@ddm The claim was "the media refuses to cover what just happened over in Chicago this weekend"; that was categorically false, "the media" did cover it and is currently still covering it. I heard about it on the radio while driving to work this morning.
But sure to your aside point, this will likely get less news coverage than the LV shooting or whenever the next school shooting is.
Originally posted by Robtard
@ddm The claim was "the media refuses to cover what just happened over in Chicago this weekend"; that was categorically false, "the media" did cover it and is currently still covering it. I heard about it on the radio while driving to work this morning.But sure to your aside point, this will likely get less news coverage than the LV shooting or whenever the next school shooting is.
The coverage it will receive will be somewhere between 10x and 1000x less than a school shooting. Which is Squall's, and by extension, my point.
I do see your point and I do understand you're proving an absolutist statement false. But in the spirit of the hyperbole, relatively no coverage is ever given to the mass killings of black people in the US. More than 50% of the murder victims...and far fewer than 50% media coverage.
Originally posted by dadudemon
I've covered your specific line of reasoning, on this, before, on KMC.Here's the difference:
We didn't get days and days of round the clock coverage like we do when a school is shot up.
Here's why: black people don't matter to the liberal media machine.
I believe it was you that pointed out that it was the scarcity of the event that drove news coverage (it's shocking when a school gets shot up but not so shocking when a young black man dies in Chicago so...more views and better ratings to cover the school shooting because it is a rare event). I still disagree with that outcome but the media is in the business to make money, not cover news, proportionally, based on how important or terrible events are to humanity.
Bingo.
Within the past 24 hours, Apple, Facebook, and YouTube have all joined in summarily banning far-right broadcaster and known conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his Infowars network from their platforms.
The bans have been swift and startling, coming after mounting public backlash against Infowars’ pernicious rhetoric, which is most notorious for helping popularize the false belief that the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting never happened. Jones is currently the defendant in a precedent-setting lawsuit brought against him by the parents of a Sandy Hook victim. -snip
Another Cult of Trump hero bites the dust. Who are we kidding, this will trigger them and then help solidify his conspiracy loving retarded fanbase, they'll buy even more of the crap he sells via word and products.
Within the past 24 hours, Apple, Facebook, and YouTube have all joined in summarily banning far-right broadcaster and known conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his Infowars network from their platforms.
The bans have been swift and startling, coming after mounting public backlash against Infowars’ pernicious rhetoric, which is most notorious for helping popularize the false belief that the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting never happened. Jones is currently the defendant in a precedent-setting lawsuit brought against him by the parents of a Sandy Hook victim. -snip
But the question of Infowars’ policy violations is not theoretical; it is a fringe broadcast network that has on multiple occasions propagated conspiracies with appalling real-world effects, from Pizzagate to the false belief that the Sandy Hook shooting was a hoax. -snip
Another Cult of Trump hero bites the dust. Who are we kidding, this will trigger them and then help solidify his conspiracy loving retarded fanbase, they'll buy even more of the crap he sells via word and products.
I think its is a good point that the media does not highlight the Chicago shooting as much as say a terrorist event. the headlines reads like there should be more coverage its like something out of a warzone but it is in the USA.
it goes to the point that the media in general cares less about the story/black lives, if they did it would be more than headlines, like a national conversation would be triggered if this happened just about anywhere else.
LMFAO! This Republican apparently trolled democrats who tried to introduce a measure to give a third option of gender to appear on a drivers license, "Gender X".
Howie Carr: Jim Lyons out-PCs the Democrats
The guy declares that: no, we can't do that. Its not fair. ALL genders need to be included.
"Since all Democrats must admit that the number of genders is endless, how dare the commonwealth lump all the new genders together as “Gender X”?
“Separate but equal” — that’s what it by God sounded like to Rep. Jim Lyons. And he was willing to put his shod foot down. Hate Has No Home Here. Not on His Watch. Lyons decided to take a stand against Gender Jim Crow.
Every gender, he declared, must be listed on Massachusetts driver’s licenses! That was Lyons’ non-negotiable demand. No justice, no peace.
It gets better:
"Next question: How many genders are there? New York City under Mayor Bill de Blasio once ruled there are 31 — easy to remember, because it’s same number as Baskin-Robbins ice cream flavors.
Then the number began creeping upwards, getting close to Heinz’ 57 Varieties. Genders seem to be reproducing like amoebae, dividing and subdividing, trans to transsexual to trans man to trans male to trans person …
Sitting in the House chambers late Tuesday night, with the clock ticking down on the session, _Lyons took out his smartphone and arrived at the latest updated number of genders: 73.
