Miscellaneous And Off Topic Subjects

[iam416]

So, it’s Black and white now?

lmao

Yeah, I couldn't believe that when I read it.

But, hey, Strangelove approves, so what are we to do?

[AlabamAlum]

Can you imagine the righteous indignation if someone had said capitalize White, but not black?

[iam416]

I don't have to. Apparently there's a fuckton of righteous indignation for capitlizing BOTH Black and White.

[AlabamAlum]

I will capitalize both or neither. Making one some linguistic submissive is beyond fucking ridiculous. People need to be told “no” more on this ‘woke’ idiocy. The more they aren’t told “no” the more they will push the envelope with hyper-turbo idiocy.

[iam416]

Anyway, a very big problem I have with this whole "Woke" movement is that they measure everyone and everything by their worst moments. And given the fallibility of humanity, we all have them. Though, some are worst than others -- e.g., Froot's belittlement of Coach Ryan Day.

But, that's the yardstick. For now. And historically, it's a preposterous yardstick because you measure the past against modern notions of "wokeness" -- the vast majority of human history has been slaughter, slavery, war, slaughter, slavery and so on. No one escapes.

There is a principled way to deal with Confederate icons -- they were treasonists. But that's not why the icons are coming down. They're coming down because they were racists. So, it's a matter of time before Jefferson is in the crosshairs. Then Washington. We'll really know they are serious when they come for FDR -- afterall, that guy refused to integrate the military AND ran CONCENTRATION CAMPS!

At some point, though, my hope is that backlash comes. The ludicrousness of #MeToo has come to a screeching halt now that Biden was targeted. Eventually the Woke go way over the fucking line. Now, otherwise good folks can't say anything because, hey, RACIST! -- but they vote.

It won't happen in 2020. But, fingers crossed, 2022 and 2024 we'll see something.

[iam416]

Atlanta police are, according to some reports, basically not doing any police work -- https://www.nationalreview.com/news/...-down-tenfold/

Good. Fuck them. They want to villify the police them FUCK THEM. The article is worth the read just to get to this quote from Atlanta Mayor Bottoms:

"We expect our officers will keep their commitment to our communities," she added.

I mean....their commitment to what? hunt down and kill black folks? I mean....they can't possibly do any good for communities, that's why we're defunding and abolishing...commitment to what, Mayor Bottoms?

[iam416]

The Atlanta officer will be acquitted. That's what happens when you grossly overcharge a case for political reasons. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is going to testify (IMO) that the shooting was justified. The video is self-evident.

[Dr. Strangelove]

Give em the Calvin Coolidge treatment. There was a man who knew how to handle some petulant cops.

[iam416]

Some updated scalps for Strangelove and his brethren:

42. San Diego Gas & Electric fired an employee after a stranger accused him of making a “white power” symbol.

Emmanuel Cafferty was photographed driving his SDG&E truck with his hand hanging out the window in what appears to be an “OK” symbol made with the first finger and thumb, a symbol that has been used by white supremacists but does not carry that connotation for most Americans. The stranger who photographed Cafferty uploaded the picture to Twitter, and while the post has since been deleted, SDG&E has fired Cafferty.

“When my supervisor said that I was being accused of doing a white supremacist gesture, that was baffling,” Cafferty told the San Diego NBC affiliate. “I don’t know how long it’s going to take me to get over this, but to lose your dream job for playing with your fingers, that’s a hard pill to swallow.”

41. Marvel apologized for posting a picture of Captain America on its Twitter account, saying it was “insensitive” to do so.

“We’ve heard your response to our recent post and agree that now was not the appropriate time to share this content from our game,” the company wrote. “We apologize for being insensitive.”

[iam416]

On the MEXICAN-American fired for giving the "White Power Symbol" (aka, "ok" sign) --

NBC 7 spoke to the man who originally posted the picture on Twitter. He has since deleted his account and said he may have gotten "spun up" about the interaction and misinterpreted it. He says he never intended for Cafferty to lose his job.

Aaaah, that's sweet. Strangelove mocks his weakness.

[iam416]

From the ACLU:

REMINDER: The death penalty evolved from lynching. It has no place in a justice system worthy of that name.

I mean. I literally...I just...I guess history shall be entirely and completey re-written by the Woke.

[Jeff Buchanan]

I usually like what Kevin Williamson writes. This one is a bit too screechy for me. There may be a battle royal between the S-Class and E-Class but it is a superficial one that is weak on recognizing the larger undercurrents driving the social unrest and racial discord.

Setting aside the stupidity of "the idiot children of the American ruling class" in Seattle for a moment, the evidence is pretty convincing that that there are sensible people whose intellectual thought runs counter to that of the woke left. Its impact on what goes on at the local level, anyway, is not insignificant. People vote. I'm hesitant to paint most American cities as being governed and policed by men and women whose intellect has been shaped by years of being fed the bull-shit of the socialist left.

I'll concede that the front pages are featuring democrats who are allegedly in charge of the cities that are burning or where a break down of civil order is apparent while their appointed police chiefs order law enforcement to kneel before the arsonists and anarchists. But that's not the whole picture as there are hundreds of mayors and police chiefs in hundreds of cities across the US that have handled things a whole lot better than the mayors of Minneapolis and Seattle handled things.

Once again, as it has been mostly with COVID, the media's portrayal of the collapse of civil order as a result of the failure of law enforcement and at the hands of the woke left Ds that run these cities where this is happening is misleading as to the scale and scope of it. Kevin Williams takes the media's inaccurate portrayal of wide spread chaos and describes it's roots using a different paradigm - that of a civil war between the affluent and less affluent, first class and economy class, MB, S class and E-class. Fine, maybe that's happening in his world. But his take is just another distortion of a different reality where in most cities things are just fine, thank you. Its also, and perhaps more importantly, a distraction from the pressing need to dig deeper and address the real problems with how law enforcement is carried out across the entire US - and that involves the undeniable racial inequities and use of force across all races by those charged with the responsibility to "protect and serve."

[iam416]

Its also, and perhaps more importantly, a distraction from the pressing need to dig deeper and address the real problems with how law enforcement is carried out across the entire US - and that involves the undeniable racial inequities and use of force across all races by those charged with the responsibility to "protect and serve."

I'm not sure how on earth you get that from his article. His central point is, literally, that the rampant virtue signaling (he attributes to the rich elite) does nothing. His central point is that change has to happen on the city level. And it hasn't. He's not talking about protests or civil unrest -- he's talking about decades upon decades of Democrat rule of cities that have produced, at least to some degree, the very situations that Democrats are protesting and so rife with anger over. The meaningless virtue signaling has accomplished almost nothing. DEMOCRATS need real solutions.

And, instead, they're prosecuting a police for FELONY MURDER in case they will never win.

[Dr. Strangelove]

Fox lawyers: Tucker Carlson has no legal responsibility to investigate the accuracy of things he says on his show nor do Fox viewers want or expect accurate information when they watch his program

They're probably right but it's still funny to hear them admit it out in the open like that.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/fox-news-defends-tucker-carlson-karen-mcdougal-slander-suit-1298999

[iam416]

The reality that no one wants to talk about is that AAs are the ones that live in high-crime AA communities. And the reality that no one wants to talk about is that the bulk of those folks who want to go about their daily business in peace WANT the police there. They don't want to defund the police. They don't want to abolish the police.

It's an easy thing for the rich white folks to tell black folks they don't need police. But it's standard D parentalism.