Still no identification of the two responsible. This is likely due to them being juveniles, what with the judicial system erroneously believing that there’s some fundamental shift that happens when someone magically flips from “child” to “adult.” Even if these people cannot be help to account by the legal system, I would think it advisable for the public to be made aware of who they are so as to keep their pets, children and *jobs* away from them.
Once they are pout of whatever slap-on-the-wrist imprisonment they’ll get, they should be strongly encouraged to travel the world and never come back.
Doomcock goes off about Will Smith’s coarsening of culture and suppression of speech:
There remains doubt over whether the slap was real. Both of those involved are actors, both have had action movie roles; both could doubtless have faked this successfully. But it *looked* real… looked real enough that the intent was to make it seem real. If it had been done as a joke, it would have come off as a joke, but it comes off as exactly what it seems. But real or not, the intent was to show that if you say the wrong thing, it is valid for someone to try to physically harm you. This is a Bad Message, but it’s one that many extremists in society today can get behind. This incident, if Will Smith goes unpunished (as it seems he will), can only lead to more violence against not just standard comedians, but especially those who traffic in political humor.
At least there will be some good jokes to come from this:
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I’m not exactly the target audience for high end shaving products; I buy my razors by the bag and rather than shaving cream I use soap. Because I’m cheap. But the ad below… it’s tempting.
I wish them well. A company with a sense of humor *and* which does not wish me any specific harm? These days, that’s rare.
Well, not *exactly* the one we always wanted. Starfleet vs Star Destroyers? Nah. But the Federation being taken over by the Dark Side? Yup, we’re there, thanks to the season 4 finale of STD which saw the President of Earth portrayed by current political villain Stacey Abrams. Her claim to fame is working for “voter rights,” which in the current usage is a euphemism for getting rid of any ability to maintain election integrity. Because she apparently believes that black people cannot be bothered to get and hold onto state IDs such as drivers licenses, her platform boils down to voting should be open to anybody, no matter who, where they’re from, whether they’re alive or not, citizens of the country or even if they are cross-dimensional multiversal copies of themselves. In a Star Trek context, when it comes down to a clash between the Federation fighting for survival against the Borg, her position would be that the Borg would get to vote on whether or not the Federation citizens should be marched off to assimilation.
At this stage, STD has been such a tragic parody of Star Trek for so long that this sort of nonsense is largely being met with shrugs of “well, what, am I supposed to be surprised?” from actual Star Trek fans. Of course the fake fans who think that STD is actually good are having a field day thinking that casting Abrams is some sort of historical coup. Witness, for example, the top comment at that wretched hive of scum and villainy, gizmodo, in an article on the cameo:
“I like my Trek finales the way I like my elections — garnished with conservative tears.”
There are two takeaways from that:
The commenter actually thinks conservatives are crying about this
The commenter is happy to see cultural icons being trashed as a way to hurt the feelings of those who disagree politically with him/her/it.
That latter point is hardly something new. Fellow travelers of this sort have spent several years committing acts of cultural and *actual* vandalism as a way not to improve society, but just to hurt people they don’t like. That’s a very Dark Side philosophy.
Anyway, here’s the scene. Having not actually seen the episode, I have the sneaking suspicion that the audio here might not be precisely what was broadcast, but, hey, it works.
There are those who argue that STD is canonical with actual Star Trek, that it’s in the same universe/timeline as TOS and TNG. This despite all the tonal differences, the fundamentally different Klingorks, the technology a century in advance of what was shown before, the different *history* on display. The season 4 finale, however, provides a final nail in the coffin to the idea that STD is set in the canonical Star Trek timeline. That detail is this: Earth is geographically, geologically a different *planet* than the Earth of reality or of actual Star Trek. In STD-verse, Africa is something like 50% bigger than elsewhere, stretching from nearly the arctic to nearly the antarctic. You can’t have continents being vastly larger and not have that make major changes to the timeline, going back millions of years. One might argue that this is due to lenses and the distance at which one films a sphere; if you photograph the Earth from the ISS, Nebraska about fills the view of Earth from horizon to horizon. But as you can see here, the “camera” has pulled back to several planetary diameters away, at which point the distortions become minimal. Earth in STD is a *very* different place.
