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Is this how 12 year olds (who are otherwise cosplaying as a little Republican) decorate their backpacks typically? https://twitter.com/Chesschick01/status/1696531277615407389?t=OO71RcWMdZy9mL47lKsSVQ&s=19 Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Seems pretty obvious it was a "parent tries to victimize themselves by pretending it was all their kid's idea" and the school overreacted. Well obviously he got the idea from the Tuttle Twins books, according to the author who posted about this incident initially.
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Dumb school. Probably dumb kid, but he's 12, he's allowed to have dumb opinions. I kinda like the gadsen flag's original implication of "this snake is just mindin' his own business, but he'll bite you if you step on him [or otherwise try to screw around with him]", but I feel like the people who use the flag try to use it to have more of an aggressive meaning. Kalli posted:Johnny Mnemonic features a heroin addicted dolphin loaded with cyberware who cracks the password to Johnny's brain for some sweet sweet heroin. Stop giving dolphins heroin. https://theweek.com/articles/475731/dolphins-that-overdosed-heroin-rave They do like drugs, but they're very irresponsible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T5aGLybXEs
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Aug 29, 2023 22:36
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Seems pretty obvious it was a "parent tries to victimize themselves by pretending it was all their kid's idea" and the school overreacted. Let's see them sit the family down for an interview and have the host ask the kid point-blank if it was all his idea, and see if the kid barfs all over himself like Balloon Boy did.
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Nah, the school made the right call. It should be treated the same as someone wearing a swastika and saying "well actually it's a Hindu symbol of peace".
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Weatherman posted:Let's see them sit the family down for an interview and have the host ask the kid point-blank if it was all his idea, and see if the kid barfs all over himself like Balloon Boy did. Eh, that could just as easily lead to "WHY IS THIS CNN REPORTER BULLYING AN INNOCENT CHILD  ?" I say don't even bother
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Weatherman posted:Let's see them sit the family down for an interview and have the host ask the kid point-blank if it was all his idea, and see if the kid barfs all over himself like Balloon Boy did. The dad in the Balloon Boy saga was actually vindicated in the end. The FBI threatened the wife with deportation if she didn't confess. https://www.npr.org/2020/12/24/950074173/balloon-boy-parents-pardoned-by-colorado-governor-for-2009-hoax
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Panfilo posted:The dad in the Balloon Boy saga was actually vindicated in the end. The FBI threatened the wife with deportation if she didn't confess. That article doesn't say he was vindicated. That was just what the husband said when asked why he pleaded guilty. The FBI never interviewed them, the prosecution was done entirely by the state of Colorado. They served time for state crimes and not federal. Nobody actually cleared them and their kid said they told him to hide in the attic. quote:They argue that they pleaded guilty only to avoid a worse punishment. Mayumi Heene was not a U.S. citizen at the time, and the couple said they feared she would be deported. quote:When asked why he was hiding, Falcon answered: "You guys said that we did this for the show."
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OwlFancier posted:jrod coming up with ever mroe elaborate forms of ban evasion I don’t know—this kid seems a lot smarter than our jrod. I did a double-take at the name though, and wondered if maybe a certain poster lied about his iq to sell to fertility clinics around 2009.
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SlothfulCobra posted:Stop giving dolphins heroin. how else you gonna get em to work for you? sorry, we were just talking about science fiction stories, i couldn't resist
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Panfilo posted:How do they even envision "National Divorce" even happening? Galt's Gulch.
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Fister Roboto posted:Nah, the school made the right call. It should be treated the same as someone wearing a swastika and saying "well actually it's a Hindu symbol of peace". But the school ended up backing down so look forward to having tons of middle schoolers with Gadsten flag patches now. Not surprising how idiotic people are in the replies. Someone points out the hypocrisy of people who think a 12 year old is too young to know they are queer yet TOTALLY KNOWS everything about the Gadsten flag. This flips over to "actually we should ban pride flags because they represent child mutilation and sterilization with tons of people agreeing.So when a kid says" Don't tread on me"this is them simply being a very smart and curious child learning about American history. But when a kid says "I go by they/them" that child is being groomed by evil government agents that want to depopulate the country"
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Fister Roboto posted:Nah, the school made the right call. It should be treated the same as someone wearing a swastika and saying "well actually it's a Hindu symbol of peace". While libertarians are bad, there is a vast gulf between the libertarian party and nazis. Mainly the nazis are actually relevant.
