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44 minutes ago, landman said:Gonna go out on a limb here and say people in favor of CRT might also have some involvement on the Democrat side of things. And they could still be normal parents.
So your position is that there's no disparity in treatment by the law based on race or skin color? And that any argument that there is, isn't a statement of fact but just a partisan talking point?
I'm just trying to parse out how you're framing CRT as a "democrat" issue
Edit: or is this another attempt to #bothsides the issue to dismiss the abhorrent behavior of the right by arguing without evidence that the left is doing it too?
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Filed under: no fucking shit.
Fox’s anti-“critical race theory” parents are also GOP activists
QuoteNearly a dozen of the Fox News guests the network has presented as concerned parents or educators who oppose the teaching of so-called “critical race theory” in schools also have day jobs as Republican strategists, conservative think-tankers, or right-wing media personalities, according to a Media Matters review.
Critical race theory is an academic legal framework which examines the systemic impact of racism in the United States. But “critical race theory,” like “cancel culture” and “political correctness” before it, also functions as an umbrella term the right-wing movement uses to turn its mostly white adherents’ racial anxiety into political energy.
In this case, a sophisticated, nationwide network of conservative think tanks, advocacy groups, media outlets, and GOP officials have seized on the term and, in the words of Christopher Rufo -- a senior fellow at the conservative Manhattan Institute and a key player in the effort -- sought to render it “toxic” and apply to it “the entire range of cultural constructions that are unpopular with Americans.” Republicans have proposed or passed a slew of legislation restricting “critical race theory” and hope to use it as a core part of their political strategy in upcoming local, state, and federal elections.
Fox, the leading propaganda outlet for the GOP, plays a key role in this strategy. The network has mentioned “critical race theory” nearly 1,300 times over the past three and a half months. The purportedly sinister spread of “critical race theory” provides a perfect framework for Fox’s technique of highlighting local concerns to fuel the culture war. The network supercharges the individual, at times dubious, stories that filter up with the help of nationally backed local activists, other right-wing outlets, and social media. Fox has targeted the purported influence of “critical race theory” in corporate America, the military, and particularly schools, hosting parents, teachers, and other educators to talk about how they don’t want it taught in their communities.
In several of those cases, the locals Fox has highlighted are also Republican strategists, conservative think-tankers, or right-wing media figures -- ties the network has downplayed or ignored altogether. This trend is particularly notable when Fox covers “critical race theory” controversies in Northern Virginia, a bedroom community for Washington, D.C., in a state where GOP gubernatorial nominee Glenn Youngkin has sought to make his opposition a central issue in the fall.
“The first test will be here in Virginia,” Fox chief Washington correspondent Mike Emanuel reported last month. “If this issue works in the governor's race in November, it will likely be part of the GOP campaign playbook in the midterm elections next year.”
Republican strategists have every right to advocate for their children and their communities, if not to manipulate nationwide education priorities. But since Fox has identified opposition to “critical race theory” as central to the party’s political strategy, the network has a responsibility to inform its viewers about exactly who it’s talking to.
TL:DR - fox has been presenting their own political operatives as "just normal parents" in all of their segments on CRT, in order to astroturf conservative grievances
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Filed under: no fucking shit.
Fox’s anti-“critical race theory” parents are also GOP activists
QuoteNearly a dozen of the Fox News guests the network has presented as concerned parents or educators who oppose the teaching of so-called “critical race theory” in schools also have day jobs as Republican strategists, conservative think-tankers, or right-wing media personalities, according to a Media Matters review.
Critical race theory is an academic legal framework which examines the systemic impact of racism in the United States. But “critical race theory,” like “cancel culture” and “political correctness” before it, also functions as an umbrella term the right-wing movement uses to turn its mostly white adherents’ racial anxiety into political energy.
