Lurker > Antifar

Ben Shapiro's thoughts on rap:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2009/03/29/rap-is-crap/
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It's bad when high ranking officials in the U.S. government take money from foreign governments that are very obviously in exchange for access.
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/atalante-far-right-vice-1.4675660

Masked men stormed into the Montreal office of the Vice digital media company Wednesday, apparently in an effort to intimidate journalists and show their dissatisfaction with a recent article about the far-right group Atalante Qubec.

A half dozen members of Atalante a group considered extreme even by other far-right organizations active in the province ran around shouting and throwing papers at the employees, Vice reported.

"When they entered our offices, they offered flowers to the employee who opened the door. They then tossed leaflets and clown noses all over the floor," Vice reporter Simon Coutu wrote on the Vice website.

"The group went to my office to offer me a trophy they had tinkered on which read 'VICE media trash 2018.'"

Coutu said the men were dressed in black and wearing masks in the blue and white of the Quebec flag.

"We are clearly talking about bullying, but that will not prevent us from doing our job well," said Coutu after the incident.

Atalante boasted about what happened on its Facebook page, explaining that it wanted to react to the publication of a Vice article about it last week.

The group reproached Vice for what it describes as "provoking an open war" between the far-right and anti-fascists.

Montreal police arrived at the scene after the demonstrators had left. Police said that there would not likely be any follow-up to the incident, as no one was hurt and nothing illegal took place.

Coutu said Vice filed a police report, and it's asked the organization's legal department to look into whether a complaint can be filed against Adalante-Qubec or someone from the group.

On Thursday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that he found what happened in the Vice office "alarming."

"My government will always support and defend the right of media to do their job," Trudeau said.
Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard added that the incident amounted to intimidation.

"What these people have done is attack freedom of expression," he said.

Quebec's journalists association, the Fdration professionnelle des journalistes du Qubec (FPJQ), said it is "shocked and disgusted" by what happened.

"The FPJQ is scandalized," said its president, Stphane Giroux.

"This is a direct attack on freedom of the press. It is an attempt at censorship and unacceptable intimidation. No journalist should be subjected to something like this. Journalists are encouraged to report any form of intimidation," Giroux said.

The article that pissed them off is in French, but I'll link to it anyways:
https://www.vice.com/fr_ca/article/zm8xay/lextreme-droite-et-les-antifas-se-promettent-un-ete-mouvemente
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seeing the words and thinking about them for the first time

Examples:
https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1000029887871225857
"True."

https://twitter.com/ddiamond/status/999083079095463936
"I'm not really sure I believe that."

Just fantastic.
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Seems bad, imo
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ShotOJameson posted...

Big_Nabendu posted...

And left extremists want communism in America

Brazil isn't communist

Yeah; the government has been run by right-wingers following the coup a couple years ago.
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Questionmarktarius posted...

What the fuck is protesting fuel prices supposed to accomplish?

Brazil has a nationalized oil company, which has responded to the strike by cutting prices

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-44234014

The Brazilian state-owned oil company, Petrobras, has announced it is cutting the price of diesel by 10% to give the government time to negotiate with striking lorry drivers.

The announcement comes at the end of the third day of the strike.

Lorry drivers, angry at the rising cost of diesel, have blocked roads, causing chaos in several Brazilian cities.

Many supermarkets have been unable to refill their shelves and some airports said they were running low on fuel.

It is not clear whether the unions will agree to suspend the strike.

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Guys there's a perfectly good scandal right there in the OP; no need to go searching for others.
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https://wapo.st/2s609pG

Unaccompanied minors who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border during a historic wave of migration earlier this decade were repeatedly beaten, sexually abused, and deprived of food and medical care by federal border agents, according to an American Civil Liberties Union report released Wednesday.

