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đ€ @dontmeantobepoliticalbut @unionizeurmom @reading-writing-revolution can you comfirm
I do know unionize has daddyâs money, several properties and a house by the beach, but no yacht :( and despite hating capitalism engages in it and benefits from it, you know for the good of the proletariat, the same proletariat he refuses to collectivize and redistribute his wealth amongst
đ€ @dontmeantobepoliticalbut @unionizeurmom @reading-writing-revolution can you comfirm
I do know unionize has daddyâs money, several properties and a house by the beach, but no yacht :( and despite hating capitalism engages in it and benefits from it, you know for the good of the proletariat, the same proletariat he refuses to collectivize and redistribute his wealth amongst
It's weird seeing people over on Twitter still trying to defend the latest cinematic rape of George Orwell's Animal Farm (changing the story to be a criticism of Capitalism instead of the Communism of the book, and adding a plucky new female heroine) with the words "George Orwell was a Socialist!"
People's ability to think has been so driven into the toilet by political tribalism and decades of woke indoctrination that any nuance of any thoughtful individual's positions is judged as either "with us" or "against us", so the concept of a self-identifying Socialist such as Orwell writing a very clear account of the failings and corruption of the Soviet Union just seems a bewildering impossibility to them.
This is a relatively recent phenomenon: when I was younger, all the Socialists I knew spent all their time arguing about all kinds of arcane internal divisions, and clearly marking out why Communism was bad but their own brand of Socialism was the way, whether that be The People's Front of Judea or The Judean People's Front. Do left-wingers simply not do that anymore?
I am not an expert on Orwell and won't pretend to be. I do, however, know that the Spanish Civil War happened about 20 years before the publication of Animal Farm and 1984. People's beliefs aren't static. Even if he still called himself a Socialist, it's very likely that Stalin had a huge impact on the way he viewed political philosophy. Just as much as Franco did.
Spain changed everything. He saw how the communist cadres, who answered directly to Moscow, would put the anarchist units in the thickest parts of the fighting every time, because Stalin wanted complete control of the Republican side and the anarchists were a potential threat. It was that kind of infighting that allowed the Nationalists to win, but even beyond that it was ridiculously, pointlessly cruel. Here were these men fighting against tyranny(the Nationalists weren't any less bastards just because the Republicans were dominated by communists), who had often come from overseas just to do what they thought was right, being sent off to their deaths in moves that actively harmed the Republican's strategic position because Stalin's communists were so totalitarian in nature that control was their priority over all else, including actually winning the war for survival they were in the middle of fighting. Power for power's sake.
The Democrats' hopes in November hinge on the scandal-plagued Senate candidate
I read the article. It is very much not endorsing him.
The third paragraph talks about his Nazi tattoo.
And it's the first paragraph of the actual story, not the boilerplate "this is a human we're talking about" intro, to ground the incoming dry facts.
They cover the tattoo (heh) extensively around the middle of the article, including;
>But for those worried about the tattoo, Platnerâan outspoken critic of Israelâcompounded concerns by amplifying a post by a notorious anti-semite on social media and appearing on a podcast with a different antisemitic conspiracy theorist. âI donât know that means heâs gonna lose,â says Matt Bennett of Third Way, a centrist Democratic organization that backed Mills. âBut I do wish we could be talking about something other than what this guy wrote on Reddit and wrote on his body.â
And two paragraphs later;
>Platner returned to Maine depressed, drinking too much, and suffering from PTSD. It was during this period that he wrote many of the 1,800 posts he authored on Reddit under the alias âP-Hustle.â Many of them are angry and offensive. In 2013, he argued women shouldnât get too drunk if they were worried about sexual assault. That same year, Platnerâwho did a stint as a Capitol Hill bartenderâasked why Black people âdonât tip.â He used a homo-phobic slur in 2018, agreed cops were âbastardsâ in 2020, and described himself as a âcommunistâ in 2021.Â
And later
>The flower, often worn during Easter, is a symbol of remembrance for Irish republican combatants who died in the 1916 Easter Rising. In Northern Ireland, itâs a more divisive symbol of support for the provisional IRA, which quickly becomes clear to the staffers furiously googling. Barto suggests Platner lose the pin for the pictures. âLetâs elect you first, then we can work on Irish independence,â he jokes.Â
>âIâm not taking it off,â Platner replies. âA discussion of whether there should be a free and independent Ireland is absolutely a discussion Iâd have.â When he covered up the totenkopf, he chose a Celtic knot.
The controversy is the throughline of the story. Including the last lines.
Honestly, this story appears to be...actual journalism.
Since none of you assholes seem to get it, the person responding to the news article is saying that because of the fact that they exist in a gender separate from their sex their very existence is seen as sexual in nature so they would receive the death penalty for merely existing in proximity to children under this law because of transphobia
I'm not going to claim trans people don't face discrimination, since they do. I'm not going to say they should stop trying to fight discrimination.
But when trans people are victims of homicide (for any reason) at less than 20% the rate of the general population, stop talking about how people want to kill you for being trans. If people wanted to kill you for being trans, that statistic could not possibly be true, no matter what. If evil conservatives held such desire to kill you that they pass laws to kill you, that desire to kill you would also manifest as people being motivated to kill you. Murderers are not good at controlling their emotions and waiting for the secret plan to advance sufficiently so that they can commit the murder legitimately.
