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| Topic | I will never call a biological male a female. |
dreamvoid
04/29/18 1:37:03 AM
#6 | that's fine. we don't have to respect you, either. --- |
| Topic | Sarah Huckabee Sanders was on the verge of CRYING after she was ROASTED!! |
dreamvoid
04/29/18 12:33:41 AM
#3 | they had a roast at the white house correspondents dinner? whose idea was this? you know they won't be able to take a joke. --- |
| Topic | Don't do drugs |
dreamvoid
04/29/18 12:27:49 AM
#8 |  --- |
| Topic | Why do racists lament about white genocide but supported the Holocaust? |
dreamvoid
04/28/18 11:19:42 PM
#23 | i wonder why they just consider it white genocide. they do realize that the other races will be blended together as well, right? i guess it only matters if white people become colored to them. --- |
| Topic | Do you think our war mongering President will actually win the Nobel Prize? |
dreamvoid
04/28/18 11:13:16 PM
#7 | Zikten posted...Obama killed alot of innocent people with drone strikes to be fair, so has trump. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/donald-trump-us-civilian-deaths-iraq-syria-isis-coalition-bombing-a8180331.htmlMore than three-quarters of the civilians killed during the four-year war against Isis in Iraq and Syria occurred during Donald Trump's presidency, new figures show.
A total of 831 civilians have been unintentionally killed over the period, according to the US militarys own figures.
Data released by the Combined Joint Task Force for Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF-OIR) on 2 January 2017, just a few weeks before Mr Trump took office, said it is more likely than not, at least 188 civilians have been unintentionally killed by Coalition strikes since the start of the operation in 2014.
But that has increased significantly over the last 12 months since Mr Trump took office. --- |
| Topic | Archaeologists discover child sacrifice that could be largest case in history |
dreamvoid
04/28/18 10:57:04 PM
#1 | http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-28/140-children-killed-in-ancient-child-sacrifice-in-peru/9706926Archaeologists in northern Peru say they have found evidence of what could be the world's largest single case of child sacrifice.
The site, located near the modern day city of Trujillo, also contained the remains of 200 young llamas apparently sacrificed on the same day.
The burial site was apparently built by the ancient Chimu empire.
It is thought the children were sacrificed as floods caused by the El Nino weather pattern ravaged the Peruvian coastline.
"They were possibly offering the gods the most important thing they had as a society, and the most important thing is children because they represent the future," said Gabriel Prieto, an archaeology professor at Peru's National University of Trujillo, who has led the excavation along with John Verano of Tulane University.
"Llamas were also very important because these people had no other beasts of burden, they were a fundamental part of the economy."
Professor Prieto said the children were buried facing the sea, while the Llamas faced the Andes Mountains to the east.
Children likely marched to their deaths
Excavation work at the burial site started in 2011, but news of the findings was first published on Thursday by National Geographic, which helped finance the investigation.
Professor Prieto said along with the bones, researchers found footprints that had survived rain and erosion.
The small footprints indicate the children were marched to their deaths from Chan Chan, an ancient city a mile away from Las Llamas, he said.
Professor Verano said the children's skeletons contained lesions on their breastbones, which were probably made by a ceremonial knife.
Dislocated ribcages suggest that whoever was performing the sacrifices may have been trying to extract the children's hearts.
Jeffrey Quilter, the director of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University, described it as a "remarkable discovery".
In an email, Dr Quilter said the site provides "concrete evidence" that large scale sacrifices of children occurred in ancient Peru.
"Reports of very large sacrifices are known from other parts of the world, but it is difficult to know if the numbers are exaggerated or not," Dr Quilter wrote.
Dr Quilter is heading a team of scientists who will analyse DNA samples from the children's remains to see if they were related and figure out which areas of the Chimu empire the sacrificed youth came from.
Several ancient cultures in the Americas practiced human sacrifices including the Maya, the Aztec and the Inca, who conquered the Chimu empire in the late 15th century.
But the mass sacrifice of children is something that has rarely been documented.
The Las Llamas site is located in a shanty town, and has been fenced off to stop illegal developers from building homes on it.
Professor Prieto said the site showed how, in Peru, history can be just around the corner.
"This site surrounded by houses in a working class neighbourhood can tell us a lot about a macabre event that is perhaps one of the darkest moments in our history," he said.
"But this is also part of our cultural heritage." yikes. glad i don't live in a time where children are sacrificed to change the weather. --- |
| Topic | The peace talks between the two Koreas is weakening Trump's bargaining position |
dreamvoid
04/28/18 10:37:57 PM
#4 | Kazi1212 posted...Mal_Fet posted...
So basically, denuclearizing North Korea is bad because it makes us less likely to go to war with them.
These guys are trying so hard to turn everything Trump does into a negative that its bordering on the absurd right now. i like how optimist you two are that he will keep his word. --- |
| Topic | The peace talks between the two Koreas is weakening Trump's bargaining position |
dreamvoid
04/28/18 8:10:44 PM
#1 | https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/28/us/politics/trump-north-korea.htmlPresident Trump lost no time hailing the historic nature of Fridays meeting between the leaders of North and South Korea. But the gauzy images and vows of peace by Kim Jong-un and his counterpart from the South, Moon Jae-in, have complicated Mr. Trumps task as he prepares for his own history-making encounter with Mr. Kim.
While the two Korean leaders pledged to rid the heavily armed peninsula of nuclear weapons, they put no timeline on that process, nor did they set out a common definition of what a nuclear-free Korea would look like. Instead, they agreed to pursue a peace treaty this year that would formally end the Korean War after nearly seven decades of hostilities.
