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Why do you give rachel free publicity? There's no way she deserves it...

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@4

I didn't read anything about him stepping down, but I figure he is going to have to leave. (Once the podcasts were reported, I was pretty sure he was going to have to step down from hosting.)

10

The only thing the Jeopardy nonsense has taught me is this ... Don't ever be a comedian early in your career because your options later in life are completely forfeit.

11

Race is a social construct. The color of one's skin and one's genetic makeup, however, is biological. Humans come in many different sizes, shapes, skin colors, eye shapes, genetic makeups, etc. (and speak many different languages and live in who knows how many different ways depending on geographical location).

White people always accuse anyone non-white of playing the race card when the race card was invented by white people, solely for the purpose of giving white people the advantage, always, by pretending that they were somehow superior beings to all other people and therefore deserved to use and abuse other people as they chose, for whatever reason, in any way, and to always make sure they got the best of everything first and foremost.

Rachel Dolezal may or may not be mentally ill, but she is 100% a white skinned human being with caucasian genetic traits who one day decided she was going to use the race card, pretend to be Black, and see how long she could profit from that in attention and financial gain.

13

As for the pandemic there is no god and there is no satan, there is only human beings and mother nature, so the answer is humans are responsible due to how they have used and abused mother nature. One way or another, mother nature is going to rid this earth of the virus that is human beings. COVID isn't going to do it, but one day the virus that does rid the earth of human beings will happen (unless we human beings eradicate ourselves first and honestly it seems like a crap shoot at this point as to which will happen first).

14

@12 some comedians are seriously sick fucks. Take Bill Cosby and Louis C.K. for starters - both of whom are fucked up beyond belief and are both touring with their "comedy" acts (amazing since when he was sent to jail Cosby was so blind and feeble he could barely exist, but NOW, he's hitting the road).

15

The peril is not in being a comedian - its in being a creep.

In any event, Richards was never a comedian. He's been a suit his entire career. You can read all about it here: https://www.theringer.com/tv/2021/8/18/22631299/mike-richards-jeopardy-host-search-process-past-comments

16

Pick up trucks, Charles, are also used to plant trees, clean up debris, restore habitats and lots of other chores by good people in the forest. Let that thought replace your pouty stance on pick up trucks.

19

Is that the actual picture of the bomb threat guy or just a stock photo of white conservatism in America? It's hard to tell.

21

@16, Rainy, I'm not a vehicle basher like a lot of slog, but if you take a look around at all of these comically oversized trucks on the road, it's pretty clear most of them are not being used for work or practical things. They are being used to perpetuate some kind of twisted ad and consumer-driven psychology about what American masculinity is supposed to be. You see a lifted F350 or Ram barrelling down I5, and you can make some very educated guesses about that person's worldview.

23

@11: And there are those white people who hate their skin color and feel so enlightened because of their guilt and self-hatred that they ingratiate themselves in patronizing black people and disparaging the white race in every political discussion.

We know such people.

24

@21: Yeah but so what? As long as they're not speeding or driving recklessly. No harm done.

26

@xina - Cosby is a sick fuck, but he was funny as fuck in his early comedy acts. He used that fame to unethically sleep with women. Fuck him, but his shit from the late 60's was exceptionally good. And he brought us Fat Fucking Albert ... come on progressives!

@alden - This is why I hate news, not a knock on you at all. We can get completely different takes on the same issue. For me, "comedy podcast" = comedian (in this case, an unsuccessful one).

"The news comes a day after the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) called for an investigation into his behaviour following a report by the Ringer resurfaced comments he made on his comedy podcast The Randumb Show in 2013 and 2014 as well as a history of lawsuits and problematic behaviour."

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@2:

No, race is an artificial identity construct imposed by one group over others in order to achieve social, economic, and political dominance. If a person of a race subordinated by another poses as a member of the "dominant" race it's a survival tactic ("passing"); if a person of the dominant "race" adopts the identity of a race subordinated by their own, it's rank privilege, nothing more.

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@3:

Do the Capitol Police have a long, well documented history of oppressing minority groups? Has any member of the Capitol Police ever been caught in the act of such oppression? Or charged with such oppression? You defund police departments that have a long, entrenched culture of oppression, which, so far as I'm aware, the Capitol Police do not.

If you have evidence that proves otherwise, I'm sure the rest of us would be very interested in seeing it.

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@24, that was my point w/ "barrelling" - they are a hazard on the roads borne out of a false sense of entitlement and the source of a shit ton of road rage incidents.

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@24, @28, it’s not about different “world views,” it’s about how stupid it is that men buy gas-guzzling, particulate-spewing, space-hogging vehicles purely out of the need to perpetuate toxic patriarchal stereotypes while they further enrich planet-wrecking, sociopathic corporations.

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@23
(edited for Clarity)

And there are those lower middle and working class people who hate their place on the food chain and feel so enlightened because of their guilt and self-hatred that they ingratiate themselves in patronizing rich people and disparaging the poors etc in every political discussion.

We know such people.

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@30: So if we edit your commentary per the new electric pick up trucks we're left with just grievances agains the patriarchal stereotypes and sociopathic corporations. But I suppose that could apply to a Prius or BMW driver as well.

