Funny events in anti-woke world

[XsjadoBlayde]

 

[TheMysteriousGX]

Fucking christ these guys are gonna get kids hurt

 

[Seanchaidh]

 

[Dalisclock]

"I don't know how water works"-Elon, Probably.

 

[XsjadoBlayde]

 

[Dalisclock]

Oh great, now the monorail song is stuck in my head again.

Thanks Obama.

 

[XsjadoBlayde]

Oh great, now the monorail song is stuck in my head again.

Thanks Obama.

The Simpsons has truly warped the minds of a specific couple of generations. Though I'd argue for the better, as it raised me better than my parents did!

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

"I don't know how water works"-Elon, Probably.

Well, now we know why he's so hot to get to Mars. No water to worry about there.

 

[Chimpzy]

Well, now we know why he's so hot to get to Mars. No water to worry about there.

No liquid water at least. There's tons of water ice at the poles tho.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

No liquid water at least. There's tons of water ice at the poles tho.

Yeah, but you can tunnel right through that shit! No flooding! Papa Elon is NEVER wrong!

 

[Chimpzy]

Yeah, but you can tunnel right through that shit! No flooding! Papa Elon is NEVER wrong!

Oooh, he could tunnel hyperloops through the poles. Lower atmospheric pressure might also make the vacuum seal less of a hassle. Win win for everybody.

 

[thebobmaster]

Well, now we know why he's so hot to get to Mars. No water to worry about there.

Wait, there's no water on Mars? Doctor Who is a lie!

 

[Gergar12]

I hope someone makes a thread(I am too lazy to), but Elon just brought Twitter. Great the only major social media website not owned by a billionaire is... Reddit. They are coming after the progressives and the independent thinkers. Or they could just make Twitter a place where people harass various minorities groups either way Twitter is not a good place to be with Elon at the helm.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Twitter is not a good place to be

Coulda stopped right there and been just as right.

 

[TheMysteriousGX]

Hey now, there's always Tumblr

 

[Trunkage]

I hope someone makes a thread(I am too lazy to), but Elon just brought Twitter. Great the only major social media website not owned by a billionaire is... Reddit. They are coming after the progressives and the independent thinkers. Or they could just make Twitter a place where people harass various minorities groups either way Twitter is not a good place to be with Elon at the helm.

Twitter was already targeting progressives.

 

[Agema]

I hope someone makes a thread(I am too lazy to), but Elon just brought Twitter. Great the only major social media website not owned by a billionaire is... Reddit. They are coming after the progressives and the independent thinkers. Or they could just make Twitter a place where people harass various minorities groups either way Twitter is not a good place to be with Elon at the helm.

I cannot help but feel that Musk has no fucking idea how to run free speech on a major communications platform.

I don't necessarily think Twitter does a great job, but I think Twitter has also had to gradually develop rules and work a lot out to balance rights of speech against major potential harms (harassment, bullying, incitement to violence, etc.). This undoubtedly has not been a smooth process, and requires a great deal more optimisation. Does it really need an ideologue steaming in with high-minded and potentially naive ideas? It might cause a shake-up, but it's also potentially going to do a lot of damage. But then, what do business owners with the egotistical self-absorption of Elon Musk care about damage to other people?

 

[Thaluikhain]

Last time "tunnel" "water" and "Musk" were going together, he was calling a guy a pedophile for rescuing trapped people in SE Asia.

I cannot help but feel that Musk has no fucking idea how to run free speech on a major communications platform.

Eh, I suspect it's more that he doesn't care, or his ideas of free speech are so warped that it makes little difference.

 

[XsjadoBlayde]

Mandatory community update on the "save the children, trafficking/grooming" anti-woke people who are mysteriously never covered by right-wing media when they are found to be up to no good yet again.

Police Raid MAGA ‘King of Toxic Masculinity’ in Human-Trafficking Investigation

The raid was prompted by reports that an American woman had been abducted.

www.thedailybeast.com

Romanian police raided the home of prominent pro-Trump online personality Andrew Tate this month as part of a human-trafficking investigation, bringing new attention to Tate’s ties to leading figures in the American MAGA movement.

Before the April 11 raid, Tate was best known as a kickboxer and vocal Trump supporter in the online far right. On social media, Tate portrayed himself as a wealthy cigar-smoking playboy, prompting one admirer to dub him the “king of toxic masculinity.”

But Tate’s treatment of women had an ugly side. In 2016, he was booted off the British version of Big Brother over a video of him hitting a woman with a belt. This March, Britain’s Daily Mirror tabloid profiled him and his brother Tristan Tate and their Romania-based business which used webcam models to trick men into sending the brothers tens of thousands of dollars. In one video on his YouTube channel, Andrew Tate said “40 percent” of the reason he moved to Romania was because Romanian police were less likely to pursue sexual assault allegations.

Tate’s unsavory activities didn’t stop him from building links with the stars of the Trumpian right. In 2019, Tate palled around Washington, D.C. with prominent online Trump activists and conspiracy theorists. He shared a meal with far-right cable news commentator Jack Posobiec and Infowars host Paul Joseph Watson, and appeared multiple times on Infowars shows.

In Trump’s Washington hotel, Tate posed for a picture with Brexit advocate Nigel Farage, and sat in a group in the Trump hotel lobby with the likes of Pizzagate conspiracy theorist Mike Cernovich and future Jan. 6 protest organizer Ali Alexander. Cernovich visited the Tate brothers in Romania later that year, describing them as his “friends” in the description of his podcast.