I’ve seen the usual suspects claiming that the fact that Zelenskiy suspended parties that support the destruction of Ukraine means he’s a fascist. Let’s look at a little bit of history. Prior to World War II, there was a political party in Britain called the “British Union of Fascists.” What happened when war broke out between fascist Germany and democratic Britain? Britain banned the BUF in 1940 and interred some 700 or more of it’s officials for the duration of the war. Was Churchill a fascist? Nope. Kind of a ruthless bastard to be sure, but hardly a fascist. When your nation is being attacked by a more powerful enemy, you fight them. And that means fighting their supporters within your own borders. During the Cold War, the United States – which is pretty unique in its determination to not ban much of *any* political party – still sicced the FBI on our own commies… and rightly so.
I’ve seen some commentator claim that Zelenskiy has banned all opposition parties. Untrue: unlike the US, where you’ve got the DemRep uniparty and virtually nothing else of any real consequence, Ukraine has a *lot* of parties. See the list on Wikipedia. The only ones that got banned are the pro-Russian parties. For a nation under martial law currently being ground underfoot by a massively larger military constantly carrying out war crime after war crime, this is a perfectly reasonable response to the situation. Is it the *American* response? No. The US did not ban the Commies during the Cold War; did not ban the fascists during WWII (they, unlike the commies, had the good graces to evaporate on their own when war broke out); the US didn’t even ban the Democrats when they started a Civil War. But everyone who is not the US is not a fascist, despite what the lefties and the Putinfluffers will try to lead you to believe.
If the Cold War had gone differently, and “Red Dawn” or something like it had come to pass, it’s interesting to contemplate whether the US would have banned the communists.
Not just any lawmaker… this is Assemblyman Jim Cooper D-Elk Grove, who in 2016 authored a bill to ban the right to make your own firearm. He doesn’t want *you* to have a gun, but boy howdy he sure wants his own.
If this was *you,* you’d spend a good chunk of the rest of your life in prison. This guy? No charges. In fact, they held onto his gun for him, returning it as soon as he got back from his trip. Why? Because he’s former law enforcement, and they’re allowed to have firearms in certain areas of the airport. Where they’re *not* allowed to take a firearm is on an airplane, where he was trying to take his gun, stashed in his man-purse.
If these jackholes didn’t have double standards, they’d have no standards at all.
Note that the video news piece says that the school district is cancelling classes and enacting some policy changes. That’s nice… but at least from what’s said here, the response is not just inadequate, it’s wrong. They are banning the use of headphones and cell phones during the day – but this doesn’t seem to have been a cause of the fight in the first place (rather, a student in the wrong classroom, refusing to leave). In fact, the use of a cell phone as a video recorder allowed this issue to come to light. Instead, what the school district *should* have announced is a zero tolerance policy regarding violent students. If you think it’s the height of wit and wisdom to chuck a chair at someone else, you need to no longer be around other kids. Certainly not at taxpayer expense.
So here it’s a case of students you wouldn’t want your child around until you begin them in combat training, and a school board full – apparently – of corrupt and/or incompetent fools.
On one hand, that sounds insanely and unrealistically stupid. On the other hand, that’s exactly the sort of thing you might expect to see from clueless “influences” and other such ambulatory bipedal cancerous tumors. But before going nuts over how stupid it is, maybe it would make sense to actually try to find where it originates? Turns out it’s not that hard. After about four seconds on Google, the original source is found to be:
And what is “Cinch News Network?” From the bottom of their page:
About us
We are a super biased and undependable publication focused on furthering liberal policies in pursuit of a theoretical world where humans don’t act human.
I begin to suspect they just might be a satire site. But to be sure, let’s see what other stories they’re running:
