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In her first major public appearance since leaving office, Harris did not reference her election loss or President Donald Trump's actions since entering the Oval Office.
LOS ANGELES — Former Vice President Kamala Harris stepped on the NAACP Image Awards stage Saturday night with a sobering message, calling the civil rights organization a pillar of the Black community and urging people to stay resilient and hold onto their faith during the tenure of President Donald Trump.
"While we have no illusions about what we are up against in this chapter in our American story, this chapter will be written not simply by whoever occupies the oval office nor by the wealthiest among us," Harris said after receiving the NAACP's Chairman's Award. "The American story will be written by you. Written by us. By we the people."
The 56th annual Image Awards kicked off Saturday at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in the Los Angeles area.
Harris, defeated by Trump in last year's presidential election, was the first woman and the first person of color to serve as vice president. She had previously been a U.S. senator from California and the state's attorney general.
In her first major public appearance since leaving office, Harris did not reference her election loss or Trump's actions since entering the Oval Office, although Trump mocked her earlier in the day at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
Harris spoke about eternal vigilance, the price of liberty, staying alert, seeking the truth and America's future.
"Some see the flames on our horizons, the rising waters in our cities, the shadows gathering over our democracy and ask 'What do we do now?'" Harris said. "But we know exactly what to do, because we have done it before. And we will do it again. We use our power. We organize, mobilize. We educate. We advocate. Our power has never come from having an easy path."
Other winners of the Chairman's prize have included former President Barack Obama, the late Rep. John Lewis and the late actor Ruby Dee.
NAACP Hall of Fame
Harris was honored during the ceremony along with the Wayans family. The family was inducted into the NAACP Image Awards Hall of Fame in recognition of pioneering contributions to film, TV, sketch and stand-up comedy that have shaped Hollywood for decades.
Keenen Ivory Wayans, Damon Wayans Sr., Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Kim Wayans and Damon Wayans Jr. each were recognized.
Marlon Wayans, whose guest appearance on Peapeepee's "Bel-Air" was up for an NAACP award, shared how Keenen Ivory Wayans sparked the family's rise.
"He raised us all like Jedis," he said. "We wouldn't be here if it wasn't for our big brother."
Marlon Wayans joked that when his brother told their mom he was leaving college for comedy, she said, "Boy, I've known you your whole life, and you ain't never said nothing funny. That's the funniest thing you've said."
The crowd erupted in laughter, a fitting tribute to a family that has kept audiences laughing for more than three decades.
The family has a long list of credits. Keenen Ivory Wayans created the sketch comedy series "In Living Color" in 1990 and directed the 2000 slasher spoof "Scary Movie," which was written by Marlon Wayans and Shawn Wayans, who also wrote and starred in "White Chicks" in 2004. Damon Wayan's had a starring role in the 1995 comedy "Major Payne," and currently co-stars with son Damon Wayans Jr. in the CBS sitcom "Poppa's House," which was nominated for an NAACP Award. The pair also were nominated for their acting on the show.
Damon Wayans Jr. has acted in two of the most critically acclaimed comedies in recent years: "Happy Endings" and "New Girl." Kim Wayans, a comedian, actor and director, also received praise for her work in the 2011 drama "Pariah."
Entertainer of the year
Keke Palmer expressed her surprise after her name was called as winner of the coveted entertainer of the year.
"Oh my gosh. Guys, I didn't think I was going to win," said Palmer, who paid homage to fellow nominee Cynthia Erivo's Oscar-nominated performance in "Wicked."
Palmer starred in the buddy comedy "One of Them Days," which debuted No. 1 at the box office last month. She also won an Emmy for her hosting efforts on NBC's "Password."
"It's such an amazing category to be in with all these people," Palmer said. "It's a beautiful night. It's Black History Month, y'all. It's so important we all come here together and celebrate one another with one another."
Other nominees included Kendrick Lamar, Kevin Hart and Shannon Sharpe.