I asked Lyons Friday where he found his new number 73.
“Facebook,” he said."
LMAO
"[L]egislative leadership couldn’t rule any of his gender amendments out of order as absurd, because if they did, it would be giving away the game. They would be admitting that the “X”-ercise was preposterous on its face.
Lyons began filing his affirmative-action amendments. Number 6 added as a gender “cis.” Amendment 9 — cis female, 13 — cis woman, 14 — cisgender female, 18 — cisgender woman …
By now, on the floor of the House, puzzled Democrats were coming up to Lyons, asking him what he was doing.
We can’t discriminate, he archly informed them. This is Massachusetts. Gender is an evolving paradigm, to coin a phrase. All genders must be protected. Equal protection under the law.
Amendment 21 — gender fluid, 22 gender non-conforming, 23 gender questioning, 25 gender variant, 26 genderqueer …
In all, 73 genders, 73 amendments to Spilka’s bill.
Under House rules, Lyons would have 10 minutes to debate each gender he proposed to add to the driver’s license. And then three minutes for a roll call vote, 73 times.
The leadership was beat. By midnight, they needed to pass legislation — real bills, not this PC nonsense, but their actual business, land takings and the like.
If Lyons insisted on going full Social Justice Warrior, there would no time for reality.
He had already filed 35 of his 73 amendments — six hours’ worth of debates and votes — when leadership threw in the towel. They ordered Gender X back … into the closet."
F*cking epic, if this really went down...f*cking epic.
Originally posted by Robtard
Apple banned Alex Jones’s Infowars. Then the dominoes started to fall.
Apple’s Infowars ban altered an industry overnight — and dealt a significant blow to fake news.Within the past 24 hours, Apple, Facebook, and YouTube have all joined in summarily banning far-right broadcaster and known conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his Infowars network from their platforms.
The bans have been swift and startling, coming after mounting public backlash against Infowars’ pernicious rhetoric, which is most notorious for helping popularize the false belief that the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting never happened. Jones is currently the defendant in a precedent-setting lawsuit brought against him by the parents of a Sandy Hook victim. -snip
Another Cult of Trump hero bites the dust. Who are we kidding, this will trigger them and then help solidify his conspiracy loving retarded fanbase, they'll buy even more of the crap he sells via word and products.
Leftist Hypocrisy is on the march.
Originally posted by Flyattractor
[b]Leftist Hypocrisy is on the march. [/B]
What I love is the leftists celebrating this are too stupid to recognize the broader implications lol.
Make no mistake: we'll see the Gunn effect* sooner or later.
Gunn effect=when leftists cry foul over a tactic they've used repeatedly because said tactic was used against them, and then have the sheer audacity to lecture others about how said tactic just "needs to stop being used by all sides".
So twitter is refusing to ban Alex Jones because so far he hasn't violated any of the rules. And some people had a meltdown, it was hilarious.
Then we have the fact that Jones infowars app still remains available for download at Apple. A day after Apple did what it did...the app downloads increased to the point it was the 4th most popular at the store, beating out CNN and others lol. Though yeah it is likely the app will be removed sooner or later.
Apple's Attempt to Ban Alex Jones Backfired in an Unexpected Way
And yes Jones then trolled them by tweeting out this:
Gotta hand it to him...that's quality trolling.
LoL, I so called it. Jones' retarded conspiracy loving followers like you just gave him more money.
"Another Cult of Trump hero bites the dust. Who are we kidding, this will trigger them and then help solidify his conspiracy loving retarded fanbase, they'll buy even more of the crap he sells via word and products." -Robtard the Clairvoyant circa 8/07/18
Originally posted by Robtard
LoL, I so called it. Jones' retarded conspiracy loving followers like you just gave him more money."Another Cult of Trump hero bites the dust. Who are we kidding, this will trigger them and then help solidify his conspiracy loving retarded fanbase, they'll buy even more of the crap he sells via word and products." -Robtard the Clairvoyant circa 8/07/18
Yeah, you keep trying to turn this into a pretend victory. I'd never give money to Jones. I just find it funny that in doing this Apple has apparently increased his audience. And they made him a martyr and gave him legitimate ammo to say "look they are going after me!". Especially when a bunch of places all coincidentally decide to ban him around the same time.
Good job. Top notch.
Originally posted by Robtard
You clearly are an Alex Jones fan, as you regurgitate many of his talking points and defend him from the sidelines whenever you can. Just come out of the Alex Jones closet already, sport.
Oh? Please name the specific talking points I got from Alex Jones.
Note: these must be things that originated from him.