Lewis2
1d ago
Also, the victim wasn’t black. Only blacks are allowed to be martyrs among a certain segment of the modern Left.
Some other Tweets I’ve seen but can’t find anymore:
“I’d like to remind y’all that “Say Her Name” is for Black women. Yes, it matters. Just like Rest in Power is for Black revolutionaries.”
and
why don’t Americans do something~ BECAUSE ICE WILL SHOOT US IN THE HEAD AND THEN CALL US TERRORISTS EVEN IF WE ARE UNARMED THANKS
THE BLACK COMMUNITY RISKED THIS AND MORE DURING THE CIVILS RIGHTS MOVEMENT AND IT’S CLEAR YOU WHITE PEOPLE WANT TO SIT BACK UNTIL MARGINALIZED PEOPLE GO FIRST AGAIN THANKS
You’ve probably also seen the video of the white woman who feels conflicted because of her own white privilege, to say nothing of the white privilege of the two women who were involved.
A lot of the diehard activists have been so caught up in racial discourse and race-based gatekeeping for so long that they can’t even set it aside when it might be beneficial to their cause to do so.
Lewis2
6d ago
It’s unfortunate that answering this question earnestly is so unwise. Brainstorming A) how much destruction one person, or a small team of people, could cause, and B) how best to prevent someone else from following through on those plans, would be a very fun discussion, especially in a group of smart people with diverse backgrounds. But as almost everyone else has mentioned, it would be extremely foolhardy to actually mention any concrete ideas in a forum such as this, or really, in any place where there’s a chance one of the participants might be tempted to follow through.
Lewis2
8d ago
his approval rating was in the gutter
A great sage predicted this moment 13 years ago…
Lewis2
9d ago
Lewis2
9d ago
Given that teenagers have been charged with the production, possession, and distribution of CSAM for sending nudes of themselves, CSAM charges in this case don’t strike me as anything close to nuclear, assuming the police can recover the images from Snapchat. The only thing I’m not certain of is whether they actually broke any CSAM laws. Is it actually illegal to draw a photorealistic, but fake, image of a nude minor? Perhaps more to the point, given how AIs usually seem to handle NSFW requests, is it illegal to put the face of a minor on top of the body of a definitely-grown adult? I have no idea, and it’s not something I’m eager to google.
Lewis2
9d ago
“Your tears say more than real evidence ever could.”
More seriously, to me, the part that struck the most discordant note was this:
She said the boy whom she and her friends suspected of creating the images wasn’t sent to that alternative school with her.
Which almost makes it sound like she wanted to keep going to school with the boy. If I were in the school district’s position, the last thing I’d do is ship them both off to the same location.
Lewis2
11d ago
Did the 23-year-old’s videos actually provide enough proof of fraud that it led to this defunding, or did they provide just plausible enough evidence to give the administration an excuse to do what they already wanted to do anyway?
It seems to me that Trump and his administration have a few goals that this defunding meets: 1) shrink government spending (at least in some areas), 2) emphasize criminal actions by immigrants, and 3) hurt Trump’s enemies. This nicely does all three. It decreases welfare spending, shows Somalian immigrants in a very negative light, and makes Tim Walz look like an enabler of massive fraud. I think it’s probable that at least one of the daycare centers in those videos will turn out to be completely legitimate when all the facts come to light, and it’s possible that the same will hold true for all of them.
Lewis2
15d ago
I agree, but will Americans still care that they’re first in liberty, or will they see that as an unfortunate holdover from earlier times? If things continue as they are, I think most Americans will see that as something in need of fixing, not something to proudly base their identity on.
Lewis2
15d ago
I wish I could agree. That is a future that previous generations would have been fine with, but modern Americans continue to value liberty less and less. See the steady attempts to carve away at the first, second, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, tenth, and fourteenth Amendments.
Freedom of religion -> freedom of worship
Freedom of speech -> not including hate speech
Freedom of the press -> should only apply to professional journalists
Right to bear arms -> only if you’re a professional bodyguard or in the military
Freedom from search and seizure -> but only if it doesn’t make the police’s job more difficult
Pleading the Fifth -> “obviously guilty,” according to most people
Private property cannot be seized -> civil asset forfeiture
Right to confront your accuser -> unless the accuser would find it traumatic
No excessive fines -> unless you manufacture guns or are Alex Jones
Powers reserved to the states -> a joke
Equal protection under the laws -> affirmative action
Just to mention a few.
