3rdnlng Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 Just now, Penfield45 said: funny thing but those "tyrannical orders" saved thousands of lives in many states. the governors that didn't do that are still dealing with spikes in cases currently. you can literally see which states are the worst run in the country (florida, texas), no surprise they are run by right wing nutjobs who have no idea what they are doing. and fyi if you think staying inside to save lives during the worst viral outbreak in our lifetime is considered "tyrannical" you are a ***** moron. When you can't buy paint but you can purchase weed or lottery tickets I say that's just a tad tyrannical. As a typical Lefty you're moving the goalposts. Don't you remember the whole purpose of the shutdowns were to flatten the curve and keep the virus under control enough so that our medical facilities could handle it? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TakeYouToTasker Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 5 minutes ago, Penfield45 said: funny thing but those "tyrannical orders" saved thousands of lives in many states. the governors that didn't do that are still dealing with spikes in cases currently. you can literally see which states are the worst run in the country (florida, texas), no surprise they are run by right wing nutjobs who have no idea what they are doing. and fyi if you think staying inside to save lives during the worst viral outbreak in our lifetime is considered "tyrannical" you are a ***** moron. people like you who have turned the pandemic into a political conspiracy are disgraceful to the millions of people who have suffered from this virus and lost loved ones. If not for the absurd amount of media hype which was generated for the sole purpose of destroying the economy, you, not anyone else, would have noticed anything more than a slightly worse than usual flu season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penfield45 Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 Just now, TakeYouToTasker said: If not for the absurd amount of media hype which was generated for the sole purpose of destroying the economy, you, not anyone else, would have noticed anything more than a slightly worse than usual flu season. look everyone. its almost JULY and these idiots still think this is just "the flu". even when every single top health official, doctor, scientist, medical researcher on the planet has confirmed this is NOTHING like the flu conservatives have successfully been brainwashing themselves into thinking this is all a hoax I honestly feel sorry for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TakeYouToTasker Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 Just now, Penfield45 said: look everyone. its almost JULY and these idiots still think this is just "the flu". even when every single top health official, doctor, scientist, medical researcher on the planet has confirmed this is NOTHING like the flu conservatives have successfully been brainwashing themselves into thinking this is all a hoax I honestly feel sorry for you. It’s not the flu, but it’s death toll for those catching it is only roughly three times as bad. Again, a bad flu season. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penfield45 Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 2 minutes ago, TakeYouToTasker said: It’s not the flu, but it’s death toll for those catching it is only roughly three times as bad. Again, a bad flu season. again, totally wrong covid by the lowest estimations is roughly six times more deadly, it also has a r0 of nearly 6 which is far more contagious than your average flu season virus. "bad flu season" is literally the dumbest take you can ever have. have a read and educate yourself please. https://www.livescience.com/new-coronavirus-compare-with-flu.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TakeYouToTasker Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 1 minute ago, Penfield45 said: again, totally wrong covid by the lowest estimations is roughly six times more deadly, it also has a r0 of nearly 6 which is far more contagious than your average flu season virus. "bad flu season" is literally the dumbest take you can ever have. have a read and educate yourself please. https://www.livescience.com/new-coronavirus-compare-with-flu.html Fear porn with more than a few dashes of statistical fraud. You like being lied to, I get it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Taro T Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 21 minutes ago, Penfield45 said: funny thing but those "tyrannical orders" saved thousands of lives in many states. the governors that didn't do that are still dealing with spikes in cases currently. you can literally see which states are the worst run in the country (florida, texas), no surprise they are run by right wing nutjobs who have no idea what they are doing. and fyi if you think staying inside to save lives during the worst viral outbreak in our lifetime is considered "tyrannical" you are a ***** moron. people like you who have turned the pandemic into a political conspiracy are disgraceful to the millions of people who have suffered from this virus and lost loved ones. 3,281 deaths & 2,249 deaths respectively. Which stinks; that's about 5,500 more deaths than anyone would like to see. Would sure hate to see how badly a state with 24,782 deaths must be run. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Orlando Tim Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 1 hour ago, Penfield45 said: funny thing but those "tyrannical orders" saved thousands of lives in many states. the governors that didn't do that are still dealing with spikes in cases currently. you can literally see which states are the worst run in the country (florida, texas), no surprise they are run by right wing nutjobs who have no idea what they are doing. and fyi if you think staying inside to save lives during the worst viral outbreak in our lifetime is considered "tyrannical" you are a ***** moron. people like you who have turned the pandemic into a political conspiracy are disgraceful to the millions of people who have suffered from this virus and lost loved ones. I can only imagine how you explain facts to people- Erie county which has 1.1 million people has more deaths than all of Central Florida with 5 plus million but I am sure you can explain how my state is the problem. Your Governor blames Trump for not forcing him not to be incompetent. Also your belief does not explain how Sweden is not killing everyone despite no lockdown. If you take all available info right now the right response was to socially distance and wear mask. If an area can not do those then a lockdown is good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GG Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 2 hours ago, TakeYouToTasker said: If not for the absurd amount of media hype which was generated for the sole purpose of destroying the economy, you, not anyone else, would have noticed anything more than a slightly worse than usual flu season. Except for 2 outlier states. