It's not just the US that's fucked
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Friday, 31 January 2020 20:30 (four years ago) link
Also, an update from GVSU: http://lanthorn.com/73412/news/gv-suspends-football-offensive-coordinator-following-comments-about-hitler/
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Friday, 31 January 2020 20:31 (four years ago) link
Hitler was a shitty leader imo
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 31 January 2020 20:42 (four years ago) link
from the comments:
Coach Berger did not give a wrong answer. Hitler was a great leader. 100% wrong. But almost a whole country followed this lunatic. I find it intriguing Hitlers idea of The Great Race that so many were on the band wagon to join him. How can people now not wonder about that. Hitler was not a Guru or a Self proclaimed prophet just a guy with an idea. Although once Hitlers ball got rolling…. it was hard to get off and rebel.
A leader with an idea and everyone followed. That is the basic answer I think for Coach Berger answer
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 31 January 2020 20:56 (four years ago) link
This is why the existence of "leadership" degrees and programs is a travesty.
Although once Hitlers ball got rolling…. it was hard to get off and rebel
endless lols
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Friday, 31 January 2020 20:59 (four years ago) link
just a guy with an idea
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 31 January 2020 21:04 (four years ago) link
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-31/sanders-rivals-biden-for-top-spot-nationally-campaign-update
I guess Booker could have gotten that rule change if he'd been an old white billionaire
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Friday, 31 January 2020 21:14 (four years ago) link
He did as best he could considering he only had one (the other was in the Albert Hall, I believe)
― (includes digression on farting) (Tom D.), Friday, 31 January 2020 21:33 (four years ago) link
getting a bunch of people to do a thing = great leadership.
Other great leaders include Jim Jones, Charles Manson...
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 31 January 2020 21:35 (four years ago) link
even if you're a morally reprehensible scumbag and worship at the altar of "leadership" like he made tons of dumbass decisions and left Germany in ruins! how hard is it for these dickheads
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 31 January 2020 23:48 (four years ago) link
Shot his dog and then shot himself, that's something to aspire to.
― (includes digression on farting) (Tom D.), Saturday, 1 February 2020 00:05 (four years ago) link
got the order wrong even then
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Saturday, 1 February 2020 00:08 (four years ago) link
Leadership through pervasive fear and brutal coercion has always been a favorite among aspiring leaders.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 1 February 2020 01:30 (four years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/02/03/magazine/henry-louis-gates-jr-interview.html
Then when you actually had the “beer summit,” did President Obama say anything helpful, or was that whole thing pro forma? Oh, that’s interesting. I was at Martha’s Vineyard, and I had been getting instructions from the White House, through Glenn Hutchins. They told me not to wear a bespoke suit. “We don’t want it to be about class.” All of the sudden I was the upper-class black person against the working class. I go, “I’m the victim!” They go, “No, don’t wear one of those suits.” I go: “These are the only suits I have. I’m not going out to Sears and Roebuck and buying a suit.” Then they go, “Do not fly down in a private plane.” Glenn Hutchins owns a private plane. Glenn’s a billionaire. He’s one of my best friends. The only way we could get to Washington was on Glenn’s plane, because there was fog. Anyway, we got to the White House, and we and Sgt. Crowley’s family all got to the library at the same time. I walked over to Sgt. Crowley. He had his kids there, and I said to them: “Hi, I’m Professor Gates. Hope you come to Harvard one day. Maybe you’ll take one of my classes.” Then I said to him, “Can I have a word with you?” He and I went off and did the beer summit ourselves. I said, “Look, I don’t know about you, man, but I just want this to go away.” He goes, “This is a nightmare.” I said to him: “The president has come under attack. Racism’s coming out of the floor. I’m sure you’re a decent person. I forgive you. Let’s move on.” He goes, “That would be the best thing that could happen.” I said, “Maybe we could find a way to lecture about it.” He laughed and said, “Anything I can do to get off the beat.” I realized he was funny. I think that gay people have a sense of who’s homophobic. I think that Jewish people have a sense of who’s anti-Semitic. I definitely think black people — I could walk out there and tell you, “That [ expletive ] is a racist.”And you’re saying you didn’t get that vibe from Sgt. Crowley? I didn’t get that vibe from him. When we were called into the Oval Office, I said to the president, “Mr. President, we had a great conversation in the library.” He said, “Oh, it sounds like it’s all settled.” The actual beer summit was us doing small talk. And the reason Joe Biden was there is that the Cambridge police had insisted that because there were going to be two black guys at the table, they wanted two white guys at the table! They had sent somebody involved in the Cambridge police structure to be there. As we were walking out to the Rose Garden, somehow that guy got pushed to the side, and Joe Biden jumped in the line. That’s what nobody ever figured out: Why is Biden at the table? He was there to be the second white guy.