About 30,000 pages of documents obtained by the ACLU through an open-records lawsuit depict a gantlet of alleged mistreatment for the tens of thousands of children who arrived mainly from Central America between 2009 and 2014, during the Obama administration. Many were seeking asylum in the United States after fleeing death threats and violence in their homelands.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents allegedly used stun guns on the minors for amusement or punishment, kicked them and threatened to either rape or kill them. The ACLU report which is based on emails, complaint forms and investigative reports says agents routinely kept minors in detention cells with frigid temperatures, forcing them to sleep on concrete floors.

When the complaints were filed to the Department of Homeland Security, they were largely dismissed, the ACLU said, revealing what the advocacy group described as a culture of impunity among federal government agents charged with protecting immigrant children in their custody.

You have no clear sense of how or whether these agents were reprimanded, said Astrid Dominguez, director of the ACLUs Regional Center for Border Rights.

CBP officials called the organizations conclusions unfounded and baseless, noting that most of the claims cited in the report were ruled unfounded by DHS.

These allegations were investigated and dismissed by the Office of the Inspector General for a reason, DHS spokesman Katie Waldman said. Packaging dozens of patently baseless allegations and calling it a report does not change the fact it is just a collection of patently baseless allegations.

The report ignores improvements in oversight made since 2014, including stricter guidelines on use of force and a zero-tolerance policy on sexual abuse, CBP said. It also disregards the fact that the DHS inspector generals office, responding to previous complaints of abuse, conducted unannounced visits to 41 CBP facilities in 2014 and found no improprieties, the agency said.

CBP takes seriously all allegations of misconduct, but without new specifics is unable commence reasonable steps to examine these assertions and address the accusations levied, Dan Hetlage, a CBP spokesman, said in a statement.

The ACLU initially sought the documents used in the report in a public-records request. When that request was denied, the organization filed the lawsuit, eventually gaining access to the records.

Nearly 134,000 unaccompanied minors have entered DHS custody since the fall of 2014, according to federal statistics.

Recently, the Trump administration has proposed new regulations for how those minors should be treated, including stripping some federal asylum protections from them if they reconnect with an adult relative in the United States, which DHS argues would mean they are no longer unaccompanied minors.

ACLU attorney Mitra Ebadolahi said the records obtained through the lawsuit indicate that DHS investigators often took agents word over the childrens, in one case closing an investigation after one group of agents said they couldnt remember their accuser.

Some of the reports were filed by service providers who saw bruises on the children or heard their stories.

Another headline from today: Obama Takes Jab At Donald Trump: I Did Not Have Scandals As President
http://www.newsweek.com/barack-obama-donald-trump-scandal-white-house-943806
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https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/05/24/us/politics/republicans-democrats-coalition-trump.html

Since Donald J. Trump began dominating American politics more than two years ago, Democrats concerned about his policies and behavior have taken solace in a group of influential Republicans who have consistently assailed the president as anathema to the values of their party, and the country more broadly.

In the past year, however, influential liberal donors and operatives have gone from cheering these so-called Never Trump Republicans to quietly working with and even funding them. Through invitation-only emails and private, off-the-record meetings, they have formed a loose network of cross-partisan alliances aimed at helping neutralize President Trump, and preventing others from capitalizing on weaknesses in the political system that they say he has exploited.

While this network has mostly eschewed electoral politics, some involved see the potential for it to help form an ideological and possibly financial platform to back candidates, including a centrist challenge to Mr. Trump in 2020, possibly from within the G.O.P. or even a third party.

The network composed of overlapping groups led by Democrats such as the donor Rachel Pritzker and several veteran Obama administration operatives, as well as leading Never Trump Republicans like Evan McMullin, Mindy Finn and William Kristol aims to chart a middle path between a Republican base falling in line behind Mr. Trump and a liberal resistance trying to pull the Democratic Party left.

If youre a Republican who is concerned about the health of the liberal order and alarmed over the destruction of the norms of American democracy, theres no reason you shouldnt be willing to work with a Democrat who is equally concerned about those same matters, said Jerry Taylor, a Republican who is president of the Niskanen Center, a moderate think tank that grew out of the libertarian Cato Institute.

