Ahmadinejad with the Nipsey Hussle RIP shoutout is uhhh…a thing. Probably wouldn't be asking "how could you do a murder" after being an Iranian hardliner if it were me though idk

On the flip side I respect the hustle since nothing matters and with all these other people attempting rehabilitation tours I guess you gotta go for it

ahmadinejad is the ultimate poe's law

It's really amazing

@GodEmperorDune Upsetting, but not surprising in the least.

@Memor-X at least he's not denying that it happened question mark?

"it happened but it was fine" which is about what one would expect from that guy

@GodEmperorDune lol, i just saw this on the Seven Late News

@GodEmperorDune rad

Eaglecule

:3

Aww

@GodEmperorDune lmao, imagine being this much of a tool, my god

To be kinda fair, he was cooped up for 7 years

Skateboarding indoors though. Would an embassy have a gym or something?

I imagine an embassy has some non-political residents who are there for normal reasons so they might have some apartment-esque amenities.

@Kevin Yeah but like if you didn't want to get kicked out that seems an odd choice of activity :P

poor julian getting bored of his "didn't want to get extradited to sweden" exile

@Yuuki I.. doubt it? I mean it's a place of work for most people

@TimStone I mean, of the things on the list of "don't do this to avoid getting kicked out", I think skateboarding probably ranks somewhere below "leak embarrassing photos of the sitting president".

@Kevin workplaces sometimes have gyms in the building for employee use

Yeah, giant workplaces

@Yuuki and the whole smearing shit on the walls thing

@Kevin It's probably different for embassies in major cities like New York City or London (which is the case here), but I know for sure that there are embassies with living quarters either very close or even as part of the building.

Huh

@Yuuki Minor details

@Unionhawk wtaf

Oh weird!

> plans

oh boy

@TimStone "british property millionaire" is most certainly A Type Of Person

@Yuuki Is this like Foxconn's plans?

S'what I'm thinking.

It might be, but a minimum it's patting the back of the President and the Senate Majority Leader who made sure no punitive action was taken in regard to easing those sanctions

so what you're saying is there are no downsides to this

Honestly surprised he didn't conflate theft with robbery

Since it's just another exercise in bad faith

greg abbott pledges to hunt down prisoner 24601 if the dallas prosecutor won't

@Wipqozn Oh fuck

@Wipqozn Saw a video where the spire fell, and just...damn, all that history

(Dear CBC now is not the time to be mentioning anything Trump says on the subject, like...dude, way to take the focus away from the fact that a historical thing is disappearing)

@Ash I assume CBC was talking about his hugely big idea to wash away the rest of the building by using a water tanker plane?

Mhm

With any luck, the walls will continue to stand, but anything made of wood, if it's not already gone, will have to be removed after this.

It doesn't sound like there will be much left honestly

They're saying all teh stained glass is gone and there won't be much if anything left of the frame

They're trying to save what artwork and such that they can

This is a good thread on the firefighting aspects:

kotaku.com/…

Cannot eye roll hard enough

🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

Why are you rolling your eyes? Blackface is a terrible plan, cosplay or no

@Ash so much this

cosplay is not an excuse to do racist things

Pretty much

I mean, on the one hand, why are people still doing blackface. On the other hand, blackface's issues are rooted specifically in US history. On the third mutant hand, the internet and rapid spread of information means that it shouldn't be hard to find out why blackface is messed up.

and you can 100% cosplay successfully without trying to change your race

@Yuuki just because it is isolated to one space/time doesn't mean that it gives people not of then/there a license to do the thing

Like if it were yellowface etc it'd be just as much of a problem

@Yuuki given that US culture was exported all over the world, the racism went too

I pretty much agree with this guy

She even apologized saying she just wanted to cosplay her favourite Apex legend

I honestly don't have the spoons or the knowledge to do a good job of this particular explanation, but...no.

Like cool she apologized, but that doesn't make it automatically okay

@HalfEmpty then she can cosplay without painting her face black

RIP the Notre Dame Cathedral, I never got to see it

@GodEmperorDune she can do either imo

Apologies do not absolve you of the thing occuring, they're just a way to (hopefully) indicate you've learned from a thing and will try to be better from now on.

