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RE: Polarizing stories spotted in the news - Dartz - 06-16-2024
I need a Flight to Cuba, some dynamite, and a dozen novelty plastic Russian flags.
I just had the idea to do the funniest thing ever.
RE: Polarizing stories spotted in the news - robkelk - 06-17-2024
(06-16-2024, 05:16 AM)Labster Wrote:(06-15-2024, 07:46 AM)robkelk Wrote: Oopsie.
Canadian warship sharing an anchorage with Russian vessels in Cuba
Quote:Juan Antonio Blanco Gil is a former Cuban diplomat and historian who lives in Miami and has written extensively about Cuba's foreign policy.
"Nothing happens by coincidence and the Russians were planning this with the Cubans," he told CBC News. Had the Cubans been interested in sparing the Canadians from an awkward cohabitation with the Russian flotilla, he said, "it would have been very easy to change the date a little bit before or after the event of the Russians.
"They didn't. So there was a point in trying to bring together these two forces in Havana."
Remember the Maine?
Maybe. The government is now saying that Canada asked to be allowed to show the flag.
And of course the reactions to this statement are split along party lines.
EDIT: I really hope that the intelligence we're getting by simply looking at Russian ships in a public place is worth the reputation hit.
RE: Polarizing stories spotted in the news - Jinx999 - 07-03-2024
You see a controversial or shocking story? Check again.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c72ver6172do
Also an honorless, lying cowardly traitor.
RE: Polarizing stories spotted in the news - robkelk - 08-08-2024
Truck-convoy organizer banned from a festival that he implied was a fundraiser for his legal fees. It isn't, and he was banned because "It seems he was using this to increase his popularity, potentially."
Not that it matters – he's in jail for violating his bail conditions – so this is the festival organizers making a statement.
RE: Polarizing stories spotted in the news - robkelk - 12-18-2024
No, I'm not going to comment on this. Posting it in Politics is comment enough.
Disney Pulls Transgender Storyline from Pixar’s ‘Win or Lose’ Streaming Series
RE: Polarizing stories spotted in the news - Jinx999 - 12-20-2024
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-calls-abolishing-debt-ceiling-rcna184820
Trump wants to eliminate the debt ceiling. Apparently he hates financial conservativism.
RE: Polarizing stories spotted in the news - Labster - 12-20-2024
I hate to say it but Trump is 100% right here. The debt ceiling is really dumb, and only exists to create crises in Washington that force some sort of compromise. Congress authorizes spending, then tries to blame the President for spending the money they authorized. And then we play a game of chicken with the global economy.
Trump being Trump, I'm pretty sure he would feel totally fine about minting a trillion-dollar coin to ignore the debt ceiling. And being a Lupin III fan, I'm totally down with this plan. (Also, The Simpsons had a $1T bill so it has been foretold.) Don't expect conservatism from Trump, especially not when there's money to be made.
RE: Polarizing stories spotted in the news - classicdrogn - 12-20-2024
What else do you expect from a man who went bankrupt running a casino?
RE: Polarizing stories spotted in the news - Jinx999 - 12-20-2024
The official purpose of the Debt ceiling is to prevent short sighted idiots from taking massive loans and using them to pay for tax cuts/massive spending and screwing over the country in the long term. Whether it's the best mechanism for doing this is a separate question.
For a lot of politicians, they're unnecessary bureaucracy.
For Trump? Yeah. I wouldn't trust him with an unlimited credit card.
For most cases, safety regulations are more work. But when you need them, you NEED them.
RE: Polarizing stories spotted in the news - Jinx999 - 12-20-2024
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/12/20/nx-s1-5223440/louisiana-ban-public-health-promoting-covid-flu-mpox-vaccines-landry-rfk-jr-anti-vaccine
Louisiana forbids public health workers from promoting COVID, flu and mpox shots.
RE: Polarizing stories spotted in the news - classicdrogn - 12-20-2024
Viruses have a right to life too, apparently.
RE: Polarizing stories spotted in the news - robkelk - 02-15-2025
How did we miss this when it happened ten days ago?
Black church in DC that was vandalized by the Proud Boys gains control over the group’s trademark
RE: Polarizing stories spotted in the news - robkelk - 03-07-2025
Bob Ezrin (who produced The Wall and Get Your Wings among dozens of other albums) has renounced his US citizenship.