33

@25 humanity does need god or satan to have morality, rights, wrongs, purpose, etc. we are supposedly animals imbued with intelligence and sentience. that alone allows for all of those things. what have humans chosen to do with that intelligence and sentience? destroy everything. humans could have done things differently, they chose not to. humans also don't exist in a vaccuum. everything humans do has an effect on the earth and all other life on earth. again, we could have done things differently. instead we have chosen to overburden and destroy and sicken the earth and all other life on it. so when the time comes that humanity is destroyed by the means mother nature chooses to destroy it (again, with the caveat that we could well do it to ourselves first) it is not by any means random. it is a direct result of humanity's existence and everything humanity chose to do within that existence.

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@31: True as well. I've even heard such sentiments from formerly-poor AND formerly-rich folks! It's actually quite ubiquitous.

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@14 Louis CK asked women if they would watch him masterbate. They agreed. They felt uncomfortable. Bill Cosby drugged women and while they were unconscious, he raped them. They felt raped. Not even the same league, not the same freaking ballpark.

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"There are things infinitely
more trivial than the end of life
on earth that matter to each of us."

unless one happens
to be a Nihilist

then who 'needs' a stupid Mask?
or a Biosphere for that matter?

39

@37 -- well not
All of them agreed

different level
same League.

40

"God or Satan"

There's a difference?

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@40: One has better sex than the other.

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@39 I'll grant you that. Both terrible, but lumping them together diminishes the trauma of the latter. The latter should still be imprisoned, not simply condemned.

43

Grundrisse is the Cliffs Notes version of Kapital.

44

re phony Covax cards
I hear when the Feds
show up severe penalties
may apply. just for Inflicting
others? where's the Justice?

how 'bout an eye
for a fawking Eye?

my famb
for yours?

nah we needn't go there
so be Like trumpf:

& get the vax.

Warning:
you may not
Own us by Dying!
but if you really wanted to
you could will us your Estate.
then you'd OWN Us For fucking Sures.

oh and I hear them Covid
ho$pital bill$ can be
quite heart
$topping.

@42 -- 10-4
assuming the latter
is the former
inmate.

45

oops imprisoned = inmate

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@26 - He was not a comedian. He was a trolling edgelord.

"But when McNear reported on some of Richards’s comments — calling women promiscuous and criticizing their bodies; making a joke about Jewish people and big noses; asking whether someone’s apartment was in Haiti because of “the urine smell, the woman in the muumuu, the stray cats” — it became clear, Saunders said, that “it was just too much for everyone to ignore.”" (from WaPo)

"The podcast was intended to be a series of irreverent conversations between longtime friends who had a history of joking around. Even with the passage of time, it’s more than clear that my attempts to be funny and provocative were not acceptable" (from The Ringer)

That's edgelord speak for "I was being an edgelord and I got caught." He should have kept it between himself and his edgelord friends.

The lesson isn't "don't be a comedian." It's "don't mistake being racist, sexist, etc. for being a comedian."

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There's a Toyota pickup (don't know the model) that's been parked on the street in front of my building for at least 2 1/2 months. The owner has come by at different times to clear spider webs (seriously) and remove the canopy. It's a pretty worthless machine.

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@47: probably kristofarian's

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@48, Charles has been ranting about the futility of pickups recently, and the one outside my building characterizes this perfectly.

51

one good thing about Giant Pickups:
no one can see into the back
how one might Load shit
into 'em without climbing
in is a Mystery to me.
I 'spose you could
drop the tailgate
and try to shove
it all in from
the back
but if it's
Heavy?

gonna need
a Crane.

at least
you get a
Penthouse View
when stuck in traffic.

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@52:

The problem in this particular instance is that "race", as it was first conceived by white Europeans of Aryan extraction, was intended to be extremely rigid, in order to maintain the structural dominance - in the form of racial "purity" - of the white race. Thus, having even one great grandparent belonging to a subordinate race was sufficient to be classified as of that race, regardless of the race of the other seven ancestors; hence the pejorative "octaroon". Now, I'm not aware that Dolezal has ever actually taken a DNA test to determine what percentage, if any, of her ancestry is of African origin (setting aside for the moment her somewhat spurious claim that "we're all Africans"), but I doubt there are many people who would, upon discovering they were one-eighth of a particular ethnic or cultural group, suddenly decide to identify exclusively AS that group.

Better to eliminate the concept of "race" altogether; however, that would require treating ALL people as equals, something our intolerant society clearly is not ready to accept.

54

yeah comte that's all well and good
but whattbout treating the females
on a par with Men? that's gonna
likely play Hell on the Patriarchy

pretty certain they'll Never go
quite That far -- one Thing at
a time if you please. it's a
LOT to Process.

55

Durkan has lots of experience defending white collar criminals, so it comes as no surprise that she knew exactly which text messages had to be deleted to dodge liability for SPD’s abandonment of the East Precinct and taking their sweet time getting help for people who got shot in the CHAZ.

57

Charles,

It's both interesting and dangerous to bring up the urban\suburban intelligence divide when you are bordered by multicultural eastside suburbs with some of the highest high school test scores in the nation. :)

58

@47: This sounds like the perfect use of a pickup. The owner probably rides a bike or takes the bus. And keeps the truck in reserve for moving big stuff (assuming it still starts). A responsible vehicle owner.


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