Meh. Pretty obviously not a real racist.

real racist?

Seems overblown to me

Microaggressions, though, intended or otherwise, add up over time.

@GodEmperorDune yeah like a racist person

she did a racist thing and got punished for it

its not a permanent ban

something something letter from birmingham jail

Where do you draw the line, what's a "real racist"

@Yuuki emphatic nod

@Ash right so that all my personally racist behaviors land on the "not really racist" side

@Yuuki I had a brief moment of confusion because my brain went "the song?" until I was like wait no

@GodEmperorDune ah, yes, that sliding scale

Guess I just don't agree 🍤

anyway it is not up to us white people to determine what is or is not racist, it's up to the aggrieved party

Like cancel culture tends to see these things as automatically irredeemable, which is a problem in and of itself

but going "oh well they didn't mean it" doesn't mean that it is absolved of any hurt that may have happened, intended or otherwise

@Ash i feel that trying nuanced points in a global game of telephone makes it so that it defaults to "do nothing" rather than "do something"

Guess I just don't agree 🍤

and also, like @GodEmperorDune said, we're the majority here, we have nothing to stand on (we being white humans) in terms of being able to say how hurtful or not the thing is.

🤷‍♂️*

@HalfEmpty oh, okay, i was like "a...shrimp?"

@GodEmperorDune unfortunately, yes

@Ash Not just a shrimp, it's a breaded shrimp for me.

@Yuuki oh, yeah, it totally is

Well twitch was offended at least

Yeah some tempura

I suppose that's easier to render than a shrimp head.

Yeah, it's easier to recognize at small scale

@Ash what is an example of hurt that might have happened?

@HalfEmpty cnn.com/2019/02/02/us/racist-origins-of-blackface/index.html

@GodEmperorDune imo people are individuals, not just groups

@HalfEmpty these are some white supremacist talking points you're venturing into

@HalfEmpty people are both, but one does not discount the other. My individual experience does not discount the experience of the groups I belong to, let alone the ones I don't - no one will experience the world just like me, but my queerness/disability/faith/race etc denote certain styles of belonging and experience beyond myself, as well

(Sidenote: I can tell I'm reading academia today, my brain is actually doing okay at words - parroting/echoing is SUCH a weird concept sometimes when I catch it happening)

@GodEmperorDune what? Are you talking about lol. That's just my personal opinion

I don't like stereotypes either tbh

No one likes stereotyping, that's not the point

It's still good to be aware of these things, though

@Nzall I am not sure why this is being posted here?

@Nzall Well, add another thing to the list, I suppose.

@Ash Mostly because of Notre Dame

Okay well I think the original discussion has been lost (again) so I will go back to work

I would like to keep the sad news mostly in here

Good day

@Nzall That makes sense, yeah

Thanks for adding the context :)

Also, OOF, Linus couldn't have chosen a worse day to release his video of him almost setting a mobo on fire

Like, I know it's a coincidence, but still

@HalfEmpty Did you previously go by GnomeSlice and cazc_41?

@puzzlepiece87 yes

@GodEmperorDune Ah, thanks for confirming. I thought that might be the case.

@GodEmperorDune squints

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@GodEmperorDune ... Bush did Notre Dame?

@Yuuki notice how all the paintings were saved, bush took up painting after leaving the presidency. coincidence? i think not

@TimStone wow what a mess

i guess their security was more wip than pro

@Ash lol savage

@GodEmperorDune rimshot

@TimStone another thread on why this wouldn’t work

Yeah I just like that they had to acknowledge a really dumb thing was said without addressing the dumb mouth it came from

Excuse me?

@TimStone lol

Imagine being a spokeperson and not knowing how "off the record" works.

I mean I'm not surprised but what fresh hell is this suggesting fentanyl is a WMD?

@TimStone maybe to unlock border funding from some anti-wmd appropriation earmark?

@TimStone i might throw bill weld a few bucks just to mess with trump

hey the trump legacy of fraud & crimes story won a pulitzer

it was long but quite good

@GodEmperorDune I assume it opens the door on a whole lot of stuff, which is why it's insane

@TimStone which one was this?

