

the acts of a SPLC-identified hate group and a Native American singing a peace prayer are the same magnitude, good work.

a hate group mind you that had like, less than 10 people present of the 200+ plus people gathered at the scene

would love it if one of these assclowns would admit that Phillips did not initially position himself in Sandmann's face and this is fairly obvious cos he's to his left and kid is smiling up a storm.

They were waiting for the bus

GTFO with that McArdle bullshit

I don't know Mcardle, but libertarian "personal responsibility" doesn't seem right for this opinion. Although there is that whole white people are awesome thing for them.

xxpost I know. but Phillips didn't just walk up to Sandmann's voice and go "bong bong bong". he was several feet away at first. a minute or so later he stepped forward a moment later, which supports his "trying to walk away" claim

Shes more willing to admit the kid wasnt smirking than i am. I think the kid sucks. But socia media mobs are terrifying and weird and it’s even weirder when national publications get involved with this stuff.

I watched a very brief interview with one of the march's organizers/native american lawyer. She explained what she saw and felt in that moment and I trusted her viewpoint.

I mean there's no video from behind the kids and facing the Native Americans, which would paint a clearer pic, but nobody seems to wanna point that out.

Yerac otm

Here's the clip in case anyone is interested. https://www.msnbc.com/hallie-jackson/watch/organizer-of-indigenous-peoples-march-responds-to-viral-video-1429414979995

Alright. Simon H is telling me in another window that mcardle is a libertarian. I don’t think it’s really relevant though.

― Trϵϵship, Wednesday, January 23, 2019 6:01 PM (sixteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Lmao @ “another window”

Is Mordy running a shadow ilx to evade the ilx leftist thought police

her: so, you got any hobbies?
me: not really. well...just this one ;)

*flicks on basement light revealing walls plastered with individual frames of the covington video and a 1/1000 scale diorama of the lincoln memorial*

— Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) January 23, 2019

Simon lives across the street from me and sends messages on paper airplanes between windows. Don’t be paranoid. xp

Trϵϵship posting a Megan McArdle article is really something

Um, it’s a tweet thread. Learn more about media dude.9

The fact that the right's best response to this is "an elderly man DRUMMED in his FACE" should really be the tell that there's no defense for these kids

that was one magic loogie

Yes, the extra videos exonerate the kids from the charge of storming an Indigenous People March and staring down someone while they played healing music, but they were still hooting around like the Lost Boys meeting the tribe in Peter Pan and committing a hate crime on an elderly man, with some crazy Twinkie Defense that they were all juiced up by being called faggots by black israelites or something.

So it got downgraded from a LEVEL 5 racism to a LEVEL 3 racism or something. Fuck out of here, defending these kids

wait mordy doesn't really live across the street from treeship?

Mordy is Treeship

mordy, treeship, and simon all live in different cities people. update your xls once in while jeez

Yes, the extra videos exonerate the kids from the charge of storming an Indigenous People March and staring down someone while they played healing music, but they were still hooting around like the Lost Boys meeting the tribe in Peter Pan and committing a hate crime on an elderly man, with some crazy Twinkie Defense that they were all juiced up by being called faggots by black israelites or something.

So it got downgraded from a LEVEL 5 racism to a LEVEL 3 racism or something. Fuck out of here, defending these kids

― ebro the letter (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, January 23, 2019 4:34 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

booming post

that thread is long and dumb and fucking terrible

I'm apparently an uninformed moron, because I've never heard of Megan McArdle, but she appears to be brain damaged. But I love when she says:

You get my point; I won't belabor it.

With eight tweets in and like 30 more to go.

This is my least favorite thread on ILX I have ever read.

Some "if you look past my gold chain, I'll look past the iron chain" shit

the kids had been bussed from their drives-gay-kids-to-suicide, can't-wear-blackface-anymore school in another state to shout abuse at women. who gives a fuck if your friends on a website dedicated to overthrowing democracy may have ERRONEOUSLY thought that the one who wasn't making "scalpy scalpy" motions might have been racist just because he was wearing a racist hat sold by a racist grifter

The important thing is to keep shining, if we’re talking jewelry.

With eight tweets in and like 30 more to go.

I admit I tapped out when it said "load 45 more tweets" after the first 30 or 60 or w/e

I read it in article format

I did it wrong and read the article and not the tweets.

Twitter is the true paper of record

Well more like read halfway then put on Hall and Oates

I'm apparently an uninformed moron, because I've never heard of Megan McArdle, but she appears to be brain damaged.

catching up on her now so I can fully appreciate why I should have loaded the rest of that thread

McArdle correctly acknowledges that Grenfell might not have claimed as many lives if regulators had required sprinkler systems in the tower, but then proceeds to brainstorm bizarre hypotheticals in which installing sprinklers might have actually killed more people. “Every dollar [the government] spends on installing sprinkler systems cannot be spent on the health service, or national defense, or pollution control. Would more lives be saved by those measures or by sprinkler systems in public housing? It’s hard to say,” she writes. It’s worth noting that this abomination of an opinion piece was published before many Grenfell victims were pulled from the smoldering rubble that was, literally, their entire lives. “It’s possible that by allowing large residential buildings to operate without sprinkler systems, the British government has prevented untold thousands of people from being driven into homelessness by higher housing costs.”

this is a position i often see articulated by people who have never been victims and have little to lose by provoking racist demagogues

― the late great

that's not a political strategy, that's a survival mechanism. people do what they need to survive and don't need my approval or disapproval, and therefore i have neither to offer.

i lost track of this thread because i had other things to do, people were trying to defend rage as a viable political strategy? and then started talking about civility? are the two related because i don't think they are

love you, but I won't do what you tell me

ok right this thread is officially all talking and no listening, i'm going to switch over to slaughterchrist's "reflections of things to come", it's on youtube if anybody elese is interested

two of my favorite things