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07-23-2019, 08:48 AM
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you forgot the rest of the tweet:
"except for those stated by me"
Here's the quote from the WP:
Literally all three sentences above are Fake News.
Lindsay Graham said: Mr. President, you’re going to win, just knock it down a notch on Fox and Friends. It is complete opinion that the core of the tweets was "that only European immigrants or their descendants are entitled to criticize the country". Where have we determined this?
We are told advisers wrote new talking points and handed him reams (suggesting over 1,000 pages) of opposition research. This is now "proven" because of a few statements written on like (2) pieces of paper. How do we know those talking points were new? Where is the evidence of 1,000 pieces of paper? Was this opinion as well?
There was no pivot, it was always about patriotism.
It was never about their identities and always about their behaviors/conduct.
if everything is racist, nothing is.
Fake News. Drivel.
meanwhile in other race baiting:
"except for those stated by me"
Here's the quote from the WP:
Like others, Graham urged Trump to reframe away from the racist notion at the core of the tweets — that only European immigrants or their descendants are entitled to criticize the country. Advisers wrote new talking points and handed him reams of opposition research on the four congresswomen. Pivot to patriotism. Focus on their ideas and behavior, not identity. Some would still see a racist agenda, the argument went, but at least it would not be so explicit.
Lindsay Graham said: Mr. President, you’re going to win, just knock it down a notch on Fox and Friends. It is complete opinion that the core of the tweets was "that only European immigrants or their descendants are entitled to criticize the country". Where have we determined this?
We are told advisers wrote new talking points and handed him reams (suggesting over 1,000 pages) of opposition research. This is now "proven" because of a few statements written on like (2) pieces of paper. How do we know those talking points were new? Where is the evidence of 1,000 pieces of paper? Was this opinion as well?
There was no pivot, it was always about patriotism.
It was never about their identities and always about their behaviors/conduct.
if everything is racist, nothing is.
Fake News. Drivel.
meanwhile in other race baiting:
Camerota read the tweet on-air and suggested the tweet had a “ring of racism” to it because Zhu did not highlight white-on-white murder or statistics concerning police brutality.
"Do you see how that could be seen as offensive?" the CNN host asked. "Why would you focus on blacks causing black deaths when the majority of white deaths are caused by white people? This is why people think that this has a ring of racism to it. You didn’t mention the white statistic.”
“Again, this was in response to another person’s tweet talking about how cops kill black people,” said Zhu. Earlier in the interview, the activist said she was responding to a Twitter user claiming “all cops are bad people” and that they “kill innocent black people.”
“This is taken fully out of context,” Zhu repeated. “And if you think statistics and facts are racist, then I don’t know what to tell you.”
“It’s just which ones you highlight, since, you know, you could have said the thing about white people,” countered Camerota, before moving on to a post Zhu made regarding “hijab awareness day” on her former college campus.
"There's a 'try a hijab on' booth at my college campus. So you’re telling me that it's now just a fashion accessory and not a religious thing? Or are you just trying to get women used to being oppressed under Islam?" wrote Zhu in a post which has since been deleted, according to The Washington Examiner.
Zhu refuted the idea that the post was offensive. "I think that it's really rude, to Muslims too, to wear their sacred garment on someone who isn't a Muslim themselves. I wouldn't want to put a Catholic rosary on someone if they aren't Catholic," she told Camerota.
“But that’s not what you said,” the CNN host said. “You said it wasn’t that you felt badly for them, that you weren’t Muslim, it’s that you said, ‘are you just trying to get women used to be oppressed under Islam?’”
Zhu noted that women in some Muslim countries can be stoned for not properly wearing a hijab and suggested we look at the oppression of Muslim women outside of the Western world.
"There are so many women in Muslim countries right now who are being stoned to death because they don’t want to wear a hijab due to their husband's requirement to do so," she said. "I think we should be focusing on that.”
"Do you see how that could be seen as offensive?" the CNN host asked. "Why would you focus on blacks causing black deaths when the majority of white deaths are caused by white people? This is why people think that this has a ring of racism to it. You didn’t mention the white statistic.”
“Again, this was in response to another person’s tweet talking about how cops kill black people,” said Zhu. Earlier in the interview, the activist said she was responding to a Twitter user claiming “all cops are bad people” and that they “kill innocent black people.”
“This is taken fully out of context,” Zhu repeated. “And if you think statistics and facts are racist, then I don’t know what to tell you.”
“It’s just which ones you highlight, since, you know, you could have said the thing about white people,” countered Camerota, before moving on to a post Zhu made regarding “hijab awareness day” on her former college campus.
"There's a 'try a hijab on' booth at my college campus. So you’re telling me that it's now just a fashion accessory and not a religious thing? Or are you just trying to get women used to being oppressed under Islam?" wrote Zhu in a post which has since been deleted, according to The Washington Examiner.
“But that’s not what you said,” the CNN host said. “You said it wasn’t that you felt badly for them, that you weren’t Muslim, it’s that you said, ‘are you just trying to get women used to be oppressed under Islam?’”
