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'Don't apologize': Ricky Gervais takes on verbal terrorism

Kyle Smith
National Review
Fri, 16 Aug 2019 06:30 UTC
Ricky Gervais
© Patrick T. Fallon/ReutersRicky Gervais
The Left should listen to comedians more.

Ricky Gervais calls himself "a lefty liberal champagne socialist," but when he says, "I don't agree that feelings are more important than facts," he echoes Ben Shapiro. The point of intersection: Both men support speaking freely. This quality makes them somewhat courageous, though it shouldn't.

Another commonality is that both tend to elicit a lot of shock and dismay, or at least feigned shock and dismay. Gervais dismisses adverse comments on social media as the scribbles on "every public toilet wall in the world" in an important two-hour conversation that recently appeared on the podcast Making Sense with Sam Harris. Harris is a vigorous defender of the culture of free speech, and his interviews are always penetrating. This is one of his best.

Comment: Being offensive in the right context is a comedian's stock in trade. That's what makes them funny. The fact that the 'woke' crowd doesn't understand this, and thus has no sense of humor, could perhaps be the funniest part of all this (if it weren't so dangerous).

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Mr. Potato

College suggests students respond to 'offensive' language with 'ouch!'

Celine Ryan
Campus Reform
Tue, 27 Aug 2019 07:01 UTC
pain clutching stomach
Indiana University Southeast is encouraging students to say "ouch!" to others who use "offensive" language, in order to convey that the words "had a negative impact" on them.

The university publishes and maintains a guide instructing students on how to "reduce bias in language" and offers some tactics for responding to others who use language they find offensive. One of these tactics is to "say 'ouch!'" to others who utter "stereotypes, offensive or biased comments." The university asserts that saying "ouch!" in these situations is an effective tool "simply to convey what was said had a negative impact on you, regardless if it was directed toward you."

The university offered examples of language that may require such a response including phrases like "man and wife" or simply "wives," as well as "mothering. These phrases can supposedly "imply one group dominating over another group." The university suggests instead that students use phrases like "husband and wife," "spouses," and "parenting."

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Handcuffs

Cops put a gun to innocent man's head over window tint stop

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 27 Aug 2019 10:21 UTC
Rudy Ornelas
If ever you think that all traffic laws are for your safety, one thing can change that view — window tint. In the land of the free, if police feel that your window tint is too dark, they will claim the right to extort money from you. If you resist this extortion, police will claim the right to kidnap or kill you. Unfortunately, in the land of the free, these instances happen so frequently that they are often caught on video too. As the following incident illustrates, fearful cops whose only tool is the escalation of violence, will not hesitate to resort to deadly force over a stop for window tint.

A video was submitted to the Free Thought Project this week showing multiple Sacramento cops pull over Rudy Ornelas because his window tint was too dark. Ornelas was respectful and told the officers that he was just pulled over for the same thing and was issued a "fix-it" ticket to remove the tint.

In California, police officers who target people for extortion over window tint have the option of issuing those folks a fix-it ticket. These tickets give the owner of the vehicle a certain time frame in which to correct the supposed violation. Typically, you pay a smaller fee and then prove that you "fixed" the problem, like remove the window tint or fix a broken taillight.
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Attention

Google is burying alternative health sites to protect people from "dangerous" medical advice

Barry Brownstein
Foundation for Economic Education
Tue, 06 Aug 2019 00:01 UTC
google sign logo
© Paweł Czerwiński from Unsplash


For their unorthodox views, some physicians are being treated as medical heretics. Google's search engine algorithm has essentially ended traffic to their websites.

In Ray Bradbury's classic novel Fahrenheit 451, firemen don't put out fires; they create fires to burn books.

The totalitarians claim noble goals for book burning. They want to spare citizens unhappiness caused by having to sort through conflicting theories.

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Fire

Pete Davidson berates University of Central Florida audience: "You should f***ing grow up"

Ryan Parker
The Hollywood Reporter
Tue, 27 Aug 2019 08:48 UTC
Pete Davidson
© Photo by FilmMagic/FilmMagicPete Davidson
The university is not pleased with how the comedian handled himself.

Pete Davidson on Monday night berated an audience at the University of Central Florida after some people in the crowd took out their phones.

Davidson was captured on video lambasting the crowd for more than a minute, saying he would leave if they did not act accordingly.

"I don't have to be here," said the Saturday Night Live castmember at the tour stop. "I can just give them their money back because I don't give a fuck."

Comment: It seems like more and more comedians are getting to a point where they've had enough with the PC spoiled brat culture calling them out because they can't take a joke. Davidson wasn't directly addressing the PC outrage, but was telling a bunch of spoiled brats to grow up. It amounts to the same thing.

