Why would they? I get that the majority of people are ignorant about anything they don't have direct experience with (and often still that stuff too), but even just thinking for 5 minutes about what the border agents do and their responsibilities should lead you to draw a blank on what use whips could have. Any utility possible through a whip is going to be easier and more efficiently done with some modern tool like pepper spray, a taser or handcuffs. They aren't cowboys trying to lasso some errant cattle, they're on horseback because it's still the most efficient mode of transport for the terrain they work in. The only way to believe they are out there whipping people is if you already think they're just evil and want to hurt others.
The agent swung what appeared to be a whip or a cord, charging his horse toward the men in the river.
What fucking weaselly cowards. They know it's not a whip, and they don't care. It's honestly worse than a lie, they know it's not true and give themselves the out of "appeared to be". Disgusting.
The people complaining would be doing far worse things if they had to do the same job as these border agents. It's easy to criticize when you've never had to deal with an unruly person, let alone actual criminals in what they could see as a possible life or death situation. Like when regular people try police tests and resort to just shooting at the slightest push back or provocation.
Pretty sad, non-whites (blacks specifically) can explicitly group and decision make based around their race, but whites can't even accidentally favor people that look like them without being accused of racism. Worst part is realizing just how many people really don't understand what's happening, or don't care!
I never understood that mentality "the place I live is always a little shitty, but I like that because I think it makes me look tough/worldly". Honestly, basically every reason people might have for wanting to live in New York City or another big city seem like negatives to me.
I can only read that as "it wasn't attempted rape because they didn't get far enough". Like a guy going to beat someone to death but it isn't attempted murder because he didn't hit him enough times.
It's not going to be just woke, it's going to be full on pozzed.
Honestly, at this point I'm waiting for chip implants to be suggested with zero irony, just so I can see what sort of retarded excuses people can come up with so they don't have to admit any conspiracy theories were right.
What's the racial demographics of those counties, I wonder? Since vaccine hesitancy is so high among the black population, stuff like this could result in a sort of soft Jim Crow laws.
C'mon man, the hot coffee lady is classic "serious issue made to look frivolous", it's basically the OG! The coffee wasn't just hot, it was so hot she got third degree burns within seconds of it spilling. Hundreds of people had received similar injuries in the years prior. Someone from McDonald's even testified that the temperature the coffee was served at was too hot to safely drink! I don't know about you, but I expect to be able to drink a coffee right after I buy it, not have to wait several minutes for it to cool enough that I won't be badly injured by it.
I was thinking the same thing. Because of the success of Game of Thrones (and to a lesser extent the popularity of the Witcher series), all the hack writers are going to take the wrong lessons so every new "mature" fantasy series will have sex and/or nudity, and attempts at gritty, subversive violence.
Honestly, as a basic, simple rule, I can agree that external, unrelated factors shouldn’t be allowed to change how you view something. Having a negative opinion of a show because you were too cold when you watched it obviously isn’t a particularly valid or compelling judgement of quality. However, at least when it comes to adaptations, many of those external factors are already baked into the product. The biggest one being the reason behind that particular work existing in the first place. It’s not greenlit or picked up based on the strength or quality of that work by itself, but rather by the strength and popularity of the existing work it is based on (and yes, this still counts for less popular things like Haunting of Hill House, which EFAP absolutely adores. Just because an existing audience is small don’t mean they and their support of the original work is less important, they are still the reason it became popular enough to be optioned for adaptation in the first place). The creatives behind an adaptation are banking on enough people knowing/recognizing the work, or at least assuming that the story must be just that good if it gets to be made in another medium, to make it worthwhile. The story being advertised is only partially what they actually made, the rest relies on what came before.
Increasingly often, the changes are so intrinsic or profound that they literally result in a completely different, new character, which changes the story even if the overall plot is unaffected. To me that is just a sign of creative parasitism, too many people worried that the original idea they actually want to do won’t be liked enough, so they carve out some space in an established, already popular work and use that to fully support their own ideas.
