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Re: Is the world burning?
« Reply #2340 on: June 10, 2020, 12:44:32 AM »
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Re: Is the world burning?
« Reply #2345 on: June 10, 2020, 11:54:14 AM »
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Re: Is the world burning?
« Reply #2347 on: June 10, 2020, 12:57:37 PM »
"Mrs. Butt, did you know that your son Dick is the leader of the ANTIFA terrorist movement? Yes, I'll hold."
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Re: Is the world burning?
« Reply #2350 on: June 10, 2020, 01:45:58 PM »
I am the Leader of Antifa  :maduro
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Re: Is the world burning?
« Reply #2351 on: June 10, 2020, 01:51:30 PM »

I have evidence that will lead to the arrest of forums poster shosty.

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« Reply #2352 on: June 10, 2020, 02:52:29 PM »
I am Sparatcus!
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Re: Is the world burning?
« Reply #2353 on: June 10, 2020, 03:10:55 PM »
https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/1270673090599583744

It may surprise you to learn that Tulsa was home to one of the worst race riots/massacres in history!
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Re: Is the world burning?
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Re: Is the world burning?
« Reply #2358 on: June 10, 2020, 05:14:06 PM »
Hillbillies can't catch a break - when one goes flying into the crowd.

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Re: Is the world burning?
« Reply #2359 on: June 10, 2020, 05:21:37 PM »
This was just the kind of break that funny cars and monster truck rallies needed to increase their fanbases.

Also: odds on this not actually being enforced by the various Nascar-heavy stadiums?

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Re: Is the world burning?
« Reply #2360 on: June 10, 2020, 06:09:19 PM »
Boy talk about a second civil war. A certain type of person is about to go apeshit over taking away the beloved confederate flag.

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Re: Is the world burning?
« Reply #2361 on: June 10, 2020, 06:34:46 PM »
man this confrontation is looooooong overdue. the hillbilly tears are gonna be so fucking glorious tho


even still i can't help but feel real uneasy about all this. all these hardline corporate positions are getting moved just like that? i don't trust it.
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Re: Is the world burning?
« Reply #2362 on: June 10, 2020, 06:40:53 PM »
Won’t be long until Trump’s on twitter complaining about how this infringes the 1st amendment rights of many fine americans.

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Re: Is the world burning?
« Reply #2363 on: June 10, 2020, 07:00:10 PM »
Amazon pausing the use of their facial recognition system to police...

Fucking finally, only for a year, but they should have never started selling that data to begin with.

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Re: Is the world burning?
« Reply #2364 on: June 10, 2020, 07:27:33 PM »
Amazon pausing the use of their facial recognition system to police...

Fucking finally, only for a year, but they should have never started selling that data to begin with.

can't stop Clearview AI though, they're completely unscrupulous and just shrug and let anyone use it

the ACLU just sued them though
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Re: Is the world burning?
« Reply #2367 on: June 11, 2020, 12:35:54 AM »

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Re: Is the world burning?
« Reply #2368 on: June 11, 2020, 01:04:00 AM »
Can’t wait for Big Dick Daddy riotous to show them who’s boss  :lawd
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Re: Is the world burning?
« Reply #2369 on: June 11, 2020, 01:46:00 AM »
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Re: Is the world burning?
« Reply #2370 on: June 11, 2020, 01:57:21 AM »
Raz or the twitter dude?
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Re: Is the world burning?
« Reply #2371 on: June 11, 2020, 01:59:38 AM »
the video i saw was more like this guy was talking to this kid then smacks the camera out his hand. HES A WARLORD.

it's like when i saw people outraged over these extremely violent proud bois v antifa fights. turned out it was little more than 2 neckbeards slapping eachother (while a lot of ppl yelled at eachother).
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Re: Is the world burning?
« Reply #2372 on: June 11, 2020, 02:43:37 AM »
Raz and I were regulars at a bar in the area
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Re: Is the world burning?
« Reply #2373 on: June 11, 2020, 03:22:16 AM »
4:50

bystander *something indistinguishable*

bystander 2 / camera man? : "omg my partner would love that he's a furry"

speaker 1: "omg i've been told i am!"

alright, show's over. they're taking over the streets. bring in the national guard.

