"We're concerned about the dangerous islamaphobia that has resulted from the largest murder event in the history of the West. Some people did something, and you are all bigots which is the reason they did it in the first place."
If a democratic country assassinates journalists, it's fine. Consults lists of journalists I don't like That's some handy knowledge.
It's unfortunate that these media hype men have bred out their 'shame' gene. I'd be looking forward to them getting comeuppance, but it seems they'll never experience the guilt of being so wrong on so much and feel the least bit bad about it.
Kind of makes me circle back to that hypothetical list of handy knowledge. Almonds Activated.
Followed by two "reporters" attempting to one-up the proceedings with gotcha "questions" both directed specifically at the female leader instead of the eloquent male who made almost all of the argumentation in the presentation.
- "Do you think this could end with everyone walking away"
- Answer: "We're holding the line"
- "There have been reports of truckers with guns, can you assure us that none of your truckers have guns?"
- Answer: "Crime is down in Ottawa since we arrived. Your assertion is baseless."
The crowd was unhappy with both attempts to jack the proceedings and there's a strong possibility the second asker was escorted out by the neck given the murmurs off camera. At least I hope so.
I too work in a field for which I went to college to study. The entire experience was disappointing at first, then infuriating, then I finally resigned to finish (after taking a 3-year break) to make my parents happy.
The disappointment came in the first year of material in classes that were 10th grade high school at best. I managed to skip algebra and go straight to calculus to the extreme surprise of my advisors who said, "everyone says they'll do that, but no-one actually does." The bookstore echoed this when I returned my algebra text I'd been forced to buy as a part of orientation. They claimed I was the first person in any staff's memory who had actually returned it. There was no set "way" to skip algebra, because it was so irregular, so they just gave me a Final with no changes. Three hours allocated to take a test that took me ~40 minutes and I scored a 98.
I am not saying all this to brag. I'm saying this to illustrate just how below my personal standards college was. I'd been training hard for 3 years in high school to "make it" and here I was, sleepwalking my way to victory. The bar wasn't low, it was below the ground.
To get money out of me, the school had 'administrative' courses with no educational value at all that were things like "how to survive your freshman year" and "learning, how do?" that I was required to take and waste time on. I attended one class each of these and took the F just to ignore them.
I managed to squeeze my way into a course that was actually in my major by leveraging the "skipped algebra" thing with faculty around the college and getting signatures to drop requirements for a junior course so I could get started. They wanted to make me wait 1.5 years before I saw the first topical classroom, but I would have actually left if they stuck to that.
Shortly, I figured out the game the school was playing. Freshman attrition was close to 60% in just the first semester and was easily 85% after the second. All of this nonsense was to get loans signed for hopeful dunces with no qualifications who would wash out immediately because they had no business being there. Technical fees, administrative fees, technology fees, 'temporary' fund to expand the football program facilities. Every charge was front-loaded on freshman with literally nothing of value given to them. Every course in the first year was bullshit taught by non-professors. The campus comfortably supported 16,000 students, and they were recruiting 12,000 freshman every year. That math don't straight. But they got their money up front. Loans were signed, payments made, kids with less than zero future were now indebted to the tune of 15-20k for that small bit of dalliance.
This post is getting crazy long so I'll stop, but, I'll simply say: I have utter distain for Universities and higher education. They should all be defunded. Their tax take keeps them in green when their service is beyond predatory. I'm glad attendance is down across the board. Kids today are catching on to the sham, I hope.
Fair enough, and in that sense, Obama and Whoopie are different... he didn't grandstand on his brother's plight as a way to claim the world was broken. He tried to make everyone ignore his existence entirely. The hypocrite here is Whoopie for using the brother she ignored to death as a prop.
It is funny that we're here debating how best to packetize a thought like this, and after short order we were successful. But they must consume 3 pages on a 4-panel comic because of word vomit. Somehow, I don't think they're averse to long-winded prose, but rather they resist any penetrative idea at all. They WRAP themselves in word-noise all the time to avoid anything from outside getting in.
They are not our target of convincing. They are merely the enemy in competition for the normal people with lives to lead who can consume our nuggets of truth (memes) but sluff off their self-important ramblings as mad spew. The only hope our opponents have of convincing is constant exposure (schools), because short-term exposure is the domain of simple truth, and that's not on their side.
