“You hateful monster, don’t you realize that if I can’t have burger I literally die?!” is a thing I see hysterical carnivore diet folks twist themselves into knots asserting.
I have no idea what they’re going to do as the cost of industrial animal products continues to climb. But cannibalism appears to be on the table, so to speak.
It probably doesn’t help that the “Magic Money Fairy” has an innate bias towards the grandchildren of oil barons, mafia Dons, and slave traders. Like, I understand the predilection towards selfishness at a certain level. But maybe consider what Paris Hilton is like right now and ask whether multi-billion dollar endowment Conrad H. Hilton Foundation (which is staffed entirely by Hilton family progeny) is necessarily spending its money efficiently when its stuffed to the gills with people exactly like her.
You can play the same game with the Gates Foundation and its close ties to Jeffery Epstein. Or the Thiel Fellowship, and its habit of recruiting fuckbois for Pete’s personal enrichment. Or, god help us, the Scaife Family Foundation which seems to have made it a mission to put all of the family fortune into exceptionally well-paid climate change denialists.
Like, I fucking wish these people were just sipping Kahlúa on a beach. Instead, it seems their mission is to drive the rest of the planet insane.
If the US/UK media is ever forced to grapple with this abuse, we’re going to get an Op-Ed mix of
In her 2003 book, Un cri dans le silence (A Scream in the Silence), Bardot contrasted her close gay friends with homosexuals who “jiggle their bottoms, put their little fingers in the air and with their little castrato voices moan about what those ghastly heteros put them through”, and said some contemporary homosexuals behave like “fairground freaks”. In her own defense, Bardot wrote in a letter to a French gay magazine: “Apart from my husband—who maybe will cross over one day as well—I am entirely surrounded by homos. For years, they have been my support, my friends, my adopted children, my confidants.”
This reads more like a Boomer-tier “How dare the kids today keep being young while I continue to get older” gripe. Echoes a lot of the X Wave Feminist Lambasts X+1 Wave Feminist literature as well.
In the same book, Bardot also criticized racial mixing, immigration, the role of women in politics, and Islam. The book contained a section attacking what she called the mixing of genes, and praised previous generations which, she said, had given their lives to push out invaders. On 10 June 2004, Bardot was convicted for a fourth time by a French court for inciting racial hatred and fined €5,000. Bardot denied the racial hatred charge and apologized in court, saying: “I never knowingly wanted to hurt anybody. It is not in my character.”
In 2008, Bardot was convicted of inciting racial/religious hatred in regard to a letter she wrote, a copy of which she sent to Nicolas Sarkozy when he was minister of the interior. The letter stated her objections to Muslims in France ritually slaughtering sheep by slitting their throats without anesthetizing them first. She also said, in reference to Muslims, that she was “fed up with being under the thumb of this population which is destroying us, destroying our country and imposing its habits”. The trial concluded on 3 June 2008, with a conviction and fine of €15,000. The prosecutor stated she was weary of charging Bardot with offenses related to racial hatred.
This shit was significantly less forgivable. But also… it seems like her angry is tied back to her animal activism, which is a common refrain with Boomer Era liberal environmentalists and animal activists. The urge towards eco-fascism haunts these movements.
You can see her attitude crop up entirely outside the scope of Islam on a number of subsequent occasions.
During the 2008 United States presidential election, Bardot branded Republican Party vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin as “stupid” and a “disgrace to women”. She criticized the former Alaskan governor for her stance on global warming and gun control. She was further offended by Palin’s support for Arctic oil exploration and by her lack of consideration in protecting polar bears.
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In 2014, Bardot wrote an open letter demanding the ban in France of Jewish ritual slaughter shechita. In response, the European Jewish Congress released a statement saying “Bardot has once again shown her clear insensitivity for minority groups with the substance and style of her letter […] She may well be concerned for the welfare of animals but her longstanding support for the far-right and for discrimination against minorities in France shows a constant disdain for human rights instead.”
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In June 2021, Bardot was fined €5,000 by the Arras court for public insults against hunters and the president of the Fédération nationale des chasseurs (National Federation of Hunters) Willy Schraen. She had published a post at the end of 2019 on her foundation’s website, calling hunters “sub-men” and “drunkards” and carriers of “genes of cruel barbarism inherited from our primitive ancestors”, and which specifically insulted Schraen. At the time of the hearing, she had not removed the comments from the website.
Like, by the end of this, you mostly just get the sense that she’s got a foul mouth and a very elevated sense of her own opinion.
He placed loyal people on the board and had them vote to give him control of the company.
He could place loyalists on the board because he bought a controlling interest in the company.
And now he has been having them vote to give him absurd unseen before “salaries”
The latest compensation package has virtually unattainable sales targets. And the compensation is almost entirely in equity that assumes a monumental increase in stock valuation.
If he can manage it, I’d be tempted to say he earned it, except I know he’ll only “hit” the target by lying and market manipulation that will collapse as soon as he hits his mark.
Greta’s not a UK citizen, so she’s going to be less than human in the eyes of UK law.
I mean, “stealing” is a strong word. Elon bought them out, and they’re both enjoying a net worth in the hundreds of million.
What’s more disturbing about Elon’s tenure as head of the company is how social media manipulation, insider trading, and blatant SEC violations can pump a company’s valuation into the stratosphere.
Marc Tarpenning and Martin Eberhard both continued to contribute advances in engineering that far exceeded the Tesla project. But they’ll never have the kind of easy credit Elon secured through politics and media manipulation. So don’t expect to see them included among the ranks of “billionaire” any time soon.
