Another “defund the police” success story.
Shocking video shows a man hurling a firebomb into a Brooklyn deli on Saturday. He tries to throw a second firebomb but is interrupted. Joel Mangal was arrested over the attack. pic.twitter.com/aTDxLwoCm8
— Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) November 1, 2021
Relevant commentary:
Well. This will certainly calm everything down in society…
These are *illegal* immigrants, to be handed more money than some Americans will make in their lifetimes.
Experience the magic of public transportation where small women can be assaulted by large racists and everyone else just stands around and tries to look like they don’t see what’s going on:
Exhibit 469 of why I will never ride the NYC subway pic.twitter.com/vtP6tgi71p
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) October 27, 2021
Why did this guy not *at* *least* catch a spine full of taser?
Sometimes there are interesting historical comparisons that can be made. Not so much in that sometimes more or less the same thign happens twice, but that the same sort of event can have utterly different responses.
For example, look at how Wikipedia covers the death of George Floyd:
But an incident that was remarkably similar – a man was held down by cops until he died – is described thusly:
One of these guys was “murdered,” the other was “killed.” One resulted in riots and arson and book burning and statues being pulled down and history being memory holed not just in the US, but in the UK… the other has been effectively ignored. One of these resulted in millions of dollars in ransom payments from the city and the criminal charging of the cops involved; the other resulted in no charges, no payments.
One of these was black, the other white.
It should also be noted that the Wikipedia writeup about Timpa was reproduced in its totality above, only the references didn’t fit. That small bit of text is all there is to say on the subject. The Floyd Wikipedia page is something like 20 times longer.
The fact that Certain Groups can be killed by the police and it’s not big deal, while Other Groups being killed by the police in identical manners results in society being torn down tells you everything you need to know about who actually has privilege and power and where the *real* systemic racism lies.
Dave Chapelle isn’t bending the knee.
Updated with YouTube version of the same video:
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Alternatively: tie a rope around them, then tie the other end to a tree or some such, then use a come-along to pull them loose.
Some of the most destructive ransomware hackers in the world appear to be on edge after the U.S. reportedly took down one of their colleagues.
Several ransomware gangs posted lengthy anti-U.S. screeds, viewed by NBC News, on the dark web. In them, they defended their practice of hacking organizations and holding their computers for ransom.
Sounds like Antifa and BLM and their shills: doing evil things is ok when *we* do it.
And speaking of doing evil…
The five finalists for the American Geophysical Union’s fellows program were all white guys… so they decided to not make an award at all.
For something related to science, the lack of data here is shocking. Consider:
AGU selected a total of 59 fellows this year, and 45 of them are men. Additionally, 46 of the fellows are from the U.S., while only 13 are from other countries.
The trend has been similar in recent years. In 2020, 46 out of 62 fellows were men, and 43 fellows were from the U.S. In 2019, 47 out of 62 fellows were men, and 36 were from the U.S.
OK, so it looks like right around 75% of the chosen fellows were men. So… what percentage of the possible candidate group were men? Are there more than 25% women in upper-level geophysics? That bit of data doesn’t seem to be in the article. And well more than half of those chosen were American. But… this is the American Geophysical Union. Wouldn’t it therefore follow that they’d choose fellow Americans to be fellows?
And she’s sharp as a tack, unable to remember the name of the previous President.
.@SpeakerPelosi: "When what's-his-name was the president …"
Jake Tapper: "Donald Trump." pic.twitter.com/sTZYizMq5T
— The Hill (@thehill) October 24, 2021
Senility is a hell of a drug.
Next time someone trots out “diversity is our strength” with regards to multiculturalism, keep in mind the history of truly multicultural societies such as India, Lebanon and Yugoslavia. The way to maintain peace and stability in a multicultural society is with totalitarianism, so it is safe – and wise – to assume that anyone who is promoting multiculturalism is also promoting their ability to bash you over the back of the head whenever they feel like it.
Anyone who argues against immigrants assimilating into the cultures they’ve willingly immigrated into is arguing for genocide.