Public Shaming C/D?

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

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

― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal)

actually this is great, somebody needs to rewrite all of ratm from angry white-boy posturing into songs of loving but principled resistance, or possibly pizza, because songs about pizza are always funny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayd-a44Nca4

really like that WGW post upthread

WGW may refer to:

Wagawaga language (New Guinea) – former ISO 639 code WGW; later split into codes YLB (Yaleba) and WGB (Wagawaga)
Whitby Goth Weekend, a goth music festival in North Yorkshire, England
Wigan Wallgate railway station, Greater Manchester, England (station code WGW)
WorldGenWeb, genealogy project

lol, I meant Whiney G. Weingarten

everyone dogging into the thread is right about why the ppl itt are wrong but wrong about it being a bad thread it is in fact a good thread

WGW may refer to:

Wagawaga language (New Guinea) – former ISO 639 code WGW; later split into codes YLB (Yaleba) and WGB (Wagawaga)
Whitby Goth Weekend, a goth music festival in North Yorkshire, England
Wigan Wallgate railway station, Greater Manchester, England (station code WGW)
WorldGenWeb, genealogy project

― Trϵϵship

"what god wants", the first single from roger waters' acclaimed 1992 album "amused to death"

That’s what i thought at first, but roger water(face) hasn’t posted in some time

that's not a political strategy, that's a survival mechanism

fair enough i guess

i think TLG's point is pretty legit as a counterbalance to overconfident white progressives that there are unintended consequences to unexamined radical ideological positioning fwiw ... that said i do think the blowback to ppl wishing death on some teens while bad for leftist optics or whatever is still kind of a red herring / distraction from the way the system actually *worked* in this instance, which was to move to protect the positions of the kids when they were forced to face some consequence