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The lobster fisherman having an encounter inside a whale's mouth is entirely plausible for anyone who knows the sea.

3

Dave Meinert's hiring. He's purchased (at least) two restaurants since being credibly accused of multiple sexual assaults and other improprieties.

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Litigation is super punk rock. I was on the bar's side, until I read they are still trying to get a pay day even after the NHL agreed to not use the name. Fuck off with that shit.

7

I guarantee Matt would feel different about money if he had any.

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Yay! When employees have the upper hand, they can hold sleazy bosses accountable. Because nobody else will.

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" It’s not clear what kind of cargo is on the cargo ship ZIM, but whatever it is probably won’t be unloaded in Seattle."

Nope, it's tied up at Terminal 18 at the moment, unloading containers picked up in various ports in Asia.

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Fancy restaurants suffer a very high testosterone poisoning uh... factor (or TPF). Other professions with a high TPF are: large (particularly tech) corporations, high political office, and media production corps. If we reward the solo strong man at the top pattern - and we sure as hell do - then you'll get such behavior at a lamentably predictable rate. Until they catch up with such foul behavior of their own, probably best to put females in such positions.

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omg give me a break, criticizing Ubax Gardheere for boarding and threatening a school bus full of children doesn't make someone racist, do you have to turn EVERYTHING into right vs. left culture wars?

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@6 Unless you are an attorney who offered to litigate the hockey team for free, I think it is still punk rock to ask for money to at lease cover attorney costs, if not a little bit extra for the trouble of dealing with Kraken fans complaining that there are not enough TV's in the bar to watch sports and that complain the music is too loud.

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Sigh...
The correct term would be merchant ship, not cargo ship, and ZIM is the name of the company that owns and operates the ship, the name of the ship is ZIM San Diego, which incidentally sails under the Liberian flag, so the crew is likely mostly Filipino.
The owners are Israeli who don't wish to pay Israeli wages.

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Arrg it makes me so mad to hear about any economic success during the pandemic. Only absolute economic destruction would have made me happy. Matt being upset about doordash CEO made me think I was reading a Mudede post. I mean, Seattle did just fine during the pandemic; as Baumer indicated, the IT industry only grew. Seattleites are mostly rich pussies who live behind their computers, and the pandemic just encouraged more of that. Eat the nerds I say.

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I wonder if the Pro-Palestine protesters are also pro-honor killing, pro-subjugating women and pro-thowing LGBT people off of towers.

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There is more than just republicans questioning the wisdom and accuracy of CRT. Despite what proponents would have you believe anyone who has read through some of the content that has come out of CRT can tell you it goes far beyond teaching a "true representation" of American History. The blowback was inevitable and the fact that those who support CRT lash out against anyone questioning its accuracy and academic rigor as racist further supports the notion that it is a bunch of pop philosophy dressed up as a something else. True academic work thrives on debate and discussion.

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From Wikipedia: "In March 2018, the PA repealed its marry-your-rapist law, a provision that allowed an accused rapist to evade punishment by marrying his victim.[12] However, because the Gaza Strip is de facto controlled by Hamas, the Egyptian-derived marry-your-rapist law still applies there." Yep, as a progressive liberal, this is a place I want to support. I'm not saying Israel is on the right-side of history here, but as progressive, I can't support Palestine either.

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@7,

I totally agree that impoverished people shouldn't have their criticism of economic systems taken seriously.

You're an asshole.

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@23: Nevertheless, it is at odds with those who feel this country has progressed in race relations.

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Jesus , stop hanging your hat on Assault Weapons Bans. Any Semi-Automatic Weapon can do a mass shooting just as well, and usually does. There are more guns than people in this country, and a good portion of them are Semi-Autos: hundreds of millions. The toothpaste is out of the tube.

What is wrong with "us"? We have too many guns in too many (male) hands.

And I think you know the reason Biden doesn't have a bill to sign, and probably won't ever have one.

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@24

It's not at all at odds with that. It just posits that there is further progress to be made, particularly at the systemic/institutional level.

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@25 - I've been saying essentially the same thing for quite a while now. The gun horse is out of the barn, out of the pasture, and long gone. There are just too many in circulation to really do much about.

We can strengthen background requirements and "red flag" laws, which will help a little, but we'll still have more than plenty of shootings.

There will never be a ban that takes guns away from people. Nobody has the stomach for a law that, if enforced, would create a Waco or Ruby Ridge just about every single day for however long it takes to seize all the guns out there. Plus, the vast majority of LE or even military that would be responsible for taking guns away are themselves opposed to it.

Nah, we're just fucked, and that's that. We'll just have to get used to mass killings in the same way we've become used to natural disasters...or pandemics.

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@27 If you thing supporting LGBT and Women's Rights to be "reactionary" then fine. But don't call yourself a progressive liberal.

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@28 The whole point of the exercise is to suppress even the suggestion that racism might persist via the structures of institutions rather than the beliefs and/or actions of overtly racist individuals.

This is right-wing ideology 101: Anything bad that happens to anyone anywhere must be an immediate consequence of someone's imprudent or malevolent Personal Choice. And anyone who tries to tell you otherwise is oppressing you.

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@29 About a quarter of Americans personally own guns, a percentage that has been declining steadily for decades. At the same time, the number of guns per owner has more than doubled (I think the average is over 8 now). Gun sales are up overall, but they're being sold largely to people who already have guns-- and are ageing.

Guns and ammunition don't last forever, and they're not indestructible, and we don't have to take them away from anyone who still wants them to reduce the number of Guns in this country.

All we really need to do is make sure a responsible recycler, private or public, is there with plenty of cash in hand every time one of our, erm, "firearms enthusiasts" dies and the kids need to deal with whatever part of the arsenal they don't want to keep for themselves.