The talk of peace is likely to weaken the two levers that Mr. Trump used to pressure Mr. Kim to come to the bargaining table. A resumption of regular diplomatic exchanges between the two Koreas, analysts said, will inevitably erode the crippling economic sanctions against the North, while Mr. Trump will find it hard to threaten military action against a country that is extending an olive branch.
To meet his own definition of success, Mr. Trump will have to persuade Mr. Kim to accept comprehensive, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization of North Korea something that Mr. Kim has shown no willingness to accept in the past, and few believe he will accede to in the future.
This summit has put even greater expectations, greater hype and greater pressure on Trump, said Victor D. Cha, a Korea scholar at Georgetown University who was considered by the Trump administration to be ambassador to Seoul. He hyped this meeting with his tweets, and now the entire focus is going to be on his negotiating prowess.
This is a moment of his own making, Mr. Cha added.
Characteristically, Mr. Trump betrayed no anxiety in recent days as he discussed the challenges of the summit meeting, which is scheduled for late May or early June in a location still to be determined. He took much of the credit for the diplomatic thaw on the Korean Peninsula, and he said he would not commit the mistakes of his predecessors, whom he said had showered the North with money and extracted nothing in return.
The United States has been played beautifully, like a fiddle, because you had a different kind of a leader, Mr. Trump said after meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany at the White House. Were not going to be played, O.K.? Were going to hopefully make a deal; if we dont, thats fine. i'm curious what people here think of this. a lot seem to think that trump is winning with the talks, but this analysis paints a very different picture of trump getting played. --- |
| Topic | 15 people arrested in connection to cheating programs for PUBG |
dreamvoid
04/28/18 7:55:19 PM
#1 | https://www.pcgamer.com/15-arrested-in-connection-with-pubg-cheating-programmes/Fifteen people suspected of developing and selling hacking programs affecting PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds have been arrested and fined a combined total of $5.1m, developer Bluehole has announced.
Writing in a Steam post, Bluehole said that other suspects are still being investigated, and that in the cases of those arrested, cheating programs included malicious code designed to steal user information.
Local authorities working on the case, translated via Bluehole, said: "15 major suspects including 'OMG', 'FL', '', '' and '' were arrested for developing hack programs, hosting marketplaces for hack programs, and brokering transactions. Currently the suspects have been fined approximately 30m RNB ($5.1m USD). Other suspects related to this case are still being investigated.
"Some hack programs that are being distributed through the internet include a Huigezi Trojan horse (Chinese backdoor) virus. It was proven that hack developers used this virus to control users PC, scan their data, and extract information illegally.
I can't find any currency that has the abbreviation RNB, so I presume it's actually supposed to be RMB, the abbreviation for renminbi, which is the official currency of Chinathe conversion is roughly right. It's not clear whether all the arrests were made in one country or not.
"Well continue to crack down on hacking/cheating programs, until our players are free to battle it out in a totally fair environment," Bluehole added. i don't think cheating in a video game is really worth your information or identity. --- |
| Topic | Toxic caterpillars invade London and officials warn of health hazard |
dreamvoid
04/28/18 3:10:37 PM
#1 | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-43930702An outbreak of toxic caterpillars that can cause asthma attacks, vomiting and skin rashes has descended on London, officials have warned.
Oak processionary moths (OPM), which are in their larval stage, have been spotted across the south-east of England and in the capital.
Hairs on the caterpillars can cause fevers and eye and throat irritations, the Forestry Commission said.
The organisation has issued a caution not to touch the species.
The biggest infestations of OPM were recorded in Greater London, stemming from Kingston upon Thames to Brent.
Some infestations were also spotted in Bracknell Forest, Slough and Guildford.
OPM caterpillars were spotted emerging from egg plaques in mid-April, and trees were later treated on 23 April, the Forestry Commission added.
"The treatment programme is expected to continue until late May or early June," a spokesman said.
"After that the caterpillars will be too large to be affected by our preferred treatment product."
'Violently sick'
One gardener was clearing an overgrown allotment unaware that an oak tree above her was infested with OPM.
She said she suffered "severe symptoms" after coming into contact with the species.
"My first symptom was a rash on my tummy. I was unaware of what is was and thought at first it was a heat rash," she said.
"During this time I had spells of feeling violently sick. I thought I might have shingles.
"The rash got worse and the left side of my face became covered in this sore irritating rash. My left eye became very sore and weepy.
"I contacted my doctor and it was confirmed I had been severely affected by OPM and must keep away from the source as over time I had developed a severe allergic reaction." who would have thought that a caterpillar could be dangerous. --- |
| Topic | Yiannopoulos' business implodes after death of crypto-billionaire |
dreamvoid
04/27/18 7:20:51 PM
#4 | i feel bad for the man dying, but i find milo's ever downward spiral funny. --- |
| Topic | Conservative site fires all Trump critics |
dreamvoid
04/27/18 7:18:43 PM
#16 | Antifar posted...I had seen some reactions/jokes about this on Twitter, and just assumed the site had shut down. That would have been preferable. Unfortunately these outlets have a never-ending supply of wealthy backers. i did read in a different article that they would be retooling the website. i think that translates to it becoming yet another trump propaganda machine. --- |
| Topic | Conservative site fires all Trump critics |
dreamvoid
04/27/18 7:04:47 PM
#1 | https://www.thedailybeast.com/conservative-site-redstate-purges-anti-trump-voices-fired-writers-sayThe influential conservative website RedState fired a handful of prominent writers on Friday in a move that appeared motivated, at least in part, by purging the outlet of anti-Trump voices.
