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Koalas March
May 21, 2007



Ok...

https://twitter.com/politico/status/1061985740425433088?s=19

I take it back, in no way do you "gotta hand it" to Kellyanne

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1061985229823508481?s=19

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Koalas March
May 21, 2007



https://twitter.com/MuslimIQ/status/1061429172483092481?s=19

Koalas March
May 21, 2007



Absurd Alhazred posted:

ICP are now anti-fascist.

Not really "now". They embraced the antifa label but have always been against the core facets of fascism. I mean ICP was burning Confederate flag on stage before it was cool.

I'm from Michigan/Detroit do I have a soft spot for ICP fans, probably because I knew a lot of them in highschool and they're all super working class or below the poverty line and a couple have OD'd and died. Super weird usually but generally good people.

Juggalos are the proletariat.

Koalas March
May 21, 2007



Thaddius the Large posted:

Picture 10 million Tupacs projected standing shoulder to shoulder and one atop each other, 30 feet high along the entire boulder. On national holidays we could have them dance!

5 million Boyz II Men singing End of the Road

Koalas March
May 21, 2007



Zanzibar Ham posted:

I really can't imagine why Dead Reckoning, a person who just loves when black people (kids and adults) get shot and who repeatedly defended the actions of their killers every time a thread about it came up, doesn't like the idea of curbing hate-speech.

Love to spend Black History Month reading notoriously low-key but high key racist Dead Reckonings posts defending the free speech of literal Nazis

Koalas March
May 21, 2007



https://twitter.com/EBONYMag/status/1092931428470439936

https://twitter.com/jfreewright/status/1092818819851132930

https://twitter.com/MiaFarrow/status/1092839247130882048

https://twitter.com/common/status/1092804131390144512

Koalas March
May 21, 2007



Oh Gods why did I get probated for suggesting a queer black man lynched himself the same week a famous white man admitted to prowling the streets with intent to commit a hate crime in this month designated for black history? no it is the mods who are wrong

Koalas March
May 21, 2007



predicto posted:

No, I was the one who was wrong. I admit it, and I served my time and I deserved it. I'm not sure why I posted. The incident just seemed so, I don't know, stereotypical. Too perfect of a story, with every hateful box checked. Like a movie script written by an 8th grader.

I do not ever want to downplay the seriousness of that crime, or of the societal problems that people of color and gay people both face. I don't want to pretend that things like this don't happen, because of course they do. I don't want to claim that white people like me don't take them seriously enough, because of course we don't. I intended none of those things, but I see how I did them anyway.

I don't know what I was thinking. I hosed up.

Why apologise when he said he hosed up.

There is nothing wrong with believing an apparent victim. False accusations are so rare they are practically statistically irrelevant.

Do you know what's worse? Not believing someone when they tell you about their trauma.

I grew up getting called friend of the family and bullied in school. I know what it feels like to not feel safe because of who you are. No one deserves this. I will always believe someone when it comes to their trauma because I know from painful personal loving experience that the flip side of that is so much worse.

And further more, there is nothing wrong not trusting a police department known for drugging, kidnapping, torturing and murdering people until further evidence is released.

Koalas March
May 21, 2007



predicto posted:

Really? It was based on the several historical examples I put right there in my post of celebrities doing dumb poo poo to get attention, and on the specific weird circumstances of the story during the middle of an insane polar vertex where temperatures in Chicago reached 25 below zero and absolutely no one was out on the streets AND I tried to acknowledge that I might just have become cynical when a celebrity is involved. My post was motivated by a concern about it being a hoax because that would give the chuds ammunition for the next 20 years, the same way that the the Duke lacrosse team hoax has done, giving ideological cover for the Brett Kavanaughs and Clarence Thomases of the world.

I'm not asking for an apology but it really does kind of suck that you are doubling down here, which sort of perpetuates the idea that I'm a "bigoted shitlord" (as one friendly poster so kindly put it). I know this is a dying Polynesian knitting forum, but I care a little bit what people on here think of me.

So are you retracting your previous statement or just going with whatever flow you think benefits you at the moment like our very own Lindsay Graham

Koalas March
May 21, 2007



predicto posted:

I hosed up by being a little bit vague. I tried to clarify. But I'm still being treated like a bigoted shitlord. Or maybe a bigoted shitlord-lite.

But I'm done talking about it because it's not going to get better by dragging along any further.

