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Yesterday's Reddit manipulation thread https://rdrama.net/post/312115/reddit_lies-gets-an-article-published-in
stupidpol
https://old.reddit.com/r/stupidpol/comments/1gflpfr/harris_campaign_caught_manipulating_x_to_censor/
https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1gfm64q/block_community_notes_we_dont_like_harris/
Day two of federalist bullshit here we go
chudservatives
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https://t.co/v7jS1B7cJC pic.twitter.com/6q61TihxFT
— sascha (@SaschaAmato) October 30, 2024
- HailVictory1776 : It's Christ
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AOC saying she doesn’t “want to do four more years of resistance nonsense” tells you everything you need to know about her.
— Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores (@Jairo_I_Funez) October 28, 2024
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An influential global advocacy group for LGBTQ rights has suspended an Israeli member organization as part of a larger move to boycott Israel, angering queer Jews and their allies around the world.
The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association, known as ILGA World, announced Wednesday that it was no longer considering Tel Aviv as a potential site for an upcoming conference to be held in 2026 or 2027. The 46-year-old organization, which has a presence in more than 150 countries, added that it was suspending membership for The Aguda, the umbrella organization for Israel's LGBTQ community, which had proposed the site.
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I'm not superstitious but a big bat in my room just on the eve of Halloween as I'm watching the latest episode of What we do in the shadows is highly sus.
- Mummyvann : hes literally me
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Caphinxbara pic.twitter.com/LLbTL3jHBp
— guilherme nunes (@guilhernunes_) October 31, 2024
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A couple of newspapers are deciding not to endorse a presidential candidate this year which has completely broken the minds of their audience, who they have been coddling and shaping the opinions of with their poorly sourced drivel for years, screwing their audience to a drooling r-slur, left-leaning semi-human. Papers have found out that endorsing a candidate is literally too on the nose and seeing as how no one trusts them are attempting to back peddle as their trust levels fall into despair. Now they are losing the audience they have cultivated for years because, like toddlers, if you don't give them everything they will through a tantrum and fling shit at your walls.
/r/minnesota literally can't face the reality that Kaham is just terrible
/r/minnesota, within two posts are already delving into numerous conspiracy theories with regarding to the owner. My knowledge of Minnesota sports says he should sell all their sports teams cause they all fricking suck shit (except their WNBA team, they actually win! )
People admitting they actually read the OP-ED section when they don't realize they can skip that since the whole paper is an op-ed.
I can assure you the only reason rural Minnesota would buy your newspaper is to stock up on fire starting material for winter.
"People" actually bought the "Democracy dies in the darkness" bullshit
There's plenty more seething in the thread!
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Yayyyy
— Ben Dreyfuss (@bendreyfuss) October 31, 2024
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Yep, it's another drug pharmaceutical binge episode. How did I frick up my lip? Why are my towels wet? These are mysteries I'll never solve. Anyway, I need to stop abusing ambien and benzos because I CANNOT send fricked up texts to work colleagues which I KNOW is going to happen if I start my new job while still doing drugs.
just hide your phone and put your drugs away after you've dosed!
It's not that simple. Once I black out I'm capable of doing anything I can do sober, I just won't remember. I've tried putting my pills in a safe and high me just opened up the safe when I wanted to redose. It's time to put childish things aside and to embrace the responsibilities of adulthood.
I thought that I'd try to complete a quick effortpost on White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo. I was introduced to this book by Mat Walsh's "Am I Racist". It reavealed just how much of a grift the whole woke enterprise is and while there are several people that enter these spaces with positive intentions, clearly there are those who are out to make money from the white guilt they are fostering. I didn't finish Am I Racist because I did drugs and blacked out.
This post will summarize the text. Strap in, check your privileges, and let's begin!
Who is Robin DiAngelo?
In White Fragility, DiAngelo introduces herself as such:
I am a white American raised in the United States. I have a white frame of reference and a white worldview, and I move through the world with a white experience.
She works as a consultant on racial justice which involves helping individuals and organizations see how racism is manifesting itself in their practices and outcomes.
Robin DiAngelo Notices
Robin DiAngelo is a white woman, and she has observed both herself and her peers regarding how they react to race. DiAngelo claims that white people are very uncomfortable that race is brought up, and even more disturbed when they are accused of being racist. According to DiAngelo, white people are brought up to view racism as an act committed by an individual, not a systemic issue that all white people are implicitly responsible for upholding.