Quote:"In the last few years, it seems as if America is split in half," Ezrin told The Globe. "The voices of a radical right have become so much louder. Conspiracy theories abound, people are armed to the teeth, and it's just a different place than the place I went to."
RE: Polarizing stories spotted in the news - robkelk - 04-16-2025
Legal definition of a woman refers to ‘biological sex’, UK Supreme Court rules
Quote:The UK’s highest court has ruled that the definition of a “woman” in equality legislation refers to someone who is born biologically female, in a blow to campaigners for the rights of transgender people.
RE: Polarizing stories spotted in the news - nemonowan - 04-16-2025
(04-16-2025, 12:11 PM)robkelk Wrote: Legal definition of a woman refers to ‘biological sex’, UK Supreme Court rules
Quote:The UK’s highest court has ruled that the definition of a “woman” in equality legislation refers to someone who is born biologically female, in a blow to campaigners for the rights of transgender people.
Now they are going to have to get to work defining exactly just what "born biologically female" means, beyond "I know it when I see it"
RE: Polarizing stories spotted in the news - robkelk - 04-16-2025
(04-16-2025, 07:59 PM)nemonowan Wrote:(04-16-2025, 12:11 PM)robkelk Wrote: Legal definition of a woman refers to ‘biological sex’, UK Supreme Court rules
Quote:The UK’s highest court has ruled that the definition of a “woman” in equality legislation refers to someone who is born biologically female, in a blow to campaigners for the rights of transgender people.
Now they are going to have to get to work defining exactly just what "born biologically female" means, beyond "I know it when I see it"
I doubt anybody was even thinking about intersex people when they made that decision.
RE: Polarizing stories spotted in the news - Labster - 04-17-2025
(04-16-2025, 08:21 PM)robkelk Wrote:(04-16-2025, 07:59 PM)nemonowan Wrote: Now they are going to have to get to work defining exactly just what "born biologically female" means, beyond "I know it when I see it"
I doubt anybody was even thinking about intersex people when they made that decision.
Lol no one ever thinks about intersex, why would they start now?
At least JKR had a good night
RE: Polarizing stories spotted in the news - classicdrogn - 04-17-2025
(04-17-2025, 02:31 AM)Labster Wrote: Lol no one ever thinks about intersex, why would they start now?
The popularity of futa hentai would seem to suggest otherwise... though admittedly that has only the most superficial connection to RL intersex physiology, not that other porn is usually any better about it.
RE: Polarizing stories spotted in the news - Labster - 04-17-2025
Okay, correction: no one thinks from the waist up about intersex
Honestly, intersex is where almost everyone's theories about both sex and gender fail, so they don't like to think about it.
RE: Polarizing stories spotted in the news - Bob Schroeck - 04-17-2025
Well, the obvious simple solution would be to criminalize being intersex. Then we just thrown those babies into jail as soon as they're born and then everyone's happy. </SARCASM>
RE: Polarizing stories spotted in the news - robkelk - 05-11-2025
Some Canadian millionaires think taxes should be raised on Canadian millionaires
Quote:"Are we going to recognize that massive growing runaway wealth inequality is a danger to democracy?" [Claire] Trottier said.
The article includes its own polarization, admitting that some Canadian millionaires don't want to pay more taxes.
RE: Polarizing stories spotted in the news - robkelk - 05-12-2025
Argentina's Supreme Court finds more than 80 boxes of Nazi materials in its basement
Quote:Staffers came across the boxes 84 years later while preparing for a Supreme Court museum
Well, at least they have something to put on display...
Quote:The court has now transferred the boxes to a room equipped with extra security measures, and invited the Holocaust Museum in Buenos Aires to participate in their preservation and inventory.
Experts will also examine them for any clues about still-unknown aspects of the Holocaust, such as international financing networks used by the Nazis.
RE: Polarizing stories spotted in the news - robkelk - 06-03-2025
Too many schools still asking why, not how, to implement Truth and Reconciliation curriculum
RE: Polarizing stories spotted in the news - Bob Schroeck - 06-17-2025
Jury finds that Mike "MyPillow" Lindell defamed former employee for a leading voting equipment company; called "All hat and no cattle" by attorney for the plaintiff. Lindell then immediately demonstrated an inability to understand the phrase "quit while you're behind".
RE: Polarizing stories spotted in the news - robkelk - 06-22-2025
Harvard hired a researcher to uncover its ties to slavery. He says the results cost him his job: ‘We found too many slaves’