All racists have intellectual justifications for their racism. Islamophobes pretend their prejudice against people is merely criticism of a religion, then act all offended when someone calls them out on their slight of hand.
Arrested for accusations of conducting a hoax - something the Texas cops also knew Ahmed had not done. He never said it was a bomb, never joked about it being a bomb, he only said 'it's a clock'.
Otherwise, the teacher, principal, superintendent and the chief of police would be spreading the accusation that Ahmed had made jokes or threats or hints of having a bomb, 24/7.
Remember, science != religion, so your entire thesis is a red herring.
The question is not who's right, the question is: do you respect the humanity of people who disagree with you on something you believe (and believe to be important)?
The question is, would you be as hyperbolic in defense of cigarette manufacturers funding think tanks to insist that smoking is totally safe for kids, when the negative effects of CO2, I mean smoking, have been established scientific fact for decades? If not, why not?
..."solution" to climate change. So remember, right wing kids: when you're whining about Al Gore and carbon credits, you're really whining about capitalism.
You mean the obviously racist cop? If the kid had a history of hoaxes or crying wolf, the school district and cops would be pointing out with every sentence coming out of their mouths.
The question is whether he intentionally made a device that looked like a bomb in order to get a reaction from people.
If that were the case, the teacher, principal, superintendent and chief of police would be screaming from the rooftops that Ahmed had joked about making a bomb, or otherwise led people to believe a bunch of wires and circuits was a bomb.
They're not. Which means you don't have a question, you have a non-sequitur.
I must have missed the memo, what race are Muslims?
The memo says this has been obvious to anyone paying a modicum of attention. Because anyone whining about muslims is invariably thinking of people of Arab descent, or sub-saharan african. And thus, racist.
At the same time, this march of Muslims should speak out against Islamic terrorism and the sort of extremism that their religious brethren in the ISIL areas, and the Boko Haram practice in the Middle East, and Africa. Burning folks alive in cages, auctioning off 12 year old girls for sex slavery . . . this is what Islam is all about.
Or you could take this ten pounds of racist dumbfuckery in a five pound sack and cram it back up the orifice it sprang out of.
1) Muslims aren't bombing countries on the other side of the planet from them, who are zero threat to them. You are. Muslims aren't busy overthrowing democracies and starting bloody civil wars in countries they don't like. You are. Muslims don't have 900+ military bases around the world, or are responsible for 30-50 million deaths around the world since WWII - you do.
2) All this "Muslim terrorism" you're whining about is either directly sponsored by the United States, or a backlash in response to actions taken by the United States.
Isis? Created by Obama, Hillary and Kerry to fight Assad. Iran's theocracy getting you down? Wouldn't exist if the U.S. and Britain hadn't overthrown their secular democracy in '53. Don't like the Taliban? Go piss on Reagan's grave, who gave them weapons and training to fight the Soviets in the '80s.
Ahmed never said it was a bomb, never joked about it being a bomb. So all this hoax talk is a non-sequitur. "But but but it could have been a bomb" - what did the Boston Marathon Bombers drop off their pressure cookers in, again? Yet schools didn't ban backpacks.
Jesus fuck, the city of Boston was nearly in lockdown about ten years ago over something that pretty much everyone agreed with wasn't a bomb and no one cried racism then. So what's your fucking problem, dildo?
1) The cops in Texas knew full well from the very beginning that there was no bomb - as opposed to the cops in Boston, who actually called out the bomb squad and actually blew the damn things up.
2) No one in Boston was arrested and interrogated for hours, after they knew it wasn't a bomb.
So, you were saying something about people being dildos?
Well, religious fucks deserve what they get. Or does that only count if they're christians?
Or Sam Harris. "Those people over there are violent and irrational - that's why we should be able to torture and bomb them, even though they are no threat to us".
Yeah, no threat chickenhawks. 911 hijackers were from and funded by Saudi Arabia, remember? Call us when you've enlisted and your "boots are on the ground" of Riyadh.
I had my desk and backpack searched in grade school because "some kids" reported me to the principal talking about fireworks (It was July) and told him I was looking up bombs on the computers (Electromagnets are apparently bombs). Of course I had random PCBs from shit I took apart in my backpack and that was damning enough evidence to call my parents and suspend me for a week (For "Disrupting the learning environment, a copout term when you piss off school administration but technically didn't break any rules). Cops were threatened but weren't called.