Awards recognize L.A. residents impacted by wildfires
Image Awards host Deon Cole honored residents of the nearby Altadena neighborhood who were affected by January's devastating Los Angeles-area wildfires.
A video of the fire devastation played before actor Morris Chestnut took the stage.
"Homes were lost, stores destroyed, countless lives shattered and over two dozens souls gone forever," said Chestnut, a Los Angeles native who referenced impacted areas such as Altadena, the Pacific Palisades and Malibu.
"But what was not lost is the spirit of our community," said Chestnut, who noted 22 Altadena residents attended the show on Saturday. Many in the audience stood and applauded.
Cole shifted tone and brightened the mood with a comedic prayer for Kanye West's wife to find more clothes after her barely-there Grammys look and for Shannon Sharpe to finally size up his T-shirts.
The opening act was a lead-up to the evening's first award: Queen Latifah as best actress in a drama series for her role in "The Equalizer."
Chappelle honored
Dave Chappelle was honored with the President's Award for his "thought-provoking humor."
Accepting the award, Chappelle talked about the NAACP's push against negative portrayals of Black people in media and the importance of representation.
"Every opportunity we get, we just keep chipping away at this monster of a machine," he said.
Past recipients of the President's Award include Jay-Z, Lauryn Hill, Usher, Rihanna and John Legend.
- HailVictory1776 : Grace jones is the only good muscle black foid trans lives matter
s clash as Neil Cuckmann's latest game, spaceshit with bald black woman lead, is announced
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3 main points of contention are:
- Marvel/millennial writing
I really didn't get that impression. "Marvel writing" is quickly becoming a meaningless term.
one liners, jokes, and sarcasm every other line of dialogue is what people mean by marvel writing
- Excessive amount of product placement, which kills the game for no fun chuds and makes it better and more immersive to soylennials. Also media literacy or something
Kids, they did that because the style is 80S RETRO FUTURISM.
this whole subreddit is wooshing so hard on the aesthetic of the game
It's creating a more relatable alternate reality that captures a vibe that we can sort of intuitively know and feel based on our real experiences with known brands
It kinda gives you the tone of the character imo. Like if Porsche is making space ships in this alternate timeline, it sort of informs us about the character a bit. It's not a junker rebel ship- it's badass, high-performance, and perhaps ostentatious and egotistical even.Why were 3 massive brands planted so obviously in the trailer? Porsche, Adidas, Sony?
Obvious 90s inspired retro futurism aesthetic. How are people not seeing this??
G*mers have some of the worst media literacy of anyone on the internet, are you really surprised?
- That last comment brings us to most discussed part of the trailer - is having a tattooed, bald Black woman protagonist (and a character with an eye patch) woke Sweet Baby globohomo propaganda or are they just strong, diverse and inclusive characters that enrich the players' experience?
We wanted masculine character lead again. Naughty Dog gave us their best: A bald lesbian
I mean the main character looks expectedly like a Neil Druckmann design.
Female, Asian, black, bald! The perfect combination ❤️ (can't tell if this is a
or a
lmao)
I immediately said "Naughty Dog" once I saw the bald and tattooed female protagonist
Also, a truke at the end
Diversity Is Our Strength 
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NHS England:
— Jonny Bell (@Jonnywsbell) February 17, 2025
*Trans staff changing room policy*:
"If a woman is not comfortable sharing female facilities with biological males, she can use the gender neutral toilets"?....
What does that mean exactly?... pic.twitter.com/X9PCZ92z7J
Foids owned
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The Ancestor (and Academic from 2) was one of the greatest vocal performances of all time. I can't imagine a Darkest Dungeon without him. The Inhuman Bondage DLC for DD2 just came out, I think it's his last work.
