The investigation into the soldiers was launched after a detained terror suspect was brought from the base to a hospital with signs of serious abuse, including to his anus. He was arrested by the IDF in the Gaza Strip several weeks ago.
The right-wing Honenu legal aid organization, which is representing four of the reservist soldiers, claimed on Monday that its clients acted in self-defense in the alleged abuse incident.
The group said in a statement that the detainee attacked and bit the soldiers while he was being transferred from Ofer Prison to the Sde Teiman detention facility nearly a month ago, adding that one of the reservists was injured in the incident.
In the past month, an avalanche of anti-pollution rules, targeting everything from toxic drinking water to planet-heating gases in the atmosphere, have been issued by the agency. Belatedly, the sizable weight of the US federal government is being thrown at longstanding environmental crises, including the climate emergency.
On Thursday [May 18, 2023], the EPA’s month of frenzied activity was crowned by the toughest ever limits upon carbon pollution from America’s power sector, with large, existing coal and gas plants told they must slash their emissions by 90% or face being shut down.
The measure will, the EPA says, wipe out more than 600m tons of carbon emissions over the next two decades, about double what the entire UK emits each year. But even this wasn’t the biggest pollution reduction announced in recent weeks.
In April,new emissions standards for cars and trucks will eliminate an expected 9bn tons of CO2 by the mid-point of the century, while separate rules issued late last year aim to slash hydrofluorocarbons, planet-heating gases used widely in refrigeration and air conditioning, by 4.6bn tons in the same timeframe. Methane, another highly potent greenhouse gas, will be curtailed by 810m tons over the next decade in another EPA edict.
In just a few short months the EPA, diminished and demoralized under Donald Trump, has flexed its regulatory muscles to the extent that 15bn tons of greenhouse gases – equivalent to about three times the US’s carbon pollution, or nearly half of the entire world’s annual fossil fuel emissions – are set to be prevented, transforming the power basis of Americans’ cars and homes in the process...
If last year’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), with its $370bn in clean energy subsidies and enticements for electric car buyers, was the carrot to reducing emissions, the EPA now appears to be bringing a hefty stick.
The IRA should help reduce US emissions by about 40% this decade but the cut needs to be deeper, up to half of 2005 levels, to give the world a chance of avoiding catastrophic heatwaves, wildfires, drought and other climate calamities. The new rules suddenly put America, after years of delay and political rancor, tantalizingly within reach of this...
“It’s clear we’ve reached a pivotal point in human history and it’s on all of us to act right now to protect our future,” said Michael Regan, the administrator of the EPA, in a speech last week at the University of Maryland. The venue was chosen in a nod to the young, climate-concerned voters Joe Biden hopes to court in next year’s presidential election, and who have been dismayed by Biden’s acquiescence to large-scale oil and gas drilling.
“Folks, this is our future we are talking about, and we have a once-in-a-generation opportunity for real climate action,” [Michael Regan, the administrator of the EPA], added. “Failure is not an option, indifference is not an option, inaction is not an option.” …
It’s not just climate the EPA has acted upon in recent months. There are new standards for chemical plants, such as those that blight the so-called "Cancer Alley” the US, from emitting cancer-causing toxins such as benzene, ethylene oxide and vinyl chloride. New rules curbing mercury, arsenic and lead from industrial facilities have been released, as have tighter limits on emissions of soot and the first ever regulations targeting the presence of per- and polyfluoroalkylsubstances (or PFAS) in drinking water.” …
For those inside the agency, the breakneck pace has been enervating. “It’s definitely a race against time,” said one senior EPA official, who asked not to be named. “The clock is ticking. It is a sprint through a marathon and it is exhausting.” …
“We know the work to confront the climate crisis doesn’t stop at strong carbon pollution standards,” said Ben Jealous, the executive director of the Sierra Club.
