The Wow I Can't Believe That News Story Thread

[Frownland]

ICE arrested 170 immigrants seeking to sponsor migrant children

'I Begged Them to Kill Me.' Uighur Woman Tells Congress of Torture in Chinese Internment Camps

[[MERIT]]

Originally Posted by Frownland

'I Begged Them to Kill Me.' Uighur Woman Tells Congress of Torture in Chinese Internment Camps

Beat you to it. But it's still fucked up, none the less.

[Frownland]

Chocolate meltdown closes German road

Originally Posted by [MERIT]

Beat you to it.

I tend to gloss over your master news posts because they look so spammy.

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by Frownland

Chocolate meltdown closes German road





I tend to gloss over your master news posts because they look so spammy.

Zero Hedge

[DwnWthVwls]

I mean at least he has sources. Every time I ask you for one you dodge the request. :X

[The Batlord]

He got an A though so he must have sources.

[Janszoon]

Originally Posted by elphenor

its funny he just goes on spamming Breitbart and Zero Hedge

not news, make another thread for him and move it all there

To be fair, I can't believe the news stories from those sites.

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by Janszoon

To be fair, I can't believe the news stories from those sites.

Good one

[OccultHawk]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/12/m...host-ship.html

FEATURE

He Helped Build an Artists’ Utopia. Now He Faces Trial for 36 Deaths There.
Max Harris did chores and collected rent at the artists’ warehouse where he lived. Now he faces trial for the deaths at a concert there — including some of his close friends.

This is a long read but imo really interesting.

In my twenties I spent a fair amount of time in punk spaces and we never thought twice about fire safety. Band practice spaces turned into makeshift live venues.

When you go into an underground setting or “club” isn’t it understood that there’s an element of danger? That you’re shedding some of the sheltering and safety of suburbia for something more wild and free? I feel like everyone who went to that show was looking for something wild and authentic. Danger is part of the attraction. I don’t think anyone should be punished for their deaths because they knew the place was an underground art collective space in Oakland and if you mess with bull sometimes you get the horns. If they wanted an experience that was up to code they should’ve gone to Olive Garden.

Secondly, and this a totally non sequitur observation, but does the art jock alpha personalities of the people who live in these collectives bother anyone? They don’t seem equalitarian and alternative; they seem like competitive fashion bitches simply doing the society thing on a different scale. Maybe that’s an unavoidable byproduct of how high the rent has risen in the big cities.

[[MERIT]]

Originally Posted by Frownland

I tend to gloss over your master news posts because they look so spammy.

No, you ignore them because:

- You don't like me.

- I don't stoke your ego, like half of the forum regulars do.

- You are jealous that you aren't as tuned in to the news cycle as I am.



I'm not stupid. I am well aware of the slant of specific media outlets. But if a person aims to be well informed, they have the responsibility to filter out biases and to be coherent enough to distinguish between fact and fiction.

Stop killing the messenger. If you see a headline that piques your interest, do an internet search on the topic and find a source that you find reliable. In this day and age, it's extremely disappointing that you people choose to act so childish.