March 2020 Current Events Thread: The revolution lives on

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Chichevache: Feb 17, 2010; One of the funniest posters in GIP.

Just not intentionally.

maffew buildings posted:

Really cool that the bastion of Christian morality, The United States, gives no fucks about the rampant sexual exploitation and abuse of young women in porn.

Those last two words are unnecessary.

# ? Mar 29, 2020 18:47

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# ? May 27, 2024 05:04

Doc Hawkins: Jun 15, 2010; Dashing? But I'm not even moving!

^ cosigned

https://twitter.com/ScottHech/status/1244107947564838912

feeling better than usual to have worked to elect a DA in my city that ended cash bail

# ? Mar 29, 2020 18:52

My Spirit Otter: Jun 15, 2006; CANADA DOESN'T GET PENS LIKE THIS

SKILCRAFT KREW Reppin' Quality Blind Made American Products. Bitch.

Doc Hawkins posted:

^ cosigned

https://twitter.com/ScottHech/status/1244107947564838912

feeling better than usual to have worked to elect a DA in my city that ended cash bail

Can you explain why that's good to non-Americans who aren't up on technical aspect of the modern slavery system

# ? Mar 29, 2020 19:12

Kawasaki Nun: Jul 16, 2001; by Reene

My Spirit Otter posted:

Can you explain why that's good to non-Americans who aren't up on technical aspect of the modern slavery system

Whether or not you are forced to stay in jail until your trial depends on whether you are determined to be a threat to the community, not how much money you have saved up / access to. There is also much more your attorney can do about arguing your history and case than they can about you being broke.

# ? Mar 29, 2020 19:16

Proud Christian Mom: Dec 20, 2006; READING COMPREHENSION IS HARD

My Spirit Otter posted:

Can you explain why that's good to non-Americans who aren't up on technical aspect of the modern slavery system

Because people can spend years in jail awaiting trial for alleged theft because they can't afford $250

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalief_Browder

# ? Mar 29, 2020 19:25

My Spirit Otter: Jun 15, 2006; CANADA DOESN'T GET PENS LIKE THIS

SKILCRAFT KREW Reppin' Quality Blind Made American Products. Bitch.

that's good, I thought that meant axing bail entirely and forcing you to stay in jail until trial, which is obviously not good.

# ? Mar 29, 2020 19:35

Kawasaki Nun: Jul 16, 2001; by Reene

My Spirit Otter posted:

that's good, I thought that meant axing bail entirely and forcing you to stay in jail until trial, which is obviously not good.

Yeah the devil is in the details.

# ? Mar 29, 2020 20:07

Nick Soapdish: Apr 27, 2008

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1244339964294377473?s=20

Imagine giving a poo poo about the (ex-)royals

# ? Mar 29, 2020 20:13

Casimir Radon: Aug 2, 2008

Nick Soapdish posted:

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1244339964294377473?s=20

Imagine giving a poo poo about the (ex-)royals

Probably has something to do with Harry being pretty open about not liking Donnie.

# ? Mar 29, 2020 20:23

Doc Hawkins: Jun 15, 2010; Dashing? But I'm not even moving!

My Spirit Otter posted:

that's good, I thought that meant axing bail entirely and forcing you to stay in jail until trial, which is obviously not good.

it's my fault, i should have given more of an explanation

San Francisco DA Joins Calls to Release ICE Detainees During Pandemic

quote:

Boudin said San Francisco has safely reduced its jail population by 25 percent over the past three weeks. And he said releasing some of the 38,000 people currently detained by ICE nationwide should be easier because immigration custody is a form of civil, not criminal, detention.

“When someone dies in immigration detention, their blood will be on our hands,” he said.

# ? Mar 29, 2020 20:30

Woofer: Mar 2, 2020

Doc Hawkins posted:

it's my fault, i should have given more of an explanation

San Francisco DA Joins Calls to Release ICE Detainees During Pandemic

So San Francisco DA just guaranteed all medical supplies going to California will be rerouted to like... Arkansas or some poo poo?

# ? Mar 29, 2020 20:31

Doc Hawkins: Jun 15, 2010; Dashing? But I'm not even moving!

i hope no one in California was counting on us getting much targeted federal aid, no matter what local officials have to say

all respect to those fighting for it though

# ? Mar 29, 2020 20:42

dubzee: Oct 23, 2008

Ratings!

# ? Mar 29, 2020 20:47

Comrade Blyatlov: Aug 4, 2007; should have picked four fingers

Aaaaaaand I just went slack-jawed in astonishment

# ? Mar 29, 2020 21:01

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

It's easy to want to grab the collar of anyone who "misses george bush" and shake them like a british nanny but at the same time.... I get it.