This problem is one primarily displayed by White progressives, and DiAngelo considered White progressives to be the biggest threat to Black people. Need a definition? DiAngelo's gotchu:
I define a white progressive as any white person who thinks he or she is not racist, or is less racist, or in the "choir," or already "gets it." White progressives can be the most difficult for people of colour because, to the degree that we think we have arrived, we will put our energy into making sure that others see us as having arrived. None of our energy will go into what we need to be doing for the rest of our lives: engaging in ongoing self-awareness, continuing education, relationship building, and actual antiracist practice. White progressives do indeed uphold and perpetrate racism, but our defensiveness and certitude make it virtually impossible to explain to us how we do so.
At this point, some might be wondering why the frick she is so obsessed with race. Well, according to DiAngelo, race is one of the biggest social dilemmas humankind is dealing with. Her reasoning:
Race will influence whether we will survive our birth, where we are most likely to live, which schools we will attend, who our friends and partners will be, what careers we will have, how much money we will earn, how healthy we will be, and even how long we can expect to live.
If you're White, you probably operate under the axioms of individuality and objectivity. Being an individual means you are unique, even in a group of others who share your identity. If you see yourself as an individual, it is easy to distance yourself from the concept of racism. "I may be White, but I personally am not a racist White". The idea that we are objective beings stems from the Enlightenment period and it is a cornerstone of modernity.
DiAngelo asks you to reconsider your identity as an individual and instead focus on your Whiteness and how it makes you complicit in racism. Lastly, DiAngelo is adamant that BLACK PEOPLE CANNOT BE RACIST. This is important to understand if you wish to make sense of her entire thesis. While Black people may practice prejudice, they lack the systemic power to transform that into racism. In DiAngelo's own words:
People of color may also hold prejudices and discriminate against white people, but they lack the social and institutional power that transforms their prejudice and discrimination into racism; the impact of their prejudice on whites is temporary and contextual. Whites hold the social and institutional positions in society to infuse their racial prejudice into the laws, policies, practices, and norms of society in a way that people of color do not. A person of color may refuse to wait on me if I enter a shop, but people of color cannot pass legislation that prohibits me and everyone like me from buying a home in a certain neighborhood.
Do you agree?
The Biology of Race
Put your hand up if you believe that race is a biological truth? Many people hold that belief, especially in the West The belief is laid out as such:
Many of us have been taught to believe that there are distinct biological and genetic differences between races. This biology accounts for visual differences such as skin color, hair texture, and eye shape, and traits that we believe we see such as sexuality, athleticism, or mathematical ability.
DiAngelo doesn't believe in biological race. She argues that the concept has been used to justify societal stratification and the prejudice in society. It's easy to discriminate against Blacks if you believe they are genetically inferior. Hence, when American colonialists began the enterprise of slavery, they sought to prove Black people's inferiority in order to justify slavery and racism.
So if not biological, what is race according to DiAngelo. Read carefully, and digest this definition:
Race is an evolving social idea that was created to legitimize racial inequality and protect White advantage.
So race has nothing to do with our biology, and it has everything to do with protecting and advantaging those who belong to the category of "White". Slaves were picked for their utility, then the race theories came afterwards. Slavers weren't convinced slaves were dumb because of their race. Slavers convinced themselves that slaves were dumb to justify their commodification.
So what's the evidence that race is sociological and not biological? Well, DiAngelo points to the fact that categories of race are nebulous. Who is considered to belong in what group changes over time. For example, for a long time, American Italians weren't considered white and thus were discriminated against.
The key to becoming accepted as white is to look white. If you have light skin, colored eyes, and straight hair, you're well on your way to claiming that sweet White privilege. I, with my vantablack skin, will never pass as white and I will never enjoy Whiteness.
Race as a social category is used to justify the class divide. Black people occupy the lower class because they are genetically destined to. Whites find economic success because of the superiority of their whiteness. But what about poor whites? They gain their privilege by subjugating BIPOCs below them. DiAngelo explains this mindset:
I grew up in poverty and felt a deep sense of shame about being poor. But I also always knew that I was White, and that it was better to be White.
