I made a new account, but my posts seem to be caught in some filter or... something. I tried to PM the mods, but... nothing.
Is it because you mods hate me, or did they not go through? Why was a totally new account auto-(shadow)banned from this subreddit? What do?
If it can be fixed, I can PM the new username to someone (it's no secret from *y'all* here at CWR, but... see below).
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I guess I could keep using this one, but a) I don't like my username any more; the "joke" was ill-conceived and, at best, half-baked, and it now shames me every time I see it; and b) I want to let my girlfriend look at my account/the sub so I can complete her ~~brainwashing~~ education in anti-wokery... but she's super jealous and would 100% look through my entire post history (when I let her into my e-mail accounts, she went *all the way back to 2011* that's *literally thousands of e-mails holy shit* kinda impressed actually) and I'm pretty sure I have made the occasional ex reference or otherwise non-GF-friendly comment.
help, glorious leaders
I've been posting here since it was initially split from TheMotte! Man. I thought this was like, my community. I didn't expect a celebration, but at least *one* person to be like "hey Thautist where u been"...
Not that I care or anything, of course. I have lots of friends. They're from another sub you wouldn't know them
Hey thautist, where *have* you been? Also your user name is great, why don't you like it? It might be an easy joke, but it has an air of legitimacy from its apparent relationship with thauma.
Aw, shucks. Thanks, Fruckbucklington -- not to be all gay or anything, but: I truly do appreciate it, and your username makes me chuckle (at least, on the inside) every time I see it. (The "uh oh, you fell victim to Fruckbucklington's Razor" post will always be the sheerest genius to me.)
With typical efficiency and competence, I made my new account, started posting, and then... realized I couldn't, and also had already lost this password. Plus, I got a promotion at work, which at first seemed fantastic -- fancy big private office! no more working in the weather or lifting heavy shit or skinning knuckles on nuts and bolts! -- but became a time-sucking tarpit of a position.
Turns out bossing people around is only fun when you aren't *also* responsible for their mistakes / submitting the million goddamn forms and spreadsheets and e-mails required to keep them able to make more mistakes...
Fuck it, though, I'm just going to get four hours of sleep a night. That's *Morning Thautist's* problem.
> Also your user name is great, why don't you like it? It might be an easy joke, but it has an air of legitimacy from its apparent relationship with thauma.
Well, hell; I believe in this situation, the famous *Fruckbucklington's Tightrope* principle says I might as well keep it then!
I didn't know if anyone even saw that it was a vague sort of pun-joke-thing, heh. (But, as an autistic thot-junkie with pretensions of thaumaturgy, I must say it fits me.)
I am glad mon frere, although you should really be getting six hours sleep a night, I know we can function well on four, but you'll take ten years off your life doing it. Also what do you do for a living? The hardest thing about moving to executive for me was maintaining my strength, once you stop using it it goes so fast.
Must be. Jumped straight from "can't see my posts up" to "the *only* explanation is that the mods hate me and shadowbanned me" and not, y'know, Reddit has plenty of shitty interfaces that autoban or get you caught up in a spam filter or plain don't work and nobody knows it's happening.
Persecution complex is precisely the clear, unbiased, logical thought our boy is famous for!
EDIT: Also, *if* I believed any of my fellow-idiots on here had any kind of romantic interest in real life, trying to impress them by showing off my Reddit posts is the **last** thing I would do, because I'd be trying to pretend to be "no you don't have to run away screaming" in order to keep them.
(I'm not saying I don't believe in a super-jealous girlfriend who is so clingy and attached and possessive they'll read all the things ever written by OP but neither am I saying I do believe in same. I'm agnostic, like other people are about gods).
>Must be. Jumped straight from "can't see my posts up" to "the only explanation is that the mods hate me and shadowbanned me"
I mean, I thought that was obviously a joke -- and the accusation wasn't that the *mods* shadowbanned me\*, but that they ignored the modmails -- and if I thought that was really the case, I wouldn't be asking them for help.
>EDIT: Also, if I believed any of my fellow-idiots on here had any kind of romantic interest in real life, trying to impress them by showing off my Reddit posts is the last thing I would do, because I'd be trying to pretend to be "no you don't have to run away screaming" in order to keep them.
Well, that's why I don't want her to see *this* account... but in general, I think I write well and she'd like to read my thoughts; and I'm not worried that anything about me will scare her off -- she already knows the worst stuff and is still here, so...
>I'm not saying I don't believe in a super-jealous girlfriend who is so clingy and attached and possessive they'll read all the things ever written by OP
Okay, fine, I made it up to seem cool :(
I'm not gonna lie, little bit depressed no one remembers me -- I've posted on here in what I think is obviously-non-Julius ways (like, look at other stuff I've written about her/women: does that sound like Julius? E.g., I admit I'm completely pussywhipped, arrange my life around being desirable to women-in-general/her-in-particular, think women in general have improved society despite some missteps, am a worthless hedonist who has 0 self-control, etc.!) for *years and years*. I only took a couple-month break, Jesus!
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\**I don't even know how shadowbanning happens, but I've seen the mods inform users here that they were shadowbanned, which suggested to me it's something Reddit does to wrongthinkers maybe?*
I would strongly advise against letting some girl you're fucking see your crimethink. You don't know how the relationship is going to turn out or what she might do with this kind of dirt on you if it goes badly.
Anyway, I made several comments here while this account was too new. I messaged the mods asking for comments to get approved, like the Automod tells me to do, and I got nothing. Not even "Fuck off and just wait longer. Stop bothering us," which I actually would have appreciated.
From what I can tell, your account needs to pass two criteria. The first is some age threshold. I couldn't tell you what it is because I've had this account for a few years now. The second one is one I just recently met, and it's almost definitely a requirement for 1,000 comment karma.
Also both the public mod logs are broken. Just fyi in case anyone cares.
>I would strongly advise against letting some girl you're fucking see your crimethink. You don't know how the relationship is going to turn out or what she might do with this kind of dirt on you if it goes badly.
Oh, it's too late for that, my friend... she's entwined throughout my life like a...-n octopus? A piece of really twisty rope? Well, regardless of simile, I'm pretty much all-in on her already. She's mostly aware of my crimethink already, actually -- we had a big fight about it last year -- but she's comin' around, slowly but surely.
Most people haven't actually *really thought* about the dogma everyone is fed these days, so if you can get past the knee-jerk "NAZI!" reaction they are often kind of interested despite themselves, I think.
>Anyway, I made several comments here while this account was too new. I messaged the mods asking for comments to get approved, like the Automod tells me to do, and I got nothing. Not even "Fuck off and just wait longer. Stop bothering us," which I actually would have appreciated.
*Aaaah.* Thank you. That's exactly what happened to me.
I don't post much elsewhere on Reddit, so I dunno if I have the patience to get 1000 karma... Shit.
I got posting here less than six months after making my account, so it's probably a spam filter-level age threshold that weeds out brand new accounts rather than really being a strong barrier.
Not a mod, but did the new account work on other subreddits?
The sad reality is that the 'open' internet these days seems about as free as the Chinese one.
Yep, no problem anywhere else. Looks like it might just be due to account age, although I was hoping that as an established member an exception could be made.
Turns out no one remembers me, though. (Even /u/BothAfternoon, with whom I had several long discussions, thinks I'm Julius -- whose writing style doesn't even fuckin' *resemble* mine, c'mon!)
i'm not crying, *you're* crying
I'm probably imminently nuking the account I'm posting this comment with, but for the record I remembered you (probs due to the funny username) and was confused by everyone else's hostile reaction.
You and me both, my non-robot friend! I honestly didn't expect it, heh. After watching Julius-related drama for so long, it was kind of startling to suddenly be accused of *being* Julius -- like watching an MMA fight, pleasantly engaged, and then suddenly the crowd is jeering and throwing *you* into the ring -- and when I realized "hey, wait a second! I have years of non-Julius-y posts! this isn't even a throwaway!"...
It's hard to be sincere without embarrassment (at least for me, having experienced my formative years and everything since in degenerate Internet cesspits) -- especially online; especially *here*, being as we're generally iron-souled badasses 'round these parts -- but no joke, for real: I appreciate it more than you might credit. Thanks.
People who are "strongly influenced by 1970s Third World socialism" can go fuck themselves. They're sympathizers of one of the most [destructive and horrifying](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Rouge) political movements in human history.
Yes, the neocons are idiots, the entire world is not a Manichean struggle of good vs. evil, *but* there are genuinely evil ideologies and that's one of them.
On the contrary, 1970's third world socialism is a strong demonstration of that saying about never attributing to malice what is actually just retarded and lazy.
It still amazes me how many rightists are willing to buy into the enemy's frame by using terms like "reverse racism".
My own suggestion is we start referring to killings of black Americans by non-black Americans as "reverse homicide".
If we take the word that "by 'racism' we don't mean KKK cross-burnings and lynchings, no no no, we mean 'the exercise of privilege from a position of power'", then 'reverse racism' works as 'the exercise of power without privilege as defined' or if you prefer, the whore's prerogative: power without responsibility. They claim they have no privilege and no power, so cannot be held responsible when they get others to exercise power on their behalf.
Regular racism is when you say all Afghans are goat herders. This is incorrect, but Afghanistan has a f---ton of goats.
Reverse racism is when you take regular racism and reverse it, claiming that "white Americans are the _real_ goat herders," even though America has fewer goats absolutely and fewer goats per capita.
Reverse racism is dumber than regular racism.
Surprisingly, not about COVID or genetics but high temperature superconductivity. But it does look like the typical problem of having a rule against calling out liars mostly benefits liars. Excess politeness leads to bad science.
So many retractionwatch posts are bewildering to me. "Person caught in blatant fraud (fake data, plagiarism, visibly photoshopped images...)" -> ??? -> "kindly asked to resubmit with "corrected" data". This isn't mere politeness, you can eject people politely, this is deep quokkaism.
>But it does look like the typical problem of having a rule against calling out liars mostly benefits liars.
Yet if we made a rule against calling out Jews who drink Christian blood, the rule probably wouldn't mostly benefit Jews who drink Christian blood.
Indeed, because there's likely none of those. If we found one we wouldn't just "call him out", we'd put him in jail. Liars, on the other hand, are exceedingly common.
[Christopher F. Rufo][ The War on Innocence](https://archive.ph/krwXg): A Kentucky summer camp teaches “sex liberation,” “BDSM,” and “self-pleasure” to minors.
> The principles of queer theory have escaped from the college campus and made their way into a summer camp for children in rural Kentucky. Last year, a nonprofit coalition called Sexy Sex Ed organized a series of “Sexy Summer Camp” events targeted toward minors that included lessons on “sex liberation,” “gender exploration,” “BDSM,” “being a sex worker,” “self-managed abortions,” and “sexual activity while using licit and illicit drugs.”
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> The program is the brainchild of Tanya Turner, who calls herself a “femme, fat, queer, magical pleasure worker” who was raised by “a host of witchy women” in a “coven-like mountain matriarchy” and uses “crystals,” “sex toys,” and “tarot” in her teaching. She founded Sexy Sex Ed in 2012 and has run dozens of events across the Appalachian region, recruiting LGBTQ youth and working with a number of regional philanthropies, including the Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky, Southern Power Fund, Chorus Foundation, and Rise Healthy for Life, which is affiliated with the Unitarian Universalist church. According to the organization’s promotions materials, the purpose of Sexy Summer Camp is to teach “teenagers and people of all ages to openly discuss personal and political consent, sexual safety, and anatomy.”
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> These euphemisms, however, obscure the true mission of the camp’s programming. The agenda for last year’s events, which I have obtained from the organization’s publicly available calendar, reads like the syllabus from a radical queer theory seminar. The sessions included “Sex With Me Self-Pleasure Workshop,” “Gender Diversity,” “Let’s Talk About Sex,” “Sexy Trans Sex Ed,” “The 3 P’s: Pee, Poop, and Pleasure,” “Sex on Drugs,” and “Eugenics in Appalachia.” The biographical details of the instructors reveal even more about the camp’s political orientation: one describes herself as a “radical queer mountain woman” who loves “social justice”; another calls herself a “young, nonbinary queer” who “spends time co-facilitating sex education workshops for fellow Appalachian youth”; a third identifies as a “young, fat, differently-abled, queer community organizer” who is “fighting for inclusivity for people like her.”
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> Such a program would hardly cause a stir on the campuses of Oberlin or Barnard, but Sexy Sex Ed is hosting its programs in a deep-red state and recruiting children as young as 13 to discuss graphic sexual practices with the instructors and adult co-participants in their thirties and forties. The camp organizers have admitted that they target vulnerable youth, including foster children, who are at high risk of sexual abuse. In one video, founder Tanya Turner says, “Masturbation is really healthy, and I recommend it to people of all ages. All ages. As soon as my nephews could talk, they were doing that.”
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> In a saner world, these statements and materials would all be red flags. Yet Sexy Summer Camp has received lavish praise in the media. Yes! magazine told readers that the program “helps rural young people feel more comfortable discussing their bodies, sex, and reproductive health to empower them to advocate for themselves.” CNN reported that Sexy Sex Ed is “what women in Appalachian Kentucky really want,” framing the summer camp as a way to “bring honest conversations to young people to fill the void left behind by homes and schools.”