Hahaha, mega-rich Hollywood star Whoopie Goldberg let her brother starve to death. Next you'll tell me the president of the United States had a brother living in a mud hut in Kenya for 30 years and did nothing about that either. Are we to believe this is a "system" problem? Or a personal failing?
It matters because ridicule disrupts the March of Progress that sounds a lot like jackboots and a lot closer every day. It matters because this self-important fellow is doing his best to tear down the monuments of culture and without the sharp criticism of derisive laughter he deserves, he might succeed. 700 deleted statues in the last 3 years are indeed powerful enemy action and should be forcibly rejected.
Being laughed at cuts a charlatan at his knees. And so, we laugh, and equip others with our arguments so that they may laugh and reject alongside.
Haha, additionally:
- The author references this thing: https://archive.is/jRqvo ("Is ‘The Lord of the Rings’ a queer love story?") as evidence of his claims (which he also wrote, so, haha).
- He describes Tolkien and Lewis' famous decades long debate on the nature of Christianity, literature, allegory and myth as: "When he explained Christianity to a struggling C.S. Lewis..."
I think I'm gonna stop reading there...
This is like the "They're trying to take Samus from us, she was always trans," nonsense. If you can't imagine a buff action-girl or a slender sensitive man without assuming gender bullshit, that is your defect. No-one is pigeonholing and stereotyping more than you nuts.
I get a look every now and again by the soul-crushed restaurant workers who have become the new servant underclass. They wear their shame right on their faces and I think, increasingly, they know it. They look at me with a very small amount of envy, a medium amount of distain, but ultimately, they say nothing. I just hope they direct their ire at their industry.
Instead, I feel we are experiencing the development of an underclass that will be ripe in the next round for revolution. 15$ minimum wage worked out so well, lets make them angry that they have to wear masks after we made them wear masks. Voting bloc go.
Ah, you are right, I misremembered who did the standing ovation in the state house as celebration. However, I did remember the then governor of Virginia Mr. Blackface Northam characterized the bill he supported thusly:
The infant would be delivered; the infant would be kept comfortable; the infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desire, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.
Odd choice of words to say the baby was "delivered" then required optional "resuscitation." I assumed he meant post-birth abortion just the same, but without technicalities in these matters how could we have conversations with democrats?
The dubious tactic of codifying responsibility at the point of conception isn't going to make the case very well when they want abortion to be up to and as Virginia celebrated recently, AFTER birth.
Pro-Life: "We want to encourage responsibility."
Dem: "I'll make it so that you have more responsibility in a way I think you don't want because I assume your position to be shallow and selfish as mine is."
Pro-Life: "Thank you"
Dem: bewilderment
A letter from "faith leaders" is not a position of any church. It is a media position purported in this way to bamboozle Christians into going along with it.
I share your agreement that DeSantis is doing the right thing here, but your vitriol is deeply misplaced. We should instead seek to reform churches and reestablish their role as the wards of charity and altruistic work.
The government by comparison, is an ill fit for this role. Enforced charity through taxation isn't just soulless and dubious, it is invitation to corruption by creating a cottage industry based on altruism. People enter these industries motivated not by charity, but by a paycheck. Administrators of these industries are motivated not by human gain, but by self-aggrandizement and expansion of same through lobbying.
Your assertion to "tax churches" is literally the worst position, because it discourages the churches from engaging in charity and instead forces them to commoditize and itemize their taxes down to their constituents. This comes at the cost of any work they would do that isn't motivated by greed or the need to be solvent. You are advocating, then, for governments to de-enlist churches and take over charity for themselves as the rightful arbiters of wealth and success. This is the leftist position, and it begs why you are against the "faith leaders" in this article, since that is what they are asking for too.
This is also how I know these advocates your local NBC affiliate beat the bushes to find are full of crap: they WANT to be taxed to support government run shelters, instead of being excited to meet this need themselves directly. They place the state higher than their own faith and altruistic mandate.
This is the game "WPTV 5" are playing, and you are allowing your anger to sway you, inadvertently, into their desired position.
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheImperatorKnight
This guy's shelf is just about every important book on the subject, and I recommend his videos. They are long and extremely detailed, and he constantly rebuffs a strangely vocal group of german romantacists who really do think HItler was a great guy. His focus isn't on psychology which you seem interested in, but rather the facts that can be known and why it took so many decades to know them due to contemporary revisionists polluting the academic record.
There is a reason I won't play the new BattleToads game despite it being offered to me literally for free. And this is it.