on the good side, i'd never seen that Chemical Brothers video before and it rules in so many ways
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 6 April 2017 18:17 (seven years ago) link
I don't think this belongs on the Trump / politics threads
https://nyti.ms/2ob5rzu
The reactions have not all been supportive. The mayor said that the Beristains’ eighth- and ninth-grade daughters were on “the receiving end of some ugliness at their school.” He added that there had been some negative responses from people online, who have said that Mr. Beristain does not have an excuse because he had years to try and become a citizen.
Live up to your end of my fucking oath just once in a blood moon you dumb, depressing fucks.
― The Jams Manager (1992, Brickster) (El Tomboto), Saturday, 8 April 2017 02:42 (seven years ago) link
I grew up near here (and my dad continues to live nearby) and can't recall there ever being a protest there about anything, much less something like BLM: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2017/04/10/she-wanted-to-criticize-black-lives-matter-in-a-college-speech-a-protest-shut-her-down/?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_no-name%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.f99b84d44721
― Οὖτις, Monday, 10 April 2017 16:34 (seven years ago) link
that article is deeply uninformed at best
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 10 April 2017 18:21 (seven years ago) link
things like surj are sort of a direct result of years of arguments exactly like those the article makes, and people trying to conduct themselves according to those arguments. i think the fact that doing that leads to exactly the same criticisms (which even if they don't hang together stem for geniune anxieties and concerns about broader society and the possibilities for leadership and change) points to a sort of no-win situation for that standpoint, and generally the idea that who groups are "accountable" to is a distinct and important question as opposed to "what do they directly do, and what purpose does it serve".
― the klosterman weekend (s.clover), Wednesday, 12 April 2017 20:33 (seven years ago) link
White Floriday state senator, in talking to two black Florida state senators, refers to six other white Florida senators as "niggers", claims it's okay because he meant "niggas" which is a completely different word:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/04/19/after-using-n-word-in-front-of-black-colleagues-fla-state-senator-faces-calls-to-resign/?utm_term=.7228d09ad0ae
my primary reaction to this is "lol"
― Rachel Luther Queen (DJP), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 19:40 (seven years ago) link
in conclusion: hip-hop is dangerous in the wrong hands
― Rachel Luther Queen (DJP), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 19:41 (seven years ago) link
the wite hands
― bought 2 raris, went to chili's (crüt), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 20:02 (seven years ago) link
A+
― Rachel Luther Queen (DJP), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 20:03 (seven years ago) link
"No, see, when I say it, I use a non-rhotic pronunciation. That means I'm just kidding around!"
― pplains, Thursday, 20 April 2017 02:19 (seven years ago) link
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-senator-frank-artiles-resigns-over-racist-remarks/
lol
― Rachel Luther Queen (DJP), Friday, 21 April 2017 16:52 (seven years ago) link
"My racism was taken out of context"
― Neanderthal, Friday, 21 April 2017 17:03 (seven years ago) link
this is a Chappelle's Show skit https://t.co/HTgatNVLLG— Vann R. Newkirk II (@fivefifths) May 10, 2017
― 龜, Wednesday, 10 May 2017 14:31 (six years ago) link
ha I was just about to post this
― PJD PDJ DPJ (DJP), Thursday, 11 May 2017 15:54 (six years ago) link
imo his first hint that he is part black should have been the fact that his name is "Cleon Brown"
Really good article on Ta-Nehisi Coates' fearful pessimism
― Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr, and Violent J (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 14:34 (six years ago) link
Man, R L Stephens has been shouting at Ta-nehisi Coates since 2014. Does he have anything new to say, or is he still just mad that Coates isn't socialist enough?
'Checks piece' Ultimately, in both Coates’s and Wilderson’s respective frameworks, solidarity is unimaginable and class struggle is rendered futile.
Yawn...
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 15:26 (six years ago) link
speaking of having anything new to say
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 16:25 (six years ago) link
Yeah, I really don't think an article that just regurgitates the same attack leveled against Coates a thousand times will bring up any original thoughts by anyone, really...
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 17:05 (six years ago) link
it's cute when bruneau identifies the one guy on ilx the zing hierarchy allows him to clown*
*this post is quite possibly a replication of the phenomenon yes lol
― imago, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 17:12 (six years ago) link
:(
Where is Morbs when I need him...