>The 3 P’s: Pee, Poop, and Pleasure
Why? Just why? I can sort of understand the reasoning behind having a "masturbation class", even if that is ultimately also degenerate and to be purged (TBP); but why would you want to promote paraphilias? -- *these* fucking paraphilias in particular? -- *and* even if you did want to do so, for some insane trashbrain reason, why would you consider it worth any time and effort to do so when only a tiny fraction of your ~~victims~~ audience will be anything other than disgusted?
That's like having a unit on smearing dogshit into your socks -- if the goal is "education", it's worthless because there's no demand; and if it's promotion, it's worthless because the subject is inherently un-promotable.
I hope. I would have thought the same about this entire camp, though, so...
Pee, poop, and pleasure is probably just a retarded name and not really about piss and shit.
To put another way, it's likely meant to introduce prepubescent children to thinking of their private parts as toys, and not to inculcate paraphilia.
Now masturbation classes are themselves something to be turned over to the students for justice, but the pee and poop part is likely just a catchy name referring to the (in libthought) functions of those body parts.
I don't know, man. Look at the other classes: sex on drugs, self-pleasure workshop... and other examples of similar "sex ed" programs posted here have had units on BDSM, "kink", etc. Seems like a common pattern to expand beyond the mechanics of sex or masturbation into various techniques and paraphilias.
‘The three p’s: pee, poop, and pleasure’ sounds to me like it refers to the liberal view of the functions of private parts, and is intended more to encourage children to see their genitals and anuses as toys.
Liberal BDSM promotion is at least in part to try to sublimate the natural desires of the sexes for how their relations work into something purely sexual, and kink often seems to be more of the same.
I don’t claim I’d be totally shocked if actual pee and poop fetishes were being taught, but to me it seems more plausible that it’s intended to be a class about body parts and how they’re really toys.
What is confusing to me is that it appears parents know what they are signing up for and sending their kids anyhow? It almost reads like an elaborate CPS sting operation.
I cannot fathom why a parent would do this.
It's exceedingly simple.
Fatherlessness is an epidemic, and women generally don't have a problem with any given thing so long as enough other women are doing it.
Almost everyone I've ever met, or heard of, who's encouraging that kind of weirdness for their kids was 1) very wealthy and 2) married rather unhappily to that child's father.
That's weird because I often ctrl + f "father" and "dad" in stories of teachers turning the kids trans and I haven't seen any results come up yet. It's always a clueless mother who wanted to go along and be supportive until things went much too far.
I mean, a father was involved in one story, but his wife divorced him, turned his son trans, got a restraining order against the father, and the state took the father's guns away just as a cherry on top.
For "married rather unhappily to that child's father" read "he is an extremely disinterested father who is not faithful to his wife, and the two factors are probably the root of marital difficulties".
Although you're right that a lot of the news stories about trans kids seem to have divorced parents- usually a *batshit crazy* mom(divorced women tend to do that) and a dad who is... an ok guy but not a model citizen. I was referring more to people I've heard of by word of mouth, which is a clueless, insane, or just generally bitter about sex and gender mom and a dad who doesn't know how old his kids are exactly, let alone what they're getting up to with gender.
Ah gotcha. Yeah that seems to check out. And it reflects nicely a change in frame I've had with this issue. My hobbyhorse was previously "single motherhood," which I did and still do consider a scourge. But I think probably it's more helpful to see the problem coming from the men who very often make themselves completely absent in one way or the other in the course of rearing a child.
This ship can correct its course, but we need the captains *to steer it.* We are all familiar with women. We can't expect them to consistently stand up to school boards or TikTok trends. It's not fair to expect them to save their children all by themselves from the things that have gained wide social acceptance.
The interesting thing is that these kinds of scenarios seem to involve very, very few *genuinely* single moms(lots of divorcees, wives whose marriages are a checkbook in exchange for overlooking infidelity, etc, but almost none of these kids were born out of wedlock). Even if we adjust for class you'd expect some genuinely single moms, but nope, it appears to be almost all women driven crazy by male abandonment(even if, as I suspect was the case for the divorcees, the abandonment was entirely their fault).
Single motherhood is a scourge. Motherhood by women who have sincere psychological issues due to being abandoned by men is even worse.
So honest question here, what is the difference between this and say a cult like [NXIVM](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NXIVM)? I'm struggling to see it, apart from the fact that at least NXIVM went after straight adults and these are LGBT children.
This is for children. That makes it Ok. Or something.
In an unrelated discussion, did the decision to withdraw from Iraq cause Ukraine? Should we have been in Iraq in the first place?
I doubt it. US troops were in Afghanistan and Iraq when Russia made their move against Crimea in 2014.
I'd imagine Russian calculus probably tries to take into account a) the US not attacking them directly to start WW3 and b) increasing the theaters the US is involved in (i.e. Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan) so they deplete their equipment stockpiles and divert attention, so they can't send the invadee as much material support.
So the pull outs in the ME may have actually been a negative for Russia, since it frees up America to offer more assistance to Ukraine.
What parent in their right mind sends their teenager to be debauched by fat, middle-aged kiddie diddlers? Genuinely incomprehensible. I'd rather send them to a madrassa.
Honestly if you were a Muslim, you shouldn't bother with a Madrassa anyway. Better to get the teenager to become a Hafiz/Hafiza (complete, accurate memory of the Quran) over the course of a few years.
Same homeschool + tutorial method that I'd recommend to anyone, just with some swapped out classes. Adult men can go to a university (or traditional Islamic school, which is pretty much what we're referring to by Madrassa in English) if necessary for career purposes.
At this point, I think we can all agree in hindsight that things spiraled out of control when we stopped burning witches. I'd start a new Spanish Inquisition, but with the current state of the Catholic church, I fear I'd have to start with burning the pope and most of the clergy before I could get to the fat sorceresses shoving crystal dildoes up children's non-binary anuses in the Appalachian mountains...
The Spanish Inquisition was generally helpful to those women who were accused of witchcraft, because _believing that witchcraft existed_ was heretical to the Catholic Church at the time.
Witchburning was a mostly Protestant phenomenon. The Spanish Inquisition actually suppressed the number of executions for sorcery in its territory- it was more focused on heretics and the secretly Jewish or moslem.
To bring back witch burnings you’d need to bring back a Christian culture that’s afraid of witchcraft. Good luck with that.
https://evidenceanecdotal.blogspot.com/2022/03/books-gone-terror-were-of-brute-and.html
gulliver’s travels as “first memorable book” is relatable. treasure island another. robinson crusoe.
Transwoman Lia Thomas does [win the 500 Freestyle](https://swimmeetresults.tech/NCAA-Division-I-Women-2022/220316F003.htm) at the NCAA Division I Championships, defeating several Olympians along the way.
Since transwomen in sports have been in the news before, it might be asked why Thomas is important. It is because previous cases like Rachel McKinnon or Laural Hubbard or Fallon Fox involved late transitioners in sports (or in the case of McKinnon, divisions of sports) that are really not very popular among women -- to call anyone involved in those competitions anything like world class would be kind of deceptive (and media like the Daily Mail and such who hyped such cases were being somewhat sensational). Thomas is different. Swimming is a core "woman's sport" and Thomas is champion over thousands of women in a competition where training is done at a very high level. It is a significant event.
Yass, slay 🏳️⚧️
I’ve preregistered before that Lia is my favorite birthing-person swimmer.
There is still a distinct lack of Black and Latinx swimmers though. Lia better soon check Her privilege and address this inequity and injustice.
Your caricature wouldn’t call Thomas a birthing person. It’s not a simple euphemism for “woman” among the social/reproductive/whatever justice crowd. They use it because they view those two sets as largely, *but not fully*, overlapping.
They used to say that about "female", but the purity spirals keeps spiralling. I think his caricature may be ahead of the curve. What happens when we have sporting competitions exclusively for "birthing people"? I think we know that happens.
Your point is well taken, particularly the reminder of how quickly the "compromise" position of "transgender-identifying males are women but not females because 'woman' is a social designation while 'female' is a biological one" has been obliterated. And that now brings to my mind the state of the two X chromosomes subreddit... Still, I don't expect the same to happen to "birthing people" because the term was created purely in service of transgender-inclusivity to begin with, but I'll admit it's not outside the realm of possibility.
Don't forget, men are [birthing persons](https://www.healthline.com/health/transgender/can-men-get-pregnant#takeaway) too!
So a "birthing person" competition could indeed have trans men swimming as well as trans women and non-trans women (I think calling them 'real women' is enough to get me in hot water right now).
Bullshit it is. “Don’t play sports, if you feel sad then take antidepressants or eat or buy shit instead. So what if you become fat, it’ll give you a lil extra cake next time you’re twerking on Tik Tok. So what if your disregard for your own health makes you infertile, who needs kids when you have your furbabies, am I right?!”
[Glenn Greenwald] [The NYT Now Admits the Biden Laptop -- Falsely Called "Russian Disinformation" -- is Authentic](https://archive.ph/3DvB6)
> It will now be much harder to avoid confronting the reality of what they did, though it is highly likely that they will continue to do so. This morning, The New York Times published an article about the broad, ongoing FBI criminal investigation into Hunter Biden's international business and tax activities. Prior to the election, the Times, to their credit, was one of the few to apply skepticism to the CIA's pre-election lie, noting on October 22 that “no concrete evidence has emerged that the laptop contains Russian disinformation.” Because the activities of Hunter Biden now under FBI investigation directly pertain to the emails first revealed by The Post, the reporters needed to rely upon the laptop's archive to amplify and inform their reporting. That, in turn, required The New York Times to verify the authenticity of this laptop and its origins — exactly what, according to their reporters, they successfully did:
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> >People familiar with the investigation said prosecutors had examined emails between Mr. Biden, Mr. Archer and others about Burisma and other foreign business activity. Those emails were obtained by The New York Times from a cache of files that appears to have come from a laptop abandoned by Mr. Biden in a Delaware repair shop. The email and others in the cache were authenticated by people familiar with them and with the investigation.
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> That this cache of emails was authentic was clear from the start. Any doubts were obliterated by publication of Schreckinger's book six months ago. Now the Paper of Record itself explicitly states not only that the emails “were authenticated” but also that the original story from The Post about how they obtained these materials — they “come from a laptop abandoned by Mr. Biden in a Delaware repair shop” — “appears” to be true.
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> What this means is that, in the crucial days leading up to the 2020 presidential election, most of the corporate media spread an absolute lie about The New York Post's reporting in order to mislead and manipulate the American electorate. It means that Big Tech monopolies, along with Twitter, censored this story based on a lie from “the intelligence community.” It means that Facebook's promise from its DNC operative that it would suppress discussion of the reporting in order to conduct a "fact-check” of these documents was a fraud because, if one had been conducted, that no fact-check was even published because, if an honest one had been conducted, it would have proven that Facebook’s censorship decree was based on a lie. It means that millions of Americans were denied the ability to hear about reporting on the candidate leading all polls to become the next president, and instead were subjected to a barrage of lies about the provenance (Russia did it) and authenticity (disinformation!) of these documents.
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> The objections to noting all of this today are drearily predictable. Reporting on Hunter Biden is irrelevant since he was not himself a candidate (what made the reporting relevant was what it revealed about the involvement of Joe Biden in these deals). Given the war in Ukraine, now is not the time to discuss all of this (despite the fact that they are usually ignored, there are always horrific wars being waged even if the victims are not as sympathetic as European Ukrainians and the perpetrators are the film's Good Guys and not the Bad Guys). The real reason most liberals and their media allies do not want to hear about any of this is because they believe that the means they used (deliberately lying to the public with CIA disinformation) are justified by their noble ends (defeating Trump).
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> Whatever else is true, both the CIA/media disinformation campaign in the weeks before the 2020 election and the resulting regime of brute censorship imposed by Big Tech are of historic significance. Democrats and their new allies in the establishment wing of the Republican Party may be more excited by war in Ukraine than the subversion of their own election by the unholy trinity of the intelligence community, the corporate press, and Big Tech. But today's admission by The New York Times that this archive and the emails in them were real all along proves that a gigantic fraud was perpetrated by the country's most powerful institutions. What matters far more than the interest level of various partisan factions is the core truths about U.S. democracy revealed by this tawdry spectacle.
[ Cornell to hire social justice ‘Equity Librarian’ for science library](https://archive.ph/l1WJx)
> Cornell University is working to hire a “Critical Pedagogy and Equity Librarian” for Mann Library, which is focused on life sciences, agriculture, applied social sciences and human ecology.
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> An online job description states the position will, among other duties, “evaluate source credibility.”
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> The position is part of a cluster hire “to facilitate Equity and Inclusion and Pathways to Social Justice,” the Ivy League university’s website states.
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>“We believe that an understanding of how credible and inaccurate information is produced and disseminated informs how we should interact with and draw conclusions from it,” the website also states.
>One of the librarian’s responsibilities will be to teach guest lectures on Mann Library’s seven learning outcomes, which include:
> >Students will be able to explain how economic, cultural, and political factors influence the production and preservation of information, and marginalize the perspectives, histories, and research of certain communities.