# ? Mar 29, 2020 21:02

Stultus Maximus: Dec 21, 2009; USPOL May

Milo and POTUS posted:

It's easy to want to grab the collar of anyone who "misses george bush" and shake them like a british nanny but at the same time.... I get it.

I don't miss George Bush but he would be doing a less awful job.
In January, I considered myself "Blue no matter who... except maybe Bloomberg."
Now I'd go vote Romney if it meant Trump being gone. His response to this has been breathtakingly disastrous.

# ? Mar 29, 2020 21:09

Comrade Blyatlov: Aug 4, 2007; should have picked four fingers

How many dead in the War on Terror? 8000? More? Because Trump is on a fast track to beating that.

# ? Mar 29, 2020 21:10

Proud Christian Mom: Dec 20, 2006; READING COMPREHENSION IS HARD

Stultus Maximus posted:

I don't miss George Bush but he would be doing a less awful job.
In January, I considered myself "Blue no matter who... except maybe Bloomberg."
Now I'd go vote Romney if it meant Trump being gone. His response to this has been breathtakingly disastrous.

lol of course yall would

Bush was a worse President than Trump

# ? Mar 29, 2020 21:18

Casimir Radon: Aug 2, 2008

Comrade Blyatlov posted:

How many dead in the War on Terror? 8000? More? Because Trump is on a fast track to beating that.

It's far worse than that if you consider the mess the whole region being destabilized caused. Bush is a mass murderer but Donnie is on track to be much worse.

# ? Mar 29, 2020 21:20

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Proud Christian Mom posted:

lol of course yall would

Bush was a worse President than Trump

I dunno he's getting there.

# ? Mar 29, 2020 21:24

Godholio: Aug 28, 2002; Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?

Comrade Blyatlov posted:

How many dead in the War on Terror? 8000? More? Because Trump is on a fast track to beating that.

We're already over 2k in the US.

# ? Mar 29, 2020 21:25

Comrade Blyatlov: Aug 4, 2007; should have picked four fingers

Godholio posted:

We're already over 2k in the US.

You're not gonna let the Italians beat you I hope

# ? Mar 29, 2020 21:27

Godholio: Aug 28, 2002; Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?

Comrade Blyatlov posted:

You're not gonna let the Italians beat you I hope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mfldvOnEgA

# ? Mar 29, 2020 21:29

Mr. Nice!: Oct 13, 2005; bone shaking.
soul baking.

Comrade Blyatlov posted:

You're not gonna let the Italians beat you I hope

We�ll have past Italy by next friday. Individual states are going to make italy look well managed.

# ? Mar 29, 2020 21:31

SimonCat: Aug 12, 2016; by Nyc_Tattoo; College Slice

maffew buildings posted:

Really cool that the bastion of Christian morality, The United States, gives no fucks about the rampant sexual exploitation and abuse of young women in porn.

As opposed to every other country's porn industry?

# ? Mar 29, 2020 21:36

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE68xVXf8Kw

We're at the "fridge trucks outside the hospital" stage of corpses.

E: convinced my Brothers in law to leave Brooklyn on St. Pat's day to come stay with us. Never been more happy that they agreed and came out to the woods with us.

# ? Mar 29, 2020 21:39

KirbyKhan: Mar 20, 2009; Soiled Meat

Doc Hawkins posted:

i hope no one in California was counting on us getting much targeted federal aid, no matter what local officials have to say

all respect to those fighting for it though

gently caress no I wasn't counting on any hope from the fed. Producer studio types fled to their bunkers in Montana the Wednesday before lockdown. Petit bougie hunkered down in Arrowhead. Liquor Store homeless lady put up a tarp. Nobody is helping anybody.

First time I stepped outside for groceries. poo poo is idylic spring day as gently caress. Only reason I've got to panic is because I looked at my cellphone and I got an itch on my face.

# ? Mar 29, 2020 21:43

bloops: Dec 31, 2010; Thanks Ape Pussy!

OIF was 4,400 casualties? We�re gonna have that beat in the next week or so. Sobering.

# ? Mar 29, 2020 21:55

Comrade Blyatlov: Aug 4, 2007; should have picked four fingers

That Works posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE68xVXf8Kw

We're at the "fridge trucks outside the hospital" stage of corpses.