While a slew of initiatives raised big money for cross-partisan bridge-building and even presidential campaigns in 2012, the current effort is different. It involves more players who are more actively involved in politics from across the spectrum, many of whom bring their own constituencies, making it less centralized and, in some ways, less organized.

Yet they are arguably more united than past efforts by their concern over threats to democracy they contend are embodied by a single politician: Mr. Trump.

Its an amorphous, somewhat secretive effort, partly because some participants fear Mr. Trump and his allies would brand Never Trump Republicans as pawns of Democrats. Meeting locations, agendas and attendees are mostly kept quiet, while political intelligence is privately shared between participants on opposite sides of the political spectrum.

But some of the collaboration is becoming more overt.

Over the last couple of months, network members filed amicus briefs accusing Mr. Trump of overstepping his authority on matters ranging from immigration to his administrations efforts to block a merger between AT&T and Time Warner. And last month, the Senate Judiciary Committee passed a bill to protect the special counsel investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election, for which network members had lobbied.

It was a kumbaya moment, said Lisa Gilbert, an official at the left-leaning watchdog group Public Citizen, which helped coordinate lobbying by groups across the political spectrum.

A coalition involving many of the same groups is working to quickly mobilize mass protests across the country if Mr. Trump acts to impede the special counsel investigation. And next month organizers of a group of leading donors and operatives from the right and left called Patriots and Pragmatists are expecting their biggest turnout yet at a meeting in San Francisco, according to people familiar with the planning.

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Damn, I thought this would be a Vice article
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The DNC openly taking sides in a primary has reopened some 2016 divisions

Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez has said repeatedly that the national party shouldnt, and wont, endorse in primaries. But on Thursday, he stood on a Long Island stage and endorsed Andrew Cuomo, the New York governor who is facing a challenge from actress Cynthia Nixon.

The decision to pick favorites in a primary pits the DNC chair against the DNC deputy chair, Keith Ellison. And it has re-opened an ongoing internal fight within the party, while giving critics ammunition to question Perezs leadership.

The New York race isnt just any two Democrats fighting for the nomination: Nixon is making her race explicitly about a challenge from the left and the new progressive energy of the party that she says Cuomo is out of sync with. And shes doing it with the support of many progressives in the state who identified with Bernie Sanders campaign.

It also comes as the DNC is trying to put the 2016 battles in the past, despite lingering suspicions among many Sanders supporters about Perez. He was elected chair last year over Ellison, who was backed by Sanders.

Ive not only admired Andrew Cuomo, I have admired the Cuomo family since my youth. Ive admired what they stood for and what they fought for since I was a kid, Perez said, in an appearance onstage at the New York state Democratic Convention Thursday morning at Hofstra University. We often have debates about what wing of the Democratic Party we belong to.

Perez rattled off Cuomos record of progressive accomplishments, from passing a $15 minimum wage to legalizing gay marriage and paid family leave.

Perez called Cuomo and his lieutenant governor running mate Kathy Hochul charter members of the accomplishment wing of the Democratic Party seeming to echo a knock that Cuomo himself has made against Nixon and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and thats why Im proud to endorse them."

Ellison was not on board with the decision. He was not told in advance about Perezs decision to endorse Cuomo, a person familiar with the matter said.

Asked about Perez backing Cuomo, Ellison said in a statement, The Democratic Party should not intervene in the primary process. It is our role to be fair to all contestants and let the voters decide.

In March, when asked on C-SPAN about backing candidates in House primaries, Perez said the DNC should not endorse, as the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee had started doing.

One thing weve learned at the DNC is that when you, in fact or in perception, are trying to put the thumb on the scale in a spirited primary, that can undermine public confidence in us, Perez said.

Perez was answering a question about why the DNC did not take a position in the Democratic primary challenge from the left to another incumbent, Illinois Rep. Dan Lipinski.
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Blake said the combination of those factors means theres a dramatic difference between the New York race and the Georgia governors primary this past Tuesday, in which Perez argued that the DNC had to remain neutral and not back Stacey Abrams, who received support from across the country on her way to winning the nomination and potentially becoming the first black female governor in American history.

