Funny events in anti-woke world

[Casual Shinji]

Lol

There should be a green M&M in there somewhere. I'm disappointed.

 

[Chimpzy]

There should be a green M&M in there somewhere. I'm disappointed.

Maybe a shredded Jesus on the cross in the background too, but instead of Jesus its Trump, and instead of a cross he's tanning his balls in that pose.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Maybe a shredded Jesus on the cross in the background too, but instead of Jesus its Trump, and instead of a cross he's tanning his balls in that pose.

If Jesus had tanned his balls, he would've gotten the manly respect of Judas, and he never would've been betrayed.

 

[Absent]

There should be a green M&M in there somewhere. I'm disappointed.

It's out of the frame, below.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Lol

Please tell me that's AI-created, because I don't want to think that someone actually spent time creating that.

? Isn't India or China the most populous nation in the world? I think Turkey is in the top ~20, but certainly not the top spot.

That's on me. I swapped India with Turkey in my head. In my defense I wasn't awake yet.

 

[XsjadoBlayde]

Not sure whether any thread is appropriate, but it's just so bad to ignore, yet brings the absolute worst of people out in ways I'm sure any half-perceptive person can guess. The intersectional nature means multiple of awfulness are brewing around, caution is advised with any engagement of discourse.

Jordan Neely, a vulnerable young man, was killed – and not by his medical history | Moustafa Bayoumi

Much of the talk has been about Neely’s mental health – in large part so we don’t have to talk about our larger societal health

www.theguardian.com

Jordan Neely was choked to death in the middle of the day on a New York City subway car on Monday, and since then people from New York City’s leaders to media commentators have put the focus on the 30-year-old Black man’s mental health. The New York governor, Kathy Hochul, stated that “some of the factors” in Neely’s death were “people who are homeless in our subways, many of them in the throes of mental health episodes”. Mayor Eric Adams spoke about “serious mental health issues in play here”. John Macari, a retired New York police lieutenant and podcaster told Fox News: “You have people commuting on a train who have to deal with mentally ill people who are a danger to themselves and others.”

But Jordan Neely didn’t kill himself. He was killed, and not by his medical history. A 24-year-old white ex-marine put him in a chokehold for “some 15 minutes”, according to Juan Alberto Vazquez, a witness at the scene, and the medical examiner has ruled Neely’s death a homicide. So instead of focusing on Neely’s past, maybe we should be asking what kind of state of mind does it take to strangle a man to death in public.

I don’t know anything more about this ex-marine. I don’t even know his name, since the authorities have not released it, but I do know that Jordan Neely did not deserve to die. According to news accounts, Neely – who was unhoused and a known Michael Jackson impersonator – boarded a northbound F Train and began screaming about his distress. He was yelling about not having any food, and nothing to drink, and how he was tired and ready to go to jail. He took off his black jacket and threw it on the ground.

As discomfiting as such behavior may be for some folks to witness, there has always been a simple and non-violent New York City answer to such encounters. Move to another subway car! (The train was stopped, with the doors open.)

Instead, according to news reports, the ex-marine tackled Neely and put him in a chokehold that lasted about six minutes longer than Derek Chauvin’s knee was pressed on George Floyd’s neck, killing Floyd, in Minneapolis in 2020. He had help from a couple of other men while people were casually milling about and filming as Neely’s life came to an end.

What state of mind compels someone to use such deadly violence? Military training? Racist beliefs? Misplaced heroism? As of now, who knows, but whatever it was, it wasn’t justified. According to Vazquez, the witness, Neely hadn’t physically attacked anyone before he was tackled. And you don’t have to view the video – please don’t, it’s awful to watch – which is gruesome in its ordinariness, to see how Neely is treated not as a human being but as an object to be violently manipulated and controlled. In fact, in our society vulnerable people like Neely are almost always treated like objects to be violently manipulated and controlled.

Vasquez was also quoted as saying: “It’s fine that citizens want to jump in and help. But I think as heroes we have to use moderation.” But who’s asking for heroes in the first place? In a society as militarized and rewarding of violence as ours, there’s nothing more dangerous than someone who believes he’s a hero. (As Bertolt Brecht memorably put it: “Unhappy is the land that is in need of heroes.”)

What state of mind does it take to think that policing will solve all our social ills, only to have the NYPD, funded at $10.8bn, completely absent from the daytime death of a man in a busy subway station in the middle of Manhattan? A 2022 investigation by the Guardian and the University of Washington found that between 2015 and 2020, deaths among people living without housing in 20 urban areas in the United States rose by 77%. Who exactly do the police protect?

Beyond state of mind, we must also think about our state. In what kind of state can this 24-year-old ex-marine be taken in for questioning by the police, only to be released the same day? Had the races of assailant and victim been reversed, does anyone think the situation would be the same? Do you really think we still wouldn’t know his name if it sounded like a Muslim name?

In a society as militarized and rewarding of violence as ours, there’s nothing more dangerous than someone who believes he’s a hero

Based on what he was saying, what Jordan Neely wanted was some food to eat and a place to sleep. What does that say about us? What kind of state do we live in where poverty is not only considered a badge of shame but also a source of fear? What kind of state do we live in where we spend more money hiding unhoused people from our eyes than finding them affordable housing? What kind of state do we live in where talk of mental health concerns is everywhere but so little of it is in invested with solutions. There comes a point when all the mental health discourse begins to sound more like an alibi than a priority.

