worth reading til the end.
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Get a load of the kekistan flag in the background of this shot:
Dear internet shitlords: if your âironyâ is so indistinguishable from genuine espousal that the group youâre âironicallyâ paying homage to adopts your symbols, youâre not actually being ironic.
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Itâs a global and viral situation.
There was a âStraight Lives Matterâ rally in Sydney last week. Plus an antifa turnout in response. The Australian right are now trying to manufacture their own Kaepernick controversy out of thin air.
Homophobic violence is going through the roof, and the Australian left and right are radicalising at a ferocious rate.
Take them all seriously. There ainât no such thing as a âjust for funâ fascist.
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People with profile are beginning to catch onâŚ
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#2 is the shakiest point and is listed too prominently on that list. Almost all sources of news are anonymous. That is an excellent list though, click those links!
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Itâs true that sources are often anonymous. That doesnât mean that the advice not to trust anonymous sources is not good advice.
Iâd also say it sits at about the right place in the list.
The list starts with warnings about what not to do (points 1-3) (interspersed with pop-culture-friendly semi-joking advice).
Then it provides advice on how to try to check the information being presented (points 5-7) before reiterating the advice about not blindly trusting the information presented (point 8) and warning against making it worse yourself (point 9).
So - classic drafting order. First set up what the problem is, then explain what to do about it, then summarise your points and finish with a call to action - in this case a negative one.
Not trusting anonymous sources is good advice and needs to appear early because it really sets up everything else. If the source is anonymous, you pretty much canât check it.
Nor can you be sure that you are actually comparing multiple sources - they might all be quoting the same source.
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Iâm pretty sure this one is an entire Trump Bingo card all in one. A âHole in oneâ if you willâŚ
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I already posted this in the âResisting Propagandaâ thread, but it needs more exposure.
Essential reading.
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FTRUMPK
âA Virginia man has lost an appeal to keep his personalized license plate which reads âFTRU MPKâ because it appears to contain an obscene message about President Donald Trump.â
âNow, DMV Commissioner Richard Holcomb has issued a four-page ruling, dissecting the argument over the meaning of the personalized plate.â
âYou asserted that the âFâ and âKâ when read together meant âflunk,â the grade that you as a former teacher give Donald Trump as President of the United States,â Holcomb wrote.
"However, Holcomb described in several paragraphs that he believed the âFâ and âKâ stand for a word other than âflunk.â
OMFG
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The United States today voted ânoâ on an international resolution by the UN to condemn the use of the death penalty to punish homosexuality.
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I had to keep checking the address bar to make sure I wasnât reading The Onion.
Notable lines (emphasis mine):
âEvery death is a horror, but if you look at a real catastrophe like Katrina, and you look at the tremendous â hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people that died, and you look at what happened here, with really a storm that was just totally overpowering, nobodyâs ever seen anything like this,â Trump said, before turning to a local official to ask how many people had died in storm. âWhat is your death count as of this moment? 17? 16 people certified, 16 people versus in the thousands.â
He took a walking tour of Guaynabo, a municipality south of San Juan, stopping to pose for photos with locals and chat about the hurricane and basketball. As he finished talking with one family, he told them: âHave a good time.â
Trump stood behind a table filled with relief supplies, including flashlights, rice and paper towels. At one point, he started tossing rolls of paper towels into the crowd as if they were basketballs.
âAnd in Texas and in Florida, we get an A-plus. And Iâll tell you what, I think weâve done just as good in Puerto Rico, and itâs actually a much tougher situation. But now the roads are cleared, communications is starting to come back. We need their truck drivers to start driving trucks.â
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Again, where is that fucking meteor?!!!
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I keep wondering about that more and more, as this nonsense continues to go on unabated.
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What the fuck is up with disaster and Trump playing in / having trucks on the brain? This is, I swear, the 4th or 5th time thatâs happened.
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Next time they let him play with one at the White House, they should just leave the parking brake off. Iâm sure heâd be happier.
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When I heard NPR run this quote earlier today, my head snapped around towards the radio as I straight up yelled, with my arms wide open, âARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?â.
Fucking stroke out already, you fucking demented, amoral, bloviating, twit rocket fuck.
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San Juan Mayor Carmen YulĂn Cruz, who has been deeply critical of the governmentâs relief efforts and whom Trump has criticized on Twitter, also joined Trump for his first briefing on the island.
Okay, I was wrong. Unless⌠Was she in one of those plexiglass boxes for difficult defendants in criminal cases, with a switchable mic?