*stares blankly at camera*
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DifferentialEquation posted...

Wow. Some respect for CNN for actually reporting on an armed citizen stopping a shooter. That's gotta fucking hurt their narrative. Maybe they actually learned a lesson from being blocked from the EPA summit and are trying to not be a complete shitshow.

I am surprised they are even running the story and also putting it as breaking news and the main story.

Will this cause you to re-examine your previously held beliefs about CNN?
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https://www.buzzfeed.com/ryancbrooks/andrew-cuomo-progressive-joe-biden-hillary-clinton

Over two days, sessions of the New York State Democratic Convention kicked off with prayers that felt more like stump speeches for Gov. Andrew Cuomos re-election than devotions.

The invocations touched on two themes that were on prominent display this week on Long Island: reaffirming Cuomos progressive values and his record.

Some of the most prominent Democrats in America Hillary Clinton, and the chair of the Democratic National Committee, Tom Perez lavished praise on Cuomo under gleaming, cerulean signs reading MOVING FORWARD and FIGHTING BACK.

We often have debates about what wing of the Democratic Party we belong to, said Perez declaring that he is from the accomplishments wing of the party.

"Now more than ever we've got to stand up for those that stand up for progressive values," offered Clinton, whom Cuomo presented with flowers at the end of her remarks in a state she won decisively several times over.

The state partys vice chair, Christine Quinn, rattled off a bevy of the partys progressive accomplishments under Cuomo, from a $15 minimum wage (it takes effect at the end of next year) to marriage equality, each followed by applause from a body of Democrats firmly behind the governor.

The two-day convention on Long Island served as a show of force from a state party content under the leadership of the governor facing a formidable challenge from the left to those questioning governors progressive bona fides.

And by the way, Andrew Cuomo has never backed away from his progressive principles, Biden told the crowd in a lengthy endorsement speech. Not one single time. [Antifar's note: lol]

Cuomo easily secured the partys nomination with over 95% of convention delegates supporting his bid for re-election. (Nixon still plans to petition her way onto the ballot ahead of the primary in September.)

Theres a struggle between the left and center of the party happening all over and people want to see progressives embraced, New York Democratic strategist Hank Sheinkopf told BuzzFeed News. And its reached New York.

The gubernatorial primary has become the latest battleground in an arduous struggle between the newer, progressive wing of the Democratic Party who want to push Democrats as ideologically leftward as they can and the old guard, establishment wing of the party supporting candidates sometimes centrist, sometimes quite liberal whom they believe are more viable in general elections.

The reality is that the Democratic Party and the Working Families Party used to have a really great relationship theyve disagreed on down ballot races but this year with the governors race has broken that relationship completely, Sheinkopf said.

Last week, at the Working Families Party convention in Harlem, youd be hard pressed to find a member that thought Cuomo was a real progressive.

State party members painted Cuomo as the antithesis of the progressive movement theyre at the forefront of, a movement that hes trying to divide. Later, they led members in a call and response: When Andrew Cuomo tries to divide us, what do we do? Stand up! Fight back!

Cuomo represents a wing of the Democratic Party that is out of touch with what voters want right now and that people are veering away from, New York Working Families Party state director Bill Lipton and New York Communities for Change director Jonathan Westin told BuzzFeed News over a phone call. They rattled off points about Cuomo working with the Independent Democratic Caucus a group of New York state Senate that, until recently, caucused with Republican members, effectively changing the balance of power toward the center and about working with Republicans in the New York state House.

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You ever hear the studio version of I Want You To Want Me?

Anyways, live versions have a different energy, and sometimes bands go on extended riffs that are cool. There's a 15-minute version of My Generation on Live At Leeds and it owns
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I use it for the rewards points
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Yeah definitely.
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Re: claims about the ownership vote

https://deadspin.com/report-nfl-owners-didnt-actually-vote-on-the-new-anthe-1826300968
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Loghain posted...

