demagogue on 16/6/2023 at 02:53
Right, I obviously missed that detail because it sounds like a US story and I keep forgetting that Canada has these people too. Reminds me of hanging out with a really friendly Canadian guy in Tokyo and enjoying it until we passed a lady in a burka on the sidewalk and the guy started on some screed about even Japan getting infested with these Muslims, and I was kind of shocked since I had that stereotype in my mind that Canadians are supposed to be friendly and get along with everyone. I guess bigot types are everywhere if you dig enough.
Starker on 21/6/2023 at 21:09
The state of Illinois has introduced a ban on book bans -- a book ban ban, if you will:
Quote:
Taking a new tack in the ideological battle over what books children should be able to read, Illinois will prohibit book bans in its public schools and libraries, with Gov. J.B. Pritzker calling the bill that he signed on Monday the first of its kind.
The law, which takes effect next year, was the Democratic-controlled state's response to a sharp rise in book-banning efforts across the country, especially in Republican-led states, where lawmakers have made it easier to remove library books that political groups deemed objectionable.
[...]
The law directs public libraries in the state to adopt or write their own versions of a library bill of rights such as the American Library Association's, which asserts that “Materials should not be proscribed or removed because of partisan or doctrinal disapproval.”
Libraries that don't comply could lose state funding, according to the bill.
[...]
Of course, the lawmakers being Democrats, they utterly failed to consider that they are merely delaying the inevitable, as Republicans now only need to introduce a ban to ban book ban bans when they are in power.
Cipheron on 25/6/2023 at 11:53
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https://www.mediamatters.org/rumble/stew-peters-rothschilds-conspiracy-theory-oceangate-sub-was-sunk-hide-truth-it-wasnt-iceberg)
Quote:
Stew Peters’ Rothschilds conspiracy theory: OceanGate sub was sunk to hide truth “that it wasn't an iceberg that sank the Titanic”
Meanwhile MAGA pundit Joey Mannarino is saying "The Regime" sunk the submersible to distract us from Hunter Biden's Laptop. So much for no discussion of Hunter Biden allowed on social media. It's constantly brought up, even on stories that have zero connection to it.
Espescially on stories that have zero connection to it - which should tell you everything you need to know.
Another one going around online claims that the CEO who died in the submersible was planning to release an expose on Jeffrey Epstein. Yet another one of these people supposedly just about to expose the Epstein story, but who never talked about it and didn't set up any sort of trigger to release their information publicly in case they died.
I guess they could all be true at the same time though.
Yet another from a QAnon podcast as summarized by a Qult watcher:
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A bunch of people who needed to disappear so they faked their deaths. One of them was responsible for Chem Trails. There is no photographic evidence of any of the people getting into the sub, and no selfies of them getting into the sub. It's about creating fear and making you too scared to go visit the Titanic ship and see what's down there. It's about deflecting you away from the news of Hunter Biden and deflecting from the Durham testimony
Another bunch noted that in the story there were 17 bolts on the hatch of the submersible, and they've noted ... 17 ... Q ... white hats! so it's a fake story and the 17 was in there as a "nod" to the QAnons.
WingedKagouti on 25/6/2023 at 12:14
Quote Posted by Cipheron
Another bunch noted that in the story there were 17 bolts on the hatch of the submersible, and they've noted ... 17 ... Q ... white hats! so it's a fake story and the 17 was in there as a "nod" to the QAnons.
"I'll take 'People who can somehow survive without oxygen reaching their brains' for 200 Alex"
heywood on 26/6/2023 at 23:35
Quote Posted by Starker
The state of Illinois has introduced a ban on book bans -- a book ban ban, if you will:
Of course, the lawmakers being Democrats, they utterly failed to consider that they are merely delaying the inevitable, as Republicans now only need to introduce a ban to ban book ban bans when they are in power.
I'm embarrassed. We've truly become a clown show.
Republicans have no idea how stupid these book bans look to anyone not fully pilled, like most of the independents they need to get elected in my state. Likewise this:
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https://stefanik.house.gov/2023/6/stefanik-greene-introduce-resolutions-to-expunge-donald-trump-s-impeachments)
DeSantis probably screwed himself by leaning into this culture war stuff. He ends up not looking like a freedom guy to the libertarian side, his spats with Disney don't look good to the business side, and a lot of Republicans could out-church him.
Starker on 27/6/2023 at 08:36
Hmm...
Hmm...
Quote:
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https://socxfbi.org/SFSA/SFSA/Featured-Articles/Message-from-the-FBI-on-the-FD-1023-Request-from-Congress.aspx)
What are FD-1023s, and why is protecting them important?
As many of you know, the FD-1023 is the form our special agents use to record raw, unverified reporting from confidential human sources (CHSs). FD-1023s merely document that information; they do not reflect the conclusions of investigators based on a fuller context or understanding. Recording this information does not validate it, establish its credibility, or weigh it against other information known or developed by the FBI in our investigations.
The more things change...
heywood on 29/6/2023 at 16:40
She represents an unusual district and she's good at pandering.
Cipheron on 30/6/2023 at 13:19
Wow these guys really cleaned up:
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https://www.deseret.com/2023/6/29/23778472/utahs-overstock-com-rebranding-under-newly-acquired-bed-bath-and-beyond-name-new-websites)
Quote:
Utah-based furniture and home goods giant Overstock.com isn't wasting any time making use of the Bed, Bath & Beyond branding, intellectual property and customer database it acquired for $21 million via an auction bid approved by the failed retailer's bankruptcy judge just on Tuesday.
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Assets acquired by Overstock in the bankruptcy auction include Bed, Bath & Beyond's website and domain names, trademarks, trade names, patents, customer database, loyalty program data and other brand assets related to the Bed Bath & Beyond banner.
$21 million is a definite bargain for all that.
Azaran on 10/7/2023 at 18:25
Rioters in France vandalize a (
https://www.timesofisrael.com/memorial-to-holocaust-victims-wwii-resistance-defaced-during-riots-in-france/) holocaust memorial.
Quote:
A memorial to Holocaust victims and members of the French resistance was defaced with graffiti on Thursday during widespread rioting after police fatally shot a teenager in a Paris suburb.
The Mémorial des Martyrs de la Déportation et de la Résistance (Memorial to the Martyrs of the Deportation and the Resistance) in Nanterre honors the 200,000 deported to Nazi concentration camps from France during World War II, as well as those who fought against fascism.
The memorial was vandalized during rioting after a 17-year-old — identified only as Nahel — was killed by police in Nanterre on Tuesday.....
According to unverified video circulated on social media, the phrase “
we're going to make a Shoah,” was also sprayed nearby.
Nicker on 11/7/2023 at 05:35
It's not like the rioters are not some sort of monolithic political demographic. That hardly seems like the actions of anti-authoritarian brown people. More like white nationalists. Riots are a great opportunity for many factions to take advantage.
Fascists and Nazis have become emboldened by events elsewhere, especially by Mango Mussolini and his merry thugs. Loving Hitler is cool again. Social memory is short.
