Planes, Trains, and Latin-mobiles

[bogleech]

“Russia has been training thousands of people to troll the internet as fake right-wing Americans” is the dumbest sounding fucking bullshit to ever turn out to be 100% real. I can’t believe memes are the new cold war. This is the worst episode of Rocky and Bullwinkle ever written.

[vampiretree-deactivated20220131]

WAIT WHAT

[bogleech]

well it actually goes back a couple months to November when an alt-right “twitter celebrity” turned out to be a fake russian troll

https://boingboing.net/2017/11/03/an-alt-right-blogger-with-80k.html

Twitter has since admitted to finding so many Russian puppet accounts that they’ve sent alerts out to over 600,000 users who retweeted them.

https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/company/2018/2016-election-update.html

Now we’re at the point where mainstream news outlets can get in touch with Professional Russian Internet Trolls for further interviews: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/18/world/europe/russia-troll-factory.html And this is just one little bonus example out of thousands, but just yesterday another ostensibly pro-trump alt-right twitter account, while accusing a Florida survivor of being coached, forgot to turn off their location indicator:

Posted from Moscow, Russia. Look at this account’s language, like every other loud-mouthed internet trumper. There is utterly no way to tell which ones are actors and which ones are actual right-wing fanatics who have no idea (and will likely never willingly admit) that a bunch of actors created and perpetuated their whole way of thinking.

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This is actually inaccurate. Russians have not merely been acting as right-wing maniacs and it has been going on for years, not just months. They posted that the KKK was on campus at Mizzou in 2015 when the protests were happening. They also were able to convince pro and anti-Islam groups to clash in Texas by telling a right-wing, group that there was an anti-Islam rally planned for the weekend and told an Islamic group that there was a pro-Islam rally at the same time and in the same place--hoping for them to clash. I want to be absolutely clear, I am not right-wing at all and I go to Mizzou Law and the propaganda that the KKK was on campus was terrifying to me. It was not just to people on the right.

[cumaeansibyl]

people talking about “forced diversity” like characters being PoC or LGBT or disabled “for no reason” like

are people in real life PoC or LGBT or disabled for a reason

do these critics run up to people on the street like WHY ARE YOU BLACK

[profeminist]

Also:

Shonda Rhimes: We Need a New Word for ‘Diversity’

Shonda Rhimes Says She Isn’t ‘Diversifying’ Television, She’s ‘Normalizing’ It – There’s A Difference

Shonda Rhimes Says She’s Done Discussing Diversity on TV: ‘THIS IS NOT THE JIM CROW SOUTH’

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DANAI DANAI DANAI! #MyQueen

[thisiseverydayracism]

Time to boycott the New York Times. Cancel your subscriptions.

[are-you-even-gluten-free-bro]

Omg forever reblog

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I’m going to have to disagree with this. Don’t boycott the New York Times. Figure out a way to make it so that the New York Times doesn’t have to publish this petty bulllshit just to make Trumpsters see them as anything other than “fake leftist news.” Stop boycotting everything that says something shocking like this and figure out the reasons behind it. Point out the problems with articles that say shit like this and make it so that people who would otherwise see merit to the polite Nazi see how fucked up that truly is.  If we boycott everything that says something disagreeable, and only listen to those we agree with, we’ll end up living in these same echo-chambers the republicans refuse to leave any will be controlled by partisan politics for the rest of our lives. DO NOT BOYCOTT IF YOU DISAGREE. Bess Kalb did the right thing here. Take “controversial” topics (that shouldn’t even be fucking controversial, but this is what society has come to) and point out, on a public arena, why they are fucked up. You cannot argue eloquently with the other side unless you learn they’re arguments first.

[nitro502]

If season three of Stranger Things doesn’t open with the kids playing D&D with a very confused yet enthusiastic Steve then what is even the point

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If a bisexual character shouts their sexuality in the woods and no film or tv writer is there to hear it do they still “hate labels”?

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Here’s a not fun at all fact: the number 1 COD of pregnant women in America is Domestic Violence.

