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[Mindysan33]

Teacher charged with child abuse after "dragging" boy who sat for pledge

While I understand your intended analogy: [image]

[milliefink]

'Multiple Fatalities' in Florida Mass Shooting: Suspect in Custody, 20+ Injured at Parkland's Stoneman Douglas High School

sir, i was once in the neighborhood of your beliefs about guns, gun rights, and the place of these in our society. i am no longer there. i am a 7th or 8th generation native of texas. my ancestors have been being born there so long that if sam houston had lost the battle of san jacinto and the revolution i would be a mexican today, unless the states found some other way to steal it. i grew up around rifles and shotguns, learned to use and respect them from an early age. even now i am proficient…

[zfirphdn]

I’ve been wondering, how come the quotes here lately don’t include a link back to the thread that they’re from? Is that something new? Or am I just missing something?

[milliefink]

Ugh, right. It’s something new.

Can you help with this, @orenwolf?

[orenwolf]

Weird. Calling @codinghorror and @zogstrip since they just fixed a similar issue with PMs!

[milliefink]

'Multiple Fatalities' in Florida Mass Shooting: Suspect in Custody, 20+ Injured at Parkland's Stoneman Douglas High School

The right to easily own the means to mass-murder people versus right to own their bodies… what’s the difference? I don’t really see a difference. In both cases, the right of a single person to own something is directly impinging on the rights of others to live their lives without harassment or fear. But, as others have already pointed out in this thread, you find that an acceptable trade-off. But I really don’t see why you’re upset. The general population of the USA might no longer agree w…

[Medievalist]

But If You Guys Don't Vote For Us, The Other Guys Win!

Now that you mention it, it would be a really refreshing change of pace to have a president who’s neither complicit in war crimes at the time of assuming office nor bragging about how many war crimes they’re going to commit once they’re in office, wouldn’t it?

[zogstrip]

Sorry about that. There was a regression in the discourse onebox. I’ve rebaked all the posts in this topic that were missing the topic title/link.

[Kimmo]

Knoxblox's Computer Hail Mary

I generally use Google Wallet and PayPal, but if there is a common app many of you use, tell me.

[davide405]

Pitch perfect irony

Watch: Trailer for HBO's Fahrenheit 451

Finally, a version of Fahrenheit 451 without all that tedious reading.

[davide405]

What to do in an emergency

“Sir, people are complaining that the Gates of Hell we sold them only open up portals to local fire departments.:” “Hmm, seems we put in the wrong component.” “So where did all the Gates to Hell components go to?” some where in Ohio “Bow to down, little one. Worship me and I’ll give you everything you desire!” “Dada?”

[Wanderfound]

Free speech more popular than ever; only racists are less tolerated

Whenever people complain about “free speech” they go to complaints about famous people who get to speak at conventions, who have large followings on the internet. That is, people who are obviously free to speak and who have their voices consistently heard. If you are getting asked to come on major television news shows to express your personal views, your free speech is hardly in jeopardy. Might as well complain that Bill Gates is going hungry when he runs out of truffles. Not really. People …

@anon50609448, as always, explaining-to-the-slow with eloquence and superhuman patience. A major asset to the community.

[Kimmo]

Cop charged with assault after beating "jaywalking" pedestrian

I wonder what percent of the time that a police officer does something like this do they get away with it because there is no evidence to show what really happened. I also wonder how often these things occur in the United States. Every day? Every week? Every hour? Twice a month? I propose that we ask congress, when we get control of it back from the republicans, to create a Federal Department of Civil Rights and a Civil Rights Enforcement Agency modeled after the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Ag…

[Mindysan33]

Terry Gilliam: women "knew what they were doing" with Harvey Weinstein

This is a pretty creepy way to announce his retirement.

[anon48336441]

Richard Spencer says that antifa sucked all the fun out of college appearances, calls it quits

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more perfect candidate for “Then they came for me”

[anon48336441]

Richard Spencer says that antifa sucked all the fun out of college appearances, calls it quits

It must be nice to not be in one of the minority groups that Nazis have targeted for eradication. You’ll have to excuse those of us who are less pure if we see these assholes as a very much existential threat and act accordingly.

[TobinL]

Richard Spencer says that antifa sucked all the fun out of college appearances, calls it quits

I’m not seeing a lot of people here saying you’re a bad person if you don’t punch Nazis- more that if you’re not in favor of it, stop scolding the people who are in favor, because they have good reasons, and the Nazis really aren’t worth hand-wringing over to begin with. Punching them is a personal choice that carries risk of arrest, and that’s their choice to make, along with accepting the potential consequences. As for me, I’ve never punched a Nazi (or had the chance) but I could see myself …

[TobinL]

General Moderation Topic

Further to: Boing Boing is a heavily moderated forum. Speech is not unrestricted here, nor do the Authors wish it to be. Jokes or attempting to defend jokes that call for genocide, violence, or bigotry are not welcome here. Period, There are enough bigots in the world hiding behind the phrase “Just joking,” and none of us find it funny. It’s not about the slippery slope. It’s not about the fact that no one has died from a Nazi joke. It’s that we have chosen that such humour has no place wit…

[GoatCheezInfrno]

Human Grey Poupon stain Ethan Couch to be released from prison

Thanks for posting that link. For the TLDR folk, Critics charged that Boyd had given a free pass to Couch because he was white and wealthy, noting that in 2004, Boyd sentenced Eric Miller, a sixteen-year-old from a poor family, to twenty years imprisonment for killing one person while driving drunk.[10] The 2004 case did differ to some extent from the Couch case, though, in that the defendant in the 2004 case committed a separate felony on the night in question, stealing a truck. However, in …

[Ratel]

Jezebel apologizes for hiring Cannibal Witch as writer-at-large

You should grow your own. Stand up to Big Kid!