30 November, 2016

You_Are_All_Absurd comments on The 'alt-right' splinters as supporters and critics agree it was white supremacy all along

You_Are_All_Absurd comments on The 'alt-right' splinters as supporters and critics agree it was white supremacy all along:

What White Nationalists Don't Get
A common and seemingly reasonable argument for white pride or white nationalism is "why can't I be proud of my culture?"
Well, you can. Always have been able to. We have Irish pride celebrations, we have German drinking festivals, we have Serbian food festivals. Any European culture you can think of has multiple organizations in North America dedicated to taking pride in their heritage and NO ONE gives them shit for it.
But, you see, when you start talking "white pride", that's not a culture. That's a skin colour. There is no white culture, never was. There is no pan-European culture, never was. Europe is a continent, not a culture or ethnicity.
Now, some of you are probably about to go "But wait! Black pride! How is that okay?" Well, easy. Go find a black person and ask them if their ancestors were slaves. When you find one who says "yes", proceed to ask them "what country in Africa were your ancestors from?" Do you know what their answer will probably be? "I don't know." This is because their culture was taken from them. It was beaten out of them. They were enslaved, Christianized, and then white washed. The one unifying feature they have as a people is that history of slavery and that history of being black. They can't have Liberian pride, or Congolese pride, or "insert African country" pride because they have no fucking idea where their ancestors came from other than the broad region of West Africa.
Meanwhile us white people can often trace our ancestors to specific cities and regions. I can trace my mother's maiden name to a single fucking village in Ireland. I know where I came from. I don't have white culture, I have Irish culture.
So that's why white pride makes you an asshole but black pride actually makes sense.



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27 November, 2016

Why Did Trump Supporters Deny Our Stories For Anger & Fear? – Muslim Girl

Why Did Trump Supporters Deny Our Stories For Anger & Fear? – Muslim Girl:

When I was four years old, I used to have a recurring nightmare: I would be walking with one of my great-aunts near my mother’s childhood home in Northwest Bangladesh. As we passed an open field, she snatched me up in her arms and started running back to the house. I looked back only to see rows of soldiers marching, guns pointed straight at us.
The dream never went beyond that. I always woke up with the need to keep running, to escape.
And even though I didn’t live through it, I knew that the nightmare was inspired by one of my mother’s stories from the 1971 Bangladeshi War of Liberation: her first memory—from when she herself was four years old—of being carried away from burning buildings and gun-toting Pakistani soldiers by her aunt, the same woman from my dream.
How do you explain waking up terrified by memories that aren’t your own? How do you relive experiences that you’ve never had?


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Netflix’s 3% Review: Season 1 of Brazil’s Hunger Games Proves Unique | IndieWire

Netflix’s 3% Review: Season 1 of Brazil’s Hunger Games Proves Unique | IndieWire: "What would a Season 2 of “3%” look like? It’s hard to say based on the finale, but the ride that was Season 1 felt me surprised and impressed. Yes, if you don’t already speak Portuguese, the subtitles are a commitment, but for any fan of this particular genre it’s an easy recommend — as well as a nice reminder for Netflix that they don’t need to break the bank, budget-wise, to create a compelling series.

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26 November, 2016

Why I Left White Nationalism - NYTimes.com

Why I Left White Nationalism - NYTimes.com: "Mr. Trump’s victory must make all Americans acknowledge that the choice of embracing or rejecting multiculturalism is not abstract. I know this better than most, because I’ve followed both paths. It is the choice of embracing or rejecting our own people.

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22 November, 2016

NurRauch comments on I've just been hired as a public defender. Any advice for this job?