Lewis2
23d ago
I unfortunately make only a fraction of that. I was basing my numbers on FiveHourMarathon and his wife’s combined income.
Lewis2
23d ago
I think I mentioned a few months back that I once came across a book of etiquette from the late 19th century that recommended a gentleman spend two to three months’ wages on a good suit. Imagine buying a single set of clothing for $75,000.
Lewis2
28d ago
Specifically,
Many of its top leaders, beginning with its chief, Roehm, were notorious homosexual perverts. Lieutenant Edmund Heines, who led the Munich S.A., was not only a homosexual but a convicted murderer. These two and dozens of others quarreled and feuded as only men of unnatural sexual inclinations, with their peculiar jealousies, can. (Page 120)
Shirer was one of the earlier and more vocal authors to claim that the Nazis were disproportionately gay, but my understanding is that that claim has been considered discredited since the 1960s. Obviously some were, but there’s no evidence the percentage was higher than that of the general population.
Lewis2
28d ago
As far as I can tell, your expanded description still isn’t accurate, as no court has ruled that the arrest itself was wrongful. The only thing the police are in trouble for is repeatedly defying court orders requiring them to hand over evidence of physical abuse during the arrest. Certainly the arrest itself has not been ruled as a miscarriage of justice, as your original comment claimed.
Lewis2
29d ago
see how Northamtonshire Police was recently forced to pay a £50k fine for a wrongful arrest of someone for just "mean tweets"
Are you referring to this? If so, that’s a completely false description of the incident. The police were forced to pay the fine for repeatedly and deliberately failing to hand over video clips of the arrest despite several court orders, after the detainee alleged officers physically assaulted her during her arrest. The fine was not because the arrest itself was deemed unlawful.
Lewis2
30d ago
Maybe so, but that’s not the impression many Americans get through social media (only a tiny minority will ever visit in person).
Lewis2
1mo ago
The buttons only became right-aligned on mobile within the past week. Previously they were left-aligned, which I definitely preferred.
Lewis2
1mo ago
The church also declared beavers to be cold-blooded water dwellers and therefore perfectly suitable to eat during Friday fasts. The rules get weird around the edges.
Lewis2
1mo ago
There’s a question I’d never considered until now: is marriage actually a pretty good criterion for excluding pedophiles? Logically, it would make sense, but anecdotally, I seem to hear more stories of married men sexually abusing children (often their stepchildren) than single men. I assume some of that is simply due to ease of access to children, but I don’t know if that’s the only factor. That said, most of the married guys seem to abuse girls, not boys, which would be less of an issue in an all-male Boy Scout troop.
Lewis2
1mo ago
Was it ever? Even Wikipedia only lists cases where the defense resulted in a reduced sentence, not a dismissal of charges.
Lewis2
1mo ago
The usual logic goes that the Jews are tricking the US government into backing a "foreign" (i.e. non-White) state's interest at the expense of American Whites. But this only makes sense if we have already established the Jews aren't really White and are hostile mimics.
No, the usual logic is that the Jews (and their dimwitted Evangelical sidekicks) are causing the U.S. government to back a foreign (no scare quotes) state’s interests at the expense of America. That’s it. It has nothing to do with whether Jews are white and whether Israel is a “white” country.
This finally made the “liminal spaces” thing click for me. I’ve never understood how anyone could find an empty or abandoned space scary (aside from concerns about deranged homeless people or animals, which people have always assured me aren’t what freak them out). Up until now, I’ve always chocked it up to people watching too many zombie movies. But then, I grew up in the country, and I spent a good deal of my childhood traipsing solo through abandoned barns and woods. Today, my nearest neighbor is about 300 yards away, and I sometimes find even that too close. I’m very much not used to being hemmed in by people. But if all you’ve ever known is being surrounded by other people, peaceful, quiet places with no one around must be completely unnerving.
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