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Every time I see those right wing "BIDEN APPROVAL NUMBERS PLUMMETING" I just think of that one cartoon going "Mr. President, it's a crisis! Your lowest approval ratings are almost as low as Trump's highest!"
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Svaha posted:That William f Buckley quote is the OG self own. A timeless classic. The quote is supposed to sound like a philosophical argument, but instead it sounds like a child throwing a tantrum because those people are allowed to have the same rights as me. And that's basically what it is, so you're right: it's a self own that I doubt they even realize.
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Oct 14, 2021 00:26
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But then, they're perfectly willing to die, because then they're martyrs to the True Cause.
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Karens who screech about masks in school board meetings, I think. Virginia is a That does not mean that the state is suddenly 100% not poo poo, as there is plenty of friction between the blue Northern region (near DC, aka NoVa) and the western and southern regions. And even within those areas there is friction, as southeastern Virginia (the coastal areas, aka Tidewater, aka Hampton Roads if you’re a tool, aka 757 if you’re an even bigger tool) has a fairly large black population at roughly a third of the population. So Loudoun County is in Nova, and the schools are under attack due to mostly reactionary poo poo like CRT and bathroom rules. CRT, as far as I can tell, is not being taught or used in any way. However the truth is never something to stop conservatives, so they just take things from the curriculum like “The USA had a pretty racist origin.” as the smoking gun that CRT is being covertly taught in schools. The other item is transgender kids going to the bathroom, because I guess chuds think about children pissing a lot. This lead to arrests after people kept getting out of control at school boards meetings, because they are meetings not protest sites. This is why the DOJ is looking into things: not because it branded parents as enemies of the state of whatever the hot new GOO talking point is, but because things are getting very heated at these meetings and board members are getting death threats. It doesn’t help that there is a gubernatorial race next month in Virginia, and Youngkin, the rich rear end in a top hat who is running on the Republican ticket, is definitely playing this up as a vector of attack on McAuliffe, the not-so-rich rear end in a top hat who wants to be governor again. McAuliffe made a probably unwise statement that parents shouldn’t be telling schools what to teach. It’s not wrong, but god forbid you tell a parent they don’t always know what is best for their kids, regardless of politics. The race has tightened up in the past weeks, to the point where Youngkin is now within the margin of error. Other spicy things were angry moms waving queer literature claiming it’s not just porn, but pedophilia, because it turns out stories about minors discovering their sexuality/gender identity sometimes involves sex between minors. I mentioned it earlier in the thread last week. And the latest is that the angry dad who was arrested for being disruptive during a board meeting is claiming that his daughter was sexually assaulted by “a boy wearing a skirt” and Loudoun county has covered it up. Police did confirm such charges in May, but couldn’t confirm if it was related to this guy. Which normally would smack of “We must punish trans kids for this.” but the parents want to stick it to the school board so it’s a bit more muddled than normal. So there’s your effort post on public education in Virginia: a land of contrasts. Pants Donkey fucked around with this message at 01:35 on Oct 14, 2021 |
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Oct 14, 2021 01:14
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Pants Donkey posted:This is a local-ish issue, I can elaborate. Fellow Virginia goon! Thanks for the post. I actually hadn't heard about McAuliffe's comments or about Loudoun. Although it's not ideal, I've mostly been waiting for the governor's race to just end (though I did vote).
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Oct 14, 2021 01:18
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There are Youngkin signs all over the place here but that's pretty standard for the part of Virginia I'm in, the southern central part, gotta say I am worried about the governor's race.
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I don't know if Friendbot, YBF and others still post here, but if they do I'd be curious to hear their assessment of how the race is going.
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 David Horsey posted:Before he got banned from Twitter, Donald Trump was the prolific prima donna of caustic, inflammatory, unhinged tweets. Now, Seattle has its own aspirant to Trump-style messaging: Nicole Thomas-Kennedy, the leftist candidate for city attorney.
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Trapezium Dave posted:Rall: Make American Voters Bigger Again The MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN AGAIN hat lying on the table is a solid joke. Shame about the rest of the cartoon. Apple Pie Hubbub posted:
Yang is in there too Maybe that's supposed to be polling showing Biden losing/lost the primary?
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Oct 14, 2021 03:21
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Christ Horsey is such a piece of poo poo lol. He can't even manage pretend he's not pushing against the rightward edge of even calling himself a liberal. I wonder when we're going to get his "I didn't leave the democratic party, the democratic party has left ME!" cartoon.
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Oct 14, 2021 03:29
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Horsey: "Am I out of touch? No, it's the people who want to abolish the children's jail who are wrong."
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quote:Before he got banned from Twitter, Donald Trump was the prolific prima donna of caustic, inflammatory, unhinged tweets. Now, Seattle has its own aspirant to Trump-style messaging: Nicole Thomas-Kennedy, the leftist candidate for city attorney. But you just said she was anti-cop, Horsey. 
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Nick Anderson Clay Bennett  Stuart Carlson  Jeff Danziger  Matt Davies  John Deering  Al Goodwyn  Clay Jones  Mike Lester  Jack Ohman   Joel Pett  Drew Sheneman  Jeff Stahler  Gary Varvel  Matt Wuerker  Tony Branco  quote:Unleashed Going to go see a FOOTBALL GAME at FOOTBALL STADIUM.