Zhu noted that women in some Muslim countries can be stoned for not properly wearing a hijab and suggested we look at the oppression of Muslim women outside of the Western world.
"There are so many women in Muslim countries right now who are being stoned to death because they don’t want to wear a hijab due to their husband's requirement to do so," she said. "I think we should be focusing on that.”
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07-23-2019, 09:05 AM
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Am I the only one who is at all concerned by the fact that the President of the United States is functionally indistinguishable from a 12 year old girl, insofar as his media presence?
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07-23-2019, 09:14 AM
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Skamba in action:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/22/us/ma...rnd/index.html
Macy's may have bitten off more than it could chew.
The retail giant announced late Sunday that it would pull a line of porcelain plates advocating for smaller portion sizes after a wave of criticism that began -- and ended -- on Twitter.
The decision came in response to a customer's tweet criticizing the plates' message Sunday night.
The $9.50 plates, designed by a company called Pourtions, feature three circles of increasing sizes in which one might place their food. The circles are labeled "skinny jeans," "favorite jeans" and "mom jeans."
Two of them had just been featured in a display at Macy's flagship Herald Square location in New York -- a milestone celebrated on the Instagram page for the small company -- which is where writer Alie Ward saw them, rolled her eyes and took out her phone.
She tweeted a photo and asked: "How can I get these plates from Macy's banned in all 50 states?"
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In 2019, if you don't like something, it must be eradicated. Sound familiar post 15066?
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/22/us/ma...rnd/index.html
Macy's pulls plates advocating against 'mom jeans' portion sizes
Macy's may have bitten off more than it could chew.
The retail giant announced late Sunday that it would pull a line of porcelain plates advocating for smaller portion sizes after a wave of criticism that began -- and ended -- on Twitter.
The decision came in response to a customer's tweet criticizing the plates' message Sunday night.
The $9.50 plates, designed by a company called Pourtions, feature three circles of increasing sizes in which one might place their food. The circles are labeled "skinny jeans," "favorite jeans" and "mom jeans."
Two of them had just been featured in a display at Macy's flagship Herald Square location in New York -- a milestone celebrated on the Instagram page for the small company -- which is where writer Alie Ward saw them, rolled her eyes and took out her phone.
She tweeted a photo and asked: "How can I get these plates from Macy's banned in all 50 states?"
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07-23-2019, 09:24 AM
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Look how racist the UK has become:
https://www.businessinsider.com/bori...VKi6hskGigzndA
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Johnson's "do or die" pledge to guide Britain out of the European Union by October 31 sets him on a collision course with Parliament, which has repeatedly voted against a no-deal Brexit.
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https://www.businessinsider.com/bori...VKi6hskGigzndA
Boris Johnson wins the race to become Britain's next prime minister
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Johnson's "do or die" pledge to guide Britain out of the European Union by October 31 sets him on a collision course with Parliament, which has repeatedly voted against a no-deal Brexit.
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07-23-2019, 12:32 PM
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Sure, I wish he were more polished, but I've also had all of the smooth talkers I can stomach.
Churchill was also seen as crass, but helped save the UK from true Nazism and Fascism.
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07-23-2019, 02:26 PM
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True, but anyone who was ever affiliated with anything which does not conform to the officially sanctioned morality (by present-day standards, not the standards of the past), cannot be acknowledged as having made a positive contribution to hupersonity. They must be scrubbed from history.
In other news, maybe don't have the cat filter turned on while live-streaming a report of a double homicide:
NEWS
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police in British Columbia have apologized after livestreaming a press conference on the murder of an American woman and an Australian man on Facebook Live with an augmented reality “cat filter” turned on, per the Daily Beast.
According to BuzzFeed News, Sergeant Janelle Shoihet said during the conference on Friday that police had determined the deaths of 24-year-old North Carolina woman Chynna Noelle Deese and her 23-year-old Australian boyfriend, Lucas Robertson Fowler, were “suspicious.” The couple was found shot and killed near their 1986 Chevrolet van alongside Highway 97 on July 15, with Canadian authorities calling for anyone who saw the couple, the van, or were in the area at the time to contact them for help with the investigation.
According to the Daily Beast, the British Columbia division of the RCMP apologized after leaving the cat filter on during the broadcast, with Shoihet later pointing to “technical difficulties” after re-recording it. The RCMP said on Twitter that they had accidentally left on “an automatic setting.”
The RCMP uploaded a version of the press conference, sans cat ears, to Facebook:
Deese and Fowler were just a few days into a lengthy planned road trip throughout Canada when they were shot and killed, according to the Charlotte Observer. Their bodies were found off the highway 12 miles south of Liard Hot Springs, a popular tourist attraction, and took days to identify.
In a press release on Friday, the RCMP said they currently do not have any suspects in custody and do not know whether the incident “was a crime of opportunity,” asking for those who may have been in the area from 4:00 p.m. local time on July 14 to 8:00 a.m. local time on July 15 to step forward. Police are particularly interested in any possible dashcam footage. Shoihet said during the conference that investigators currently do not have any information that indicates the killings are “linked to any other active and ongoing investigations in the area, or if there is a heightened risk to public safety.”