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https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1696647566828433715?t=hgzK49QjfiuaD1snr-ndDQ&s=19 I thought this incident took place in Colorado Springs? So why would a teacher have North Carolina plates?
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They probably just moved there. But also very cool to doxx that teacher. I'm sure they feel extremely safe right now 
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We're just gonna take Benny Johnson's word that this car belongs to one of the teachers?
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Panfilo posted:We're just gonna take Benny Johnson's word that this car belongs to one of the teachers? His intended audience will
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Panfilo posted:https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1696647566828433715?t=hgzK49QjfiuaD1snr-ndDQ&s=19 Is the implication that she's from the US's other failed attempt at a third party? Is there a fierce green/libertarian rivalry?
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SlothfulCobra posted:Is the implication that she's from the US's other failed attempt at a third party? Is there a fierce green/libertarian rivalry? It's just lazy "the kid got in trouble for having a political message at school, but the teacher can have an environmental bumper sticker about politics and the school says that is fine? Discrimination against conservatives!"
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SlothfulCobra posted:While libertarians are bad, there is a vast gulf between the libertarian party and nazis. i agree the two are different but i feel like saying more. fascism is a strategy for fighting working class power via an alliance of regressive working and middle class people funded by the truly rich, mainly through violence and the suspension (dejure or defacto) of the liberal laws and institutions which permit the growth of that power (or at least limit attempts to strangle it even further). it's the hatchet behind emergency glass in every industrialized liberal country. but in each country and era it is used, while the axe may swing the same way, the people swinging it may use different excuses and justification for those swings. that is, the participants in the fascist movement grab whichever cockamamie "ideas" and "theories" give them any kind of appeal in the target groups of their society. nationalism AND socialism? sure!! it's like one of those crabs that glues bits of whatever it can find in its environment to its shell: each blenda in with the plants they live near, looking totally different from each other but underneath they're still the same drat crab. (respect to umberto eco and his insight into italian and german fascist "interwar" movements, but there isn't a single set of ideas which typify all historical and existing fascist movements and certainly not all possible ones. (and actually he might even say that in Ur-Fascism, its been too long since my last re-read of it, love that guy)) so, just speaking as a random american, i see both libertarian and white supremacist ideas grabbed by different fronts of our fascist movements. i guess that's mainly what i wanted to say. e: oh, and then of course you throw in the economic and ideological structures of settler colonialism and the venn diagram really starts to look like a circle Doc Hawkins fucked around with this message at 18:38 on Aug 30, 2023 |
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SlothfulCobra posted:Is the implication that she's from the US's other failed attempt at a third party? Is there a fierce green/libertarian rivalry? no, the implication is that the green new deal is slavery. i understand if you haven't heard that one before but i promise im not making it up.
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Doc Hawkins posted:no, the implication is that the green new deal is slavery. i understand if you haven't heard that one before but i promise im not making it up. Not just slavery, but a dastardly plot by (((those people))) to depopulate the nation. You will Eat the Bugs, Live in your Pod, and Consume your Info Ration. And you will be forced to like it. As an aside, I can't get over how quintessentialy conservative the kid's get up is. He's dressed like he's going to church yet he's carrying a backpack full of edgy political patches. It's this paradoxical need to simultaneously conform but also still be a "rebel".
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Local news coverage with some extremely important context: https://www.koaa.com/news/covering-colorado/colorado-springs-mom-says-son-kicked-out-of-class-over-gadsden-flag-patch quote:COLORADO SPRINGS — A Colorado Springs school district is responding to a situation that quickly went viral on Tuesday. Jaiden Rodriguez, a seventh grader at The Vanguard School was removed from class, according to his mom, after administrators said several patches on his backpack were in violation of the school’s dress code policy. So this wasn't just about the gadsden patch, but a bunch of gun and alcohol patches too. Also Polis is a loving coward.
