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blatant classism aside, the comments and reactions to neo-nazis as far
as how we mock them is an outright dangerous way of thinking about them.
NO, these nazi fucks aren’t in their moms basements or “trailer trash”
or “loser virgin nerds on reddit”… they have jobs, they have power,
they have influence in jobs and schools and government.
Reducing them to powerless manchildren isn’t helping anyone here.
Are SOME of them like that? Sure, yeah. But Todd from HR is there, Chad
from college admissions, Brantley the teacher, Jack the cop.
These men aren’t classist sex-deprived stereotypes. They’re in power, and that CANNOT be ignored or downplayed.
WASHINGTON—His skin already starting to bubble, newly dismissed White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon reportedly smiled and said “My work here is done” on Friday before bursting into millions of spores. “Now that I’ve accomplished everything I set out to do, it’s time for me to go,” said a contented Bannon moments before exploding into a cloud of millions of tiny black particles that swirled out the Oval Office window. “Just know that, if ever you need me, call my name into the wind and I will appear. Goodbye, my friends! Goodbye!” At press time, any White House staffers that had inhaled the Bannon spores were dying in agony as the spores began sprouting in their brains.
I get the litterbox, the boyfriend deals with stuff coming out the other end, and all else is dealt with by on a day to day basis.
The pet adoption process for my family was ... unexpected. One Saturday, when my six-year-old son was having a play date in our backyard with his cousin and his best preschool friend, a black cat came to visit. To them, the cat was more exciting than the waterslide and the popsicles I had brought out. They squealed,…
by Prachi Gupta on The Slot, shared by Joanna Rothkopf to Jezebel
As you embark on your weekend and rejoice over the ouster of Steve Bannon, a racist meat cleaver, take a minute to reflect on the utter insanity Donald Trump has put you through this past month. It takes CNN’s Brooke Baldwin more than two minutes to list every god-awful thing Trump has said or done, including his…
a conversation i saw on twitter about statues worth keeping reminded me of what is easily one of my favorites.
this is outside of the university of maryland’s student union building, a bench with a statue of one of UMd’s most universally beloved alumni, jim henson, conversing with kermit. people (usually incoming freshmen) will sit down next to them and have their picture taken. it’s one of the most pure and beautiful things on this earth.
by Julianne Escobedo Shepherd on The Slot, shared by Joanna Rothkopf to Jezebel
Steve Bannon, one of the most vocal of the many vile racists currently occupying the White House, has been fired by Donald Trump, head vile racist currently occupying the White House. This leaves him more time to further operate in a shadow capacity at right-wing clearinghouse Breitbart, and more free time to suckle…
There is a hep new trend in the white supremacist movement: Racists getting DNA tested to see just how "pure" their whiteness is. As you can imagine this generally hasn't been going well.
With the rise of spit-in-a-cup genetic testing, there’s a trend of white nationalists using these services to prove their racial identity, and then using online forums to discuss the results.
But like Cobb, many are disappointed to find out that their ancestry is not as “white” as they’d hoped. In a new study, sociologists Aaron Panofsky and Joan Donovan examined years’ worth of posts on Stormfront to see how members dealt with the news.
To be sure there's valid sociology reasons for such a study, but we prefer to believe that Panofsky and Donovan also just couldn't resist what they knew would be a gold mine of sad, frustrated racists. So we will believe so until told otherwise.
As for the results, the reactions of lifelong racist assholes to finding out that they themselves have Jewish or African or other ancestry appears to be hilarious mixed. One argument was that so long as you don't look non-white, well, that's good enough for Stormfront. Other arguments were equally ... intriguing.
Others, he said, responded to unwanted genetic results by saying that those kinds of tests don’t matter if you are truly committed to being a white nationalist. Yet others tried to discredit the genetic tests as a Jewish conspiracy “that is trying to confuse true white Americans about their ancestry,” Panofsky said.
Yeah, go figure. But the most interesting part, from a sociological standpoint, is the hoops the rest of the racist community could jump through to reassure racists-in-good-standing of their value as upstanding white supremacists. But that charity was not extended to less prominent members, and might come with specific restrictions:
Others were told that they could remain part of white nationalist groups, in spite of the ancestry they revealed, as long as they didn’t “mate,” or only had children with certain ethnic groups.
So they’re in luck, because mating is not something a lot of these Citronella Nazis will ever have to worry about!
It's an interesting read. It feels like we should be making far more fun of these dull-witted cretins, but it's hard to do, this particular week. We'll take a raincheck.
I feel like an important message is trying to be communicated to me but I have no idea what it is
Our forests are being cut down 3x faster than they can grow! One acre of hemp produces as much cellulose fiber pulp as 4.1 acres of trees!!! This is super useful for so many things, especially paper production! In addition, hemp takes in carbon dioxide 4x as fast as trees do, which makes it especially valuable in the act of reducing CO2 emissions/greenhouse gases! 🌲🌲🌲 source
Important reminder that industrial hemp can’t be used as a recreational drug, so if anyone tries to pull that card you can just stop them then and there. There are no real arguments against using industrial hemp, even if you’re rigidly against the legalization of any recreational drugs.
AYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY I never see pro-hemp on my dash, woo!
Usually the argument on why you can’t have hemp is because then people will hide marijuana in it.
yeah, sure…. if they want shitty, shitty marijuana.
It would be like growing sweet corn and dent corn together. Yeah, they look similar at a distance and they’re closely related, but you don’t want them next to each other as they’ll cross pollinate and you’ll end up with bad versions of both.
Same deal here. a patch of marijuana grown in an open field of hemp IS going to get contaminated and it’ll lower quality of BOTH crops. Your hemp farmer doesn’t want that and if likely going rip out any patches trespassers try to add for same reason.
and the big issue is not even the THC content. Because most quality marijuana is intended to be grown indoors or greenhouses, its a dwarf variety. Short. Fiber hemp is bred for height so as to maximize fiber production. super tall. It’s going to be really obvious, really fast if you’ve got both in the same field even before you get to the point of pollination. what’s this runty bullshit doing in my field?
They also have different growing needs with regards to spacing, harvest time, etc. so the argument that you can hide marijuana in industrial hemp fields are basically bullshit.
anyway… aside from paper, hemp fiber can also be used to make earthquake resistant concrete that’s actually LIGHTER than conventional concrete while being stronger. It’s better at resisting flexing or warping, so ideal for stuff like bridges and highway supports as it’ll better resist large temperature swings and vibration. (”hempcrete” is slightly different, but makes great fire resistant insulation)
You can also use the waste after fiber harvest for animal fodder, including silage. Comparable to corn. and remember, that’s the waste after you’ve harvested for fiber!
Just to add, it can be used for paper, concrete, insulation, cloth and rope (both rough like sack cloth and smooth like cotton), bio degradable plastics (oddly same for banana trees I believe) and then of course for things like fishing lines and nets etc.
It’s a very versatile and useful plant that has been used for hundreds or maybe even thousands of years for material uses, and with modern advances is becoming even more useful thanks to chemical engineering and similar.
This is holographic projection of a whale. It is a photographic process that produces images, thanks to the differences between 2 laser beams. These images are projected on to a gym using a special camera. There is not a drop of water in the gym, let alone a whale.