The Daily Beast confirmed that among those laid off by RedState and its parent company Townhall Media were top editors and writers Caleb Howe, Jay Caruso, Ben Howe, Patrick Frey (who writes under the pseudonym Patterico), Neil Stevens, and Susan Wrightall of whom are often critical of the president.
Fired staffers learned about their dismissal either through their email accounts being locked or via a memo from Townhall general manager and vice president Jonathan Garthwaite. [W]e are having to make changes to RedState effective today, the memo read. Unfortunately, we have reached the conclusion that we can no longer support the entire current roster of writers.
RedState was founded in 2004, and soon after conservative pundit Erick Erickson was hired as its editor in chief. The site quickly grew into an influential blog among both Republican lawmakers and conservative activists. But the shedding of staffers on Friday marks a new chapter in its history and for some of those let go, it is a reflection of the drift that the conservative movement has taken during the Trump era.
There was a time that Republican politicians were terrified if [RedState] excoriated them from the front page, fired contributor Ben Howe lamented to The Daily Beast. But the modern conservative movement seems to have grown tired of accountability. Liberal tears is the new operating principle. Unless youre causing those tears to flow you arent being a team player. i guess trump critics aren't welcome among conservative media. --- |
| Topic | Online misogynists praised Toronto attack and calls Alek their new saint |
dreamvoid
04/27/18 3:41:13 PM
#1 | https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/after-toronto-attack-online-misogynists-praise-suspect-new-saint-n868821Before allegedly killing 10 people with a van in Toronto, Alek Minassian appeared to have posted a message on Facebook that linked him to a toxic online community of misogynists that has become the source of a growing pattern of violence.
The Facebook post, which authorities who spoke with NBC News believe came from Minassian, links Minassian to an online community known as incels, short for involuntary celibates. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation also reported that Facebook confirmed the authenticity of the post.
Self-described incels congregate mostly online, meeting in forums and message boards like Reddit and 4chan, and its offshoot site 8chan, to discuss their hopelessness with women in posts that are peppered with racist and misogynistic rants. Chads are incel-speak for good-looking men, who incels believe cant be one of them. Stacys are the women who find Chads attractive.
The Facebook message also refers admiringly to Elliot Rodger, who killed six people in Isla Vista, California, in 2014, and left behind a manifesto and videos detailing his sexual frustration as the motivation for his violence.
Rodger has since emerged as a source of inspiration among the incel community.
Private (Recruit) Minassian Infantry 00010, wishing to speak to Sgt 4chan please. C23249161. The Incel Rebellion has already begun! We will overthrow all the Chads and Stacys! All hail the Supreme Gentleman Elliot Rodger! Minassian allegedly posted.
Minassians post spread quickly among the incel community, many of whom rushed to embrace him.
I hope this guy wrote a manifesto because he could be our next new saint, one poster wrote on incel.me, a forum where incels congregate.
While some posters questioned whether Minassian, 25, was a fakecel the term for someone whose average looks disqualifies him from community membership most hailed him as a hero of the movement.
Spread that name, speak of his sacrifice for our cause, worship him for he gave his life for our future, one poster wrote.
Another poster wondered whether Minassian might have been acting on his own March call to action for incels to commit mass murder and serial rapes, a post on incels.me which has since been removed.
I want to see some mass food poisoning deaths, maybe a pipe bomb or two, or hopefully somebody finally uses a f---ing truck to just ram down [women] during a school parade or something, mix it up a little, wrote BlkPillPres, whose username is a nod to the black pill, lingo in the incel community for coming to the realization that a woman will never have sex with them.
Violence perpetrated by men connected to misogynistic online communities has become systemic enough to warrant attention from organizations that track hate groups. The Southern Poverty Law Center added misogynistic organizations to their list of hate groups for the first time this year.
Heidi Beirich, the director of the Southern Poverty Law Centers Intelligence Project, said that the incel community mostly consists of aggrieved young men, who have found a natural home on 4chan and darker parts of Reddit.
Theyre young, frustrated white males in their late teens into their early twenties who are having a hard time adjusting to adulthood. Theyre the same kinds of people you find in white supremacy writ large, Beirich said. They have grievances about the world theyve placed onto women and black people. are incels a cult? it certainly sounds like one. --- |
| Topic | The internet is enabling a community of men who want to kill women |
dreamvoid
04/26/18 7:57:55 PM
#9 | McgeesAlice808 posted...Elliot Rodgers ended up only shooting men though right? no, the men he killed were his roommates. he went to a sorority house to kill everyone there, but no one was home, so he shot random girls in the street. --- |
| Topic | The internet is enabling a community of men who want to kill women |
dreamvoid
04/26/18 7:47:56 PM
#1 | https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/25/17279294/toronto-massacre-minassian-incels-internet-misogynyIn 1989, a man armed with a hunting rifle and a knife entered a Montreal university and systematically killed 14 women, before killing himself. I have decided to send the feminists, who have always ruined my life, to their Maker I have decided to put an end to those viragos, he wrote in his suicide note. One female student shouted during the massacre that she was not a feminist and did not hate men. He murdered her anyway.
Twenty-five years later, a self-proclaimed kissless virgin named Elliot Rodger, who was active in the online incel community and felt rejected by women, drove to a sorority house in Santa Barbara and opened fire, leaving behind a YouTube video where he proclaimed, I dont know why you girls have never been attracted to me, but I will punish you all for it. Its an injustice, a crime. Im a perfect guy.