White Privilege
You've almost certainly encountered this term before, and at one point it was quite socially fashionable around some circles to brandish the phrase around, especially in an accusatory manner. DiAngelo discuss White privilege and its implications in White Fragility. She argues that being born White is desirable for a cornucopia of reasons. In short:
Being perceived as white carries more than a mere racial classification; it is a social and institutional status and identity imbued with legal, political, economic, and social rights and privileges that are denied to others. What are these advantages she speaks of? Well, for one, Whites are seen as the norm and default form of being human. Everything else is exotic. Being the norm imbues one with a sense of belonging, security, and self-esteem. A side effect of Whiteness being the norm is that it becomes invisible. White people don't want to discuss their own Whiteness, and to them, their race is invisible - they are raceless.
America is an exporter of white privilege. Hence, if you are white and live anywhere in the world, you still enjoy privilege thanks to American influence globally.
the United States is a global power, and through movies and mass media, corporate culture, advertising, US-owned manufacturing, military presence, historical colonial relations, missionary work, and other means, white supremacy is circulated globally. This powerful ideology promotes the idea of whiteness as the ideal for humanity well beyond the West. White supremacy is especially relevant in countries that have a history of colonialism by Western nations.
Despite the prevalence of White privilege, it remains mostly invisible to White people who choose to never, ever speak about it. Similarly, it is taboo to discuss the concept of White supremacy and to suggest that it still endures to this day. Chuds might insist that White privilege doesn't exist and that modern society is biased against young, white men, but a cursory analysis of the highest echelons of the professional world tells us differently. It appears that being White is a reasonably good marker for success.
Ten richest Americans: 100 percent white (seven of whom are among the ten richest in the world)
US Congress: 90 percent white
US governors: 96 percent white
Top military advisers: 100 percent white
President and vice president: 100 percent white
US House Freedom Caucus: 99 percent white
Current US presidential cabinet: 91 percent white
People who decide which TV shows we see: 93 percent white
People who decide which books we read: 90 percent white
People who decide which news is covered: 85 percent white
People who decide which music is produced: 95 percent white
People who directed the one hundred top-grossing films of all time, worldwide: 95 percent white
Teachers: 82 percent white
Full-time college professors: 84 percent white
Owners of men's professional football teams: 97 percent white
The book is a bit dated, as the USA has had a non-white president, and the country is gearing up for their second one. Part of the privilege Whites enjoy involves participating in a racist society without ever having to acknowledge race.
DiAngelo concludes that we live in a racist society. As evidence, she posts a few stats, including the following:
They asked 626 white college students at twenty-eight colleges across the United States to keep journals and record every instance of racial issues, racial images, and racial understanding that they observed or were part of for six to eight weeks. The students recorded more than seventy-five hundred accounts of blatantly racist comments and actions by the white people in their lives (friends, families, acquaintances, strangers).
Jesus, mayos need to cool it with the racism. Furthermore, DiAngelo isn't convinced that society is becoming less racist with time. Instead, she believes that racism has taken on a new form and it continues to thrive even among younger generations.
Part of White privilege means that White people can lament on the "good ol' days" (MAGA?). Black people can't because the further you go into the past, the more racist things get. As DiAngelo explains:
The past was great for white people (and white men in particular) because their positions went largely unchallenged. In understanding the power of white fragility, we have to notice that the mere questioning of those positions triggered the white fragility that Trump capitalized on.
Pairing with White privilege is the concept of White solidarity. White people, culturally, stand in solidarity with one another. If you are White, you do not call out other White people's Whiteness, you don't make a fellow White uncomfortable on the axis of race, and you sure as heck don't point out when a fellow White is being racist.
White solidarity requires both silence about anything that exposes the advantages of the white position and tacit agreement to remain racially united in the protection of white supremacy. To break white solidarity is to break rank
White Woman Tears
DiAngelo touches on the topic of "white tears" which refers to the ways white fragility manifests when white people are challenged on their conscious or unconscious racial prejudices. She zeroes on the tears of white women in particular, and the tears being discussed are both literal and metaphorical.
