Kulturkampf

[HaughtyFrank]

Whz didn't anyone think of that, just have housing for all

[Uncle]

I like how it's like FREEDOM, do whatever you want, block your puberty, give children anal beads to try...but the exact opposite for churches, shut them down

[benji]

Whz didn't anyone think of that, just have housing for all

The cruelty is the point.

[HaughtyFrank]

"Is air-conditioning a far-right thing?" one talk show asked provocatively, reflecting how divisive the issue had become.

[benji]

France is the most nuclearized country in the world, nobody else could do "carbon free" air conditioning like them.

And yet, "green concerns" like normal. Makes you think.

[Alpacx]

The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue tells the story about retired Israel Defense Forces General Noam Tibon, who embarked on a heroic mission to save his family, including his two granddaughters, who were surrounded by Hamas terrorists on October 7th, 2023. Tibon also rescued survivors of the music festival massacre and help ed wounded Israeli soldiers on his journey to save his family.

[benji]

edit: lmao

[HaughtyFrank]

[HaughtyFrank]

edit: lmao

How is that important context 

[DavidCroquet]

Something something American Carnage…

[benji]

But any single person can "formally" ask the Supreme Court for anything? It literally doesn't mean anything. You'd think a lawyer would know this.

This is how you know their real problem is the fact that someone somewhere disagrees with them.

Bunch of fascists in the replies proving that Bluesky is a far-right hellhole:

[killamajig]

https://www.mediaite.com/media/twitter-isnt-real-life-poll-finds-just-12-of-americans-found-sydney-sweeney-ad-offensive/



So......12% of Americans need to go outside more.

[Alpacx]

$25,000 fine for walking in the woods in Nova Scotia to prevent harm (of forest fires) but this dude gets paroled in BC

Edit:

[benji]

https://www.mediaite.com/media/twitter-isnt-real-life-poll-finds-just-12-of-americans-found-sydney-sweeney-ad-offensive/



So......12% of Americans need to go outside more.

12% of Americans are Black. But I wasn't born yesterday. Y'all know what you're doing. You have to know, otherwise the reflexive defensiveness against charges of racism don't really make sense. The claim that ignorance is the primary motivator that begets racism contradicts with the aggressive downplaying and dismissal that happens whenever racism is unveiled in an individual instance. Usually when people don't know something, and they have good intentions, they defer authority to those who actually know better. You wouldn't make a false claim about, like, the biology of lions, get corrected by an expert in the field, and then go and tell said expert that they're wrong, right? Of course not. It's ridiculous on the surface.

But white people don't do that on average with racism, despite the argument that "they just don't know better." It's almost always an affirmative claim being made in defense of a presumed peace: "This individual instance isn't racist." Well, if you're ignorant about racism, how can you make an argument with certainty that any given racist incident is actually not racist? Hell, why in the world would you even get mad at being argued with on this? No one here was involved in the making of the ad and I presume no one has any stock in AE. There is no personal stake in the matter, so why jump to AE's defense in any way, even if it's just a "they didn't know better!", instead of just listening to what people who do know better have to say? Where is the display of good intentions that signal honest ignorance?

It's because y'all are amenable to white supremacy which says that white people are best at all things, which would inevitably include sussing out what the effects and examples of racism are better than minorities are somehow. You all don't actually think Black and Brown people know what they're talking about; it tracks with all of the reflexive shitposts at the beginning of this thread and the random holdouts who keep coming in here to downplay the issue by saying that anyone who read the ad negatively to any degree was the real problem.

Folks might not consciously think this, but that's how they act, despite the fact that there is no reason to. There is literally no data that I've personally researched myself that somehow contradicts my general claim that we live in a world where white supremacy is a status quo, that we have somehow achieved racial parity in all matters. That's the truth of the matter. And yet there is always a glut of folks ready at the to deny any given individual example as not being part of the pattern, somehow vacuously devoid of the social and historical forces that affect all things, with no actual reason to do so.

You all aren't stupid. You're just biased towards white supremacy. So if you all could just, like, stop being biased towards white supremacy, that'd be really great.

[HaughtyFrank]

This send me down memory lane to 2014

This appears to confirm what the video’s optics suggested: The people most loudly complaining about catcalls are the ones most insulated from more serious problems of racial profiling and economic inequality.
After all, getting catcalled in a gentrifying neighborhood isn’t just a reminder that because someone is young and female her body is up for grabs (besides, that happens in subtler ways all the time). It foremost means being forced to acknowledge some of the people who lived there in a time before gut renovations and organic bodegas and speakeasies. A gentrifier like me can always move back to the quiet, catcall-free suburbs; the guy who hangs outside my subway stop all day probably can’t. So when he tells me I look beautiful today, I say “thank you” instead of tattling on an app. It’s never led to an escalation that made me uncomfortable and, as a result, I’ve been hesitant to complain about catcalls as an issue.

https://archive.fo/FnNDT

[benji]

“We get catcalled. We get honked at. People slow down just to stare — or lean out the window to shout something. It’s so common, but it’s harassment and it needs to be recognized as such,” Officer Abby Hayward told the Telegraph.

“This behavior is either a precursor to something more serious — or it’s ignorance and it’s fixable,” the cop said.

“That’s where our interventions come in: to stop potential repeat offenders or help people understand that what they’re doing isn’t OK.”

"Oi mate, you got a loiscense to stare?" -

[Alpacx]

“We get catcalled. We get honked at. People slow down just to stare — or lean out the window to shout something. It’s so common, but it’s harassment and it needs to be recognized as such,” Officer Abby Hayward told the Telegraph.

