At least three rightwingers today have been thoughtful and compassionate in response to the deaths of Philando Castile, Alton Sterling, and five Dallas police officers, whoa what? But that doesn't mean that most of them haven't been terrible. Here is some anger to balance out that unexpected sanity from some of our most reliable conservative twerps.
I expect that most white people who aren't voting now are going to get real ugly about anything that stinks of South Africa or Hitler. Those laws would have to be extra dog-whistled, and tRump just outlawed the dog-whistles.
That is what's most pathetic. She actually knows she doesn't care about the issue. She just wants you to look at her. Her parents must have been awful.
1) Godwin's Law in the 'can't say Hitler or you lose' variant (or corollary) -- as dist. from the original 'Hitler always comes up eventually' variant -- is from a d*** making facist rules for how to talk -- 'say Islamic terror' 'no!'
2) 'start the conversation as Hitler' cancels Godwin ... lolol -- there's some surreal, Godel-Escher-Bachian thing there but I can't quite get it in focus ... like a time loop where the end is the beginning, so movement is illusory ... IDK ...
Parts of south Chicago look eerily similar to that, it's just spread out over many, many blocks instead of concentrated in one area. Burned houses, burned cars, burned storefronts, boarded-up houses, vacant lots full of rubble, armed gangs roaming the streets, drive-by shootings every day, public housing tower blocks that look like 3rd world prisons. . .
Many battles to come, but that girl just won the mf'ing waaar. Queen of all time and space in that holy moment. Even though, by her own account, mostly just a scared but brave, and somewhat confused girl at that moment. Elizabeth Eckford.
This was Little Rock, 1957. Elizabeth did not actually get into the school that day.
My own school district, across the river in North Little Rock, was finally desegregated after the closure of predominantly black Scipio Jones High School in 1970. The Jones High library books wound up mixed with the ones from the white school -- you could tell them by the stamped name on the edge of the pages. They were almost all pocket paperbacks. The hardbacks were from the white school. That opened my eyes to the meaning of 'separate and not equal' Brown v Board. From 1956 to 1970-71. There was a lot of tension between white and black students until the football players put a stop to it. Mary Steenburgen graduated a few years ahead of me from that school.
did this cartilaginous-skeletoned creature really link us to Breitbart? Does it know where it is? Is this real? Is this sarcasm?
Please, if snarkily quoting idiocy, give signs (Tina Fey not Palin) (though if my eyes were better I'd have seen the frickin shark with laser beam and been reassured -- or ... not ... is this Shark's way of saying 'yes, I am a minion of evil'?)so confused ...
I didn't say it was a war zone. I said it looked like a war zone. And I didn't just pass through on the El - I worked for 6 weeks at a community center there on a temp job. I believe it was called South Central Community Center. The people running it were awesome, I must say.
I worked in south Chicago for 6 weeks, and I must admit at first I was scared. But everyone I met treated me with great respect and kindness. However, the physical environment was so run down and the evidence of violence so widespread that it must have a permanent effect on anyone who grows up there. I've been to the 9th Ward in New Orleans, and it is a vibrant place compared to what I saw in Chicago.
Exactly
I expect that most white people who aren't voting now are going to get real ugly about anything that stinks of South Africa or Hitler. Those laws would have to be extra dog-whistled, and tRump just outlawed the dog-whistles.
That is what's most pathetic. She actually knows she doesn't care about the issue. She just wants you to look at her. Her parents must have been awful.
Yaaaaaaay! We're number one! We're number one! We're number one!
Well, it's my neighboring town, but I always root for them.
1) Godwin's Law in the 'can't say Hitler or you lose' variant (or corollary) -- as dist. from the original 'Hitler always comes up eventually' variant -- is from a d*** making facist rules for how to talk -- 'say Islamic terror' 'no!'
2) 'start the conversation as Hitler' cancels Godwin ... lolol -- there's some surreal, Godel-Escher-Bachian thing there but I can't quite get it in focus ... like a time loop where the end is the beginning, so movement is illusory ... IDK ...
I wanted to say something, but nothing came out but ehhhhhh ...
Parts of south Chicago look eerily similar to that, it's just spread out over many, many blocks instead of concentrated in one area. Burned houses, burned cars, burned storefronts, boarded-up houses, vacant lots full of rubble, armed gangs roaming the streets, drive-by shootings every day, public housing tower blocks that look like 3rd world prisons. . .
kittehs are good, but I want to post this again:
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Many battles to come, but that girl just won the mf'ing waaar. Queen of all time and space in that holy moment. Even though, by her own account, mostly just a scared but brave, and somewhat confused girl at that moment. Elizabeth Eckford.
This made me feel better. Now to take that and go negative: so is it time we should talk about the gun situation that is not getting better?
This was Little Rock, 1957. Elizabeth did not actually get into the school that day.
My own school district, across the river in North Little Rock, was finally desegregated after the closure of predominantly black Scipio Jones High School in 1970. The Jones High library books wound up mixed with the ones from the white school -- you could tell them by the stamped name on the edge of the pages. They were almost all pocket paperbacks. The hardbacks were from the white school. That opened my eyes to the meaning of 'separate and not equal' Brown v Board. From 1956 to 1970-71. There was a lot of tension between white and black students until the football players put a stop to it. Mary Steenburgen graduated a few years ahead of me from that school.
did this cartilaginous-skeletoned creature really link us to Breitbart? Does it know where it is? Is this real? Is this sarcasm?
Please, if snarkily quoting idiocy, give signs (Tina Fey not Palin) (though if my eyes were better I'd have seen the frickin shark with laser beam and been reassured -- or ... not ... is this Shark's way of saying 'yes, I am a minion of evil'?)so confused ...
Probably just another insecure, psychotic gun-lover, violently taking justice with his own hands. Certainly not a member of a well regulated militia.
Who stands up for women, children, and abuse victims of all kinds.
I didn't say it was a war zone. I said it looked like a war zone. And I didn't just pass through on the El - I worked for 6 weeks at a community center there on a temp job. I believe it was called South Central Community Center. The people running it were awesome, I must say.
I worked in south Chicago for 6 weeks, and I must admit at first I was scared. But everyone I met treated me with great respect and kindness. However, the physical environment was so run down and the evidence of violence so widespread that it must have a permanent effect on anyone who grows up there. I've been to the 9th Ward in New Orleans, and it is a vibrant place compared to what I saw in Chicago.
Very well dummarized!