On April 23rd, a man named Alek Minassian, who posted on Facebook that the the Incel Rebellion has already begun! and All hail the Supreme Gentleman Elliot Rodger, drove a van into crowds of pedestrians in Toronto, killing 10 people.
In the stories of angry Mens Rights Activists and incels men who are involuntarily celibate, and denied their right to sex the women of the world are in control, teasing and taunting and withholding, even as men maintain incredible majorities in nearly every hall of power. A recent New York Times article illustrated just how ludicrous the imbalance of men to women is in management positions in virtually every industry, where women are outnumbered not just by men, but specifically by men with common names like John.
The world is not enough for many of the angriest, most bitter Johns, particularly the ones who felt that they were promised, on the basis of their gender, more of the world than the majority they have inherited. And as women push back against harassment, rape, and the basic dehumanization that accompanies being female, many of their most insulated and privileged opponents have coalesced into an online network. Loosely termed the manosphere, the movement has transformed the unquestionable cultural dominance of men into an identity based on a delusion of oppression, and even as they whine inconsolably about the identity politics they claim are ruining their lives.
Some of them kill us. Even more of them say they want to. Both in the most pedestrian of ways, through the casual and regular practice of domestic violence, or simply by assaulting or murdering any woman who does not immediately acquiesce to their sexual demands. More recently, the festering online wound of the incel community has begun to express itself in the form of mass murder. Online platforms have long been more concerned with free speech than the literal lives of women, and the vicious, lethal misogyny of incels has flourished in these spaces accordingly. Misogyny is water, and we are all swimming. the article isn't wrong, to be honest, but there isn't much that can be done about it. they can just create their own websites after being run off of the mainstream like reddit or go to places with already volatile users like 4chan. --- |
| Topic | As someone who is not a conservative, there's something hot about a girl who is |
dreamvoid
04/26/18 7:31:29 PM
#21 | 0AbsoluteZero0 posted...As someone who is not a conservative
Why do so many of you guys try to pull this crap? You, Addy, Mal, the list goes on... you guys arent fooling anyone lol
they're ashamed of it, i guess. it is pretty funny when someone whose majority of opinions align with conservatives and they claim not to be one. --- |
| Topic | Omg lol |
dreamvoid
04/26/18 7:21:03 PM
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| Topic | Group of men known as 'wolf pack' acquitted of rape even though they recorded it |
dreamvoid
04/26/18 7:00:44 PM
#1 | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43896880A Spanish court has jailed five men for sexually abusing a young woman during the famous San Fermin bull-running festival but acquitted them of rape.
All five were sentenced to nine years in prison for their part in the attack, which they filmed, during the festival in Pamplona in July 2016.
The 18-year-old victim's ordeal caused a national outcry, and protests continued outside the court.
Both the woman and the defendants say they will appeal against the verdict.
"It's rape, not abuse," demonstrators said outside the court. Rallies have been called in Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Alicante and more than a dozen other cities across Spain against the verdict and in support of the victim.
The five, in their late 20s and originally from Seville, and the victim, from Madrid, were not present when the judgement was read out after a five-month trial, which was held behind closed doors to protect the woman's identity.
Under Spanish law, the charge of sexual abuse differs from rape in that it does not involve violence or intimidation.
But senior politicians and human rights groups questioned whether a prolonged sexual assault involving intercourse by five men could be anything but intimidation or rape.
The men, who have been in custody since 2016, have also been ordered to pay the woman 50,000 ($61,000; 43,500) in compensation.
Prosecutors had asked for sentences of more than 20 years.
However, one judge had argued that the men should have been acquitted of all charges except stealing the victim's phone.
Videos of the late-night encounter between the men and the young woman showed how the five men had wandered the streets among other drunken revellers before two of them led her into a basement by the hand.
According to a police report, the men - who belonged to a WhatsApp group called La manada (wolf pack) - surrounded the woman in a small alcove, removed her clothes and had unprotected sex.
According to the police report, the victim maintained a "passive or neutral" attitude throughout the scene, keeping her eyes closed at all times. Her phone was then stolen.
Some of them filmed the sexual act on their phones - there were seven videos, totalling 96 seconds. One of the men posted messages in a WhatsApp group celebrating what they had done and promising to share the recording.
She was found in a reportedly distraught state by a couple in the street outside the scene of the attack. She told the trial she was still having psychological treatment to deal with trauma.
Some of the men were found to be in a video in which they apparently abused another woman, who seemed to be unconscious. seriously, spain? they record the actual rape but it's not rape? --- |
| Topic | Study shows Trump voters feared loss of status and not economic anxiety |
dreamvoid
04/25/18 9:18:22 PM
#24 | Spooking posted...It appears they are still throwing out wacky theories on why Trump voters voted the way they did. Remember the others being that they were sexist, or racist, or whatever else they were trying to throw at the wall to see what sticks. When the most obvious answer is and always was...
FLUFFYGERM posted...
dreamvoid posted...
In both years, participants were asked the same wide-ranging set of questions. Party loyalty overwhelmingly explained how most people voted
Ta-da! but Dr. Mutzs statistical analysis focused on those who bucked the trend, switching their support to the Republican candidate, Mr. Trump, in 2016. you guys should really learn to finish your sentences. --- |
| Topic | Study shows Trump voters feared loss of status and not economic anxiety |
dreamvoid
04/25/18 8:52:05 PM
#1 | https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/24/us/politics/trump-economic-anxiety.htmlA study published on Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences questions that explanation, the latest to suggest that Trump voters werent driven by anger over the past, but rather fear of what may come. White, Christian and male voters, the study suggests, turned to Mr. Trump because they felt their status was at risk.