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Greetings dramatards 
I wanna post a parallel example about ragebait, to show how utterly stupid and malinfromed foreigners are about safrica 
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@haggis posted earlier about a 70 year old Boomer boer having gone haywire and shot a black kid over stealing a single fruit (he waz probably a repeat thief and the boer lost his mind), which put the usual rage into the shitlibs, micks, liberals, westoids, redditors, leftists and irish who comment the usual hatred towards SA whites, and that we should all deserve to be culled like the Haiti uprising and our land disowned and the usual tired trite about 1Dimensional evil opressors
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Well on the complete opposite end of the spectrum, we have the uber chuds of 9strag, filled with ultra-nationalists racial supremacists (each for their own race 
lol) , and all equally misinformed.
https://9gag.com/gag/aLnjyNW#comment
basically this post, and reposted copycats of it, have been making the rounds over 9gag today, as repost bots plagiarized each other, to farm ragebait upmarseys. I tried to find the other copycats - they usually had title like "Look how Safrica fairs 30 years after the hwhite rule ended!" 
or something like "Looks like africans can only tear down what the Huwhite man build!" 
and so on.
And just like the fricking rage post from @haggis, all nuance and complexity of any situation is thrown down the drain into oblivion as emotion shrouds all cognition
Now often in South Africa, a lot of self destructive riots have taken place, similar to the yank Floyd riots which escalated from peaceful protests to outright mob riot induced pillaging of every nearby store. Moronic self destructive riots are common in SA, to the point where we even have a saying here in afrikaans, in that the agtergeblewenis is someone so incapable of thinking of consequences that they are the type of peeps who'll wait in line at the bus stop in the morning, waiting for the same busses he had burned down Yesterday 
Often south african protestors had even burned down schools in their rage, or like the Zuma Riots 3 years ago in Eastern Safrica, where an entire province was set aflame by rioters.
BUT 
This specific example is different
or reference, https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/protests-r33-road-kzn-service-delivery/
In all the otehr 9starg posts the racists won out, but only in this one was, the matter further clarified:
"This is an image from Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa. 4 years ago... This was a protest because of the lack of water and electricity. But they built a fancy new road to get to 4 houses up the hill"
https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/protests-r33-road-kzn-service-delivery/
I can't find the other copycat 9gag posts which heaved with racism and all the chuds downmarseying the explanation behind this action, so you guys will just have to take my word for it, but basically compared to the post I linked in which the most reasonable comments won ,out it was all a shitshow, which is probalby why they were deleted - even the usually lax 9strag moderators probably woke up.
But to further continue, so many many Safrican local municipalities are brokenshit corrupt, to the point where people literally don't have clean 
drinking water (if they even have functioning non-leaking pipes) or electricity. People often strike and protest to their local municipalities and beg them for their services, but are often ignored because the local politicians have no fear of being ousted or convicted of criminality
The specific road was literally leading to the wealthiest district of that local town, and their destroying the road was the equivalent of dumping trash in front of the frontyard of the mayor of a town refusing to fix your problem, by inconveniencing or actively hurting the politicians refusing to fricking do their jobs.
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The resident, who was part of the protest which saw the road being dug up, justified the action.
"We have been promised [services] for years. New villages have been provided with water and electricity, but not us. Today the police came and shot at us. If it means we have to be shot to get basic services, so be it," the resident explained.
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I myself and the firm i work for had to suffer the past year against Free State province municipalities choking the life out of small towns through Regulatory Capture, because the subhuman fricks there ,refuse to approve Rezonings, subdivisions or consolidations of properties and a whole slew of Town planning shit, which basically prohibits new businesses from forming, and they fricking cant buy or open new commercial locations! all because the stupid small minded fricks want bribes, as the economy dies around them
Then these slime drive around in black-tinted BMWs obviously not bought from their meagre bureaucrat salary, and peeps can see where they live in the nicest parts of town - which is what led to the peeps chopping up that part of the road leading to the upper class homes in which the municipal high staff worked - thus forcing the frickers to listen the community
in this instance i even had compassion towards these rioters. if @sneedman was up there with a pickaxe, I'd be joining him in my fricking frustration from this choking corruption.
