The news thread

[Trollheart]

Let's keep the personal insults out of it, guys.
Keep it friendly.

[Jwb]

Lmao @ hawk drawing the line at them capitilizing Black but not white. 

It's very simple.  They go with the race narrative when the shooter is white because that drives more engagement. Nobody is shocked when a young black man kills another young black man so in those cases it need not be mentioned.  But if you can find even the potential for a racial narrative than what would have been a local tragedy can potentially turn into a national conversation. And that is what the press would do with any story if they can.

[Jwb]

Let's keep the personal insults out of it, guys.
Keep it friendly.

i didn't mean that as an overly harsh insult lol.  She just very much has the air of a  humorless disciplinarian when she addresses OH in posts like this:

ok, you know I'm not ok with you being called a pedo, but you have no right to whine about people on MB calling you out when you make sexual jokes about underage girls. It's gross. This is what annoys me about your attitude towards MB: sure you have some grounds to complain about MB, but the way you do it is unreasonable, immature and gets in the way of acknowledging the problems with your own behaviour

As if he hasn't reformed his behavior on here more drastically than anyone else.  But if he deviates slightly and makes a (tame) off color joke,  it's time to break out the old ruler and make him repent.

[Trollheart]

Yeah it's probably not a terrible thing to say, but for all you know, Marie may have had to have gone back in time, shoot a schoolmarm to stop her growing up and eventually being the great-great-great-grandmother to Hitler or Trump or someone, and may still have terrifying flashbacks, so the word "schoolmarm" could be a trigger to her.

Or (and this is, I admit, less likely than my very plausible guess above), she just may not like it. Best to, as I say, keep it friendly.

She might always go back in time and kill your grandfather and then - hello? Hello? Anyone there?
Who was I talking to again?

[Jwb]

That was me keeping it friendly.

[jimmy jazz]

Lmao @ hawk drawing the line at them capitilizing Black but not white. 

It's very simple.  They go with the race narrative when the shooter is white because that drives more engagement. Nobody is shocked when a young black man kills another young black man so in those cases it need not be mentioned.  But if you can find even the potential for a racial narrative than what would have been a local tragedy can potentially turn into a national conversation. And that is what the press would do with any story if they can.

What about when a black man kills a white person? As you saw from the examples in this thread they don't go with the race narrative there. Why do you think that is?

I'm glad other people have noticed it because I've genuinely seen it for years.

[Marie Monday]

As if he hasn't reformed his behavior on here more drastically than anyone else.  But if he deviates slightly and makes a (tame) off color joke,  it's time to break out the old ruler and make him repent.

Yeah I don't like the way I sound either, but I actually switched to this instead of a more flippant tone mostly because Hawk didn't seem to like that. Still I think you have a distorted idea of me: it's really not some kind of disciplinary urge. I just feel obliged to speak up when I think something's wrong, but I can't really pull of doing it 'not cool, dude'-style (especially after a bunch of years of this)

@Trolls I appreciate it but I'm happy to say it's a trigger-free word for me

[Trollheart]

So you're saying that wasn't you I saw toting that shotgun near the little Spanish church back in 1804, when I went back in search of the ancestor of Zuckerburg? Never found him either, as it happens...

[Toy Revolver]

The marketing executive who oversaw a partnership between Bud Light and a transgender influencer is taking a leave of absence after it snowballed into cries for boycotts from some angry customers, according to media reports.

i have read that drinking bud light will shrink your ding dong 🤷�♂️

when i drank preferred beer over piss water but whatever

[Toy Revolver]

ATLANTA (AP) — Koko Da Doll, an Atlanta woman who gained notice in a documentary about transgender Black women and the dangers they face, was shot to death in Atlanta this week, her sister said.

Kilya Williams and other relatives said police told them the 35-year-old transgender woman, also known as Rasheeda Williams, appears to have been shot Wednesday after leaving an apartment complex west of downtown Atlanta. Her body was found on a sidewalk adjoining a strip mall across a busy street.

probably a hate crime

i hate it even more when these things happen in my beloved home town

[Toy Revolver]

The home of a Utah state senator was vandalized in possible retaliation for a bill to ban gender-affirming surgery for minors, police say.

nice

let them know they can be touched

no way that doesn't scare him with his family living there

bash back

[Psy-Fi]

i have read that drinking bud light will shrink your ding dong 🤷�♂️

when i drank preferred beer over piss water but whatever

Time to resurrect a couple of classics...

[Psy-Fi]

Riverside County sheriff's deputies lose 60 pounds of methamphetamine

During an undercover drug sting this week, Riverside County sheriff's deputies lost almost 60 pounds of methamphetamine when they couldn't catch up with the person they sold it to.

[jadis]

Labour suspends Diane Abbott in attempt to stifle fresh antisemitism row



The Corbyn wing of the UK's Labour party, or what remains of it anyway, are not the sharpest

[jimmy jazz]

Abbott is a disgrace and has been for a long time.

Abbott's letter said that Irish, Jewish and Traveller people "undoubtedly experience prejudice", but added: "This is similar to racism and the two words are often used as if they are interchangeable."

She obviously thinks this because she's of the 'black people can't be racist/you can't be racist to white people' mindset.