And you’re saying you didn’t get that vibe from Sgt. Crowley? I didn’t get that vibe from him. When we were called into the Oval Office, I said to the president, “Mr. President, we had a great conversation in the library.” He said, “Oh, it sounds like it’s all settled.” The actual beer summit was us doing small talk. And the reason Joe Biden was there is that the Cambridge police had insisted that because there were going to be two black guys at the table, they wanted two white guys at the table! They had sent somebody involved in the Cambridge police structure to be there. As we were walking out to the Rose Garden, somehow that guy got pushed to the side, and Joe Biden jumped in the line. That’s what nobody ever figured out: Why is Biden at the table? He was there to be the second white guy.
― j., Monday, 3 February 2020 18:13 (four years ago) link
man I would LOVE to talk to Professor Gates about this whole shitshow
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Monday, 3 February 2020 18:15 (four years ago) link
also biden
― mark s, Monday, 3 February 2020 18:22 (four years ago) link
kinda not even kidding
Greyhound bus driver otm
Witnesses said a bus driver told an ICE agent to “gargle [his] balls” when the latter requested to enter the bus https://t.co/N1QnEuBLXk— corpse (@thefurrow) February 22, 2020
― Οὖτις, Monday, 24 February 2020 16:59 (four years ago) link
I feel like this tweet needs some love
― Οὖτις, Monday, 24 February 2020 17:40 (four years ago) link
On Wednesday, Camille Gallo, the regional press secretary for the National Republican Congressional Committee, which works to elect Republicans to the House of Representatives, tweeted out that the NRCC was trolling McBath over Bloomberg's comments. To drive home that they believed her seat was bought and paid for, Gallo apparently sent McBath a "For Sale" sign with her name on it.
(Lucy McBath is a black Dem representative from GA whose son was murdered via gun violence)
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 27 February 2020 17:26 (four years ago) link
These people are scabrous
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Thursday, 27 February 2020 17:36 (four years ago) link
Classic projection. Where is the anti-2A funder that could POSSIBLY pay as much as the NRA already routinely does?
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Thursday, 27 February 2020 17:52 (four years ago) link
that's Bloomberg tbh
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 27 February 2020 18:00 (four years ago) link
https://blavity.com/a-black-georgia-man-going-for-a-run-was-followed-and-killed-by-two-white-men-who-thought-he-was-a-burglary-suspect
― DJP, Tuesday, 28 April 2020 19:41 (four years ago) link
What’s so fucked about it, alongside everythingeverything else, is that there evidently needs to be minute-by-minute video of his assassination before there’s enough hackles raised to ... what? Eventually convene a grand jury?
― rb (soda), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 15:06 (four years ago) link
fuck if there were no video they probably would have treated these guys like hero crime stoppers or some shit.
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 15:09 (four years ago) link
the contrast between this innocent man getting chased down and murdered because he "fit a description" of a burglar to the armed racist storming state capitals with no repercussions is fucking insane.
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 15:15 (four years ago) link
To me, this case speaks so baldly about the inequitable burdens of evidence required to achieve justice a racist system.
The injustice against Arbury, and the fact of innocence, is only made semi-credible when a (mostly white) audience has consumed videos of his violent and unprovoked murder. (Which, like, why?)
Meanwhile, the McMichaels father/son who hopped in a pickup truck to hunt him down during quarantine, wielding multiple weapons, weren't arrested due to an ostensible lack of probable cause, and are now entitled to a Grand Fucking Jury being convened to offer them all possible fairnesses.
― rb (soda), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 15:28 (four years ago) link
Oh, and the lead BBC, USA Today, and Fox articles on the case have JOSEPH BIDEN as the photo at the top of their story.
― rb (soda), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 15:30 (four years ago) link
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, May 6, 2020 11:09 AM (forty-six minutes ago)
they were; the atty general initially said it was a clear case of self-defense
― dip to dup (rob), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 15:58 (four years ago) link
that's horrifying.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 19:39 (four years ago) link
fucking awful. RIP Ahmaud Arbery. and it's awful having no confidence that justice will be served.
