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Musk just isn’t well. He is either unable to comprehend what is being discussed or is purposefully misrepresenting it. Also, Vance is trying to deflect the weird charge away from him. Too late, lol. He’s totally weird.
The prime example of why there should be no billionaires, or multi-millionaires, such power in individuals hands is dangerous. And JDVance, what a bull shirtter. Young people deciding not to have children is typically associated with economic pressure that the Right has created along with people deciding that parenthood is not that fulfilling.
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Maybe billionaires, but millionaires rarely have much, if any power at all. I mean, you'd have to get well into 9 figures before you start running into people with significant influence.
That said, regardless, someone is going to be in power. You just have to hope they're reasonably decent people. Unfortunately that isn't the case far too often.
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Polish state broadcaster on Saturday suspended a television journalist who, during the Olympic Games opening ceremony, reacted to a performance of John Lennon’s “Imagine” by saying it was a “vision of communism.”
TVP, the broadcaster, issued a statement Saturday saying that the journalist and sports commentator, Przemyslaw Babiarz, would not be allowed to comment on air anymore during this summer’s Games.
Lennon’s song asks to imagine no heaven or hell, no countries, and no possessions.
“This is a vision of communism, unfortunately,” Babiarz said during the grand opening ceremony along the Seine River in Paris on Friday evening — comments that immediately triggered controversy for those watching in Poland.
TVP said in its statement announcing his suspension: “Mutual understanding, tolerance, reconciliation — these are not only the basic ideas of the Olympics, they are also the foundation of the standards that guide the new Polish Television. There is no consent to violate them.”...............
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TVP, the broadcaster, issued a statement Saturday saying that the journalist and sports commentator, Przemyslaw Babiarz, would not be allowed to comment on air anymore during this summer’s Games.
Lennon’s song asks to imagine no heaven or hell, no countries, and no possessions.
“This is a vision of communism, unfortunately,” Babiarz said during the grand opening ceremony along the Seine River in Paris on Friday evening — comments that immediately triggered controversy for those watching in Poland.
TVP said in its statement announcing his suspension: “Mutual understanding, tolerance, reconciliation — these are not only the basic ideas of the Olympics, they are also the foundation of the standards that guide the new Polish Television. There is no consent to violate them.”...............
Polish journalist suspended for calling 'Imagine' a 'vision of communism' during Olympic opening
The Polish state broadcaster has suspended a television journalist who, during the Olympic Games opening ceremony in Paris, reacted to a performance of John Lennon’s “Imagine” by saying it was a “vision of communism.”
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Pro-Trump group hits NBC with complaint over 'blasphemous' Olympic ceremonies
A right-wing legal activist group filed a formal complaint over the broadcast of the Olympics opening ceremony.The ceremony broadcast live from Paris paid tribute to several famed works of art, and many conservatives complained that one scene appeared to mock Leonardo da Vinci's "Last Supper"...
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And before that
Wouldn’t they have to sue the IOC? NBC was t responsible for the content.Pro-Trump group hits NBC with complaint over 'blasphemous' Olympic ceremonies
A right-wing legal activist group filed a formal complaint over the broadcast of the Olympics opening ceremony.The ceremony broadcast live from Paris paid tribute to several famed works of art, and many conservatives complained that one scene appeared to mock Leonardo da Vinci's "Last Supper"...
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I suppose because they didn't edit it out before the 7:30 EST broadcast (it was live at 1:30pm)
I'm curious what the viewing numbers were for live vs delayed
Not preaching to you specifically
My position has always been that gluttony in all forms is bad for human beings. You can be the smartest, most valuable person on the planet, and you don’t need a billion $, a million annual capped is plenty, to live a good life, because otherwise it means you are defacto taking from others. This is not medieval times with Kings that are filthy rich, it’s a modern society. To fire on all cylinders, we can’t afford this kind of hoarding. Look at our suffering infastructure, look at the those in power endlessly cutting taxes for the wealthy, so they can live the life they deserve at our expense, look at the planet burning. We’ll end up snuffing ourselves and much of the life on the planet.