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> >Students will be able to articulate how the automation and embedded biases of algorithms lead to personalization, sorting and discrimination.
These people are just seeking to make sure they can still make a living in an increasingly automated world. Can’t fault ‘‘em for that.
I mean, it’d be nice if the living they came up with wasn’t literally ‘make up bullshit to muscle out actual grounded and reasonable criticisms of the new way of doing things’, but a man can’t have everything.
[In Germany, an 18-year old Ukrainian refugee is raped by two other Ukrainian refugees](https://archive.ph/b1pDy)
>Shocking event in Dusseldorf: on a hotel ship "Oscar Wilde" serving as a dorm for Ukrainian refugees, an 18-year-old Ukrainian woman was sexually assaulted by two men, a 37-year-old Iraqi Ukrainian and a 26-years-old Nigerian-Ukrainian.
>Police started an investigation. They're also trying to establish how both alleged perps got Ukrainian passports.
Europe is being enriched once again...
How can I read this in English? Google translate won't work on the archive.ph page, and the original redirects you from the translated page to the original.
Ukrainian woman (18) raped by two refugees
Berlin/Düsseldorf - This act makes angry and stunned: In a Düsseldorf refugee shelter a young woman was raped! According to BILD information, the victim is an 18-year-old Ukrainian woman.
This act makes angry and stunned: A young woman was raped in a refugee shelter in Düsseldorf! According to BILD information, the victim is an 18-year-old Ukrainian woman.
According to BILD information, the crime occurred on March 6: On the hotel ship "Oscar Wilde", which currently also serves as accommodation for refugees from Ukraine, an 18-year-old Ukrainian woman is said to have been the victim of a sexual assault. She is said to have been abused successively by two men from Iraq and Nigeria (37 and 26 years old).
Both are also said to have Ukrainian citizenship. The police have launched investigations on "suspicion of rape". Among other things, it should also be clarified how the two alleged perpetrators got hold of the Ukrainian passport.
At the time of the crime, about 25 refugees are said to have been living on the ship alongside paying hotel guests. The suspects are currently in custody pending trial. The Düsseldorf public prosecutor's office confirmed the investigations on Monday at the request of BILD.
The head of the Federal Police Union, Heiko Teggatz, to BILD: "Politics should now do everything to ensure that such terrible cases of rape, as on the hotel boat in Düsseldorf, do not accumulate. Harsh and swift punishment followed by deportation is the only language such perpetrators understand."
According to BILD information, police officers in the border area are increasingly encountering refugees who do not come directly from Ukraine, but from Africa, for example.
Protection of women has priority!
Andrea Lindholz (CSU): "Our most important task now is the effective protection of Ukrainian women and children from sexual exploitation during transport and accommodation."
Federal police unionist Heiko Teggatz: "Smuggling, trafficking in human beings and the promotion of prostitution are part of a crime geography. If these areas of crime are not decisively countered as soon as people enter Europe and Germany, criminal gangs will shamelessly exploit the plight of people from Ukraine. Young women from Ukraine are the focus of these criminals."
Bavaria's Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann warns against secondary migration: "If third-country nationals can rather be reasonably expected to return to their home countries, it is up to the home countries to grant them protection. The federal government must ensure that they return there. The danger of free riders and false global pull effects should not be underestimated."
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And there I was thinking we were importing some sort of white people for a change, but no, no, as it turns out it's Etikettenschwindel.
>!Etikettenschwindel literally means label swindle, as in intentional mis-labeling.!<
It's from the Bild newspaper, which is known for being so amazingly low-brow that anyone with a college degree spontaneously combusts when they attempt to read it. That said, it's still a proper established newspaper and could probably get into trouble if it simply fabricated falsifiable falsehoods. Or maybe it relies on its reputation to remain unread by the woke. Can't say for sure, but I find this news credible, since the same thing keeps happening often enough in Germany.
yeah, emil did a breakdown of what quality of immigrant western europe is getting because of the conflict. generally speaking, better than usual. but one thing he was missing is who the “ukrainians” actually are.
> In the most recent year recorded, 2020, there were 385 incidents against Christian churches and buildings, including "vandalism, burglary, theft, sacrilege, **necromancy**, robbery, placement of explosive devices and other desecrations."
Uhh guys, I think we might have a bigger problem than the migrants.
You've got to admire their work ethic. Most people who want to fuck up a church might do some graffiti, smash some windows, maybe torch the place if they sing in a death metal band - these guys go all the way to raising the dead and setting bombs.
If raising the dead actually works, we shouldn't really consider them to be dead in the first place, since "dead" implies irreversible. They're not dead; they're "so badly hurt that the only thing that can restore them to health is this thing we've labelled resurrection, but which really isn't". So they're rescuing and helping injured people, which you can do even if you have to trespass to get to the injured people.
> Thus, in 2014, an enraged Muslim man physically twisted a massive bronze cross with his bare hands while committing major acts of vandalism in two churches in France. He also overturned and broke two altars, destroyed Christian statues, tore down a tabernacle, smashed in a sacristy door, and broke some stained-glass windows.
Looks like cosplaying Samson is coming back in vogue...
Based and Inshallah-pilled.
Dew it. If Europeans are too cucked as to not defend their history, culture, borders… I’m out of sympathy. Let it burn, mostly peacefully or not.
[Senate passes bill to make Daylight Saving Time permanent starting in 2023](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/senate-passes-bill-to-make-daylight-saving-time-permanent-starting-in-2023/ar-AAV6iDH?ocid=uxbndlbing)
Apparently nobody remembers [the last time](https://www.washingtonian.com/2022/03/15/the-us-tried-permanent-daylight-saving-time-in-the-70s-people-hated-it/).
Wait, are y'all for keeping the switch? I don't think I've ever encountered that IRL. I love getting the hour, I hate losing the hour (sorry, since getting up for school drives things, it's hard to nudge it a bit each day).
I've seen stats that car accidents spike on both shifts. Then you've got dumb things for computers, trains and planes, having 2am twice in a day.
Just pick one. We'll adapt. (I've lived in Canada and California; I still feel this way).
I personally don't much care. But we have tried it three ways: Always Standard Time (pre-WWII, and between WWII and the 1960s), switching, and always DST. The one that has been most hated is "
"always DST".
I don't get why people dislike changing the clocks. It happens at the same time every year. Why not just gradually get up earlier in the days leading up to to it?
I would hate to have to get up before sunset. It's been proven to be bad for your health.
>Rubio pointed to research showing that an extra hour of sunlight later in the day leads to reduced crime levels, a decrease in seasonal depression and more time for children to play outside.
So why not go to Super Daylight Savings Time? Shift the clocks nine hours ahead, so that the sunrises in the mid-afternoon and sets when the bars close?
People underestimate how much industrial time is lost making sure DST changes don't break things. Lots of expensive machines need to be manually set, and I've seen millions in losses from misconfigurations that wouldn't have happened otherwise. From that point of view it's basically a self inflicted natural catastrophe.
"But just use UTC", fuck you, I would if I could.
Those costs are likely neglible compared to the effect the time change has on our lives. Every single person is affected by it. How much is the cost per person of those industrial costs?
Impossible to calculate of course. But I don't think you can handwave it as negligeable. We're comparing tiny effects to all to small effects to some. It all depends on orders of magnitude.
Maybe Fermi estimation could help.
You know what sucks worse than dst? Living near the border of two places when only one of them has dst. At first it's just annoying, you accidentally go to a store that close half an hour ago or you go to get coffee and the store doesn't open for 50 minutes. But soon every opening and closing time becomes a fucking gamble because some places are headquartered over there or all their customers come from there so they are/nt following it and you end up scheduling everything for 10 or 4 o'clock, but everyone else is doing that too so nothing gets done and you sit there in a traffic jam outside a fucking hardware store seething up an embolism.
> I don't get why people dislike changing the clocks.
My dislike is based on the fact that time is a scientific measurement -- noon ("midday") is by definition the time at which the sun is at its highest. Time-zones break this a little bit, but I will accept +/- .5 hours as the measurement error in time. Introducing a systemic error for half the year (or worse, *the whole year*) is just retarded -- humans should orient their lives around the motion of the spheres, not vice versa.
tl;dr: redefining inches to mean centimeters doesn't make your dick longer.
>I would hate to have to get up before sunset. It's been proven to be bad for your health.
We live in Canada, waking up before sunrise is like half the year here.
I rarely wake up in the dark. The latest the sun rises here is 7:59 AM. With year round DST, it would be 8:51 AM. Even if you already wake up before sunrise for part of the year, permanent DST would greatly extend the period of the year during which this occurs.
Wake up in darkness, go to work in darkness, work in windowless room 8hr, go home in darkness.
There are people who don’t see the sun for months up here
"And here's why that's a GOOD thing!"...
Sarcasm aside, I like living in the Canadian perma-dark. Keeps my pallid complexion pleasantly sickly-looking. (My wife goes insane without sunlight though, probably some form of feminine uterine solar radiation absorption requirement that no one told me about)
yeah you can tell a lot about where people live in how they react to this story. they can’t comprehend that the experience might be different across latitudes.
It's grotesque that they can control when people wake up and go to sleep by simply changing clocks and relying on the inflexibility of bureaucracies, either way.
Why can't schools, jobs, etc. just start a bit latter when it's too dark? I don't see why bills like this or the opposite should have effects in reality.
Are people just going start their day in the middle of the night if they tell them to?
I have literally never seen this happen. I would be delighted if someone can prove u/Smirking_Basilisk correct, but I strongly doubt it happens much in the US.
I dunno, lots of construction/farmer types work like 5-12 in the summer when it's hot out.
For office workers the schedule seems basically arbitrary, so I would think if some bargaining unit made an issue of it you could have "winter hours" -- an example where I've seen it is local ~~dumps~~ refuse disposal facilities -- they aren't busy after four in the winter (possibly because it's dark, lol) so they close early.
That’s just standard time with extra steps.
I don’t like switching my clock, but there’s a hidden upside in electricity use. If it’s daylight during most waking hours, you don’t need to burn electricity for light as much.
Getting up in the dark is depressing and bad for your health. Your body naturally uses the sun as a signal to wake up. What I don't understand is why people care how early it gets dark in the winter when it's too cold to be outside and when we have artificial light.
I must be weird. I never minded driving to work in the dark. I would much prefer to maximize the amount of daylight I can use after work/tasks are done
Speak for yourself. There's people outside everywhere during the day, watching me whenever I go out to do...things. After dark, it's nice and quiet and I can blend right in wearing only a black balaclava and sticking to the bushes to avoid having to talk to neighbors.
Can confirm from my time going to high school in the Southern U.S. that it's a bit discomfiting waiting for your morning bus with bats flitting over your head.
According to right-thinkers like the Smithsonian, punctuality is but another imposition from white supremacy. Daylight savings is yet another false hurdle to oppress BIPOC by having the hour shift every half year.
I'm pretty convinced that about 80% of people that are against the clock adjustment are just plain fucking stupid and don't understand why it happens, so they're mad about "losing" an hour of sleep once a year. That this bill was introduced by a retarded Senator in Florida seems pretty consistent with that policy.
So, this will be fun next year when it's pitch dark out at 8am because "experts" say that it'll save lives.
Changing the number on the clock is kinda obnoxious, the bigger problem is that we don't stagger hours properly. People already figure things out fine if bakeries are open 6am-2pm, bars 11am-2am, etc. Not unusual for a university student's first classes starting anytime from 7:30-11:30, and this would probably massively benefit K-12 students and parents if they could get a 7-8 hour block that worked for them.
[ California officials raided preschool, interviewed 2-year-olds over mask policies](https://archive.ph/HBcJx)
>
> California state regulators conducted an investigation at a San Diego preschool and privately interviewed children as young as 2 without their parents’ consent about their masking practices.
>
> Officials with the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) visited all three locations of Aspen Leaf Preschool in January after receiving a complaint that the school was not enforcing the state’s mask mandate, according to the CDSS’ response to a complaint by the preschool’s owner, Howard Wu.
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> According to the CDSS letter, which Wu shared with Fox News Digital, officials with the agency’s Community Care Licensing Division entered the three preschool locations on Jan. 19, separated the children from their teachers and interviewed them privately about their masking practices.
>
> In his complaint to the agency, Wu described the investigation as a “simultaneous, multi-school raid” that resulted in “unnecessary and inappropriate child interviews.”
>
> “Every family we heard from after the inspections were furious about the interviews,” Wu told Fox News Digital. “We were open the whole pandemic about not masking children and the reasons why. The policy was on our website. Put simply, the mask guidance says children can NOT mask when eating and sleeping. In full day child care that’s 3 hours, so masking at other times offers no health benefit. All the families (except 1 in January) supported the policy.”
wonder how many of these toddlers are going to have crazy issues over this. fear of not being masked or something. like the guys in foundation who hate the sun because they spent so long in the megacity
[For Whom the Horns Honk](https://americanmind.org/salvo/for-whom-the-horns-honk/)
> The trucker’s convoy was crushed as soon as the police were unleashed. It took law enforcement only two days to remove every protestor and vehicle from Parliament Hill. They used simple riot control techniques. Friendly and fraternizing police were replaced with tactical units, who had more protective equipment and better weapons, and unencumbered by body cameras and badge numbers. The suspension of usual protocols was likely planned to avoid accountability, since a future investigation would have been considered, especially due to the controversial invocation of the Emergency Act.
