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ironballs16 Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Owner of a lonely heart
#99176: Aug 22nd 2015 at 6:10:23 AM

He can see the fyoo-chur!

Oh goddammit page-topper.

edited 22nd Aug '15 6:10:43 AM by ironballs16

"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"
SciFiSlasher from Absolutely none of your business. Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
#99177: Aug 22nd 2015 at 1:34:46 PM

Kinda weird how only the Internet is reporting on the Trump-inspired beating; I've heard nothing from any news channels, whether they be Fox, CNN, or anything else.

"Somehow the hated have to walk a tightrope, while those who hate do not."
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#99178: Aug 22nd 2015 at 1:37:07 PM

Well the victim wasn't white. What are you expecting?

Oh really when?
Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#99179: Aug 22nd 2015 at 1:39:11 PM

They'd have to do something a lot harder to ignore before the major stations report on it. Even if they did any ties to Trump would probably be glossed over.

edited 22nd Aug '15 1:39:24 PM by Kostya

SciFiSlasher from Absolutely none of your business. Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
#99180: Aug 22nd 2015 at 2:21:19 PM

[up][up] Michael Brown wasn't white either.

[up] Pretty hard to gloss over when they outright said that it was because of Trump (not to mention his abominable reponse).

"Somehow the hated have to walk a tightrope, while those who hate do not."
Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#99181: Aug 22nd 2015 at 2:23:59 PM

Sure you can gloss over it. Just don't mention it in your report.

LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#99182: Aug 22nd 2015 at 2:27:19 PM

You'll also note that most reporting sided against Micheal Brown.

Oh really when?
ILoveDogs Since: May, 2010
#99183: Aug 22nd 2015 at 2:42:48 PM

What is it about Michael Brown? I have no idea what the truth is.

TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#99184: Aug 22nd 2015 at 3:34:38 PM

I could lie to you and say that X.

But the truth is Y.

What are X and Y?

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
ILoveDogs Since: May, 2010
#99185: Aug 22nd 2015 at 3:59:27 PM

I don't know, and that's the trouble.

Gabrael from My musings Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: Is that a kind of food?
#99186: Aug 22nd 2015 at 5:01:54 PM

Michael Brown was shot dead by a cop under very suspicious circumstances with experts saying the cop that shot him's story doesent match with the forensics.

"Psssh. Even if you could catch a miracle on a picture any person would probably delete it to make space for more porn." - Aszur
Deadbeatloser22 from Disappeared by Space Magic (Great Old One) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
#99187: Aug 22nd 2015 at 5:05:45 PM

It still seems like a bit of a chilling fact that U.S. Army soldiers gets better training in non-violent conflict resolution than many police officers.

"Yup. That tasted purple."
Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#99188: Aug 22nd 2015 at 5:17:43 PM

And yet police are given military weapons and equipment and trained to shoot first, ask questions later.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
BlueNinja0 The Mod with the Migraine from Taking a left at Albuquerque Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
The Mod with the Migraine
#99189: Aug 22nd 2015 at 11:47:33 PM

Speaking of Trump, he's definitely pulling in the White Supremicist votes both at rallies and in donations.

As the Daily Kos points out, the comment thread alone shows an astounding number of racist comments.

An Alabama man, Jim Sherotta, 53, told AL.com, of his wish to shoot undocumented workers coming over the border.

“Hopefully, he’s going to sit there and say, ‘When I become elected president, what we’re going to do is we’re going to make the border a vacation spot, it’s going to cost you $25 for a permit, and then you get $50 for every confirmed kill,’” Sherota said. “That’d be one nice thing.”

Raw Story reports:

Washington Post reporter Dave Weigel, who is shadowing the campaign sarcastically noted this morning that his interviews with citizens of Alabama are “going well so far,” with a local farmer telling him: “You probably think we’re prejudiced, but my whole life we had n****rs work for us in the field. And they were n****rs. My daddy called them n****rs. I’m not ignorant. That’s just the way I was raised. There’s black people and there’s n****rs. You live around here, you know the difference.”

In July, Addicting Info noted that Trump also has the support of white supremacist and Council of Conservative Citizens member Kyle Rogers.

The Council of Conservative Citizens is the hate group that Dylann Roof admired.

The new GOP slogan should be: #Racist Lives Matter. Make America hate again. Vote for Trump. FIFY.

I know the emphasized argument has been done in the race thread, but the shooting license thing is new.

Then in other news, there's the mayor of Jackson, MS claims he can fix potholes through prayer. For obvious reasons, citizens are less than amused by this claim, seeing as how it has yet to work.

