Prior to Nuremberg quite a lot of his ilk were also shot.

With the rapid rise in accessible media tuned to everyone’s personal preference there’s not really a single artist that is capturing attention across the board, but that doesn’t mean there’s not protest bangers from several artists:

• Dropkick Murphys
• Grandson
• Durry
• Otep

I’m quite fond of my spouse and our pet cat.

Isn’t his solution to every conflict basically:

• Announce he’s brokered a peace deal between the parties
• Then tell the parties to just stop fighting right now
• Then demand a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in stopping the war
• Then sulk when the fighting doesn’t stop because the underlying conflict is centuries old and he didn’t even bother to figure out what the fighting was over let alone talk to the parties in an attempt to negotiate beyond just tweeting at them
• Then Wonder why his Nobel hasn’t arrived in the mail yet

I don’t know if all of these are scandals, but certainly bad behavior:

1. Banned interracial dating until 1999 and kind of held the position that they were right to do so until 2008.
2. Kicked out a lot of people for being gay, but the girls handing out blowies were fine since they repented.
3. Kicked out some dude for watching Glee (to be fair he was a bit of a trouble maker and this was the straw that broke the camel’s back)
4. Smoke bombs in the dorm at 2am
5. Installed Chuck Phelps on their board which helped spark an independent investigation about the school’s response to accusations of sexual assault. The school cancelled the investigation prior to release of the findings but eventually reversed that decision after a lot of pressure. The investigation found that the school would blame victims, accusing them of bitterness and breaking up their families by reporting incidents to the police.

• The reason Chuck Phelps kicked this thing off is because a member of his church, Ernest Willis, raped an underage age girl (I will call her V for victim, but her name is public if you care to find it). V was kicked out of the church’s highschool (not my school, btw) and forced to stand in front of the congregation and publicly apologize for her part in being raped. Despite V’s wishes to see through her pregnancy while living with her grandparents Chuck Phelps worked with V’s parents to send her to a pastor friend of his in Colorado where she was instructed not to tell anyone about the circumstances of her pregnancy. Chuck Phelps then sent out a survey to a number of religious families in an attempt to help V find an adopted home for her child. That’s fine except the survey was sort of a grade on the potential new families religiousness, so V’s child was basically raised in the same manufactured hell that lead to her situation.

6. Girl was repeatedly raped by her pastor grandfather. When he was eventually arrested her pastor father gladly continued the family tradition.
7. Kid converted to Christianity and realizing his abuse of prescription pills was a sin he turned himself in and asked for help. He was expelled immediately for abusing drugs.
8. Kid died of cancer and was heralded as a saint. Another girl was strangled to death by her boyfriend in the back seat of his car. Her tomb was vandalized by his friends after he was arrested. The school never acknowledged her death. Cancer gets you multiple chapel services and a day off to go to funerals and vigils, but murder gets you ignored.

• That same girl had some problems with drugs in the past and had served a stint in juvi for a possession charge, but she had really turned her life around and was an absolute delight to everyone who knew her. She had the best laugh and I’m glad we got to be friends. If there’s a heaven I’m sure she’s smiling playing the same guitar she got in trouble for owning. Also writing this made me miss her more. Fuck that shit. EDIT: Apparently her mother started a push to revisit domestic violence legislation and justice and has been working with a women’s shelter to this day to try and prevent anyone else suffering as her daughter did. Props to her mom and if you find yourself in a dangerous situation please seek help. There are resources for you, many anonymous. And if you’re in a situation to donate or help others, just do it.

9. My cousin got expelled . . . twice . . . for “smoking weed. Like A LOT of weed!”

Then I changed schools.