“The continued use or expansion of fossil power plants is incompatible with a livable future. Simply put, we must not merely limit the use of fossil fuel electricity – we must end it entirely.”"
Trans advocates are celebrating after a Louisiana bill seeking to ban trans youth from accessing gender-affirming care was defeated in the state’s Senate Health and Welfare Committee on Wednesday.
After hours of public testimony from a packed room, the committee voted 5-4 to kill the H.B. 648. Committee Chairman Fred Mills ® strayed from his fellow Republicans to break the tie and vote against the bill alongside Democrats.
“I guess I’ve always believed in my heart of hearts that a decision should be made by a patient and a physician,” Mills said, according to WWNO...
Dr. [Clinton] Mixon, who provides gender-affirming care to youth, pointed out findings from the Louisiana Department of Health that no gender-affirming surgery was performed on a minor in the state between 2017 and 2021.
“When you prescribe hormone therapies to these kids, they get better,” Dr. Mixon said. “They stop cutting. They want to live. They go to school. They get better grades. Their relationships improve, and they can begin to live a more normal teenage life.” …
Mills has now become an enemy of Republican extremists for voting alongside Democrats…
But Mills isn’t phased. When asked about it by the Louisiana Illuminator, Mills didn’t see a reason to worry about it.
“Why should I? They don’t live in District 22. They don’t have a 337 area code. I didn’t run for office to serve those people”
Trans activist Erin Reed hailed the vote as a “massive, massive win for transgender people.”
“Louisiana becomes only the 3rd red state to beat back a total gender-affirming care ban for trans teens,” Reed added. “Activists there should be truly proud. This was not an easy task.”
The website promises to make “men’s dreams come true.” Users upload a photo of a fully clothed woman of their choice, and in seconds, the site undresses them for free. With that one feature, it has exploded into one of the most popular “deepfake” tools ever created.
Far more advanced than the now-defunct “DeepNude” app that went viral in 2019, this new site has amassed more than 38 million hits since the start of this year, and has become an open secret in misogynist corners of the web. (HuffPost is not naming the site in order to avoid directing further traffic to it.) It went offline briefly Monday after HuffPost reached out to its original web host provider, IP Volume Inc., which quickly terminated its hosting services. But the site was back up less than a day later with a new host — as is often the case with abusive websites.
“Hany Farid, a computer scientist at UC-Berkeley who specializes in digital-image forensics and was not involved in the original pix2pix research, said the fake-nude system also highlights how the male homogeneity of AI research has often left women to deal with its darker side.
AI researchers, he said, have long embraced a naive techno-utopian worldview that is hard to justify anymore, by openly publishing unregulated tools without considering how they could be misused in the real world.
“It’s just another way people have found to weaponize technology against women. Once this stuff gets online, that’s it. Every potential boyfriend or girlfriend, your employer, your family, may end up seeing it,” Farid said. “It’s awful, and women are getting the brunt of it.
“Would a lab not dominated by men have been so cavalier and so careless about the risks?” he added. “Would [AI researchers] be so cavalier if that bad [stuff] was happening to them, as opposed to some woman down the street?””
A Toronto man who was wrongfully shot with “less lethal” gun rounds and apprehended by Vancouver Police in a case of mistaken identity is speaking out about his ordeal, in the hopes it won’t happen to others.
Elijah Barnett, who is hearing impaired, told Global News he was walking his friend’s dog in downtown Vancouver Wednesday afternoon near Pacific Boulevard and Richards Street.
“I remember walking out of the apartment building. And then the next thing I remember, I’m on the ground and I thought we were hit by a car,” said Barnett.
That is the moment he says he was swarmed by “numerous” police officers, arrested publicly and shot twice at close range with rubber bullets. […]
This is a wild and hopeful story: grad students at Northeastern successfully pushed back against invasive digital surveillance in their workplace, through solidarity, fearlessness, and the bright light of publicity. It’s a tale of hand-to-hand, victorious combat with the “shitty technology adoption curve.”