[fakepost-remade-deactivated2016]

are u the “i gotta to save everyone” protagonist or the “i did not sign up for this shit” protagonist

[zoewashburne]

#like i did not sign up for this shit but i’m gotta save everyone but i’m gonna be really bitter about doing it

[bluespock-blog]

[bunchofbloom]

I Go to the Zoo (Explicit)

[this-looks-interesting]

I need more people to watch this show

[kingofthepitt]

Steve: *is a good boyfriend*

Steve: *doesn’t leave Dustin alone to deal with the lizard problem*

Steve: *doesn’t blame/leash out on Jonathan after his breakup with Nancy*

Steve: *had plenty opportunities to start a fight with Billy, but didn’t do it bc he doesn’t give a shit about his “King” status at school*

Steve:  *the only time he actually fights with Billy is to stop him hurting children*

Steve: *call’s himself a babysitter and doesn’t think it’s a girly thing to do* 

Steve: *acts like a Big Brother™ with Dustin*

Me:

[beeloved]

Hopper: Elevens new dad

Steve: everyone else’s new dad

[timbradford]

[kingslayered]

[hufflepuff-and-stuff]

one of my favorite jokes of all time

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One of my favorite bits from this show.

[odinsblog]

Something for all the “But Mike Pence!!!” types still arguing that we shouldn’t try to impeach Trump.(article)

[pangurbanthewhite]

Thank fuck, someone explained this more eloquently than I could.

(Though another reason this galls me is that Trump should be impeached because he has violated more laws than any president in our history. He needs to be punished for that. Saying that he shouldn’t because you don’t like the guy who comes next is attempting to game the system in much the same way the Republicans have been. Impeachment isn’t about trying to get the president you want. It’s about punishing the ones who break the law.)

[ghost-church]

I try to keep politics off this blog but god damn

[the-cimmerians]

Impeachment isn’t about trying to get the president you want. It’s about punishing the ones who break the law

[aspiringsunbeam]

I’m glad we found each other.

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The only Defenders that matter

[niknak79]

[moving-assbanditkirk-blog]

whoa canada

someone needs to turn down that sass level

[truthandglory-deactivated201409]

Two things to know about Canada!

We are smart enough to know hot things should be hot.

We are sorry if you don’t

[anotherpapercut]

fun story about the reason they do that (at least in America)

once this lady spilled her McDonald’s coffee on herself and ended up getting like 3rd degree burns and since there was no warning on the cup she was able to claim she didn’t know it would be hot (or at least that hot) and won a lawsuit against McDonald’s for $1 million

[prokopetz]

That’s what the media smear campaign against her would have you believe, anyway. The truth of the matter is that the McDonald’s in question had previously been cited - on at least two separate occasions - for keeping their coffee so hot that it violated local occupational health and safety regulations. The lady didn’t win her lawsuit because American courts are stupid; she won it because the McDonald’s she bought that coffee from was actively and knowingly breaking the law with respect to the temperature of its coffee at the time of the incident.

(I mean, do you have any idea what a third-degree burn actually is? Third-degree burns involve “full thickness” tissue damage; we’re talking bone-deep, with possible destruction of tissue. Can you even imagine how hot that cup of coffee would have to have been to inflict that kind of damage in the few seconds it was in contact with her skin?)

[bogleech]

Yeah I’m tired of people joking about either the “stupid” woman who didn’t know coffee was hot or the “greedy” woman making up bullshit to get money.

She was hideously injured by hideous irresponsibility, it was an absolutely legitimate lawsuit and the warning on the cups basically allows McDonalds to claim no responsibility even if it happens again. Every other company followed suit to cover their asses.

So they can still legally serve you something that could sear off the end of your tongue or permanently demolish the front of your gums and just give you a big fat middle finger in court. “The label SAID it would be HOT, STUPID.”

[elfyourmother]

obligatory reblog for the great debunking of the usual ignorance spouted about this case

obligatory mention that the media smear campaign to twist teh facts on this case and get public opinion against the victim was deliberate and fueled by the right wing tort reform movement

it was seized upon to limit the rights of consumers to hold giant corporations accountable for wrongdoing

watch the documentary Hot Coffee, it lays out all of the facts and examines the response to this case and explains why everything you think you know about this case is bullshit, and explains why tort reform is bullshit in an entertaining and informative manner

[thepoisonroom]

The woman injured in Liebeck v. McDonald’s Restaurants was 79 years old at the time of her injuries, and suffered third-degree burns to the pelvic region (including her thighs, buttocks, and groin), which in combination with lesser burns in the surrounding regions caused damage to an area totaling a whopping 22% of her body’s surface. These injuries that required two years of intensive medical care, including multiple skin grafts; during her hospitalization, Stella Liebeck lost around 20% of her starting body weight.