They also don't have an army, but it's not like they have any strategic resources or location to fight over it

Semi-relatedly: I recently learned that Mexico's army is basically only big enough to deal with internal, domestic threats, the reasoning being that any sort of foreign war they fight would probably be against the U.S., which they'd lose, or Guatemala, which they'd win.
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Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

I would rather just have ones that look like from the game.

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Good take, TC. It increases the amount of bullshit paperwork and bullshit jobs associated with that paperwork
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It's good, and should have been done before
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DevsBro posted...

I dunno, I kinda look at it like there wasn't a good solution and that was the best they could come up with.

I mean forcing people to play nice together wasn't going to work so

I think this underestimates people. During reconstruction, you had a semblance of equality between blacks and whites in the Deep South. There are several labor movements that had some success bringing white and black workers together even just a few decades after the Civil War had ended
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1892_New_Orleans_general_strike
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama_Chapter_of_the_Communist_Party_USA
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No, absolutely not
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The status quo has a sort of head start in public perception, in that people naturally seek out explanations and justifications for the way things are. The alternative, of knowing that things are unjust, is hard and unpleasant. If you grow up in a society where black people are treated as lesser, you find ways to rationalize that or you kinda go crazy.

And, of course, these justifications pass down from generation to generation.
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Caution999 posted...

Does Antifar believe in "guilty until proven innocent?" lmfao

I do not, but I also understand that the public and employers aren't obligated to abide by the standards of proof required in a court of law.
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https://twitter.com/GovMikeHuckabee/status/999652925659021313

You crazy for this one, Huck
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https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/costa-rica-fossil-fuels-ban-president-carlos-alvarado-climate-change-global-warming-a8344541.html

Costa Ricas new president has announced a plan to ban fossil fuels and become the first fully decarbonised country in the world.

Carlos Alvarado, a 38-year-old former journalist, made the announcement to a crowd of thousands during his inauguration on Wednesday.

"Decarbonisation is the great task of our generation and Costa Rica must be one of the first countries in the world to accomplish it, if not the first," Mr Alvarado said.

"We have the titanic and beautiful task of abolishing the use of fossil fuels in our economy to make way for the use of clean and renewable energies.

Symbolically, the president arrived at the ceremony in San Jose aboard a hydrogen-fuelled bus.

Last month, Mr Alvarado said the Central American country would begin to implement a plan to end fossil fuel use in transport by 2021 the 200th year of Costa Rican independence.

"When we reach 200 years of independent life we will take Costa Rica forward and celebrate ... that we've removed gasoline and diesel from our transportation, he promised during a victory speech.

Costa Rica already generates more than 99 per cent of its electricity using renewable energy sources, but achieving zero carbon transport quickly - even in a country well-known for its environmental commitment - will be a significant challenge, experts say.

Jose Daniel Lara, a Costa Rican energy researcher at the University of California-Berkeley, said completely eliminating fossil fuels within just a few years is probably unrealistic though the plan will lay the groundwork for faster action towards that goal.

A proposal like this one must be seen by its rhetoric value and not by its technical precision, Mr Lara said.

Oscar Echeverra, president of the Vehicle and Machinery Importers Association, said the transition away from fossil fuels in transport cannot be rushed as the clean transport market is so far undeveloped.

If theres no previous infrastructure, competence, affordable prices and waste management wed be leading this process to failure. We need to be careful, Mr Echeverra said.

But economist Monica Araya, a Costa Rican sustainability expert and director of Costa Rica Limpia, which promotes renewable energy and electric transport, said that in a country already rapidly weaning itself off fossil fuels, focusing on transport one of the last major challenges could send a powerful message to the world.

Getting rid of fossil fuels is a big idea coming from a small country. This is an idea thats starting to gain international support with the rise of new technologies, she said.

Costa Ricas push towards clean energy faces no large-scale backlash, in part because the country has no significant oil or gas industry.

But demand for cars is rising, as is use of other transport systems, and that may prove one of the biggest challenges in meeting the new goal, Mr Lara said.