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Miner Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 9 hours ago, GG said: Except for 2 outlier states. Most people don't force their grandparents to live with them when their family gets the flu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 June 25, 2020 The Black Lives Matter Movement is the Enemy of African-Americans By Leslie Taha The first thing that I have to say is that I am an African-American man living in the Minneapolis area. I have to state this now; otherwise, I would probably be called a racist. Most people think Black Lives Matter is a grassroots, black-created, black-run organization dedicated to fighting racism. It most certainly is not. The Black Lives Matter movement is the creation of a group of a few very wealthy individuals, non-profit corporations, and the corporate media. (Incidentally, 90% of the U.S. media is controlled by only six corporations.) The official Black Lives Matter website, BlackLivesMatter.com, states that Black Lives Matter is a global network foundation that is active in the U.S., the U.K., and Canada. A global network! Who funds Black Lives Matter? It's funded by billionaires George Soros (Open Society Foundation), Rob McKay (Taco Bell heir), the Ford Foundation, the Borealis Philanthropy, the Democracy Alliance, and many others. Not exactly what I would call a black-run grassroots organization. If these facts alone don't cause you to rethink the whole Black Lives Matter thing, then you just aren't paying attention. Check out the links here and here. Black Lives Matter began in 2013 when the media suddenly started focusing a tremendous amount of attention on what they portrayed as the rise of unjustified, racially motivated killings of African-American men by white police officers. That's the way that the media portrayed it, but the facts say otherwise. (Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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B-Man Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 SEGREGATION NOW, SEGREGATION TOMORROW, SEGREGATION FOREVER! Students demand segregated ‘Black House’ so they can ‘feel included.’ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 NEO: On supremacies and equality: the Reverend Martin Luther King, 1960. From a speech Reverend Martin Luther King delivered at DePauw University in September of 1960: “Black supremacy is as dangerous as white supremacy, and God is not interested merely in the freedom of black men and brown men and yellow men. God is interested in the freedom of the whole human race and the creation of a society where all men will live together as brothers, and all men will respect the dignity and the worth of all human personality.” It’s enough to make you weep, if you think of the fact that such a statement would now be highly controversial and unlikely to find a home on any college campus. Read the whole thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wacka Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 4 minutes ago, B-Man said: NEO: On supremacies and equality: the Reverend Martin Luther King, 1960. From a speech Reverend Martin Luther King delivered at DePauw University in September of 1960: “Black supremacy is as dangerous as white supremacy, and God is not interested merely in the freedom of black men and brown men and yellow men. God is interested in the freedom of the whole human race and the creation of a society where all men will live together as brothers, and all men will respect the dignity and the worth of all human personality.” It’s enough to make you weep, if you think of the fact that such a statement would now be highly controversial and unlikely to find a home on any college campus. Read the whole thing. Racist! Racist! That is how F'd up the left is. They would be saying that if you didn't put the author on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LB3 Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 The tweet: 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orlando Tim Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 1 hour ago, LB3 said: The tweet: That is some dark humor there- and the exact idiocy I would have said when I was I college. I certainly hope the school is looking into all of the other highly inappropriate comments made by students on twitter- like hoping that conservatives die from Covid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LB3 Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 8 minutes ago, Buffalo Timmy said: That is some dark humor there- and the exact idiocy I would have said when I was I college. I certainly hope the school is looking into all of the other highly inappropriate comments made by students on twitter- like hoping that conservatives die from Covid. Yup. Gallows humor. Someone is trying to cancel Jeselnik over past tweets of his. Jeselnik, as expected, steered directly into the skid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 ? THIS LANGUAGE IS OFFENSIVE AND DISRESPECTFUL TO AMERICAN WORKERS. I DEMAND AN APOLOGY AND THE SACKING OF THOSE INVOLVED IN THIS STATEMENT. Universities claim new Trump visa restrictions will keep out ‘best and brightest’ workers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 "It is not safe to speak, but it is even less safe not to speak. … You'll just be a miserable worm at the end of about 20 years of that." "No self respect, no power, no ability to voice your opinions, nothing left but resentment, because everyone's against you, because of course you've never stood up for yourself.