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Psy-Fi 06-25-2020 04:51 AM





Southern trees bearing a strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Black bodies swinging in the Southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees

Pastoral scene of the gallant South
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth
Scent of magnolia sweet and fresh
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh.

Here is a fruit for the crow to pluck
For the rain to wither, for the wind to suck
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop
Here is a strange and bitter crop.


jwb 06-25-2020 12:55 PM

I don't buy that those are suicides.

Marie Monday 06-25-2020 01:39 PM

No me neither. That's horrible.

The Batlord 06-25-2020 02:01 PM

You don't think public suicide hangings are common? I guess you don't live where I do.

Psy-Fi 06-25-2020 04:16 PM

“Local hero saves family from certain death with her norks out!” :pimp:

rostasi 06-26-2020 04:38 PM

Russia Secretly Offered Afghan Militants Bounties to Kill U.S. Troops, Intelligence Says

The Batlord 06-26-2020 04:46 PM

I guess that's a better idea than giving them Stinger missiles that end up shooting down your own helicopters.

Anteater 06-29-2020 06:54 AM

Hmn...weird.

CNN’s Van Jones Secretly Helped Craft the Weak Trump Police Reform He Praised on TV

rostasi 07-02-2020 05:24 PM

Gold Industry Shaken as 83 Tons of Fake Gold Bars Used to Secure $2 Billion Loans in China.

Lucem Ferre 07-02-2020 06:05 PM

Wooooowwww money is ****ing stupid.

OccultHawk 07-02-2020 10:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre (Post 2124832)
Wooooowwww money is ****ing stupid.

It really is

The entire way people just collectively accept and put faith into it is at the core of how we oppress ourselves

Ooooh paper with numbers on it and a picture of a slaveowner let’s make our entire existence based around collecting those things

How could anything be more obviously idiotic and blindly accepted? Talk about a really stupid social construct.

rostasi 07-04-2020 09:20 PM

OK. I’m not sure if this is true,
but it really is amazing if it is.
I mean, this oughta scare the
salt right off of the saltines.
The “Not Fucking Around Coalition

Armed pro-BLM militia group NFAC marches on Stone Mountain, supporters say they are 'in tears right now'

Anteater 07-04-2020 09:29 PM

Rapper Kanye West announces U.S. presidential bid on Twitter

Oh hell yes. Black Lives Matter bitchesssss. #2ndBlackPOTUSIncoming

Mindfulness 07-05-2020 04:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Anteater (Post 2125118)
Rapper Kanye West announces U.S. presidential bid on Twitter

Oh hell yes. Black Lives Matter bitchesssss. #2ndBlackPOTUSIncoming

https://media2.giphy.com/media/3oKIP...wYjC/giphy.gif

OccultHawk 07-05-2020 05:03 PM

https://www.theguardian.com/environm..._b-aplnews_d-1

Hundreds of elephants dead in mysterious mass die-off

Disturbing af

Mindfulness 07-05-2020 05:05 PM


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sO5-t3iEYY

rostasi 07-06-2020 08:17 AM

It's already been repainted and these people will be charged with defacing property.


The Batlord 07-06-2020 03:26 PM

It's just gonna say "BLACK LIVES MATTER" in black paint instead of yellow now. Did they think that black paint is just gonna look like asphalt?

OccultHawk 07-06-2020 03:59 PM

It feels like a lot of people just want their 15 minutes of fame.

OccultHawk 07-06-2020 11:21 PM



https://www.idsnews.com/article/2020...rs-lake-monroe

Quote:

The encounter happened on the evening of the Fourth of July near Lake Monroe, and Booker posted about it on Facebook on Sunday. In the post, he said he was jumped from behind by men with confederate flags from a group that had been blocking people getting to a campsite for a lunar eclipse event that Booker was attending, claiming to own the land, and yelling “white power.”

Booker said the group then pinned him to a tree and attacked him, hitting his head, ripping his hair out and at one point, jumping on his neck. Booker and witnesses said one of the people said “get a noose” and other racist slurs.
Pop a Xanax every time you hear that fat racist **** say “private property”

Black truck genocide. And leash your ****ing dog.

jwb 07-07-2020 06:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 2125281)
It's just gonna say "BLACK LIVES MATTER" in black paint instead of yellow now. Did they think that black paint is just gonna look like asphalt?

black paint doesn't matter

SGR 07-10-2020 07:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jwb (Post 2125345)
black paint doesn't matter

https://66.media.tumblr.com/f4ebdac4...us2oo1_400.gif

OccultHawk 07-10-2020 07:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SoundgardenRocks (Post 2125786)

lol - good one

Norg 07-10-2020 10:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 2125281)
It's just gonna say "BLACK LIVES MATTER" in black paint instead of yellow now. Did they think that black paint is just gonna look like asphalt?

https://i.pinimg.com/236x/76/4f/5b/7...99e14eaa50.jpg

Mindfulness 07-11-2020 04:06 PM


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCwEYi_JjEQ





Quote:

CNBC
Jul 11, 2020

In light of recent protests, facial recognition has come under scrutiny for the way in which it's deployed by police departments. In response, IBM, Amazon and Microsoft have all stated that they'll either stop developing this tech, or stop selling it to law enforcement until regulations are in place.