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I posted this article on EE also but I’ll post the political part here
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……As the fandom grew in the early 2000s, it made enemies. The ingrained niceness, the thing that makes furries so endearing to me, infuriated the more unpleasant internet communities – people for whom earnestness is the most mortal of sins – and made them a target.
Furries are tech-savvy, wise to a lot of the tricks that would make them vulnerable to trolling, but they still face a considerably above-baseline level of online abuse.
Anthrocon, the convention in Pittsburgh that Conway runs, has regularly been targeted with bomb threats. Even the 2014 chlorine attack was widely and actively celebrated on social media at the time.
On top of that, the emergence of what came to be called the “alt-right” was mirrored within the fandom by the rise of so-called “alt-furries”, importing far-right political ideas.
A subgroup called the Furry Raiders, linked to neo-Nazi organisations like the Proud Boys, adopted a swastika armband modified with a pawprint as their logo and began infiltrating conventions and starting their own.
In 2017, two years after the gas attack, Midwest FurFest finally banned them after learning of a plan to bring alt-right troll Milo Yiannopoulos to the convention as a stunt. But the group is still going today.
Somehow for the mainstream political right, furries came to represent “woke” before “woke” was even a thing and, by the end of the 2010s, they were routinely being wielded as a culture war weapon.
It wasn’t just the queer-friendly leanings of the community; it was, in a way, their perceived lack of shame that seemed to make cultural conservatives so angry.
And because of the part they played in the development of concepts around non-physical identity – including, eventually, gender – they became an easy foil for attacks against the LGBTQ+ community as a whole.
The “litter box” controversy is the clearest example of how this plays out. In 2021, the stars of the American right-wing galaxy – Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Greene, et al – started to latch on to the idea, originally an obscure hoax, that schoolchildren had started “identifying” as animals.
“Why are we telling elementary kids that they get to choose their gender this week? Why do we have litter boxes in some of the school districts so kids can pee in them, because they identify as a furry?” Scott Jensen, then-Republican gubernatorial candidate for Minnesota raged in a speech in 2022. “We’ve lost our minds. We’ve lost our minds.”
Joe Rogan mentioned it on his podcast, which sent the story stratospheric. Republicans started calling it a “crisis”.
It even made it across the Atlantic: Piers Morgan opened a segment of his show in June 2023 with the preposterous: “It wasn’t so long ago that when teachers asked children what they want to be, they meant what profession. Now they’re asking them which animal, object or beast they identify as.”…….
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……As the fandom grew in the early 2000s, it made enemies. The ingrained niceness, the thing that makes furries so endearing to me, infuriated the more unpleasant internet communities – people for whom earnestness is the most mortal of sins – and made them a target.
Furries are tech-savvy, wise to a lot of the tricks that would make them vulnerable to trolling, but they still face a considerably above-baseline level of online abuse.
Anthrocon, the convention in Pittsburgh that Conway runs, has regularly been targeted with bomb threats. Even the 2014 chlorine attack was widely and actively celebrated on social media at the time.
On top of that, the emergence of what came to be called the “alt-right” was mirrored within the fandom by the rise of so-called “alt-furries”, importing far-right political ideas.
A subgroup called the Furry Raiders, linked to neo-Nazi organisations like the Proud Boys, adopted a swastika armband modified with a pawprint as their logo and began infiltrating conventions and starting their own.
In 2017, two years after the gas attack, Midwest FurFest finally banned them after learning of a plan to bring alt-right troll Milo Yiannopoulos to the convention as a stunt. But the group is still going today.
Somehow for the mainstream political right, furries came to represent “woke” before “woke” was even a thing and, by the end of the 2010s, they were routinely being wielded as a culture war weapon.
It wasn’t just the queer-friendly leanings of the community; it was, in a way, their perceived lack of shame that seemed to make cultural conservatives so angry.
And because of the part they played in the development of concepts around non-physical identity – including, eventually, gender – they became an easy foil for attacks against the LGBTQ+ community as a whole.