In this case, a sophisticated, nationwide network of conservative think tanks, advocacy groups, media outlets, and GOP officials have seized on the term and, in the words of Christopher Rufo -- a senior fellow at the conservative Manhattan Institute and a key player in the effort -- sought to render it “toxic” and apply to it “the entire range of cultural constructions that are unpopular with Americans.” Republicans have proposed or passed a slew of legislation restricting “critical race theory” and hope to use it as a core part of their political strategy in upcoming local, state, and federal elections.
Fox, the leading propaganda outlet for the GOP, plays a key role in this strategy. The network has mentioned “critical race theory” nearly 1,300 times over the past three and a half months. The purportedly sinister spread of “critical race theory” provides a perfect framework for Fox’s technique of highlighting local concerns to fuel the culture war. The network supercharges the individual, at times dubious, stories that filter up with the help of nationally backed local activists, other right-wing outlets, and social media. Fox has targeted the purported influence of “critical race theory” in corporate America, the military, and particularly schools, hosting parents, teachers, and other educators to talk about how they don’t want it taught in their communities.
In several of those cases, the locals Fox has highlighted are also Republican strategists, conservative think-tankers, or right-wing media figures -- ties the network has downplayed or ignored altogether. This trend is particularly notable when Fox covers “critical race theory” controversies in Northern Virginia, a bedroom community for Washington, D.C., in a state where GOP gubernatorial nominee Glenn Youngkin has sought to make his opposition a central issue in the fall.
“The first test will be here in Virginia,” Fox chief Washington correspondent Mike Emanuel reported last month. “If this issue works in the governor's race in November, it will likely be part of the GOP campaign playbook in the midterm elections next year.”
Republican strategists have every right to advocate for their children and their communities, if not to manipulate nationwide education priorities. But since Fox has identified opposition to “critical race theory” as central to the party’s political strategy, the network has a responsibility to inform its viewers about exactly who it’s talking to.
TL:DR - fox has been presenting their own political operatives as "just normal parents" in all of their segments on CRT, in order to astroturf conservative grievances
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4 minutes ago, elfenix said:
^^while the courts still look at it, i don't know that compactness is necessarily a strength when districts have ~750,000 people in them. i guess perimeter vs. area might cut down on some of the block-by-block sawtoothing that goes on in houston. but a district, that, say, encompasses the more built up areas of the golden triangle also cutting some narrow line down I-10 to get over to baytown and pick up a similar population while letting the rural areas in between be able to represent themselves doesn't really offend my sensibilities.
And there's also some statutory requirements from the VRA to ensure that minority communities are kept together, even if geographically disbursed. There's definitely shades of just how bad the gerrymandering can be though, and 538's Gerrymandering Project is a really nice study series on how and why our districts look they way they do.
I think an interesting metric is % of wasted votes in a district, along the lines of comparing total (for a state) percentage of votes cast for one party or another compared to the total percentage of seats/representation won. It doesn't do much to inform what an "optimal" shape is, but it's another strong indicator of gerrymandering in action.
It's a really interesting and unfortunate problem in that we struggle to even describe what the most fair shape of district is, considering how subjectively and objectively it's clear that our districting is not fair or representative of the actual aggregate vote of the people.
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15 minutes ago, elfenix said:
obviously written by someone who doesn't understand computer models are what has allowed the extreme gerrymandering the republicans have been doing since 2010.
I actually had a project back in undergrad CS to develop some quantifiable measure of how gerrymandered a district was, and the idea I came up with was a proportion between surface area (perimeter length) of the district and its encompassed area. It's by no means perfect but it did a good job of identifying the worst offending gerrymandered districts in Texas, and I wish some mechanism like that was used to gut-check district shapes
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18 minutes ago, SquishMitten said:Thanks!
If the good captain is correct, then Home Depot, Lowes, and Walmart all have sufficiently powerful generators in stock (or delivery within a few days if not in a local store).