At least half of Americans are reportedly in a facial recognition database, potentially accessible by the local police department as well as federal government agencies like ICE or the FBI. It's not something you likely opted into, but as of now, there's no way to be sure exactly who has access to your likeness.

These promises may not make a big difference though, as a number of powerful but lesser-known companies like Clearview AI and Rank One are leaning into the market. They say this tech helps catch dangerous criminals and makes communities safer.

Activists and researchers across the political spectrum nonetheless have serious concerns about privacy, algorithmic bias, and a lack of regulation.
https://i.imgur.com/alyYSOt.png

SGR 07-11-2020 06:58 PM

I am generally strongly against the use of facial recognition technology. The surveillance state has too much power already. I don't care if it theoretically would make it easier to catch dangerous criminals, the risks of abuse highly outeweigh the benefits.

SGR 07-12-2020 12:02 PM

Young mom, 24, shot dead ‘after telling Black Lives Matter protesters “all lives matter” during argument about movement’

rostasi 07-12-2020 12:12 PM

A bit disingenuous with funny smells.
I'll wait to find out who it was that shot her
and why others have been shot at the same location.

SGR 07-12-2020 12:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rostasi (Post 2125974)
A bit disingenuous with funny smells.
I'll wait to find out who it was that shot her
and why others have been shot at the same location.

Agreed. Treat every news story with skepticism. The business model of news orgs is to sensationalize to create clicks and shares.

Frownland 07-12-2020 12:38 PM

Ja I don't believe that news story either. Only three words from the 3 AM public confrontation between strangers that escalated to both sides exchanging fire were included in the article, which seems conveniently selective.

SGR 07-12-2020 12:54 PM

I don't know about y'all, but I've noticed a distinct decrease in reporting about the protests in the recent weeks. If I only paid attention to most mainstream outlets, I wouldn't even know it was still happening.

Take a look at CNN's website - nothing about protests.

https://www.cnn.com/

Fox News? One story really related to the protests, others about Russian protests (unrelated) and the protests effect on Coronavirus resurgence.

Something less biased - USA Today? Nothing.

https://www.usatoday.com/

APNews? One link about US protests.

https://apnews.com/

I am not generally a conspiracy theorist, but it would seem that all news outlets are tampering down the stories about the protests and it looks intentional across the board. It's literally the biggest news story in the country, besides Coronavirus, I think. Are people simply not interested in it any more and these news outlets have made a financial decision not to cover it because of that lack of interest?

If people are still interested (I think they are), why won't the news continue covering it? Did the Trump administration put a bug in their ears to tone down the coverage? Did they all decide to do it because they thought it would decrease the scale of the protests? Or do some outlets (i.e. left-biased ones) not cover because they think Americans constantly reading about protests would boost Trump's chances in the election? It is also entirely possible that right-biased news outlets aren't covering it because they think it'll increase Biden's chances in the election.

I don't know. But I do know the protests are still happening in many places around the country and we're getting very little coverage about it from the mainstream press. What I'd like to know is - why?

OccultHawk 07-12-2020 08:51 PM

Lisa Marie Presley's son and Elvis Presley's look-alike grandson, Benjamin Keough, 27, dies 'from self-inflicted gunshot wound' leaving his heartbroken mom 'inconsolable'

Frownland 07-13-2020 07:16 AM

21 injured after an explosion and fire on a naval ship in San Diego

****'s still burning and it's got San Diego so polluted that it hurts to breathe if you're outside for more than a few minutes. I'm miles inland too so it's probably absolutely ****ed closer to the shore.

Quote:

Originally Posted by SoundgardenRocks (Post 2125984)
I don't know. But I do know the protests are still happening in many places around the country and we're getting very little coverage about it from the mainstream press. What I'd like to know is - why?

The cool thing about this particular history repeating itself is that we have notes


The Batlord 07-13-2020 07:34 AM

I thought the revolution wouldn't be televised cause the world would be too busy burning for anyone to have the luxury of sitting down and watching it on TV.

Frownland 07-13-2020 07:37 AM

Nah it's because everyone's on their phones now.

OccultHawk 07-13-2020 07:54 AM

lol @ the Navy

Norg 07-14-2020 12:20 AM

the USA mimics old Britian the royal navy

now the USA has the most powerful Navy in the world

but China navy seems to be creping up

jwb 07-14-2020 05:41 AM

There aren't enough gays in China for them to ever compete with our Navy.

The Batlord 07-14-2020 06:18 AM

As far as I know they're not even trying. They're just building lots of missiles to sink our navy.

jwb 07-14-2020 07:15 AM

You're thinking of the game battleship.


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