Speaking of folks making bail....How about the rapper that posted a video of himself with stolen guns threatening a presidential candidate? “I really want to go to war with Donald Trump because Donald Trump is tryin’ to take food stamps from my momma and that’s all the (expletive) she got,” Davis said. Davis was booked on multiple weapons counts and a drug charge, police said. He posted $23,000 bail and was released the same day, according to online records." http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/06/1...le-brandishing-stolen-guns.html?intcmp=hplnws Just a thought here, but if you've got enough assets readily available to cover $23K for bail how come you don't buy your mom some food?
Deadspin which is under the Gawker banner started off as a decent sports site. However in the last few years it has turned into a PC hipster culture site that somewhat deals with sports. I'm personally glad they are bankrupt as all of their sites seemed more biased than CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, or whichever news site that politacally disagrees with your personal agenda. Good riddance to bad rubbish!
What I really can't stand about Gawker is their whole 'voice of the people' and social justice shtick when they're pretty much the biggest cunts around. They're the corporate equivalent of if you meet 5 assholes before lunch, you are the asshole. Jezebel, which they own, has to be the most brainless outrage site I've ever seen, and that's really saying something. No accusation is too absurd, and the idea of accountability when false information is disseminated is virtually non-existent, not to mention any sort of hesitation as to whether certain 'facts' should be posted, true or not. I don't think a person's sex life is the public's business, and I don't give a flying fuck what their politics are. Publishing that shit just because you can, or because you don't like them, or because idiot mobs need something to giggle at, or any of the other terrible reasons used to defend this style of journalism is bullshit. I hope they stay gone. While the average person can't do what Thiel did, how many times have we seen someone lose their job because some jackass was offended, even when the words in question weren't actually offensive?
I just watched 'Where to Invade Next' and I have to say that it was very interesting. I'm not particularly a fan of Michael Moore, but this film was well done. He goes to several countries in order to steal good ideas from them. Spoiler: The Twist What is amazing is at the end, we find out all these 'revolutionary' ideas weren't European, they were all American, we just gave up on them.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/12/us/orlando-nightclub-shooting/index.html Damn. 20 dead so far and 40+ injured.
"Omar Mir Seddique Mateen has been named as the gunman who killed as many as 20 people and wounded 40 others at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando. Both of Mateen’s parents are originally from Afghanistan." http://heavy.com/news/2016/06/omar-...attack-name-photos-facebook-motive-terrorism/
The LT Gov of Texas, Dan Patrick, seems to be celebrating on twitter. https://twitter.com/DanPatrick?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author
Hopefully thats a horrible coincidence. Hate like that from a public official can't be tolerated. Its amazing to think someone could walk into a random club and try to slaughter everyone in there. I feel sorry for the Middle Eastern communities, there will be backlash from this and I fear innocent people will feel public anger and I'm also worried some enraged stupid people will take out revenge on innocent individuals who had nothing to do with this but maybe look to have a similar ethnicity to the person who did this.
I'm concerned that Reddit is censoring the everloving SHIT out of this news story. Comments and threads that don't fit within their rhetoric are being scrubbed almost immediately. As a result, some members of the LGBT community are unhappy with Reddit because it was a gay Latino nightclub that was attacked. **Edit: Just found out that with whatever reddit address you are using, type "un" in front of reddit (so it is unreddit.comxxxx.xxx.xxx.) and it will load up all deleted comments. Interesting.
Yeah the /r/news subreddit is basically imploding over this. It sounds like they are censoring any submitted headline that mentions that the shooter was Islamic or had ties to a terrorist group and then banning anyone who claims censorship.
Might have something to do with Reddit users fingering the wrong people in the aftermath of the Boston bombing. Really bad press when your users identify and endanger the wrong suspect. Or they may be trying to mitigate derp. Imagine one of their meatheads riling up someone who indiscriminately takes it out on some poor bastard. I'm reading the Fark thread and it is all over the place. I can only imagine Reddit's being worse since they're a bigger site. This is going to be an ideological shitstorm. I'm going to go burrow my head in the sand for a couple days.
You are so right. My head is about to explode from going between left and right outlets. The mental gymnastics on display is truly stunning.
FYI, it's the moderators at /r/news that are the fuckwads. There are a couple of theories that have floated around, the most prevalent of them being that they just take themselves way too seriously and have a stick wedged waaaaay up their ass Morty and are therefore taking it upon themselves to enforce a "fair and balanced" discussion in their forums. The other theory is that the mods that run the subreddit do what they can to feed the reddit masses to the news outlets that they are affiliated with to drive up ad income and therefore try to prune the threads to keep a group-think that is in line with those news outlets. Regardless, there are a ton of other subreddits that are NOT moderating shit to oblivion. Don't forget, very, very rarely does "Reddit" the company actually step in and fuck with content... the last person to try that was their ex-CEO, affectionately known as Chairman Peo, who is now writing a book about how everyone is a raving misogynist (HERE) after she tried to do mass-moderation of content on the site and got herself removed. The subreddits that get aggregated into the main /r/all feed are individually run. Of course, there are some people who moderate a shit-ton of subreddits, and a few tinfoil hat theories around that, as well... This seems to be a reasonable post on the situation: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/4nqnrm/breaking_news_orlando_nightclub_massshooting/
But overall... does anyone else just not give a shit about this? I just have a solid, "well, that sucks" feeling, but have no desire to follow it, or know more, or tune into the news, and generally watch it blow way the fuck up out of proportion. "Oh look, a raving idiot did something really, really, bad... that sucks... now I'll turn the TV off and go to the garage and work on something." This type of shit is getting tiresome.
The level of attention this gets will determine what gets "done" about it. That's why the outrage bothers me. Also, it can have implications on the election, making Trump a stronger candidate. Politically, nothing works better than fear and rage.
Apparently the shooter called 911 before this happened and swore allegiance to ISIS. His ex wife said he was mentally unstable and physically abusive.
Speaking of "level of attention"... All over the news you see stories about the "Standford Rape Case Judge" and a huge petition to get him pulled off the bench, etc. I listen to a weekly podcast called "Reasonable Doubt" http://www.podcastone.com/reasonable-doubt It has Adam Carolla and attorney Mark Garagos (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Geragos) who discuss various things around the law for an hour every Saturday. Yesterday's podcast was on the Brock Turner stuff, and it was really quite eye-opening to me to hear a well-practised lawyer speak up about how the judge made the right call. He makes some seriously good points about how the online rage is not a good thing, is actually wrong, and can have some seriously bad consequences in a time when politicians and others in power are afraid to stand up for what should be done. Never mind just how wrongly the "news" portrays things to get that online anger going. Interesting listen, and I'd recommend it.