Excellent.
The closest Americanism is to call someone a “dickhead”. I personally love how the word “bellend” rolls of the tongue though.
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My Xian neighbor came over to talk to me the other day. She is evangelical. She started in on me about Syria and the Xians suffering there.
I asked her about the concentration camps on the southern border of this country that was full of Xians and flat out her response quicker that lightening was “oh, that’s fake news.”
This is how the Germans did it, I suppose ?
edit: on the flip side she does bring me cookies
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Yeah, but the fact is I’d prefer she kept writing because I like her books.
Cat Valente is also a hardcore Eurovision fan (viz. her second-most-recent novel, Space Opera)
It’s precisely how the Germans did it.
Lugenpresse.
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Slightly OT, but any ideas on how one can view what people are saying on Nextdoor without having to sign up?
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That sounds like a yogurt brand.
I had never even heard of Nextdoor before, but it sounds pretty awful – like 4chan for busybody neighbors.
(ETA: I just decided to sign up – after stepping through an arduous sign-in process with it trying to slurp up all my contacts and giving me about 10 screens asking me to spam people, I got signed in. The first thing it did was post to my neighborhood’s board with my full name and address. I basically deactivated my account immediately afterward. Fuck that shit.
ETA2: Oh, and it gets worse. To delete (versus deactivate) my account I have to contact a person through a form – which leads me back to the same page as before with instructions on how to deactivate. They clearly want to make it as difficult as possible to get your account purged.
ETA3: Finally found the “delete my account” request form. We’ll see how long it takes for them to actually delete it. I had to put in a ton of information to get the form to submit because apparently just wanting to delete my account isn’t a good enough reason.)
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It depends on the neighbourhood; mine is almost entirely lost & found dogs or people offering amateur handyman services.
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Recall that the Nazis justified their invasion of Poland on the grounds that German-speaking Poles were being oppressed. It was a “humanitarian intervention”.
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It’s precisely how the Germans did it.
Lügenpresse has röck döts.
Perhaps, in the spirit of the original article, some kind souls will share this.
Turbulent Summer in Greece
What is “NextDoor?”
Yikes, thanks for taking one for the team.
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Christ, what a bunch of assholes.
Just for kicks, I tried a quick WHOIS query on them:
Registrant Name: On behalf of nextdoor.com owner
Registrant Organization: Whois Privacy Service
Registrant Street: P.O. Box 81226
Registrant City: Seattle
Registrant State/Province: WA
Registrant Postal Code: 98108-1226
Registrant Country: US
Registrant Phone: +1.2065771368
Registrant Phone Ext:
Registrant Fax:
Registrant Fax Ext:
Registrant Email: owner-7281389@nextdoor.com.whoisprivacyservice.org
When a business hides behind an anonymous domain registration, that’s an enormous, extremely red flag.
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I kinda wish she had said “large number”, because that is more accurate; 530,000 is a lot but only 3% of veterans. Even if we include the children of immigrants, which is not what she said, 2.4 million is a large number, but only 13 percent of veterans, which is not what anyone would call “massive”. Her point is valid but I would call it “probably more than people think”.
Also worth noting is that the immigrant group has 20% of medal of honor recipients.
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They deleted my account. Only took 24 hours.
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I believe it’s a local neighbourhood chatgroup - her reference to it here isn’t because it’s a fascist chatroom or similar, but because it pins down the racists as local residents - her neighbours. NextDoor claims to only allow registrants who live in your neighbourhood.
Most NextDoors are about lost cats and people speeding in the middle of the night - “local concerns for local people”. Some African asylum seekers have arrived in or near Catheryne’s neighbourhood and her fellow residents have basically gone full black-shirt. NextDoor is just where they’re talking about it.
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