The Gallery of Just Plain Assholes (Part 1)

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Almost as if they are part of the problem.

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Jennifer Aniston No GIF by Mother’s Day

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I guess Biden decided he is now OK with the Death Penalty in direct contravention to his position during the campaign.

His position on the Death Penalty on his own campaign website:

Eliminate the death penalty. Over 160 individuals who’ve been sentenced to death in this country since 1973 have later been exonerated. Because we cannot ensure we get death penalty cases right every time, Biden will work to pass legislation to eliminate the death penalty at the federal level, and incentivize states to follow the federal government’s example. These individuals should instead serve life sentences without probation or parole.

https://joebiden.com/justice/

He is following in Trump’s footsteps and his Justice Department just filed to have the federal death penalty reinstated for the Boston Bomber:

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GBeebies* is already losing advertisers.

* This is probably unfair. CBeebies has a more mature view of the world than GB News

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The hilarious thing is that the tweet that listed companies that advertised on GBNews and that they replied to was one that was trying to praise them for advertising there!

I know this through having clicked through to Twitter. Don’t click through to Twitter. The replies are exactly the shit show you would expect.

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Everyone’s getting in on the pride month thing…

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Schitts Creek Wtf GIF by CBC

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I literally just came here to post the exact same link!

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What a scumbag.

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It’s all about ben-partisanship.

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This is a democrat talking about the “far left” as if they’re

a) enemies
b) actually far left rather than the left of centre wing of his own party

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Wow, this is a new low even for Tucker.

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It’s frustrating that to the extent “an intellectual” is even a concept in the US anymore, Malcolm Fucking Gladwell keeps getting hailed as one.

Gladwell’s argument is as simple as it is frustrating. He posits that during the war the US bomber command faced a choice between precision bombing and mass terror bombing. To dramatize this conflict, he narrows his gaze exclusively to General Haywood Hansell and his peers (the so-called “Bomber Mafia”), who advocated for precision, and Curtis Le May, who supported mass bombing. LeMay replaced Hansell and oversaw a firebombing campaign that incinerated vast areas of urban Japan in order to break the morale of the Japanese and force them to surrender. Even the “hard choice” to purposefully kill civilians was supposedly for the best, as it shortened the war and “brought everyone—Americans and Japanese—back to peace and prosperity as quickly as possible.” Gladwell’s book is a history written from 30,000 feet, and miles away from the violence. He is fascinated by US airmen and their quest to improve the technology of bombing in order to win the war through unconventional thinking and determination. What happened to the victims of the “longest night of World War II,” is of little concern for Gladwell.

Gladwell’s book is a myth that American have told themselves about a complex and deeply problematic history. Even long time soldiers often questioned the value of wartime tactics or war itself. As Lieutenant General Sasaki Tōichi, who commanded a regiment in Nanjing during the massacre, wrote in his diary, “What are we fighting for? What’s the point? Can anyone ever really win a war?” Myth-makers rarely engage in serious interrogation of the assumptions behind convenient stories. Gladwell’s book recycles an argument as old as air power itself, stating that, by killing vulnerable people, we can end a conflict quickly. In effect, however, we are not saving lives overall, but our own lives . In any case, by listening to the targets of the Allied air war, we can see that this assertion is not straightforward and, in the end, may be immoral. But ignoring the civilian impacts is not a problem unique to Gladwell’s book, as it affects the historians we all read on the history of WWII.

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mr rogers flipping the bird

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Him, Pinker, Diamond, Peterson… these guys really need to stay in their lanes. History ain’t it.

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"According to Murray, disadvantaged groups are disadvantaged because, on average, they cannot compete with white men, who are intellectually, psychologically and morally superior,” the organization states on its website.

Ummm, wow, that’s a whole load of bullshit in one small sentence. I think this is one we can safely file under “I” for “Idiot.”

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Charles “Bell Curve” Murray has been peddling that (bankrolled) bullshit for decades now.

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