The sheer quantity of idiots on _TD is frustrating as hell. Trained seals barking "Fed!" who have paid no attention at all to what has happened to people demonstrating for right wing causes over the last decade.
I would have hoped that watching thousands of Jan 6 protesters get rounded up and prosecuted due to not covering their faces, having social media accounts, and not being organized would have caused some introspection, but I guess not.
Original: https://kittenbeloved.substack.com/p/college-english-majors-cant-read
Archive: https://archive.is/qlL6u
95% or so of the tested English majors in Kansas state universities could not parse three leading paragraphs of Dickens Bleak House. First paragraph of same is below:
LONDON. Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln’s Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets, as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill. Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots, making a soft black drizzle with flakes of soot in it as big as full-grown snowflakes—gone into mourning, one might imagine, for the death of the sun. Dogs, undistinguishable in mire. Horses, scarcely better; splashed to their very blinkers. Foot passengers, jostling one another’s umbrellas, in a general infection of ill-temper, and losing their foot-hold at street-corners, where tens of thousands of other foot passengers have been slipping and sliding since the day broke (if this day ever broke), adding new deposits to the crust upon crust of mud, sticking at those points tenaciously to the pavement, and accumulating at compound interest.
Breakdown of the readers in the study:
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58% of students understood very little of the passages they read
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38% could understand about half of the sentences
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5% could understand all seven paragraphs
Money quote:
These problematic readers, which again comprise 58% of the English majors in the study, cannot differentiate between literal and figurative speech in literature. When they encounter unfamiliar vocabulary, they sometimes leap to fantastical conclusions about the meaning of a passage, as this participant who thinks the mention of “whiskers” refers not to a bearded man but to an animal.
These are the people who presume to morally lecture you online. Never forget it.
Original: https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1924664688971022731
Archive: https://archive.is/6DWXF
Money quote:
Please, I need your help. We need to bring awareness and try to figure out how we can fix this message.”
No, you dumb bint, you need to carry a gun and shoot the miscreants when they misbehave.
You need to stop voting for politicians that enable that crap, too, but I know you never will.
Archive: https://archive.is/PtQfi
Money quote:
“In light of our church’s steadfast commitment to racial justice and reconciliation and our historic ties with the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, we are not able to take this step,” Rowe wrote. “Accordingly, we have determined that, by the end of the federal fiscal year, we will conclude our refugee resettlement grant agreements with the U.S. federal government.”
They undoubtedly have re-settled tens of thousands of brown people, but when asked to help settle real White refugees they "NOPE" out.
My contempt for such people is unbound.
You all know how hard I pound the table about using services of your enemies, and how crazy it makes me.
Well, I am subscribed to KiwiFarms founder J0sh on X, and he posted this:
original: https://x.com/XJosh/status/1919476240617996716
archive: https://archive.is/xU11p
"The irate black woman trying to debank @GiveSendGo says they're trying to switch to Stripe, as Square may have already decided to ban them."
I was eating lunch, and damned near spit out a mouthfull of food after reading that.
I swear, the right deserves to get their heads bashed in as often as they do, if they keep doing stupid shit like using either Square or Stripe.
For f*** sake, Stripe just de-platformed Odysee a few months ago over content, THEY ARE A HOSTILE PLATFORM, but GSG thinks they will somehow be able to thread the needle?
This X post got me to thinking:
https://x.com/majur_56/status/1919130431229964319
In the interest in keeping old knowledge alive in an era where digital records can be altered at will, what books do ya'll have, or have read, that were published pre-Amazon, and are worth getting and keeping in paper form?
I admit that my history collection is thin, but I do have some important books, like Locke and Solzhenitsyn.
Jacob Wells explained why comments were turned off. The comments to Karmello Antony's campaign calling for the death of whites does not draw an adverse reaction from the banks. The comments on Shiloh's campaign WILL draw an adverse reaction from the banks, to the detriment of Give Send Go.
Can Shiloh draw on that money if GiveSendGo is cut off from all banking services?
NO
USE YOUR BRAINS, people. Put this decision IN CONTEXT, and remember what happened to Gab 8 years ago. If you want to get mad, get mad at the f***ing (((people))) who run the banks that made this the only logical decision.
$515.5k as of 0655 PDT may 3rd. In about 5 minutes it should beat the $518 that Karmello Antony raised.
Original: https://x.com/wokal_distance/status/1915233075455521020 (thread)
Archive: https://archive.is/PRj1h
This snuck by me yesterday.