so all these 9strag straggots who dont know shit and usually post about comparing civilizations don't know shit about SA. and just continue empire-of-dust posting which i believe is an entirely different matter and this just placated the bias of chuds 
just poltardia posting blablabla - it's actually miraculous that other safricans had jumped before me to demonstrate the actual happenings and clarify the complexity of the situation, and was topvoted in the comment section about this chud morons
Anyways !nonchuds to the same degree as these chuds are fools, so too to the same degree are shitlibs and libtards and leftoids and Micks misinformed and beyond capacity to understand safrica
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This is not unusual, I personally know more than one person who made low 8 figures.
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Apparently not wanting innocent people including children mass murdered, but also not supporting a terrorist group in the same country is just too nuanced of a view for them to comprehend.
Maybe y'all shouldn't have been screaming from the river to sea… so much. Pretty despicable.
I'm jewish and still saying "river to the sea", Israel was a colonial project of European powers. Israels government is vile and genocidal, and its aims are Palestinian genocide.
Except a lot of people voted for Trump because Harris/Biden was "nice" to Israel.
Some people voted for Trump because Biden wasn't able to use his influence (yet no actual power) to stop a war.
These people are really fricking stupid.
Yes, the thought behind it is very clearly "stop killing innocent Palestinians," but the ones who voted for Trump are fricking braindead. The left knows it, the right knows it, too - but those are the ones Fox news highlights.
most drama
This is the issue, too many ppl at the protests still call hamas freedom fighters and can't comprehend this point
Why did the freedom fighters commit genocide on October 7? Why do you still call them that after such an act?
Cos they're fighting against an oppressive regime that's trying to eradicate Palestine as a country and an ethnicity
I mean in the sense that any is too many you're right I guess. Some people will always miss the actual point and take get extreme about taking a side though. I would like people to actually cite a study though about how many pro palestine protestors actually support Hamas in any way. Unless we have solid data to give us a figure like 30% or something, it just sounds like a smear.
Because they are lmao
I support Hamas
Not in the internal Palestinian political struggle of course but against Israel? It's not even a question
Been rough, a lot of my fellow jews including some friends are still in the Israeli propaganda machine, but I have hope, many of us especially in the younger generations are finally waking up. I think we'll eventually get a formal split between Israeli and Diasporic Judaism
also much drama
But some do refer to hamas as freedom fighters, I've heard it and it's worrying how it's progressing. Ask a Jewish person and they will tell you they are starting to feel unsafe or in need of constantly saying "but I don't support Isreal" bc that is the assumption many have
If I saw my family get bombed by israel I would 100% join hamas and I don't blame anyone who does. I don't SUPPORT hamas, I don't LIKE Hamas, but I DO understand why they exist, and im not gonna pretend it's for no reason at all.
I like how that excuse is only used for one side. Israelis have seen their families get bombed and killed too, but you DO blame them for joining their military...
There's much much more similar drama to link
i'm not saying this is very reportmaxxxable post, but.....lol Chapotraphouse was banned for less
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Is it me or is she turning into an absolute hog?
Here is her before shot.
This is where her physique peaks in my honest opinion. Here she appears to be of an ethereal beauty. Her incandescent image flows gracefully into my willing eyes like water to an african child. This is quite the contrast to her current appearance.
Notice how her face, which once looked as if it were chiseled from marble by a master craftsman... Is now round and plump as if she were nothing more than a common stone? Now don't get me wrong. I'm not saying she is ugly. She is definitely still better looking than someone like @AnHeroedOats. But this is Wongyoung we are talking about. She is supposed to be more than that. She is supposed to be a goddess up in the heavens amongst the likes of Madoka Kaname. As something for us to aspire to be. Not as some regular slut just like you and me. You honestly think the producers came up with her iconic butt twirl?
And speaking of the butt twirl (which I actually enjoy in her routine and am only being half serious when I say she's a whore for forcing the producers to include that smut in her videos. But look at what her butt twirl looks like after gaining all that mass?