1. Pedos in the administration
2. Girl got run over while J-Walking and died not too long after
3. Someone’s throat was randomly slit open on the main walkway as part of a gang initiation
4. Group of students were holding a protest which involved stepping on the flag of the United States. A self righteous attention seeker who had been formerly dis-honorably discharged from the military stole their flag and was making statements about how no-one should ever disrespect the flag. In response there was a minor black panthers movement and a student published a manifesto about how all people are children of Africa therefore we are all Africans and black people need to rise up and start killing all white people and that we was going to bring a gun to school on a certain day. He brought a gun that day, but because he had the foresight to broadcast his plans in a very public manifesto the police had their eye on him. He ended up abandoning his bag with a gun once he noticed the police and fled across state lines. He was caught within a week (I think he was turned in by one of his friends).

“Chomp” is a variant of “champ”, in some regions even having the same pronunciation. They are both valid and acceptable variants for the phrase.

Some right wing hate groups have adopted the character as part of their tribal language. For some this was enough to tarnish the character in its entirety via guilt by association. Beyond simply using the common meme format within their communities, however, it has been redrawn many times with aged racist stereotypes (such as overly exaggerated lips or noses)–in a sense there are explicitly bigoted “rare Pepes.”

All in all the original meme is not hate speech, and many of its uses and references across diverse communities are not intrinsically hateful, but in hate filled communities it is used extensively and absolutely has racist caricatures associated with it. It’s a dog whistle.

That chair placement relative to the stairs has got to give them some hardship from time to time.

Idgaf. There’s already ways to see all my fucking comments, go ahead and run your precious heuristics on my vocabulary.

The only way I saw its use on Reddit was to see if someone used the n word. That seems like a waste of computational resources on a platform ultimately erected by volunteers.

As would I, hence I did. But the quote was from an Israeli official.

I think I might have read the comment I replied to wrong. It seems to me now they were choosing the second option of my original comment.

Oh? Is Israel finally letting Palestinians have free travel so that they actually can leave or is “leave in great numbers” a euphemism for the ongoing genocide?

Yeah, it doesn’t clear the dials, and if you want to manually reduce the time you do need to adjust the time dial, but you get a delightful bell sound when you do so. The door does stop the magnetron when open though.

Peak microwave

One dial is power level, the other is time.

Canadian election is today. Who they choose is who’s gonna have to handle or succumb to Trump.

And just like that every American good costs significantly more.

If your family income is less than about $200,000, congratulations, your tax rate has at least doubled.

Something being vital to your security doesn’t make it yours. It may also be vital to Denmark’s or Europe as a whole’s security.

Maybe if you were nice to them they’ll let you continue using your military base up there without having to go to war with all the rest of NATO.

This wasn’t “perfect” because he won’t get impeached or investigated for it?

It’s crazy that if Israel wants a demilitarized buffer zone it has to happen in another county, not their own, and be seized by their military.

Also shelters don’t count and you cannot interpret refusal to stay at a shelter as “wanting to be homeless.”

I help out with a street outreach mutual aid group. I’ve not met a single person that wanted to be homeless but I’ve met tons of people that don’t want to fuck with shelters cause:

• they have to get rid of their dog
• they can’t bunk with their partner or children
• they are trans and most of the shelters are religiously affiliated
• there are tight curfews and early kick out times
• no guarantee of consecutive night stays or even a bed, no consistency
• you can’t have friends over
• you can’t have more than one bag
• you must walk outside to a separate communal bathroom–even in a blizzard–if a pee cup is discovered you’ll be kicked out
• you must attend religious services prior to receiving aid
• some shelters are day only

The streets are harsh, but in most cases the shelters are worse. Their only consistent benefit is that they are warm when it’s -20F out and if you keep your head down the police will probably not fuck with you.

This has been tried multiple times across numerous jurisdictions. Consistently it’s been found that giving poor people money makes them less poor in the long run. This seems to be an unsavory result, however, so politicians let the experiment retire never to actually learn from the results and draft policy.

This experiment is going to work and then nothing will come of it only for another jurisdiction to try exactly the same thing again and find exactly the same results.

The myth of meritocracy is still too prevalent a belief.