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Re: Is the world burning?
« Reply #2374 on: June 11, 2020, 07:51:01 AM »
Sounds like the US is falling apart and needs some UN peacekeepers to restore order  :putin

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Re: Is the world burning?
« Reply #2375 on: June 11, 2020, 07:58:02 AM »
lmao who is running to the internet to snitch on this dude and put his name out everywhere

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Re: Is the world burning?
« Reply #2376 on: June 11, 2020, 08:05:48 AM »


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Re: Is the world burning?
« Reply #2377 on: June 11, 2020, 08:12:20 AM »
we need the karen cut on  :social

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Re: Is the world burning?
« Reply #2378 on: June 11, 2020, 08:56:28 AM »
is there enough room in those six blocks to provide accomodation for the entire population of resetera, who will no doubt be flooding there in droves to see their utopia bloom into greatness?

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Re: Is the world burning?
« Reply #2381 on: June 11, 2020, 10:11:09 AM »
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Re: Is the world burning?
« Reply #2382 on: June 11, 2020, 11:10:15 AM »
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The United States spends about $14,000 per student, which is a lot more than the OCED average.

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« Reply #2383 on: June 11, 2020, 11:20:45 AM »
But that says nothing about how that is distributed or the efficiency of that money. 

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« Reply #2384 on: June 11, 2020, 11:23:59 AM »
But that says nothing about how that is distributed or the efficiency of that money.
Has nothing to do with the point of the comic.

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Re: Is the world burning?
« Reply #2385 on: June 11, 2020, 12:03:23 PM »


:crazy :mindblown

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Japanese public broadcaster NHK apologized on Tuesday and deleted from its Twitter account an animated video aimed at explaining the background behind U.S. protests for police reform, but which instead sparked online outrage for its depiction of African Americans.

The 1:21 minute clip, which NHK had also broadcast on its Sunday evening program "Sekai no Ima" ("The World Now"), featured a tough-talking black narrator citing the wealth disparity between black and white Americans and the economic impact from the coronavirus.

But it made no mention of police brutality or the death of George Floyd, a black man who died on May 25 after being pinned by the neck for nine minutes by a white officer's knee, which sparked the latest protests.

In the clip, the narrator's bodybuilder-like muscles were bursting out of a white tank top, while other African-American characters included a man with an afro and mutton chop sideburns, and a muscular man in a sleeveless purple suit, fedora-style hat and sandals strumming a guitar.

"While we understand @NHK's intent to address complex racial issues in the United States, it's unfortunate that more thought and care didn't go into this video," the interim head of the U.S. embassy in Tokyo, Joseph M. Young, said on Twitter. "The caricatures used are offensive and insensitive."

NHK said it had decided to take down the tweet after receiving a lot of criticism and that it had posted the video with a "lack of consideration".

"We apologize to those who were made to feel uncomfortable," the broadcaster said on Twitter.

The video had been viewed more than one million times as of midday Tuesday on the programme's @nhk_sekaima Twitter account.

Tennis star Naomi Osaka retweeted the video with a GIF expressing bewilderment.

"This is awful. I'm embarrassed to say I'm Japanese when I see this," tweeted another user, @emiliharatatani. "Do you know what is happening in America now?!"

@CheetosOnToast called it "racist" and "discriminatory".

Baye McNeil, a Japan-based African-American author and activist, said the clip showed the need for local broadcasters to educate themselves.

"Any child who looks at that video will walk away from it feeling, 'Yeah, maybe these people have been treated unfairly... but they're big and awful and scary!'" he told Reuters before the video was removed. "How can they (NHK) think people are going to be sympathetic to the people being oppressed after watching that video?"
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« Reply #2386 on: June 11, 2020, 12:26:39 PM »
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The United States spends about $14,000 per student, which is a lot more than the OCED average.