It just doesn't have the same flow to it. It is... So much meatier. Take a look at how it looked before.
Notice how effortless that was? She flew. She is literally flying right there. What a disgrace it is to see such a thing of beauty reduced to this. I wish Wongyoung would take some time to think about the legacy she would like to leave behind.
Is this another reason to like the Japanese more than Koreans?
.webp?h=11 "Nuzzles, pounces on you, UwU, you're so warm!..")
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Max announce the release of the 'Luigi Mangione: The CEO Killer' documentary on February 17th. pic.twitter.com/nwIEA87QUp
— Pop Tingz (@ThePopTingz) February 13, 2025
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"There was a backlash with some of our progressive staff that didn't want her to be on it, and how there would be a backlash," Palmieri said on Wednesday."
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I am 90% sure it's not raining, and he just doesn't actually know how to close an umbrella. He just abandons them and buys another. (10858)
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I mean this is from a guy who can't figure out how to pick up a piece of pizza so he resigned to cutting little bits off of it and shoveling them into his enormous cloaca (24)
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$EA I'm not going to lie, I am smiling a bit right now.
— Couch Investor🛋️ (@Couch_Investor) January 23, 2025
Make sh*t games, get rekt! pic.twitter.com/WBuc1039tt
https://n4g.com/news/2650446/ea-stock-drops-as-dragon-age-the-veilguard-misses-sales-mark-by-50
I know many of you here didn't liked the game and called it second coming of Hitler
But I agree with this comment:
(I know the anti woke don't want to admit it but they basically cancelled this game.
Like how woke people cancel stuff they did it to this game because it didn't fit their "view".
This game never had a chance from the get go.
To much checklist:
EA hate
To "woke"
Gameplay was to different
"Ugly" characters
Some characters not having enough "bust"
I can't judge the story because inhavent played it yet
Honestly if it wasn't labeled dragon age it might of done better.)
https://old.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1i8ww4h/ea_lost_6_billion_in_market_value_following_fc_25/
Yep, they want shareholders to believe that they reached 1.5 million sales, but their wording is intentionally misleading.
Will never stop surprising how r-slurred Redditors are, Dragon age sold similar to ff7 rebirth so the numbers did reach 1.5 millions
But main problem hating dragon age is this
For shareholders it doesn't make any sense now doing AAA single players games since most people just play call of duty and fifa and some mobile sloop.
Dead space remake was awesome but it also flopped so no dead space 2 remake.
Anytime I begin to talk to anyone about gaming here in the UK, they all mention they're g*mers. When I ask what they play, they all respond "Fifa and COD". If they're under 30 they also mention Fortnite. It's so rare for me to find anyone who plays anything outside of the aforementioned games in real life let alone someone who plays Final Fantasy.
Gaymers are r-slurs
It's like that meme where nerds playing a dungeon and dragon then a normie join, then normie invites a foid and then they kick out nerds and make new rules
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houellebecq
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- Nightcrawler : there is only one God
Official rDrama mods statement
We are banning the discussion about banning discussions about banning twitter links. Praise the Gods 
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It has recently come to my attention that we, as a community, are wasting too much time discussing the ban of the discussion about the ban of twitter links. To prevent a dip on drama contracts being carried out and keep the marleycoin economy of the town flowing, all discussion of any kind of ban discussion is banned.
I would love to cast blessing of light on all of you, brothers and sisters, to guide you on your path towards salvation and productivity, unfortunately I am merely a Lv1 Cleric, so I shall save it for the comment that needs me the most.
Thank you so much for your attention. May the Gods bless you all 
Current HP: 100
Current Mana: 150
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Boy who injected himself with a crushed butterfly mixed with water 'for online challenge' suffered horrific seven-day slow death, it is revealed - with the insect's toxins feared to be the cause of death
The fourteen-year-old boy who died after injecting himself with a crushed butterfly suffered agonising symptoms for seven days before he died, local media reports.