Its much more of a symbolic threat that people feel, said Diana C. Mutz, the author of the study and a political science and communications professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where she directs the Institute for the Study of Citizens and Politics. Its not a threat to their own economic well-being; its a threat to their groups dominance in our country over all.
The study is not the first to cast doubt on the prevailing economic anxiety theory. Last year, a Public Religion Research Institute survey of more than 3,000 people also found that Mr. Trumps appeal could better be explained by a fear of cultural displacement.
In her study, Dr. Mutz sought to answer two questions: Is there evidence to support the economic anxiety argument, and did the fear of losing social dominance drive some voters to Mr. Trump? To find answers, she analyzed survey data from a nationally representative group of about 1,200 voters polled in 2012 and 2016.
In both years, participants were asked the same wide-ranging set of questions. Party loyalty overwhelmingly explained how most people voted, but Dr. Mutzs statistical analysis focused on those who bucked the trend, switching their support to the Republican candidate, Mr. Trump, in 2016.
Even before conducting her analysis, Dr. Mutz noted two reasons for skepticism of the economic anxiety, or left behind, theory. First, the economy was improving before the 2016 presidential campaign. Second, while research has suggested that voters are swayed by the economy, there is little evidence that their own financial situation similarly influences their choices at the ballot box.
The analysis offered even more reason for doubt.
Losing a job or income between 2012 and 2016 did not make a person any more likely to support Mr. Trump, Dr. Mutz found. Neither did the mere perception that ones financial situation had worsened. A persons opinion on how trade affected personal finances had little bearing on political preferences. Neither did unemployment or the density of manufacturing jobs in ones area.
While economic anxiety did not explain Mr. Trumps appeal, Dr. Mutz found reason instead to credit those whose thinking changed in ways that reflected a growing sense of racial or global threat. it makes sense. i often see people that approve of trump speaking on the fear of becoming a minority or a country that is majority white no longer being majority white. --- |
| Topic | Women of Japan speak out about pervasive sexual harassment and misogyny |
dreamvoid
04/25/18 8:09:08 PM
#9 | CensorErik posted...Heineken14 posted...
Solar_Crimson posted...
And the alt-right will complain about feminism "infesting" their holy land Japan.
Oh definitely. You almost always see alt-righters with the weird ass anime avatars. This will enrage them! lol
Tell them they can continue to harass their 2D waifus at home. those poor body pillows. --- |
| Topic | Does anyone else not care about police brutality if the suspect is in the wrong? |
dreamvoid
04/25/18 7:52:59 PM
#8 | police brutality is never justified. --- |
| Topic | Woman who campaigns against the deportation of migrants from Sweden was raped |
dreamvoid
04/25/18 7:33:15 PM
#40 | Pepys Monster posted...Doom_Art posted...
Solar_Crimson posted...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/76550705
The users there are saying that this is false.
Are you suggesting people would fall for a made up story created to make migrants look evil
Because let's be real no one would ever fall for that /s
Imagine believing some guys on GameFAQs over a news article. imagine calling dailymail news. --- |
| Topic | Looks like Kim Kim Kardashian is joining team Trump |
dreamvoid
04/25/18 7:26:56 PM
#7 | she's trashy. he's trashy. it makes sense. --- |
| Topic | Why does Reddit pretend like anti-vaccers are a serious thing |
dreamvoid
04/25/18 7:02:06 PM
#24 | maybe because they are a serious thing or were you not aware that our president is an anti-vaxxer? --- |
| Topic | Cops are called on black women because they were golfing too slowly. |
dreamvoid
04/25/18 6:58:31 PM
#83 | why are people still arguing when everyone involved admitted the black women are right? --- |
| Topic | Women of Japan speak out about pervasive sexual harassment and misogyny |
dreamvoid
04/25/18 6:49:28 PM
#1 | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-43721227In the space of a fortnight in Japan, a model accused a renowned photographer of exploitation and two top officials resigned over sex scandals. This has re-ignited the #MeToo debate in a country which has been reluctant to acknowledge it as a hard reality for women, as the BBC's Sakiko Shiraishi reports.
In Japan, where the spectre of public censure looms large, it is unsurprising that women are often discouraged from speaking out. A US state department human rights report notes that sexual harassment in the workplace remains "widespread".
But in the space of just a few weeks a spate of allegations has led to public figures being shamed, top officials resigning and also a backlash against the women behind the claims.
By far the biggest scalp claimed was that of Junichi Fukuda, the top bureaucrat in Japan's finance ministry who is accused of sexually harassing a female journalist by making suggestive comments to her. Mr Fukuda resigned last week but denies the allegations and has said he will sue the magazine that made the revelations for defamation.
Following his resignation, TV Asahi said one of its reporters had been the victim of harassment by Mr Fukuda and said it would lodge a protest with the finance ministry.
Suffering in silence
But perhaps most interesting is how all the institutions involved responded.
The finance ministry called on female reporters to step forward to co-operate with fact-finding, a gesture widely criticised, including by Seiko Noda, Japan's minister in charge of female empowerment, as tantamount to pressuring victims to stand up in front of those who allegedly harassed them.
Most telling is how the female reporter's own employer responded to her allegations. Hiroshi Shinozuka, the head of TV Asahi's network news division, explained she had taken her story to the magazine after being advised against reporting it.
"We are doing some deep soul-searching as regards our inability to respond appropriately despite receiving information that one of our employees had been sexually harassed," said Mr Shinozuka, who said the main concern was her emotional state.
Before Mr Fukuda's resignation, Japan's Newspaper Workers' Union issued a blistering statement.