When the Founding Fathers stressed the importance of the separation of Church and State, they probably assumed “basic infrastructure” would fall on the “state” side of things. In Mississippi, however, one mayor is placing his city’s roadways in the hands of god, while he shrugs his shoulders.

Residents should have known something was up when their mayor, Tony Yarber, tweeted out this message a few days ago:

Lord....I trust you with it all. So, I'm surrendering ALL.

And by “ALL” he means literally everything. As in, even the task of fixing potholes using conventional methods like asphalt and construction crews. In a follow up tweet, Yarber claims that prayer has the power to fix potholes, just like Moses parted the Red Sea. (And yes, admittedly, his analogy doesn’t really work.)

When several of his residents, presumably concerned about the roads they were driving on, asked him if he was serious, Yarber stressed that he was.

So he “tried” paying to have the roads fixed, but lacking money, the alternative was praying. So far there have been no reports of immaculate construction in the area. The potholes remain unfilled.

Yarber has not had a great time in his first term as Jackson’s mayor. Like much of Mississippi, the city of Jackson has struggled to find its footing after the economic recession. Facing massive budget shortfalls, Yarber has called on the city council to enact more taxes in order to help provide for basic services (this is probably what he meant when he said he “tried that.”), but it’s fallen on deaf ears. In this light, it’s possible that Yarber’s appeal to prayer is slightly more cynical than he lets on. It certainly means a lot of awareness for the city’s decaying infrastructure. So far, however, Yarber insists he is dead serious.

He’s also not the first politician to shirk his responsibilities in favor of letting god sort it out (or not). In West Virginia, Huntington Mayor Steve Williams said he “tried” to stop drug abuse with conventional means, but it was too difficult. Instead, he appealed to faith leaders in the area to fire the “silver bullet” at addiction: A well-organized mutli-church prayer session. We’ve also previously reported the story of an Indiana sheriff who argued the only way to stop homicides is to allow prayer in school.

You take God and prayer out of schools and you take discipline away from parents and teachers and you want teh Sheriff to solve it? No.

Well, yes… that’s exactly the kind of thing a sheriff should do, just as fixing potholes without heavenly help should be a goal for the mayor of a town.

When it comes to the challenges – big and small – that face communities in the country, it’s not enough for community leaders to throw up their hands and say it’s up to God. Regardless of one’s religious predilections, the idea that simply standing idly by while waiting for a miracle is woefully irresponsible. Even within the religious community there seems to be an assumption that whether or not God exists, it’s important for people to do all that they can on their own. By all accounts, Mayor Tony Yarber is a deeply religious man. He should be well aware of the expression, “God helps those who help themselves.” Helping the community that elected him might be nice, too.

Personally, the only way I pray to fix Pot Holes is with a PM to a mod.

That’s the epitome of privilege right there, not considering armed nazis a threat to your life. - Silasw
RavenWilder Since: Apr, 2009
#99190: Aug 22nd 2015 at 11:54:20 PM

While I don't doubt that Trump's pulling in the white supremacist vote, comment sections are a notoriously horrible way of guaging the popularity of opinions.

Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#99191: Aug 23rd 2015 at 12:06:51 AM

Actually? One reporter argues that Trump's campaign is literally the Reddit comments section moving out into the real world. Trump is the candidate for the GIFTed, who have found spaces where their particular brand of fuckwaddery is welcome, and now they're organizing around that in the real world because these guys know that they are not alone.

LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#99192: Aug 23rd 2015 at 12:07:38 AM

Like I said, expect more and more monsters like that to start coming out of the woodwork.

Trump is rallying them all around him.

Oh really when?
Achaemenid HGW XX/7 from Ruschestraße 103, Haus 1 Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: Giving love a bad name
HGW XX/7
#99193: Aug 23rd 2015 at 1:48:06 AM

[up][up]

Reddit hates Trump though. And comparing him to Jeremy Corbyn is absurd.

I doubt the article's premise, because I don't think the people backing Trump will be young voters of the kind that use the internet spaces the article describes, but old-school racists of the Southern Republican persuasion; ie, the same people whose votes Nixon and Reagan could ride into consecutive terms when they were young, and who now, in their old age, are left stranded by the tide of history.

Also, FiveThirtyEight points out that, whilst Trump has a noisy minority of Republicans who will vote for him as a first choice, his actual favorability ratings are very poor compared to the rest of the GOP field.

edited 23rd Aug '15 1:57:14 AM by Achaemenid

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Greenmantle V from Greater Wessex, Britannia Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: Hiding
V
#99194: Aug 23rd 2015 at 2:14:38 AM

[up]

Reddit hates Trump though. And comparing him to Jeremy Corbyn is absurd.