It wouldn't be quick, but that doesn't mean it can't be done.

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@26 who is arguing that racism is over or that is shouldn't be discussed? No one. The pushback is on that narrative that everything in America can be attributed to some racist past and that racism is not only present today it is purposefully woven into the very fabric of our institutions of government. That goes so far beyond "teaching about racism" or having a discussion or debate. As 33 notes those in academia today who even question CRT are subject to being branded and having their careers ended. Anytime you have a theory that is unable to withstand discourse and review you should be suspicious of its underlying merits.

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@33 That "career ending" is a bit of a giveaway, isn't it?

That's why you guys had to invent "cancel," after all-- you know you can't convince anyone it's censorship, like banning books or, I dunno, using the power of the state to suppress the teaching of certain subjects in schools.

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@33:

It's only "provocative" in the sense that racists get very annoyed when confronted with the concept that racism is hard-baked into much of this nation's history, institutions, government, economy, and culture, with the result being they label any attempt to deal with that head-on as "divisive", because they would prefer to just not talk about it at all or be reminded that it still exists.

I mean, you might as well say: "emancipation was provocative" or "desegregation was provocative" or "the 1964 Civil Rights Act was provocative" or whatever, because, while technically correct, they all point to the same conclusion: racists don't want to be forced to take ownership of their racism and would prefer that we not only not discuss it, but that we stop pointing out their racism to them, because it makes them feel vaguely uncomfortable - and if there's one thing a racists hate it's being made to feel uncomfortable about being racists.

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@22 see this? rubs index finger over thumb It's the world's smallest violin.

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@16,

It's not "economic success" if only a small handful have gains and everyone else has losses. That's an economic failure.

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@31 Palestinians don't support the human rights of all Palestinians, so who are you really supporting? Some imaginary construct formed from an American/Western naiveté.

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https://youtu.be/O2nNyXzdBe8

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The chuds are extra trash today.

48

Matt is the first person I've seen describe Outer Worlds as anything kinder than "disappointing."

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"But no part of the curriculum explicitly attempted to make me see myself as have being born into an oppressor class part and parcel of systematic racism."

Heaven forefend, eh?

Who knows what horrors might have befallen you if your teachers had invited you to stretch your imagination like that for a week or two in February every few years.

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@38,

Check out @35, 42.... Other people here might take controversial and often contrarian positions, but at least they have the decency and basic intellect necessary to defend and argue their points. You co-opt a 30 year old joke from a movie. You're fucking worthless.

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@44 If you think any comments posted on the Stranger Blog are important, especially yours; then you are the definition of naiveté...as well as delusional.

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@50 I'm sorry buddy, but if you were never taught any alternative to your present way of thinking about racism, then you never had any opportunity to think for yourself at all.

And from the sound of it, you don't think your own views are compelling enough to hold up unless kids who might otherwise think for themselves are also denied that opportunity, just like you were.

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The surest and fastest way to defang Hamas (and Islamist militants all over) would be to cut a reasonably fair peace deal with Fatah, aka the Palestinian Authority. As it stands though, Likud and the other right-wing parties benefit from having the Hamas bogeyman around. You don't think it's a coincidence that there was a war just before elections, do you?

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@55 Any "reasonably fair peace deal with Fatah" would at a minimum have to include rolling back the settlements in the West Bank, and that's been politically unthinkable even in left-leaning Israeli parties for decades now.

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How do we ascertain when systemic racism in a particular area of society has improved or worsened? I trust no one's saying that systemic racism is immutable.

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@56 Perhaps, but you sure as shit don't want to allow schoolchildren the opportunity to decide for themselves, do you now.

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For anyone interested in what CRT is about:

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/subject_specific_writing/writing_in_literature/literary_theory_and_schools_of_criticism/critical_race_theory.html

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Egads, raindrop once again demolishes The Left by revealing he's utterly oblivious to an entire field of study. Pack it up lads, we're finished.

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@64: I never ceases to amaze me how oblivious you are when you think (but no-one else does) you're being profound.

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Yep, that's our raindrop all right. Whenever anyone points out something he's never heard of before, why, how insufferably pretentious of them! How offensive! How crude!

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@67: Why are you in such a snit over the asking of academic questions? Granted, I'm not expecting a thesis. But it is sad that one part of you could have commented and provided additional insights even if it segued into something else related to CRT. It was a softball. But nooooo - you had to go and be weird. Sad indeed. And you'll reply to this with another volley. How childish.

I expect better of you robotslave.

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This thread is a microcosm of what is wrong with CRT. It is a theory and yet is treated like an immutable fact with almost dogmatic fervor by it’s supporters. Any pushback or attempt at discourse is dismissed as a sign of guilt or a character flaw by the person asking the question. The fact that it’s adherents are so afraid to open up CRT to scrutiny and feel the need to personally attack those who see it as an overreach is further sign it’s pop pyschology dressed up as enlightenment.

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@69. You fall into an ant pile and your back is covered in biting ants. You scratch off your left shoulder, and when people point out you still have ants biting your back, you keep pointing to the fact that you scratched your shoulder so isn't that enough?

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@72: Cute analogy Gabby, but what does it have to do with CRT or robotslave?

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@71: Well stated. You'd think CRT proponents would be eager to address questions surrounding it. They don't. They only want to appear to have allegiance to the CRT movement as deeper questions make them feel uncomfortable with their own dispositions over CRT.

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@74. Lmao, you are a drive-in movie theater of projection.

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@75: Yet another analogy Gabby because you can't articulate what you're afraid to say?

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@76. I'd explain and use small words so that you'd be sure to understand, but it's not worth the opportunity cost and defeats the point of self reflection.

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@77: Good, take a snarky off-ramp.


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