"Female reporters have had to suffer silently, despite being subjected to humiliating and mortifying treatment When a reporter accuses an interviewee of sexual harassment, the media company must respond immediately and adamantly to protect the human rights of the reporter as well as protect the safety of their working environment."
But the reporter has also seen a significant backlash on social media, from politicians and even celebrities. Many chose to critique the reporter for handing in the recorded interview to the magazine. Hirofumi Shimomura, a former culture minister, said he considered that "a crime in a sense" but later apologised for that comment.
Kazuko Ito, a lawyer vocal about the MeToo movement in Japan, said Japan's law against sexual exploitation is way behind other developed countries. Sex crime laws were amended last June after 110 years but for her the problem runs much deeper.
"Lack of legal protection, combined with cultural pressure to accept and bear one's hardship, make young women vulnerable.
"Japanese people are taught not to say NO," she added, saying that it is almost as if people are hardwired not to refuse unfair demands.
"What they need is solidarity across industries and societies. That will encourage more people to speak up." good. japan has a severe problem with how it treats women and the fact women are expected to just be silent is repugnant. --- |
| Topic | Man charged with hate crime had list titled "Killing My First Jew" |
dreamvoid
04/22/18 3:49:52 PM
#1 | http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2018/04/19/irvine-man-charged-with-anti-semitic-hate-crimes-after-being-turned-in-by-family-member/An Irvine man is charged with hate crimes for threatening to kill Jewish people and possessing anti-Semitic literature and ammunition.
Nicholas Rose, 26, was charged in court Thursday with attempted criminal threats, violation of civil rights and the sentencing enhancement of a hate crime, which carries a 6-year, 6-month sentence.
Officials say a Rose family member tipped them off to his potential violence.
Officials said on or about April 16, 2018 Rose told a family member that he wanted to kill people while making threats against Jewish people.
The family member contacted the Orange Police Department.
The police investigated. They went to the Irvine home where Rose an ESL teacher rents a room. They accuse Rose of being in possession of .22 ammunition, anti-Semitic literature, kill lists of prominent Jews in the community and entertainment industry, a list of steps he allegedly called Killing My First Jew.
Officials said Rose also possessed papers referencing at least one church and one synagogue in Lake Forest, less than five miles from where he was living.
CBS2s Stacey Butler reports Rose was also targeting a Russian Orthodox church as well as a Greek Orthodox church believing they were sympathetic to the Jewish cause.
He was arrested at the scene.
Investigators are checking Roses computer to see if he is a member of a hate group. it's a good thing that the family member took him seriously and informed the police. --- |
| Topic | Does anyone else like Little Nicky? |
dreamvoid
04/21/18 6:20:03 PM
#5 | it was the first glimpse into how terrible an adam sandler movie could be. --- |
| Topic | Stupid frat boys are EXPELLED after racist and homophobic video gets leaked |
dreamvoid
04/21/18 6:15:25 PM
#28 | they should be punished individually as well. it's repugnant that they would participate in something so vile. --- |
| Topic | Trump to roll back rule that prevents discrimination against transgenders |
dreamvoid
04/21/18 6:06:54 PM
#1 | 80/80 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/21/us/politics/trump-transgender-health-care.htmlThe Trump administration says it plans to roll back a rule issued by President Barack Obama that prevents doctors, hospitals and health insurance companies from discriminating against transgender people.
Advocates said the change could jeopardize the significant gains that transgender people have seen in access to medical care, including gender reassignment procedures treatments for which many insurers denied coverage in the past.
The rule was adopted in 2016 to carry out a major civil rights law embedded in the Affordable Care Act. The law prohibits discrimination based on race, color, national origin, sex, age or disability in any health program or activity that receives federal financial assistance.
The Obama administration said the rule covered almost all practicing physicians in the United States because they accept some form of federal remuneration or reimbursement. It applies, for example, to hospitals that accept Medicare and doctors who receive Medicaid payments, as well as to insurers that participate in health insurance marketplaces.
Trump administration officials said they believed they had to modify the rule because a federal judge in Texas had found that parts of it were unlawful.
The Department of Health and Human Services has submitted a draft of a proposed rule to the White House for clearance, the Justice Department told the judge this past week. And the White House confirmed that it was reviewing the proposed rule on nondiscrimination in health programs.
The Trump administration has been scaling back protections for transgender people on several fronts. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, reversing an Obama administration policy, said the main federal job discrimination law does not encompass discrimination based on gender identity per se.
Mr. Trumps effort to bar transgender people from serving in the military is tied up in several federal courts. The Education Department has rescinded Obama administration guidelines on how schools should accommodate transgender students.
The existing health care rule adopted two years ago says that sex discrimination clearly forbidden by the Affordable Care Act includes discrimination based on gender identity and stereotypical notions about how men or women should present themselves or behave.
Under the existing rule, health insurers cannot place arbitrary limits or restrictions on health services that help a person transition from one gender to another. These services may include counseling, psychotherapy, hormone therapy and a variety of surgical treatments.
In the past, many insurers, as they denied coverage for such treatments, cited what they called the cosmetic or experimental nature of the procedures. The Obama administration said that view was outdated and not based on current standards of care. maybe he should hold up another rainbow flag to prove how pro lgbt he is. --- |
| Topic | Boy calls 911 after being pinned and dies because cops didn't search for him |
dreamvoid
04/21/18 3:26:12 PM
#1 | https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/kyle-plush-death-bodycam-footage-ohio-cincinatti-edsel-osborne-brian-brazile-a8315681.htmlNewly released footage appears to show Ohio police officers, sent to look for a trapped and dying teenager, did not get out of their patrol car and terminated the search after around three minutes.