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Thursday, 7 May 2020 02:58 (four years ago) link
infuriating:
The DA that charged this black woman for felony voter fraud and took her to trial TWICE is the same DA that chose NOT to arrest the McMichaels for murdering Ahmaud Arbery, despite seeing the video of his death. https://t.co/2cor4ezvEJ— josie duffy rice (@jduffyrice) May 7, 2020
― dip to dup (rob), Thursday, 7 May 2020 15:38 (four years ago) link
the DA is George Barnhill, why does nobody in the thread name him? He recused himself but damn.https://georgiarecorder.com/2020/05/07/bookman-waycross-das-judgment-of-brunswick-shooting-video-insane/https://georgiarecorder.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Barnhill-letter-Brunswick-shooting.pdf
― inveterate practitioner of antisocial distancing (Hunt3r), Thursday, 7 May 2020 16:23 (four years ago) link
what an absolute piece of shit.
― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 7 May 2020 16:26 (four years ago) link
https://www.runwithmaud.com
― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 7 May 2020 18:58 (four years ago) link
That's run by Shaun King, isn't it?
― DJP, Thursday, 7 May 2020 19:19 (four years ago) link
A friend of mine wrote this on FB, which is one of the best things I've read this week. (He's not big on paragraph breaks, jsyk.) It's infuriating but it connects and illuminates a lot of things.
https://www.facebook.com/muziqkal/posts/10108399157812305
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 7 May 2020 23:07 (four years ago) link
NEW: 40 People Were Arrested on Social Distancing Violations. 35 Were Black.https://t.co/U7J9X1RNLrScoop by @AshleyAtTimes— Cliff Levy (@cliffordlevy) May 7, 2020
― mookieproof, Thursday, 7 May 2020 23:13 (four years ago) link
― DJP, Thursday, May 7, 2020 12:19 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
oh, I hadn't realized that, can see that is the case from his twitter
― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 7 May 2020 23:16 (four years ago) link
I'm not finished reading this (it's lllllooooonnnnnggggg) but I'm sharing the link because it's fascinating.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 8 May 2020 01:21 (four years ago) link
The McMichaels have been arrested and charged with murder: https://www.ajc.com/news/local/father-son-charged-with-murder-brunswick-shooting/tWjmSXAeWlD2LKIN1dSmfK/
― Brad C., Friday, 8 May 2020 01:37 (four years ago) link
https://www.theroot.com/anti-lockdown-demonstrators-walk-into-north-carolina-su-1843390241
― DJP, Monday, 11 May 2020 16:04 (four years ago) link
"trash people" is a pretty good evocation of that shitshow
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 11 May 2020 16:16 (four years ago) link
Hope someone pushes them in front of an actual train
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Monday, 11 May 2020 17:00 (four years ago) link
props for the joke at the end of that lol
― Nhex, Monday, 11 May 2020 19:16 (four years ago) link
omg lol
― DJP, Monday, 11 May 2020 19:39 (four years ago) link
I hadn't watched the video, loooooooooooool
― DJP, Monday, 11 May 2020 19:40 (four years ago) link
Since about a year before Trump was elected, I've been working (professionally) with a narrowing focus on DEI issues in public education. It's been a hard road, at times, but some of the work my team has been doing was finally starting to pay-off. And then came Covid, and then ... people got locked down with their own families, and most people got trapped in places where they found themselves surrounded by people who looked like them, reflected their values back to them, and shared class/race characteristics with them. Shared spaces / spaces where you can't choose your co-users were diminished, and will be re-defined at their eventual openings. And I can't help but think that this country's social and racial problems are going to take an enormous step backward because of the echo-chamber effect, and that NC shit is the first of many impending violences.
― rb (soda), Monday, 11 May 2020 19:56 (four years ago) link
Voting for “uncoerced multiracial fuckspace,” is that in there?
― retail rage is for suckers (Hunt3r), Saturday, 12 September 2020 00:59 (three years ago) link
I think it’s more like
Oh yeah? Well how come there's no white learning space???"
"It's right over there, second door on the left."
“What?! You’re the real racist!!!”