Exactly: cops were not called. You weren't handcuffed, you weren't perp-walked in front of your classmates, and you weren't interrogated for hours without getting one of your parents.
So, yeah, being brown and Muslim might have something to do with the batshit crazy freakout from the school and PD.
Or maybe note your American Exceptionalist ass uses 30 times the resources of some poor shlub in a developing country.
So what? Even if that were true, there's plenty of resources to go around even at seven billion people.
Infinite resources only exists in the minds of conservatives, randians, and fools. I apologize for the redundancy of that statement.
Or that the United States produces a quarter of the world's pollution while having 4% of the worlds population
Even if that were true, (and it's not because you are counting mass of CO2 as equivalent to mass of mercury,particulate soot, etc, which is ridiculously dishonest), that's still only a factor of six which isn't that bad.
The only losers are stockholders in coal, oil, and the military-industrial-complex.
Ridiculous American Exceptionalism. If scientists could only invent a power plant to run off that sense of entitlement.
and that's not including all the coal plants in China producing cheap crap in offshored factories for sale in Wal-Mart.
Which is a smart consideration since that is Chinese pollution not US pollution!
It is when it's producing your shit. Co-ownership at it's finest.
Oh noes! All those jobs lost in the manufacture of asbestos, lead paint, and DDT! Will no one think of the poor beleaguered capitalist cock!
Again, my point is not to completely eliminate regulation but to make it so that it isn't a society-destroying burden.
Exactly, society destroying regulations, like those that banned asbestos, lead paint, and DDT.
And let's face it, if your false dichotomy were actually true that the US would have to forgo regulation altogether or continue with the current suicidal regime, then the US would be face with increasing pollution at some point.
Look, this isn't hard. Wind and solar are already cost-competitive with coal, and that's if you let coal externalize much of its costs. Hybrids take less gas - and maintenance - than cars driven only by combustion engines. Mass transit is cheaper, and leads to less gridlock, than highways.
Take away the real subsidies to the fossil fuel industry, spend it on mitigating climate change....and you'll have the biggest economic boom since WWII.
The cost of mitigating climate change are insignificant next to the costs of ignoring it.
That is your point of view.
That's you continuing the Troll Tactic of pretending that high costs from climate change are a possible future, rather than current events. When wind and solar are already cost-competitive with coal, why continue with the canard that's it's going to be toooo coooostly to mitigate climate change?
The only people who will suffer the cost will be the shareholders of fossil fuel companies.
That about encompasses the consensus. 90% of everything that everyone is talking about though does NOT have a broad consensus and is still being actively studied, things like: 1.What quantitative relationship do our CO2 emissions have to future temperature change? 2. What cost is there to us from future temperature change. 3. What cost is there to us for reducing our CO2 emissions by a set factor.
That's using the Troll Tactic of pretending that climate change is some hypothetical future event, rather than something happening right now with huge costs in both dollars and lives.
The costs of mitigating climate change are unobtainable, not insignificant. To put it simply, major carbon emission reduction is not obtainable without a central world government.
Right. That's why banning CFC's wasn't possible without a fascist planetary government, and why the United States utterly collapsed after lead paint was banned.
This is why I'm focused on mitigation by technology.
You mean shoveling more money into corporate welfare based solutions that will be utterly inadequate to the task.
This isn't hard. Saving energy means saving money. Mass transit costs less money and creates less gridlock than 6+ lane highways. And when wind and solar are already cost competitive with coal, ignoring the fact that coal power externalizes much of it's cost, continuing to be willfully obtuse on the matter is a non-starter.
As reasonable as asking someone to prove that water is wet, or that daytime is brighter than nighttime. But that's another climate troll tactic: start being willfully obtuse, then take it to 11.
Pretty much, yeah. And generations before the 70's feminists, you had proto-feminists and suffragists giving white feathers to able-bodied men not actively serving in the military, to mark them as cowards.