Davi Nunes Moreira, 14, died in hospital in Planalto, Brazil last Thursday after telling staff he had injected a solution made of crushed butterfly into his leg.
Believed to have carried out the dangerous procedure as part of an 'online challenge', Moreira began vomiting and struggled to walk before admitting his mistake.
The youngster was taken into hospital by his father and remained in the Vitória da Conquista general hospital for a week, receiving specialised support, before he died.
Last April, an online influencer from Brazil nearly required amputation after taking part in an ill-advised viral trend for her two million followers.
'Thammy MC' was left unable to walk after standing in a bucket of ice and salt for an online 'dare' that turned her feet black and nearly required the amputation of her toes.
'We spent 15 minutes with our feet on the ice with coarse salt,' she said, recounting the horror.
'When I took my foot out I never felt such pain in my life. Three of my toes had turned black when it came out of the ice bucket.'
Thammy was treated at a clinic where she was told she was at risk of thrombosis, and that she could have developed necrosis had she remained in the ice another minute.
Unable to put any pressure on her feet, she said she now gets around the house by being dragged around in a garden chair by her mother, who pushes her from room to room.
Be sure to check in later for more Brazil news.
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https://old.reddit.com/r/IsraelPalestine/comments/1ic4bxy/israelsupporters_do_you_have_empathy/
Hamas
Conservatives somehow find their butt
https://old.reddit.com/r/suppressed_news/comments/1ic46ji/interesting_footage_has_surfaced_showing_
Redditards love their fanfiction
Gays go splat when they hit the ground
https://old.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/1icu87h/the_world_is_laughing_at_america/
Looks like Berlin needs more bombing
https://old.reddit.com/r/clevercomebacks/comments/1ic92rb/that_ratio_is_brutal/
Clever comebacks?
https://old.reddit.com/r/israelexposed/comments/1ic4sfm/interesting_footage_has_surfaced_showing_an/
A reminder that all redditards are low functioning psychopaths and should be sterilized so they won't molest their children
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Tbqh I'm mostly posting this so the bot pings her /u/Severe-Wolverine3080
And it's funny 
They're seething at her 
me: 5'1, 99 lbs, 20% body fat, A cups are too big my bf: 6'9, 210?
Queen is going to war. Is she trolling? 
(keyedbase 
is that one of you? 
)
She has this post 2 years ago about a rabbit harassing her dogs
https://old.reddit.com/r/shiba/comments/v7i3bv/a_rabbit_has_been_tormenting_my_poor_shibes_for/
Which redscare demographic is seething at her harder?
I say this as a feminist ally
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Quinnipiac Poll (2/13-17)
— Steve Kornacki (@SteveKornacki) February 19, 2025
Job Performance:
Donald Trump
Approve 45%
Disapprove 49%
Congressional GOP
Approve 40%
Disapprove 52%
Congressional Dems
Approve 21%
Disapprove 68%
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Developing AI regulation before developing AI models and then bragging about it is the most EU thing ever pic.twitter.com/qyd6dgTxjE
— Lina Seiche (@LinaSeiche) January 27, 2025
tries to organize corncels 
to the Omnicause 
! Des Moines 
Denizens Duke 
it out in the comments.
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!neolibs, do you support immigration? Well you better sign on with the more radical elements of BLM, sympathize with literal terrorists, and give Russia a blowie! !grillers, the only way to defeat Blumphler's extreme right wing agenda by supporting an extreme left wing agenda!
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Protests for all of these individual issues have been happening for years, with no policy change to speak of. Organizing under a more general anti-establishment, anti-capitalist, pro-worker sentiment can draw a larger crowd. These issues are not separate, all of them are interconnected, and each and every one of these issues is at jeopardy under the current administration. PSL, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, is trying to build a large working class coalition to work together and put pressure on our government to really get things done, as asking nicely clearly hasn't worked. Every member of the working class has gripes with our worsening economic and political conditions over the past few years (decades really), but addressing these issues separately hasn't and doesn't work, so connecting these gripes into one real, organized, educated fight is the only way forward.