Jordan Neely’s killer must be arrested and face justice. Of that there is no doubt, just as there’s no doubt that in the near future, we will be bombarded with every mental health episode and every police encounter Neely ever had. Through it all, I expect the focus will return, with deadly repetition, to Neely’s mental health. Much of it will be sensationalist and driven by fearmongering, while some it might even consider the ways that endemic poverty, lack of housing, various forms discrimination, social and family trauma are all connected to an individual’s mental health. But what will largely go missing is this way we have of talking about an individual’s mental health precisely so that we don’t have to talk about our larger societal health.

Because if we looked into it honestly, what we’d see is a society enthralled by its own hierarchies and beholden to its traditions of violence. What we’d see is a society in desperate need of healing.

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Did Veritas let O'Keefe back in?

The past tense caused me to assume they're talking about when he used to be there. It paywalled in a way I can't get past like previous articles tho.

 

[TheMysteriousGX]

Brutalized with menswear knowledge

 

[Trunkage]

It's out of the frame, below.

I'm pretty sure he had bottom surgery and now has officially become the first transchocolander

No word yet if he can compete in the M&Molympics

 

[crimson5pheonix]

Brutalized with menswear knowledge

I'm appreciative for the knowledge imparted by this gigantic nerd, I didn't know about the "menswear enthusiast" subculture before now.

 

[Dalisclock]

Lol

The 2nd commandment says hello.

 

[BrawlMan]

Not sure whether any thread is appropriate, but it's just so bad to ignore, yet brings the absolute worst of people out in ways I'm sure any half-perceptive person can guess. The intersectional nature means multiple of awfulness are brewing around, caution is advised with any engagement of discourse.

Jordan Neely, a vulnerable young man, was killed – and not by his medical history | Moustafa Bayoumi

Much of the talk has been about Neely’s mental health – in large part so we don’t have to talk about our larger societal health

www.theguardian.com

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The past tense caused me to assume they're talking about when he used to be there. It paywalled in a way I can't get past like previous articles tho.

There's some extra info in this article, if you're interested.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/05/us/jordan-neely-new-york-city-subway-chokehold-death-friday/index.html

 

[Dreiko]

Not sure whether any thread is appropriate, but it's just so bad to ignore, yet brings the absolute worst of people out in ways I'm sure any half-perceptive person can guess. The intersectional nature means multiple of awfulness are brewing around, caution is advised with any engagement of discourse.

Jordan Neely, a vulnerable young man, was killed – and not by his medical history | Moustafa Bayoumi

Much of the talk has been about Neely’s mental health – in large part so we don’t have to talk about our larger societal health

www.theguardian.com

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The past tense caused me to assume they're talking about when he used to be there. It paywalled in a way I can't get past like previous articles tho.

I remember reading a story about a woman in new york walking her dog in a park and some homeless person hit it in the head with a cane and killed it, the police wouldn't do anything. The woman eventually managed to track down the homeless person on a different day by herself and called the police but it still wouldn't help her and arrest the killer.

I think this is what you will see happening the more the police refuse to protect people. There's tons of stories like this in new york, and undoubtedly they were in the mind of the marine who choked that dude out. When you're trained to risk your life for the sake of other people, and you see someone whom you believe will go on to harm people and get away with it, you will even risk going to jail to save those people and their golden retrievers.



Oh and, it was 3 guys, the one guy was mainly doing the work but 2 others were assisting him by holding the dude's limbs still. They all deemed the act appropriate, it wasn't just the marine who was an aberration and wasn't acting reasonably.

 

[Cheetodust]

Forgot to mention, the Red Scare has

It's out of the frame, below.

He is currently melting in her hand

 

[Seanchaidh]

the zombie rises again

 

[Kwak]

Florida lawmakers pass bill allowing radioactive material to be built into Florida roads

More than 1 billion tons of radioactive waste are already stored in 25 stacks in Florida.

www.wftv.com

 

[Absent]

Florida lawmakers pass bill allowing radioactive material to be built into Florida roads

More than 1 billion tons of radioactive waste are already stored in 25 stacks in Florida.

www.wftv.com

It's fascinating how conservatives can consistently make the most absolute evil, dystopian choices in all the domains of life and society.

We always mock fictions for their one-dimensional evil characters, but in real life...

 

[Ag3ma]

Florida lawmakers pass bill allowing radioactive material to be built into Florida roads

More than 1 billion tons of radioactive waste are already stored in 25 stacks in Florida.

www.wftv.com

Well, I guess if they manage to dilute the radioactive material sufficiently that radioactivity stays within accepted environmental levels...

But, I've got to say, it's a very bad look.

 

[TheMysteriousGX]

I was wondering like, what possible justification for this is there? Are we running out of building materials?

Turns out no, just Captain Planet level greed

Putting radioactive phosphogypsum in roads would let the fertilizer industry off the hook for safely disposing of the millions of tons of dangerous waste it creates each year while generating another cash stream for industry giants, the release stated.

 

[Casual Shinji]

But, I've got to say, it's a very bad look.

Yeah, but they thrive on that.

DeSantis' preparations for his presidential run are about deliberately looking as fucking evil and fascistic as he possibly can.

 

[Satinavian]

It can't be much more radioactive than the completely natural rock it is made from. I would agree that using it as road filling doesn't look too bad.

But yes, radon from rock is an issue. Usually it gets discussed as one of the dangers of lining in cellars or underground complexes. But that is significantly less relevant for road filling.