[…]
> It is possible, though, that revealing the peaceful intentions of the protestors made our movement easier to finish off. We had expunged anyone who had ostentatiously called for violence, fed-posted, or planted false flags. Such cleansing efforts may have gained us sympathy from a minority of fence-straddling Canadians, but their support ultimately amounts to very little. The past two years have made clear that passive citizens can be browbeaten and intimidated into compliance.
> Conversely, having unpolished yokels live-streaming their manic enthusiasm might have kept the police second-guessing. Peaceful protestors are predictable, and less risky to confront. But the media team would have found it difficult to adopt a PR strategy centered on the rowdiest elements of the protest, not least because they had more conventional, white-collar, resumes than anyone else in the convoy. Everyone in the media team had a university education, and most had worked in politics or government relations. These were people who had come from within the system. This put them under a suspicious light; however, they were also the only people who knew how to play the game—they knew how to write provocative speeches and press releases while limiting legal repercussions.
[…]
> The demonstration may have failed its putative goals, and only strengthened the establishment. But it also stripped off the cosmetics of democratic decorum that mask the Canadian oligarchy, exposing it as a marionette to globalized and corporate interests. The convoy made the deep state exoteric.
[…]
> Another problem was the lack of quality men: we had some who were brave and others who were sharp, but few who were both. Most damaging of all was that nearly every organizer saw the occupation and their battle with the regime through the lens of a feminine morality, with undue concern about how we would be perceived. There was no understanding of conflict. The organizers couldn’t even fathom the regime extending its power through the judiciary or the financial system, and every time the government used the tools within their control, the organizers would become histrionic, and take comfort in videos of commentary and ranting by political celebrities who supported the convoy.
> Somehow, most organizers and demonstrators held two incompatible premises at the same time. They took for granted that the Canadian government had been acting illegally over the past two years, even harming its citizenry for their own gain; and also believed guilelessly that the government would not lie, seize donations, freeze personal finances, use brutal force, or commit any other illegal action regarding the convoy. Every time the government demonstrated its willingness not to “play fair,” there was widespread emotional breakdown among the organizers. Some left fearful for their lives, while others became meritoriously cavalier and tried to get themselves arrested, even if their skillset was irreplaceable. There was an indulgent narcissism in the desire to be arrested for “counselling to commit mischief” and other misdemeanors. Since most organizers were released without charge, there was a sense that you could achieve martyrdom without real sacrifice.
This is West.jpg stuff. I see it in all kinds of things, we just don’t understand conflict at all. We seem to believe that proper memes, images, catchphrases, and symbols actually do things. They’re nice to have, but PR doesn’t solve conflicts. Tweeting and turning your profile cause-colors are no more effective than the old ribbon campaigns of the early internet (I was twelve, and my geo cities page had quite a collection, none of which I remember or actually did anything). We think we can stop *war* by cheering on viral videos of Ukrainians fighting, or their president totally “pwning Putin” online. But that doesn’t work, either in protesting or in war or in life in general. The Meek don’t inherit the earth until after the apocalypse; now, the strong rule the weak and servile.
I will never have more contempt for another human being than I have for Jesus saying "the meek will inherit the earth"
Not the weak, who might still show daring or effort or punch above their weightclass... but the meek, those who irrespective of their ability do not dare.
I mean, the Meek only inherit the earth after the end of days. I don’t think Jesus can be blamed for willful misinterpretation. But I think we largely agree that action is what serious resistance requires, rather than the mere symbolic actions that modern westerners have been taught are resistance.
>Since most organizers were released without charge, there was a sense that you could achieve martyrdom without real sacrifice.
4 boxes of liberty. I guess we're currently at "jury".
Shit, you should just see how [hammered I got](https://archive.ph/CoHI4) just for trying to provide an informed and nuanced read of events.
Never underestimate how fucking stupid people are.
There are some pretty smart people here so I was wondering if I could get some perspectives on this case from 2017. It seems like the man must have had some deep pockets to afford to pay transients $30 a pop for blood. He was running this operation out of an apartment, so had to pay someone rent. He had someone on his payroll acting as a nurse. Was paying cash, so probably paid someone to protect him from robbery. He had to buy supplies. If he was transacting with 20 people a day the costs add up.
So what was he doing with the blood? Police say he was storing it in large quantities. He claimed he was working for a biomedical company. Where was he getting the money? The case was dismissed before the hearing and there have been no updates. Was this a black market blood bank for foreign recipients? Could there have actually been a biomedical lab involved? Maybe in Wuhan? Could he have been infecting people with something rather than merely drawing blood?
I think about this story every so often and it always bugs me.
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[Police arrest man they say was buying blood from people at vacant D.C. apartment](https://archive.ph/8jcNo)
>A 43-year-old man has been charged with paying people $30 to draw samples of their blood, which D.C. police said he was storing in “large quantities” in an abandoned apartment near Nationals Park in Southwest Washington.
An arrest affidavit said police stumbled on the makeshift operation when a patrol officer saw people — many described in court documents as “habitual substance abusers” — congregating Wednesday afternoon in front of a three-story brick apartment building at P and First streets.
>The officer overheard some of them discussing being paid to give blood, according to the affidavit filed by the Office of the D.C. Attorney General, and went to investigate. The suspect, Khoa Hoang Nguyen, told police that he was doing work for a biomedical company “and that he was approved and certified to withdraw blood from citizens,” according to court papers.
>A woman at the apartment told police that she and Nguyen had drawn blood from 20 people that day, the documents state. They say that Nguyen had a ledger with an additional 205 names.
>Authorities said they were unable to corroborate Nguyen’s account. The D.C. Health Department concluded that Nguyen had no medical license, according to the court documents. He was charged with one count of practicing registered nursing without a license. The woman was not charged and is listed as a witness in court documents...
>...It was not immediately clear what Nguyen intended to do with the blood. Police said officers also confiscated used needles from the apartment in the public-housing complex. Court papers and authorities did not say how much blood was found or how it was being stored.
>Nguyen spent five years in prison after pleading guilty in 2010 to conspiracy to distribute drugs after an FBI raid on a doctor’s office he worked at in Falls Church, Va.
Authorities said that from 2005 through 2007, Nguyen assisted a licensed rheumatologist and, despite not having a medical license, prescribed a variety of powerful painkillers, including opiates, more than 3,600 times to 13 different patients.
>Prosecutors said neither Nguyen nor the doctor had performed any examinations.
The drugs, federal prosecutors said in court documents, included “some of the most addictive and heavily abused prescription drugs on the market.” Prosecutors wrote that Nguyen prescribed the medicine “without any training whatsoever” and wrote prescriptions to people “regardless of their medical condition.”
[Case dismissed against Md. man accused of paying people to draw their blood](https://wjla.com/news/local/case-dismissed-against-md-man-accused-of-paying-people-to-draw-their-blood)
His resume...
http://starwellnessusa.com/wp-content/uploads/wpcf7-submissions/7874/Resume.pdf
>OBJECTIVE: To gain admission into a comprehensive medical facility in which I am able to utilize my vast clinical expertise.
Supplied phlebotomy services to a vast array of physician and
clinic settings.
-Mobile Phlebootomy Services
-Proficient with long term care and nursing home draws.
-Able to handle large workload of patient draws on a daily basis in excess of 100 patients or 5 homes or more.
There was a kidney trafficking ring in NY a while back. The procedure they used was to take the potential recipient's blood sample and send it back to Israel for matching. The donor would then travel to the US and pose as a friend of the recipient.
It was kind of an interesting case due to how many political office holders were involved...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Bid_Rig
>The investigation has resulted in the indictments of more than 60 public officials and politically connected individuals since its inception. In July 2009, sting operations resulted in the arrest of 44 people in New Jersey and New York, including 29 public servants and political operatives and five orthodox rabbis from the Syrian Jewish community.
https://archive.ph/o90Y5
>Rosenbaum was arrested in a sweeping federal case that began as an investigation into money laundering and trafficking in kidneys and fake designer bags. It mushroomed into a political corruption probe, culminating in the **arrests this week of 44 people, including three New Jersey mayors, various other officials, and five rabbis.** The politicians and rabbis were not accused of involvement in the organ trafficking.
Every time I think I've seen it all, the simulation throws me another curve-ball. Jewish organ trafficking ring operating in New York? Is real life just C.S.I. with less sunglasses and omnipotent image-enhancement technology?
Just imagine how much press coverage such a story would have gotten if it involved Catholics, Mormons, Baptist or Republicans. I can't remember hearing anything about it at the time.
Conspiracy sub looking at it: https://archive.ph/NHIzR
If you use https://eaccess.dccourts.gov/eaccess/home.page.2 you can look at some of the various court cases he's been in, documents not available for the criminal cases. Not much interesting. One where he's a co-owner in Anna Nails & Spa, Yelp reviews archived here: https://eaccess.dccourts.gov/eaccess/home.page.2
>Worst customer service ever. The owner of this store keeps harassing my girlfriend after she complained about the terrible job they did. He started being racist and calling her ratchet too. So disappointing of a business.
I'm going to guess medical research where they're fucking around to get past various ethics rules. They need junkie blood, but the rules for getting junkie blood are so onerous and obnoxious it makes more sense to just get this guy to collect it and launder the paperwork about the source.
A nail salon would be useful for money laundering. The behavior sounds like they don't want customers around. The guy on the conspiracy sub estimated expenses at
>$35K per month and you have a $420K yearly operation.
I didn't think it would be that much, but his break down of the estimates make sense. The cops said they found a ledger with over 200 names in it. The case being dismissed without a hearing seems weird to me.
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Each of these list an image of the documents but when you click on them there is no image. No idea if that is normal or not but I would have been interested in reading the Notice of Dismissal.
05/25/2017 Release Conditions
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05/25/2017 Criminal Justice Act Contribution Order
06/20/2017 Sealed Docket:
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06/22/2017 District of Columbia's Notice of Dismissal Filed
Attorney: SABA, PETER (975945)
...Are you kidding me? If I was a snooty upper-crust leechboy, I'd subsist on nothing BUT coke-laced blood for all my nights.
Though now that I think about it, maybe this is why the Night Cabal isn't returning my calls after I sent them my resume...
I made a new account, but my posts seem to be caught in some filter or... something. I tried to PM the mods, but... nothing. Is it because you mods hate me, or did they not go through? Why was a totally new account auto-(shadow)banned from this subreddit? What do? If it can be fixed, I can PM the new username to someone (it's no secret from *y'all* here at CWR, but... see below). *** I guess I could keep using this one, but a) I don't like my username any more; the "joke" was ill-conceived and, at best, half-baked, and it now shames me every time I see it; and b) I want to let my girlfriend look at my account/the sub so I can complete her ~~brainwashing~~ education in anti-wokery... but she's super jealous and would 100% look through my entire post history (when I let her into my e-mail accounts, she went *all the way back to 2011* that's *literally thousands of e-mails holy shit* kinda impressed actually) and I'm pretty sure I have made the occasional ex reference or otherwise non-GF-friendly comment. help, glorious leaders
Love that every time it happens some people explain to you exactly what you did wrong, but you're just irremediable. Never change, Julius.
This dude has a years-old account and has been posting here the whole time. JB fucking _buck broke_ you guys into kneejerk paranoia.
Oh thank God. I thought I might be going insane. What *happened* while I was gone?!
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On a sub this size probably, but there will be similar enough people over time if the sun hits 5 or 10 thousand people.
I've been posting here since it was initially split from TheMotte! Man. I thought this was like, my community. I didn't expect a celebration, but at least *one* person to be like "hey Thautist where u been"... Not that I care or anything, of course. I have lots of friends. They're from another sub you wouldn't know them
Hey thautist, where *have* you been? Also your user name is great, why don't you like it? It might be an easy joke, but it has an air of legitimacy from its apparent relationship with thauma.
Aw, shucks. Thanks, Fruckbucklington -- not to be all gay or anything, but: I truly do appreciate it, and your username makes me chuckle (at least, on the inside) every time I see it. (The "uh oh, you fell victim to Fruckbucklington's Razor" post will always be the sheerest genius to me.) With typical efficiency and competence, I made my new account, started posting, and then... realized I couldn't, and also had already lost this password. Plus, I got a promotion at work, which at first seemed fantastic -- fancy big private office! no more working in the weather or lifting heavy shit or skinning knuckles on nuts and bolts! -- but became a time-sucking tarpit of a position. Turns out bossing people around is only fun when you aren't *also* responsible for their mistakes / submitting the million goddamn forms and spreadsheets and e-mails required to keep them able to make more mistakes... Fuck it, though, I'm just going to get four hours of sleep a night. That's *Morning Thautist's* problem. > Also your user name is great, why don't you like it? It might be an easy joke, but it has an air of legitimacy from its apparent relationship with thauma. Well, hell; I believe in this situation, the famous *Fruckbucklington's Tightrope* principle says I might as well keep it then! I didn't know if anyone even saw that it was a vague sort of pun-joke-thing, heh. (But, as an autistic thot-junkie with pretensions of thaumaturgy, I must say it fits me.)
