Awwww… poor, Nazi baby. Wah wah…
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Cut off by one box: he thinks there should only be one race!
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He thinks that there should be one race, giving the example of how much better Somalia is doing than Minneapolis. 
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I don’t get the RW insistence that Minneapolis was burned to the ground by BLM or Antifa or immigrants. WTH? 
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“At no time or place in history has anything remotely resembling a utopia ever materialized by forcing people of vastly different demographics to live and work and play together,” Zinda answered. “Somalia is 99% Black Sunni Muslim, very homogenous, and they have survived for millenia. Minneapolis is very diverse, and it burned to the ground in 150 years.”
What an idiot.
Well, they believe it because it fits their narratives, not that there is any factual basis there… Much like they accuse of people who believe in dinosaurs or diversity…
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That was right after they burned Kenosha, Wisconsin to the ground, right? (Yeah, we did have a few fires – the most notable being the two that were set randomly by RWers and two others are suspected insurance fraud.)
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Docs: ‘Irate parent’ brought gun to school, harassed teacher over ‘same sexuality relationships’ assignment
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Finland’s newspapers continue to analyse election results from Sunday, with the wave of support for left-wing candidates and the poor showing from the Finns Party the two key issues.
Iltalehti’s columnist Sanna Ukkola writes that the Finns Party’s difficulties stem from the party’s decision to enter government with the National Coalition Party and implement many of the cuts that are central to the NCP’s ideology, but quite far from the priorities of Finns Party voters.
As Finance Minister, Finns Party leader Riikka Purra has to be the face of the cuts to an extent, argues Ukkola, but taking on that job is also a choice. In 2015 Finns Party leader Timo Soini went for the Foreign Minister job instead.
Ordinarily the leader of the second largest party in government gets to be Finance Minister, but in becoming Finland’s top diplomat Soini took some distance from that government’s difficult decisions.
Purra, meanwhile, decided to personify many of the austerity measures, posing with scissors and taking a hard line on any opposition to the government’s programme.
Ukkola argues that this was a miscalculation from Purra, who was keen to profile herself as a competent and tough Finance Minister — and maybe enjoyed media stories comparing her to former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, nicknamed the “Iron Lady” by the UK press.
But her party paid the price for that at the ballot box, according to Ukkola.
THE NCP WANT TO CUT BENEFITS FOR LOW-INCOME PEOPLE, IT DOESN’T WORK FOR US.
That’s a real quote.
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Lots of people knew.
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If the faculty had any spine, they’d quit en mass. But many of them won’t, because they care more about maintaining their social position than about the students they educate.
Academia has gotten so rotten… I guess maybe it always was. Just full of self-satisfied social climbers.
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In addition to the Houston police, KHOU 11 is a bad actor in this story also. Their link reads, “undocumented woman” when the truth is she is in the process of getting a visa. Hardly undocumented.
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Yes, pretty much true of elite academia. Many at lower tier institutions are instead dedicated teachers. Baby, bath water, etc.
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Sure… unfortunately, the tone is set from the top down, far too often. And the dedicated educators are often seen as not worth investing in and supporting in any substantive way.
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Sure. To be clear, I was addressing the claim that academia is “Just full of self-satisfied social climbers.”
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Lots of people always know these kind of things, and yet the response is always “whoa who could have seen this coming” instead of “I guess they were right”, because heaven forbid the sensible centrists admit they should have listened to other people. 
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I just need to vent a little about some individual assholes I’ve encountered lately.
It’s bad enough we have MAGA and other Nazis mucking up the place, but there’s a lot of purity police running around too and they really aren’t helping things.
Most people are, thankfully, staying grounded in the here and now and encouraging active duty military members to resist unlawful orders. (With several people pointing out how we’re getting to the point that it might come down to the military being the actual last line of government resistance on this.) Unfortunately, that last comment has gone about where you’d expect after that opening line.
Apparently people who are also victims of a manipulative social structure are to be blamed for not remaining morally pure enough? I can promise that the person making saying that someone else failed some bullshit test never spent anytime as a homeless teenager. There was another comment about working in fast food (instead of joining the military) as the “correct” options – again, that’s a hell of a way to show privilege, isn’t it? I had to wonder if the poster was aware that many places don’t even have that level of hell available as an option.
But hey, yeah, let’s blame the people forced into a situation with no good choices. The pawns are obviously to blame for setting up the board, right?
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