What’s the “shitty tech adoption curve?” It’s the process by which oppressive technologies are normalized and spread. If you want to do something awful with tech — say, spy on people with a camera 24/7 — you need to start with the people who have the least social capital, the people whose objections are easily silenced or overridden.
That’s why all our worst technologies are first imposed on refugees -> prisoners -> kids -> mental patients -> poor people, etc. Then, these technologies climb the privilege gradient: blue collar workers -> white collar workers -> everyone. Following this pathway lets shitty tech peddlers knock the rough edges off their wares, inuring us all to their shock and offense.
20 years ago, if you ate dinner under the unblinking eye of a CCTV, it was because you were housed in a supermax prison. Today, it’s because you were unwise enough to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars for “home automation” from Google, Apple, Amazon or another “luxury surveillance” vendor.
Northeastern’s Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex (ISEC) is home to the “Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute,” where grad students study the harms of surveillance and the means by which they may be reversed. If there’s one group of people who are prepared to stand athwart the shitty tech adoption curve, it is the CPI grad students.
Which makes it genuinely baffling that Northeastern Senior Vice Provost for Research David Luzzi decided to install under-desk heat sensors throughout ISEC, overnight, without notice or consultation. Luzzi signed the paperwork that brought the privacy institute into being.
Students throughout ISEC were alarmed by this move, but especially students on the sixth floor, home to the Privacy Institute. When they demanded an explanation, they were told that the university was conducting a study on “desk usage.” This rang hollow: students at the Privacy Institute have assigned desks, and they badge into each room when they enter it.
As Privacy Institute PhD candidate Max von Hippel wrote, “Reader, we have assigned desks, and we use a key-card to get into the room, so, they already know how and when we use our desks.”
So why was the university suddenly so interested in gathering fine-grained data on desk usage? I asked von Hippel and he told me: “They are proposing that grad students share desks, taking turns with a scheduling web-app, so administrators can take over some of the space currently used by grad students. Because as you know, research always works best when you have to schedule your thinking time.”
That’s von Hippel’s theory, and I’m going to go with it, because Luzzi didn’t offer a better one in the flurry of memos and “listening sessions” that took place after the ISEC students arrived at work one morning to discover sensors under their desks.
This is documented in often hilarious detail in von Hippel’s thread on the scandal, in which the university administrators commit a series of unforced errors and the grad students run circles around them, in a comedy of errors straight out of “Animal House.”
After the sensors were discovered, the students wrote to the administrators demanding their removal, on the grounds that there was no scientific purpose for them, that they intimidated students, that they were unnecessary, and that the university had failed to follow its own rules and ask the Institutional Review Board (IRB) to review the move as a human-subjects experiment.
The letter was delivered to Luzzi, who offered “an impromptu listening session” in which he alienated students by saying that if they trusted the university to “give” them a degree, they should trust it to surveil them. The students bristled at this characterization, noting that students deliver research (and grant money) to “make it tick.”
[Image ID: Sensors arrayed around a kitchen table at ISEC]
The students, believing Luzzi was not taking them seriously, unilaterally removed all the sensors, and stuck them to their kitchen table, annotating and decorating them with Sharpie. This prompted a second, scheduled “listening session” with Luzzi, but this session, while open to all students, was only announced to their professors (“Beware of the leopard”).
The students got wind of this, printed up fliers and made sure everyone knew about it. The meeting was packed. Luzzi explained to students that he didn’t need IRB approval for his sensors because they weren’t “monitoring people.” A student countered, what was being monitored, “if not people?” Luzzi replied that he was monitoring “heat sources.”
Remember, these are grad students. They asked the obvious question: which heat sources are under desks, if not humans (von Hippel: “rats or kangaroos?”). Luzzi fumbled for a while (“a service animal or something”) before admitting, “I guess, yeah, it’s a human.”