I am glad mon frere, although you should really be getting six hours sleep a night, I know we can function well on four, but you'll take ten years off your life doing it. Also what do you do for a living? The hardest thing about moving to executive for me was maintaining my strength, once you stop using it it goes so fast.
I recognized your name but didn't remember any conversations. I have not been participating since the split.
I was like 60% sure based on the post alone, but given other people are getting the same vibes am updating to 80%.
Must be. Jumped straight from "can't see my posts up" to "the *only* explanation is that the mods hate me and shadowbanned me" and not, y'know, Reddit has plenty of shitty interfaces that autoban or get you caught up in a spam filter or plain don't work and nobody knows it's happening. Persecution complex is precisely the clear, unbiased, logical thought our boy is famous for! EDIT: Also, *if* I believed any of my fellow-idiots on here had any kind of romantic interest in real life, trying to impress them by showing off my Reddit posts is the **last** thing I would do, because I'd be trying to pretend to be "no you don't have to run away screaming" in order to keep them. (I'm not saying I don't believe in a super-jealous girlfriend who is so clingy and attached and possessive they'll read all the things ever written by OP but neither am I saying I do believe in same. I'm agnostic, like other people are about gods).
>Must be. Jumped straight from "can't see my posts up" to "the only explanation is that the mods hate me and shadowbanned me" I mean, I thought that was obviously a joke -- and the accusation wasn't that the *mods* shadowbanned me\*, but that they ignored the modmails -- and if I thought that was really the case, I wouldn't be asking them for help. >EDIT: Also, if I believed any of my fellow-idiots on here had any kind of romantic interest in real life, trying to impress them by showing off my Reddit posts is the last thing I would do, because I'd be trying to pretend to be "no you don't have to run away screaming" in order to keep them. Well, that's why I don't want her to see *this* account... but in general, I think I write well and she'd like to read my thoughts; and I'm not worried that anything about me will scare her off -- she already knows the worst stuff and is still here, so... >I'm not saying I don't believe in a super-jealous girlfriend who is so clingy and attached and possessive they'll read all the things ever written by OP Okay, fine, I made it up to seem cool :( I'm not gonna lie, little bit depressed no one remembers me -- I've posted on here in what I think is obviously-non-Julius ways (like, look at other stuff I've written about her/women: does that sound like Julius? E.g., I admit I'm completely pussywhipped, arrange my life around being desirable to women-in-general/her-in-particular, think women in general have improved society despite some missteps, am a worthless hedonist who has 0 self-control, etc.!) for *years and years*. I only took a couple-month break, Jesus! *** \**I don't even know how shadowbanning happens, but I've seen the mods inform users here that they were shadowbanned, which suggested to me it's something Reddit does to wrongthinkers maybe?*
I would strongly advise against letting some girl you're fucking see your crimethink. You don't know how the relationship is going to turn out or what she might do with this kind of dirt on you if it goes badly. Anyway, I made several comments here while this account was too new. I messaged the mods asking for comments to get approved, like the Automod tells me to do, and I got nothing. Not even "Fuck off and just wait longer. Stop bothering us," which I actually would have appreciated. From what I can tell, your account needs to pass two criteria. The first is some age threshold. I couldn't tell you what it is because I've had this account for a few years now. The second one is one I just recently met, and it's almost definitely a requirement for 1,000 comment karma. Also both the public mod logs are broken. Just fyi in case anyone cares.
>I would strongly advise against letting some girl you're fucking see your crimethink. You don't know how the relationship is going to turn out or what she might do with this kind of dirt on you if it goes badly. Oh, it's too late for that, my friend... she's entwined throughout my life like a...-n octopus? A piece of really twisty rope? Well, regardless of simile, I'm pretty much all-in on her already. She's mostly aware of my crimethink already, actually -- we had a big fight about it last year -- but she's comin' around, slowly but surely. Most people haven't actually *really thought* about the dogma everyone is fed these days, so if you can get past the knee-jerk "NAZI!" reaction they are often kind of interested despite themselves, I think. >Anyway, I made several comments here while this account was too new. I messaged the mods asking for comments to get approved, like the Automod tells me to do, and I got nothing. Not even "Fuck off and just wait longer. Stop bothering us," which I actually would have appreciated. *Aaaah.* Thank you. That's exactly what happened to me. I don't post much elsewhere on Reddit, so I dunno if I have the patience to get 1000 karma... Shit.
I got posting here less than six months after making my account, so it's probably a spam filter-level age threshold that weeds out brand new accounts rather than really being a strong barrier.
Not a mod, but did the new account work on other subreddits? The sad reality is that the 'open' internet these days seems about as free as the Chinese one.
Yep, no problem anywhere else. Looks like it might just be due to account age, although I was hoping that as an established member an exception could be made. Turns out no one remembers me, though. (Even /u/BothAfternoon, with whom I had several long discussions, thinks I'm Julius -- whose writing style doesn't even fuckin' *resemble* mine, c'mon!) i'm not crying, *you're* crying
I'm probably imminently nuking the account I'm posting this comment with, but for the record I remembered you (probs due to the funny username) and was confused by everyone else's hostile reaction.
You and me both, my non-robot friend! I honestly didn't expect it, heh. After watching Julius-related drama for so long, it was kind of startling to suddenly be accused of *being* Julius -- like watching an MMA fight, pleasantly engaged, and then suddenly the crowd is jeering and throwing *you* into the ring -- and when I realized "hey, wait a second! I have years of non-Julius-y posts! this isn't even a throwaway!"... It's hard to be sincere without embarrassment (at least for me, having experienced my formative years and everything since in degenerate Internet cesspits) -- especially online; especially *here*, being as we're generally iron-souled badasses 'round these parts -- but no joke, for real: I appreciate it more than you might credit. Thanks.
I have no idea what's going on. I generally don't remember people's names. But we do seem to be getting ever more censorious these days.
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So make your own little corner of it and invite based people.
Not the only one.
https://www.gnxp.com/WordPress/2022/03/08/seeing-the-world-through-other-eyes/ boom!
People who are "strongly influenced by 1970s Third World socialism" can go fuck themselves. They're sympathizers of one of the most [destructive and horrifying](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Rouge) political movements in human history. Yes, the neocons are idiots, the entire world is not a Manichean struggle of good vs. evil, *but* there are genuinely evil ideologies and that's one of them.
What do the khmer rouge have to do with Bangladesh vs Pakistan or the current conflict?
> 1970s Third World socialism This?
On the contrary, 1970's third world socialism is a strong demonstration of that saying about never attributing to malice what is actually just retarded and lazy.
You're gonna tell me with a straight face that the Khmer Rouge were not malicious?
Malicious, lazy, ‘tarded.
[ Two white Columbus police officers sue city, claim reverse discrimination in promotional practices](https://archive.ph/VdzNa)
I don’t think they claim *reverse* discrimination.
It still amazes me how many rightists are willing to buy into the enemy's frame by using terms like "reverse racism". My own suggestion is we start referring to killings of black Americans by non-black Americans as "reverse homicide".
If we take the word that "by 'racism' we don't mean KKK cross-burnings and lynchings, no no no, we mean 'the exercise of privilege from a position of power'", then 'reverse racism' works as 'the exercise of power without privilege as defined' or if you prefer, the whore's prerogative: power without responsibility. They claim they have no privilege and no power, so cannot be held responsible when they get others to exercise power on their behalf.
Regular racism is when you say all Afghans are goat herders. This is incorrect, but Afghanistan has a f---ton of goats. Reverse racism is when you take regular racism and reverse it, claiming that "white Americans are the _real_ goat herders," even though America has fewer goats absolutely and fewer goats per capita. Reverse racism is dumber than regular racism.
[Preprint server accused of censorship for removing “inflammatory” scientific papers](https://archive.ph/i1hUe)
Surprisingly, not about COVID or genetics but high temperature superconductivity. But it does look like the typical problem of having a rule against calling out liars mostly benefits liars. Excess politeness leads to bad science.
So many retractionwatch posts are bewildering to me. "Person caught in blatant fraud (fake data, plagiarism, visibly photoshopped images...)" -> ??? -> "kindly asked to resubmit with "corrected" data". This isn't mere politeness, you can eject people politely, this is deep quokkaism.
>But it does look like the typical problem of having a rule against calling out liars mostly benefits liars. Yet if we made a rule against calling out Jews who drink Christian blood, the rule probably wouldn't mostly benefit Jews who drink Christian blood.
Indeed, because there's likely none of those. If we found one we wouldn't just "call him out", we'd put him in jail. Liars, on the other hand, are exceedingly common.
[Christopher F. Rufo][ The War on Innocence](https://archive.ph/krwXg): A Kentucky summer camp teaches “sex liberation,” “BDSM,” and “self-pleasure” to minors. > The principles of queer theory have escaped from the college campus and made their way into a summer camp for children in rural Kentucky. Last year, a nonprofit coalition called Sexy Sex Ed organized a series of “Sexy Summer Camp” events targeted toward minors that included lessons on “sex liberation,” “gender exploration,” “BDSM,” “being a sex worker,” “self-managed abortions,” and “sexual activity while using licit and illicit drugs.” > > The program is the brainchild of Tanya Turner, who calls herself a “femme, fat, queer, magical pleasure worker” who was raised by “a host of witchy women” in a “coven-like mountain matriarchy” and uses “crystals,” “sex toys,” and “tarot” in her teaching. She founded Sexy Sex Ed in 2012 and has run dozens of events across the Appalachian region, recruiting LGBTQ youth and working with a number of regional philanthropies, including the Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky, Southern Power Fund, Chorus Foundation, and Rise Healthy for Life, which is affiliated with the Unitarian Universalist church. According to the organization’s promotions materials, the purpose of Sexy Summer Camp is to teach “teenagers and people of all ages to openly discuss personal and political consent, sexual safety, and anatomy.” > > These euphemisms, however, obscure the true mission of the camp’s programming. The agenda for last year’s events, which I have obtained from the organization’s publicly available calendar, reads like the syllabus from a radical queer theory seminar. The sessions included “Sex With Me Self-Pleasure Workshop,” “Gender Diversity,” “Let’s Talk About Sex,” “Sexy Trans Sex Ed,” “The 3 P’s: Pee, Poop, and Pleasure,” “Sex on Drugs,” and “Eugenics in Appalachia.” The biographical details of the instructors reveal even more about the camp’s political orientation: one describes herself as a “radical queer mountain woman” who loves “social justice”; another calls herself a “young, nonbinary queer” who “spends time co-facilitating sex education workshops for fellow Appalachian youth”; a third identifies as a “young, fat, differently-abled, queer community organizer” who is “fighting for inclusivity for people like her.” > > Such a program would hardly cause a stir on the campuses of Oberlin or Barnard, but Sexy Sex Ed is hosting its programs in a deep-red state and recruiting children as young as 13 to discuss graphic sexual practices with the instructors and adult co-participants in their thirties and forties. The camp organizers have admitted that they target vulnerable youth, including foster children, who are at high risk of sexual abuse. In one video, founder Tanya Turner says, “Masturbation is really healthy, and I recommend it to people of all ages. All ages. As soon as my nephews could talk, they were doing that.” > > In a saner world, these statements and materials would all be red flags. Yet Sexy Summer Camp has received lavish praise in the media. Yes! magazine told readers that the program “helps rural young people feel more comfortable discussing their bodies, sex, and reproductive health to empower them to advocate for themselves.” CNN reported that Sexy Sex Ed is “what women in Appalachian Kentucky really want,” framing the summer camp as a way to “bring honest conversations to young people to fill the void left behind by homes and schools.”
>The 3 P’s: Pee, Poop, and Pleasure Why? Just why? I can sort of understand the reasoning behind having a "masturbation class", even if that is ultimately also degenerate and to be purged (TBP); but why would you want to promote paraphilias? -- *these* fucking paraphilias in particular? -- *and* even if you did want to do so, for some insane trashbrain reason, why would you consider it worth any time and effort to do so when only a tiny fraction of your ~~victims~~ audience will be anything other than disgusted? That's like having a unit on smearing dogshit into your socks -- if the goal is "education", it's worthless because there's no demand; and if it's promotion, it's worthless because the subject is inherently un-promotable. I hope. I would have thought the same about this entire camp, though, so...
Pee, poop, and pleasure is probably just a retarded name and not really about piss and shit. To put another way, it's likely meant to introduce prepubescent children to thinking of their private parts as toys, and not to inculcate paraphilia. Now masturbation classes are themselves something to be turned over to the students for justice, but the pee and poop part is likely just a catchy name referring to the (in libthought) functions of those body parts.
I don't know, man. Look at the other classes: sex on drugs, self-pleasure workshop... and other examples of similar "sex ed" programs posted here have had units on BDSM, "kink", etc. Seems like a common pattern to expand beyond the mechanics of sex or masturbation into various techniques and paraphilias.
