Funny events in anti-woke world

[TheMysteriousGX]

Terf island having a normal one

 

[XsjadoBlayde]

Failed Republican candidate arrested in shootings targeting Democratic politicians' homes

Albuquerque police on Monday arrested the man they say is the "mastermind" behind a recent string of shootings targeting Democratic lawmakers' homes.

www.abqjournal.com

The Albuquerque Police Department has arrested Solomon Pena, an unsuccessful Republican candidate for the House District 14 seat in the South Valley, in connection with the shootings at local Democratic politicians’ homes, the police chief announced Monday afternoon.

“Pena, an unsuccessful legislative candidate in the 2022 election, is accused of conspiring with, and paying four other men to shoot at the homes of two county commissioners and two state legislators,” Chief Harold Medina said.

APD had been investigating six shootings from Dec. 4 through Jan. 5 where bullets were fired into Democratic elected officials homes or near others offices.

On Dec. 4 eight shots were fired into County Commissioner Adriann Barboa’s Southeast Albuquerque home. On Dec. 11 more than 12 bullets hit County Commissioner Debbie O’Malley’s North Valley home. Sometime in early December, state Rep. Javier Martinez’s home was shot up, although the damage was not found until after the investigation into the other shootings was announced. On Jan. 3, shots rang out at state Rep. Linda Lopez’s home and three bullets went through her daughter’s bedroom as the 10-year-old slept.

APD was also investigating whether shots fired near the campaign office for Raúl Torrez as he ran for state Attorney General and near the office of State Sen. Antonio “Moe” Maestas were also connected to the string of shootings.


Gilbert Gallegos, an APD spokesman, said Monday that officers don’t have any evidence linking the group to those shootings at this time.
Investigators said

Around 3:30 p.m. – following a SWAT standoff near the ABQ BioPark – officers could be seen arresting a man in glasses wearing a sweatshirt and walking him to a police car at 14th and Coal SW.


Prior to the arrest officers could be heard commanding “Solomon Pena please come out with your hands up, we have the place surrounded.” Pena lost by more than 3,600 votes to incumbent Democrat Rep. Miguel P. Garcia in the November election.

The address Pena had provided to the New Mexico Secretary of State when he ran for office matched the tall residential building where the SWAT standoff took place.

Pena’s candidacy came under scrutiny over the summer when Garcia filed a court challenge to disqualify him because he had been convicted in 2008 of stealing large amounts of goods from several big box retail stores in a reported “smash and grab” scheme.

Pena served nearly seven years in prison.

District Judge Joshua Allison ruled that a state law barring felons from holding office unless they are pardoned by the governor is unconstitutional so Pena remained on the ballot. He said that the state Constitution allows legislators to enact laws on voting rights of felons and their ability to run for elected office, but not to distinguish between the two by imposing additional requirements.

Pena lost the election by more than 3,600 votes, garnering 2,033 votes to Garcia’s 5,679.

In frequent postings on his Twitter account, Pena, 39, has maintained that he didn’t lose and that the election was rigged.

In frequent postings on his Twitter account, Pena, 39, has maintained that he didn’t lose and that the election was rigged.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Failed Republican candidate arrested in shootings targeting Democratic politicians' homes

Albuquerque police on Monday arrested the man they say is the "mastermind" behind a recent string of shootings targeting Democratic lawmakers' homes.

www.abqjournal.com

And yet there are Republicans who swear up and down that it's liberals who are going to take up arms and try to exterminate them.

 

[Ag3ma]

The way I remembered it, MeToo hit prominent media conservatives as hard as liberal counterparts without any issue, and only really lost momentum when they attempted to torpedo a Supreme Court nomination with it. But looking back into google result history, I may have been ignorant, cause it looks like the spring and summer of 2018 before Kavanaugh was nominated were actually full of left wing articles critical of the movement, or at least the consequences of it.

One of those articles I cannot read. The other two are a lot less critical than you are painting them as. One merely says debate is fine, the other points out that women's concerns about #metoo are rooted in an overall desire that it should succeed.

The first article is particularly interesting. That men might discriminate against women more if women complain about sexual harassment is the age-old fear women have had, and which feminism has fought, for decades. It's precisely one of the major problems that facilitates sexual harassment.

 

[Silvanus]

Terf island having a normal one

The only objection I have to that characterisation is that Britain isn't even very feminist.

 

[tstorm823]

One of those articles I cannot read. The other two are a lot less critical than you are painting them as. One merely says debate is fine, the other points out that women's concerns about #metoo are rooted in an overall desire that it should succeed.

The first article is particularly interesting. That men might discriminate against women more if women complain about sexual harassment is the age-old fear women have had, and which feminism has fought, for decades. It's precisely one of the major problems that facilitates sexual harassment.

To wrap this back up in a bow, this conversation stemmed from a comment claiming MeToo faced a lot of ridicule and is equated with wokeness, suggesting the "anti-woke" hate MeToo. Which was news to me. The most I remember as far as ridicule was the "weren't all of you mocking Mike Pence for not having dinner privately with female colleagues last year?" I don't remember people on the right being upset about higher standards of sexual ethics.