Do you have a source for the 20% statistic? I'd find it very surprising if it was true.
I'd have less trouble believing that the homicide rate was actually the same as it is for the general population, but I can't think of a reason that it would be dramatically lower.
well the one I did was just comparing the number of people on the "list of trans people killed" lists put out by organizations who have every incentive to maximize the number of crimes reported against trans people, compared it to the population, then compared it to the general murder rate.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5551594/ is a more rigorous study though. table 3 has the data we're looking for. we can ignore the first two columns since the common estimate nowadays is 0.6% of the population is trans. the data on trans homicides is taken from the organizations who want to maximize the number of reported crimes against trans people. this paper was written by someone who capitalizes "Black" and uses "Latin@" and so also has the incentive to maximize the number of reported crimes against trans people.
assuming 20% underreporting, the rate of trans homicide is 14% that of cis people; assuming 50% underreporting, it's 28%. the number is probably in between those (these results are not based on what the police reported which may have misgendered, they are based on reports from the family and friends, facebook posts, etc, as evaluated by an ideologuical group). even assuming 80% underreporting, it's still less than the rate for cis people.
the unique risk it identified was transfem black and latino people age 15-34, whose murder rate was higher than that of cisfem people. but still lower than that of cismasc people of the same demographics unless you assume 80% underreporting in which case it's only 3% higher. since transphobes see transfems as men, that's still a nonstarter for proof of transphobic violence.
why is the number so much lower? probably demographics and risk-seeking behavior. if there is a movement that is out to murder you because they hate you, there's no amount of safer behavior you can knowingly engage in that results in a gap this large.
UCLA allowed Jewish students to be beaten until they were unconscious and attacked with pepper spray, according to a lawsuit against the Uni
A group of antisemitic UCLA students beat their Jewish classmates unconscious, attacked them with sticks and pepper spray and created Jewish exclusion zones â all while the school did nothing to stop it â according to a new lawsuit against the University of California.
The school allowed for vile antisemitic attacks on Jewish students on the campus following the Hamas attacks on October 7, the Department of Justiceâs Civil Rights Division said in the suit, obtained by The California Post.
âAntisemitic hatred against UCLAâs Jewish and Israeli students reached a point where students were physically assaulted, injured, excluded from campus, and deprived of educational opportunities because of their perceived Jewish or Israeli heritage,â the lawsuit said.
The explosive Department of Justice complaint alleges anti-Israel protesters seized control of UCLAâs main quad in April 2024, setting up barricades and physically blocking Jewish and Israeli students from entering classrooms, libraries and walkways.
One Jewish student was knocked unconscious with an open head wound, while others were kicked, beaten with sticks and blasted with pepper spray. Another victim was assaulted and told âHitler missed one.â
One Native Jewish woman-who counter protested by holding a sign reading âHamas supporters are not welcome on native landâ-was âviolently assaulted,â per the complaint. UCLA police were âdirectly behind [her] and [did] absolutely nothing,â it added.
Protestors established militia-style checkpoints on UCLAâs campus and refused to allow Jews to traverse public property unless those Jews denounced a core tenet of their religion, per the complaint.
The encampment took over Royce Quad â the heart of campus â with barricades, checkpoints and graffiti including âF*** ALL Jewsâ and âF*** Israelâ scrawled on buildings.
The vile students also allegedly set up âhuman phalanxesâ to stop access for Jewish students for some areas â demanding students renounce Zionism to pass through checkpoints.
By the time police finally moved in, the situation had spiraled into what officials later described as a âwar zone,â with fireworks, strobe lights and violent clashes between rival groups.
The DOJ says UCLA violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act by showing âdeliberate indifferenceâ to widespread harassment and discrimination.
More than 100 complaints were filed by Jewish and Israeli students â many allegedly ignored by the school.
Internal findings cited in the lawsuit say UCLA leadership repeatedly refused to enforce its own rules, allowing the illegal encampment to persist for days.
Nearly 60% of Jewish students said they avoided campus at the time, while more than 40% considered leaving UCLA altogether, according to the lawsuit.
The lawsuit claims UCLA officials knew students were at risk of assault but âtook no serious action whatsoeverâ for nearly a week.
Instead, administrators told students to âavoid the area if they wishâ while describing the chaos as âmostly peaceful.â
Behind the scenes, the school chose a âde-escalation strategyâ â even as protesters armed themselves with pepper spray, lumber and makeshift weapons
The DOJ also alleged UCLA breached its federal funding contracts and grants by claiming it complied with its Title VI obligations while allowing discrimination against Jewish and Israeli students to persist on campus.
âEarlier this year, we sued UCLA for subjecting its Jewish and Israeli employees to an antisemitic hostile work environment,â Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Departmentâs Civil Rights Division said.
