The Wow I Can't Believe That News Story Thread

[The Batlord]

Originally Posted by Anteater

If you think that's bad wait til you see what Chinese or Hispanic supremacy will entail. Give it another five decades.

Straight up supporting white supremacy.

[WWWP]

Originally Posted by Dharma & Greg

Straight up supporting white supremacy.

No two ways about it

[Anteater]

Originally Posted by Dharma & Greg

Straight up supporting white supremacy.

Straight up ad hominem. The world isn't going to become a better place just because you replace one majority with another. That's a fantasy.

Fact is, the world is quickly becoming a more diverse place right under everyone's nose. Just look at Japan, South Korea as well as the U.S. The playing field is leveling whether people like it or not. But at the point where this becomes truly apparent, people will be out of excuses of why Person A got that job over them cause everyone will be the same shade of beige/bronze/brown.

[The Batlord]

Like you don't know what you just said and how you said it.

[Frownland]

Originally Posted by Anteater

It isn't "whataboutism".

It's not always without value, but if your response to concerns over white supremacist shooters is "what about Islamic terrorism?" then it's inherently whataboutism.

And yes, promoting white supremacy as a more preferable form of racial supremacy to that of minorities is inherently white supremacist too.

[Anteater]

Originally Posted by Dharma & Greg

Like you don't know what you just said and how you said it.

I'm not a mind reader. Why don't you tell me what bull**** you came up with and let's see how it measures up to reality, which is that every country has some form of perceived "x-supremacy", even when you can't measure it by any reasonable standard.

[Anteater]

Originally Posted by elphenor

wait but what about that Mexican supremacy you just mentioned

*Hispanic

[The Batlord]

Originally Posted by Anteater

I'm not a mind reader. Why don't you tell me what bull**** you came up with and let's see how it measures up to reality, which is that every country has some form of perceived "x-supremacy", even when you can't measure it by any reasonable standard.

But that Asian supremacy is the best since they're the smartest.

[Anteater]

Originally Posted by Dharma & Greg

But that Asian supremacy is the best since they're the smartest.

Was the Rape of Nanking also white supremacy's fault?

As someone who loves a good alternative history book, I can tell you that the world would be just as terrible if the Mongols or Aztecs ended up conquering Europe. You might be riding a yak instead of driving a car, but you'd still have to pay your taxes.

[OccultHawk]

Fareed Zakaria

ZAKARIA: So what did you learn? Because you went to Ukraine; you've been to the Donbass, to the part of eastern Ukraine that is, sort of, occupied by the Russians. What did you learn about what they're doing?

COHEN: Well, first, night we saw a number of tactics that we've never seen before. So we're seeing the systematic and customized targeting of disinformation on messaging platforms. It's very clear to me that the new front for disinformation is platforms where the barrier of entry is a phone number. It's much more believable, if somebody is in your contacts list, and you get information from them, you're much more likely to believe it.

We're seeing the manipulation of audio and the spoofing the phone -- spoofing of phone calls. We're seeing manufactured revenge porn, manufactured hacking of e-mails that then get dumped onto the public domain. And we're seeing a growing ecosystem of illicit merchants who are selling these capabilities to the highest bidder on the deep and dark web.

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ZAKARIA: Do you think, though, that the -- is the Trump administration, sort of, attentive enough to how -- how malign Russia is?

Let me ask you, does it strike you that this is all coming out of Russia, out of the Kremlin, and the attempt is to delegitimize the Ukrainian election?

COHEN: There's certainly an attempt to -- to delegitimize the Ukrainian election, and particularly at a moment when the Russians don't have a chance of having their candidate win, running too low in the polls.

You know, on the one hand, you have democracy working pretty well in Ukraine right now because nobody knows who's going to get to the second round, let alone who's going to win. On the other hand, that ambiguity makes it more of a target for Russia.

What we're seeing also is the democratization of these capabilities. So the Iranians were all of a sudden, you know, making similar attempts in the U.S. midterm elections. We've seen other countries get into the game. So, you know, Russia has a particular focus on Ukraine. But the capabilities are going to be on full display for other countries to latch onto. And there are certainly plenty of countries out there that have an interest and an incentive to try to disrupt the U.S. presidential elections

That’s such an effective way to create disharmony and chaos. Not just the elections but just massively ****ing with people’s personal lives. Everything that can ever weaponized gets weaponized. Manufacturing revenge porn? Goddamn.