The pipe bombs guy with the van

gotcha

You should call it "The Van".

gestures wildly

@TimStone wut

is this going to be the protest stopped by a pepsi thing again?

@GodEmperorDune It's somehow worse the more you read

@TimStone I mean, they're right. Gamers are not toxic, unemployed children. They're toxic, unemployed adults.

so the Qanon crowd has started in on a "notre dame fire was intentionally set" conspiracy theory

@TimStone oh no, it is. this has to be some sort of cursed skill

What if Qanon was intentionally created?

i mean most of their stuff is projection

@GodEmperorDune lol I just saw the Matt Walsh "I don't understand how fire works" tweet so this is timely

Excuse us we're busy

@TimStone yeah he is not the first but he is the most recent one i've seen

@TimStone I wasn't aware that Politico has sources in checks notes literally every person on earth.

Amazing

@Yuuki tbf they only need to have sources in one city and one state, not the entire world, for this to work

@TimStone a vey twitter way of solving the problem

Bernie released his tax returns

Good thing they're doing extreme vetting of these candidates

@TimStone i mean they vetted him and he was extremely loyal to trump so

@TimStone bernie no you were supposed to leave out the photocopied check that just says "for: russia stuff, endorsed by cayman islands offshore holding corporation"

Very normal channel

@GodEmperorDune you understand how this works

did they COPYRIGHT A POTATO?

yeah monsanto does it all the time

their goal is to keep farmers buying new round up resistant seeds instead of replanting them

Their mistake was being farmers and not gamers

you wouldn't download a potato

I would download some chips though I forgot to eat lunch

perhaps this is the fabled antivax cure potato

(new meme going around that if you rub a raw potato on the vaccine injection site it takes up all the toxins so the vaccines are fully safe and don't cause autism)

(just get the damn vaccines, potato or no)

(and they never caused autism in the first place, but protesting the preservatives means that new ones require refrigeration and have shitty shelf lives now)

@GodEmperorDune Wow this sounds like the kind of thing people would be dumb enough to believe and I guess if that's what it takes?

Fight stupid with more stupid, I guess.

@TimStone this ONE NEAT TRICk that BIG PHARMA doesn't want you to know

@GodEmperorDune I mean, if that's what it takes to get people to vaccinate...

🤔

@TimStone any bets on if he just wants to trade adultery tips?

@GodEmperorDune The real comeback was from being a trash man

@TimStone qanon update: they are now claiming that it was not just a random muslim person that set the fire but michelle obama herself

@TimStone Trump just wants someone to show up at the White House.

@GodEmperorDune Surprise twist, it was actually gamers misfiring a flaming arrow in Assassin's Creed Unity, smh

Almost choked on my coffee

@TimStone if only the pepsi satellites could remotely dump cool, refreshing pepsi on the affected area

@GodEmperorDune @TimStone hahaha

@TimStone lmao

@TimStone The hilarious part about this is that it makes it seem like they really do believe people like their existing employer-provided insurance? I mentioned before how that seems like an insane stance!

Sure I like my employer paying for something versus me writing a $1k check every month but what about this third option that is not that?

@TimStone Beto has released his taxes too now, for some reason

It's a bit disingenuous to say "for some reason" when we all know what that reason is.

I actually don't know why I'm supposed to care about his taxes at the current juncture

@TimStone gotta make the accountants' calves cramp

(I know why I'm supposed to care about Bernie's taxes but also still do not, at the current juncture)

@GodEmperorDune lol god damnit

I'm also honestly like

like what are we going to get donald trump's and it's just going to be a line on his schedule D like "100 shares Crimes capital gain $5"

I mean there's a pretty high chance he just did actual direct tax crimes on top of everything else

So there's that, I guess

w2 from The Russian Federation

He's got goats on his NJ golf course for the farm credit, that's dedication to milking the system

@Unionhawk nah its gonna be a complicated tax shelter thing that takes a huge article to understand

boomers eat that stuff up

I'm torn between making a white male goats joke versus a Trump routinely employs undocumented immigrants joke.

Speaking out of touch brands:

> Google promises we'll "meet a new hero" from the Pixel family at I/O.

A $500 phone is not heroic in any way.

Speaking of trump financial crimes