Not enough. Players should be getting paid to put asses in the stadium seats, as they are risking lifetime injuries to put on a show. NCAA can go die in a fire with their "but but this is amateur athletics" argument until it applies to someone other than players. When coaches and NCAA officials make as much as adjunct english professors and games are only aired on local access channels, then they can say with a straight face that these are amateur sports.
Permian High School spends (or at least they used to spend) more on bandages for the football team than on the entire English department.
Sure, but that's high school. Most high schools do not have alumni associations, merchandise you can buy 300 miles away, and TV contracts.
It's not so much that I'm defending football as being skeptical that only 16 teams in the entire country are revenue positive.
And the most civilized ones have equally lengthily paternity leave to match maternity. But that's all besides the point when it comes to raises for seniority. If a new mother (or a new father) takes a year off to stay home with a baby, that's one year less experience she or he has than coworkers that did not take time off.
Which puts us back to: there isn't a wage gap, there's a work gap. What feminists want, and have always wanted, is equal pay for less work.
It's not free. Someone's paying for it: the German taxpayer.
Free in this context means free to use, not free as in lunch. It's free to use a public sidewalk - noting that fact doesn't mean claiming the sidewalk was free to build.
And far, far more blacks are killed by other blacks than by law enforcement, despite what the mainstream media would have you believe.
When a black man kills another black man, everyone expects he will be sent to jail, including other black men. When a cop kills a man, black or white, he's unlikely to even lose his job, much less go to jail. That's what gets people pissed off.
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All racists have intellectual justifications for their racism. Islamophobes pretend their prejudice against people is merely criticism of a religion, then act all offended when someone calls them out on their slight of hand.
Arrested for accusations of conducting a hoax - something the Texas cops also knew Ahmed had not done. He never said it was a bomb, never joked about it being a bomb, he only said 'it's a clock'.
Otherwise, the teacher, principal, superintendent and the chief of police would be spreading the accusation that Ahmed had made jokes or threats or hints of having a bomb, 24/7.
Of course you're trolling. Badly, too.
Remember, science != religion, so your entire thesis is a red herring.
The question is, would you be as hyperbolic in defense of cigarette manufacturers funding think tanks to insist that smoking is totally safe for kids, when the negative effects of CO2, I mean smoking, have been established scientific fact for decades? If not, why not?
Hardly, as either example involves corporate interests telling bald-faced lies for financial gain.
Repeating right-wing Zombie Lies doesn't make them true, it just makes you a bigger and more pathetic liar for repeating them.
..."solution" to climate change. So remember, right wing kids: when you're whining about Al Gore and carbon credits, you're really whining about capitalism.
You mean the obviously racist cop? If the kid had a history of hoaxes or crying wolf, the school district and cops would be pointing out with every sentence coming out of their mouths.
They're not.
If that were the case, the teacher, principal, superintendent and chief of police would be screaming from the rooftops that Ahmed had joked about making a bomb, or otherwise led people to believe a bunch of wires and circuits was a bomb.
They're not. Which means you don't have a question, you have a non-sequitur.
The memo says this has been obvious to anyone paying a modicum of attention. Because anyone whining about muslims is invariably thinking of people of Arab descent, or sub-saharan african. And thus, racist.
Or you could take this ten pounds of racist dumbfuckery in a five pound sack and cram it back up the orifice it sprang out of.
1) Muslims aren't bombing countries on the other side of the planet from them, who are zero threat to them. You are. Muslims aren't busy overthrowing democracies and starting bloody civil wars in countries they don't like. You are. Muslims don't have 900+ military bases around the world, or are responsible for 30-50 million deaths around the world since WWII - you do.
2) All this "Muslim terrorism" you're whining about is either directly sponsored by the United States, or a backlash in response to actions taken by the United States.
Isis? Created by Obama, Hillary and Kerry to fight Assad. Iran's theocracy getting you down? Wouldn't exist if the U.S. and Britain hadn't overthrown their secular democracy in '53. Don't like the Taliban? Go piss on Reagan's grave, who gave them weapons and training to fight the Soviets in the '80s.
Ahmed never said it was a bomb, never joked about it being a bomb. So all this hoax talk is a non-sequitur. "But but but it could have been a bomb" - what did the Boston Marathon Bombers drop off their pressure cookers in, again? Yet schools didn't ban backpacks.
