@raphjd Imagine if you also got outraged at the inequitable policies that led to 23% of last year's layoffs (layoffs, not for-cause firings) being minority employees, despite minorities only making up 18% of the school's workforce.
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RE: Minneapolis teachers union agreement stipulates White teachers be laid off first, regardless of seniority
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Florida to Enact "Don't Say Gay" Bill
[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-governor-desantis-defends-dont-say-gay-bill/](link url)
Apparently, Florida's conservative government believe that our LGBT+ community needs to be erased in order to comfort shitty parents' ignorance.
Interestingly, I've read the Bill and it doesn't actually limit speech to LGBT+ discussions. I seriously hope that some LGBT+ parents sue the shit out of some Florida school systems for mentioning or showing depictions of heterosexual relationships. Teaching about man/woman, husband/wife, or mommy/daddy relationships also violates the Bill.
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Trump sued for "staggering fraud" against lenders/banks
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/21/nyregion/trump-fraud-lawsuit-ny.html
Trump reaped hundreds of millions of dollars in benefit by overvaluing his assets by billions of dollars. It will be interesting to see if the US Attorneys investigate for violations of Federal law based on the evidence transmitted to them by the NY AG's office.
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Pro-Choice Herschel Walker Paid for Girlfriend's Abortion
https://www.thedailybeast.com/pro-life-herschel-walker-paid-for-girlfriends-abortion-georgia-senate
As the Bible says, "Do as I say, not as I do!" Herschel Walker, running for Senator in Georgia, believes that there should be no exceptions to the ban on abortions, not even rape or incest... Except when it's his girlfriend that's pregnant! In that case, he's perfectly willing to fund her getting her inside's scraped like a fisherman's knuckles.
What an absolute hypocrite! This man is such a moron. It will be a sad day for Georgia, and the country, if he wins this election.
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Trump weaponized IRS and DOJ against political foes
LINK: Trump Wanted I.R.S. Investigations of Foes, Top Aide Says
The reason Trump is convinced that the multiple tax cases and DOJ investigations against him are nothing more than political hit jobs and witch hunts designed to make him look bad, is because that's what he himself did while in office.
"While in office, President Donald J. Trump repeatedly told John F. Kelly, his second White House chief of staff, that he wanted a number of his perceived political enemies to be investigated by the Internal Revenue Service...
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Mr. Kelly said that along with Mr. Comey and Mr. McCabe, Mr. Trump discussed using the I.R.S. and the Justice Department to investigate the former C.I.A. director John O. Brennan; Hillary Clinton; Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and the owner of The Washington Post, whose coverage often angered Mr. Trump; Peter Strzok, the lead F.B.I. agent on the Russia investigation; and Lisa Page, an F.B.I. official who exchanged text messages with Mr. Strzok that were critical of Mr. Trump."I guess Shakespeare was right. The lady doth protest too much, indeed.
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RE: Douglass Mackey case: USA criminalizes memes. Literally.
@blablarg18 said in Douglass Mackey case: USA criminalizes memes. Literally.:
First, you are literally a conspiracy theorist.
No, he was charged with criminal Conspiracy Against Rights. Wow, you are a monumental dumbass! He was literally charged with, and convicted of, C-O-N-S-P-I-R-A-C-Y!
I don't have to be a conspiracy theorist--he was convicted of it. No theory necessary.
"Cadre"? Really? OK what about them? Why aren't they prosecuted?
The criminal complaint listed four co-conspirators, but only by their Twitter ID# (long alpha-numerical string).
So far, journalists have been able to determine that co-conspirator #1 was an alt-right, neo-Nazi and QAnon botmaster only known by his Internet handle "Microchip."
Co-conspirator #2 is Anthime "Baked Alaska" Gionet; a white nationalist arrested for storming the Capitol on Jan.6 and known for having participated in the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, VA.
Co-conspirator #3 is a pro-Trump far-right activist and propogandist who goes by the Internet handle "Nia."
I don't think the fourth co-conspirator has been identified yet.
The fact that Mackey was successfully prosecuted for Conspiracy likely means that the co-conspirators will be prosecuted as well, since their trials will be easier after the first conviction.
If I had to guess, I'd guess that Gionet would be the next to be prosecuted because they know their identity. Who Microchip and Nia are offline may not yet be known by the government. I believe the government only knew who Mackey was because his real name was outed in a Gab post by white nationalist GOP candidate Paul Nehlen after they had a disagreement.
Prosecution could not show EVEN ONE SINGLE voter whose legit ballot had been affected. Not one.
First, he wasn't charged with altering or tampering with ballots; he was charged with Conspiracy Against Rights, meaning they were alleging his misinformation interfered with people exercising their right to vote. So, why would the prosecution need to present altered or tampered with ballots?
Second, the government could charge Mackey with Conspiracy even if his whole group had failed to achieve any results. Conspiracy does not require a completed or successful other crime in order to be prosecuted. You are being prosecuted for conspiring to commit the other criminal act, not the other criminal act itself. The actus reus that constitutes the crime is the conspiring with others.
Sorry @blablarg18 but Tucker Carlson can try to spin this (and you can continue to mindlessly parrot him) all he wants, but Carlson's just wrong on this one, as he is about a great many things.
