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The Batlord 02-09-2021 04:43 PM

As terrifying as a return to company towns is if it's just tech startup dudebros high on grind culture I think it'll be fun to see it finally descend into a madness of cocain-fuelled riots and insurgencies.

OccultHawk 02-09-2021 05:01 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 2161573)
As terrifying as a return to company towns is if it's just tech startup dudebros high on grind culture I think it'll be fun to see it finally descend into a madness of cocain-fuelled riots and insurgencies.

Or it just takes our apartheid style gated communities to the next level.

The Republicans will support it because rich people are always right. And they’re not stupid. They’ll hire some blacks (they’re great at basketball) and put up rainbows and BLM propaganda. That way they can buy off the liberals at no cost whatsoever. That’s what they did in San Francisco. Rinse and repeat.

The Batlord 02-09-2021 05:09 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2161576)
Or it just takes our apartheid style gated communities to the next level.

The Republicans will support it because rich people are always right. And they’re not stupid. They’ll hire some blacks (they’re great at basketball) and put up rainbows and BLM propaganda. That way they can buy off the liberals at no cost whatsoever. That’s what they did in San Francisco. Rinse and repeat.

Obviously but the immediate context is that of Silicon Valley tech companies and if Nevada has a bunch of tech startup company towns the dystopian employee cultures that already exist in those corporations devolving to their logical horrifying conclusions would be novel and potentially hilarious.

OccultHawk 02-09-2021 05:11 PM

I hope so.

Hey did you hear two capitol police offed themselves since the Great Insurrection? I wonder why they’re so sad.

The Batlord 02-09-2021 05:34 PM

I know of the one. I don't know if it's disillusionment with the right after being subjected to all that or if they were just people prone to suicide and this was just traumatic in general.

OccultHawk 02-11-2021 09:14 AM

Springsteen got a DUI.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost....f-tequila/amp/

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The Asbury Park Press reported Springsteen’s blood-alcohol content was 0.02 — just a quarter of New Jersey’s legal limit — when he was arrested.
Next time someone wonders why people don’t cooperate with this police. If you were a poor nobody this would damn near destroy your life.

Trollheart 02-11-2021 09:38 AM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2161865)
Springsteen got a DUI.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost....f-tequila/amp/



Next time someone wonders why people don’t cooperate with this police. If you were a poor nobody this would damn near destroy your life.

Wonder if he was on the way to the Cadillac Ranch? At least he didn't end up as a Wreck on the Highway! Guess his Glory Days are gone; no more Racing in the Street for him.

Exo 02-11-2021 09:38 AM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2161865)
Springsteen got a DUI.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost....f-tequila/amp/



Next time someone wonders why people don’t cooperate with this police. If you were a poor nobody this would damn near destroy your life.

I'm confused. You can't take a shot and be under the limit and then drive. What if I down a beer at last call and it's the first of the night?

OccultHawk 02-11-2021 09:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Exo (Post 2161874)
I'm confused. You can't take a shot and be under the limit and then drive. What if I down a beer at last call and it's the first of the night?

Those pigs were probably just hassling him because he opposed Trump. They were probably hoping he’d lose it and do a Mel Gibson. Almost every time a pig murders someone it starts with an interaction that shouldn’t have even been taking place. They **** with people non-stop then say why does everybody hate us. We’re trying to serve the community.

But boohoo a cop got beat with the flag at the capitol. Waaaaaaa

Psy-Fi 02-11-2021 09:50 AM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2161865)
Springsteen got a DUI.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost....f-tequila/amp/



Next time someone wonders why people don’t cooperate with this police. If you were a poor nobody this would damn near destroy your life.

If he was under the legal limit according New Jersey state law, then the cops don't have a case against him as far as the DUI charge.

I guess they could still try to get him for drinking alcohol in public and reckless driving, though.

Sounds like A-hole cops busting his ass just to be dicks.

OccultHawk 02-11-2021 09:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Psy-Fi (Post 2161880)
If he was under the legal limit according New Jersey state law, then the cops don't have a case against him as far as the DUI charge.

I guess they could still try to get him for drinking alcohol in public and reckless driving, though.

Sounds like A-hole cops busting his ass just to be dicks.

Just saying if youre poor the facts of the case are irrelevant. They force you to plead out with false claims of “disorderly” “resisting” and so on. Your BAC isn’t going to matter when you’re a broke nobody in the county lock up with a public defender who’s going over to the judge’s house for BBQ after the sentencing.

Trollheart 02-11-2021 02:04 PM

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Originally Posted by occulthawk (Post 2161887)
just saying if youre poor the facts of the case are irrelevant. They force you to plead out with false claims of “disorderly” “resisting” and so on. Your bac isn’t going to matter when you’re a broke nobody in the county lock up with a public defender who’s going over to the judge’s house for bbq after the sentencing.

bac?