White women tears are problematic for several reasons. Historically, they have had the power to rain down terror upon people of color. In this scenario, it is white men who commit the violence, but they are spurred on by white women tears. Such an example can be found in the story of Emmit Till, a fourteen-year-old boy who reportedly flirted with a white woman—Carolyn Bryant—in a grocery store in Mississippi in 1955. She reported the flirting to her husband who teamed up with his half-brother to hunt down the boy. They tortured and killed him, dumping his body in the Tallahatchie River. When his body was discovered, it was so disfigured that identification was difficult. According to DiAngelo, this is evidence that when a white woman cries, a black man
gets hurt."
White women tears also erupt when they are called out on their racism. The problem with this is that it prevents white women from learning and bettering their behavior, and it also shifts the attention away from marginalized groups. As she sums up:
Whether intended or not, when a white woman cries over some aspect of racism, all the attention immediately goes to her, demanding time, energy, and attention from everyone in the room when they should be focused on ameliorating racism. While she is given attention, the people of color are yet again abandoned and/or blamed
DiAngelo, who is a white woman, admits that she is guilty of expressing white women tears. But he learned from the experiences of BIPOCs, and she has realised the potentially destructive power of her tears.
But I try to be very thoughtful about how and when I cry. I try to cry quietly so that I don't take up more space, and if people rush to comfort me, I do not accept the comfort; I let them know that I am fine so we can move on
Conclusion
So, what do I think of White fragility? For starters, I have witnessed some of the behaviors pointed out by DiAngelo. However, I also recognise that certain social settings are brutal to navigate as a White person, especially when there is a tendency for you to be demonized and interpreted badly because of your skin color.
Secondly, as a Black man, I recognise some of these traits in myself! Yes, when topics of sexism and misogyny are brought up, I too display male fragility, and I refuse to accept that I may be part of a system that benefits me and subjugates women. This is something I need to work on so I can become a better person.
In closing, I find the concept of a White women making her living talking about anti-Black racism to be interesting. It is as though she found a way to monetise racism without being labelled a racist herself. If she was sincere, she would do these talks for free, but then she wouldn't be a grifter. I wonder how she would feel if she read these words? Would she acknowledge my critique, or would she display White fragility and be appalled that I would accuse of profiting off racism?
I've got a few effortposts in mind, and I'd like to get through them soon. Here are the topics on my list:
The cringe of Peter Hitchens
Queerplatonic relationships
First day of work
Postmodernism: The Definitive Post
It's been great my buddies. I should mention that I do not recommend this book, and it's painfully long. Save your time and don't bother, and if you do bother, definitely pirate it.
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/r/armouredWomen is a neat sub about anime drawings of chicks in military garb which is cool and practical, and not rediculously oversexualized
This can be a fun place, but is often a sneed colony for puritans and /r/MenWritingWomen hags crying 😭😭😭 about how scrotes should all be neutered like their bobcats
Often sneed arrives in this typically calm sub if even a HINT of female flesh is on display and fences scream about having something more beautiful than themselves to look at in their feed, even if it is a Japanese cartoon character
Anyways basically an artist regular creates sneed when posting a cartoon character with gay boy shorts, and gasp EXPOSED SKIN
How dare the filthy !coomers invade my wholesome femcel puritans safespace!!!
Except the artist had been legitimately copying the real world historical dress style and straggot kraut mercenaries actually did in fact dress like this! With partially cut gay boy shorts
"I thought sexualisation was banned"🚫 🚫 🚫
- DickButtKiss : This aint a democracy beyotch
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... and lose the electoral college.
I think this might the full sneed ahead outcome dramneurodivergents should root for.
Rightoids, are you ready to throw all the smug liberal platitudes back in their faces? Land can't vote, people vote
!khive are you ready to make exactly the same rslurred points the rightoids did in 2016? We all knew the rules of the game, do you want LA and NYC to pick the winner?
The latest New York Times-Siena College poll says the presidential race is a dead heat. So do any number of other national polls. In the battleground states, virtually every poll either reports a tie, or results well within the margin of error. The upshot: Even as Kamala Harris' national polling lead over Donald Trump has appeared to shrink, her strength may be holding up in the swing states that matter.
And this suggests the possibility that Election Day may produce a result we have never seen before: a Republican winning the popular vote but losing the Electoral College. That, in turn, just might restore a once-bipartisan consensus — that it is time for the United States to do away with the Electoral College once and for all and let the voters actually decide the presidency.