 

[Ag3ma]

To wrap this back up in a bow, this conversation stemmed from a comment claiming MeToo faced a lot of ridicule and is equated with wokeness, suggesting the "anti-woke" hate MeToo. Which was news to me.

"Anti-woke" is perhaps a slight misnomer. Broadly, I think it ran into the usual contempt from anti-feminists, which is slightly different from "anti-woke" albeit with large overlap.

 

[Buyetyen]

I don't remember people on the right being upset about higher standards of sexual ethics.

Is that what we're calling sexual repression now?

 

[Silvanus]

suggesting the "anti-woke" hate MeToo. Which was news to me.

[...]

I don't remember people on the right being upset about higher standards of sexual ethics.

To both of these snippets: ...where have you been!?

 

[Dalisclock]

To both of these snippets: ...where have you been!?

The right wing echo chamber? The 1950's when "womenz knew to not talk back to a man like the good lord intended"?

 

[TheMysteriousGX]

Swear to god, the GOP is gonna culture war themselves out of existence. Hopefully sooner rather than later

 

[tstorm823]

Is that what we're calling sexual repression now?

The MeToo Movement might not be the right topic to try and equate sexual ethics and sexual repression.

 

[Chimpzy]

Trying to re-appropriate the ACAB term for positive marketing is a weird thing to do. Very handsome dog tho. All Canines Are Beautiful.

 

[PsychedelicDiamond]

Trying to re-appropriate the ACAB term for positive marketing is a weird thing to do. Very handsome dog tho. All Canines Are Beautiful.

To be fair, the German police don't have and probably don't deserve the bad reputation the US police for example has. I don't want to defend them too much, because they have their share of skeletons in their closet, but the average german police officer is, at the very least, not a violent psycho.

Somehow I don't see them succesfully reclaiming the slogan "ACAB" any time soon, though.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

Somehow I don't see them succesfully reclaiming the slogan "ACAB" any time soon, though.

Can't reclaim what was never yours.

 

[Silvanus]

I get what they're going for... but those models remind me of the IT Crowd "new emergency services" ad, where they boast that they have "more attractive paramedics".

 

[Silvanus]

Disabled Veteran: George Santos Took $3K From Dying Dog's GoFundMe

Two New Jersey veterans say George Santos promised to raise funds for a lifesaving surgery for a service dog — then disappeared.

patch.com

More on the unfolding tragicomedy of George Santos. Leaning more on the tragedy side.

Retired veteran Richard Osthoff and a retired police sergeant have attested that George Santos, under the name Anthony Devolder (which is known to be a name he has gone by) set up a GoFundMe page to receive donations for the removal of a stomach tumour suffered by Osthoff's pet dog. He did so via his registered charity, Friends of Pets United, so that GoFundMe would also contribute.

Santos instructed Osthoff to travel to another state to go to a specific hospital, only for the veterinarian to say they would be unable to operate on it there. Afterwards, Santos closed the funding campaign, took the money, and stopped answering calls. Osthoff has shown the text conversations with "Devolder" to back this up, and he's also backed up by the retired Sgt.

The dog did not receive the medical care that was crowdfunded, and has died.

 

[Buyetyen]

The dog did not receive the medical care that was crowdfunded, and has died.

I would have something snarky to say here, but there's nothing funny about this. I mostly just want Santos to go to fucking prison already.

 

[Dalisclock]

Disabled Veteran: George Santos Took $3K From Dying Dog's GoFundMe

Two New Jersey veterans say George Santos promised to raise funds for a lifesaving surgery for a service dog — then disappeared.

patch.com

More on the unfolding tragicomedy of George Santos. Leaning more on the tragedy side.

Retired veteran Richard Osthoff and a retired police sergeant have attested that George Santos, under the name Anthony Devolder (which is known to be a name he has gone by) set up a GoFundMe page to receive donations for the removal of a stomach tumour suffered by Osthoff's pet dog. He did so via his registered charity, Friends of Pets United, so that GoFundMe would also contribute.

Santos instructed Osthoff to travel to another state to go to a specific hospital, only for the veterinarian to say they would be unable to operate on it there. Afterwards, Santos closed the funding campaign, took the money, and stopped answering calls. Osthoff has shown the text conversations with "Devolder" to back this up, and he's also backed up by the retired Sgt.

The dog did not receive the medical care that was crowdfunded, and has died.

That's just fucking awful.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Trying to re-appropriate the ACAB term for positive marketing is a weird thing to do. Very handsome dog tho. All Canines Are Beautiful.

Why is that one cop squatting on an elevated platform? I guess because she's next to the dog and she's supposed to look like the handler, but then why elevate her so far above the dog? I guess because otherwise the dog would obstruct the view to her beauty, but then why have the dog there at all? I guess because dogs are a big part of policing, and having an animal on the poster will generate sympathy points, but then why-.. ah fuck it.