Having yielded the point, Luzzi pivoted, insisting that there was no privacy interest in the data, because “no individual data goes back to the server.” But these aren’t just grad students — they’re grad students who specialize in digital privacy. Few people on earth are better equipped to understand re-identification and de-aggregation attacks.
[Image ID: A window with a phrase written in marker, ‘We are not doing science here’ -Luzzi.]
A student told Luzzi, “This doesn’t matter. You are monitoring us, and collecting data for science.” Luzzi shot back, “we are not doing science here.” This ill-considered remark turned into an on-campus meme. I’m sure it was just blurted in the heat of the moment, but wow, was that the wrong thing to tell a bunch of angry scientists.
From the transcript, it’s clear that this is where Luzzi lost the crowd. He accused the students of “feeling emotion” and explaining that the data would be used for “different kinds of research. We want to see how students move around the lab.”
Now, as it happens, ISEC has an IoT lab where they take these kinds of measurements. When they do those experiments, students are required to go through IRB, get informed consent, all the stuff that Luzzi had bypassed. When this is pointed out, Luzzi says that they had been given an IRB waiver by the university’s Human Research Protection Program (HRPP).
Now a prof gets in on the action, asking, pointedly: “Is the only reason it doesn’t fall under IRB is that the data will not be published?” A student followed up by asking how the university could justify blowing $50,000 on surveillance gear when that money would have paid for a whole grad student stipend with money left over.
Luzzi’s answers veer into the surreal here. He points out that if he had to hire someone to monitor the students’ use of their desks, it would cost more than $50k, implying that the bill for the sensors represents a cost-savings. A student replies with the obvious rejoinder — just don’t monitor desk usage, then.
Finally, Luzzi started to hint at the underlying rationale for the sensors, discussing the cost of the facility to the university and dangling the possibility of improving utilization of “research assets.” A student replies, “If you want to understand how research is done, don’t piss off everyone in this building.”
Now that they have at least a vague explanation for what research question Luzzi is trying to answer, the students tear into his study design, explaining why he won’t learn what he’s hoping to learn. It’s really quite a good experimental design critique — these are good students! Within a few volleys, they’re pointing out how these sensors could be used to stalk researchers and put them in physical danger.
Luzzi turns the session over to an outside expert via a buggy Zoom connection that didn’t work. Finally, a student asks whether it’s possible that this meeting could lead to them having a desk without a sensor under it. Luzzi points out that their desk currently doesn’t have a sensor (remember, the students ripped them out). The student says, “I assume you’ll put one back.”
[Image ID: A ‘public art piece’ in the ISEC lobby — a table covered in sensors
spelling out ‘NO!,’ surrounded by Sharpie annotations decrying the
program.]
They run out of time and the meeting breaks up. Following this, the students arrange the sensors into a “public art piece” in the lobby — a table covered in sensors spelling out “NO!,” surrounded by Sharpie annotations decrying the program.
Meanwhile, students are still furious. It’s not just that the sensors are invasive, nor that they are scientifically incoherent, nor that they cost more than a year’s salary — they also emit lots of RF noise that interferes with the students’ own research. The discussion spills onto Reddit:
Yesterday, Luzzi capitulated, circulating a memo saying they would pull “all the desk occupancy sensors from the building,” due to “concerns voiced by a population of graduate students.”
The shitty technology adoption curve is relentless, but you can’t skip a step! Jumping straight to grad students (in a privacy lab) without first normalizing them by sticking them on the desks of poor kids in underfunded schools (perhaps after first laying off a computer science teacher to free up the budget!) was a huge tactical error.
A more tactically sound version of this is currently unfolding at CMU Computer Science, where grad students have found their offices bugged with sensors that detect movement and collect sound:
The CMU administration has wisely blamed the presence of these devices on the need to discipline low-waged cleaning staff by checking whether they’re really vacuuming the offices.