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Florida intends to indoctrinate children about the benefits of enslavement.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/22/desantis-slavery-curriculum/
Apparently, Florida wants to indoctrinate its children into believing that human chattel slavery was a good thing.
Saying slavery helped blacks by teaching them trade skills is like saying Auschwitz helped Jews hit their target weights. It's an absurd and grossly inappropriate misrepresentation of the atrocity.
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The Last of Us
If you haven't watched The Last of Us on HBO yet, then you should. It is one of the best video game adaptations ever done. It's a post-apocalyptic world wherein a fungus has taken over the bodies of billions of humans and turned them into "zombies."
Episode 3 is a bottle episode about a gay couple who grow old with each other in the post-apocalypse world.
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Karen in FL files criminal charges because school library didn't censor a LGBTQ book.
[https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/17/us/florida-flagler-county-schools-all-boys-arent-blue-book/index.html](link url)
"A school board member in Florida wants someone to be criminally prosecuted for allowing a young-adult memoir for Black queer boys on school library shelves." I wish we were past this in America, but I guess we're not.
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RE: Rush Limbaugh dies at 70 from lung cancer
Unfortunately, gays are not immune to the toxic paradigm sold by people like Rush Limbaugh. Basically, you take anything in the world that's happening, reduce it to a gross oversimplification couched in emotive terms, and let the audience's outrage convince them of the rightness of your argument. Once you've got them agreeing or buying in on some portion of what you're selling, their innate cognitive dissonance will keep them doing the bulk of the work glossing over or ignoring the patent holes in your worldview.
It's how conservative radio, QAnon, and even some groups on the Left work and perpetuate themselves.
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RE: Conservative leader Matt Schlapp is accused of fondling a male campaign staffer in Georgia
@blablarg18 I like the clever wording of the statement. It is technically true that the accuser received no money from Schlapp or the ACU, because he was paid off by an insurance carrier.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/27/politics/matt-schlapp-settlement-sexual-assault-lawsuit?cid=ios_app
The $480,000 settlement was paid to Carlton Huffman through an insurance policy, according to a source familiar with the details.
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RE: Douglass Mackey case: USA criminalizes memes. Literally.
@blablarg18 Your attempt to seem ambivalently, nonchalantly detached doesn't work when YOU'RE the one that summoned my attention back to this old post.
You clearly do care.
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RE: Douglass Mackey case: USA criminalizes memes. Literally.
@blablarg18 I'll read your Harvard Law Review article if you read mine; especially Part II, Subpart B about "Grooming Hysteria."
LINK: Drag Queens, The First Amendment, and Expressive Harms
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RE: Ilhan Omar (D-MN & own brother's legal wife) declares allegiance to Somalia & Islam, contempt for USA
@raphjd said in Ilhan Omar (D-MN & own brother's legal wife) declares allegiance to Somalia & Islam, contempt for USA:
She pretended to be a part of another family so she could get into the US.
She was a criminal mastermind when she was only 8 years old? Is that what you're hinging your theory on?
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RE: GOP Rep Busted Taking Credit for Dem Achievements
@duncanlem I agree. I wish more journalists would interview like that, but unfortunately "access journalism" rules the day here in the US.
Take an interview that's anything more than slightly confrontational, and you can forget about your entire network ever being allowed to interview that politician again.
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RE: Ilhan Omar (D-MN & own brother's legal wife) declares allegiance to Somalia & Islam, contempt for USA
@blablarg18 said in Ilhan Omar (D-MN & own brother's legal wife) declares allegiance to Somalia & Islam, contempt for USA:
Omar's second husband was indeed her brother, by DNA match & FBI helped squelch it.
You idiots keep saying she married her brother so that he could come to the US. There are two major problems with that theory:
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As soon as their 2-year marriage ended, he went back to England and doesn't seem to have ever had much interest in living in the US.
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She doesn't need to marry him to get him a green card. Refugees can sponsor their siblings. There's already a process for that. And, in fact, it's an easier and more reliable process than a sham marriage.
You guys are so fucking stupid!
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RE: Biden Says Texas Has Till End Of Day To Remove Razor Wire Or Else Frinlerbagsuzzit Dorblelerg
@phoenixstorm said in Biden Says Texas Has Till End Of Day To Remove Razor Wire Or Else Frinlerbagsuzzit Dorblelerg:
I thought congress was on the verge of passing bi partisan legislation to help alleviate this issue?
Now, even some GOPers are pointing out their own party's bullshit antics around this issue.
https://x.com/DerekFriday/status/1751953759826018391?s=20
Shannon Bream on “Fox News Sunday” asked Lankford why he would want to let Biden take a victory lap in an election year, and she repeated GOP claims that the proposed measures would still let in many immigrants.
“It’s definitely not going to let a bunch of people in,” Lankford said. “It’s focused on actually turning people around on it. It is interesting ― Republicans four months ago would not give funding for Ukraine, for Israel and for our southern border because we demanded changes in policy. So we actually locked arms together and said, ‘We’re not going to give you money for this. We want a change in law.’ And now it’s interesting, a few months later, when we’re finally getting to the end, they’re like, ‘Oh, just kidding. I actually don’t want a change in law because it’s a presidential election year.’”