“This behavior is either a precursor to something more serious — or it’s ignorance and it’s fixable,” the cop said.

“That’s where our interventions come in: to stop potential repeat offenders or help people understand that what they’re doing isn’t OK.”

"Oi mate, you got a loiscense to stare?" -

Stopping the Pakistani rape gangs 
Stopping people from looking at joggers 

[Alpacx]

Meanwhile in New Brunswick. No fines, but don't walk in the woods because forest fires you could break your leg and we've understaffed the healthcare system while we skyrocketed immigration.

[benji]

Meanwhile in New Brunswick. No fines, but don't walk in the woods because forest fires you could break your leg and we've understaffed the healthcare system while we skyrocketed immigration.

I'm not understanding how walking "just nearby" or in private woods would avoid the issue?

Also, they have a lot of fishing boats capsizing up there?

[Alpacx]

Meanwhile in New Brunswick. No fines, but don't walk in the woods because forest fires you could break your leg and we've understaffed the healthcare system while we skyrocketed immigration.

I'm not understanding how walking "just nearby" or in private woods would avoid the issue?

Also, they have a lot of fishing boats capsizing up there?

It's Canada. We punish the law abiding because they're the ones who will comply.

Edit:

[Uncle]

But any single person can "formally" ask the Supreme Court for anything? It literally doesn't mean anything. You'd think a lawyer would know this.

This is how you know their real problem is the fact that someone somewhere disagrees with them.

Bunch of fascists in the replies proving that Bluesky is a far-right hellhole:

do you have a tool to do those perfect individual screenshots? browser extension or something, just click a post and it saves an image of it?

[Ethan]

Meanwhile in New Brunswick. No fines, but don't walk in the woods because forest fires you could break your leg and we've understaffed the healthcare system while we skyrocketed immigration.

I'm not understanding how walking "just nearby" or in private woods would avoid the issue?

Also, they have a lot of fishing boats capsizing up there?

A lawyer in the government probably told them a blanket ban would be overturned by the Courts because it's akin to banning cars to prevent traffic fatalities, so instead of backtracking and imposing hefty fines for smoking or starting camp fires, or closing areas that are currently impacted or at high risk, so a balanced approach, they're retconning and coming up with a whole new explanation for the blanket ban that might be more palatable for a judge, but not really. It's also the reason that was used mostly successfully (until it didn't) during Covid (we can't overwhelm the healthcare system/first responders).

The worst thing is that it's actually well-intentioned, but it will just fuel the right-wing populist outrage all over, just because they couldn't think for more than 5 minutes.

edit: Nevermind, it's NB, not NS, though I expect the later to follow suit.

[HaughtyFrank]

But to be fair, he forgot to mention the important context that the rest of the US is also a murderville

[Potato]

I'm sure EVERY murder that happens in Iraq is reported to police and they investigate thoroughly. 

Yes, very sure.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

12% of Americans are Black. But I wasn't born yesterday. Y'all know what you're doing. You have to know, otherwise the reflexive defensiveness against charges of racism don't really make sense. The claim that ignorance is the primary motivator that begets racism contradicts with the aggressive downplaying and dismissal that happens whenever racism is unveiled in an individual instance. Usually when people don't know something, and they have good intentions, they defer authority to those who actually know better. You wouldn't make a false claim about, like, the biology of lions, get corrected by an expert in the field, and then go and tell said expert that they're wrong, right? Of course not. It's ridiculous on the surface.

But white people don't do that on average with racism, despite the argument that "they just don't know better." It's almost always an affirmative claim being made in defense of a presumed peace: "This individual instance isn't racist." Well, if you're ignorant about racism, how can you make an argument with certainty that any given racist incident is actually not racist? Hell, why in the world would you even get mad at being argued with on this? No one here was involved in the making of the ad and I presume no one has any stock in AE. There is no personal stake in the matter, so why jump to AE's defense in any way, even if it's just a "they didn't know better!", instead of just listening to what people who do know better have to say? Where is the display of good intentions that signal honest ignorance?

It's because y'all are amenable to white supremacy which says that white people are best at all things, which would inevitably include sussing out what the effects and examples of racism are better than minorities are somehow. You all don't actually think Black and Brown people know what they're talking about; it tracks with all of the reflexive shitposts at the beginning of this thread and the random holdouts who keep coming in here to downplay the issue by saying that anyone who read the ad negatively to any degree was the real problem.

Folks might not consciously think this, but that's how they act, despite the fact that there is no reason to. There is literally no data that I've personally researched myself that somehow contradicts my general claim that we live in a world where white supremacy is a status quo, that we have somehow achieved racial parity in all matters. That's the truth of the matter. And yet there is always a glut of folks ready at the to deny any given individual example as not being part of the pattern, somehow vacuously devoid of the social and historical forces that affect all things, with no actual reason to do so.

You all aren't stupid. You're just biased towards white supremacy. So if you all could just, like, stop being biased towards white supremacy, that'd be really great.

[Polident]

[Uncle]

still worth revisiting every once in a while...that was an amazing time in era history

[benji]

do you have a tool to do those perfect individual screenshots? browser extension or something, just click a post and it saves an image of it?

Shift + Windows Key + S

Draw a box around what you want, Ctrl + V into imgur.

still worth revisiting every once in a while...that was an amazing time in era history

Respect for never deleting this:

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

[HaughtyFrank]

Starting to think people are prison abolitionists not because there's too many people being incarcerated but because they prefer mob justice.