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 17:23 (six years ago) link
exactly where you would think doing exactly what you would think
― spud called maris (darraghmac), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 17:24 (six years ago) link
fucking stop this right now
― PJD PDJ DPJ (DJP), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 17:25 (six years ago) link
^
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 23:49 (six years ago) link
this guy:http://pulsegulfcoast.com/2017/05/transcript-of-new-orleans-mayor-landrieus-address-on-confederate-monuments
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 23 May 2017 16:11 (six years ago) link
That is a great speech.
― PJD PDJ DPJ (DJP), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 16:35 (six years ago) link
This judge should get the same treatment the judge in the Brock Turner case got: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/black-man-prison-serve-five-years-ramad-chatman-georgia-prison-not-guilty-probation-broke-terms-jail-a7744326.html But he won't.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 24 May 2017 22:53 (six years ago) link
woah @ that Landrieu speech. so good.
― gr8080, Thursday, 25 May 2017 17:20 (six years ago) link
This just appeared on my timeline, wtf.
https://twitter.com/LindseyFOX26/status/8682216704100802
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 27 May 2017 13:52 (six years ago) link
This?
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2017/05/25/texas-7th-grader-named-likely-become-terrorist-mock-school-awards
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 27 May 2017 14:07 (six years ago) link
And it was in the advanced college prep class! Why am I finding this hilarious what is wrong with me
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 27 May 2017 14:08 (six years ago) link
texas
― k3vin k., Saturday, 27 May 2017 14:14 (six years ago) link
That Landrieu speech has me legit crying. Amazing.
― human/hutt hybrid (Old Lunch), Saturday, 27 May 2017 15:40 (six years ago) link
Happy Friday! Here is a terrible tweet:
I get the practical concerns. But Barack Obama buying schmancy DC house in nabe thick w lobbyists just feels weird https://t.co/xAODd9LQrA— jodikantor (@jodikantor) May 31, 2017
― PJD PDJ DPJ (DJP), Friday, 2 June 2017 15:45 (six years ago) link
ugh yeah
― k3vin k., Friday, 2 June 2017 15:48 (six years ago) link
inb4morbs
― heck i've even been an 'oyster pirate' (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 2 June 2017 15:50 (six years ago) link
shhh!
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 2 June 2017 15:52 (six years ago) link
How dare he!
― D'mnuchin returns (darraghmac), Friday, 2 June 2017 16:14 (six years ago) link
that's a nice house but #dronebama gotta be sad that $8.1 million won't get him his secret missle command center back huh
― marcos, Friday, 2 June 2017 16:31 (six years ago) link
by "nabe thick w lobbyists" does she mean the District of Columbia because guess what
― El Tomboto, Friday, 2 June 2017 16:33 (six years ago) link
"nabe thick w spies"
"nabe thick w gentrifying white ppl"
"nabe thick w veterans"
"nabe thick w graduate degrees"
"nabe thick w both beer snobs and beer reverse-snobs"
― El Tomboto, Friday, 2 June 2017 16:35 (six years ago) link
Barack Obama can only live in a race-free island in the South Pacific drinking Campari and soda and reading Goethe.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 2 June 2017 16:40 (six years ago) link
such a thick nabe
― sexualing healing (crüt), Friday, 2 June 2017 16:44 (six years ago) link
It ain't me, nabe
― President Keyes, Friday, 2 June 2017 17:19 (six years ago) link
Furious that this even got published: http://vancouversun.com/opinion/op-ed/opinion-canada-replacing-its-population-a-case-of-wilful-ignorance-greed-excess-political-correctness
― Tomorrow Begat Tomorrow (Sund4r), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 22:58 (six years ago) link
postmedia is a cancer
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 23:02 (six years ago) link
What the fuck? Please, I don't want the grand remplacement blight to take root here as well.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 23:07 (six years ago) link
what a piece of scum
― lettered and hapful (symsymsym), Thursday, 15 June 2017 02:38 (six years ago) link
This could go here or the police brutality thread; I chose to put it here.
http://www.theroot.com/police-shot-brendan-hester-because-thats-what-police-do-1795965029
― a butt groove but for feet (DJP), Friday, 16 June 2017 17:03 (six years ago) link
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/06/20/john-cunningham-not-safe-one-safe/OrlwvXMRMd3T13qUKWgxGN/story.html?event=event25#comments
But what he does not have is a green card, and so the federal agents brought him to the jail in South Bay and put him in a cell with the rest of the common criminals. Because in Donald Trump’s America, that’s what John Cunningham is, a common criminal.[...]Chris Lavery, Cunningham’s lawyer, told me there is no underlying criminal charge. Cunningham was grabbed for overstaying the 90-day visa he received 18 years ago.Lavery was trying to determine whether Cunningham missed a court hearing after a customer filed a complaint that Cunningham took and cashed a deposit check for more than $1,000 for electrical work he didn’t perform. That would have produced a warrant for his arrest, but not by immigration agents."You would think a guy like him, with no criminal convictions, would not be a priority," Lavery said.
