Lewis2
18hr 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
1d 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
2d 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
10d ago
The buttons only became right-aligned on mobile within the past week. Previously they were left-aligned, which I definitely preferred.
Lewis2
11d 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
17d 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
20d ago
Was it ever? Even Wikipedia only lists cases where the defense resulted in a reduced sentence, not a dismissal of charges.
Lewis2
21d 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.
Lewis2
22d ago
I think a better example would be “kid.” I was “the kid” at work until I was 30, and it only stopped because we hired a guy in his early 20s.
Lewis2
26d ago
Thanks for the link. I could only find Reddit links when I briefly searched, but I’m glad to see it on a more reputable site.
Lewis2
26d ago
Very crass things, like Trump loving the taste of another man’s sperm. Which in ordinary circumstances would be defended as perfectly ordinary and good, but which in this case is assumed to be obviously degrading and emasculating.
You frequently see the same thing with the body positivity crowd, though to give credit where credit is due, I’ve also seen some principled activists push back against it. It’s not at all uncommon, though, to find body positivity folks mocking Trump, Gingrich, Giuliani, etc., for being fat and ugly.
I’m reminded of Scott’s observations in part V of this essay, where all his friends were disgusted at celebrations of Osama bin Ladin’s death, because “we should never rejoice in the death of a fellow man,” yet only a few years later, those same friends forgot that principle and publicly rejoiced at the death of Margaret Thatcher.
I’ve been amused at the homophobia implicit in most of the left-wing comments I’ve seen about it. The same people who’d scold anyone making gay jokes about Pete Buttigieg suddenly find it hilarious to make similar jokes about Trump. Just goes to show it was all about whose ox was being gored all along.
Lewis2
28d ago
It reminds me of this bit of supposed* German WWII propaganda.
*It’s probably real, but I’ve never bothered to verify.
Lewis2
1mo ago
“Kids” and “puppies” are already infantile language though. The proper terms are “children” and “dogs.” Honestly, where does it end with you people?
Lewis2
1mo ago
Another one. I absolutely despise “kiddos,” “doggos,” and “puppers.” I instantly and significantly downgrade my opinion of anyone who uses any of those words.
Lewis2
1mo ago
As if to further drive home your point, Kwanzaa—the one traditional African cultural celebration Americans used to know about—isn’t even African. It was invented by a black American radical activist in 1966 as a replacement for Christmas.
Lewis2
1mo ago
That’s it exactly. Most STEM fields are extremely male-dominated, but Biology is (or was ten years ago) over 60% female.
Lewis2
1mo ago
It’s slightly more believable when you consider that Trump only got 5.4% of the vote in D.C. in 2020. And of course, not every officer would need to be in on it, just the higher-ups. I’m not claiming that there was a conspiracy, but your particular objection doesn’t seem to me to hold much water.
Lewis2
1mo ago
When you say, “any h word,” do you mean any word that starts with H, or just the ones that start with a voiceless glottal fricative? Surely you don’t mean you’d write “a hour” or “a honor”?
Specifically,
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.
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