In case you have been living under a rock, disparate impact has long been a tool which the feds use to come in institutionalize rules that favor minorities over whites, and has been used to turn school districts into the worst sort of lord of the flies institutions you can imagine. How it worked was that the mere appearance of disparate impact on any minority by policy was de facto assumed to be racist, and draw federal investigations. I can think of two school districts that were utterly destroyed by this, Minneapolis and Orange County, FL. Blacks now run the halls in Minneapolis violently assaulting people at will, and they know they won't face any discipline because of the policies the school district had to institute at the point of Federal agent guns. Treyvon Martin was suspended from school after being caught with stolen jewelry, instead of expelled and referred to police for indictment.
It is my hope that this EO starts us on the long road to overturning Griggs vs Duke Power.
That grad student who published a substack asking "When do we get to kill them" has been evicted by his landlord.
Original post (Nitter): https://nitter.poast.org/RocketPulpHack/status/1913948894389485688
Archive: https://archive.is/qQK0I
Ya hate to see it! /laugh
https://x.com/TheLastRefuge2/status/1913299298617561521
The start of a loooong thread that goes deep into the weeds of 2012 Treyvon Martin shooting, and subsequent media circus, that PAM BONDI STARTED.
His coverage of the Zimmerman trial is what got me started reading his blog. He has all the details
Trump put yet another f---ed up person in a position of authority in his administration, and we can see the results. She spends more time on Fox than she does doing her f---ing job.
Got this from Vox Day:
In 2022 country star John Rich was at a dinner of some sort, and Trump asked him directly why he was getting booed at his rallies when he would talk about the COVID vaccine. John hits him with the truth.
I didn't archive that, because I think it would break the video embedded within it. It is a clip from the Try That in a Small Town podcast.
Jamie White was murdered outside his home in Austin.
Whoever suggested this was a good idea to Trump needs to be fired, he's getting ratioed to the moon about this:
https://archive.is/vb41I <- archive
https://x.com/CptAncapistan/status/1899303817935454223 <- original
Yea, I know, eTHOT drama, but still...
Colion Noir just posted a video about this, apparently it happened over the weekend.
Amouranth was beaten, and forced to comply, and her husband shot at them and drove them off.
Looking at the suspects, build and dress, all I can say is, there go that 53% again.
Yet again, I see dissident right wing people on X are surprised when a Big Tech cancels someone off their service for political reasons.
Shopify had yeeted alt right people off before, notably cancelling merch stores after the Charlottesville riot in 2017.
DO NOT USE THEM, they are off limits to you. Yes, that means you will have to put some effort into your merch store. BOO HOO. Nothing resilient is ever easy.
ZerroHedge is reporting that Political missed a staff payday, and believes the cut of USAID funding may be why, as Politico got millions in government money, including some USAID money for subscriptions:
Original: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/politico-ny-times-propped-millions-dollars-us-government
Archive: https://archive.is/gkrOV
James Lindsey blocked me on Twitter.
Insert 2 year old kid fist pumping meme here.
original link: https://www.foxnews.com/media/jury-finds-that-cnn-committed-defamation-against-navy-veteran-awards-punitive-damages
archive link: https://archive.is/2qkzG
Jury has indicated punitive damages are warranted, so the legal teams on both sides get to present arguments, then the jury decides how much to award.
UnitedHealthCare CEO killed in early morning NYC attack
archive: https://archive.is/FPoKO
The suspect is at large, and is described as a white male wearing a cream-colored jacket, black face mask, black and white sneakers, and a grey backpack.
Who wants to guess the odds that the guy had a change of outer clothing in that backpack, and as soon as he got to Central Park, he changed, ditched his bike and old clothes, and is now out of the city?
Note that the guy wore a mask, and because he did no one has any idea what his face looks like, nor does any camera.
Original link: https://www.realityslaststand.com/p/why-was-this-groundbreaking-study
Archive link: https://archive.is/SlQol
Posted this for future bookmarking, but yea, head slapping no kidding, right?
Of course the NYT covered it up.
https://x.com/RealSpikeCohen/status/1855830188594012492
https://www.foodandwine.com/costco-kirkland-signature-butter-recall-8742337
I mean, can we just get hit by SMOD already?
I'm seeing everywhere that the House is going to flip to Democrats.
Here is why this is important:
This new house will be sworn in 5 Jan, and is the House that counts the Presidential Electors on 6 Jan. Maryland Democratic Rep Raskin is on camera saying he can refuse to certify the election because Trump is "inelligible."
Anyone want to take any bets that Democrats are ballsy enough to try it?
I posted when the subject of the burned ballot boxes came up that the locations were in strong Antifa stomping grounds. Well, looks like they did it, like I suspected.
X: https://x.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1851478241153847710
Nitter: https://nitter.poast.org/MrAndyNgo/status/1851478241153847710
Archive: https://archive.ph/gdaia
"Breaking: I can exclusively report that a handwritten note declaring “ALL DROP BOXES WILL BURN. FREE GAZA" was discovered in a Clark County, WA ballot drop box shortly after hundreds of ballots were burned in WA & OR through the use of incendiary devices."