Unsatisfied with your material conditions? Well, chudderino, better support all these unrelated nonsense causes because I'm an adjunct associate professor and I need to justify my existence somehow.
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My mom said she can drop us off at the protest if your mom can pick us up
Sleepover afterwards?
No cis boys allowed!
The main idea is defending our rights and the rights of our neighbors. There is no bad idea when it comes to being heard
Muddled progressive messaging is how you get things done chud!
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Wish I could be there but a trans girlie's gotta keep herself safe from any crazies that might try to pull something.
Understandable! Your safety takes priority. Thanks for the support 🫶🏼
Lmao, unreal.
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None of these concepts are mutually exclusive.
Those are all good things that anyone claiming to be progressive should support, what is your point?
s*x tape leaks wants to sue him
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On November 29th, I learned that the streamer Destiny had non-consensually shared pornographic content of me online. My dignity, peace of mind, and hopes for the future, were stripped away in a mere matter of seconds following the betrayal of someone I previously trusted.
I am at least the third person he has done this to. I hope to be the last. I will not be commenting on the experience of the other women he has hurt, as it is not my place or story to tell. I will however share my story in the hopes of preventing this from occurring again.
I have been told that a court case like this could potentially cost over tens of thousands of dollars. I am terrified. I mean, this guy talks about potentially suing Hasan (as if for fun), and Hasan actually has the resources to defend himself. I cannot imagine what he might try to do to me in this process. Sometimes, I wonder if he does this as an intimidation tactic. I wonder if he is purposely trying to put fear into my heart when he casually talks about throwing money into a lawsuit with a multi-millionaire who can fight back. As if it's an indirect flaunt/warning over his capability of out spending me in whatever legal case I throw at him. At the request of my friends, I have been encouraged to link my give send go regarding this case here, in hopes that we can raise enough for me to legally succeed.
https://www.givesendgo.com/suedestiny
EDIT: The mods of /r/Destiny have acknowledged Pxie's statement (without mentioning her by name) and say that Destiny will prepare a statement of his own:
https://old.reddit.com/r/Destiny/comments/1i5vseg/destiny_will_be_making_a_poststatement_within_the/
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I'm working on my magnum opus of foid hating. I'm going to be a little light on the rightoid patrolling until the work is finished. my days consist of getting wasted and finishing my work.
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OP's POOOOOST
Upfront, let's get one thing out of the way quickly. Yes, I am aware that Astro is referred to using masculine pronouns in official materials. Someone or something can be an icon to a group whether or not they're part of it. You're probably well aware that Judy Garland was an icon to gay men and you're also probably well aware that Judy Garland wasn't a gay man.
Now, if you were coming into this thread to tell me 'well actually on the press release it says…' or if the suggestion that Astro is non-binary made you feel any discomfort or annoyance, I want you to keep that reaction in mind as we explore further, because I think there's something important to unpick there.
There's a popular way of analyzing art broadly referred to as 'the artist is dead'. You're likely familiar with it, but incase you aren't I will briefly explain it. Art should be able to be appreciated by itself. As such we shouldn't need to know what the artist intended their art to convey. Pretend that the artist died before they could talk about the work, and approach it from that perspective.
It was the intent when making Alien, that eggs were made from captured victims. There was a scene in the script where Dallas is found half turned into an egg, so they were designed with this in mind. That scene was filmed. Now, it didn't make the final cut… and when a different creative team came in to make Aliens, they completely changed the life cycle of the aliens from what was intended by the people who made Alien and who designed the creatures. The alien queen wouldn't exist if the creators of Aliens hadn't approached Alien from a perspective that 'the artist is dead'. Personally I think culture would be worse off without the fight between the alien queen and Ripley in the power loader and…
Astro Bot. This is about Astro Bot. Sorry.
