StickySweater posted:

Good. You deserve it.

EDIT: I also LOVE how her staff let her dress up in solid orange. Subliminal messaging at it's finest right there. I was utterly transfixed by it and didn't even know why. Then it hit me.



"When nothing is true, everything is permitted… even voting for a total lunatic." - Nihilist for Trump

spacetoaster posted:

You trying to guilt white girls into sleeping with you? lol

Volcott posted:

When white people move away it's demonized as white flight. When white people move back it's demonized as gentrification.

spacetoaster posted:

Ha ha that's stupid. Everyone knows that sucking burning smoke into your lungs is bad for you UNLESS it's marijuana smoke. That stuff cures cancer, man.

http://www.lung.org/stop-smoking/about-smoking/health-effects/marijuana-lung-health.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/

literally from the link dipshit just posted:

Medical Marijuana

The American Lung Association encourages continued research into the health effects of marijuana use, as the benefits, risks and safety of marijuana use for medical purposes require further study. Patients considering using marijuana for medicinal purposes should make this decision in consultation with their doctor, and consider means of administration other than smoking.

spacetoaster posted:

Sooo you agree that smoking marijuana is bad? That was pretty easy, hippie.

Here, enjoy this political think piece from your side on the inherent evil of our consumerist society.

Killer robot posted:

It's not a coincidence that some of the laws passed in blue states after Sandy Hook got pushed through in "emergency" late-night sessions when no one was watching: it's because they targeted dumb stuff like cosmetic features, pistols over a certain weight, and things that sound scary but are rarely used and never make real difference in crime. Likewise, "universal background checks" failed on the federal level partly because the actual law proposed wasn't really universal and better characterized as a private sale ban handing lots of cash over to gun stores. It's always "something needs to be done" because the people saying it have proposals that are old wishlists marketed to the situation of the moment whether or not they actually fit, but that were always based on an action movie or video game understanding of guns. In short, the "Specifics or actual ideas" aren't brought up because to the strong supporters they're not important unless it sounds punishing enough, and the actual proposals are crafted with little knowledge about guns or gun crime and won't stand up to much scrutiny even if you want strong gun control. It sounds like Trump level handwaving stupidity because it's a similar inmates-running-the-asylum situation: guns are where the Democratic party has let their handwaving stupidity loose. If it helps, it does a lot less direct harm, even if indirectly it's been one of the big drivers of Republican voting in the last few decades, since for many voters it's the only wedge issue that will visibly and personally hurt them.

That's not really new, it goes back to the 1930s when gangster panic caused gun laws to be passed using risk assessments based more on gangster movies. It worked for a long time, since gun laws were proposed by a weird coalition of Democrats who thought the war on crime was a great idea but wanted to put their own branding on it, old conservatives suspicious of any weapon that would look out of place in a cowboy movie, and gun manufacturers who saw signing onto a law that would hurt their competitors more than them as worth the bad press in the short term. As time went on those conservatives died out and the gun manufacturers stopped biting when they noticed the customers they screwed over had longer memories about this stuff than the gun control proponents who weren't buying their products anyway, so the coalition fell apart.

Scratch Monkey posted:

Is there something stopping groups other than the CDC from conducting research?

Technowolf posted:

MariusLecter posted:

If he didn't have any spoons he might not be so loving fat.

Technowolf posted:

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Admiral Bosch posted:

So you don't think an entire generation of young German men being hoodwinked by those in power into killing and dying is a loving travesty, as surely as it has been a travesty in our own country?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l14WDZCnz-w


edit: this is not meant to defend reagan or nazis in any way, who was and are pieces of poo poo.

Carl Killer Miller posted:

"Having traveled to a Boston bar to show his solidarity with the working class, President Reagan dismays his handlers by urging the abolition of the corporate income tax."

BrandorKP posted:

Cops hate knives.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9igSoJHEdUo

They get trained to hate knives. Because a knife will gently caress your day up. There is an underlying systemic problem with officer training and one that's not easy to address because knives are really deadly.

spacetoaster posted:

lol, I thought it was ice t for a second.



Black power all the way.

Popular Thug Drink posted:

i guess they're just too stupid to move to the socially progressive and not at all supremely racist north

quote:

Until enough Southerners are able to examine their society honestly—until they can begin to withstand external criticism without collapsing into blind hysteria—nothing will change.

One South Carolinian’s review of my book referred to my visit to the KKK-themed Redneck Shop in Laurens, South Carolina, as evidence that I was merely “seeking out feeble-minded Klansmen” and that I went to the South “to see the ridiculous and dreadful things knew would be there.”

One wonders why this Southerner—and others who beat the same drum of outrage—are not instead asking, “Why is a KKK Grand Dragon able to operate a long-running business selling Klan robes, booklets outlining Klan rituals and related disease across from the courthouse in a town square in 2012?”

chaos rhames posted:

quote:

Thiel's stance on market domination is a little...unconventional. He says that all companies should strive to build a monopoly. And by monopoly, as he explains in a recent essay in The Wall Street Journal, he means owning a market through which the business can set its own prices. Monopoly companies stand to create (and maintain) lasting value for themselves, Thiel says, citing Google as a good example.