NurRauch comments on I've just been hired as a public defender. Any advice for this job?: "Prepare yourself for failure. A LOT of failure. You will have never failed at anything as much as you're going to fail at this job. Again, we're trauma surgeons. We break bones to save the heart or the brain. A lot of the times our patients are gonna die on us mid-operation. You're going to be doing very dangerous surgeries that have less than a 10% success rating. Feel absolutely free to cry and bitch and moan about all the losing you're about to do, but remember that it's not your fault. It's just the way the system is for so many of our clients. Many of the clients will personally hold you accountable -- just let them. It's not your job to convince them you're a good lawyer or a caring lawyer. It's just your job to try to help them. And often you'll find that trying and failing is actually seen in their eyes as winning their case. Hopefully you too will also come to understand what "winning" really means in this job. If you've given it a few years and nothing feels like winning unless you get a full acquittal on all charges, then you might need to re-evaluate how worthwhile you're finding the job. My inclination, though, is that you find you love it.
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Constitutional Duties Precede Party Loyalties and Policy Goals – Medium

Constitutional Duties Precede Party Loyalties and Policy Goals – Medium: "Senators aren’t given the binary choice of jumping on the Trump Train or reflexively filibustering everything, every day, for the next four years. Our first job is to defend the Constitution (independent of party label) and to work for limited government and the nearly unlimited potential of every American."

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20 November, 2016

Navy SEALs explain consequences of ego - Business Insider

Navy SEALs explain consequences of ego - Business Insider: "Former Navy SEALs and "Extreme Ownership" authors Jocko Willink and Leif Babin talk about ego and how it can ruin your chance at effective leadership. 

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19 November, 2016

The Education of a Libertarian | Cato Unbound

The Education of a Libertarian | Cato Unbound: "A better metaphor is that we are in a deadly race between politics and technology. The future will be much better or much worse, but the question of the future remains very open indeed. We do not know exactly how close this race is, but I suspect that it may be very close, even down to the wire. Unlike the world of politics, in the world of technology the choices of individuals may still be paramount. The fate of our world may depend on the effort of a single person who builds or propagates the machinery of freedom that makes the world safe for capitalism.

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The End of Identity Liberalism - The New York Times

The End of Identity Liberalism - The New York Times: "Finally, the whitelash thesis is convenient because it absolves liberals of not recognizing how their own obsession with diversity has encouraged white, rural, religious Americans to think of themselves as a disadvantaged group whose identity is being threatened or ignored. Such people are not actually reacting against the reality of our diverse America (they tend, after all, to live in homogeneous areas of the country). But they are reacting against the omnipresent rhetoric of identity, which is what they mean by “political correctness.” Liberals should bear in mind that the first identity movement in American politics was the Ku Klux Klan, which still exists. Those who play the identity game should be prepared to lose it.

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Fugitive kills U.S. marshal serving warrant in rural Georgia - NY Daily News

Fugitive kills U.S. marshal serving warrant in rural Georgia - NY Daily News: "A fugitive accused of the attempted murder of police officers gunned down a U.S. Marshals deputy commander trying to arrest him at a Georgia mobile home park Friday, officials said.

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16 November, 2016

The Old and the Bold: Spotting a Sniper - YouTube

The Old and the Bold: Spotting a Sniper - YouTube: "Ex-Army Commando Roy Cadman describes how to spot a sniper by listening to the sound of the bullet fire, and how such a skill comes only from experience.
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15 November, 2016

I’m still fresh out of ideas – Fredrik deBoer

I’m still fresh out of ideas – Fredrik deBoer: "I have seen, with my own two eyes, a 33 year old Hispanic man, an Iraq war veteran who had served three tours and had become an outspoken critic of our presence there, be lectured about patriarchy by an affluent 22 year old white liberal arts college student, because he had said that other vets have to “man up” and speak out about the war. Because apparently we have to pretend that we don’t know how metaphorical language works or else we’re bad people. I watched his eyes glaze over as this woman with $300 shoes berated him. I saw that. Myself.

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Research says there are ways to reduce racial bias. Calling people racist isn’t one of them. - Vox

Research says there are ways to reduce racial bias. Calling people racist isn’t one of them. - Vox: "“Telling people they’re racist, sexist, and xenophobic is going to get you exactly nowhere,” said Alana Conner, executive director of Stanford University’s Social Psychological Answers to Real-World Questions Center. “It’s such a threatening message. One of the things we know from social psychology is when people feel threatened, they can’t change, they can’t listen.”