1) The cops in Texas knew full well from the very beginning that there was no bomb - as opposed to the cops in Boston, who actually called out the bomb squad and actually blew the damn things up.
2) No one in Boston was arrested and interrogated for hours, after they knew it wasn't a bomb.
So, you were saying something about people being dildos?
Or Sam Harris. "Those people over there are violent and irrational - that's why we should be able to torture and bomb them, even though they are no threat to us".
Yeah, no threat chickenhawks. 911 hijackers were from and funded by Saudi Arabia, remember? Call us when you've enlisted and your "boots are on the ground" of Riyadh.
Exactly: cops were not called. You weren't handcuffed, you weren't perp-walked in front of your classmates, and you weren't interrogated for hours without getting one of your parents.
So, yeah, being brown and Muslim might have something to do with the batshit crazy freakout from the school and PD.
Infinite resources only exists in the minds of conservatives, randians, and fools. I apologize for the redundancy of that statement.
The only losers are stockholders in coal, oil, and the military-industrial-complex.
Ridiculous American Exceptionalism. If scientists could only invent a power plant to run off that sense of entitlement.
It is when it's producing your shit. Co-ownership at it's finest.
Exactly, society destroying regulations, like those that banned asbestos, lead paint, and DDT.
Look, this isn't hard. Wind and solar are already cost-competitive with coal, and that's if you let coal externalize much of its costs. Hybrids take less gas - and maintenance - than cars driven only by combustion engines. Mass transit is cheaper, and leads to less gridlock, than highways.
Take away the real subsidies to the fossil fuel industry, spend it on mitigating climate change....and you'll have the biggest economic boom since WWII.
That's you continuing the Troll Tactic of pretending that high costs from climate change are a possible future, rather than current events. When wind and solar are already cost-competitive with coal, why continue with the canard that's it's going to be toooo coooostly to mitigate climate change?
The only people who will suffer the cost will be the shareholders of fossil fuel companies.
That's using the Troll Tactic of pretending that climate change is some hypothetical future event, rather than something happening right now with huge costs in both dollars and lives.
Right. That's why banning CFC's wasn't possible without a fascist planetary government, and why the United States utterly collapsed after lead paint was banned.
You mean shoveling more money into corporate welfare based solutions that will be utterly inadequate to the task.
This isn't hard. Saving energy means saving money. Mass transit costs less money and creates less gridlock than 6+ lane highways. And when wind and solar are already cost competitive with coal, ignoring the fact that coal power externalizes much of it's cost, continuing to be willfully obtuse on the matter is a non-starter.
As reasonable as asking someone to prove that water is wet, or that daytime is brighter than nighttime. But that's another climate troll tactic: start being willfully obtuse, then take it to 11.
Pretty much, yeah. And generations before the 70's feminists, you had proto-feminists and suffragists giving white feathers to able-bodied men not actively serving in the military, to mark them as cowards.
Not enough. Players should be getting paid to put asses in the stadium seats, as they are risking lifetime injuries to put on a show. NCAA can go die in a fire with their "but but this is amateur athletics" argument until it applies to someone other than players. When coaches and NCAA officials make as much as adjunct english professors and games are only aired on local access channels, then they can say with a straight face that these are amateur sports.
Sure, but that's high school. Most high schools do not have alumni associations, merchandise you can buy 300 miles away, and TV contracts.
It's not so much that I'm defending football as being skeptical that only 16 teams in the entire country are revenue positive.
And the most civilized ones have equally lengthily paternity leave to match maternity. But that's all besides the point when it comes to raises for seniority. If a new mother (or a new father) takes a year off to stay home with a baby, that's one year less experience she or he has than coworkers that did not take time off.
Which puts us back to: there isn't a wage gap, there's a work gap. What feminists want, and have always wanted, is equal pay for less work.
Free in this context means free to use, not free as in lunch. It's free to use a public sidewalk - noting that fact doesn't mean claiming the sidewalk was free to build.
Or they could have rubbed two synapses together - which is more than you have - and asked "if this is the trigger, where is the bomb?"
When a black man kills another black man, everyone expects he will be sent to jail, including other black men. When a cop kills a man, black or white, he's unlikely to even lose his job, much less go to jail. That's what gets people pissed off.
Get it now?