âNow, the Department of Justice calls UCLA to account for its toleration of the equally appalling hostile educational environment against its Jewish and Israeli students.â
Los Angelesâ top federal prosecutor Bill Essayli, First Assistant US Attorney for the Central District of California, said that universities âhave an obligation to maintain safe and inclusive campuses for all students.â
âUniversities that violate our nationâs civil rights laws by repeatedly failing to shield Jewish students from antisemitism will be held accountable.â
UCLA has been under increased scrutiny following months of protests and encampments over Israelâs war in Gaza.
âThe Board of Regents and administrative leadership have been unequivocal: antisemitism has no place at the University of California,â University of California President James B. Milliken said in a statement to The Post.
âWe have instituted numerous systemwide reforms and programs to promote safety and combat antisemitism on our campuses. UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk, whose family was profoundly affected by Nazi antisemitism and the Holocaust, has made the protection of Jewish students, faculty, and staff on campus the highest priority since the day he took office.â
âThis litigation â and other actions taken by the federal government targeting the University of California â does nothing to aid our ongoing efforts to address antisemitism and create safe and welcoming campus environments for all members of our community,â the statement read.
âit sounds like youâre justifying their actions-â i am. theyâre a fictional character. iâm okay with anything they do all the time. hope this helps.
this shit from the comments is unironically so fucking sad to me. this is where weâre at now? âarenât books supposed to have morals?â genuinely letâs all just pack it in and go home, we tried the whole âexperiencing life and art at a greater complexity level than an eight year old can handleâ thing and it didnât work out, somebody break the news to oscar wilde, weâre done here. âbooks are meant to teach you something.â christ.
Except they don't want it to be explicit written standards, they want it to be vibes from angry mobs that often haven't even seen what they're mad about.
One thing about trans vent art, is that it portrays being trans not as A struggle, but as THE struggle.
Like it's the most important and defining thing that ever happened to you, that dominates everything else.
I just can't relate. I had other stuff to deal with. My dad being murdered, my mother's abuse, my country falling apart and turning into a fascist state, my struggles with mental health, lifelong social isolation. All those things would've happened regardless of my trans status.
I don't think so. Or at least, I think those people are incredibly rare. For the most part it's never "just" being trans, but being trans is pushed to the forefront as the cause of everything.
I think instead it might be the whole 'every bad thing in my life is because of X!' response? Rather than recognize that they have multiple different problems, they want one ur-problem so that they can just blame not working on any of the other problems on the uniproblem.
This post just sums everything up to me. âHey Jews. I heard this statistic. But Iâm sure itâs fake. So if you want me to believe you, you better tell me all the horrible things that have happened to you recently.â
âI have found a cause that I believe makes my hatred of the 15 million Jews left in this world righteous and if they call me on it Iâm going to use every form of gaslighting and leftover Tsarist slop in my arsenal.â
I feel like this isn't constructive. Attacking someone for asking for evidence instead of giving them evidence probably won't change their opinion. And neither is talking about how anyone who asks for evidence is wrong. You know that stupid argument antisemites use? That nobody's allowed to question the Narrative of Jewish victimization? This isn't helping.
To anyone who thinks all the political hostility is just because Trump is a big bad meanie, Republicans have been treated like that for generations. Bush, McCain, and Romney just didn't fight back.
To anyone who thinks all the political hostility is just because Trump is a big bad meanie, Republicans have been treated like that for generations. Bush, McCain, and Romney just didn't fight back.
Loads of people during Trump's last term pointed out how Bush became idealized by certain parts of the left the second they wanted to make Trump look bad. I remember when the left in general called W stupid, same as they did and do with Trump.
đ€ @dontmeantobepoliticalbut @unionizeurmom @reading-writing-revolution can you comfirm
I do know unionize has daddyâs money, several properties and a house by the beach, but no yacht :( and despite hating capitalism engages in it and benefits from it, you know for the good of the proletariat, the same proletariat he refuses to collectivize and redistribute his wealth amongst
Watching movies with small children is an EXPERIENCE, like tiny human, you have NO sense of story progression
Which is to say we put on the first How to Train Your Dragon
And at the dramatic "first flight" scene, two-year-old shouted "HIM FALL" and started SOBBING. She straight up thought that movie had murdered Hiccup and Toothless halfway through. Had to get double parental hugs and a constant stream of reassurances until they figured that whole flying thing out
All movies could be horror movies if your brain hasn't equipped Plot Armor to the protagonists
Anyway five-year-old is pleased to report that he "liked the part where the big dragon exploded"
#Welcome to the action adventure genre my children#Five year old was VIBRATING through the climax like straight up legs kicking fists clenched#Had to be held by Spouse until we figured out he wasn't afraid#He was experiencing baby's first blood lust#Kid wanted that dragon DEAD and it HAPPENED and he was VIOLENTLY SATISFIED
I took my 5-year-old nephew to see How to Train Your Dragon 2, and I remember him sobbing unconsolably that Hiccup's father was killed. We tried to comfort him by saying it was just a movie, a story, and no one real was hurt, and he said, "They're not real!?!?!" and I noped out of that conversation and started talking about going to McDonald's so quick, let me tell you.
One of life's underrated pleasures is seeing things with children, because they have no filters. If they like something, it is the best thing ever.
I saw HTTYD with some young relatives, and many other shows I would never have seen otherwise.