According to data by the National Registry the countrys records agency there were twice as many cars registered as babies born in 2016.

Transport is today the countrys main source of climate changing emissions. According to the countrys National Meteorological Institute, 64 per cent of Costa Ricas emissions come from energy use, and more than two thirds of that is from transport.

According to data from the State of the Region report, put together by a council of Costa Ricas university leaders, public transport has struggled to meet the transport needs of the country.

As a result, demand for private vehicles has risen dramatically, with the car industry growing 25 per cent in 2015 alone, making Costa Rica one of the fastest growing auto markets in Latin America, according to the report.

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twitterfriends posted...

Its a pile on affect, false accusers just make claims and if theres 8 or more the jury just deems guilty. It must be true!

After the court case they file the civil suit crying for the estate.

Theyre going after everybody and anyone that looks like a big payday.

Ah, yes, the big payday, which um,

have any of these cases ended in anybody getting paid?
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fenderbender321 posted...

And let's not forget that we as movie and TV lovers BENEFIT from the talents and hard work that guys like Louis CK and Morgan Freeman bring to the table. No point in ruining their careers.

We as viewers lose from the women these harassers and creeps push out of the industry.
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Like, this isn't Harvey Weinstein or even Louis CK, but it's still not good
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You forgot the r after p
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https://twitter.com/CNN/status/999476113654067200

*Jim from The Office face*
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Dems seem to be using this as an opportunity to hit on Trump for not being tough enough, which...do not do that.
https://twitter.com/nataliewsj/status/999672661130260480
https://twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/999656499738808320
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Both teams would get a 15 yard penalty, which would offset.
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silentwing26x posted...

The person who wrote that article is literally a socialist.

Thanks, Joseph Mccarthy.

is David Adler, or anyone else who works for NYT or WaPo or [insert basically any major news outlet here] an actual socialist, or is it just silentwing making shit up

Adler's been published by Jacobin (mainly on issues pertaining to Mexico), but you know how that is.
FWIW his Twitter feed seems reasonably lefty
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https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/24/entertainment/morgan-freeman-accusations/index.html

A young production assistant thought she had landed the job of her dreams when, in the summer of 2015, she started work on "Going In Style," a bank heist comedy starring Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine and Alan Arkin.

But the job quickly devolved into several months of harassment, she told CNN. She alleges that Freeman subjected her to unwanted touching and comments about her figure and clothing on a near-daily basis. Freeman would rest his hand on her lower back or rub her lower back, she said.

In one incident, she said, Freeman "kept trying to lift up my skirt and asking if I was wearing underwear." He never successfully lifted her skirt, she said -- he would touch it and try to lift it, she would move away, and then he'd try again. Eventually, she said, "Alan [Arkin] made a comment telling him to stop. Morgan got freaked out and didn't know what to say."

Freeman's alleged inappropriate behavior was not limited to that one movie set, according to other sources who spoke to CNN. A woman who was a senior member of the production staff of the movie "Now You See Me" in 2012 told CNN that Freeman sexually harassed her and her female assistant on numerous occasions by making comments about their bodies.

"He did comment on our bodies... We knew that if he was coming by ... not to wear any top that would show our breasts, not to wear anything that would show our bottoms, meaning not wearing clothes that [were] fitted," she said.

At 80 years old, Freeman is one of Hollywood's biggest stars, with a movie career that spans nearly five decades. His starring roles in movies like "Driving Miss Daisy" and "Shawshank Redemption" in the late 1980s and early 1990s made him a household name. He won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for 2004's "Million Dollar Baby," and has earned four other Oscar nominations. His voiceover work has also become iconic, including his narration for the Academy Award-winning documentaries "The Long Way Home" and "March of the Penguins."

In all, 16 people spoke to CNN about Freeman as part of this investigation, eight of whom said they were victims of what some called harassment and others called inappropriate behavior by Freeman. Eight said they witnessed Freeman's alleged conduct. These 16 people together described a pattern of inappropriate behavior by Freeman on set, while promoting his movies and at his production company Revelations Entertainment.