Fort Nelson residents Sandra and Curtis Broughton told police that they had seen the couple on the afternoon of July 14 sitting in armchairs by the disabled vehicle, according to the Sydney Morning Herald, and that Fowler appeared to have correctly determined the van had a “flooded out” engine. The couple appeared to have the situation in hand at that time, the Broughtons said.
Deese’s brother, British Deese, told the Observer that the couple met at a hostel in Croatia in 2017 and had traveled through Europe, Central America, and Asia. Fowler, whose father is a police official in New South Wales, had obtained a job at a cattle ranch in Canada.
“They were deeply in love,” British Deese told the Observer. “They met traveling and that’s just what they did—travel. He was working in Canada and they were planning an extensive road trip there for three weeks. They were going to spend a week on the ranch and the second half of the trip going to national parks in Canada.”
“Maybe the van over heated or broke down,” British Deese added. “Something happened on that road, some sort of conflict. We don’t know because they [Canadian authorities] are not telling us anything.”
This is actually the second recent incident involving Facebook Live and a cat filter, though it is by far the more grievous error. In June 2019, regional Pakistani minister Shaukat Yousafzai streamed a press conference with the same filter activated. The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party later blamed the incident on “human error” from a volunteer and said “all necessary actions have been taken to avoid such [an] incident in future.”
https://gizmodo.com/rcmp-apologizes-...dou-1836581515
In other news, maybe don't have the cat filter turned on while live-streaming a report of a double homicide:
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RCMP Apologizes After Streaming Press Conference on Double Slaying With Cat Filter Activated
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police in British Columbia have apologized after livestreaming a press conference on the murder of an American woman and an Australian man on Facebook Live with an augmented reality “cat filter” turned on, per the Daily Beast.
According to BuzzFeed News, Sergeant Janelle Shoihet said during the conference on Friday that police had determined the deaths of 24-year-old North Carolina woman Chynna Noelle Deese and her 23-year-old Australian boyfriend, Lucas Robertson Fowler, were “suspicious.” The couple was found shot and killed near their 1986 Chevrolet van alongside Highway 97 on July 15, with Canadian authorities calling for anyone who saw the couple, the van, or were in the area at the time to contact them for help with the investigation.
The RCMP uploaded a version of the press conference, sans cat ears, to Facebook:
Deese and Fowler were just a few days into a lengthy planned road trip throughout Canada when they were shot and killed, according to the Charlotte Observer. Their bodies were found off the highway 12 miles south of Liard Hot Springs, a popular tourist attraction, and took days to identify.
In a press release on Friday, the RCMP said they currently do not have any suspects in custody and do not know whether the incident “was a crime of opportunity,” asking for those who may have been in the area from 4:00 p.m. local time on July 14 to 8:00 a.m. local time on July 15 to step forward. Police are particularly interested in any possible dashcam footage. Shoihet said during the conference that investigators currently do not have any information that indicates the killings are “linked to any other active and ongoing investigations in the area, or if there is a heightened risk to public safety.”
Fort Nelson residents Sandra and Curtis Broughton told police that they had seen the couple on the afternoon of July 14 sitting in armchairs by the disabled vehicle, according to the Sydney Morning Herald, and that Fowler appeared to have correctly determined the van had a “flooded out” engine. The couple appeared to have the situation in hand at that time, the Broughtons said.
Deese’s brother, British Deese, told the Observer that the couple met at a hostel in Croatia in 2017 and had traveled through Europe, Central America, and Asia. Fowler, whose father is a police official in New South Wales, had obtained a job at a cattle ranch in Canada.
“They were deeply in love,” British Deese told the Observer. “They met traveling and that’s just what they did—travel. He was working in Canada and they were planning an extensive road trip there for three weeks. They were going to spend a week on the ranch and the second half of the trip going to national parks in Canada.”
“Maybe the van over heated or broke down,” British Deese added. “Something happened on that road, some sort of conflict. We don’t know because they [Canadian authorities] are not telling us anything.”
This is actually the second recent incident involving Facebook Live and a cat filter, though it is by far the more grievous error. In June 2019, regional Pakistani minister Shaukat Yousafzai streamed a press conference with the same filter activated. The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party later blamed the incident on “human error” from a volunteer and said “all necessary actions have been taken to avoid such [an] incident in future.”
https://gizmodo.com/rcmp-apologizes-...dou-1836581515
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07-23-2019, 02:34 PM
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I am more concerned that the (2) political parties habitually lied to us while moving us closer and closer to a country of big government and reduced personal freedoms: that we felt the need to bring in such an eccentric outsider to stop the run to socialism / communism / democratic socialism.
I mean, I'm trying to think of an example of a government which did not tend to accumulate more power, and to increasingly limit the liberties of its subjects, over time.
Blue, red or orange, I see it as merely a different flavor of fruit at the bottom of the yogurt cup.
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