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[milliefink]

What to do with Confederate statues?

Some of us actually want to study and better understand the past. The “folklore” your talking about were carefully calculated lies meant to bolster white supremacy. The Lost Cause mythology wasn’t built in folkways, generally, it was built by powerful people and it was meant to hide the truth of the civil war and its cause. Period. And hiding that by celebrating the confederacy only makes us smaller and more ignorant. That is very reductive, and I suspect you know that. The people you accus…

[Wanderfound]

This guy had a stroke after white supremacists doused him in torch fuel and struck him in the neck with torches

That’s what it is, regardless of any pixels you might see.

[Mindysan33]

[milliefink]

Christopher Cantwell - that NAZI in the VICE article - is crying like a little kid in this video

I went a head and edited the title. I am not going to get into its acceptability/unacceptability of its use, but I decided I didn’t want to lower myself. Thanks.

[One_Brown_Mouse]

You Can Look Directly At This Totaled Eclipse

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[davide405]

Total Eclipse of the Pug

Turnaround, every now and then I get a little bit lonely And your tail is tight and curly Turnaround, every now and then I get a little bit tired Of listening to the sound of you snore Turnaround, every now and then I get a little bit nervous That the best of clothes still have fur Turnaround, every now and then I get a little bit terrified And then I see the look in your eyes Turnaround bug eyes, but every now and then I fall apart Turnaround bug eyes, every now and then I fall apart …

[One_Brown_Mouse]

Total Eclipse of the Pug

Turnaround, every now and then I get a little bit lonely And your tail is tight and curly Turnaround, every now and then I get a little bit tired Of listening to the sound of you snore Turnaround, every now and then I get a little bit nervous That the best of clothes still have fur Turnaround, every now and then I get a little bit terrified And then I see the look in your eyes Turnaround bug eyes, but every now and then I fall apart Turnaround bug eyes, every now and then I fall apart …

SRSLY GYZ

[Kimmo]

Trump pardons Joe Arpaio

I don’t know, it might make an interesting test case to see how far the presidential pardon goes. Arpaio violated an injunction against continued unconstitutional detentions. IF a president can give pardons for that, it means that constitutional rights are essentially unenforceable, if government actors can violate them with no repercussions. Just a thought, I have no idea if the ACLU or anybody else has this teed up… Edited to add: I see there is an article up at NYT about this very subject. …

[Wanderfound]

In swiftly-deleted posting, GOP links Legend of Zelda to progressive taxation

So much of American political language is controlled by the right wing. They want you to call them conservative because there is credibility in that name, yet they are far closer to Dark Enlightenment ideas. The scary thing for me is that if we continue to refer to reactionaries as conservative then the Dark enlightenment may also gain credibility, and looking at the far right marches I’d say they already have too much of that. The American political system is way out of alignment, the US O…

[Magdalene]

Evolutionary psychologists are very butthurt about the new Scientific American

maybe this is part of why the alt-right is so uptight. in no way does talking about the patriarchy mean “men are bad and evil.” nor does talking about “white supremacy” mean that “white people are bad and evil.” nor does “privilege” mean “people with more economic and social and political connections are evil.” it’s talking about the system. and yes, it’s appropriate to talk negatively about patriarchy. “patriarchy”, “white supremacy”, and “privilege” are about continuing artificial construct…

[davide405]

Steven King's "It" hurting the clown business

There are good clowns on both sides of this. No clown has ever been treated so unfairly. Poor Pennywise. SAD!

[davide405]

Watch: Aggressive cop pulls gun on motorcyclist and bullies him for no good reason

I get the feeling you and I have gone camping together. If so, I’m sorry.

[TobinL]

https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/bread-storage-alignment-chart/106967/50?u=tobinl

[Nightflyer]

A pacifist minister reflects on the antifa who protected protesters from Charlottesville's armed Nazis

I love the idea of non-violence, of Ghandi’s ahimsa, as an ideal. I wish it were universally viable. I think the reason it was effective against the British, philosophically speaking, is that the Brits’ objective was control; their willingness to use force and violence was a tool to enforce that. When the Indians stood up against that, allowing themselves to be hit, it forced the soldiers to see their humanity, to confront what they themselves were doing and the terrible things they’d have to …

[Snowlark]

https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/a-pacifist-minister-reflects-on-the-antifa-who-protected-protesters-from-charlottesvilles-armed-nazis/107273/89?u=snowlark&source_topic_id=81123

[davide405]

About 40% of "worker" ants just hang around, doing nothing

ANTifa?

[TobinL]

I am going to be chuckling all day at this.

Denny's new mascot looks like a turd 💩

“…and I’d like some sausage with those eggs, please.” “Of course, ma’am. Would you like the eggs sunny up, or over easy?” “Over easy, please.” “And for the sausage, would you prefer Type 3, or Type 4?” “Excuse me…what?” [waiter flips menu over] “We’ve included this chart for your convenience, ma’am; now, Type 3 or Type 4 for the sausage?” [bristol]

[Kimmo]

Cyber-arms dealer offers $1m for zero-day Tor hacks

Tor, Tails and the like are open source projects, they don’t have the funds to offer a bounty like this. Now what would be really interesting, if Tor would introduce a exploit on purpose, make it really short lived or only functional in specific testing situations. Create a hacker alias, claim the bounty and close the exploit. Suddenly this cash strapped, practically volunteer run organization, has a major cash injection, received from the same unethical people that are looking to screw them ov…

[Kimmo]

I like that post so much, it needs exponential big-ups.

[davide405]

Trump repeats claim 'both sides' share Charlottesville violence blame: Left has 'pretty bad dudes' also

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