When there’s a story about some homeless black guy killing a person on an NYC subway, that’s a direct result of the policy of the city, and the victim is usually an adult who lives in the city. There’s a pretty good chance that “this is what you voted for” (or at least tacitly agree with, if it’s a non-voter) applies. One can still raise some moral issues with it, of course, but it’s not exactly equivalent to saying similar things when a natural disaster kills children.
I'm not saying all the native employees are great saints, and I'm sure there are plenty of awful people among them, I'm just saying that if we're playing statistics "immigrant NHS worker" is an even more concerning descriptor than just "NHS worker" on its own.
Yes. As an immigrant worker in the NHS, he was almost certainly part of the problem before this. But he’s an even bigger part of the problem now.
I'm going to be honest: the article in question is such a faggoty whine that I reflexively take the side of the people disciplining him.
In general, every activist involved in this conflict, on both the Palestinian side and the Israeli side, is a drama whore and a liar. No one should be believed. Maybe this guy's boss is some insane Zionist who really got angry over "anti-Semitic fruit." Maybe the fact that this guy won't say exactly what he was told was anti-Semitic about it is a tell that he's misrepresenting something here, be it the content of the image or his behavior in the workplace or the exact nature of the complaint or any number of other things. The important takeaway here, to me, is that he is an immigrant NHS employee who is now suing the NHS—and thus draining the medical funds of a country that was kind (and foolish) enough to take him in—over some ethnic grudge happening thousands of miles away and a slight that may or may not be made up.
Deportation from Britain is the mildest option for how someone like him should be dealt with. And maybe some of his bosses and coworkers too if his representation of things is anywhere near accurate, because it's not like the Israeli side is really any better, but suffice to say that he's failed to garner my sympathy.
Is this really an accurate representation? I always heard “pedo,” but this sounds more like “completely unaware of the a fuckup he had no reason to see coming.” Did he make the disc himself? Why did the police raid him at all, anyway? That doesn’t just randomly happen to people. I suspect you might be leaving some context out…
That said, if what you’re saying is an honest and accurate representation of the facts, it does hit on an issue I have with how people use “pedophile.” Strictly, it means and implies “into prepubescent children,” but people use it interchangeably with “attracted to post pubescent women who are biologically adult but below a legal age of consent.” I’m not opposed to the age of consent—you have to set it somewhere, there should be consequences for intentionally violating it, anywhere from 16-18 seems “mostly fine” to me… but to present “attracted to sexually mature women who it might be morally questionable to get involved with because of questions of manipulation and authority” as interchangeable with “attracted to children” is insane.
He doesn't actually regret anything, except perhaps getting caught. He's just mimicking "contrition" because he knows that's what he's supposed to do here. As soon as he finds the right combination of words to get people to give him a second chance, he'll keep on going. And if he can't find the right combination of words, he'll look for a different way to grift cash.
Isn't 85 IQ the average black person? Being in the same room as a black person wouldn't be all that rare in America (or even in some parts of Europe, nowadays).
Yeah... like almost every insult, it's started to see increasing use as "dumb and/or gross person," but it isn't really a synonym for retard.
I think they'll go for it, or if they don't, it won't be because of 9/11. Not to diminish the tragedy, but 24 years dulls the memory of any event. The Dark Knight Rises shooting was a lot closer to Joker, both temporally and in that the shooter was dressed as the Joker. Maybe if the Twin Towers had been a massive TV station, we'd see a change. As it is, I think we're past the window in which airplane kamikaze is off the table without a much stronger connection.
The original does have a wife and sick kid as motivation (and the reveal that they were murdered in a break-in after he left to go sign up is part of the impetus for the climactic scene).
Who wants to bet that in the movie, there’s a racial element to the killing?
I like that the community note leads off with “Surprisingly.”
Even if killing Joel had been well received when the game did it, were I running things, I would still check if we could go in a different direction with the show, knowing that the weight would fall on the absolute mess that was somehow cast as Ellie. I can’t imagine being a writer and having any idea how TLOU2 went over, and looking at making Bella Ramsey the undisputed focal point and still going for it.
Yes, thanks for noticing.