Of those 16, seven people described an environment at Revelations Entertainment that included allegations of harassment or inappropriate behavior by Freeman there, with one incident allegedly witnessed by Lori McCreary, Freeman's co-founder in the enterprise, and another in which she was the target of demeaning comments by Freeman in a public setting. One of those seven people alleged that McCreary made a discriminatory remark regarding a female candidate for a job at the Producers Guild of America, where McCreary is co-president.

Four people who worked in production capacities on movie sets with Freeman over the last ten years described him as repeatedly behaving in ways that made women feel uncomfortable at work. Two, including the production assistant on "Going in Style" whose skirt he allegedly attempted to lift, said Freeman subjected them to unwanted touching. Three said he made public comments about women's clothing or bodies. But each of them said they didn't report Freeman's behavior, with most saying it was because they feared for their jobs. Instead, some of the women -- both on movie sets and at Revelations -- said, they came up with ways to combat the alleged harassment on their own, such as by changing the way they dressed when they knew he would be around.

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"the best of the bunch"

I assume it's some sort of agricultural term that pervaded society at a time when more people were farmers and stuck even now that most people aren't.
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sobergermanguy posted...

NFL players who are also illegal immigrants

...that's a thing?

He's joking, in reference to the recent "animals" controversy.
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masterpug53 posted...

Thinking about this whole thing, I honestly don't know if I can compliment Trump for being a master manipulator in his ability to dredge up and reignite near-dead controversies in continuing attempts to keep the focus off his giant shady ass, or if the country's already such a boiling pot that he doesn't even have to try.

I mean, Trump didn't reignite this; it was the NFL's decision to change its rules.
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The NFL really shot themselves in the foot here; some owners it seems were smart enough to see that
https://twitter.com/JimTrotter_NFL/status/999622542401863681
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President Deals, baby
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http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/richard-spencer-the-alt-right-is-not-pro-free-speech/

Richard Spencer, one of the leading figures in the white supremacist alt-right movement, told his podcast co-host that the alt-right didnt actually believe in free speech and that the alt-right only claimed to advocate for it for radically pragmatic reasons.

Spencer and other alt-right advocates have argued for years that their ideas should be given platforms and unwarranted credibility under the guise of free speech. Their free speech argument has earned the alt-right column after column in national news publications and has been used as a bludgeon to argue that universities should be required to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to guarantee alt-right activists security on campus. The free speech argument has served as the alt-rights admission ticket into mainstream politics, but Spencers recent statements seem to indicate the alt-rights appeal to free speech is disingenuous.

Last month, in an episode of the podcast affiliated with the now-defunct AltRight.com, co-host Gregory Conte, who works as director of operations at Spencers National Policy Institute, was speaking with Spencer about possible government regulation of social media in response to tech companies suspending alt-right activists from social media platforms. Conte said that he thought the alt-right would favor government regulation of speech in the short term, but seemed uncertain about what the alt-right would support long-term.

Conte asked Spencer, Are we even pro-free speech?

No, of course not, Spencer said. But we have to use this platform in order

So, were being radically honest, here? Conte asked.

Yes, radically pragmatic, Spencer replied.

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Compelling patriotism cheapens it. You'll never know whether that player standing with his hand over his heart is genuinely honoring the anthem or going through the motions so as to not get fined or singled out for criticism from the president.
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Man, it's almost as if the NFL's attempt to satiate this guy and his followers was misguided and never going to be enough
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A few reasons
- Historically, it hasn't been so easy to just go back and watch an episode you missed, so having a big long plotline was a recipe for leaving viewers (and potential viewers) out of the loop
- Even to this day, CBS is the most-watched network on the basis of its episodic shows, where viewers can just pop in any given week and not feel too lost
- Also, a lot of shows like this are aiming for 100 episodes and syndication on other networks, where following a long storyline is even less likely.

As to why anime has largely scorned this, I can't say.
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kin to all that throbs