While it’s easier to put cleaners under digital surveillance than computer scientists, trying to do both at once is definitely a boss-level challenge. You might run into a scholar like David Gray Widder, who, observing that “this seems like algorithmic management of lowly paid employees to me,” unplugged the sensor in his office.
This is the kind of full-stack Luddism this present moment needs. These researchers aren’t opposed to sensors — they’re challenging the social relations of sensors, who gets sensed and who does the sensing.
[Image ID: A flier inviting ISEC grad students to attend an unadvertised ‘listening session’ with vice-provost David Luzzi. It is surmounted with a sensor that has been removed from beneath a desk and annotated in Sharpie to read: ‘If found by David Luzzi suck it.’]
The police are going to charge her with negligent infanticide when it’s their fault for chasing her for stealing baby formula when she’s desperate to take care of her child but they’ll deflect responsibility and blame her their victim the store owner who put a price barrier between her and needed supplies to sustain a human life and their enforcer lapdogs both have blood on their hands but she’s going to suffer more for the cruelty inherent in their order and they’re going to deny they’re at fault
Occupation forces attack the funeral of Shireen Abu Aqleh, the journalist they murdered:
Heavily armed forces are beating up Palestinians carrying Shireen Abu Akleh’s coffin, they’re charging at them with cavalry horses and assaulting them with batons (theyre also kicking those they knock to the ground) and threw sound bombs and stun grenades inside the French Hospital of Jerusalem. Here is the moment of attack:
They’ve besieged the hospital and demand Shireen’s coffin to be hidden inside a hearse instead of her being honored with visible a martyrs funeral being carried over the shoulders of Palestinians
The ocupation yesterday raided the home of Shireen’s family and took down Palestinian flags raised there. They detained Shireen’s brother the day after murdering his sister and ordered “no Palestinian flags. No chants. No walking procession”
Occupation forces have rushed the funeral and continued assaulting Shireen’s family, friends and mourners. They ripped away Palestinian flags (including off the hearse) and are attempting to suppress chants in honor of the martyred journalist
Israeli occupation forces have arrested several mourners for raising the Palestinian flag in occupied East Jerusalem. Abu Akleh’s niece, Lina Abu Akleh, has said Israeli forces are “still trying to silence” her aunt and the mourners gathered for the funeral.
Shireen was a Palestinian Christian and the funeral has moved her body first towards the Church for the service then are moving her towards the Christian cemetery where she will be laid to rest.
The Israeli occupation army asked people “if they are Christian or Muslim”. And Muslims weren’t allowed in to participate in the funeral march. Occupation forces have also prevented thousands of Palestinians from entering the cemetery.
Despite agression and attempts of supression from the occupation Palestinians continue the funeral and resist by still raising Palestinian flags and chanting for Shireen Abu Aqala and for Palestine. Arriving in the dozens of thousands
They murdered her and will not grant her peace even in death, the brutality of the israeli occupation against Palestinians is clear
For those of you who don’t know, our beloved Paint Tool SAI has been getting a sequel, which has been in development for a while. I just checked in today and there is now a downloadable zip with a test trial in it!
You can’t save anything created in it yet, since it’s not a licensed version, but if you want a taste of what’s to come, you can play around with it. I downloaded it and have been checking out the new features and will break it down below. To start, here’s a screenshot of my test canvas:
New Tools
Text Tool
That’s right my fellow artists, SAI2 will have a gd text tool! We’ve all been crying about the lack of text tool for years, and we will finally be able to wipe our tears and uninstall GIMP
Shape Tool
There is now a shape tool! It’s able to create circles, triangles, and squares at the moment. There is no preview of the shape when dragging, which is a huge bummer, but I assume (read: HOPE) that a live preview will be added further on in development
Gradation Tool
You can now create a gradient! The gradient will fill any selected area. I did the straight gradient, but there is also an option for a circular gradient, which I didn’t try
Scatter Tool
The scatter tool was a mystery to me at first, as you can see in the purple brush strokes I made. The basic tool is kind of just a staggered brush. You can change the level of stagger in the brush settings.
