The Nazification of America

[smulder]

turning him into a paranoid freak who thought everyone was out to kill him

Construction, agriculture, and truck driving are all more dangerous

http://usatoday.com/story/money/careers/2018/01/09/workplace-fatalities-25-most-dangerous-jobs-america/1002500001

[Wanderfound]

Construction, agriculture, and truck driving are all more dangerous

…and most of what danger there is in policing is due to being in or around cars for most of the day. Not guns and crime, traffic accidents.

[ChickieD]

In construction you don’t get a dossier on the Boulder that’s about to fall on your head and every time one doesn’t fall on your head think, it’s gonna fall on someone soon and I won’t be around to save everyone.

[smulder]

Not guns and crime, traffic accidents

Maybe, but this particular article says “Most common accident: Intentional injury by other person”

There are still 13 other occupations that are more dangerous

[Wanderfound]

Maybe, but this particular article says “Most common accident: Intentional injury by other person”

2018 was somewhat unusual.

More Police Officers Died From Gunfire Than Traffic Incidents In 2018, Report...

The gun statistics reverse what had been a steady trend in recent decades, when police officers were more likely to die from car crashes than gunfire. In 2018, 50 officers died from traffic-related incidents, according to the report.

There has been an average of 55 traffic-related deaths each year in the current decade, with an average of 54 firearm-related deaths. Those numbers are much closer now than they were in the two most recent decades:

• 2000s: 71 traffic-related deaths; 57 gun-related
• 1990s: 59 traffic-related deaths; 40 gun-related

[smulder]

2018 was somewhat unusual

OK, whatever, also the article I linked to was based on numbers from 2016

[Lucy_Gothro1]

[gadgetgirl]

We need a platoon of women protestors willing to sit through the lecture, obtain the contraceptives, and yell “HAIL SATAN!!!” on the way out.

Not oneboxing, so the TL/DR is these clinics are going to “introduce women to the Gospel” before letting them have the contraceptives they came in for.

http://www.bpnews.net/53896/christian-clinics-to-offer-contraceptives-to-singles

[tinoesroho]

In honor of Stephen Miller being outed as a white nationalist, here’s our brief overview of America’s Intellectual Dumbass Web:

The Intellectual Dumbass Web of America is so very dumb

[gadgetgirl]

Sigh. The only two people I know who were sincerely into PewDiePie were a Chinese student who had been in Canada since high school (not a landed imminent though, just here to study) and a Canadian student of Indian descent.

I’m not sure if they liked PDP ironically or if it just didn’t occur to them they were the ones being made fun of.

[ChickieD]

Stephen Miller’s Affinity for White Nationalism Revealed in Leaked Emails

[smulder]

Stephen Miller being outed as a white nationalist

SHOCKING EMAILS REVEAL THAT A WELL KNOWN IMMIGRANT HATER HATES IMMIGRANTS

[MarjaE]

Apparently Ilhan Omar got a lot of FlaK for calling him a white nationalist last April.

[ChickieD]

I know. It was the least surprising news story ever. Interested to see the fallout, if any.

Edit, the White House has its usual thoughtful response.

[tinoesroho]

the Trump administration (and by extension, Republicans) have veered so far to the right that centre-right SPLC is “far-left”.

Reconstruction without first eliminating white supremacist dipshittery was a mistake

[MarjaE]

Sonia Sotomayor Raises the Alarm Over Border Patrol’s Lawless Brutality

[MarjaE]

The Supreme Court May Criminalize Immigrant Advocacy

[Wisconsin_Platt]

Why not. Those damnable lawyers keep finding ways to let these immigrants in legally

[jerwin]

The extremist philosophy that’s more violent than the alt-right and growing...

[AndyHilmer]

No fucking shit. I’ve gotten so much pushback from gun-humpers about this. Remember Mister 44 at the old place? That piece of shit is one of them.