E: convinced my Brothers in law to leave Brooklyn on St. Pat's day to come stay with us. Never been more happy that they agreed and came out to the woods with us.

loving christ

# ? Mar 29, 2020 21:58

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/us/politics/coronavirus-liberty-university-falwell.html

quote:

LYNCHBURG, Va. � As Liberty University�s spring break was drawing to a close this month, Jerry Falwell Jr., its president, spoke with the physician who runs Liberty�s student health service about the rampaging coronavirus.

�We�ve lost the ability to corral this thing,� Dr. Thomas W. Eppes Jr. said he told Mr. Falwell. But he did not urge him to close the school. �I just am not going to be so presumptuous as to say, �This is what you should do and this is what you shouldn�t do,�� Dr. Eppes said in an interview.

So Mr. Falwell � a staunch ally of President Trump and an influential voice in the evangelical world � reopened the university last week, igniting a firestorm, epidemiologically and otherwise. As of Friday, Dr. Eppes said, nearly a dozen Liberty students were sick with symptoms that suggest Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus. Three were referred to local hospital centers for testing. Another eight were told to self-isolate.

�Liberty will be notifying the community as deemed appropriate and required by law,� Mr. Falwell said in an interview on Sunday when confronted with the numbers. He added that any student returning now to campus would be required to self-quarantine for 14 days.

�I can�t be sure what�s going on with individuals who are not being tested but who are advised to self-isolate,� said Kerry Gateley, the health director of the Central Virginia Health District

[sic]

Mr. Falwell and his administration have worked to tamp down dissent. After a Liberty undergraduate, Calum Best, wrote on his personal Facebook page that students should receive refunds, he said Liberty�s spokesman, Scott Lamb, called his cellphone to berate him. Asked about the call, Mr. Lamb said he was simply objecting to an error in the post, and Mr. Best was �spinning.�

After Marybeth Davis Baggett, a professor, wrote an open letter asking the university�s board of trustees to close the campus, Mr. Falwell mocked her on Twitter as �the �Baggett� lady.�

Jeff Brittain, a Liberty parent, wrote on Twitter: �I�m as right wing as they get, bud. But as a parent of three of your students, I think this is crazy, irresponsible and seems like a money grab.� Mr. Falwell replied, calling him a �dummy.�

All of this has left even his critics scratching their heads.

�It�s honestly hard to figure out what his motives are,� Mr. Best, the student who wrote the Facebook post, said in an interview. �If he had purely political motives, he�s being way more conservative than even Trump is being right now. Trump is at least allowing doctors to say their piece. Jerry is not. It kind of shocks me at this point.�

At many points in the horror / alt future genres there's often some scene of the national guard just mowing down hordes of college students / faculty. Used to think that was hosed up, now I'm not sure.

# ? Mar 29, 2020 21:59

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

https://twitter.com/jenkinshelen/status/1244354853423534080

# ? Mar 29, 2020 22:01

maffew buildings: Apr 29, 2009; too dumb to be probated; not too dumb to be autobanned

SimonCat posted:

As opposed to every other country's porn industry?

Jesus you're insufferable

# ? Mar 29, 2020 22:02

Woofer: Mar 2, 2020

SimonCat posted:

As opposed to every other country's porn industry?

...what point are you trying to make here?

# ? Mar 29, 2020 22:05

Wingnut Ninja: Jan 11, 2003; Mostly Harmless

That Works posted:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/us/politics/coronavirus-liberty-university-falwell.html

A parent with the self-introspective capabilities of a brick posted:

"It kind of shocks me at this point."

Face-eating tiger, eaten face, etc.

# ? Mar 29, 2020 22:10

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Proud Christian Mom posted:

lol of course yall would

Bush was a worse President than Trump

This is only because trump is too cowardly for war and you know it.

# ? Mar 29, 2020 22:22

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

https://twitter.com/Maria_mellor/status/1244010134428319745

# ? Mar 29, 2020 22:32

Casimir Radon: Aug 2, 2008

Milo and POTUS posted:

This is only because trump is too cowardly for war and you know it.

We'll see how long that lasts.

# ? Mar 29, 2020 22:34

SimonCat: Aug 12, 2016; by Nyc_Tattoo; College Slice

maffew buildings posted:

Jesus you're insufferable

Why the dig at the United States then?

# ? Mar 29, 2020 22:35

McNally: Sep 13, 2007; Ask me about Proposition 305

Do you like muskets?

SimonCat posted:

Why the dig at the United States then?

I feel like you fixated on the wrong part of that statement.

# ? Mar 29, 2020 22:38

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# ? May 27, 2024 05:04

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Casimir Radon posted:

We'll see how long that lasts.

Trump being too scared of negative approval because of war really should be in the pros column at this point

# ? Mar 29, 2020 22:39

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