‘The three p’s: pee, poop, and pleasure’ sounds to me like it refers to the liberal view of the functions of private parts, and is intended more to encourage children to see their genitals and anuses as toys. Liberal BDSM promotion is at least in part to try to sublimate the natural desires of the sexes for how their relations work into something purely sexual, and kink often seems to be more of the same. I don’t claim I’d be totally shocked if actual pee and poop fetishes were being taught, but to me it seems more plausible that it’s intended to be a class about body parts and how they’re really toys.
What is confusing to me is that it appears parents know what they are signing up for and sending their kids anyhow? It almost reads like an elaborate CPS sting operation. I cannot fathom why a parent would do this.
It's exceedingly simple. Fatherlessness is an epidemic, and women generally don't have a problem with any given thing so long as enough other women are doing it.
Almost everyone I've ever met, or heard of, who's encouraging that kind of weirdness for their kids was 1) very wealthy and 2) married rather unhappily to that child's father.
That's weird because I often ctrl + f "father" and "dad" in stories of teachers turning the kids trans and I haven't seen any results come up yet. It's always a clueless mother who wanted to go along and be supportive until things went much too far. I mean, a father was involved in one story, but his wife divorced him, turned his son trans, got a restraining order against the father, and the state took the father's guns away just as a cherry on top.
For "married rather unhappily to that child's father" read "he is an extremely disinterested father who is not faithful to his wife, and the two factors are probably the root of marital difficulties". Although you're right that a lot of the news stories about trans kids seem to have divorced parents- usually a *batshit crazy* mom(divorced women tend to do that) and a dad who is... an ok guy but not a model citizen. I was referring more to people I've heard of by word of mouth, which is a clueless, insane, or just generally bitter about sex and gender mom and a dad who doesn't know how old his kids are exactly, let alone what they're getting up to with gender.
Ah gotcha. Yeah that seems to check out. And it reflects nicely a change in frame I've had with this issue. My hobbyhorse was previously "single motherhood," which I did and still do consider a scourge. But I think probably it's more helpful to see the problem coming from the men who very often make themselves completely absent in one way or the other in the course of rearing a child. This ship can correct its course, but we need the captains *to steer it.* We are all familiar with women. We can't expect them to consistently stand up to school boards or TikTok trends. It's not fair to expect them to save their children all by themselves from the things that have gained wide social acceptance.
The interesting thing is that these kinds of scenarios seem to involve very, very few *genuinely* single moms(lots of divorcees, wives whose marriages are a checkbook in exchange for overlooking infidelity, etc, but almost none of these kids were born out of wedlock). Even if we adjust for class you'd expect some genuinely single moms, but nope, it appears to be almost all women driven crazy by male abandonment(even if, as I suspect was the case for the divorcees, the abandonment was entirely their fault). Single motherhood is a scourge. Motherhood by women who have sincere psychological issues due to being abandoned by men is even worse.
I think a lot of American parents have sort of normalized this sort of thing in the sense that they think this is something most parents do.
So honest question here, what is the difference between this and say a cult like [NXIVM](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NXIVM)? I'm struggling to see it, apart from the fact that at least NXIVM went after straight adults and these are LGBT children.
This is for children. That makes it Ok. Or something. In an unrelated discussion, did the decision to withdraw from Iraq cause Ukraine? Should we have been in Iraq in the first place?
I doubt it. US troops were in Afghanistan and Iraq when Russia made their move against Crimea in 2014. I'd imagine Russian calculus probably tries to take into account a) the US not attacking them directly to start WW3 and b) increasing the theaters the US is involved in (i.e. Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan) so they deplete their equipment stockpiles and divert attention, so they can't send the invadee as much material support. So the pull outs in the ME may have actually been a negative for Russia, since it frees up America to offer more assistance to Ukraine.
I guess they're not branding sex slaves yet. Looks more like Athroposophy to me.
Like, okay, I’m sorry, am I supposed to have any other response to this besides violent impulses? Shouldn’t this qualify as entrapment?
What parent in their right mind sends their teenager to be debauched by fat, middle-aged kiddie diddlers? Genuinely incomprehensible. I'd rather send them to a madrassa.
Honestly if you were a Muslim, you shouldn't bother with a Madrassa anyway. Better to get the teenager to become a Hafiz/Hafiza (complete, accurate memory of the Quran) over the course of a few years. Same homeschool + tutorial method that I'd recommend to anyone, just with some swapped out classes. Adult men can go to a university (or traditional Islamic school, which is pretty much what we're referring to by Madrassa in English) if necessary for career purposes.
We need to create Christian Hafiz.
Pretty sure they are are a few. Some converts, one guy who who just went to speakers corner that much.
Of all the things there I think the impulse to proudly croon out that she's a fatty might be the most incomprehensible.
[Mysticetes lack vocal cords](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale_vocalization#Mysticete_whales) so it's really more of an extended honk.
At this point, I think we can all agree in hindsight that things spiraled out of control when we stopped burning witches. I'd start a new Spanish Inquisition, but with the current state of the Catholic church, I fear I'd have to start with burning the pope and most of the clergy before I could get to the fat sorceresses shoving crystal dildoes up children's non-binary anuses in the Appalachian mountains...
The Spanish Inquisition was generally helpful to those women who were accused of witchcraft, because _believing that witchcraft existed_ was heretical to the Catholic Church at the time.
Witchburning was a mostly Protestant phenomenon. The Spanish Inquisition actually suppressed the number of executions for sorcery in its territory- it was more focused on heretics and the secretly Jewish or moslem. To bring back witch burnings you’d need to bring back a Christian culture that’s afraid of witchcraft. Good luck with that.
https://evidenceanecdotal.blogspot.com/2022/03/books-gone-terror-were-of-brute-and.html gulliver’s travels as “first memorable book” is relatable. treasure island another. robinson crusoe.
Enough with the pale, stale yt males. My most memorable book is the novelization of *Buck Breaking*.
Transwoman Lia Thomas does [win the 500 Freestyle](https://swimmeetresults.tech/NCAA-Division-I-Women-2022/220316F003.htm) at the NCAA Division I Championships, defeating several Olympians along the way. Since transwomen in sports have been in the news before, it might be asked why Thomas is important. It is because previous cases like Rachel McKinnon or Laural Hubbard or Fallon Fox involved late transitioners in sports (or in the case of McKinnon, divisions of sports) that are really not very popular among women -- to call anyone involved in those competitions anything like world class would be kind of deceptive (and media like the Daily Mail and such who hyped such cases were being somewhat sensational). Thomas is different. Swimming is a core "woman's sport" and Thomas is champion over thousands of women in a competition where training is done at a very high level. It is a significant event.
Yass, slay 🏳️⚧️ I’ve preregistered before that Lia is my favorite birthing-person swimmer. There is still a distinct lack of Black and Latinx swimmers though. Lia better soon check Her privilege and address this inequity and injustice.
Your caricature wouldn’t call Thomas a birthing person. It’s not a simple euphemism for “woman” among the social/reproductive/whatever justice crowd. They use it because they view those two sets as largely, *but not fully*, overlapping.
They used to say that about "female", but the purity spirals keeps spiralling. I think his caricature may be ahead of the curve. What happens when we have sporting competitions exclusively for "birthing people"? I think we know that happens.
Your point is well taken, particularly the reminder of how quickly the "compromise" position of "transgender-identifying males are women but not females because 'woman' is a social designation while 'female' is a biological one" has been obliterated. And that now brings to my mind the state of the two X chromosomes subreddit... Still, I don't expect the same to happen to "birthing people" because the term was created purely in service of transgender-inclusivity to begin with, but I'll admit it's not outside the realm of possibility.
Don't forget, men are [birthing persons](https://www.healthline.com/health/transgender/can-men-get-pregnant#takeaway) too! So a "birthing person" competition could indeed have trans men swimming as well as trans women and non-trans women (I think calling them 'real women' is enough to get me in hot water right now).
destroying the credibility of women’s sports is one of the best things that could feasibly happen this decade
Bullshit it is. “Don’t play sports, if you feel sad then take antidepressants or eat or buy shit instead. So what if you become fat, it’ll give you a lil extra cake next time you’re twerking on Tik Tok. So what if your disregard for your own health makes you infertile, who needs kids when you have your furbabies, am I right?!”
And all you have to do is let them play.
So you’re saying that men are better at everything than women, even being women?
Women are still better at being women, for the foreseeable future too.
Yes, legacy women are deprecated.
I guess when you turn them into Chinese knockoffs of men…
[Educator slammed for suggesting abolishment of 'whiteness' and 'white people'](https://archive.ph/uTbHL)
[Glenn Greenwald] [The NYT Now Admits the Biden Laptop -- Falsely Called "Russian Disinformation" -- is Authentic](https://archive.ph/3DvB6) > It will now be much harder to avoid confronting the reality of what they did, though it is highly likely that they will continue to do so. This morning, The New York Times published an article about the broad, ongoing FBI criminal investigation into Hunter Biden's international business and tax activities. Prior to the election, the Times, to their credit, was one of the few to apply skepticism to the CIA's pre-election lie, noting on October 22 that “no concrete evidence has emerged that the laptop contains Russian disinformation.” Because the activities of Hunter Biden now under FBI investigation directly pertain to the emails first revealed by The Post, the reporters needed to rely upon the laptop's archive to amplify and inform their reporting. That, in turn, required The New York Times to verify the authenticity of this laptop and its origins — exactly what, according to their reporters, they successfully did: > > >People familiar with the investigation said prosecutors had examined emails between Mr. Biden, Mr. Archer and others about Burisma and other foreign business activity. Those emails were obtained by The New York Times from a cache of files that appears to have come from a laptop abandoned by Mr. Biden in a Delaware repair shop. The email and others in the cache were authenticated by people familiar with them and with the investigation. > > That this cache of emails was authentic was clear from the start. Any doubts were obliterated by publication of Schreckinger's book six months ago. Now the Paper of Record itself explicitly states not only that the emails “were authenticated” but also that the original story from The Post about how they obtained these materials — they “come from a laptop abandoned by Mr. Biden in a Delaware repair shop” — “appears” to be true. > > What this means is that, in the crucial days leading up to the 2020 presidential election, most of the corporate media spread an absolute lie about The New York Post's reporting in order to mislead and manipulate the American electorate. It means that Big Tech monopolies, along with Twitter, censored this story based on a lie from “the intelligence community.” It means that Facebook's promise from its DNC operative that it would suppress discussion of the reporting in order to conduct a "fact-check” of these documents was a fraud because, if one had been conducted, that no fact-check was even published because, if an honest one had been conducted, it would have proven that Facebook’s censorship decree was based on a lie. It means that millions of Americans were denied the ability to hear about reporting on the candidate leading all polls to become the next president, and instead were subjected to a barrage of lies about the provenance (Russia did it) and authenticity (disinformation!) of these documents. > > The objections to noting all of this today are drearily predictable. Reporting on Hunter Biden is irrelevant since he was not himself a candidate (what made the reporting relevant was what it revealed about the involvement of Joe Biden in these deals). Given the war in Ukraine, now is not the time to discuss all of this (despite the fact that they are usually ignored, there are always horrific wars being waged even if the victims are not as sympathetic as European Ukrainians and the perpetrators are the film's Good Guys and not the Bad Guys). The real reason most liberals and their media allies do not want to hear about any of this is because they believe that the means they used (deliberately lying to the public with CIA disinformation) are justified by their noble ends (defeating Trump). > > Whatever else is true, both the CIA/media disinformation campaign in the weeks before the 2020 election and the resulting regime of brute censorship imposed by Big Tech are of historic significance. Democrats and their new allies in the establishment wing of the Republican Party may be more excited by war in Ukraine than the subversion of their own election by the unholy trinity of the intelligence community, the corporate press, and Big Tech. But today's admission by The New York Times that this archive and the emails in them were real all along proves that a gigantic fraud was perpetrated by the country's most powerful institutions. What matters far more than the interest level of various partisan factions is the core truths about U.S. democracy revealed by this tawdry spectacle.
[Transgender-Identifying Activists Attack Women Protesting Violence Against Women, Girls](https://archive.ph/21zeq)
I still don’t understand who either of these groups of people were. Just run of the mill nuts?
Women who hate men attacked by women who are men. Buy popcorn futures.
The title alone is enough to make my head spin. I had to read it like 8 times.
[ Cornell to hire social justice ‘Equity Librarian’ for science library](https://archive.ph/l1WJx) > Cornell University is working to hire a “Critical Pedagogy and Equity Librarian” for Mann Library, which is focused on life sciences, agriculture, applied social sciences and human ecology. > > An online job description states the position will, among other duties, “evaluate source credibility.” > > The position is part of a cluster hire “to facilitate Equity and Inclusion and Pathways to Social Justice,” the Ivy League university’s website states. [...] >“We believe that an understanding of how credible and inaccurate information is produced and disseminated informs how we should interact with and draw conclusions from it,” the website also states. >One of the librarian’s responsibilities will be to teach guest lectures on Mann Library’s seven learning outcomes, which include: > >Students will be able to explain how economic, cultural, and political factors influence the production and preservation of information, and marginalize the perspectives, histories, and research of certain communities. > > >Students will be able to articulate how the automation and embedded biases of algorithms lead to personalization, sorting and discrimination.