Kyle Plush, 16, from Ohio had made desperate 911 calls for help after becoming stuck in the back of the Honda Odyssey minivan.
He was later found dead by his father after police failed to find him.
Despite police reports claiming they were on the scene for 11 minutes, bodycam footage shows officers driving around the car park for around three minutes before claiming they can't find anything, and getting set to leave.
At one point a police officer is heard saying I dont see nobody, which I didnt imagine I would.
Just over a minute later, not having found Kyle, he says Im gonna shut this off, as music appears to play in the background.
US media report that the footage comes from the body cameras of Cincinnati officers Edsel Osborne and Brian Brazile.
Kyle had become trapped in the back of his van after leaning over the back seat to try and retrieve tennis equipment.
The back seat reportedly flipped up and trapped him, compressing his chest and making it difficult for him to breathe. what a horrible outcome. they didn't even bother to search the car. --- |
| Topic | Liberal politicians should live with the refugees we take in for 5 years |
dreamvoid
04/19/18 6:14:04 PM
#9 | lilORANG posted...Republicans should adopt the babies of women who wanted abortions but couldn't get one. --- |
| Topic | wow, Jordan Peele does a really good Obama impression |
dreamvoid
04/19/18 5:40:14 PM
#3 | i loved his sketches on key and peele where peele played sensible obama and key played angry obama. --- |
| Topic | Fraternity suspended for oath "Fuck black people, jews, and hispanics" |
dreamvoid
04/19/18 5:00:30 PM
#1 | 80/80 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/04/19/syracuse-suspends-engineering-fraternity-for-racist-anti-semitic-homophobic-video/Do you know what you signed up for today? a fraternity member says in the video as he stands in front of a young man kneeling on the floor.
The young man on his knees then proceeds to make sexually explicit gestures as laughter erupts around him. Asked to recite the oath, he says: f black people and uses a racial slur to describe a person of Hispanic descent.
I solemnly swear, he says, repeating after the standing fraternity member, to always have hatred in my heart for He then says several racial slurs to describe African Americans, Hispanics and Jews.
The six-minute video was originally posted on a secret Facebook group associated with Theta Tau, an engineering fraternity at Syracuse University, according to the Daily Orange, the student newspaper, which made the video public on Wednesday.
Earlier that day, the Syracuse chapter of Theta Tau was suspended after university officials learned of extremely troubling and disturbing conduct at the fraternity, Kent Syverud, chancellor and president of Syracuse University, said in an email to students.
Multiple videos captured at the fraternity include words and behaviors that are extremely racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic, sexist, and hostile to people with disabilities, Syverud said. I am appalled and shaken by this and deeply concerned for all members of our community.
In one of the videos, a fraternity member yells at other members to get in the fin showers, a reference to Nazis gas chambers. In other recordings, according to the Daily Orange, students can be heard mocking women, gay people and people with disabilities. All the while, several other students watch and laugh.
The universitys Department of Public Safety has begun an investigation to identify the people involved, and to take additional legal and disciplinary action, Syverud said. i wasn't aware that fraternities were being used as recruiting tools for hate groups. --- |
| Topic | Trump bombed Syria to validate his tweets according to officials |
dreamvoid
04/19/18 12:27:12 AM
#15 | voldothegr8 posted...Yes I'm sure France and UK willingly joined forces to validate Trumps tweets. they likely believed it was the right thing to do and wanted to do in the first place. it probably doesn't even matter to them why trump did it. --- |
| Topic | Trump bombed Syria to validate his tweets according to officials |
dreamvoid
04/19/18 12:12:33 AM
#10 | you seem confused so i'll lay it out for you in simple terms. trump bombed syria as a show to validate his tweets. his advisors, specifically mattis, convinced him to choose a conservative estimate. i hope that helps you to understand. --- |
| Topic | Trump bombed Syria to validate his tweets according to officials |
dreamvoid
04/18/18 11:59:18 PM
#7 | the article explains exactly why the conservative estimate was chosen. mattis convinced him as he knew why trump wanted to do it and wanted as little collateral damage as possible. without mattis, it would have undoubtedly been a far more risky. Just days before the alleged chemical weapons attack in Douma, Trump had called for an immediate withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Syria. At that point, Assad was already (allegedly) using chemical weapons on a routine basis. No significant facts on the ground changed between when the president wanted to remove every last American soldier from Syria, and when he wanted to escalate U.S. intervention against Assad. What did change were Fox News programming decisions.
Unlike Assads typical war crimes, the alleged chemical weapons attack in Douma produced dead bodies that werent too mutilated to be aired extensively on American cable news channels. Trump reportedly saw those images and felt moved to assert American power. He then, ostensibly, saw a Fox & Friends segment in which Russia was portrayed as challenging his authority to assert that power. He tweeted a rebuke. And thus, America went to war.
Thanks to James Mattis, the bombings proved to be quite limited mere show strikes designed to send a message without sparking a wider war. Had Trump picked a slightly less risk-averse hawk as his Defense secretary, however, its quite possible that his tweet would have been the trigger for a direct confrontation with Russia and Iran: As the Times reports, neoconservative members of the Republican foreign policy establishment have started to air concerns that Mr. Mattis is ceding strategic territory to Iran and Russia in Syria.
