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andros_rex

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  • 4-year-old migrant girl, other kids go to court in NYC with no lawyer

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  • In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.

    I emphasized the key word there. There is no guarantee in civil or other courts (which sucks - try finding a divorce lawyer once your ex saps the bank account lol).

  • Kanye West Shares He Had a Sexual Relationship With His Male Cousin Until He Was 14

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    Joe Rogan Slammed For Claiming Resurrection of Disability Slur Is 'One of the Greatest Cultural Victories'

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  • The euphemism treadmill.

    (I think the conversation here is more about etymology than entomology)

    “Sped” is often how teachers refer to special education now too. I was a “sped teacher” for a bit. Referring to a child as “sped” would be gross and dehumanizing, but I think referring to a “sped class” isn’t considered pejorative.

    It’s weird how worked up people get about “political correctness.” If you call someone ‘r-tarded’ you’re doing it to upset them, and you are also communicating that the status of having an intellectual disability is so degrading to be considered an insult. I’ve worked with lots of intellectually disabled adults and children - I don’t know that I would want to compare those people I loved and cared for to someone that I would want to insult.

  • Vaccine skeptic hired to conduct government study on whether vaccines cause autism

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  • Right-wing Christian podcaster claims that airport body scanners can turn you gay

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  • I think most humans are at least somewhat bisexual. I think for some homophobes (and transphobes), it’s “I have these feelings too, I’m just superior because I’m suppressing it” - at least internally.

    “Spiritual warfare” is “I thought about what sucking that guy’s dick would be like for a few seconds, and was able to ‘win’ by not submitting.”

  • 'Power Rangers' writer says casting Black and Asian actors as Black and Yellow Rangers was 'a mistake'

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  • Can we play Warrior Cats instead? I get to be Fireheart, you have to be Tigerclaw.

  • 'Power Rangers' writer says casting Black and Asian actors as Black and Yellow Rangers was 'a mistake'

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  • God it was so fucking obnoxious to play Power Rangers in kindergarten. “You’re a giiiiirrrrlll, so you have to be the pink ranger.”

  • Trump Claims Nazis Treated Jewish Prisoners With “Love”

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  • Remember when Sean Spicer claimed that the Nazis didn’t use chemical weapons? Or how conspicuously absent Jews were from the 2017 International Holocaust Remembrance Day statement?

    Holocaust denial is a tricky beast too. The biggest proponents of it don’t believe what they are saying - it works as their “Big Lie.” Once someone swallows the idea that millions didn’t die, for some reason it’s easy to get them to believe that millions must die. (And that specific phrase is a meme for the hardcore - “millions must die.”)

    But in “mainstream” politics they’re duplicitous fuckers that are just blowing on the dog whistles, trying to keep the plausible deniability.

  • Trump Claims Nazis Treated Jewish Prisoners With “Love”

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  • The Nazis sent Jews to Palestine themselves.

    Bibi and his ilk don’t see a problem with the Holocaust. It happened to lesser people - people too poor to get out. (If you dig deep, sometimes you can find some racial tensions too - Ashkenazi vs Sephardic, claims about who Gods chosen people are that are cousins to the claims made by the White Identity movement. Or if you’ve ever met a “Cohen” that is very aware of what that name is supposed to mean….)

  • Pirate's Booty founder stages Long Island mutiny, declares he's mayor and tries to fire village staff

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  • Chester the Cheetah would never!

  • RFK Jr. Suggests Letting Bird Flu Spread

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  • It’s interesting that you mention LiveJournal, because a lot of early internet feminists were there.

    I’ve been wondering if part of the strategy has also been infiltrating feminist communities, and if they would have started learning there.

    “Trans exclusionary radical feminists” always existed, but they were very much on the fringe. The only time the “men are invading lesbian spaces!” crowd would speak up was around Michfest (“womyn’s” festival or when Mary Daly (prominent 70’s academic TERF) died.

    So it was a pain point that could be targeted. They use essentially the same propaganda now that they do on the right - that trans women are all sexual predators and perverts trying to get access to women. The “feminist” innovation is that they can be somewhat empathetic to “self hating gays” = straight trans women or “poor little girls deceived into mutilating their bodies by the patriarchy” = trans men. But it is supposed to be conversion therapy for us all.

    Now, they dominate a lot of feminist discussion spaces. We have self identified “progressive feminists” who spend all day seething at random blogs which keep a Google alert on “transgender + rape.” Same sources that right wing nutjobs share on Facebook.

    Sometimes I wonder if it’s also a response to the effectiveness of #metoo. Trolls will pretend to both be trans people and TERFs (to post creepy goony shit or send sexual/death threats). There are bad actors in the conversation, whether they are Russian trolls or American basement dwelling weirdos.

  • "Trump Derangement Syndrome" as a mental illness

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  • People keep posting that Sartre quote about anti-semites, but that’s the point.

    It’s not about the actions, it’s about who is doing them.

  • "Trump Derangement Syndrome" as a mental illness

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  • Psychology and psychiatry as professions unfortunately include people who believe that any deviation from what they personally consider “normal” is illness. There’s a very strong influence from shitstains like Dr Laura and Dr Phil on practitioners, and there are definitely some who’d like to punish political beliefs they disagree with.

  • "Trump Derangement Syndrome" as a mental illness

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  • They only read the clobber verses about killing gay men, and the shitty bits of Paul (much of which wasn’t even written by Paul).

    You can tell they don’t even read the Sodom and Gomorrah stuff, because they don’t know about Lot’s daughters getting their dad drunk to rape him, which is like immediately after.

  • Lauren Boebert rails about “Biden Crime Family” just before her son is arrested for crime spree

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  • Did you determine that they were false or misleading based on Ben Shapiro podcasts? I can point to probably thousands of podcasts that regularly are false or misleading.

    There are multiple corporate medias. “Corporate media” is not a single organism. I don’t “trust” them - as I pointed out in my previous comment, I critically evaluate multiple sources. (Back in the day, I had an amazing Google Reader setup, Feedly sucks 😢). I tend to discard most science reporting and read the articles directly though my university’s library. For current events, I usually try to find a local news source.

    I’m not sure why the fact that corporate media can be inaccurate means that we should turn to random, much more likely to be talking out their butts, podcasts on the internet. That seems to be a way to get trapped in an echo chamber that confirms your pre existing beliefs.

  • Lauren Boebert rails about “Biden Crime Family” just before her son is arrested for crime spree

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  • For the most part yes. Everyone has their biases, which is why I usually check multiple sources. I’m more inclined to trust a source that is run by people who have backgrounds in journalism, who provide their sources. Articles go through professional editors, who can fact check the information. Paid professionals are involved in the process, and stake their reputations on the quality of their reporting. There has certainly been a decline in the quality of mainstream journalism - largely due to mega corps buying up local news - but I will turn to the BBC before I turn to Joe Rogan.

    I find that even podcasts I like and consider informative can often have misinformation. Podcasts are often more focused on entertainment and commentary - it is a different set of priorities.

  • Lauren Boebert rails about “Biden Crime Family” just before her son is arrested for crime spree

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  • So mainstream news sources aren’t trustworthy, but random podcasts are?

  • Lauren Boebert rails about “Biden Crime Family” just before her son is arrested for crime spree

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  • Didn’t Fox literally claim in court that no one would ever take them at face value? (Or was that just Tucker Carlson?) Why would you want to take anything Fox News says seriously?