Lets put aside everything other than what we know about Astro from within the fiction. Put aside things outside the fiction like tutorials, menus, credits, product descriptions, press releases etc.
Ignore your instinctual revulsion that his fictional character, a robot, is referred to with masculine pronouns, and remember that that the best media criticism is that which completely ignores anything to come to the conclusion I like 
. So we'll begin with ignoring all the fictional references to the character and the non-fictional representations of the fictional character... A healthy place for grounded media analysis.
Astro. Astro is a robot. There's no reason to presume that Astro's people reproduce sexually. Certainly no reason to presume that you need a boy robot and a girl robot to do some electric love in order to make baby robots, and that all of those baby robots should be a boy one or a girl one.
When we look at Astro, there aren't any obvious human gender characteristics. While some of Astros friends dress in male or female costumes, (and we'll get to that!) their bodies are uniform.
See?
So what do we have in Astro's case. Well Astro has some blue highlights the other bots don't. Blue=boy! I mean, it doesn't obviously. You could argue that it suggests that, but doesn't it seem like a bit of a stretch? If you aren't looking for reasons to put a robot into a gender binary would you find that compelling?
Given how little evidence we have that Astro has any physical characteristics suggesting male or female, the next thing we generally reach for would be to see whether or not Astro has any expression of gender. And… well Astro wears a cape and its blue!. Blue=BOYx2 QED!.
Again… that's it. Astro's expressions of identity demonstrate aren't stereotypically male or female, instead showing compassion and bravery and joy at belonging to a community. And what a community!
Astro's friends seem about evenly split between those that express a sense of gender and those that (like Astro) don't. I'm not sure if one group is bigger than the other, but certainly the plurality of robots express androgyny when compared to the groups that express masculinity and the group that express femininity.
Astro treats everyone equally, of course. Whether the bots belong to either of the minorities that express a male or female identity, they are still accepted. The fiction doesn't give me anything to suggest if these identities are chosen, or pre programmed from the moment they come online. Personally I believe they're chosen. That the wigs and costume items (and any custom gear or programming) are built by the robots as they choose to express their truths.
Even if androgyny isn't the default out of the box configuration, it remains the most common one.
And so I default to seeing Astro and a good chunk of the other robots as non-binary.
I think it's telling that we as humans tend to default to male pronouns when presented with a robot or alien race that doesn't have a gender binary. The Sontarans in Doctor Who for example. They're a clone race. One single gender. There are countless other examples I'm sure you can bring to mind.
Even when presented with a culture of robots where a plurality (if not a majority… I'm not going to do the math) present androgynously and only minorities present as masculine or feminine, why do we default to thinking Astro is a boy?
If you're one of the people who felt compelled to come in here and point to the 'fact' that Astro is referred to with he/him pronouns outside of the fiction, or who find an endeavor such as writing an essay on the gender identity of a robot in a video game annoying or frustrating, I really want you to try to reflect on why that upsets you. There are no genitals to check. No pronouns to ask for. No DNA test you can do. No gametes to measure. Because Astro is a robot.
If someone non-binary looks at all that and concludes that Astro is a non-binary icon, since they have an androgynous expression in a culture clearly accepting of masculine, feminine and androgynous gender expressions, and that has some value to them, what in any of that is cause for discomfort?
You can insert a computer code pun here if you want, I won't get offended. And thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
That's a lot of words to suggest that s*x-less robots, literal non-humans somehow also have the this guy's uniquely human concept of gender and gender expression... because they just do okay. How do the ERA philosophers react?
OP replies with 
How does this make sense? Don't question it bigot
You didn't think about it because it's a game about being a cute robot thing and platforming and being a celebration of the Playstation Brand. Love how he calls it a fact at the end to validate the delusions 
One person lets it slip that gender identity, especially NB, is a costume 
Most reset-era tier replies. "I didn't play the game because I don't play games" & "TLDR, but I liked your title"
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