The “litter box” controversy is the clearest example of how this plays out. In 2021, the stars of the American right-wing galaxy – Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Greene, et al – started to latch on to the idea, originally an obscure hoax, that schoolchildren had started “identifying” as animals.
“Why are we telling elementary kids that they get to choose their gender this week? Why do we have litter boxes in some of the school districts so kids can pee in them, because they identify as a furry?” Scott Jensen, then-Republican gubernatorial candidate for Minnesota raged in a speech in 2022. “We’ve lost our minds. We’ve lost our minds.”
Joe Rogan mentioned it on his podcast, which sent the story stratospheric. Republicans started calling it a “crisis”.
It even made it across the Atlantic: Piers Morgan opened a segment of his show in June 2023 with the preposterous: “It wasn’t so long ago that when teachers asked children what they want to be, they meant what profession. Now they’re asking them which animal, object or beast they identify as.”…….
‘Why are people always pointing the finger at furries?’: inside the wild world of the furry fandom
A joyful and inclusive subculture where people express their true selves or an example of unchecked wokery? The furry fandom has always been a polarising lightning rod for extreme opinions
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Fascists christians can't make the intention of Trump's Project 2025's end game any clearer. They want to make us all bow down to their religious beliefs. To them, not bowing down to their beliefs is blasphemy and they will punish us for it as harshly as they are allowed to punish us. Trump will likely allow imprisonment and murder as punishment. Remember that Trump has said several times that he wishes he could do to reporters and political opponents what Putin does to his. He was talking about Putin killing reporters and his political opponents.Pro-Trump group hits NBC with complaint over 'blasphemous' Olympic ceremonies
A right-wing legal activist group filed a formal complaint over the broadcast of the Olympics opening ceremony.The ceremony broadcast live from Paris paid tribute to several famed works of art, and many conservatives complained that one scene appeared to mock Leonardo da Vinci's "Last Supper"...
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The other two groups that the alt-right co-evolved within during the early 2000's was the sexual predators who called themselves "pickup artists" and the misogynistic males within the computer gaming world.I posted this article on EE also but I’ll post the political part here
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……As the fandom grew in the early 2000s, it made enemies. The ingrained niceness, the thing that makes furries so endearing to me, infuriated the more unpleasant internet communities – people for whom earnestness is the most mortal of sins – and made them a target.
Furries are tech-savvy, wise to a lot of the tricks that would make them vulnerable to trolling, but they still face a considerably above-baseline level of online abuse.
Anthrocon, the convention in Pittsburgh that Conway runs, has regularly been targeted with bomb threats. Even the 2014 chlorine attack was widely and actively celebrated on social media at the time.
On top of that, the emergence of what came to be called the “alt-right” was mirrored within the fandom by the rise of so-called “alt-furries”, importing far-right political ideas.
A subgroup called the Furry Raiders, linked to neo-Nazi organisations like the Proud Boys, adopted a swastika armband modified with a pawprint as their logo and began infiltrating conventions and starting their own.
In 2017, two years after the gas attack, Midwest FurFest finally banned them after learning of a plan to bring alt-right troll Milo Yiannopoulos to the convention as a stunt. But the group is still going today.
Somehow for the mainstream political right, furries came to represent “woke” before “woke” was even a thing and, by the end of the 2010s, they were routinely being wielded as a culture war weapon.
It wasn’t just the queer-friendly leanings of the community; it was, in a way, their perceived lack of shame that seemed to make cultural conservatives so angry.
And because of the part they played in the development of concepts around non-physical identity – including, eventually, gender – they became an easy foil for attacks against the LGBTQ+ community as a whole.
The “litter box” controversy is the clearest example of how this plays out. In 2021, the stars of the American right-wing galaxy – Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Greene, et al – started to latch on to the idea, originally an obscure hoax, that schoolchildren had started “identifying” as animals.
“Why are we telling elementary kids that they get to choose their gender this week? Why do we have litter boxes in some of the school districts so kids can pee in them, because they identify as a furry?” Scott Jensen, then-Republican gubernatorial candidate for Minnesota raged in a speech in 2022. “We’ve lost our minds. We’ve lost our minds.”