HOWEVER, after checking the other brush options, I found a solitary other brush - STARS!! When in black, it will just make black stars. It scatters them very nicely. When I switched to light yellow, it made multicolored stars. I’m not sure if they intend to add the ability to make stars monocolor or if they already did and I missed it, but I’m really really excited for this!
Effect Brush
The effect brush seems to be much like the marker brush in that it doesn’t blend much. It seems to be intended as a secondary brush so you can add textures without messing with the basic brush settings.
Other Features + Changes
Brush Style Tabs
Brushes of very different types are now in separate tabs.
Arrangeable Brushes
You can now right click and drag brushes around to move them (before, you could only rearrange them with a loophole by making many placeholder duplicates and then duplicating in a specific order.)
Brush Style Previews
There are now preview to brush styles in 2 different senses.
There are previews of the brush style choices
And there is a preview of the current brush and its settings
Slight Appearance Improvement
There have been some tweaks to the appearance that make it look much nicer.
The New Canvas window (and other popup windows) now have a clean, dark border (along with more settings)
And the client itself has an updated window
Higher Layer Limit
SAI2 has a much higher layer limit. There’s more info on the official Systemax website, but I think its like 8k layers or something insane like that
Higher Resolution Limit
You can now have a canvas up to like 100k x 100k pixels. Assuming your computer can handle it lmao
Join Me in Anxiously Awaiting SAI2′s Official Release
I hope I’ve just made a lot of artists very happy. I know SAI2 is not widely known about and I’m excited to invite many many artists to anxiously wait for this with me! Spread the word c:
Hey fun fact, if you Google Palestine on Google maps, it doesn’t show up
If you drag up on that bottom bit it will show you the Palestine Wikipedia page which says that Palestine is comprised of the Gaza strip, the West Bank, and it claims Jerusalem as its capital.
The map only shows Israel. You can zoom in, move around, it’s only Israel. Furthermore,
Google also says Jerusalem is in Israel.
I’m not going to pretend I know everything there is to know about what’s going on with Israel and Palestine, but the fact that Palestine doesn’t even have a name marker on Google maps seemed sketchy as fuck to me
Look, I know a good number of you are from the US and things aren’t amazing there either, but my country is literally on the brink of collapse. So I’d love it if we could talk about that for a minute.
If you can’t do anything else, please just read and reblog.
According to Dave Chapelle, the Sad Trump Supporters Deserve Our Forgiveness
Days after the election in 2016, the comedian Dave Chappelle hosted a somber episode of “Saturday Night Live” that had been expected to be a celebration of Hillary Clinton. On Saturday, he was back to host the first post-election episode, hours after former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. gave his victory speech.
After an opening sketch that lampooned weary CNN journalists and President Trump’s refusal to concede, Chappelle struck a conciliatory tone in his monologue. Invoking his 2016 appearance on the show, he said, “I would implore everybody who’s celebrating today to remember.”
“It’s good to be a humble winner. Remember when I was here four years ago? Remember how bad that felt? Remember that half the country, right now, still feels that way. Please remember that. Remember that for the first time in the history of America, the life expectancy of white people is dropping. Because of heroin, because of suicide. All these white people out there, that feel that anguish, that pain, they’re mad because they think nobody cares — maybe they don’t, but let me tell you something, I know how that feels. I promise you, I know how that feels.”
Chappelle encouraged viewers to “fight through” their feelings of hostility and resentment.
“You’ve got a find a way to live your life,” he said. “You’ve got to find a way to forgive each other.”
Sorry, Dave Chapelle. I’m not feeling particularly sympathetic toward white supremacists, racists, sexists, homophobes, transphobes, and the complicit.
If this man thinks that he can get up on a stage and convince me to feel sorry for white people who are sad Trump didn’t win, he’s a fucking lunatic.