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Pants Donkey posted:And the latest is that the angry dad who was arrested for being disruptive during a board meeting is claiming that his daughter was sexually assaulted by “a boy wearing a skirt” and Loudoun county has covered it up. Police did confirm such charges in May, but couldn’t confirm if it was related to this guy. Which normally would smack of “We must punish trans kids for this.” but the parents want to stick it to the school board so it’s a bit more muddled than normal. There's more about this story. A rape kit was performed on the angry father's daughter shortly after the assault, and the rape kit results were "favorable to the prosecution", meaning that there's evidence of rape. Criminal charges of forcible sodomy, anal sodomy, and forcible fellatio are being pursued, and the alleged perpetrator, a 15-year-old who sometimes wears skirts, allegedly committed abduction and sexual battery against another girl in a different school before the trial for the first assault could be held. The first crime was in a bathroom; the second crime was in a classroom. Charges are being brought for both crimes. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/loudoun-county-father-school-cover-up-bathroom-assault-daughter Yes, I realize this is Fox News picking up a story from Daily Wire, and it's wise not to trust either outlet. Both outlets are drawing upon reports from the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office and the court system. My two cents is that transphobia and anti-trans laws are never going to stop any rapes. Rapists of any sexual orientation don't care who can legally use what bathroom; rapists will rape whenever and wherever they can. The only things that can stop rapists are security measures and the justice system, although both appear to be failing miserably in this case. The second assault should never have happened.
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Svaha posted:That William f Buckley quote is the OG self own. A timeless classic. Oh and also they're not actually trying to stop the train, they're just trying to redirect it onto the local cattle baron's siding so he can loot it. Raised By Birds posted:Going to go see a FOOTBALL GAME at FOOTBALL STADIUM. The Artificial Kid fucked around with this message at 05:46 on Oct 14, 2021 |
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Oct 14, 2021 05:38
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Raised By Birds posted:Going to go see a FOOTBALL GAME at FOOTBALL STADIUM. That's where Washington Football Team plays, duh.
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Oct 14, 2021 05:42
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Imagine seeing someone say "no children's jails" and going "whoa! What are we gonna do with all the bad children then? Put em in adult jail??" Because that's been pretty much every Seattle blowhard for the last few months has been doing.
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Raised By Birds posted:
Biden has successfully implemented his bidenomics plan exactly according to specifications An optimistic cartoon???????
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Raised By Birds posted:Tony Branco jesus branco never draw a dog again also that sign's geometry is hurting my head
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skeleton warrior posted:Bringing this back from months ago, because apparently Moran has been suspended by the Telegraph for harassing a nurse on Twitter. It's nice to be right, even if they did let it go on for <checks original post date> about eight months longer than they should have. Is this Tom the Dancing Bug old or new, BTW? I don't recall seeing it before. 
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Jedit posted:It's nice to be right, even if they did let it go on for <checks original post date> about eight months longer than they should have. I'm assuming it's new, because it included AT&T Executives in the list of figures, and that story just broke recently.
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Victar posted:There's more about this story. A rape kit was performed on the angry father's daughter shortly after the assault, and the rape kit results were "favorable to the prosecution", meaning that there's evidence of rape. Criminal charges of forcible sodomy, anal sodomy, and forcible fellatio are being pursued, and the alleged perpetrator, a 15-year-old who sometimes wears skirts, allegedly committed abduction and sexual battery against another girl in a different school before the trial for the first assault could be held. The first crime was in a bathroom; the second crime was in a classroom. Charges are being brought for both crimes. Just for the record: https://www.newsweek.com/loudoun-county-teen-put-under-electronic-monitoring-before-transgender-bathroom-assault-1638787 The alleged assaults was made by a cis boy, who wore a skirt for the second one. The victim of the first assault (in the bathroom) was a trans girl, while the second one (in the classroom) was a cis girl. Conservatives (Fox News and the Daily Wire) are trying to spin the story as if the victim of the first assault was actually the perpetrator.
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Jedit posted:Is this Tom the Dancing Bug old or new, BTW? I don't recall seeing it before. $1.75 for a 5000 pc set, that's like insane value. I know what I'm buying for christmas.