… Don't be thinking you're alone. It's just that people … are afraid to talk or they don't know what to say.… The enemy is a cloud. They're a cloud of gnats. They're only courageous in groups. They're only courageous in mobs. If you stand your ground and don't apologize and articulate things properly, they'll disperse around you like they're not even there. So most of it's illusion." Said Jordan Peterson (in 2017) — from a longer passage transcribed by my son John, here, with video. Posted by Ann Althouse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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B-Man Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 I EXPECT THE SAME RULE TO APPLY TO FUTURE PRODUCTIONS OF HAMILTON. IT’S ONLY FAIR. ‘The Simpsons’ Will No Longer Have White Actors Voice Non-White Characters. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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B-Man Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 FINALLY: Feds warn UCLA about disciplining professor who read N-word from MLK letter. The US Department of Education has warned UCLA it could face fines if it disciplines a political science professor who read the N-word from Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” Lecturer W. Ajax Peris, an Air Force veteran, has been under investigation since early this month. UCLA Political Science Chair Michael Chwe and two others in his department had blasted Peris in an email, agreeing with students’ complaints that he didn’t “pause and reassess [his] teaching pedagogy” after objections to the N-word. An apology from Peris did little to assuage students and faculty. According to Fox News, Chwe and company alleged Peris’s act of contrition “escalated the situation rather than engaging in […] thoughtful and open discourse.” The DOE informed UCLA that Peris has been “improperly and abusively targeted.” Universities need adult supervision these days, and while I’d rather that not be the case, the DoE and DOJ need to provide some. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 STEPHEN KRUISER: Kimmel, Cancel Culture, and the Future of Comedy. I first began doing stand-up comedy in the early 1980’s at the beginning of the comedy boom in America. It was a real no-holds-barred affair and — not gonna lie — it was glorious. Comics had creative freedom that almost seemed like our birthright. When I first began going on the road professionally a few years later it was still like that. Little did we know at the time that a generation of humorless scolds was being spawned right under our noses. Previously: Comedians Dump Campus Gigs: When Did Colleges Lose Their Sense of Humor? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted June 30, 2020 Share Posted June 30, 2020 FACULTY — AND ESPECIALLY ADMINISTRATORS — TEND TO ENCOURAGE THE EXACT OPPOSITE: Colleges must teach ‘constructive dialogue’ or students will keep getting more intolerant, UNC researchers say. Most conservative and liberal students at the University of North Carolina want to socially engage with each other, enjoy having classes with the other, and agree that the university is better with their differently minded peers on campus. Then what’s the problem? Faculty and administrators aren’t teaching them how to engage with each other outside the classroom – a venue for structured debate that doesn’t mirror their daily lives, a professor said in an online event. Americans used to know how to do this, before some people thought it was better that they didn’t. Academic department calls on Penn State to require ‘structural racism’ courses. THEY DIDN’T START THE FIRE — WELL, EXCEPT THAT, YOU KNOW, THEY DID: Bashing Administrators While The University Burns. Reduce their numbers to 2000 levels and we’ll talk. It’s not like universities were understaffed then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted June 30, 2020 Share Posted June 30, 2020 CHANGE: Momentum Building in States to Require Campus ‘Intellectual Diversity.’ One of the arguments for affirmative action is that taxpayers can’t be expected to support schools that look radically different from their states’ population. Apply this to politics and an awful lot of campuses fail. CHARLES LIPSON: Three Ideas to End the Rot on College Campuses. “It’s not just that a careless word can cost your job, it’s that people tremble in fear that they might say the wrong word.” Very Sovietesque. More: What’s wrong with this rigid groupthink? First, it takes real problems, such as police misconduct or Confederate statues, and inflates them for political purposes. It vastly exaggerates their extent and gravity, mistakenly generalizes them (Ulysses Grant is not Stonewall Jackson), ignores significant progress in correcting old errors, calls any disagreement “racist,” and relies on intimidation and sometimes violence, not democratic procedures, to get their way. The loudest voices say America and its history are fundamentally evil, that its institutions need to be smashed so they can be reestablished on “socially just” foundations. The mob and their fellow travelers will determine what is just. Who gives them that right? This arrogation of power and attack on public order will not end well. The second problem is that America’s major institutions have been overwhelmed by these demands and have bowed down to them. Public trust has eroded in all America’s major institutions since the late 1960s. We now see the supine results. Instead of standing up to this swelling irrationalism and intimidation, they have appeased it—and sometimes embraced it. Predictably, appeasement has only fueled more extreme demands. The rot began in America’s universities before spreading to mass media, cultural magazines, philanthropies, museums, and corporations. More and more parents are concerned that it now suffuses K-12 education. They don’t want a Pollyanna history, but neither do they want their children indoctrinated with a grim, doctrinaire view that America is an evil nation, incapable of reforming its own defects. Universities have led this parade of self-flagellation. One reason is that so many administrators and professors agree with the mob demands. Read the whole thing. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted June 30, 2020 Share Posted June 30, 2020 Orwellian Phrase of the Day. My nomination for the most Orwellian phrase of the moment is, “We need to have a conversation about X [race, class, gender, policing, inequality—fill in the blank].” What “we need a conversation” means in practice is, “You shut up and agree with the left.” It seems the (checks notes) Harvard Business Review agrees, in an article titled, “Academia Isn’t a Safe Haven for Conversations About Race and Racism.” The interesting thing about this article is that it is written by two “progressives” entirely in sympathy with the leftist view of racial matters, but amusingly they note that there aren’t serious conversations about race because white progressive shut down minority voices. That’s not quite how they put it, but it is easy to read between the lines here: Our research, personal stories, and the experiences of many others don’t offer much cause for optimism. Why? When people of color give voice to the discrimination they experience, they are often silenced by their white colleagues, many of whom purport to be liberal progressives. And although there is a perception that academia is a safe haven for these kinds of honest conversations, it is often the opposite. Until this changes in education and beyond, it’s our view that we will be unable to reach racial equity in white institutional spaces. [Emphasis added.] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted June 30, 2020 Share Posted June 30, 2020 Childbirth site suggests using less-gendered language, like ‘birthing persons’ and ‘chest-feeding’ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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B-Man Posted July 1, 2020 Share Posted July 1, 2020 GLEICHSCHALTUNG: Catholic university threatens to revoke scholarship of student who criticized its pro-LGBTQ tweet. Says the student: “In other words, if I want to survive at this Catholic institution, then I need to lie; lie on Twitter, and tell everyone that, in fact, my Catholic beliefs are wrong, and I am in full communion with the stance the school has taken.” 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo_Gal Posted July 1, 2020 Share Posted July 1, 2020 This is some thread. You can read the thread unrolled here. (a lot more tweets) or read the thread unrolled here . 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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B-Man Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 State University Memo Appears to Suggest Combatting Racism Will Now Be a Condition for Enrollment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 K12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: North Carolina: Homeschool requests overload state government website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted July 3, 2020 Share Posted July 3, 2020 I WILL IDENTIFY AS A BLACK WOMAN, SO THEY’LL BE AFRAID TO DO ANYTHING: Virginia Police Will Now Ask for Race, Gender During Traffic Stops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted July 3, 2020 Share Posted July 3, 2020 Never Give an Inch By Deanna Chadwell The lawless events of the last few weeks (months, counting the overreach of many state governments in the COVID panic) have left me acutely aware of my own human desire for order, and I have to take a deep breath whenever I find myself wishing Trump would just whip out the military and put a stop to it all. But that’s what the desperate Democrats want -- the Rules for Radicals vindication -- create so much chaos that the masses beg for someone to take control. But we can’t let that happen. So I would like to suggest a new motto for conservatives and libertarians alike. It comes from Ken Kesey’s novel, Sometimes a Great Notion -- “Never give a goddamn inch. We don’t have any inches left. We can’t compromise or concede anything. They’re destroying our history, our economy, our connections with God. They want to tear apart our families and they’ve already made mockeries of our schools. This last spate of riots has to be the end. We can tolerate this Mad Hatter’s tea party no longer. “Black Lives Matter?” Whoever said they didn’t? What does that even mean? Two hundred years ago when most American blacks were slaves -- even then -- black lives mattered -- they were money. There’s nothing even remotely rational in that slogan. What would they have chanted had Floyd been white? It looked to me like a terrible miscarriage of justice no matter what the color of his skin, so had he been, say, Jewish, would the rioters have been stealing TVs and torching cop cars? Would they have been chanting, “Jewish Lives Matter?” So what does it mean? Not much. We abort black babies more often than babies of any other race, but those lives evidently don’t “matter.” The cruelty of the abortion procedures evidently isn’t an issue to these miscreants. The black cops on the street are treated with even worse disrespect than the white cops, so it’s not their lives that matter. Republicans, ever since there were Republicans, have done everything we could to make black lives not only matter, but make them better, so what are these folks (a large percentage who are white) fussing about? And, since we all agree that black lives matter -- as do all other lives -- then what’s the point? There isn’t one. Blacks in this country are doing well -- under this president, financially better than they ever have. We’d all like to see black families put back together, but that’s not anything a riot will fix. We’d like to see school choice so that black children have a better shot at an education, but the left is adamantly against that. So, what? It’s never been clearer that this has been fit-throwing for fit-throwing’s sake -- and for the sake of stealing the coming election. Which leads me to conclude that the wrong side knows that it’s losing. The left will try to cheat its way to the White House, but all they have to offer is a hollow shell of a man who never amounted to much in the first place. So, they will have to continue throwing fits, throwing up a smoke screen so no one notices that they have no candidate. This will be a long hot summer, a marathon of ugliness and lying and danger. And we have to be up for it. MORE at the link: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/07/never_give_an_inch_.html 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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