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, 12 September 2020 01:02 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/1yCDG4l.jpg
― pplains, Saturday, 12 September 2020 02:09 (three years ago) link
two great tastes together at last, like peanut butter and defibrillator gel
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Saturday, 12 September 2020 02:20 (three years ago) link
lol
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 12 September 2020 17:14 (three years ago) link
Black lives make America great again? Cool.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, 12 September 2020 17:27 (three years ago) link
I need to save this virtuosic Washington Post headline + stub for posterity:
Allegations of racism have marked Trump’s term, becoming key issue as election nearsThere is a substantial record of President Trump’s actions that have compounded the perceptions of racism created by his words.
The Copyeditors & Grammar Fiends thread might be equally appropriate; you'd need 3D modelling software to diagram that sentence.
― rob, Wednesday, 23 September 2020 16:20 (three years ago) link
"Trump is Racist" apparently still not playing in peoria
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 16:23 (three years ago) link
xp this was the post's leading story (on their website) this morning:
https://i.imgur.com/1RxMeNi.png
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 23 September 2020 23:58 (three years ago) link
that's one way to describe it, i guess
Some allege that Trump's fervent promotion of the re-enslavement of African Americans may in fact be racist, but is it fair for us to assert what really lies in his heart?
― Wessonality Crisis (Old Lunch), Thursday, 24 September 2020 00:20 (three years ago) link
ffs
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2020/sep/24/investigation-launched-after-black-barrister-mistaken-for-defendant-three-times-in-a-day
― sock solipsist (pomenitul), Thursday, 24 September 2020 16:57 (three years ago) link
I thought this was interesting:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/12/opinions/former-white-supremacist-how-to-tackle-hate-buckley/index.html
― DJP, Thursday, 12 November 2020 18:16 (three years ago) link
Wow
https://www.theroot.com/wyoming-congressman-apologizes-for-tweeting-where-the-1845905063?utm_campaign=The+Root&utm_content=1608237779&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR3zov8r4wCZ-s6HAsqZZGyavBEl8wNpjXmeiF7c4IKRAe2uMOHkNd6Bml8
― Everything's Blue In This Whorl (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 17 December 2020 22:19 (three years ago) link
he is very sorry for the joke he made which he did not really fully intend or understand, a joke which was kind of foisted on him actually, and to the extent that this thing that happened to him may have troubled other people, he is sorry.
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 17 December 2020 22:49 (three years ago) link
Have read that Hitler was a chaotic insecure leader who had his staff intentionally in conflict to stop them plotting against him. So a big influence on t I take it.
Also he was totally deluded about what was happening towards the end. Moving around tank units that had long since been destroyed. I guess at least t didn't quite manage to get the US into War try as he might. But the quixoticism is still pretty high and I'm sure he'll find some more fun over the next couple of weeks.
I mean why concentrate on the negative stuff.
― Stevolende, Friday, 18 December 2020 07:48 (three years ago) link
One really good resource on Race I read this year was Angela Saini's book Superior which looks at the history of race science and shows the major flaws. I.e. why it should be viewed with extreme scepticism since it was set up to explain why the white man was so superior and threw out all the little details as to why he wasn't. She was triggered to write it by seeing a rise in similar thought appearing recently. The book came out in the summer this year.I also read Bruce Pascoe's book Dark Emu which looked into distortion in the Western view of Australian Aboriginal history and culture. Like if one goes into an occupied area in such a way as to destroy the ecosystem and whatever buildings etc are in it one can so easily con oneself that the occupants are rootless nomads. Particularly when it helps your expansionist ideas.
Current read David Olusoga on various ethnicities brought into the First World War and fighting outside Europe.Input has been all too readily ignored.
― Stevolende, Friday, 18 December 2020 08:24 (three years ago) link
We don’t “complain” of racist treatment. WE RECEIVE IT. Amplify her story. Then do something about it. https://t.co/HJKec1W7pi— Jessica Isom MD MPH (@DrJessIsomMDMPH) December 24, 2020
― DJP, Thursday, 24 December 2020 19:31 (three years ago) link
I don’t advocate for violence in most cases, but ...
https://www.theroot.com/man-dubbed-mr-teako-after-smacking-n-word-spewing-whit-1845976157
― Everything's Blue In This Whorl (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 2 January 2021 16:36 (three years ago) link
yoooooooooooooo this is fantastic
― Totino's Fortnite Training Room (DJP), Saturday, 2 January 2021 18:40 (three years ago) link
Damn! Nice!