Exo 02-11-2021 02:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart (Post 2161963)
bac?

Blood alcohol level.

Trollheart 02-11-2021 02:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Exo (Post 2161964)
Blood alcohol level.

AH. Thank you.

Psy-Fi 02-12-2021 06:43 AM

Oregon promotes teacher program that seeks to undo 'racism in mathematics'

OccultHawk 02-12-2021 07:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Psy-Fi (Post 2162115)

That teacher probably knows more than the public will assume they do. I guarantee the “show your work” bull**** is unevenly applied to black kids who are able to reach the solution while skipping steps. It also reinforces the painfully white and ignorant hypothesis that there’s only one way to skin a cat - the right way which of course is the white way. Plus, the obsession with coming up with the exact number at the end of a math problem instead of demonstrating an ability to understand the process is from what I’ve seen an almost uniquely American way to teach mathematics. They don’t obsess over the final number in Korea or Japan the way American teachers do. And it’s not like American teachers don’t represent a classist white hegemony.

This is a typical case of some dip**** journalist writing about **** they know nothing about and presenting it in a way that makes it look like liberal lunacy.

Anteater 02-12-2021 07:31 AM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2162120)
That teacher probably knows more than the public will assume they do. I guarantee the “show your work” bull**** is unevenly applied to black kids who are able to reach the solution while skipping steps. It also reinforces the painfully white and ignorant hypothesis that there’s only one way to skin a cat - the right way which of course is the white way. Plus, the obsession with coming up with the exact number at the end of a math problem instead of demonstrating an ability to understand the process is from what I’ve seen an almost uniquely American way to teach mathematics. They don’t obsess over the final number in Korea or Japan the way American teachers do. And it’s not like American teachers don’t represent a classist white hegemony.

This is a typical case of some dip**** journalist writing about **** they know nothing about and presenting it in a way that makes it look like liberal lunacy.

What if the teachers are black tho.

The Batlord 02-12-2021 07:35 AM

It's Oregan. I'm sure even the math is racist.

OccultHawk 02-12-2021 09:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Anteater (Post 2162122)
What if the teachers are black tho.

Nobody hates blacks more than other blacks. Black women be throwing that pussy up at rich black guys and they’re like nope, whites only please.

OccultHawk 02-12-2021 10:01 AM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 2162123)
It's Oregan. I'm sure even the math is racist.

Oregon math is fine with black people as long as they don’t insist on actually moving into the neighborhood. That’s the entire west coast. All the STEM related fields and subjects are white supremacists. Just check the demographics of Silicon Valley if you don’t believe it.

Marie Monday 02-12-2021 10:06 AM

That's definitely true. And sexist too of course, but in my experience the sexism thing is improving much faster than the racism. Studying anything STEM is still a white sausagefest.
It's partly managing to make even math subjective by teaching it badly for the reasons you mentioned, but I also think part of the problem is that there's a huge stigma around those subjects, so many people don't even consider it.

OccultHawk 02-12-2021 10:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Marie Monday (Post 2162156)
That's definitely true. And sexist too of course, but in my experience the sexism thing is improving much faster than the racism. Studying anything STEM is still a white sausagefest.
It's partly managing to make even math subjective by teaching it badly for the reasons you mentioned, but I also think part of the problem is that there's a huge stigma around those subjects, so many people don't even consider it.

This is a fact.

Same parental wealth and income. Same testing markers for aptitude. Same grades.

White kid tells the counselor “I’m thinking of going to college to study biology” counselor says great idea.

Black kid does the same thing and it’s “Maybe you’d be better off learning a trade”

https://lithub.com/birding-while-black/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Drew_Lanham

Marie Monday 02-12-2021 10:20 AM

Yeah that doesn't surprise me. Disgusting.

OccultHawk 02-12-2021 10:26 AM

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in my experience the sexism thing is improving much faster than the racism
I don’t know **** about Europe but in America it’s the same ****ing thing with brokerage firms and that entire culture on Wall Street. They even prefer to hire a white dude who played Lacrosse in college over a white guy who played football because Lacrosse is whiter.



People might not believe me but it is like that.

But what kills me is they’re twice as exclusionary as a typical white farmer in Alabama. They’ll hire any mother****er that can do the work. But people hate on the rural white southerner. People who don’t know **** about it.

Trollheart 02-12-2021 02:41 PM

So would this then be a math problem in Oregon?

"If there are six white families in a neighbour hood and one black family moves in, work out how long, in minutes or seconds, your choice, it will take the local law enforcement to reduce the coefficient back to its original value"?

