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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
If he did, we could run Obama against him.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.Saw this on Twitter:
actual complaint
The plaintiff in our suit moved to Georgia with a valid Puerto Rico license. When he applied for a GA license, he gave DDS his birth certificate, social security card, and PR license. That was in 2017. It's been over 600 days, and he hasn't gotten a license OR his documents back.
Living in rural GA without a driver's license is HARD. Our plaintiff cannot find construction work w/o a license, & taking his infant daughter to doctor’s appointments, doing grocery shopping, having a social life, and much more is nearly impossible.
And lest we forget: driving without a valid license is a criminal offense in Georgia. He would face an initial $500 fine, and up to a year of imprisonment were he to drive without one.
Now for the "interview" questions that DDS is supposed to ask of Puerto Ricans (which bear a disturbing resemblance to the tests applied by segregationists to block voter registration of people of color)...
Some sample questions:
- "What company is the largest employer in Mayaguez?"
- "Where is the Caguas Beach?" (trick question: it's an inland city)
- "The principle baseball stadium in San Juan is named after...?"
DDS has made a habit of seizing Puerto Rican applicants’ identity documents, & often fails to make a decision on their application. Sometimes — as was the case with our named plaintiff — the citizens are detained & arrested.
Edited by megaeliz on Jul 3rd 2019 at 11:47:52 AM
Yes, which is ridiculous.
White supremacists are always going gravitate towards innocuous symbols, rejecting all of them just plays into their hands by making progressives look idiotic and laughable.
Also, I don't like them shafting Betsy Ross.
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji YangThere are no contemporary accounts of Betsy Ross being important or designing the flag. Her relatives started the whole thing in 1870.
But there's no plausible proof Ross created or inspired the design for the flag commissioned by the Continental Congress in 1777. Delegates from the 13 colonies resolved that "the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes, alternating red and white, that the Union be thirteen white stars in a blue field representing a new constellation." In fact, other flagmakers of the era laid claim to the flag's creation.
The only "proof" of Ross' involvement is signed affidavits from her progeny made well after her death. This, Miller explains, is how "family memory was converted to national history." Specifically, the story endures that Washington wanted six-pointed stars for the flag and Ross talked him into five-pointed ones.
The lack of documentation is why Miller describes her book as a "story about stories." There is no historical record of Ross' meeting in her parlor with George Washington to hammer out the flag's details.
The Ross family anecdote about Betsy took firm root in 1870 when her grandson William Jackson Canby gave a speech to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Miller contends the legend took hold during the post-Civil War "preoccupation with the flag as a symbol of national unity."
Aside from that, I think context does matter. For example, the “Don’t tread on me” snake flag is neat, but it long ago became associated with libertarians at best and the alt-right at worst. I’m not gonna support companies making merch of it.
Edited by wisewillow on Jul 3rd 2019 at 9:14:23 AM
And hey, let's gaslight everybody on the census citizenship question.
Cause why not!
Edited by speedyboris on Jul 3rd 2019 at 11:36:37 AM
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Point taken on Betsy Ross, I still think it's stupid.
Pretty much every US flag has been associated with racism and genocide, opposing that one because some white supremacists have latched on to it is pointless at best.
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji YangOne of the good things about having to move to Virgina is getting the Gasden Flag license plate. That's something I'm looking forward to.
Anyway, with regards to the Nike Flag thing, I think it's ridiculous that they have to take off the flag. One of the things that always frustrates me is seeing America's past as wholly bad. Something to remember that the flag is the Flag of the whole, not solely belonging to slavers. It was also the flag of abolitionists who fought slavery and won out. Then as now, individuals and society were a mix of good and bad.
That said, I can see the argument why that one shouldn't be used. Consider for a moment the flag in question, the Betsy Ross flag
. In general one would describe it as a circle of stars on a blue Square on a Red and White striped field. Let us also consider for a moment the Confederate national flag
. In general one would describe it as a circle of stars on a blue Square on a Red and White striped field.
I tend to be really annoyed with people who let White Nationalists take symbols from the rest of the culture. The OK gesture is one that still annoys me. We shouldn't give in to them in the slightest. However, this is a pretty easy one to see why it's happening (unlike with the OK gesture).
I don’t understand why they scrapped the flag, just switch it to a different version of the US flag, say the version flown by the Union during the Civil War?
It seems like a lack of imagination on Nike’s part turned what should have been a quick redesign into an incident.
Edited by Silasw on Jul 3rd 2019 at 5:36:30 PM
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranSo if anyone tries to claim the U.S. flag hasn't become a religious icon or idol
Pretty sure that got settled way back in 1943 when Jehova's Witnesses won the right to not say the Pledge in schools
, as it conflicted with their religious belief that they should not worship false idols - namely, the flag.
And with Trump's latest Gaslighting attempt, the sad thing is that, as-written, it doesn't necessarily clash with the actual news. It could be interpreted to mean that they're still trying to get the question on the Census, but it would apply to the 2030 one instead of 2020. Whether Trump actually meant it in that way or deliberately phrased it ambiguously is anyone's guess - my own would be that he meant to lie, and accidentally stumbled upon a non-lie in the process.
Edited by ironballs16 on Jul 3rd 2019 at 1:47:22 PM
"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"Yeah once the forms are printed the only thing he could do would be (illegally) ordering the census to not be run.
Now I’ll believe that the forms don’t have a citizenship question when someone gets a copy of the printed form and checks, but until them I’m worried, I wouldn’t put it past Trump to say he was printing the form without the question then print it with the question.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranSo this one made me go cross-eyed with fury - [New Jersey] Judge James Troiano of Superior Court said that a 16-year-old rapist should be given leniency because he came from "a good family" and attended an "excellent school".
This in spite of: The boy allegedly shared with friends a video of him raping the girl, along with the text: "When your first time having sex is rape."
He also piled on by basically pulling the "legitimate rape" idea:
The judge also said the video that the boy is alleged to have sent to his peers was "just a 16-year-old kid saying stupid crap to his friends". The defendant was "clearly a candidate for not just college but probably for a good college", he added.
He said that prosecutors should have made it clear to the girl that pressing charges against the boy, who was an eagle scout with good grades, would destroy his life.
The appeals court has cleared the way for the case to go from family court to an adult court, where it will be tried by a grand jury. The court said the fact that the juvenile "came from a good family and had good test scores" should not impact whether the trial went to adult court.
So hooray for the Appeals court, but... fucking christ.
The Hill has a more detailed write-up about the case
, incidentally.
Edited by ironballs16 on Jul 3rd 2019 at 3:31:54 PM
"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"I feel like this description was specifically engineered to help as many young, white, and affluent bros beat rape cases as possible.
i'm tired, my friend

So... the big 4th of July jamboree is tomorrow. Who wants to bet Trump's speech will include pot shots at Democrats, Mueller, the Fake News Media, and poll numbers?
I would love to be proven wrong. It would be great if he could somehow get through a speech without bashing anybody and actually give a unifying message. But precedent suggests otherwise. And even if he does stay on script, he'll be back to his old ways almost immediately.