Before you start spending money, you should spend an afternoon tracing some circuits in your home that you're thinking of powering and trying to tabulate how much power you'll draw for the entire circuit. From there you'll have a decent idea of what sort of base load you should plan for. If you get a transfer switch installed you basically are powering entire circuits through your breaker box off the generator
During the Feb Freeze this year, we were able to run a fridge, TV, charge a shitload of batteries, and even get some electric blankets going on a 3500W gas unit and a few heavy duty extension cords. I'd imagine that 10KW will let you run most of the critical circuits in your home (and prolly a window unit to boot) but I'm just a jackass on a message board so grain of salt etc
edit: also remembered that if you're running on propane/natural gas, you'll take at 10% hit to power output - so worth considering when purchasing too
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57 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:
Well it does help that Germany has actual laws against nazis on the books to keep that shit out of the mainstream. I'm not in favor of a government agency determining what can be reported on, but we NEED something like the fairness doctrine again, as well more stringent categorization for news channels vs opinion channels with respect to "just the facts" vs "people are saying"
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Just now, Anastasis said:
You failed to respond to my request.
you're asking me to compare against something that didn't actually happen - you want me to argue against a straw man rather than actually discuss the relevant issue and facts at hand.
Just now, Anastasis said:You realize that you are wading in with the server dns log lunatics right?
For fucking FUCKS sake. Stop fucking lying and misattributing what I said in that thread THREE FUCKING YEARS AGO. Nevermind that there has been ample evidence and positive proof that the trump campaign was covertly sharing sensitive data with Russia.
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1 minute ago, Anastasis said:
Now give your take if trump did the exact same thing.
How about: when the sanctions were first imposed, they were hamfisted and pissed off our EU allies just as much as our RU adversaries and viewed it as an infringement on their sovereignty (source, BBC), in addition to being ineffective at achieving their desired outcome of stopping RU gas flowing into EU. Biden's recent moves, while marginally benefitting our adversaries - far greater benefitted our allies and is a step towards repairing that partnership.
Shit, the AP article I edited in after you quoted me even clarifies that in the fucking headline so even the DT folks could get the gist. The sanctions were reduced in scope to only target russian-owned entities and not those owned by other sovereign nations that we happen to be allied with.
But yeah, I know what you mean about people trying hard to miss the point.
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22 minutes ago, Anastasis said:Brain.worms.
In May 2021, the Biden administration waived Trump's CAATSA sanctions on the company behind the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline and its chief executive.[186][187] Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov welcomed the move as "a chance for a gradual transition toward the normalisation of our bilateral ties".[188] Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he was "surprised" and "disappointed" by Biden's decision.[189]
Also - just to actually cite the relevant information and not just """PeOPlE aRe SaYiNg" with unattributed text (note to WWS: this is an example of sharing factual information for the discussion)
U.S. waives sanctions on Nord Stream 2 as Biden seeks to mend Europe ties
In the Reuters reporting, it states that the Biden admin made this move as a concession towards Germany, but it DOES have the ill effects of further isolating Ukraine and indeed weakening the US posture towards russia. If you'll recall, our relationship with Germany was pretty far on the outs thanks to yaboi trump and his unnecessary antagonism that distanced ourselves from our allies.
Do I think that it's good that we lessened some sanctions against russia and its oligarchs? Fuck no! But I'm also a big boy and able to hold more than one thought at the same time in my head, and I can recognize that there are other factors at play here in terms of destabilizing our international relationships that were so badly mangled by trump.+
Also bears noting - this is the only thing that annie and his merry band of concern trolls can point to as far as biden being soft on russia. And it happened at the hundred day (ish) mark of his presidency, and it wasn't just for the sake of making daddy putin happy.
EDIT: this AP article is good too if you want more than just whatever fox and facebook are telling you what to think:
QuoteREYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — The Biden administration imposed sanctions Wednesday on Russian companies and ships for their work on a European natural gas pipeline adamantly opposed by the U.S., but President Joe Biden angered many Democratic and Republican lawmakers by opting not to punish the German company overseeing the project.