Not by us tho?? Ask for an apology from the people who are being lovely to you.

Koalas March
May 21, 2007



bradzilla posted:

Yikes, why is this guy a mod?

Please explain what's wrong with that particular statement.

Koalas March
May 21, 2007



https://twitter.com/TIA_EWING/status/1110576709387108357

Koalas March
May 21, 2007



FoolyCharged posted:

I'm just confused. I thought the police made their case based on a legit check from smollett to his co workers. The rope being identified as from a local shop where said coworkers had purchased rope recently and said rope at coworkers place. Dropping charges with all of that feels a little goofy.

Was it fake evidence? Crummy reporting? Am I just an idiot that misread the articles I saw?

The check was legit for training for his new music video, going by both the memo line and the rates on their website/youtube page.

Iirc they bought the masks (Before the biggest cold snap if the season) on tape and no rope.

The biggest thing is his family is the one who wanted the FBI involved (his parents are old school activists iirc, so there's no way they'd call in the Feds if they thought he was guilty) and as soon as the FBI got involved, we went from having several leaks a day to loving NOTHING and whoops charges withdrawn, case sealed, nothing to see here.

CPD did something dirty

Koalas March
May 21, 2007



https://twitter.com/EmpireWriters/status/1110562098310873094

Koalas March
May 21, 2007



Data Graham posted:

Do you think “community service” was the likely outcome of 16 felony charges?

He didn't even get sentenced. The excuse was "Well he does a lot of work in the community, so he can just keep doing that".

Iean the work he does in the community is LGBT and BLM activism so the DA saying to keep saying the cops ain't poo poo to minority groups is hilarious

Koalas March
May 21, 2007



VitalSigns posted:

Yeah this is what I heard, that the only thing on video was them buying masks in cold weather, and CPD lied about the rest, anyone have a source on that

Someone posted a screenshot of a leaked video of them buying the masks in the last Uspol thread, I'm sure someone could find it with some searching.

TMZ had a copy of the check/memo line and the breakdown of their services for his upcoming music video.

Actually checking Jussie's tag on TMZ might turn all this up. I'd try but I'm having trouble doing stuff atm.

Koalas March
May 21, 2007



Sodomy Hussein posted:

Everything seemed reasonably clear until the DA dropped/deferred (it is still unclear which they did, based on reports I've read), but a large part of that "clarity" comes from the PD attempting to try Smollett in the court of public opinion. This is a totally bizarre, extremely unusual story and your personal political predilections can shape what seems certain, unclear, doubtful, or impossible.

Will be interesting to see if Smollett reappears on Empire.

Koalas March
May 21, 2007



Herstory Begins Now posted:

TO be fair, according to the released case documents there is actually no evidence

It's this. The released report has no evidence what so ever and the entire interrogation was redacted iirc.

Koalas March
May 21, 2007



https://twitter.com/DEADLINE/status/1111348504121606144

Koalas March
May 21, 2007



Jussie Smollett is nominated for an NAACP Award, and host Anthony Anderson hopes he wins.

Koalas March
May 21, 2007



Your Parents posted:

Thank you jussie. Your insane faked hate crime and fake chemical attack on the empire studios went off without a hitch, you got your job back, and everyone loves you. Thank you for doing absolutely nothing to stop hate and also encouraging hate as much as possible. This is what the world needs now.

the article racists didn't read posted:


This is the fourth consecutive year Smollett has been nominated in the Image Awards' Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series category.
He previously won in that category in 2017 and has also nabbed three different music-related Image Awards for his work on "Empire," according to IMDb. He's been in attendance for the last three award shows.

Koalas March
May 21, 2007



https://twitter.com/ABC7Chicago/status/1112023989210230784?s=19

Koalas March
May 21, 2007



https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1119228964420116480

It's loving HOWARD

Koalas March
May 21, 2007



https://twitter.com/angelicaross/status/1197234658678857728?s=19

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Koalas March
May 21, 2007



Cabbit posted:

Due to my status as an unemployed millennial forced to live with their parents by necessity and who has allowed themself to be claimed as a dependent to ease the financial burden I'm placing on them, I'm not getting anything! I bet I wouldn't get that $2,000 either! gently caress!

No the new bill has a provision to cover people like us who fell through the cracks. $2,000 to adults over 16, even if they've been claimed as a dependent.

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