A fringe website featured the purported names and addresses of the Fulton County grand jury that indicted Trump and 18 others for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
Jones said. "The lack of political leadership on the right to denounce these threats — which serve to inspire real-world political violence— is shameful.”
this is the worst part, the most disingenuous garbage, and what makes fighting agains this even harder.
REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP WANTS AND SUPPORTS THIS
the sooner we all acknowledge this and treat Republicans - collectively - as the FASCIST THREAT that they are, we all will lose.
I don’t know this person, but I would speculate that, when OP is angry, they like to vent their frustrations at the boogeyman that their peer group has commonly villainized.
it has been my experience that those who most commonly cry “no censorship!” are those who like to express hate-speech. they also have been taught to blame “democrats” for their woes. there’s a lot of correlation here that I would bet is causative.
some people view censorship as an infringement of their rights, and, sometimes, they’re right.
some people see reasonable regulation of speech/behavior (especially in communal spaces) as a personal affront and a judgement of the views the hold and positions they espouse— often because their speech/behavior is seen as offensive and unacceptable by society. it reveals not only a deep insecurity, but a acknowledgement that even these people know, deep-down, that what they’re doing is unacceptable and wrong, and that their defense of it is disingenuous because their true motives are, in fact, malicious and hateful.
I’ve heard the devil is beating his wife but only rarely.
I heard it, I think, once from a very old lady in Alabama who also prolifically used the n-word like she’d drop dead if she stopped. it formed a negative association for me.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis urged The Walt Disney Co. to drop its lawsuit against him, while telling CNBC that he has “moved on” from his battle with the company and that it should drop t…
he’s trying to Trump his way out of this, but after Dolt 45 just caught 14 more charges of “your’e fucked” today in Georgia (for a total of NINETY-TWO* charges across 4 state and federal indictments), perhaps that’s not such a great strategy.
*In New York, he faces 34 felony counts in connection with hush money payments to a porn star. In Florida, he faces 40 felony counts for hoarding classified documents and impeding efforts to retrieve them. In Washington, D.C., he faces four felony counts for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
oh, right… racism is our fault. because we complained about it. gotcha. that’s some real DARVO bs ya got there…
“DARVO is an acronym used to describe a common strategy of abusers. The abuser will: Deny the abuse ever took place, then Attack the victim for attempting to hold the abuser accountable; then they will lie and claim that they, the abuser, are the real victim in the situation, thus Reversing the Victim and Offender.”
No, for real. Disney makes more money from parks than they do from movies.
yes, the parks pull in big cash for Disney, but it’s what they sell there that’s the real money-maker for Disney and always has been: merchandising.
I have a brother who lives in Orlando and works for a contracting company as a civil engineer. He did some work for them maybe a decade ago and they are working on this one building in the Magic Kingdom, on Main Street near the entrance that had this huge shop in it. One of those gift shops that everyone stops at right before they leave that has souvenirs and merch from every franchise, of every character, of any damned Disney thing you can think of just so they can shake you down one last time before you leave the park for the day.
So, they’re doing some hurricane repair to the building and it’s some major work. They’ve shut down the entire building to do major structural repair, and he’s one of the engineers telling the park manager team that they need to shut the store for a day or two in order to replace some critical support something or other. Well, the Disney people weren’t having that. They made it clear that the store could not be closed, not for a day, not for an hour, not for a minute because it, by far, was the best moneymaker at any of the parks, reaping just titanic amounts of cash— far more than all the parks or hotels combined, in fact. My brother and the other engineers are trying, pleading, with the Disney guys telling them that not only may it not be possible to do it any other way than going into the store to do the work, but that if they could do it another way, it could triple the work time and budget. They didn’t care.
The Disney guys basically told the engineering team, and later the site mangers and up the chain at the contracting company, that they didn’t care how the long the project took or how much it cost or even if they had to tear down the whole structure around the store and rebuild it— they were not, under any circumstances, to disturb the smooth operation of the store one tiny bit. One single day of operation made so much money that it’s ridiculous, so the Disney people just didn’t care what had to be done to keep it open. They were like, “we’d close all three parks before we’d close that one store. Get it done.” And they did, several months and a crazy amount over budget, but Disney was happy, so ¯_(ツ)_/¯
so, yeah, the parks make tons of cash, that’s true, but nothing compares to the money they make selling Disney-branded merch.
*CO, ahem. if he had managed to have lizard babies with Chakotay (the eXecutive officer), perhaps the episode wouldn’t have been so stupid. also, the episode was more like 48 minutes.
if so, Laren is off the list. Such a drag, always going on about starving in a Bajoran refugee camp while her people were being genocided. What do I need, a drinking problem?
and tradesmen who pull in that kind of cash are usually smart enough to spend their money wisely on a more practical work vehicle than to waste their money on a pretty one.
rich office dude doesn’t have to worry about his little-dick-compensator getting all beat-up on the job.
I’ve seen the beat-up Toyotas. haven’t seen any 100k trucks except, sometimes, one that’s not actually being used for work. all shiny because it belongs to the big boss who doesn’t lift a finger because he sits in an office all day. they’re all for show.
I can fall asleep almost anywhere. I routinely fall asleep in the break room at work. Once, I was helping a friend fix his car, and I fell asleep on his garage floor when he went inside to get water....
What is your favorite insult in your native language that doesn't exist or cant be directly translated in English?
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Trump supporters post names and addresses of Georgia grand jurors online (www.nbcnews.com)
A fringe website featured the purported names and addresses of the Fulton County grand jury that indicted Trump and 18 others for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
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Report on Anti-Gay Slur Could Put Local News Site Out of Business (www.nytimes.com)
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis urged The Walt Disney Co. to drop its lawsuit against him, while telling CNBC that he has “moved on” from his battle with the company and that it should drop t…
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70 billion dollars and what really do they have to show for it?...
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People are having sex in self-driving cars, apparently (mashable.com)
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18+ platonically of course (lemmy.world)
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Highest upvoted helmsman in this thread will be declared best helmsman in the fleet.
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Opensuse TW all day every day
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I can fall asleep almost anywhere. I routinely fall asleep in the break room at work. Once, I was helping a friend fix his car, and I fell asleep on his garage floor when he went inside to get water....