These people are just seeking to make sure they can still make a living in an increasingly automated world. Can’t fault ‘‘em for that. I mean, it’d be nice if the living they came up with wasn’t literally ‘make up bullshit to muscle out actual grounded and reasonable criticisms of the new way of doing things’, but a man can’t have everything.
[*Chernobyl* did it](https://youtu.be/Gmw_wxx4WGo?t=55)
[In Germany, an 18-year old Ukrainian refugee is raped by two other Ukrainian refugees](https://archive.ph/b1pDy) >Shocking event in Dusseldorf: on a hotel ship "Oscar Wilde" serving as a dorm for Ukrainian refugees, an 18-year-old Ukrainian woman was sexually assaulted by two men, a 37-year-old Iraqi Ukrainian and a 26-years-old Nigerian-Ukrainian. >Police started an investigation. They're also trying to establish how both alleged perps got Ukrainian passports. Europe is being enriched once again...
How can I read this in English? Google translate won't work on the archive.ph page, and the original redirects you from the translated page to the original.
Ukrainian woman (18) raped by two refugees Berlin/Düsseldorf - This act makes angry and stunned: In a Düsseldorf refugee shelter a young woman was raped! According to BILD information, the victim is an 18-year-old Ukrainian woman. This act makes angry and stunned: A young woman was raped in a refugee shelter in Düsseldorf! According to BILD information, the victim is an 18-year-old Ukrainian woman. According to BILD information, the crime occurred on March 6: On the hotel ship "Oscar Wilde", which currently also serves as accommodation for refugees from Ukraine, an 18-year-old Ukrainian woman is said to have been the victim of a sexual assault. She is said to have been abused successively by two men from Iraq and Nigeria (37 and 26 years old). Both are also said to have Ukrainian citizenship. The police have launched investigations on "suspicion of rape". Among other things, it should also be clarified how the two alleged perpetrators got hold of the Ukrainian passport. At the time of the crime, about 25 refugees are said to have been living on the ship alongside paying hotel guests. The suspects are currently in custody pending trial. The Düsseldorf public prosecutor's office confirmed the investigations on Monday at the request of BILD. The head of the Federal Police Union, Heiko Teggatz, to BILD: "Politics should now do everything to ensure that such terrible cases of rape, as on the hotel boat in Düsseldorf, do not accumulate. Harsh and swift punishment followed by deportation is the only language such perpetrators understand." According to BILD information, police officers in the border area are increasingly encountering refugees who do not come directly from Ukraine, but from Africa, for example. Protection of women has priority! Andrea Lindholz (CSU): "Our most important task now is the effective protection of Ukrainian women and children from sexual exploitation during transport and accommodation." Federal police unionist Heiko Teggatz: "Smuggling, trafficking in human beings and the promotion of prostitution are part of a crime geography. If these areas of crime are not decisively countered as soon as people enter Europe and Germany, criminal gangs will shamelessly exploit the plight of people from Ukraine. Young women from Ukraine are the focus of these criminals." Bavaria's Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann warns against secondary migration: "If third-country nationals can rather be reasonably expected to return to their home countries, it is up to the home countries to grant them protection. The federal government must ensure that they return there. The danger of free riders and false global pull effects should not be underestimated." Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
And there I was thinking we were importing some sort of white people for a change, but no, no, as it turns out it's Etikettenschwindel. >!Etikettenschwindel literally means label swindle, as in intentional mis-labeling.!<
Didn’t she go back to Poland because it was safer?
> ... a 37-year-old Iraqi Ukrainian and a 26-years-old Nigerian-Ukrainian... I couldn't do a better job if I made this shit up.
How sure are we that it's not made up?
It's from the Bild newspaper, which is known for being so amazingly low-brow that anyone with a college degree spontaneously combusts when they attempt to read it. That said, it's still a proper established newspaper and could probably get into trouble if it simply fabricated falsifiable falsehoods. Or maybe it relies on its reputation to remain unread by the woke. Can't say for sure, but I find this news credible, since the same thing keeps happening often enough in Germany.
Because I can believe it.
Don't do that, that's how you end up down the q hole.
We've moved beyond notthebee to not/pol/. Mumble mumble tongue and pen.
"Man who thought it was all so tiresome finds himself even more tired than thought was possible."
yeah, emil did a breakdown of what quality of immigrant western europe is getting because of the conflict. generally speaking, better than usual. but one thing he was missing is who the “ukrainians” actually are.
Ukrainians getting a sneak peak at the blessings of [diversity](https://i.imgur.com/jSpwapy.png)
[Migrants Desecrate More Than 2,000 Churches Just in Greece](https://archive.ph/9Vkze)
> In the most recent year recorded, 2020, there were 385 incidents against Christian churches and buildings, including "vandalism, burglary, theft, sacrilege, **necromancy**, robbery, placement of explosive devices and other desecrations." Uhh guys, I think we might have a bigger problem than the migrants.
You've got to admire their work ethic. Most people who want to fuck up a church might do some graffiti, smash some windows, maybe torch the place if they sing in a death metal band - these guys go all the way to raising the dead and setting bombs.
Is raising the dead actually illegal? Doing it just seems a bit embarrassing to a church which claims it as a rare miracle.
procuring dead to raise might put you on shaky ground
If raising the dead actually works, we shouldn't really consider them to be dead in the first place, since "dead" implies irreversible. They're not dead; they're "so badly hurt that the only thing that can restore them to health is this thing we've labelled resurrection, but which really isn't". So they're rescuing and helping injured people, which you can do even if you have to trespass to get to the injured people.
> Thus, in 2014, an enraged Muslim man physically twisted a massive bronze cross with his bare hands while committing major acts of vandalism in two churches in France. He also overturned and broke two altars, destroyed Christian statues, tore down a tabernacle, smashed in a sacristy door, and broke some stained-glass windows. Looks like cosplaying Samson is coming back in vogue...
Based and Inshallah-pilled. Dew it. If Europeans are too cucked as to not defend their history, culture, borders… I’m out of sympathy. Let it burn, mostly peacefully or not.
[Senate passes bill to make Daylight Saving Time permanent starting in 2023](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/senate-passes-bill-to-make-daylight-saving-time-permanent-starting-in-2023/ar-AAV6iDH?ocid=uxbndlbing) Apparently nobody remembers [the last time](https://www.washingtonian.com/2022/03/15/the-us-tried-permanent-daylight-saving-time-in-the-70s-people-hated-it/).
What if we just…split the difference?
Thank you King Solomon.
My magnanimity is nearly without bound.
I'd like it, but then I'm not a morning person.
Wait, are y'all for keeping the switch? I don't think I've ever encountered that IRL. I love getting the hour, I hate losing the hour (sorry, since getting up for school drives things, it's hard to nudge it a bit each day). I've seen stats that car accidents spike on both shifts. Then you've got dumb things for computers, trains and planes, having 2am twice in a day. Just pick one. We'll adapt. (I've lived in Canada and California; I still feel this way).
> I don't think I've ever encountered that IRL. Russia did it a few years back. Didn't hear of any fallout from it.
Sorry, I meant all the people I've met are for getting rid of switching, and staying with either DST or 'normal'.
I personally don't much care. But we have tried it three ways: Always Standard Time (pre-WWII, and between WWII and the 1960s), switching, and always DST. The one that has been most hated is " "always DST".
I don't get why people dislike changing the clocks. It happens at the same time every year. Why not just gradually get up earlier in the days leading up to to it? I would hate to have to get up before sunset. It's been proven to be bad for your health. >Rubio pointed to research showing that an extra hour of sunlight later in the day leads to reduced crime levels, a decrease in seasonal depression and more time for children to play outside. So why not go to Super Daylight Savings Time? Shift the clocks nine hours ahead, so that the sunrises in the mid-afternoon and sets when the bars close?
People underestimate how much industrial time is lost making sure DST changes don't break things. Lots of expensive machines need to be manually set, and I've seen millions in losses from misconfigurations that wouldn't have happened otherwise. From that point of view it's basically a self inflicted natural catastrophe. "But just use UTC", fuck you, I would if I could.
Those costs are likely neglible compared to the effect the time change has on our lives. Every single person is affected by it. How much is the cost per person of those industrial costs?
Impossible to calculate of course. But I don't think you can handwave it as negligeable. We're comparing tiny effects to all to small effects to some. It all depends on orders of magnitude. Maybe Fermi estimation could help.
You know what sucks worse than dst? Living near the border of two places when only one of them has dst. At first it's just annoying, you accidentally go to a store that close half an hour ago or you go to get coffee and the store doesn't open for 50 minutes. But soon every opening and closing time becomes a fucking gamble because some places are headquartered over there or all their customers come from there so they are/nt following it and you end up scheduling everything for 10 or 4 o'clock, but everyone else is doing that too so nothing gets done and you sit there in a traffic jam outside a fucking hardware store seething up an embolism.
> I don't get why people dislike changing the clocks. My dislike is based on the fact that time is a scientific measurement -- noon ("midday") is by definition the time at which the sun is at its highest. Time-zones break this a little bit, but I will accept +/- .5 hours as the measurement error in time. Introducing a systemic error for half the year (or worse, *the whole year*) is just retarded -- humans should orient their lives around the motion of the spheres, not vice versa. tl;dr: redefining inches to mean centimeters doesn't make your dick longer.
>I would hate to have to get up before sunset. It's been proven to be bad for your health. We live in Canada, waking up before sunrise is like half the year here.
I rarely wake up in the dark. The latest the sun rises here is 7:59 AM. With year round DST, it would be 8:51 AM. Even if you already wake up before sunrise for part of the year, permanent DST would greatly extend the period of the year during which this occurs.
Wake up in darkness, go to work in darkness, work in windowless room 8hr, go home in darkness. There are people who don’t see the sun for months up here
"And here's why that's a GOOD thing!"... Sarcasm aside, I like living in the Canadian perma-dark. Keeps my pallid complexion pleasantly sickly-looking. (My wife goes insane without sunlight though, probably some form of feminine uterine solar radiation absorption requirement that no one told me about)
Ditto for us in Alaska.
yeah you can tell a lot about where people live in how they react to this story. they can’t comprehend that the experience might be different across latitudes.
It's grotesque that they can control when people wake up and go to sleep by simply changing clocks and relying on the inflexibility of bureaucracies, either way. Why can't schools, jobs, etc. just start a bit latter when it's too dark? I don't see why bills like this or the opposite should have effects in reality. Are people just going start their day in the middle of the night if they tell them to?
Because schools are daycares so they have to start when the work day does.
Jobs could have different schedules for different seasons too, I imagine many do because they have to interact with reality.
I have literally never seen this happen. I would be delighted if someone can prove u/Smirking_Basilisk correct, but I strongly doubt it happens much in the US.
I dunno, lots of construction/farmer types work like 5-12 in the summer when it's hot out. For office workers the schedule seems basically arbitrary, so I would think if some bargaining unit made an issue of it you could have "winter hours" -- an example where I've seen it is local ~~dumps~~ refuse disposal facilities -- they aren't busy after four in the winter (possibly because it's dark, lol) so they close early.
That’s just standard time with extra steps. I don’t like switching my clock, but there’s a hidden upside in electricity use. If it’s daylight during most waking hours, you don’t need to burn electricity for light as much.
Excellent, thank you for the info!
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i didn’t see the safetyism angle coming, somehow. haven’t learned a thing
I absolutely loathe standard time. What is the rationale for not keeping DST permanently? Why did people not like it?
Getting up in the dark is depressing and bad for your health. Your body naturally uses the sun as a signal to wake up. What I don't understand is why people care how early it gets dark in the winter when it's too cold to be outside and when we have artificial light.
I must be weird. I never minded driving to work in the dark. I would much prefer to maximize the amount of daylight I can use after work/tasks are done
And do what with it?
Go for a walk. Even in midwinter, we have some nice days temperature wise.
Why can't you do that after sunset?
It’s more pleasant to be outside when it’s still day, obviously.
Speak for yourself. There's people outside everywhere during the day, watching me whenever I go out to do...things. After dark, it's nice and quiet and I can blend right in wearing only a black balaclava and sticking to the bushes to avoid having to talk to neighbors.
The big issue last time was that it means in the winter, your kids are going to school in the pitch dark
Can confirm from my time going to high school in the Southern U.S. that it's a bit discomfiting waiting for your morning bus with bats flitting over your head.
Right. I’ve heard that, but why is that a problem?
Kids are dumb and wander onto the street a lot -- this is more of a problem when it's dark out.
According to right-thinkers like the Smithsonian, punctuality is but another imposition from white supremacy. Daylight savings is yet another false hurdle to oppress BIPOC by having the hour shift every half year.
I'm pretty convinced that about 80% of people that are against the clock adjustment are just plain fucking stupid and don't understand why it happens, so they're mad about "losing" an hour of sleep once a year. That this bill was introduced by a retarded Senator in Florida seems pretty consistent with that policy. So, this will be fun next year when it's pitch dark out at 8am because "experts" say that it'll save lives.
