I have heard 1st, 2nd, and 3rd gen Indian immigrants unironically take the “stupid blondes“ meme 100% seriously… Using “Bimbo“ and other insults to refer to white girls.
Sarr. every movie, song, and pop-book can refer to blonde white TEENAGE GIRLS as dumb… and they just laugh, and do an act playing with their hair.
But if i quote the slightest unflattering IQ stat about Indian, blacks, or Jews (average Israeli IQ is 92) Non-white PhD professors start screaming and having nervous breakdown and the state might even need to intervene to protect grown men and women’s feefees.
the reason we joke about blondes so lightly is because everyone naturally knows they’re the smartest and thus our carefree attitude is funny and endearing.
You are embarrassing yourself Sarr.
@jj_shabadoo@Howlingmutant0@_ReeMiddleChild The insane detail is that until recently (and to some extent, still), they are actually correct - even if the starement occurred after the incident
Jury of peers is retarded. It meant that noblemen should not be judged by people of lower social rank.
In America, we should not have random citizen juries. We should either have full-time professional juries or all cases be bench trials. We cannot have 90 IQ jurors
The message of a protest is "we don't like this".
The message of a riot is "we don't like this, and we're able to do something about it".
People who unconditionally call for peace and calm, regardless of the provocation, don't fundamentally understand how politics works in the real world.
They do understand that the purpose of politics is to provide an alternative to violence, but that's as far as their understanding goes. They don't think through the implications, usually because they are quite comfortable with things as they are.
If politics is an alternative to violence, then politics is a proxy for violence.
And that means you have to dole out power in proportion to capacity for violence. Or someone's going to figure out they can do better by flipping the table.
Monarchy wasn't replaced by democracy because of fine-sounding philosophical ideals and eloquent documents declaring this or that.
Democracy happened because if you added rifling to the flintlock firearm, suddenly a individual farmer with a tube was the pinnacle of military technology, and now you had to keep all the farmers with tubes happy by giving them political power.
(Ancient Greek democracy had a similar relationship with the hoplite warrior.)
When political systems work well, for a while, the violence they represent becomes further and further from people's minds, and those who can't effectively commit or direct violence worm their way into power, and begin to take it away from those who can.
And they'll defend their position by saying that violence is unthinkable, barbaric, always bad, must be disavowed at all costs, etc.
This isn't some sort of high-minded principle on their part. It simply means one of two things. Either "the status quo works for me, so I don't want you to upset it", or "I suck at violence, and I don't want to have to fight".
They want young men demoralized, so that their artificial meritocracy of spreadsheets, or their non-meritocracy of patronage networks, can be protected from the natural meritocracy of conflict.
This means that riots aren't actually for achieving any specific material aim. They are for reminding the comfortable that judges and bureaucrats and policemen have home addresses and families. And that violence is always on the table.
A protest would only send the message that the Irish don't want to be ethnically cleansed. But the bureaucrats and judges and lawyers already know that. They just don't care.
A riot reminds them that they have to care, because the Irish have a long tradition of doing something about it.
She was just vindicated in court. The migrants were charged with assault.
The girls were telling the truth while the media, the police, and the politicians were calling them feral and smearing the family as racists.
We got justice for Lola and Ruby.
@LinkofSunshine What? 3 is plenty.
I’m still at 0 strikes. Very easy to do, actually. And it should get easier the more strikes you have.
“But what if someone has 2 strikes? So now they just have to be constantly vigilant about not committing ANY more crimes?”
Yes, actually! That’s the idea!
@_Wrevolution_ You think *this* was bad? Keep ignoring the people, and you’ll see just how bad it can get. Belfast was just a start, a small taste to whet your appetite.