That's mostly just the US having higher GDP per capita + Baumol's cost disease.

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« Reply #2387 on: June 11, 2020, 12:31:56 PM »
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1271062068238651392

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Wow so easy to beat up defenseless people with no weapons
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« Reply #2388 on: June 11, 2020, 12:33:31 PM »
But that says nothing about how that is distributed or the efficiency of that money.
Has nothing to do with the point of the comic.

chicago closed down like 50 schools and gave the police budget a gigantic boost
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Re: Is the world burning?
« Reply #2389 on: June 11, 2020, 12:35:20 PM »
American schools also provide like a million societal functions they shouldn’t like feeding poor kids

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« Reply #2390 on: June 11, 2020, 12:39:21 PM »
American schools also provide like a million societal functions they shouldn’t like feeding poor kids

Our local school has been doing summer food programs for the past few years (also during the pandemic), because there are kids that basically don't eat when school's not in session.
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« Reply #2391 on: June 11, 2020, 12:44:33 PM »
But that says nothing about how that is distributed or the efficiency of that money.
Has nothing to do with the point of the comic.

chicago closed down like 50 schools and gave the police budget a gigantic boost
Are boards not supposed to close schools when enrollment decreases significantly? A decade ago there were 407,000 students enrolled in the Chicago board and now there are 361,314.

And despite decreasing enrollment, the budget is still going up. https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/8/28/20837745/school-board-oks-7-7-billion-budget-largest-in-history It's not an either or.

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« Reply #2392 on: June 11, 2020, 12:46:33 PM »
Universal free breakfast and lunch at public schools (with programs extending that into the summer) would be cool.

"school lunch debt" gtfo

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« Reply #2393 on: June 11, 2020, 12:52:18 PM »
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The United States spends about $14,000 per student, which is a lot more than the OCED average.

That's mostly just the US having higher GDP per capita + Baumol's cost disease.
You're right, but if you factor in GDP, it still puts the US at the OECD average. Sixth highest GDP per capita, 5th most spent per student. 

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Re: Is the world burning?
« Reply #2394 on: June 11, 2020, 12:56:15 PM »
right because good lord this money is not being spent on students, teachers, or materials that's for damn sure
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« Reply #2395 on: June 11, 2020, 01:03:14 PM »
Have you ever been to an American primary or secondary school? Real question.

I rejected the premise of the comic: that schools are underfunded or closing because the money is going to pay the police. A) The US spends less on police than the EU when GDP is factored. B) The US spends at least as much as OECD countries on education per student when GDP is taken into account.

At no time, however, did I say many US schools aren't shit.

To answer your question: no. 

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« Reply #2396 on: June 11, 2020, 01:15:31 PM »
Not a fan of “actually” arguments when it comes to an overcrowded school system having to do more with less in the face of ballooning budgets for police municipalities filled with FPS dougs wanting to larp at war while on the job.

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Re: Is the world burning?
« Reply #2397 on: June 11, 2020, 01:18:06 PM »
hello i am a pedant and i have come to save you from your tired bickering
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« Reply #2398 on: June 11, 2020, 01:29:51 PM »
God forbid that you have to show that the premises upon which your arguments are based are actually true.

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« Reply #2399 on: June 11, 2020, 01:47:16 PM »
I think you're being unfair to malek, but he's expecting nuance out of a comic strip. So, I don't know if I can defend him totally.

Anyways, my limited perspective about  schools in America is that they prioritize learning tools over teachers/building maintenance. Then the teachers/administrators feel compelled to fill out budgets every year with marginally useful materials in order to keep those budgets maintained. There's a lot of waste because of this.  They'd rather spend 100k on smartboards or other tech instead of hiring a new teacher or upgrading a facility.

But that's my tiny perspective in a system that has 10000 different districts and 50 different states all pulling in different directions. It makes it hard to generalize when youre talking about this frankenstein of a system that has been created over the past 70+ years.