As it happened, Trumps strikes proved sufficiently innocuous for liberal foreign policy wonks to feel comfortable endorsing them even as they acknowledged the campaigns illegality and strategic incoherence. --- |
| Topic | Trump bombed Syria to validate his tweets according to officials |
dreamvoid
04/18/18 11:38:45 PM
#5 | whitelytning posted...Trump is a shit person and terrible president but there clearly was a strategy and what is an arguable legal authorization. The opinion in that article seems shitty. i don't really see the strategy in a bombing that accomplished absolutely nothing. it was clearly for show, though i doubt people thought it was to back up his tweets. --- |
| Topic | Trump bombed Syria to validate his tweets according to officials |
dreamvoid
04/18/18 11:31:20 PM
#1 | http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/04/the-u-s-bombed-syria-last-week-to-validate-trumps-tweets.htmlLast week, the United States launched an act of war against a sovereign government because failing to do so would have cast doubt on the credibility of the statements that Donald Trump makes while livetweeting Fox & Friends.
That may sound like hyperbolic snark, or the premise of an Andy Borowitz column, but it is a plain description of the rationale behind last Fridays missile strikes in Syria, according to multiple military and administration officials.
Last Tuesday amid reports that the U.S. was considering a strike against the Assad regime, in response to an alleged chemical weapons attack against civilians in Douma Russias ambassador to Lebanon Alexander Zasypkin warned that if there is a US missile attack, we will shoot down U.S. rockets and even the sources that launched the missiles.
The Fox & Friends morning crew took exception to this bluster, with one host arguing, What we should be doing is telling the Russians, Every Syrian military base is a target and if youre there, it is your problem.
Minutes later, one of the programs most dedicated viewers echoed that belligerent note.
The White House had reached no final decision about whether to strike Syria let alone, whether to target Russian assets within it when the president tweeted this pledge. Over the ensuing days, Defense Secretary James Mattis implored Trump to hold off on bombing the Assad regime until its responsibility for the Douma attack could be fully verified, and Congress could be given a chance to authorize the act of war.
But the president couldnt abide a delay. In his view, it was better to bomb Syria without a strategy or legal authorization than to invite doubts about the credibility of the threats he makes on social media. As the New York Times reports: this is where we're at folks. the us president is bombing a country to save face on social media. --- |
| Topic | Did Trump reference white genocide in a recent tweet? |
dreamvoid
04/18/18 11:23:56 PM
#11 | Milkman5 posted...ASithLord7 posted...
I mean it's not really his fault for interpreting it that way when your idol is a f***ing illiterate racist.
when you write a list, the first part can be left out.
I like to bike, skate and run.
Implies "I like to bike, I like to skate, and I like to run." hey now, don't get upset because trump is terrible at being coherent. --- |
| Topic | Did Trump reference white genocide in a recent tweet? |
dreamvoid
04/18/18 11:18:41 PM
#5 | ASithLord7 posted...He meant "crime-infested and crime-breeding concept"
I was a bit weirded out by it at first too. he really should have someone proofread his tweets before sending them out. --- |
| Topic | Did Trump reference white genocide in a recent tweet? |
dreamvoid
04/18/18 11:15:31 PM
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| Topic | "Racism will go away if people just ignored it." |
dreamvoid
04/18/18 12:21:23 AM
#5 | i'm sure slavery and jim crow would have went away if we just ignored it, right? --- |
| Topic | It is sad how Epic Rap Battles of History became SJW |
dreamvoid
04/18/18 12:04:56 AM
#7 | the bottom one has better lines and beat. --- |
| Topic | Gygax's family to turn unpublished Dungeons and Dragons work into video games |
dreamvoid
04/17/18 10:40:31 PM
#1 | https://www.polygon.com/2018/4/17/17246766/dnd-dungeons-dragons-gary-gygax-games-unpublished-work-figIts been 10 years since the death of Gary Gygax, the man who co-created Dungeons & Dragons. Now, Gygaxs family, through the auspices of the Gygax Trust, wants to bring his unpublished works to life as video games.
The Trust announced today that it has partnered with crowdfunding and investment website Fig. Together, they will begin a global search for the right developers to carry the legacy of Gary Gygax forward.
To accomplish their goal, the Gygax Trust has rejuvenated Gygax Games and installed Garys youngest son, Alex Gygax, as the CEO.
I was gaming since I could walk and talk, said Alex, who was raised in the family home in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. My first D&D adventure Id say was when I was four or five years old, running a solo campaign with my father on his work breaks. So I was playing D&D before I knew what any of that was.
Alex told Polygon that at an early age he played an instrumental role in playtesting another creation of Garys, a tabletop role-playing game called Lejendary Adventure, which was licensed for a time to Troll Lord Games. The game is now out of print. i was never a fan of dnd, but i know others here are. i'd be interested to see how the video games turn out since i enjoy western rpgs. --- |
| Topic | Supreme court divided over online sales tax |
dreamvoid
04/17/18 10:29:51 PM
#5 | Tyranthraxus posted...dreamvoid posted...
if they overrule it, then every state will have online sales tax. no more pretending you live in another state to avoid it.
No, however, there are lots of people from Oregon ordering things to be delivered to Florida addresses now. Can't figure out why. i was actually thinking of nintendo's system. a lot of people claim to live in another state, because that's all it takes to avoid sales tax on digital downloads with them. this would make it no longer possible. --- |
| Topic | Fox News thinks they're not part of the mainstream media |
dreamvoid
04/17/18 10:27:19 PM
#17 | Polycosm posted...I think of Fox as more of a state-sponsored propaganda outlet. Not that they're mutually exclusive... Fox does still reach a massive audience and is hugely influential, which makes it "mainstream" by the traditional definition of the term. all of this. --- |
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