― sarahell, Saturday, 2 January 2021 18:59 (three years ago) link
lol @ smacklemore
― sarahell, Saturday, 2 January 2021 19:00 (three years ago) link
Honestly this was so gratifying because I've been in line at a convenience store behind "that racist guy" too many times. Dude will always start out by being a garden variety asshole -- wanting attention, flexing his power by holding up the line and trying to "be funny" ... and nobody gives a fuck, people want to get their frozen pizza, their sale beer, ice cream, doritos, cigarettes, tampons, etc. and get the fuck home. Everyone there was probably already thinking, "this guy is an asshole" and I'm sure at least a few of them were also thinking, "I bet this guy is also racist AF. Is he gonna start on some racist shit?" ... and then, because dude wanted attention and power and an audience, yep, racist AF. Meanwhile, everyone there is having their time wasted by this idiot. ... In summary, Mr. TeaKO -- a true hero.
― sarahell, Saturday, 2 January 2021 19:22 (three years ago) link
that video has become THE meme for gen z rn
― trans-panda express (m bison), Saturday, 2 January 2021 19:29 (three years ago) link
My god, I wasn't prepared for the impact of the Twisted Tea on dude's melon. Epic af.
Glad this fuck took a few more to the head afterwards.
― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Saturday, 2 January 2021 19:31 (three years ago) link
“I called my wife soon as I got in the car,” he said. “By the time I got in the car and started moving and backed out and got on the road, I’m telling my wife, ‘I hit a guy in the face with a can.’ She’s like, ‘I know. I’m watching it.’ The lady had 5,000 views by the time I drove two blocks home.”
― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Saturday, 2 January 2021 19:33 (three years ago) link
Gen Z? Lol everyone I know is posting memes about it, but Twisted Tea is also very popular with aging punks, so that might explain it.
― "Bi" Dong A Ban He Try (the table is the table), Saturday, 2 January 2021 20:49 (three years ago) link
also baltimore's new comptroller
Happy New Year's Eve!! You made it through the year! Keep it up, by staying home. I mean it! pic.twitter.com/g0GW9MBMy2— Comptroller Bill (@BillforBmore) December 31, 2020
― superdeep borehole (harbl), Sunday, 3 January 2021 00:18 (three years ago) link
It’s funny because I feel like there was a moment maybe in the Odd Future era where young millennial whites where just gonna push through and start using that word in a friendly manner. I wonder if this dude came up in that era or is just the regular, timeless asshole
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 3 January 2021 00:54 (three years ago) link
*were
dude lol
― k3vin k., Sunday, 3 January 2021 00:57 (three years ago) link
I guess young millennial whites like getting beat?
― Totino's Fortnite Training Room (DJP), Sunday, 3 January 2021 02:12 (three years ago) link
or is just the regular, timeless asshole
the vid makes it clear he's an asshole start to finish
― Respectfully Yours, (Aimless), Sunday, 3 January 2021 02:16 (three years ago) link
And a big weenie
― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Sunday, 3 January 2021 02:23 (three years ago) link
Loled at how he looked shook before he weakly came at Tea-K.O. after he got hit with the tea.
― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Sunday, 3 January 2021 02:24 (three years ago) link
At the tail end of the video he smiles slightly to himself, as if to tell himself, "I fought a black man and I'm able to walk away - that was so badass of me" when the truth is the black guy could have pulped him, but decided to let his pitiful ass off easy.
― Respectfully Yours, (Aimless), Sunday, 3 January 2021 02:37 (three years ago) link
It was very much full of “I think I can beat Mike Tyson” energy
― Totino's Fortnite Training Room (DJP), Sunday, 3 January 2021 04:38 (three years ago) link
props to the beater for recovering and giving a great workmanlike performance after dropping the tea in the beginning
― k3vin k., Sunday, 3 January 2021 11:49 (three years ago) link
I was wondering if that was an intentional feint or not.
― Jimi Buffett (PBKR), Sunday, 3 January 2021 14:27 (three years ago) link
Refusing to consider that prolapsed sphincter’s insane, drunken, racist psychodrama is how I try to maintain any feelings of dignity.But still the soprano “OKAY!! OKAY!!?!” is p next level. Didnt look ok bud.
― pence's eye juice (Hunt3r), Sunday, 3 January 2021 18:55 (three years ago) link