OccultHawk 02-12-2021 03:27 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor (Post 2162227)
beta cuck snowflake robot Chomsky liberal silicon valley micropenis

Proud of it, fascist

OccultHawk 02-13-2021 09:32 AM

Attacks on older Asians stoke fear as Lunar New Year begins (from @AP) https://apnews.com/article/cfd77ca7d...f2a087c160d03a

**** reporting for hiding data on the racial make-up of the attackers

OccultHawk 02-13-2021 09:39 AM

https://www.google.com/amp/s/meaww.c...ads-not-guilty

How shocking. He’s black.

Of course that wouldn’t have anything to do with why the AP refuses to mention it.

SGR 02-13-2021 02:58 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2162324)
https://www.google.com/amp/s/meaww.c...ads-not-guilty

How shocking. He’s black.

Of course that wouldn’t have anything to do with why the AP refuses to mention it.

If the story involves a black victim and a white/white-passing perpetrator, the race is the headline and the story is national news. If the perpetrator is black and the victim is white/white-passing, the race is not mentioned and the story makes local news at best.

Didn't always used to be this way (e.g. Central Park 5), but that's how it has been for a while.

The Batlord 02-13-2021 03:22 PM

They blowout local news with black perpetrators though. Like stop sending news reports to my phone every time a black man breaks the law within a hundred miles.

OccultHawk 02-13-2021 04:03 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 2162378)
They blowout local news with black perpetrators though. Like stop sending news reports to my phone every time a black man breaks the law within a hundred miles.

It’s two extremes. There’s media sources that intentionally play up the black psychopathic gorilla angle and then others that will do anything to avoid perpetuating the stereotype.

Blacks in particular have been targeting Asians.

An Asian lady won’t let a back dude on an elevator and it’s the mad viral story of the week. An Asian dude is straight up followed, stalked, harassed and murdered by blacks and it’s a crime but not a symptom of a problem. Asians don’t like blacks either but the extreme violence is almost universally black on Asian.

In general a black dude can walk through Chinatown but an Asian is ****ed in a black ghetto.

OccultHawk 02-13-2021 04:07 PM

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Originally Posted by SoundgardenRocks (Post 2162368)
If the story involves a black victim and a white/white-passing perpetrator, the race is the headline and the story is national news. If the perpetrator is black and the victim is white/white-passing, the race is not mentioned and the story makes local news at best.

Didn't always used to be this way (e.g. Central Park 5), but that's how it has been for a while.

The local news here never misses a chance to let you know when a criminal is black. It’s just not the AP’s place to edit the news to compensate for that. The AP should just report the news. Period. The race of the perpetrators is relevant in a hate crime.

CNN and the AP are in love with the black people are always the victims narrative.

Frownland 02-13-2021 04:09 PM

Why Isn’t the Mainstream Media Covering This Story I Just Read on CNN?

OccultHawk 02-13-2021 04:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 2162390)

That ain’t me but I know you get upset whenever people mention the kid glove treatment of blacks by liberals in the media.

Frownland 02-13-2021 04:20 PM

It's definitely you.

The Batlord 02-13-2021 04:26 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2162386)
It’s two extremes. There’s media sources that intentionally play up the black psychopathic gorilla angle and then others that will do anything to avoid perpetuating the stereotype.

Blacks in particular have been targeting Asians.

An Asian lady won’t let a back dude on an elevator and it’s the mad viral story of the week. An Asian dude is straight up followed, stalked, harassed and murdered by blacks and it’s a crime but not a symptom of a problem. Asians don’t like blacks either but the extreme violence is almost universally black on Asian.

In general a black dude can walk through Chinatown but an Asian is ****ed in a black ghetto.

I'm gonna need some links about a black on Asian hate crime wave cause that sounds like something black people wouldn't even think about.

OccultHawk 02-13-2021 04:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 2162396)
It's definitely you.

It’s you who is so racist against blacks that you think they’re so weak they need to be shielded from honest media coverage. It’s a racist white thing to think blacks don’t won’t to hold their own accountable.

Frownland 02-13-2021 04:38 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 2162399)
I'm gonna need some links about a black on Asian hate crime wave cause that sounds like something black people wouldn't even think about.

Click on the AP article he linked.

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2162400)
blah blah blah stupid nazi bull****

You don't care about journalism or race relations, eat a dick.

OccultHawk 02-13-2021 04:41 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 2162399)
I'm gonna need some links about a black on Asian hate crime wave cause that sounds like something black people wouldn't even think about.

Google violent hate crimes against Asians and then check who committed the crimes. Collecting the data would be racist. Just check and see.

Btw, they don’t even collect the data on the income level of people killed by the police. Nobody does. The reason is anything that even hints at the possibility that the problem is class not race is shamed as racist. Which is actually a fine example of liberals weaponizing science against the poor.

OccultHawk 02-13-2021 04:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 2162402)
You don't care about journalism or race relations, eat a dick.

I care enough to look at it honestly. And to not be so racist as to think blacks need special rules concerning their coverage.


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