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Biohazard

UK beaches panic after 'toxic sea incident' leaves people struggling to breathe


Sputnik
Wed, 28 Aug 2019 08:37 UTC
West Sussex beach
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Twelve days earlier a number of people on a UK beach in West Sussex suffered bouts of vomiting in the wake of a toxic plume sweeping the area, with a sunken warship investigated as a likely cause of the incident.

Three UK beaches have been on alert over a mysterious "toxic sea" incident, The Independent has reported, with emergency services in Essex summoned to Frinton, Walton, and Clacton on Sunday.

An investigation is currently underway after numerous incidents of beachgoers in Essex were reportedly left coughing and struggling to breathe after swimming, as people flocked to the seaside during a record-hot spell of bank holiday weekend weather. Authorities immediately issued a warning to families to stay out of the water.
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Brick Wall

New Mexico begins work on border wall replacement with diverted defense funds

Bob Price
Breitbart
Wed, 28 Aug 2019 08:37 UTC
Trump border wall
© AP File Photo/Gregory Bull
Construction crews in New Mexico began work on a 46-mile stretch of replacement border walls. The project is reportedly funded with Department of Defense resources diverted by the Trump Administration under a national emergency declaration.

The construction company set forth on a contract to replace a 46-mile section of border fencing with a taller bollard wall. The project is running from Columbus, New Mexico, to Santa Teresa along the border that separates the state from Chihuahua, Mexico, KVIA, ABC7 reported.

The U.S. Supreme Court recently overturned a lower court's ruling that blocked the use of diverted funds, Breitbart News' Joel Pollak reported in July. The ruling freed approximately $2.5 billion for construction.
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Black Magic

Early Epstein accuser recounts bizarre sexual abuse ignored by FBI & NYPD

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Wed, 28 Aug 2019 08:37 UTC
Annie Farmer
© Tamir Kalifa for The New York TimesAnnie Farmer had troubling encounters with Mr. Epstein and Ms. Maxwell when she was 16.
Jeffrey Epstein's tremendous wealth and power allowed him to continuously prey on young women for decades - even while serving a 13-month stint in a Florida jail for pedophilia.

According to multiple accounts, Epstein had a network of girls recruiting other victims for his sexual appetite, all under the direction of his long-time 'Madam' and partner in crime, Ghislaine Maxwell - who remains uncharged and has denied any wrongdoing.
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Family

Socialization isn't responsible for greater male violence

Alex Mackiel
Quillette
Mon, 26 Aug 2019 07:25 UTC
storks fighting
Earlier this year, Dr. Julia Shaw wrote an article for Psychology Today entitled, "Why Are We Not Outraged that Prisons Are Filled with Men?" in which she argues that there is something "pernicious" and deeply wrong with a system that incarcerates men at far higher rates than women. "Prison," she explains, "has always been an almost entirely male structure. It's hard. It's cold. It's unempathetic. It's punitive. Practically every descriptor we use for prison prides itself in its masculinity."


Shaw says the heavily disproportionate incarceration reflects a lack of faith in men, who are then adversely affected by the experience of prison and the social stigma they are forced to carry upon release. And "what leads us to blindly accept that our prisons are full of men?" she asks.
I think it's because we accept as dogma that men are naturally more criminal — particularly more violent — than women, thus they deserve to be incarcerated at higher rates. It's about time we question this assumption.
As Shaw points out, men are overrepresented in prisons because they commit more crime than women and because, according to the FBI's statistics, they do so in nearly every category of violent crime. This is especially true when it comes to homicide. The statistics Dr. Shaw herself cites in her article bear this out:
According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Global Study on Homicide in 2013, an astonishing 95 percent of homicide perpetrators and 79 percent of homicide victims were male.

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New poll shows 70% of Americans are 'angry' at our political system for only serving insiders with money and power

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 26 Aug 2019 00:00 UTC
politics and money
"A deep and boiling anger" is the sentiment behind a recent poll conducted this month, showing just how utterly pissed off Americans are with their government. Despite Americans being pitted against each other with divisive partisan tactics rammed down their throats on a daily basis by the political establishment and the media, this recent poll shows they agree on one thing — the government serves the connected elite and no one else.

This latest poll, conducted by NBC News/Wall Street Journal paints a picture of an angry America. But these Americans aren't angry at one another, they are angry at the political and financial establishment that continues to fleece them in the name of "Freedom."

This anger doesn't stem from Trump either as it's been there since before him.

"Four years ago, we uncovered a deep and boiling anger across the country engulfing our political system," said Democratic pollster Jeff Horwitt of Hart Research Associates, which conducted this survey in partnership with the Republican firm Public Opinion Strategies. "Four years later, with a very different political leader in place, that anger remains at the same level."

As NBC points out, the poll finds that 70 percent of Americans say they feel angry "because our political system seems to only be working for the insiders with money and power, like those on Wall Street or in Washington." Forty-three percent say that statement describes them "very well."
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