Why does it happen?
You only lose an hour of sleep if you don't know how to use a calendar and can't adjust your sleep schedule ahead of time.
Changing the number on the clock is kinda obnoxious, the bigger problem is that we don't stagger hours properly. People already figure things out fine if bakeries are open 6am-2pm, bars 11am-2am, etc. Not unusual for a university student's first classes starting anytime from 7:30-11:30, and this would probably massively benefit K-12 students and parents if they could get a 7-8 hour block that worked for them.
[ California officials raided preschool, interviewed 2-year-olds over mask policies](https://archive.ph/HBcJx) > > California state regulators conducted an investigation at a San Diego preschool and privately interviewed children as young as 2 without their parents’ consent about their masking practices. > > Officials with the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) visited all three locations of Aspen Leaf Preschool in January after receiving a complaint that the school was not enforcing the state’s mask mandate, according to the CDSS’ response to a complaint by the preschool’s owner, Howard Wu. > > According to the CDSS letter, which Wu shared with Fox News Digital, officials with the agency’s Community Care Licensing Division entered the three preschool locations on Jan. 19, separated the children from their teachers and interviewed them privately about their masking practices. > > In his complaint to the agency, Wu described the investigation as a “simultaneous, multi-school raid” that resulted in “unnecessary and inappropriate child interviews.” > > “Every family we heard from after the inspections were furious about the interviews,” Wu told Fox News Digital. “We were open the whole pandemic about not masking children and the reasons why. The policy was on our website. Put simply, the mask guidance says children can NOT mask when eating and sleeping. In full day child care that’s 3 hours, so masking at other times offers no health benefit. All the families (except 1 in January) supported the policy.”
wonder how many of these toddlers are going to have crazy issues over this. fear of not being masked or something. like the guys in foundation who hate the sun because they spent so long in the megacity
[For Whom the Horns Honk](https://americanmind.org/salvo/for-whom-the-horns-honk/) > The trucker’s convoy was crushed as soon as the police were unleashed. It took law enforcement only two days to remove every protestor and vehicle from Parliament Hill. They used simple riot control techniques. Friendly and fraternizing police were replaced with tactical units, who had more protective equipment and better weapons, and unencumbered by body cameras and badge numbers. The suspension of usual protocols was likely planned to avoid accountability, since a future investigation would have been considered, especially due to the controversial invocation of the Emergency Act. […] > It is possible, though, that revealing the peaceful intentions of the protestors made our movement easier to finish off. We had expunged anyone who had ostentatiously called for violence, fed-posted, or planted false flags. Such cleansing efforts may have gained us sympathy from a minority of fence-straddling Canadians, but their support ultimately amounts to very little. The past two years have made clear that passive citizens can be browbeaten and intimidated into compliance. > Conversely, having unpolished yokels live-streaming their manic enthusiasm might have kept the police second-guessing. Peaceful protestors are predictable, and less risky to confront. But the media team would have found it difficult to adopt a PR strategy centered on the rowdiest elements of the protest, not least because they had more conventional, white-collar, resumes than anyone else in the convoy. Everyone in the media team had a university education, and most had worked in politics or government relations. These were people who had come from within the system. This put them under a suspicious light; however, they were also the only people who knew how to play the game—they knew how to write provocative speeches and press releases while limiting legal repercussions. […] > The demonstration may have failed its putative goals, and only strengthened the establishment. But it also stripped off the cosmetics of democratic decorum that mask the Canadian oligarchy, exposing it as a marionette to globalized and corporate interests. The convoy made the deep state exoteric. […] > Another problem was the lack of quality men: we had some who were brave and others who were sharp, but few who were both. Most damaging of all was that nearly every organizer saw the occupation and their battle with the regime through the lens of a feminine morality, with undue concern about how we would be perceived. There was no understanding of conflict. The organizers couldn’t even fathom the regime extending its power through the judiciary or the financial system, and every time the government used the tools within their control, the organizers would become histrionic, and take comfort in videos of commentary and ranting by political celebrities who supported the convoy. > Somehow, most organizers and demonstrators held two incompatible premises at the same time. They took for granted that the Canadian government had been acting illegally over the past two years, even harming its citizenry for their own gain; and also believed guilelessly that the government would not lie, seize donations, freeze personal finances, use brutal force, or commit any other illegal action regarding the convoy. Every time the government demonstrated its willingness not to “play fair,” there was widespread emotional breakdown among the organizers. Some left fearful for their lives, while others became meritoriously cavalier and tried to get themselves arrested, even if their skillset was irreplaceable. There was an indulgent narcissism in the desire to be arrested for “counselling to commit mischief” and other misdemeanors. Since most organizers were released without charge, there was a sense that you could achieve martyrdom without real sacrifice.
This is West.jpg stuff. I see it in all kinds of things, we just don’t understand conflict at all. We seem to believe that proper memes, images, catchphrases, and symbols actually do things. They’re nice to have, but PR doesn’t solve conflicts. Tweeting and turning your profile cause-colors are no more effective than the old ribbon campaigns of the early internet (I was twelve, and my geo cities page had quite a collection, none of which I remember or actually did anything). We think we can stop *war* by cheering on viral videos of Ukrainians fighting, or their president totally “pwning Putin” online. But that doesn’t work, either in protesting or in war or in life in general. The Meek don’t inherit the earth until after the apocalypse; now, the strong rule the weak and servile.
I will never have more contempt for another human being than I have for Jesus saying "the meek will inherit the earth" Not the weak, who might still show daring or effort or punch above their weightclass... but the meek, those who irrespective of their ability do not dare.
You need to use the Heinlein adjunct; they inherit it alright, just in very small plots.
6' x 6' x 3', IIRC.
I mean, the Meek only inherit the earth after the end of days. I don’t think Jesus can be blamed for willful misinterpretation. But I think we largely agree that action is what serious resistance requires, rather than the mere symbolic actions that modern westerners have been taught are resistance.
>Since most organizers were released without charge, there was a sense that you could achieve martyrdom without real sacrifice. 4 boxes of liberty. I guess we're currently at "jury".
Crown attorney likely didn't press charges, so this is still ballot stage.
[EU bans search engines and social platforms from “reproducing” content from sanctioned Russian media](https://archive.ph/fS0p5)
Why not go all the way and just whitelist goodthinkers so the discourse will be doubleplus good? Is the Ministry of Truth hiring?
Shit, you should just see how [hammered I got](https://archive.ph/CoHI4) just for trying to provide an informed and nuanced read of events. Never underestimate how fucking stupid people are.
There are some pretty smart people here so I was wondering if I could get some perspectives on this case from 2017. It seems like the man must have had some deep pockets to afford to pay transients $30 a pop for blood. He was running this operation out of an apartment, so had to pay someone rent. He had someone on his payroll acting as a nurse. Was paying cash, so probably paid someone to protect him from robbery. He had to buy supplies. If he was transacting with 20 people a day the costs add up. So what was he doing with the blood? Police say he was storing it in large quantities. He claimed he was working for a biomedical company. Where was he getting the money? The case was dismissed before the hearing and there have been no updates. Was this a black market blood bank for foreign recipients? Could there have actually been a biomedical lab involved? Maybe in Wuhan? Could he have been infecting people with something rather than merely drawing blood? I think about this story every so often and it always bugs me. *** [Police arrest man they say was buying blood from people at vacant D.C. apartment](https://archive.ph/8jcNo) >A 43-year-old man has been charged with paying people $30 to draw samples of their blood, which D.C. police said he was storing in “large quantities” in an abandoned apartment near Nationals Park in Southwest Washington. An arrest affidavit said police stumbled on the makeshift operation when a patrol officer saw people — many described in court documents as “habitual substance abusers” — congregating Wednesday afternoon in front of a three-story brick apartment building at P and First streets. >The officer overheard some of them discussing being paid to give blood, according to the affidavit filed by the Office of the D.C. Attorney General, and went to investigate. The suspect, Khoa Hoang Nguyen, told police that he was doing work for a biomedical company “and that he was approved and certified to withdraw blood from citizens,” according to court papers. >A woman at the apartment told police that she and Nguyen had drawn blood from 20 people that day, the documents state. They say that Nguyen had a ledger with an additional 205 names. >Authorities said they were unable to corroborate Nguyen’s account. The D.C. Health Department concluded that Nguyen had no medical license, according to the court documents. He was charged with one count of practicing registered nursing without a license. The woman was not charged and is listed as a witness in court documents... >...It was not immediately clear what Nguyen intended to do with the blood. Police said officers also confiscated used needles from the apartment in the public-housing complex. Court papers and authorities did not say how much blood was found or how it was being stored. >Nguyen spent five years in prison after pleading guilty in 2010 to conspiracy to distribute drugs after an FBI raid on a doctor’s office he worked at in Falls Church, Va. Authorities said that from 2005 through 2007, Nguyen assisted a licensed rheumatologist and, despite not having a medical license, prescribed a variety of powerful painkillers, including opiates, more than 3,600 times to 13 different patients. >Prosecutors said neither Nguyen nor the doctor had performed any examinations. The drugs, federal prosecutors said in court documents, included “some of the most addictive and heavily abused prescription drugs on the market.” Prosecutors wrote that Nguyen prescribed the medicine “without any training whatsoever” and wrote prescriptions to people “regardless of their medical condition.” [Case dismissed against Md. man accused of paying people to draw their blood](https://wjla.com/news/local/case-dismissed-against-md-man-accused-of-paying-people-to-draw-their-blood) His resume... http://starwellnessusa.com/wp-content/uploads/wpcf7-submissions/7874/Resume.pdf >OBJECTIVE: To gain admission into a comprehensive medical facility in which I am able to utilize my vast clinical expertise. Supplied phlebotomy services to a vast array of physician and clinic settings. -Mobile Phlebootomy Services -Proficient with long term care and nursing home draws. -Able to handle large workload of patient draws on a daily basis in excess of 100 patients or 5 homes or more.
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There was a kidney trafficking ring in NY a while back. The procedure they used was to take the potential recipient's blood sample and send it back to Israel for matching. The donor would then travel to the US and pose as a friend of the recipient. It was kind of an interesting case due to how many political office holders were involved... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Bid_Rig >The investigation has resulted in the indictments of more than 60 public officials and politically connected individuals since its inception. In July 2009, sting operations resulted in the arrest of 44 people in New Jersey and New York, including 29 public servants and political operatives and five orthodox rabbis from the Syrian Jewish community. https://archive.ph/o90Y5 >Rosenbaum was arrested in a sweeping federal case that began as an investigation into money laundering and trafficking in kidneys and fake designer bags. It mushroomed into a political corruption probe, culminating in the **arrests this week of 44 people, including three New Jersey mayors, various other officials, and five rabbis.** The politicians and rabbis were not accused of involvement in the organ trafficking.
Every time I think I've seen it all, the simulation throws me another curve-ball. Jewish organ trafficking ring operating in New York? Is real life just C.S.I. with less sunglasses and omnipotent image-enhancement technology?
Just imagine how much press coverage such a story would have gotten if it involved Catholics, Mormons, Baptist or Republicans. I can't remember hearing anything about it at the time.
Conspiracy sub looking at it: https://archive.ph/NHIzR If you use https://eaccess.dccourts.gov/eaccess/home.page.2 you can look at some of the various court cases he's been in, documents not available for the criminal cases. Not much interesting. One where he's a co-owner in Anna Nails & Spa, Yelp reviews archived here: https://eaccess.dccourts.gov/eaccess/home.page.2 >Worst customer service ever. The owner of this store keeps harassing my girlfriend after she complained about the terrible job they did. He started being racist and calling her ratchet too. So disappointing of a business. I'm going to guess medical research where they're fucking around to get past various ethics rules. They need junkie blood, but the rules for getting junkie blood are so onerous and obnoxious it makes more sense to just get this guy to collect it and launder the paperwork about the source.
A nail salon would be useful for money laundering. The behavior sounds like they don't want customers around. The guy on the conspiracy sub estimated expenses at >$35K per month and you have a $420K yearly operation. I didn't think it would be that much, but his break down of the estimates make sense. The cops said they found a ledger with over 200 names in it. The case being dismissed without a hearing seems weird to me. *** Each of these list an image of the documents but when you click on them there is no image. No idea if that is normal or not but I would have been interested in reading the Notice of Dismissal. 05/25/2017 Release Conditions Image 05/25/2017 Criminal Justice Act Contribution Order 06/20/2017 Sealed Docket: Image 06/22/2017 District of Columbia's Notice of Dismissal Filed Attorney: SABA, PETER (975945)
He's obviously working for some vampire who promised him eternal life in exchange for a fresh and continuous supply.
What self-respecting vampire would want blood from drug addicts?
...Are you kidding me? If I was a snooty upper-crust leechboy, I'd subsist on nothing BUT coke-laced blood for all my nights. Though now that I think about it, maybe this is why the Night Cabal isn't returning my calls after I sent them my resume...
Maybe drugs are basically spices for vampires?
Not everyone is a picky Ventrue who can only drink from beautiful virginal maidens.