If the life expectancy of white people is dropping because of heroin, it’s because of the war on drugs, put in place by their conservative hero, Ronald Reagan.
If the life expectancy of white people is dropping because of heroin, it’s because they’re suffering under a late-stage capitalist system made to bury their white, rural asses in an early grave to turn a profit.
If the life expectancy of white people is dropping because of suicide, it’s because they’re veterans who were coerced into the military to escape poverty only to come back with PTSD and physical disabilities to a country that was uninterested in helping them when it would cost the 1% their pocket change.
If the life expectancy of white people is dropping because of suicide, it’s because they’re being taxed over $600 on their $3500/year income and can barely make ends meet.
If the life expectancy of white people is dropping because of suicide, it’s because their insurance is covering less and less of what they need help for and they’re being left to suffer because they can’t risk the food on their table to get the medications, therapy, or treatment they need.
If the life expectancy of white people is dropping because of suicide, it’s because they couldn’t get their crowdfunding post to get any traction and they can’t face a life in recovery from cancer with hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt hanging from their necks like a noose.
If the life expectancy of white people is dropping, it’s because of a conservative, late-stage capitalist regime and the people who are dying are the people who are voting for Biden.
Don’t be fucking fooled into thinking Trump supporters are voting for Trump because they’re hooked on heroin or are suicidal. Trump supporters look on suicidal, white Americans with disdain. Trump supporters look on drug users with judgement. Trump himself can’t even get through a debate without making jabs at his opponent for having a son who struggled with drug addiction.
If you take a closer look at the statistics and their overlap with other studies, I would bet you the only dollar in my name that most of those white Americans who are killing themselves and turning to drugs are homeless, white veterans with nothing left, white trans people who have lost or are losing their healthcare and human rights, white gay people who are preparing for their marriage to be delegitimized in the face of a conservative supreme court, white women with unwanted pregnancies who can’t afford to travel to another state for an abortion and who will soon be unable to get one near their home because of the Roe V. Wade aspirations of Amy Coney Barrett.
Don’t you fucking dare tell me to feel sorry for the people mourning their failed attempt at taking away my human rights.
If John Smith from Wyoming is sorry that he won’t be able to use slurs at me in public, he can get fucked. If Karen Johnson from Florida wants to kill herself because she can’t live in a world with gays who aren’t oppressed, fucking let her. I am not going to forgive, coddle, comfort, or otherwise sympathize with the people who want to oppress me because they’re sad they failed at further oppressing me.
And frankly, I literally can’t wrap my head around how anyone can say, “You should forgive the people who wanted to hurt you because they’re feeling sad that they didn’t succeed in doing so further.”
I knew Dave Chapelle had his head 3 miles up his ass, but this really takes the cake for me.
Sorry, Dave Chapelle. Unlike you, I don’t see comrades on the other side of this electoral warzone.
I’m sure, being the transphobe that he is, he looks across and can sympathize with the kind of people who support Trump, but I can’t. Neither can most of the rest of the people who voted for Biden.
We didn’t vote for Biden because this is some kind of elementary school game. I’m not going to line up and shake everyone’s hand when it’s over for a game well played. This was a war for our rights and our safety. This was a war and, whether they held the swords or not, they were the ones trying to kill us.
So yeah. Dave Chapelle, you can go fuck yourself, and so can any Biden supporter who thinks you have a point.
You’re going to sit here and tell us that Joshua Brown went and testified in open court against a cop then went immediately back to his home and started dealing right in front of it? And that the people who supposedly shot him didn’t rob him, even of the weed they came a whole 5 hours away for, or the cash on him?
He also somehow was investigated and vetted as the lead witness in this case, yet nobody knew he was the most out-in-the-open drug dealer of all time?? “Numerous tips” after his death - yet nothing before or during this case while law enforcement, media, and both law teams were heavily investigating this?
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