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Please read the David Brooks piece the NYT posted this morning & remind me why they aren’t as deserving of a boycott as much as shit like Brietbart or Facebook.
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Not only is his sentiment dumb as hell but he veers into a weird tangent that ends up taking up 3/4th of the article and it is barely coherent.
David needs to be put in the timeout chair for this one.
David needs to be put in the timeout chair for this one.
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The New York Times wrote:Supreme Court Upholds Workplace Arbitration Contracts Barring Class Actions
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xpost Right wing savages.
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NPR wrote:'Do Not Eat' Kellogg's Honey Smacks Cereal, CDC Warns
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why in fucks name do I care about how many twitter followers/bots famous people lost this week
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because we all pretend like Twitter is a collection of tastemakers and other highly plugged-in individuals who reflect some level of consensus in America when it's actually a bunch of robots trolling each other and vacuous entertainers who get rich on hate clicks and reshares
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Forbes wrote:Hot Water Challenge: Why You Shouldn't Pour Boiling Water On Someone
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https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/aug/20/the-eagles-biggest-selling-album-of-all-time-in-us-surpassing-thriller-michael-jackson
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I remember first learning how that record is somehow a sales juggernaut and my first thought was "Who the fuck are The Eagles?"
I guess I should say this was 25 years ago.
I guess I should say this was 25 years ago.
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I don't own either of those albums.
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I own both of those albums.
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I found out about this today and meditated on it for quite a while. It must mean something, although that thing is certainly both very bad and dumb.undo wrote:https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/aug/20/the-eagles-biggest-selling-album-of-all-time-in-us-surpassing-thriller-michael-jackson
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German city seizes pug, sells it on eBay
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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/don-t-be-hero-dad-kendrick-castillo-teen-who-died-n1003476
it's insanely twisted and sad to be turning schools into literal warzones then lionizing children who take a bullet and basically calling everyone else pussies.
gosh, if only more children ran in front of dudes with murder weapons and got shot. isn't that what makes America great?
it's insanely twisted and sad to be turning schools into literal warzones then lionizing children who take a bullet and basically calling everyone else pussies.
gosh, if only more children ran in front of dudes with murder weapons and got shot. isn't that what makes America great?
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luv it or leave it
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chrondog wrote:it's insanely twisted and sad to be turning schools into literal warzones then lionizing children who take a bullet and basically calling everyone else pussies.
gosh, if only more children ran in front of dudes with murder weapons and got shot. isn't that what makes America great?
https://twitter.com/ananavarro/status/1126477416795385856?s=11
I think I get what she's going for here (but/and) this is almost worse?
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I don't think she is advocating for young children to heroically sacrifice themselves for their classmates in active shooter situations. I understand not wanting to lionize the action itself, but what that particular kid did is truly heroic and exceptional.
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I agree.
Maybe I'm just reading into it but it feels like there's a hope here that the tragedy will work to validate the worth and American-ness of Hispanic/Hispanic-American youth in the eyes of Trump voters. Like maybe if you tell the story in a certain way, remind them that this Good Kid/son of immigrant family (1st gen? 2nd gen? 10th gen? who knows, his name is Castillo!) literally turned himself into a human sacrifice to save--what I and everyone else is probably presuming, rightly or wrongly, is--a classroom of mostly white students, that it will somehow get them to rethink their prejudices or at least pull them back in the direction of acknowledging their basic humanity.
(Buried in this, every card-carrying NRA member wants school shootings to end like this, it puts a feel-good story in the news that takes attention away from discussing the real issues and further establishes the idea that, going forward and retroactively, mass casualties in school shootings are actually the fault of kids for not being mentally prepared for them moment and ready to step up when it counts. They don't ever have to say this out loud but heroes like Kendrick set an example they would love to see normalized.)
I won't argue with any negs I get from this post.
Maybe I'm just reading into it but it feels like there's a hope here that the tragedy will work to validate the worth and American-ness of Hispanic/Hispanic-American youth in the eyes of Trump voters. Like maybe if you tell the story in a certain way, remind them that this Good Kid/son of immigrant family (1st gen? 2nd gen? 10th gen? who knows, his name is Castillo!) literally turned himself into a human sacrifice to save--what I and everyone else is probably presuming, rightly or wrongly, is--a classroom of mostly white students, that it will somehow get them to rethink their prejudices or at least pull them back in the direction of acknowledging their basic humanity.
(Buried in this, every card-carrying NRA member wants school shootings to end like this, it puts a feel-good story in the news that takes attention away from discussing the real issues and further establishes the idea that, going forward and retroactively, mass casualties in school shootings are actually the fault of kids for not being mentally prepared for them moment and ready to step up when it counts. They don't ever have to say this out loud but heroes like Kendrick set an example they would love to see normalized.)
I won't argue with any negs I get from this post.
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undo wrote:it feels like there's a hope here that the tragedy will work to validate the worth and American-ness of Hispanic/Hispanic-American youth in the eyes of Trump voters.
A huge no to this.
There's nothing that "model minorities" can do to change the mind of bigots. Racism is not tied to empiricism about the "worth" of certain people.
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No shock whatsoever at this headline, which is really pretty "duh," but it still makes me want to fucking vomit:
Trump-Orbán bromance takes off
Trump-Orbán bromance takes off
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/may/26/stan-lee-elder-abuse-keya-morgan-arrested
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