While Cernovich built his name online by making false human-trafficking claims about a Washington pizzeria, the Tates may soon be accused of genuine human trafficking. In a statement provided to The Daily Beast, Romania’s Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism said the raid on the Tates’ house was part of an investigation that began after a woman was reported to be held at the house against her will. As the probe continued, it escalated to include “crimes of human trafficking and rape.”

Video from the raid show police officers armed with rifles milling among the Tates’ sports cars, with a neon “TATE” logo on a wall in the background. Another video showed Tate and his brother being shoved into vans by police officers before being driven away from their homes.

A Romanian newspaper reported that the raid was sparked over reports that an American woman was being held captive at the Tate house. Police found both the American and a Romanian woman in the building during the raid, according to the report. In a statement on the raid to The Daily Beast, a U.S. State Department spokesperson alluded to a reported abduction of an American citizen but declined to comment further.

“We are aware of reports of a U.S. citizen held against their will in Romania,” the spokesperson said. “Due to privacy considerations, we have no further comment."

In an interview with The Daily Beast, Tristan Tate disputed the Romanian media report that police found women in house who were there against their will.

“No girls were found in my house, and nobody was arrested,” Tate said.

Andrew Tate’s pro-Trump colleagues—Cernovich, Watson, Posobiec, and Alexander—also didn’t respond to emails from The Daily Beast.

Andrew Tate appeared to address his arrest in an Instagram picture posted after his arrest, featuring him smoking a cigar in a staged interrogation room as faux-police officers loomed over him. Tate added a caption: “Officer...l think we can all agree that bitches love to lie.”

The raid on the Tates’ villa isn’t the first time that the “manosphere,” the far-right men’s online community that Tate belongs to, has been tied to serious criminal activity. In December, a prominent manosphere personality went on a killing spree in Denver, murdering five people before being fatally shot by a police officer.

North Dakota lawmaker quits after child porn suspect texts

North Dakota’s longest-serving state senator says he'll resign following a report that he had traded scores of text messages with a man jailed on child pornography charges.

apnews.com

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota’s longest-serving state senator announced Monday that he would resign following a report that he had traded scores of text messages with a man jailed on child pornography charges.

Republican Ray Holmberg, who rose to become one of the state’s most powerful lawmakers in a career that spanned 46 years, said he would resign effective June 1. His term was scheduled to end on Nov. 30 and he already had announced in March that it would be his last.

“Recent news stories have become a distraction for the important work of the legislative assembly during its interim meetings,” Holmberg, 79, said in a statement announcing his resignation. “I want to do what I can, within my power, to lessen such distractions.”

Holmberg did not immediately return messages from The Associated Press on Monday. His attorney, Mark Friese, said he didn’t have anything to add beyond Holmberg’s statement.

Friese, a prominent North Dakota criminal defense attorney, said Tuesday that Holmberg hasn’t been charged with any crime, and there is no indication that he will.

GOP Gov. Doug Burgum said in a statement he “supports Sen. Holmberg’s decision to resign.” He did not elaborate.

Senate Majority Leader Rich Wardner said he spoke with Holmberg earlier about his future in the Legislature.

“No charges have been brought against Sen. Holmberg at this time ... he felt it was in the best interest to resign at this time,” Wardner said.

Days after the published report about his text messages, Holmberg had announced that he would step down as head of a powerful panel that oversees the Legislature’s business between sessions.

The Forum of Fargo reported April 15 that Holmberg exchanged 72 text messages in August with Nicholas James Morgan-Derosier. Prosecutors allege Morgan-Derosier possessed several thousand images and videos depicting sexually abused children. He also is accused of taking two children under the age of 10 from Minnesota to his Grand Forks home, with the intent of sexually abusing them.

Holmberg first told the Forum that he had read a newspaper story about the charges, then in a later interview said he had not, the Forum reported.

He told the Forum that his text messages with Morgan-Derosier were related to “a variety of things,” including patio work Morgan-Derosier did for him. He also told the newspaper that he no longer has the text messages.

“They’re just gone,” he said.

Holmberg has been one of the Legislature’s most powerful lawmakers for decades, serving as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. He chaired the Legislative Management committee, which decides committee assignments and chooses study topics that often inspire legislation, four times.

He also sat on the state’s Emergency Commission, which allocates funding and resources in times of an emergency, and served on or chaired several GOP-led redistricting committees.

When he announced in March that this would be his last term, he said the stress of a session and a campaign would “only exacerbate a weakened ability to concentrate on the matters at hand and effectively recall events.”

Many North Dakota Republicans, including Burgum, showered Holmberg with accolades at the time.

Holmberg will remain on the Legislature’s payroll through May and on its state-funded health insurance plan through July, a benefit that is worth about $1,425 monthly.

 

[Buyetyen]

Mandatory community update on the "save the children, trafficking/grooming" anti-woke people who are mysteriously never covered by right-wing media when they are found to be up to no good yet again.

Police Raid MAGA ‘King of Toxic Masculinity’ in Human-Trafficking Investigation

The raid was prompted by reports that an American woman had been abducted.

www.thedailybeast.com

North Dakota lawmaker quits after child porn suspect texts

North Dakota’s longest-serving state senator says he'll resign following a report that he had traded scores of text messages with a man jailed on child pornography charges.

apnews.com

Every accusation is a confession.