It's been done. And maybe Corbyn and Trump are tapping into the same disillusionment with current politics, attracting a similar sort of person; the sort of people that want simple answers to problemsnote .

The differences in their platforms may be due to the differing political histories in Britain and the US, and of course coming from opposite ends of the political spectrumnote .

Keep Rolling On
BlueNinja0 The Mod with the Migraine from Taking a left at Albuquerque Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
The Mod with the Migraine
#99195: Aug 23rd 2015 at 2:32:33 AM

In more fun election news, Biden is showing more evidence that he's considering joining the nomination run, apparently by meeting with Sen. Warren in an attempt to court support from her.

Vice President Joe Biden met privately with Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Saturday in his residence at the Naval Observatory, CNN has learned, another sign he is seriously deciding whether to jump into the Democratic presidential race. The meeting between Biden and Warren, confirmed by two people familiar with the session, is the biggest indication yet that Biden is feeling out influential Democrats before announcing his intentions. Beloved by liberal Democrats, Warren decided to sit out a campaign of her own, but she has yet to formally endorse a candidate. In an interview on Friday, she told WBZ in Boston: "I don't think anyone has been anointed."

The vice president arrived in Washington shortly before lunchtime, even though his official schedule said he was planning to spend the weekend at his home in Delaware. Kendra Barkoff, a Biden spokeswoman, declined to comment on the meeting. But an aide to Biden confirmed a meeting, telling CNN: "The vice president traveled last minute to Washington, D.C. for a private meeting and will be returning to Delaware." Another source familiar with the meeting told CNN that Warren went to the meeting at Biden's request.

Biden is increasingly weighing whether to challenge Hillary Clinton and other Democratic candidates for the party's presidential nomination. A small team of advisers has spent weeks quietly putting together a campaign strategy and fundraising plan in case Biden decides to run. He had at least one meeting with them this week in Wilmington, one person familiar with the session told CNN. He has told his associates he intends to make his decision in the next month, an announcement that could upend the fight for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Then we come to the slightly more amusing news, where instead of #BLM, Chris Christie gets interrupted by animal rights activists.

Chris Christie is used to some occasional ribbing from voters at his town halls, and his Saturday trip to the Iowa State Fair was no different. During the New Jersey governor's 20 minutes at the Des Moines Register's Soapbox, two animal rights activists climbed onto the stage, holding a sign with a picture of a pig in a gestation crate reading, "Governor Christie and Iowa — Stop exploiting animals. It's not food, it's violence." "Animals want to live," the two activists chanted, as an Iowa State Trooper pulled them off the stage. A third activist with a sign reading, "Until every animal is free," took the stage in front of Christie, until she was quickly escorted off, as well.

The Soapbox is a top fairgrounds destination for presidential candidates, a modern take on the old-fashioned political activity of speaking directly to potential voters. Presidential candidates are given 20 minutes to make their pitch to attendees in any format. Hundreds turn out to see the spectacle, and candidates are often heckled. Christie, who didn't give a stump speech and opted instead to use his time for questions and answers with Iowans, said he wasn't bothered by the exchange. "I have to tell you the truth, when something like that happens and I'm here in Iowa, man, I feel right at home. Feels like I'm back in Trenton for a couple of minutes, so thank you, Iowa, for doing that," he joked to the crowd.

During a stop at the fairgrounds' Iowa Pork Producers tent a few hours later, Christie told Iowa Gov. Branstad about the interruption. "Did you hear I had the animal rights people protesting?" Christie asked Branstad. "Oh my God," Branstad deadpanned. "I can't believe that. At the Iowa State Fair. Well, that's amazing."

That’s the epitome of privilege right there, not considering armed nazis a threat to your life. - Silasw
BAFFU Since: Dec, 2012
#99196: Aug 23rd 2015 at 9:01:41 AM

Oh, look! someone comparing someone to Reddit.

Can we go back to the good old times, when we could have proper and civilized hitler comparisons?

edited 23rd Aug '15 9:02:06 AM by BAFFU

Protagonist506 from Oregon Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#99197: Aug 23rd 2015 at 9:13:29 AM

[up]How about a compromise? Comparing Hitler to Reddit?

Leviticus 19:34
Memers Since: Aug, 2013
#99198: Aug 23rd 2015 at 9:52:13 AM

[up] Reddit would be getting off easy in that case. smile

edited 23rd Aug '15 9:55:13 AM by Memers

TheyCallMeTomu Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#99199: Aug 23rd 2015 at 10:17:55 AM

I find it ironic that southern racists think our border policy should mimic that of North Korea.

AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#99200: Aug 23rd 2015 at 10:29:49 AM

[up]Landmines, walls and shoot everything in sight?

Inter arma enim silent leges

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