Americans are going to mandate retractable handles in response
both are unacceptable
Not in the eyes of US law enforcement. Or, really, any NATO member state
The west does bad things, therefore China gets to do similar or worse
The justifications that westerners make for their anti-Muslim purged are only acceptable when they are laundered by Western media.
He Recorded China’s Detention of Uyghurs. The U.S. Wants to Deport Him to Uganda.
Even internally, they can’t keep their stories straight.
Mass detention, abuse, and deportation aren’t viewed as problems when the White kind of government does them
The big question is why we started adding computer operating systems to our vehicles to begin with.
Originally, automakers tried to shoehorn proprietary subscription services into their vehicles for GPS and roadside assistance and satellite radio. But the opt-in for these services was scant, because they were obnoxious to set up and overpriced relative to - say - a TomTom or a cell phone’s core features. And you could get after-market integration added to your vehicle through its entertainment system, so why bother with the clunky manufacturer options.
CarPlay and AndroidAuto were concessions that automakers began to adopt because they sold more vehicles that way. Reversing this out will likely have the same effect it did the first time - by driving people to foreign car companies like Toyota, Honda, Nissan, and Kia.
I already see Kia cars on the road fucking everywhere. And moves like this will only accelerate the trend, I’m sure.
So, by utilizing built-in systems, the car manufacturers would indeed be able to collect more data about how you use the systems in place, while also possibly getting more money out of you through subscriptions.
The recording was shared exclusively with The Associated Press by the Norway-based nonprofit Uyghur Hjelp.
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the list of banned songs indicates repression in Xinjiang continues, albeit more subtly, said Rian Thum, a senior lecturer in East Asian history at the University of Manchester.
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“Besh pede” was flagged for its religious content, though the song hardly incites religious extremism, said Rachel Harris, a professor of ethnomusicology at SOAS University of London.
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In fact, a common denominator across the banned songs is that many were written or performed by imprisoned Uyghur musicians, said Elise Anderson, a nonresident senior fellow at the New Lines Institute who specializes in Uyghur issues.
The New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy, known as New Lines Institute for short, is an American non-partisan think tank focused on international affairs.
The New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy was founded in 2019 by Iraqi-American entrepreneur Dr Ahmed Alwani as a non-partisan think tank based in Washington D.C.
It’s always surreal to see the kind of policy that comes out of the US and the UK with regard to religious minorities - particularly Muslims - and then read the journalism that these same countries produce.
Even Norway… a country that’s been ratcheting up its mass arrest and deportation of Muslims going on for the last decade, with a specific eye towards anyone who might be “radical”, seems to have no problem with anti-Muslim public policy on a national level.
I wonder what Yashar Xiaohelaiti, Mahmoud Khalil, and the Brize Norton 5 would have to say to each other if they’d been confined to the same prison cell.
There were massive protests and constant public pushback against vaccines for as long as vaccines have existed.
There were a handful of outspoken reactionary groups in the early 19th century who registered outsized alarm. But when you look at the data, the rapid decline in smallpox over the century was the direct result of the success of inoculation domestically. By 1898, the mandatory imposition of vaccinations was functionally unnecessary, due to the near complete eradication of the disease on the island. People were - by and large - more than happy to undergo inoculation at a level that provided herd immunity.
The fight for widespread adoption of vaccination has been rough fought against the tides of the confidently ignorant who let their irrational emotions control them.
Confident ignorance has been as much a benefit to vaccine campaigns as an opposition to it. People are, by and large, trusting and appreciative of advancements in medical science, especially when they are subject to regular and repeated trauma from a chronic malady.
Quackery succeeds on this sense of naive desperation. Vaccination does, too (with the added benefit that it actually works). A straightforward solution to an immediate problem is an easy sell.
The real detriment to vaccination policy is its own success. Once you’ve systematically eliminated a disease, the social memory of the disease’s consequences fades through generations. People aren’t afraid of Polio because they don’t have a President in a wheelchair who fell victim to it. People aren’t afraid of measles because they’ve never experienced it, or had to care for children suffering from the disease.
The rapid adoption of prophylactics in the sex work community comes from people who are regularly faced with the threat of STIs, both personally and in their peer groups. People with little direct or indirect exposure to recreational sex are a much harder sell. And so we see STIs flood through religiously insular communities (ex. the sudden surge in Syphilis in Salt Lake City) that had historically shown very low rates of incidence.
This tends to set off a rebalancing of behaviors, as the community rapidly adopts the techniques for prevention. When news of an outbreak spreads, vaccine hesitancy collapses in its wake
“You must mean Base 22”
Wait for the bankruptcies
Literally a punchline
In fairness, Expelliarmus has a higher success rate
America doesn’t just do this domestically.
They do. It’s just tied up in the private sector. Tons of quackery on American TV and in news journals. Everything from “Head On, Apply Directly to The Forehead” to Dr Oz shilling ginseng as a panacea to the social media conspiracies about MedBeds that Trump himself retweeted.
The CIA undermined polio vaccination programs in Pakistan when global eradication actually seemed possible.
Can’t let the wrong kind of people benefit
deleting my account
He’s going to try. Even then, the bar is higher than just nibbling at the margins. And everything is stacked on the shoulders of an overall positive outlook for the US economy in total. He can’t insource all his car sales in any practical sense. And he can’t use options markets to outrun the perpetual gaggle of Tesla bears nipping at his heels. He also can’t reliably expect Congress to bail him out when he’s made this many enemies inside both the White House and Congress.
That’s not to say he won’t get a piece of paper with “$1T” written on it from his company at some point. But nothing in the Tesla financials suggests he will have anywhere to cash it.