Can you elaborate? Seems like you disagree with this guy’s statement that a nation’s population cannot be generalized by the actions of terrorists from said nation.
The IRA were terrorists who killed their own people. They literally killed other Irish people, including other IRA sects. Look up the IRA leaders; a lot of them died in IRA-ordered bombings or assassinations. There was no unified IRA.
That’s why the president of Ireland is denouncing them. That’s what the article is about. The British being bad doesn’t mean the IRA was good. They can both be bad and there are more than two parties in every situation.
Sorry, irony didn’t translate well there. It was supposed to be a parody of the binary mindset “I don’t wanna think about nuance and individual differences, just enemies and allies”.
Also, forgive my cynicism, but I’m not confident that every middle school teaches that level of critical thinking. I’m not actually sure we even touched on that in high school. I’m from Germany, but my school was rather centrist with respect to the Overton Window at the time. Much of history was painted rather black and white and avoided complicated details about morality.
There was a civil war and divisions of the structure, but there was a structure and overall goal. I wouldn’t say leaders like that because they may have led a branch and of course it being a paramilitary force they did not have HR nor qualms about taking lives so there was violent disagreements.
They most certainly were bad, but Ireland would not be what it is today without the IRA. ThebTaoiseach is not the president.
Ah, the 217 Covid shot guy. Obviously this person has some issues, to put it lightly. But also they’re lucky the shot doesn’t affect them like it did me. I was out of commission for a few days following the 2nd and 3rd ones I took, with a 3-4 degree (F) elevated temperature and general malaise. People think I’m speaking from an anti-vaxx viewpoint when I say this but I felt really weird after the 3rd one especially, and didn’t really feel normal for weeks. I’m not sure I’ve ever returned to feeling normal. So, I don’t think I’d be as unaffected as this dude if I took it 217 times.
Yeah, I’m aware of that and it’s what I said at the time. Anyway, my point was more about the weirdo who took it 200 times. I don’t think I would survive that.
I figured you were aware but just wanted to point that out for others. My question on this is how the hell was he able to take it over 200 times? Dies Germany not do any tracking at all?
The man’s identity hasn’t been revealed, and in the paper he’s referred to only as “HIM” (seemingly an acronym, though what it stands for is not specified).
Around this time of an election year, the political parties of each state get together and decide who their candidates are going to be. This story is about a small district in Iowa with a population of only 245 people. Their meeting was so small, it took place at someone’s house. It’s brutally cold there right now. Winter has nothing to do with it otherwise.
It’s not just deciding the candidates. It’s a lot less of a vote in an election (like a primary) and more of a neighborhood meeting. People give speeches, express support or disdain, and try to convince other people to support their candidate. I believe they still vote at the end, but it’s not like an election where voting is the only thing you do. It’s different depending on the state, but that’s how it generally works in Iowa.
Edit; also important to note that caucus has different meanings depending on where it happens. I.e. if it happens in Congress then it’s a meeting of peers with similar backgrounds who then vote or decide on policy positions.
Caususes are a way some state political parties choose to pick out their favorite party candidate for the November election.
In most states they have a primary which is just a normal election by US standards. In a few, including Iowa, they gather in a physical room and move from location to location to physically show who they support.
That means if I’m “caucusing for Bernie” I’d go stand next to the Bernie crowd. This ends when a certain candidate has a majority (I don’t remember the exact amount). So people move from candidate to candidate as they see theirs isn’t winning or as they are persuaded by others there.
Every state has their primary or caucus on a specific day, so yesterday was Iowa’s day, and it’s often very cold this time of year in Iowa. This year it’s pretty brutal, high of 3°F and low of -3°F today (-16C and -19.5C), and it was colder a few days ago.
The more I discover about US election system the more confused I am, lol. This is like some form of centuries old comedy and not like current event real president may come from.
The police ruled the death a suicide, and the apartment was listed on the city’s online registers for haunted apartments. The landlord had no choice but to discount the rent by 30 per cent – and wait for a tenant who did not believe in ghosts.
Any ideas on how to convince people to believe in ghosts?
All she had to do was apologize, say it was a misunderstanding, and walk she and her poor dog away. She could have just stood still and asked politely to be left alone. She could have given a good ol’ New York “PISS AWWFFF”.
She had a lot of options.
I understand maybe being a little startled in the moment, but she absolutely owns the reaction. Any reasonable person should have realized once the phone was pulled out to film the interaction that maybe it was time to chill.