Waiving penalties regarding ally German in the Nord Stream 2 project was “in line with our commitment to strengthen our Transatlantic relationships as a matter of national security,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement.
The U.S. has battled for years to block the pipeline, now 95% complete, though construction has not yet started on its German leg. The pipeline will carry natural gas from Russia to Germany, increasing Russia’s leverage as a vital energy supplier in Europe. The U.S. argues that the pipeline threatens European energy security, heightens Russia’s influence and poses risks to Ukraine and Poland in bypassing both countries.
Critics of the pipeline had hoped to stop it by targeting the German company and its top executive.
Sen. Bob Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat and chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said he opposed Biden’s waiver for Germany. Senior committee member Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, a New Hampshire Democrat, said the pipeline “allows Russia to further spread its malign influence.”
“Oh, my God, enable Russia!” Sen. Joni Ernst, an Iowa Republican, exclaimed at the decision. “Joe Biden, thank you so much for allowing Russia to export their goods,” she said, sarcastically.
Blinken said the Biden administration would continue to fight the pipeline. “Our opposition to the Nord Stream 2 pipeline is unwavering,” he said.
Biden’s administration has emphasized strengthening alliances internationally to deal with foreign policy challenges. U.S. relations with Germany were unsettled by President Donald Trump’s frequent affronts to Germany and other European allies and Trump’s enthusiasm for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, who spoke with Blinken by phone Tuesday, praised the decision regarding the German interests involved.
“We perceive this to be a constructive step that we will gladly continue to discuss with our partners in Washington,” Maas told reporters in Berlin on Wednesday.
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8 minutes ago, SmokeyTheBear said:
Wait a sec. Is GR Rocko? Did I miss something?
Question @GRHorn, what's the going rate for a Thai hooker?
he didn't say he was
RawdogRaydog -
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Just now, workswithseed said:
Shot off the bow! Next you're going to talk about Twitter links with nothing else added. Also you didn't even disagree but throw shit at the wall anyways.
Lol, posting twitter links of news/information without additional comment is different from sharing punditry and op-eds without additional comment.
The intent of the former is to make sure that the relevant factual information is included in the discussion thread.
The intent of the latter is to echo an argument that you don't have the capacity to internalize and re-synthesize yourself, and shield your own views from criticism as "just posting what $AUTHOR thought".
But yeah you're in the right thread to make fallacious equivalencies and bitch about them. It is where anastasia is currently shitting.
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4 minutes ago, DonkeyCigars said:
Why does everything have to be measured and benchmarked against Trump? Is it because when benchmarked against “satisfactory”, it doesn’t clear the mark? So then one must resort to “but it’s miles better and different than what the flunkie was doing!”
I saw this a lot with the border stuff too with the detainees.
Is it a thin defense? Is it because GQP is yelling “hypocrite” or “samesies!” every time Biden does something politically mediocre or both?
Well for starters, "trump" IS our baseline state that the country is coming off of. Also, it's pretty common to compare one president's actions against their predecessor. But if you're sensitive about people saying mean things about your electoral preference/GOD EMPORER, I can understand why you'd just be asking questions about it.
The government doesn't turn on a dime. Policy isn't something that you can change whole-cloth and expect consistent results.
In my view, it's very reasonable. Would you prefer we measure Biden's policy stance towards russia with Eisenhauer's? I'm not quite sold on the idea of that being a relevant comparison.
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4 minutes ago, Anastasis said:
Straw man on top of straw man just cause y’all dipshits can’t recognize Biden acquiescing to Putin’s interests cause it breaks your brains.
What's got you so fired up about it, anyways? You didn't give a shit about it when trump was dragging his feet on sanctions, sharing sensitive information with the russians in the fucking oval office without ANY other US officials present, pursuing personal gain and business dealings in exchange for making the US do what russia wanted, or just straight up asking russia to interfere in our electoral process. Why do you care now?