Joe Rogan mentioned it on his podcast, which sent the story stratospheric. Republicans started calling it a “crisis”.
It even made it across the Atlantic: Piers Morgan opened a segment of his show in June 2023 with the preposterous: “It wasn’t so long ago that when teachers asked children what they want to be, they meant what profession. Now they’re asking them which animal, object or beast they identify as.”…….
‘Why are people always pointing the finger at furries?’: inside the wild world of the furry fandom
A joyful and inclusive subculture where people express their true selves or an example of unchecked wokery? The furry fandom has always been a polarising lightning rod for extreme opinions
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more fallout from the opening ceremonies
I hope these threats are investigated
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French DJ and activist Barbara Butch said on Monday that she has filed several police reports after receiving death threats for her participation in an Olympics opening ceremony tableau that drew comparisons to Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper."
The scene, which featured drag queens and other members of the LGBTQ community, was the subject of backlash from the Catholic Church as well as prominent conservative figures like Rob Schneider and Candace Cameron Bure. Olympics artistic director Thomas Jolly told French outlet BFMTV over the weekend that the segment was not inspired by "The Last Supper," and was instead a tribute to Greek mythology - but it has continued to stoke controversy.
Butch made the announcement on her Instagram account Monday night by posting a statement from her attorney, Audrey Msellati, who said Butch has been "the target of an extremely violent campaign of cyber-harassment and defamation."
Msellati continued, "She has been threatened with death, torture and rape, and has also been the target of numerous antisemitic, homophobic, sexist and grossophobic insults. Barbara Butch condemns this vile hatred directed at her, what she represents and what she stands for. She is today filing several complaints against these acts, whether committed by French nationals or foreigners, and intends to prosecute anyone who tries to intimidate her in the future."
During the opening ceremony, Butch was in the center of the tableau, DJing while sporting a silver headpiece and blue dress. In an Instagram post, Butch called her look that of an "Olympian music goddess."............
I hope these threats are investigated
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French DJ and activist Barbara Butch said on Monday that she has filed several police reports after receiving death threats for her participation in an Olympics opening ceremony tableau that drew comparisons to Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper."
The scene, which featured drag queens and other members of the LGBTQ community, was the subject of backlash from the Catholic Church as well as prominent conservative figures like Rob Schneider and Candace Cameron Bure. Olympics artistic director Thomas Jolly told French outlet BFMTV over the weekend that the segment was not inspired by "The Last Supper," and was instead a tribute to Greek mythology - but it has continued to stoke controversy.
Butch made the announcement on her Instagram account Monday night by posting a statement from her attorney, Audrey Msellati, who said Butch has been "the target of an extremely violent campaign of cyber-harassment and defamation."
Msellati continued, "She has been threatened with death, torture and rape, and has also been the target of numerous antisemitic, homophobic, sexist and grossophobic insults. Barbara Butch condemns this vile hatred directed at her, what she represents and what she stands for. She is today filing several complaints against these acts, whether committed by French nationals or foreigners, and intends to prosecute anyone who tries to intimidate her in the future."
During the opening ceremony, Butch was in the center of the tableau, DJing while sporting a silver headpiece and blue dress. In an Instagram post, Butch called her look that of an "Olympian music goddess."............
Ignorance on display. How many people from Mississippi drive over for Mardi Gras? Attend Bacchus? Are members of Bacchus? Way too many, and they have a great time! This is manufactured outrage from people who want to divide us AND take away anything fun.
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Yes he's gotten far down the far right rabbit hole
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Guess elon and company got triggered by the success
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Twitter Suspends 'White Dudes For Harris' Account After $4 Million Fundraising Call
The video call, which featured celebs like Jeff Bridges and Josh Groban, attracted nearly 200,000 supporters of Kamala Harris' presidential campaign.
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That's not fair. I'm sure that, like the Taliban, they would hold public executions in public arenas to provide family fun for all to see. /satire
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