Exactly. We all saw the video. Now there could have been so mething before hand, but somehow I doubt the birdwatcher came up to her and threatened her the way she’s claiming. The way she’s sounding he just marched up on her and started threatening her. Doubt
“I was a female, alone in a secluded area of Central Park, with a man yelling at me and threatening me,” she wrote.
Christian…said, “Look, if you’re going to do what you want, I’m going to do what I want, but you’re not going to like it”, and beckoned the dog toward him with a dog treat.
She didn’t know what he was going to do to the dog or what he was feeding it, so I can see feeling threatened by the interaction. It’s still her fault for clear racial emphasis on her police call, and for disobeying the leash law in the first place. It’s hard to feel sorry for her if she can’t seem to understand her mistake, but at the same time I’ve read the reddit comments and can’t imagine what kind of hate she probably received, maybe still does, and not being able to hold a job over it is a lot. Situation sucks.
Christian apparently got his own bird watching show by National Geographic, so that’s nice.
You bring your kid into the bar. You sit your kid at the bar. The bar tender says “you can’t do that, that’s illegal, please take your kid away from the bar”. You respond that you don’t have to. They respond “if you’re going to do what you want then I’m gonna do what I want”. You go to juke box 40 feet away and pick some tunes. They slide the kid a drink. The drink could have anything in it. But it’s water. They proceed to call the manager to escort you and the kid out of the bar. You call the cops because you felt threatened. Is that or is that not an overreaction? Probably. Should you have felt threatened? Maybe. But nothing stopped you from preventing your kid from taking the drink. Nothing stopped you from complying with the bartender. And nothing stopped you from leaving the bar of your own volition.
I fully understand that she might have felt threatened. But you don’t get to put yourself in a dangerous situation where you are breaking the law and then call foul when someone else requests that you don’t.
She didn’t call the police to make a complaint that a man had beckoned to her dog with a dog treat. She completely overrated and overrepresented the situation as perilous on purpose to get the reaction she wanted.
He specifically requests in a level tone that she not approach him. She refuses and makes demands that he stop recording. When she threatens to call the police he requests that she do so again in a level tone. When she does speak to the police this is what she says to the dispatcher:
“I’m in The Ramble, and there’s a man, African American, he’s got a bicycle helmet. He’s recording me and threatening me and my dog,” she tells the emergency dispatcher."
She specifically lists his race. She doesn’t say he’s 5’10 or 250 pounds or that he has a scar on his left cheek. She says he is African American.
She doesn’t even start recording on her own phone to get a visual of him that would allow the police to find him in the event that’s he does hurt her or the dog.
We never see him approach her in the video. At one point when the dispatcher doesn’t respond the way she wants she starts screaming.
“I’m sorry. I can’t hear. Are you there? I’m being threatened by a man in The Ramble. Please send the cops immediately!” she screams."
This is theater. This is her using who she is and the benefits of her privilege to get a specific reaction or downplay any repercussions or consequences that might come of her behavior.
Women often go through extreme measures to protect themselves from assault or worse. One such measure to prevent this situation was to leash her pet.
I’m not going to defend what she did. She was to have the dog off leash, and she was wrong to call the Police with the emphasis she did. I do however think saying “if you’re going to do what you want then I’m gonna do what I want” would rightfully scare anyone. That was a really weird thing to say. She’s still wrong, but I can’t imagine that didn’t escalate her reaction.
She doesn’t have the humility to admit she made a mistake, blames everyone else but herself, and then expects to talk it out with the guy she did this to? He has no reason to accommodate her.
And employers see though this too. She’s not having trouble finding a job because of cancel culture, she’s having trouble because employers realize how little self awareness she has, and she doesn’t realize that her actions since the incident are making it all even worse.
It is a wonderful red flag just everywhere. I’ve seen it on LinkedIn, social media, and of course bumper stickers. What a great way to let me know that I don’t need to have a conversation with you ever.
DEA Hartford Task force and state police detectives received a tip that suggested Soule was operating a clandestine psilocybin mushroom growing operation at a home on Lyon Road.
Fuck people who snitch on a grow-house, especially when it’s mushrooms which neither stink or bother anyone.
Soule admitted to investigators that the mushrooms were in fact psilocybin, which is labeled as a “schedule 1″ controlled substance. State police said a schedule 1 controlled substance is defined as drugs, substances and chemicals that are not currently accepted for medical use and have a high potential for abuse.
But more than anything, fuck the fucked up legacy of fucking Nixon. The only reason there isn’t accepted medical use, is because the government and DEA made it really hard for researchers to be allowed to use shrooms (& weed) in research. It’s ridiculous that especially shrooms are in the same ‘dangerous, addictive and no mental health benefits’ category as heroin.
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