MizPiz posted:

itskage posted:

Check out the article if you didn't. It was on npr the other day. There is a bit of hypocrisy going on because you have police doing get guns off the street campaigns and buy backs, while also selling their used guns back to the public.



e: it also draws attention to the fact that we don't even know if police guns are used in crimes because we aren't allowed to track that info.

And also the are some cops that get pretty upset when you make this implication.

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

https://twitter.com/emunn/status/938434622240772096

gbut posted:

https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/939014159726870530

quote:

[from the Black Book of Communism] Bolsheviks waged a war of unimaginable cruelty on people who *flips page* ..uh.. killed Jews in pogroms.


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https://twitter.com/discomfiting/status/923171249970393089

C.M. Kruger posted:

Now explain to the class what a "rootless cosmopolitan" is and why they were a threat to the Soviet state.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0PCQn954kc


Apparently his father was on the police department's internal affairs branch. Bet you as soon as he got fired he was running to cry to daddy and his union rep to get his job back.

UnfortunateSexFart posted:

Nice dude. The idea that Americans never actually leave and enjoy other countries more is ridiculous. My current city (Vancouver) has 183,000+ registered American voters. There's another 125,000 in Toronto and Montreal. And for content here's me and my American dad awaiting our kicks in the bum while we lived in Sydney in the 80s.

MrL_JaKiri posted:

Only if you like dying of exposure



And also like being given fines by police for the crime of being poor

quote:

The average life expectancy in the homeless population is estimated between 42 and 52 years, compared to 78 years in the general population.

UnfortunateSexFart posted:

How exactly do I have delusions? What did I say to make you think that?

quote:

As someone who's lived in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand for over three years each, and visits the US monthly, with an American family (rural California)

Glazier posted:

MMPR is the only way to go. I keep pushing to make it part of the county platform, but I think people just can't quite wrap their heads around it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT0I-sdoSXU

Helen Highwater posted:

https://twitter.com/KFC_UKI/status/948525809840656385

Scratch Monkey posted:

imgur's latest Two Minutes of Hate



She did something wrong, served her time, and used the experience to improve herself. I WISH SHE WAS DEAD



IT WAS JUST A JOKE BRO



However there are also a lot of posts saying "She did the crime and served her time. Isn't rehabilitation the point of prison?" So other than the fact that this got to the front page, maybe imgur isn't 100% full of terrible people

quote:

The International Classification of Diseases is a diagnostic manual that’s published by the World Health Organisation.

It was last updated 27 years ago, in 1990.

The eleventh edition of the manual is due to be published in 2018 and will include gaming disorder as a serious health condition to be monitored.

gbut posted:

https://twitter.com/pixelatedboat/status/949100087350710272

quote:

Colonialism can work – just look at Singapore

quote:

When Helen Zille, a prominent South African opposition politician, visited Singapore last March she tweeted that there was much to learn from a country that had built on “valuable aspects of colonial heritage”. She went on: “For those claiming legacy of colonialism was ONLY negative, think of our independent judiciary, transport infrastructure, piped water etc.”

double nine posted:

https://twitter.com/iAmTheWarax/status/950418660887232512

quote:

In an interview with the AP on Wednesday, Edelman said that during the meeting, Murray outlined actions he wanted the Trump administration to take, which the news agency says "included replacing members of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, pulling the United States out of the Paris climate accords and revoking the Clean Power Plan."

Edelman said he heard Perry respond, "I think we can help you on this," according to the AP.

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In August 2007, Murray became the public face of the Crandall Canyon mine disaster in Utah that killed nine people — six miners trapped initially and three others who attempted a rescue. At the time, Murray repeatedly insisted without evidence that the mine collapse was the result of a naturally occurring earthquake.

zoux posted:

Lol the CNN death threat guy is a pepe memelord who looks like a shorn Charles Johnson

Pththya-lyi posted:

I remember seeing a print of the original propaganda poster in a museum. No matter your feelings on the Communist states, you gotta admit socialist realism is striking

C.M. Kruger posted:

Searching for "Venezuela constitutional crisis" and "Venezuela protests April 2017" should get you to some good starting points for what the protests are about. But please, tell us more about your evidence that children aren't starving to death and it's all lies by the (((western capitalists))) and their fake news.


Meanwhile the KGB was sending bulldozers after "cultural terrorists" for offending the sensibilities of the state. Authoritarians fear art.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulldozer_Exhibition

C.M. Kruger posted:

Explain to everybody what a "rootless cosmopolitan" is, what the Doctors Plot was, and why the Soviet Union didn't actually ban the Protocols of the Elders of Zion until the 80s and was actively distributing it to Arab states.

neo-mccarthyist violently assaulting moderate pro-russian anti-zionist:


edit:
https://twitter.com/JulianAssange/status/957188759572934656

Mr. Sunshine posted:

Culture in the Soviet Union from the 1930s onwards was just a state-mandated rehash of the same bourgeois "high culture" that the inherently reactionary party leadership considered acceptable, while any truly spontaneous and popular culture was restricted or banned.

Anyway, content. A Swedish police with two confiscated neo-nazi banners:


"Molon Labe, they shouted. I took it."

quote:

The United States gave the Sihanouk-Khmer Rouge coalition millions of dollars in aid while enforcing an economic embargo against the Vietnamese-backed Cambodian government. The Carter administration helped the Khmer Rouge keep its seat at the United Nations, tacitly implying that they were still the country's legitimate rulers.