A big problem with this argument, at least when it’s made by EFAP, is the smug condescension so often included with it. A very common response from them when someone points out/explains something from the comics is “I don’t care about the comics, they are stupid and silly anyway”. They have a very clear attitude towards comics as a medium, so it’s frustrating to see them praise the movie versions while dismissing the originals, when very often the original versions are better and more consistently written.
My answer is yes, I think it’s perfectly valid to consider whether something is accurate to it’s source when judging it’s quality, because that is an intrinsic part of it’s existence. An adaptation literally cannot be fully judged as a stand alone item, because it has never existed as a stand alone item.
Regarding the title, I would like to remind everyone that Boko Haram had been abducting and murdering boys by the thousands for years before anybody raised a fuss over the few hundred girls. Something to bring up the next time someone complains about how society doesn't care about women.
There was something similar in the American show too. They didn't separate by gender (I don't remember the gimmick for that season) but there was an older lady on one of the teams who was busting her hump doing stuff around camp and during challenge. She was voted off, with the other women of the camp basically having the reasoning of "she makes us look bad" wrapped up in the idea of her being a dangerous foe during the late game. They hadn't even merged into one tribe yet. Hilariously their camp life took a hit too since she had been doing so much.
In December 2017, former U.S. President Barack Obama named The Power as one of his favorite books of 2017
Shocker.
Saddest thing to realize is we will never get true Harley. Now we're stuck with the tatted up drug slut version.
Born in Libya, half Bangladeshi half English. She's basically white, her profile pic is from a book she wrote about a Libyan girl in the Roman Empire traveling all the way to Britain. Funnily enough all her previous books look like your run of the mill young girl and YA fiction, only just the last few years did she start with the "woke" books (she has another one about a black female NASA mathematician, presumably from around when Hidden Figures came out).
Yeah, but the flipside isn't just being a ho and littering babies wherever you tour, in cultures with multiple wives/mothers you are still supposed to live with and provide for them.
That’s a Eurocentric concept when you think about the ideas of ‘you’re supposed to have this one person for the rest of your life.’ And really that’s just to classify property when you think about it. I mean if we go into that mindset, if we really talking that talk. Like, just the idea that a man should have one woman—we shouldn’t have anything. I have no ownership over this person.
He's got some pretty fucked up views of relationships if this is something he actually believes.
Horrifically unfunny comedy cartoon that relies almost exclusively on gross out humour.
Defending Levy's punishment, the Mahanoy Area School District said the spread of smartphones and social media, and the need for remote learning during the pandemic blurred the line between on campus and off. No matter where a student's expression originates, schools should be able to discipline students when a message is directed at the school and causes disruption, the district said.
They want to own your children and will use any excuse to do so.
The Biden administration sided with the school. The Justice Department said the Supreme Court's earlier cases on school speech dealt with the effects of a message on other students and school activities, not with the time when they were sent or where they came from.
I can easily see this interpretation being used to punish anything deemed "wrongthink" regardless of whether it even has anything to do with the school or other students.
I think only the 2002 winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. Otherwise it just results in expensive stadiums and other buildings slowly rotting.
"Hur hur, my conservative family members are just stoopid"
The author is half white half Japanese. I suspected before and everything revealed about this book just confirms it. She's got that "hapa" mindset where she hates her parents for giving birth to her because she feels like she'll never be able to truly fit into either of their home cultures. I'm assuming her mother was a regularly attractive woman while she obviously isn't, adding a level of jealousy. This is 100% a therapy session being foisted on the readers, an increasingly common occurrence with these hack writers.
an economic driver
Literally the only reason he cares. Worried about his bottom line. Maybe if your economic model requires constant expansion to be successful you should look towards new methods instead of trying to constantly inflate the population.
I though it was going to be something about how it was bad because it aided the stereotype of woman being unreliable, hysteric neurotics, but I was disappointed.
I'm assuming they aren't changing things so more profit from tourists goes to the "traditional owners" or anything like that. It's kind of great, how shallow yet damaging their activism is. Like a concert raising awareness about pollution, and then the next day the field it was held in is completely covered in trash.
I don't think it will really change much. Ayers rock is still known as Ayers rock. Anyone who says the native name will be met with "what?" unless they already included that they meant Ayers rock. It should still be pushed against, though.