The interesting thing re: big dick is that I remember hearing it has some degree of positive correlation with things like height, income, and intelligence so it may actually be part of a good package. That said, I don’t know exactly how large the correlation was or—always a concern these days—if the study replicates. But, I wouldn’t entirely be surprised to learn that having a large dick actually does provide some intangible positives even if it’s just a small boost to confidence, which can be valuable on its own.
Devil’s advocate: it doesn’t necessarily matter that he can’t control them; they’re still (mostly) signals of good genetics and perfectly normal to find desirable. On the other end of things, if you find a hunchbacked retard you’re not going to give him a shot just because he can’t control that, and you shouldn’t feel bad for not being interested.
Of course, to go back to earth for a moment, the thing is that all of those in combination are insanely rare. In fact, 6’5”+ is pretty damn rare on its own, much less adding any other standards on top. If that’s your criteria, you damn well better be some kind of 10/10 knockout model who cooks, cleans, and is good company because that’s roughly the female equivalent of what you’re demanding. And that’s the issue: not that people find things that are attractive attractive—that’s healthy, in fact—but that women (and men are guilty of this too, but women much more so) are not willing or able to say “well sure it would be nice to have an utterly devoted rich guy who looks like peak Brad Pitt, but my league is much more in line with the average guy and that’s perfectly fine because there are plenty of average guys I can be happy with.”
What kind of financial barriers exist on parental controls? Are they gated to YouTube Premium or something?
Based on the history of various other alternative tech services, I would expect any serious non-woke competing service to spontaneously become the subject of onerous investigations, payment processing roadblocks, and/or compliance requirements.
Grummz is missing an important part of the picture: Microsoft has recently applied for H1Bs in excess of the number of people they laid off. It isn’t contraction, it’s replacement.
Sure, but it should be titled as something like “Update: Founder of….” OP’s title makes it seem like a separate incident and/or lazy internet point farming.
No, you don’t understand, the natives were more “in tune with nature!” It’s not that they were backwards savages who couldn’t or didn’t build things, it’s that their life of nomad warfare traveling was more spiritual! And wise!
We totally lost a lot by not keeping their pre-industrial ways around forever. Also, trust the science, praise modern medicine, and pursue a non-physical academic or office job as the ideal career.
I think you must be thinking of a different account. Piratesoftware is a YouTuber who does face cam, and he’s not a jeet.
“Bro, please bro, he needed just one more chance to change bro.”
I didn’t even downvote him, I really did want to hear the argument. I expect it would have been a terrible argument, but I am curious. Maybe he’d have some kind of point.
Why?
Cop hate, I get. Don’t entirely agree, but I get. Or civil servants, local politicians, town clerks, definitely the DMV. The post office, maybe—quality has been going downhill there for a while, seems like you could make a “government leech” case with that one…
But why are firefighters “the worst”? They seem like they have a pretty important job, and don’t do much in the way of objectionable behavior that I know of. They’re not even the guys ticketing or towing your car when you park where you’re not supposed to. Maybe if someone has issues with a specific town’s fire department, sure, but if I were to order government services from most wasteful to least wasteful, firefighters as a whole would probably be near the end. What’s your reason for putting them up front?
It seems obvious he's "stuck" in some way, whether that's fear of his ending being unpopular or perhaps a lack of planning on how to get to his ending (or even how concrete that ending is) leaving him somewhat written into a corner. It could be that his ending was like the show, it could be that his ending was different, it could even be that his ending doesn't exist at all—he might have no idea how he wants to move forward. I have some trouble believing this rumor, though, because even if there were murmurings of unease that would mean he had to have a whole book written and submitted to the degree that this alleged industry insider could have heard about it before season six aired and then waffle on it for another three years before abandoning it after season eight. I know he's got a lot more leeway than most writers, but I imagine his publisher would have pushed him forward at some point if the completed book really did exist.
On a side note, I think the popular theory about Martin is that he's got a real downer ending because of all those comments he made about wanting to write a grimmer and grittier, more "realistic" fantasy story where there aren't as many real heroes, and they aren't as successful, and that now that he's seen how "subversions" like that are received, he's nervous. I think that's definitely possible. But another, funnier possibility is that he actually has a more traditionally upbeat ending where the characters he's set up as heroes (Jon, Bran, Arya, Daenerys, Tyrion) actually do end up doing heroic things and now he's afraid to disappoint people who expect him to be a cynic to the end. I mean, he did set up all these characters... he can't be totally blind to what he's doing, right?