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Mikl posted:Just for the record: I have not seen any testimony from any news outlet that the victim of the first assault was transgender, and the article you provided does not say anywhere that the victim of the first assault was transgender. The article you provided does refer to the first crime as "allegations of a transgender bathroom assault", but as far as I can tell, the referred-to allegations incorrectly (or at least without proof) describe the perpetrator as transgender. The perpetrator has been described as "genderfluid" by one news outlet, and the father of the victim has claimed that the perpetrator was bisexual. I would say that the perpetrator's gender identity and sexual orientation are not conclusively proven. All we know for certain is that he has a penis (because of the rape kit evidence) and that he wore a skirt during the first assault (because of sheriff's/court records). It is absolutely true that conservative outlets have been using this perpetrator to stoke panic and hatred directed against trans people. Victar fucked around with this message at 17:32 on Oct 14, 2021 |
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fool of sound posted:Christ Horsey is such a piece of poo poo lol. He can't even manage pretend he's not pushing against the rightward edge of even calling himself a liberal. I wonder when we're going to get his "I didn't leave the democratic party, the democratic party has left ME!" cartoon. He's your typical self-centered boomer liberal. Hates conservatives because they're all Moral Majority killjoys who want to ban big tits and fun, but the second he sees a homeless man or a black teen in a hoodie he's screaming for more cops and child prisons. Which isn't really a contradiction. The self-centered boomer ethos is that all of society should cater to their personal enjoyment of life, that means a libertine hands-off policy for them personally with no morality police scolding them for smoking a joint or patronizing a strip club, and also a brutal authoritarian police state for everyone else so they don't have to feel uncomfortable or afraid at the sight of anyone who doesn't fit into their social circles.
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If one AMAB in a skirt raping someone means all trans people are rapists, then one Dylan Roof means all white people are racist murdering psychopaths. We must protect our children form the white people!
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Victar posted:I have not seen any testimony from any news outlet that the victim of the first assault was transgender, and the article you provided does not say anywhere that the victim of the first assault was transgender. Right here:  In the caption for one of the article's images. The alleged perpetrator was under surveillance before the first attack, and the victim in that case was trans. Yes, Newsweek is burying the lede super deep. And I wonder if they're doing so deliberately.
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Mikl posted:In the caption for one of the article's images. The alleged perpetrator was under surveillance before the first attack, and the victim in that case was trans.
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The bottom line is that my right to go into a bathroom should not be contingent upon literally every other trans person never committing crimes. The argument was never “there will never be a transgender person performing an assault in a bathroom.” but “allowing trans people in the right bathroom is not going to cause a rise in sex crimes”. And the fact this is like the first incident I can recall in the past few years leans to prove that true. But hey, I’ll play ball so long as everyone else does. I’m sure conservatives won’t mind punishing gun owners for the crimes other gun owners commit, or punishing the fetus for the crimes of its rapist bio father. I hope the Catholic Church isn’t making any long term plans.
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VitalSigns posted:He's your typical self-centered boomer liberal. Hates conservatives because they're all Moral Majority killjoys who want to ban big tits and fun, but the second he sees a homeless man or a black teen in a hoodie he's screaming for more cops and child prisons. Yeah, but even most selfish nimby liberals at least pretend they care about things like "not throwing children in prison" and "maybe people don't need to go to jail cause they can't afford the fine for their misdemeanor". It feels like weird tough-on-crime throwback crap that went out of style 10 years ago.
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The Artificial Kid posted:Not a TEAM fan, huh? Personally I think we're gonna go all the way this year. A team full of goons will never go "all the way."
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quote:In answer to a benign holiday message from acting Police Chief Adrian Diaz last year, Thomas-Kennedy sent the following: “Eat some covid laced poo poo & quit ur (sic) jobs.” On another occasion, responding to a report that protesters had set fire to an incarceration facility construction site, she tweeted, “YAY! Thank you to the heroes that set the Children’s Jail on fire.” This owns.
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 Pope:  Nationals Matt Canavan (extremely pro fossil fuels) and leader Barnaby Joyce. The Liberals are trying to convince their coalition partner to sign on to net zero; those are actual arguments used by Scott Morrison in the 2019 election. Knight:  Wilcox:  NSW voluntary assisted dying bill tabled (Canberra Times). Leak, Son of Leak:  Backlash over Taliban speakers forces Australian Muslim body to cancel Afghan forum (SBS). "One of Australia’s peak Islamic bodies has cancelled an online forum intended to discuss Afghanistan's future following outrage over the lineup which included two Taliban officials."
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“Children, who historically hate shots because they hurt and they don’t understand why they need them, represent us.” feels like a self-own, but ever forward I guess.
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fool of sound posted:Yeah, but even most selfish nimby liberals at least pretend they care about things like "not throwing children in prison" and "maybe people don't need to go to jail cause they can't afford the fine for their misdemeanor". It feels like weird tough-on-crime throwback crap that went out of style 10 years ago. I mean he pretends https://twitter.com/davidhorsey/status/587686830306279425 https://twitter.com/davidhorsey/status/501810332093136896 https://twitter.com/davidhorsey/status/540598367907483648 It's just the second it looks like anyone is getting close to power who is proposing anything besides lip service to criminal justice issues, he freaks the gently caress out and screams that they're a violent gangbanger plotting to turn the city over to the rule of the crime lords. If she's defeated in the election he'll go right back to cartoons like "hey gosh cops, won't you please be a little nicer okay???" E: see also all his weepy cartoons asking rich people to be less greedy and share a little more, but the second an insignificant tax on Amazon is being debated in City Hall he's drawing proponents as crazed revolutionaries cutting the heads off pitiable white Christian small-business owners. Anytime it looks like someone might put one of his supposed principles into action he goes mask off and uses his platform to demonize and destroy them, then goes right back to "oh gosh things are so unequal, won't somebody do something" once the danger that somebody might do something has passed. VitalSigns fucked around with this message at 23:09 on Oct 14, 2021 |
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