Am I happy with what biden is doing across the board? Fuck to the NO! Is it immeasurably better than what trump was doing? Fucking YES!
Biden isn't my guy - but I trust that he isn't just looking out for himself like trump provably was. But of course:
11 minutes ago, Anastasis said:BOTHSIDES BOTHSIDES BIDEN BAD RAGHRBLBLBLRABHGHTL
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1 minute ago, Anastasis said:
You’d be the first one here squeaking tweets from your dumbfuck echo chamber if trump did what Biden did. Just try to be honest with yourself.
Whatever you say, kiddo. Joe Biden is definitely 100% as bad as trump in every way possible and wants to get cucked by daddy putin just like trump did. I definitely believe that because I'm a completely sane, not trolling, intellectual giant
We're just so lucky to have very fine people like yourself and GRUhorn to keep the record straight
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5 minutes ago, Anastasis said:
Try harder to pay attention guys.
Political aspectsEdit
In January 2018, United States Secretary of StateRex Tillerson said that the U.S. and Poland oppose the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. They see it as undermining Europe's energy security and stability.[167] The Nord Stream 2 pipeline was also opposed by former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, former U.S. President Donald Trump, the European Council President Donald Tusk and British foreign minister Boris Johnson.[168][169] The president of the European Council Donald Tusk has said that Nord Stream 2 is not in the EU's interests.[170] Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán have questioned the different treatment of Nord Stream 2 and South Stream projects.[170][171] Some claim that the project violates the long-term declared strategy of the EU to diversify its gas supplies.[172] A letter, signed by the leaders of nine EU countries, was sent to the EC in March 2016, warning that the Nord Stream 2 project contradicts the European energy policy requirements that suppliers to the EU should not control the energy transmission assets, and that access to the energy infrastructure must be secured for non-consortium companies.[173][174] A letter by American lawmakers John McCain and Marco Rubioto the EU also criticized the project in July 2016.[175]Isabelle Kocher, chief executive officer of Engie, criticised American sanctions targeting the projects, and said they were an attempt to promote American gas in Europe.[176]
German Chancellor Angela Merkelwith Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi, Russia, 18 May 2018
In June 2017, Germany and Austria criticized the United States Senate over new sanctions against Russia that target the planned Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia to Germany,[177][178] stating that the United States was threatening Europe's energy supplies.[179] In a joint statement Austria's Chancellor Christian Kern and Germany's Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said that "Europe's energy supply is a matter for Europe, and not for the United States of America."[180] They also said: "To threaten companies from Germany, Austria and other European states with penalties on the U.S. market if they participate in natural gas projects such as Nord Stream 2 with Russia or finance them introduces a completely new and very negative quality into European-American relations."[181]
On January 1, 2021, an annual defense policy bill passed by the U.S. Congress included sanctions for companies who worked on or insured the pipeline. On January 26, the White House said that newly sworn-in President Joe Biden "continues to believe that Nord Stream 2 is a bad deal for Europe" and that his administration "will be reviewing" the new sanctions. (Biden had previously opposed the pipeline as Vice President.) According to congressional aides cited in a February report by NBC News, the sanctions enjoy "strong bipartisan support" on Capitol Hill.[182][183][184]
On 28 April 2021 the European Parliament passed a resolution that urges all EU institutions and EU Member States to stop the completion of Nord Stream 2.[185]
In May 2021, the Biden administration waived Trump's CAATSA sanctions on the company behind the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline and its chief executive.[186][187] Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov welcomed the move as "a chance for a gradual transition toward the normalisation of our bilateral ties".[188] Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he was "surprised" and "disappointed" by Biden's decision.[189]
nonono you're supposed to post a 10-15 minute youtube video without any other context or analysis from yourself. Not just copy/pasta a wiki article. Man, your concern troll skills have been slipping
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Lol I moved from a midtown apt to spring branch and stayed in the same district. Thisisfine.jpeg