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Post by prozyan on Jul 11, 2020 3:00:35 GMT -5
www.cnn.com/2020/07/10/entertainment/lady-a-lawsuit/index.htmlIn a stunningly woke move, the country group "Lady Antebellum" changes their name to "Lady A" because of the antebellum time period being associated with slavery. They then proceed to sue the black blues singer who has been performing under the name Lady A for decades. You really can't make this stuff up.
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Post by robeiae on Jul 28, 2020 8:25:23 GMT -5
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Post by Optimus on Jul 28, 2020 13:21:43 GMT -5
Likely because focusing on it runs counter to pushing the "false narrative du jour" that everything connected to or spawning from the protests and the entire movement is noble, peaceful, and "on the right side of history."
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Post by robeiae on Aug 2, 2020 10:11:04 GMT -5
So, RCP now has an entire section on it main page with the heading "Violence in US Cities" with articles about rising violent crimes rates--especially murders--in major US cities. Here's a new player: DenverChicago update: chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2020/8/1/21350547/chicago-crime-stats-july-increase-murders-shootingsBut note that overall crime has decreased. How can that be? The definition: I think it's pretty obvious why overall crime has decreased: the lockdown. Am I wrong? I sure hope the CPD isn't looking to take credit for this reduction in overall crime...
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Post by robeiae on Aug 6, 2020 9:10:41 GMT -5
There's a tipping point out there. We're gonna hit it and this entire "movement" is gonna blow up, taking a shit-ton of Dems along with it. Imo. If it happens before the election, well... Look at this podcast from the NYT: Nice White Parents Some articles on it: www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/08/04/the_newest_demon_in_the_lefts_sights_woke_white_women_143865.html#2www.forbes.com/sites/nataliewexler/2020/07/30/nice-white-parents-arent-the-root-cause-of-education-inequities/#4f09ba146484Fromm the RCP piece: From the Forbes piece (which is not overly critical, amazingly enough): This isn't rocket science, and it bugs the crap out of me that people just won't speak the plain truth: educational outcomes are more dependent on parent's expectations and attentions to learning than on anything else. Schools are never going to equalize outcomes for all socio-economic, cultural, or racial groups because they simply don't have the power to do it. They never will, unless we start taking all children away from their parents shortly after birth and putting them in government-run facilities, 24/7. And I think most people know this on some level; parents who really try to do a good job know that they are trying, just as parents who don't really try know that they aren't really trying, even though they'll claim otherwise and get super defensive with anyone who criticizes them (and sure, single parents have it harder, as do parents with limited resources). Anyway, I think this targeting of liberal white women is both intellectually flawed and politically stupid.
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Post by Optimus on Aug 6, 2020 13:59:11 GMT -5
In a perfect world, the Dem party would split into the real liberals and the lunatic far-leftist progressives. This would partition off the crazy from the rest of the party so that the adults can talk without the diaper-shitting brats interrupting.
Same could happen for the Repubs too if the real/sane conservatives could break away from the bootlicking Trump lapdogs.
We really, really need more than two viable national parties. The two big ones no longer represent the ideals of the voters; not even their own voters.
Works up here in Canada, as we have the Liberals (Canadian equivalent of the Dems but slightly further left), the NDP (New Democratic Party, which are basically the far-left loons), the Conservatives/Torries (Republicans), and the People's Party of Canada (PPC, the far-right loons).
There are other parties, of course, like Bloc Quebecois and Green Party, but they don't really fall into the traditional left/right distinction of the US parties.
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Post by robeiae on Aug 6, 2020 14:27:54 GMT -5
We should start a Sanity Party, composed simply of sane, rational people who might have very divergent views on various issues, but are capable of sitting down and talking about things. We'd have no platform, apart from "calm, rational, evidence-based discussion."
Anyone who says "rational discussion is impossible when you're dealing with progressives/conservatives/liberals/Dems/Repubs/etcetera" would be kicked out of the party immediately.
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Post by Optimus on Aug 6, 2020 14:39:34 GMT -5
You've got my vote, Rob.
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Post by Vince524 on Aug 6, 2020 20:24:31 GMT -5
Me too, except I've been saying the Common Party. As in Common Sense.
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Post by robeiae on Aug 7, 2020 12:14:16 GMT -5
If you're writing for teenagers, maybe you shouldn't be stoned out of your gourd and/or completely off of your nut:
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Post by robeiae on Aug 10, 2020 8:01:59 GMT -5
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Post by Optimus on Aug 10, 2020 10:09:56 GMT -5
Such noble, peaceful protestors. Not a greedy, miserable piece of shit rioter among them, of course.
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Post by robeiae on Aug 11, 2020 7:12:26 GMT -5
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Post by prozyan on Aug 11, 2020 19:47:18 GMT -5
A question you really don't want answer.
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Post by robeiae on Aug 13, 2020 7:29:28 GMT -5
Here's a story: abc11.com/5-year-old-shot-child-in-wilson-darius-sessoms-n/6363046/Summary: A 5-year-old is playing in front of his house with his sisters (7 and 8, apparently). A neighbor--aged 25--crosses the street, shoots the kid in the head at point blank range, then runs back into his house. Police respond, child dies at hospital, shooter taken into custody. That's horrific. Maybe the shooter had mental problems, maybe he's just a scumbag. I don't know. As reported, this is cold-blooded murder. There has to be more to this story, no? But even with just the above facts, one would expect to see a lot of stories on it. So...search the major news sites. The story isn't there, not at CNN, not at MSNBC, not at ABC, not at CBS, not at WaPo, etc. It's at FoxNews, at the New York Post, and at a ton of local news channels (the story I linked to is at an ABC affiliate). Of course, there are some underlying facts: the (alleged) shooter is black, the victim is white.
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