Throughout American history, we've seen five elections where the popular vote winner lost the White House, with the first three happening in the 19th century. More memorable, particularly for Democrats, are the 2000 and 2016 races, but it's useful to distinguish between them. Al Gore lost the presidency to George W. Bush while winning the popular vote by just 0.5 percentage points, a virtual tie. Trump, however, took the White House even after coming in a full 2 points and 3 million votes behind Hillary Clinton.
Four years later, Joe Biden beat Trump by more than 4 points and 7 million votes in the popular vote, but his Electoral College win stood on a slew of narrow victories in key states.
The 2016 and 2020 campaigns seemed to confirm a broader view of a pro-Republican bias in the Electoral College: With millions of Democratic votes "wasted" in places like California and New York, a Democrat had to win a popular vote plurality north of 3 percent to be elected.
That dynamic has led to growing Democratic calls to abolish the Electoral College, even by the party's vice presidential nominee Tim Walz. Republicans, meanwhile, seem to have become almost indifferent to their inability to win the popular vote — they've done it just once in the last eight elections — and content with the idea that they can win the presidency even if millions more voters wanted a different result.
But even before the 2024 campaign began, there was reason to believe that the Republican Electoral College advantage was shrinking. With Trump apparently cutting into traditional Democratic terrain among Black and Latinx voters, and Democrats polling well in once-Republican suburban areas, the electoral map may be shifting.
If a Democrat did triumph in the Electoral College while losing the popular vote, it would turn history on its head — and might make electoral reform less of a strictly partisan issue.
A partisan divide hasn't always existed. In 1968, third-party candidate George Wallace won five states and 46 electoral votes, coming close to deadlocking the Electoral College and throwing the contest into the House of Representatives. In response, a movement to abolish the Electoral College gained broad, bipartisan support: In the fall of 1969, the House voted overwhelmingly — 339 to 70 — for a constitutional amendment to make the popular vote decisive. President Richard Nixon endorsed the measure. More than 30 states were on record as supporting the idea. But a coalition of smaller states and Southerners filibustered the proposal in the Senate.
As a matter of fact, a few small alterations in history would likely have fueled even more bipartisan support for change.
In 1960, Nixon fell short of a popular vote victory by 0.17 percent to John F. Kennedy (indeed, generations of Republicans insist voter fraud deprived Nixon of victory). In 2000, the preelection consensus was that Gore might win the White House even though Bush would win the popular vote. As I learned in researching a book on the 2000 election, Republicans were prepared to challenge the legitimacy of such an outcome. Four years later, John Kerry came within 2 points of winning Ohio, which would have made him president even though Bush won a 3-million-vote plurality. That would have meant two consecutive elections in which the "winner" became the "loser," with each party suffering that outcome.
So what might happen if Trump wins more total votes than Harris, but loses in the Electoral College?
Undoubtedly, the reaction would be explosive among Trump's army of "election deniers," and there might be an attempt by his allies in state and local offices to try to muddy the waters and argue that the "will of the people" should somehow prevail. Assuming those efforts fail and Harris is inaugurated, we might see a whole new constituency furious at this system of choosing a president — including countless Americans who have no idea that when they vote for president they aren't really voting for a candidate at all, but rather a slate of faceless electors.
As long as the electoral process always favors one party, there is no chance for anything like that movement from a half-century ago to be revived. But if November sees Trump deprived of the presidency despite a popular vote victory, the appetite for change might just take on a bipartisan flavor.
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長毛種猫クリが楽しくてずっとアイルー編集画面に篭もってた(本編はチュートリアルしかやってない)
— アペ 🐾 (@apepe) October 30, 2024
このエンジンでアイルー主役のゲーム作って欲しいなぁ。ガルクも出てくるやつ。#MHWilds #モンハンワイルズ pic.twitter.com/UtLhhoXgZP
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Today's topic Halloween: What are your plans, what are you gonna go as? Rotting in your room ain't healthy Chuddy! !incels
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On bad days, Mykytenko will ask her sergeants to take over, and she'll spend the day watching Harry Potter movies.
These are things that are better kept private good grief
Too lazy to do the rest myself but look through it, it's fricking funny
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All the OG Bioware team left eons ago. The team was completely taken over by chasers, s and gendershitters since Inquisition. GG cute twinks.