She was uninsured and sued McDonald’s Restaurants for the cost of her past and projected future medical care, an estimated $20,000. The corporation offered a settlement of $800, a number so obviously ridiculous that I’m not even going to dignify it with any further explanation.

The settlement number most often quoted is not the amount that the corporation actually paid; the jury in the first trial suggested a payment equal to a day or two of coffee revenues for McDonald’s, which at the time totaled more than $1 million per diem. The judge reduced the required payout to around $640,000 in both compensatory and punitive damages, and the case was later settled out of court for less than $600,000.

Keep in mind that at the time, McDonald’s already had over 700 cases of complaints about coffee-related burns on file, but continued to sell coffee heated to nearly 200 degrees Fahrenheit (around 90 degrees Celsius) as a means of boosting sales (their selling point was that one could buy the coffee, drive to a second location such as work or home, and still have a piping hot beverage). This in spite of the fact that most restaurants serve coffee between 140 and 160 degrees Fahrenheit (60 to 71 degrees Celsius), and many coffee experts agree that such high temperatures are desirable only during the brewing process itself.

The Liebeck case was absolutely not an example of litigation-happy Americans expecting corporations to cover their asses for their own stupidity, but we seem determined to remember it that way. It’s an issue of liability, and the allowable lengths of capitalism, and even of the way in which our society is incredibly dangerous for and punitive towards the uninsured, but it was not and is not a frivolous suit. Please check your assumptions and do your research before you turn a burn victim’s suffering into a throwaway punchline.

[gaylormoons]

#don’t fricking get me started on Liebeck v. McDonald’s Restaurants the level of misinformation floating around is staggering#I know that it’s an older case but it still makes me really mad that people treat it as this big dumb thing?#the fact that the media took a serious case and turned it into what it is to us today should piss people off#the level of distortion of facts is astonishing and upsetting and nobody seems to hear about it?#sorry I’m done I just#it upsets me when a legal travesty like this is just dragged out for some#’haha americans are sOOOOOOOo dumb!!1!’ humor#I MEAN GODDAMN IF YOU’RE GOING TO MAKE FUN OF AMERICANS AT LEAST MAKE FUN OF US WITH FACTS OKAY

[bregma]

jesus, i actually didn’t know about any of this, thanks for clearing that up

[okayto]

Liebeck v. McDonald’s Restaurants at the American Museum of Tort Law

The McDonald’s Hot Coffee Case: Know the Facts at Consumer Attorneys of California

[marthawells-deactivated20181223]

Always reblog. The deliberate misinformation/corporate propaganda about this case is misogynist and ageist as FUCK.

[skyline-sunset-in-my-veins]

BTW here’s Adam Ruins Everything explaining this 

[virgoboy]

Tv show: these are the horrible ramifications of toxic masculinity and the suffering you can cause to the people around you Men watching the show: this character is so badass! He doesn’t take shit from anyone did you see how he killed that guy! I hate his wife! I am the danger!

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99% sure this is talking about Breaking Bad (you can tell because of the last two sentences, since everyone unfairly hates Skyler and he says “I am the danger, I am the one who knocks” in the show). That being said, if you listen to Vince Gilligan’s commentaries on the episodes (I bought the box set of the entire series because I’m a nerd) he actually talks about how he wanted to create a show where the main character goes from a hard situation (cancer) and turns into a villain.  When watching this show, focus on the refusal for help, the toxic pride that he has--to not ask for help when needed and to take to breaking the law and becoming a drug kingpin just to be able to rely on himself- and you see all how dangerous masculine culture is. Sometimes you need to rely on others, those others need to be able to trust you and work with you, not be scared of you. Sometimes it’s okay to ask for help.

[marvellegends]

#LONGEST YEAH BOI # THIS SCENE WAS FIRE # GO LUKE

[dodgylogic]

#how can danny be the immortal iron fist when luke straight up murders him in the 3rd ep #checkmate marvel (via stardust-rain)

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I’m a JJones fan, but even I know this is the best scene in The Defenders