good ol' Boston, where taking money for services you never provided isn't a criminal activity if you're Irish
― a butt groove but for feet (DJP), Thursday, 22 June 2017 15:19 (six years ago) link
there was a shooting a couple weeks ago in the parking lot of the Target near me. Pretty sure both perp and victim were black.
― sarahell, Wednesday, 27 December 2017 18:38 (six years ago) link
I understand why some people may feel that it is in their best interest to own a gun, particularly recently. it is an irrational belief held by people of all races.
a handful of people interviewed for that article wrestled with that issue, the idea that even though they realized having a gun made them no safer, or even less safe, they felt compelled to own one anyway. it's not my place to judge that individual decision. I'm glad it's not something I have to personally consider
some of them were just run of the mill gun nuts, which in a way was refreshing to read
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 27 December 2017 18:39 (six years ago) link
you could own one and keep it locked in a secure gun safe forever with the expensive silverware and china you inherited when grandma died -- I don't know if that would really do anything as far as safety/increased risk of accidental death ...
― sarahell, Wednesday, 27 December 2017 18:42 (six years ago) link
i think you could find a lot of examples alongside gun ownership where people are rationally aware that the thing they are doing does not protect them but they do it anyway, culture is way deeper than rationality
― a Rambo in curved air (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 27 December 2017 22:35 (six years ago) link
certainly
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 27 December 2017 22:41 (six years ago) link
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/15/under-trump-a-hard-test-for-howard-university
found this to be a very interesting read
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 10 January 2018 03:36 (six years ago) link
https://www.theroot.com/charges-dropped-against-only-officer-to-face-criminal-c-1796501125?utm_source=theroot_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow&__twitter_impression=true
sandra bland
― j., Thursday, 18 January 2018 00:54 (six years ago) link
Not that it makes it any less a tragedy, but that seems to be from last year, when The Root was still The Root.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 18 January 2018 09:57 (six years ago) link
oh, sorry. someone was tweeting it out as new.
― j., Thursday, 18 January 2018 15:02 (six years ago) link
1. First, download and install VRChat on Steam. The game is entirely free-to-play and doesn't actually require a VR headset like its name implies. Oh, and prepare to lose dozens of hours of your life.
2. While installing, begin working on your Ugandan accent. This will come in handy later, as hinted in the video below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=94&v=Hxjofn2bYE
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 18 January 2018 22:15 (six years ago) link
I'm not going to say that I didn't find the early ones kind of funny, or that I don't understand how human nature automatically responds to a phenomenon like VRChat with exactly this kind of role playing, and that if you watch the evolution of the meme on the youtube compilations in chronological order from last december, you can see how it starts off as affectionate surrealism -- ignorant, but more WTF than hateful (the one where someone shows up as Ugandan Knuckles driving a minature tank whie screaming in Russian while the volga boatmen theme plays is amazing) -- then of course it hits meme supernova and the hordes show up. It reminds of me the scene in Bamboozled at the Mantan premiere where the act is so over the top racist that the white audience is stunned speechless, leaving them desperately looking around for cues as to how they're supposed to respond, until Mantan finally lands a genuinely funny joke and gets a mild supportive laugh from the black audience, at which point it becomes 'ok' for everyone to laugh, and then the tone of the laughter changes
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/articles/a-guide-to-finding-da-wae-as-ugandan-knuckles-in-10-easy-steps/85559040/
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/articles/this-is-what-ugandan-knuckles-looks-like-in-real-life/85553266/
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 18 January 2018 22:54 (six years ago) link
https://bittersoutherner.com/dear-disgruntled-white-plantation-visitors-michael-twitty-cooking-gene^ good read
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 17 September 2019 16:44 (four years ago) link
and, if you're unfamiliar with twitty's work, further reading for followup:https://afroculinaria.com/
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 17 September 2019 16:52 (four years ago) link
You can’t learn everything from the crossword section of StormFront.
oh snaps
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 16:57 (four years ago) link