The News Thread

[CiG]

Florida declares state of emergency ahead of Richard Spencer speech.

Gov. Rick Scott made the move on Monday, issuing an executive order as officials prepared to deal with the fallout from Spencer’s speaking engagement.

“I find that the threat of a potential emergency is imminent and hereby declare a state of emergency in Alachua County,” Scott wrote in the order.

UF had initially rejected a request from Spencer and his National Policy Institute think tank to speak on campus in September, following the events in Charlottesville, but President Ken Fuchs was forced to change his mind after being threatened with a lawsuit.

He has since been asking students and staff to stay away from Thursday’s speaking engagement.

“The values of our university are not shared by Mr. Spencer, the National Policy Institute or his followers,” Fuchs said in a video posted to the university president’s Facebook page. “Our campuses are places where people of all races, origins and religions are welcomed and are treated with love.”

Love?

Anyway, I wonder how many will die this time...

 

[The Ozzman]

Man these higher institutions of learning are super tolerant aren't they?

 

[Dak]

Bullshit, I don't want to be around aboriginals or pretty much any kind of politically radical white person, you alt-lite drone.

Culturally speaking? Sure, I want to be around people who value freedom of speech, personal liberty, secularism etc. I just feel more comfortable around people who don't want to chastise/assault/murder me for eating pork while I say something controversial.

Research isn't disproven by outliers. It seems obvious many people on a metal forum in the year 2017 are outliers in one or more ways. For instance, I'm a conservatarian male in a career field overwhelmingly populated by liberal females.

 

[Funerary_Doom]

https://mobile.twitter.com/khayadlanga/status/919513284151332864

I’m just leaving this here because it’s the news thread.

 

[Dak]

Very curious what CIG's take is.

 

[no country for old wainds]

lol at the person who's like 'wow australia, you too?!?!'

 

[CiG]

Research isn't disproven by outliers. It seems obvious many people on a metal forum in the year 2017 are outliers in one or more ways. For instance, I'm a conservatarian male in a career field overwhelmingly populated by liberal females.

I question the way the research is gathered in the first place.

https://mobile.twitter.com/khayadlanga/status/919513284151332864

I’m just leaving this here because it’s the news thread.

Very curious what CIG's take is.

I've always admired the man and what he did because he (by supporting Tommie Smith and John Carlos) was standing up for actual injustice, not what Black Lives Matter are doing which is defending mostly criminals and ignoring black on black crime.

Anybody equating Peter Norman with Colin Kaepernick is a douche. It's not the same, no matter how badly these activists today want their crusade to be righteous.

 

[no country for old wainds]

lol at sam kriss btw. dude's career is over.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

yea what that man in FD's link did is so different from what the guys today are doing. Incomparable and would be a stain on that mans name to even include them in the same sentence.

 

[The Ozzman]

We may finally know what really happened:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...assassination-files-to-be-released/ar-AAtNJa8

President Trump said Saturday he would allow the release of confidential files related to the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy.

"Subject to the receipt of further information, I will be allowing, as President, the long blocked and classified JFK FILES to be opened," Trump tweeted.

Politico Magazine reported Friday that Trump administration officials were concerned that some of the documents created in the 1990s contain information on recent U.S. intelligence programs.

White House spokeswoman Lindsay Walters told the publication the White House is aiming "to ensure that the maximum amount of data can be released to the public" under the act.

Politico also reported that longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone was urging Trump to release the files, and that Stone said in a recent interview he felt "optimistic" that Trump would allow the release of the files.

 

[CiG]

Honestly surprised that, if there is anything even worth unblocking about the JFK assassination, WikiLeaks hasn't already gotten to it.

 

[CiG]

A Transgender Woman Was Raped And Set On Fire, LGBT Community Is Demanding Justice.

Hande Kader was a beloved member of the LGBT community in Turkey, but her status and lifestyle made many people think of her in a negative light. The transgender woman worked as a sex worker in Istanbul. She died earlier this month at the age of 23. She was raped, mutilated, and burned to death by a hate group. Now, the LGBT community is hoping justice will prevail in the aftermath of this killing.
Hande Kader. The LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex) community in Turkey faces some of the harshest treatment from the conservative attitude the country has against them. The community won't stay quiet over Kader's death though.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

LGBT people not respected in Muslim nations, news at 11.

The idea that transgender people are disproportionately victims of violence in the USA because of their trans nature is one of the biggest myths I'm aware of.

 

[CiG]

It happened last year and I still haven't seen any outcry over it from the western LGBT communities. Maybe I'm not looking hard enough.

 

[Nate Skalman]

LGBQT communities are always demanding justice...many times in the US the "victims" claims turn out to be bullshit, so their communities traction has faltered on that tip- and Turkey isn't en vogue even on the far lefts radar. Less than that will get you killed in those countries

 

[The Ozzman]

member of the LGBT community in Turkey...
She was burned to death by a hate group.

More like LGBBQ amirite?!

 

[CiG]

Fucking savage.

 

[CiG]

Google and Facebook Failed Us: The world’s most powerful information gatekeepers neglected their duties in Las Vegas. Again.

Anything to make the job of a journalist easier and lazier.

 

[Nate Skalman]

As if a male underwear model gets any easier...? Lol

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Google and Facebook Failed Us: The world’s most powerful information gatekeepers neglected their duties in Las Vegas. Again.

Anything to make the job of a journalist easier and lazier.

Journalists should surely be the first to hang on the day of the rope.

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It’s no longer good enough to note that something was algorithmically surfaced and then replaced. It’s no longer good enough to shrug off (“briefly,” “for a small number of queries”) the problems in the system simply because it has computers in the decision loop.

lmao, name me one important thing in real life where quantity isn't just as relevant a factor as quality. I hate journalists so much, and The Atlantic is among the worst of the worst.