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How We Broke Democracy (But Not in the Way You Think) – Medium

How We Broke Democracy (But Not in the Way You Think) – Medium:

Over the last several weeks I have watched dozens of my friends on Facebook de-friend one another. I have seen plenty of self-righteous posts flow across my news feed, along with deeply felt messages of fear, anger and more recently — existential despair.
On the other side I see reflections of joy, levity, gratitude and optimism for the future. It could not be more stark.
The thing that both groups have in common is very apparent: A sense of profound confusion about how the other side cannot understand their perspective.
This seemed to be building on a trend in social media that hit full tilt in the lead up to the election: Political divisions between us are greater than they ever have been, and are still getting worse by the day.


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Wrong_on_Internet comments on Obama: Congress stopped me from helping Trump supporters

Wrong_on_Internet comments on Obama: Congress stopped me from helping Trump supporters:

Trade Adjustment Assistance to retrain workers displaced by free trade: blocked by Republicans.
Community College: Proposed free community college program; blocked by Republicans.
Infrastructure Bill: Proposed $60b on highway, rail, transit and airport improvements + $10 billion in seed money for infrastructure bank; blocked by Republicans
Jobs Bill: to "give tax breaks for companies that "insource' jobs to the U.S. from overseas while eliminating tax deductions for companies that move jobs abroad"; blocked by Republicans


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13 November, 2016

Bumped into this gentleman outside of an... - Mariam Mokhtarzada

Bumped into this gentleman outside of an... - Mariam Mokhtarzada: "As we parted ways, he said that he would fight to define my rights and protect my children. Several people stopped us to say how beautiful it was to see us talking to each other. They said it gave them hope.



Let's not demonize each other. Let's build bridges to understand someone even if we don't agree with their perspective. We have to slow down to connect to the biker, the Muslim, the man on the street. The more we connect with each other the less we each other as the "other"."



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Red, Blue and Divided: Six Views of America - The New York Times

Red, Blue and Divided: Six Views of America - The New York Times: "In some ways, the echo chamber was the winner of this election. Here we are, deeply connected. And yet red America is typing away to red America, and blue America is typing away to blue America. The day after the election, some people said the echo chamber had begun to feel like a prison.

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they’re going to keep losing – Fredrik deBoer

they’re going to keep losing – Fredrik deBoer:

People don’t seem to understand this: you need to adapt and change and look outside of your tiny enclaves not out of some moral obligation, but because you are losing on every imaginable front. You don’t have to get in touch with the rest of the country because that’s the right thing to do. You have to get in touch with the rest of the country because they’re kicking your ass. The Republicans will control the House, the Senate, and the presidency, have the chance to appoint at least one and probably several Supreme Court justices, run 68 out of 99 state legislative houses, and hold 31 gubernatorial seats. That is domination on an unimaginable level. Every minute you spend signal-boosting people who say that it’s Republicans who have to get on board with liberal values is a minute you’re not doing anything to change that condition.



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President-elect Trump speaks to a divided country on 60 Minutes - CBS News

President-elect Trump speaks to a divided country on 60 Minutes - CBS News: "Nor he said had he heard about reports of racial slurs and personal threats against African Americans, Latinos and gays by some of his supporters.




Donald Trump: I am very surprised to hear that-- I hate to hear that, I mean I hate to hear that--



Lesley Stahl: But you do hear it?




Donald Trump: I don’t hear it—I saw, I saw one or two instances…




Lesley Stahl: On social media?




Donald Trump: But I think it’s a very small amount. Again, I think it’s--




Lesley Stahl: Do you want to say anything to those people?




Donald Trump: I would say don’t do it, that’s terrible, ‘cause I’m gonna bring this country together.




 Lesley Stahl: They’re harassing Latinos, Muslims--




Donald Trump: I am so saddened to hear that. And I say, “Stop it.” If it-- if it helps. I will say this, and I will say right to the cameras: Stop it."



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