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Panfilo posted:We're just gonna take Benny Johnson's word that this car belongs to one of the teachers? 
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Fister Roboto posted:Local news coverage with some extremely important context: I wonder what the other patches that were a violation looked like. The description is pretty vague Just some Molon Labe type poo poo? I knew a lot of edgy shitheads in middle school, but I never saw any of them with Gadsten Flag patches.
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Our high school football team runs it and the Moron Lobby flag during games. The really funny thing is we used to have a cannon, but they took it away because it was too loud.
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Jesus III posted:Our high school football team runs it and the Moron Lobby flag during games. The really funny thing is we used to have a cannon, but they took it away because it was too loud. So the flag doesn't even mean poo poo cause they already came and took it 
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Fister Roboto posted:Local news coverage with some extremely important context: I did zoom in on the picture of the backpack to see what the other patches were, but they were just two angels with swords, a doge, and one thing that I can't really make out. And that's half a dozen right there. Maybe there's something else on the other side of the backpack? Very weird, but doesn't really seem like much to get upset over. Some school dress codes have a thing against camo, but they don't seem to be complaining about that. But also gently caress charter schools as well as gently caress libertarians.
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This is the most Libertarian interpretation of a change in policy you could possibly have. Fire prevention policies are good because it teaches people to be less reliant on government to put fires out. In the comments they also argue 80% of fire departments are staffed by volunteers (really? ) which helps to sidestep the notion of "government service funded by taxes=good and effective solution" https://twitter.com/beinlibertarian/status/1697655699214348760?t=xEen0tcgPL0PsVXCLGMk4Q&s=19
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Fire departments are actually a sign of massive public waste. We need about half the firemen we have now, but you can't fire "heros". Ninety percent of the work they do is following ambulances and blocking traffic for cops, neither of which need trained professionals and incredibly expensive vehicles. Both of those jobs are "make work" required by local governments to keep firemen from sitting on their asses all day
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Jesus III posted:Fire departments are actually a sign of massive public waste. We need about half the firemen we have now, but you can't fire "heros". Ninety percent of the work they do is following ambulances and blocking traffic for cops, neither of which need trained professionals and incredibly expensive vehicles. Both of those jobs are "make work" required by local governments to keep firemen from sitting on their asses all day Syq
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Panfilo posted:This is the most Libertarian interpretation of a change in policy you could possibly have. Fire prevention policies are good because it teaches people to be less reliant on government to put fires out. In the comments they also argue 80% of fire departments are staffed by volunteers (really? Is this just the survivor bias plane pic but for building codes?
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HootTheOwl posted:Is this just the survivor bias plane pic but for building codes? No more iconic duo than libertarians and survivorship bias
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I'm also curious about how many fire prevention regulations were also passed since the late seventies since that would also likely have an impact on the number of fires happening as well. Things like regulations in manufacturing materials, building codes, etc. You know, the stuff libertarians hate that the government mandates for their businesses.
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Panfilo posted:I'm also curious about how many fire prevention regulations were also passed since the late seventies since that would also likely have an impact on the number of fires happening as well. Things like regulations in manufacturing materials, building codes, etc. You know, the stuff libertarians hate that the government mandates for their businesses. Even things like the safety “walls” (I don’t know what they’re called) in cigarettes so they go out every third of you aren’t keeping it alive…
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But what if I want a ceiling fan that throws sparks constantly Brandon? And what about the poor? If manufacturers aren't allowed to make ceiling fans that catch fire then poor people might not be able to afford a ceiling fan at all! You don't care about the poor! (Ban welfare.) Also you'll never take away my god given right to fill my house with natural gas because I forgot to check the oven.
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Guavanaut posted:But what if I want a ceiling fan that throws sparks constantly Brandon? And what about the poor? If manufacturers aren't allowed to make ceiling fans that catch fire then poor people might not be able to afford a ceiling fan at all! You don't care about the poor! (Ban welfare.) Also, if people are surrounded by structures and appliances that are so fire resistant, they'll get complacent and never know what to do in an actual fire , leading to more deaths! Just like how seat belts kill more people than they save!
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