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[Clanner Moment]

Where’s the Aussie spirit? ‘Pygmy possum’ leaders impose one punishing lockdown after another despite a single death in 6 months

Australians cowed by Covid ‘beast’ into more lockdowns, borders closed to tourism till next year & a ‘stop infections at all costs’ attitude. There’s no sign of the legendary Aussie spirit among leaders of a once proud nation.

www.rt.com

lmaoooo, if you think this isn't a larp

 

[ShadowArxxy]

Infamous young-earth Creationist Kent Hovind's lawsuit against pretty much everyone involved in convicting him of tax evasion eight years ago (the judge, the prosecutors, the IRS, and even *his own lawyer*), alleging that they were all conspiring against him to illegally apply U.S. law to an exempt sovereign citizen. . . has been dismissed by a federal judge as "frivolous and delusional".

Note that the judge in question is a Trump appointee, so this is not a matter of "libs prosecuting white Christians!", although Hovind has tried to portray it that way in addition to the usual sovereign citizen cray cray word magic.

Note that Hovind was claiming over half a billion dollars in supposed damages, including emotional damages because his wife divorced him and his entire family is no longer on speaking terms with him, which he claims is entirely because of government persecution. He also claims that his "ministry" would have continued to thrive had he not been convicted of tax fraud, so the government owes him all of the money he *didn't* make from 2004 to 2020, computed on the "conservative" assumption that revenues would have grown at 12% per year.

Among other things, the judge pointed out that convicted criminals are not allowed to sue judges, prosecutors, the IRS, and police for convicting them unless there's actual evidence of wrongdoing, as opposed to, "I lost, and I shouldn't have, therefore it was illegal imprisonment!"

 

[PsihoKekec]

his wife divorced him and his entire family is no longer on speaking terms with him

Surprisingly common state of affairs amongst the sovereign citizens. Makes you think there is something wrong with them, nah must be everyone else that is wrong.

 

[ShadowArxxy]

Surprisingly common state of affairs amongst the sovereign citizens. Makes you think there is something wrong with them, nah must be everyone else that is wrong.

His wife ended up with a felony conviction and a year in federal prison as a co-conspirator due to Hovind's tax shenanigans, which rather soured her on the relationship.

His second wife married him in 2016 with the *one* condition that he not start pulling tax shenanigans like this again. . . and divorced him when she realized he was blatantly lying to her about not doing it again. He and his supporters subsequently claimed that it was immoral of her to set that condition in the first place, because a good conservative Christian wife should support her husband without question *and* should not meddle in men's business.

A third wife is rumored to be pending -- his first remarriage did cost him some supporters because he's from the flavor of really hardcore fundies who are strongly against divorce, but I doubt anyone who was still supporting him after that would judge him too harshly for doing it again, especially since they're buying into the narrative that wife #2 "betrayed" him and was a "bad Christian" for not wanting to go to prison like wife #1.

 

[PsihoKekec]

Had to look up the guy on the internet, it's real carnival of asshattery, even other creationists don't want to have anything to do with him. Could be the bad guy in a Rodney Dangerfield movie.

 

[Simonbob]

Where’s the Aussie spirit? ‘Pygmy possum’ leaders impose one punishing lockdown after another despite a single death in 6 months

Australians cowed by Covid ‘beast’ into more lockdowns, borders closed to tourism till next year & a ‘stop infections at all costs’ attitude. There’s no sign of the legendary Aussie spirit among leaders of a once proud nation.

www.rt.com

lmaoooo, if you think this isn't a larp

As an Australian, I'll say, Victoria had 4 cases of suspected C19, a week ago. And, the whole State was locked down. No work, unless the Gov said it was "Essential". No going out, unless you're willing to risk the pigs coming down on you. This follows months of lockdowns as harsh as any in the US, with vastly less reason. Australia has been pretty much untouched by C19.

There's no real protest, either, that's already been crushed. A bunch of folk tried to set up a protest rally on Facebook, after BLM was allowed to march. A number of them were arrested. The majority in Victoria is still happy to vote for the incompetent Politicians, who repeateley screwed up, in all sort's of ways.


Australia's screwed.

 

[bintananth]

Had to look up the guy on the internet, it's real carnival of asshattery, even other creationists don't want to have anything to do with him. Could be the bad guy in a Rodney Dangerfield movie.

It's been a long while since I've watched a Rodney Dangerfield movie. Isn't the villian (in the classical sense) usually whatever character Rodney "I get no respect" Dangerfield plays while the bad guys are the ones saying "don't do that"?

 

[Husky_Khan]

Gabriel Taye, an Elementary School student violently and repeatedly bullied over several months, including being beaten unconscious in an incident left unreported to the parents as the school decided to engage in a literal coverup when dealing with the parents including withholding evidence. lies and lies by omission.

Cincinnati schools to pay $3 million in Gabriel Taye bullying case, implement reforms

As part of the settlement, the district has committed to making sure what happened to Gabriel, who died by suicide after bullying, never happens again.

www.cincinnati.com

When Gabriel was in second grade, there were two instances when students hit him, but his parents said the school never called them.

In October 2016, three months before he died, students punched or hit him, and once when he hit back, school leaders warned he’d be punished if he defended himself again.

On Halloween, Gabriel suffered a head injury, but the school's former principal, Ruthenia Jackson, and former assistant principal, Jeffrey McKenzie, told his mother they could not determine how it happened. They refused her request to look at video footage of the playground.

Earlier in January 2017, Gabriel was attacked and injured three other times. McKenzie told Gabriel’s mother that no video captured the incidents, and Gabriel’s injuries amounted to “horseplay.” McKenzie did not tell Gabriel’s mother that he had suspended two students for attacking Gabriel.

On Jan. 24, 2017, a student pushed Gabriel into a wall of a boys’ restroom, the blow knocking Gabriel unconscious for seven minutes. In a school video of the assault, the other student can be seen dancing over Gabriel.

McKenzie found Gabriel and simply stood over him. School officials did not call 911 as CPS policy requires. The school nurse, Margaret McLaughlin, only told his mother that Gabriel fainted. Later that day, he complained of stomach pain and spent several hours at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.

He stayed home from school on Jan. 25, but on Jan. 26, two other students bullied Gabriel in a Carson restroom and stole his water bottle. He died by suicide after school that day in his bedroom at his mother's Westwood apartment.

Gabriel Taye was an eight year old who dreamed of joining the military someday and liked to dress nice, including wearing neckties. It was with a necktie that the child eventually hung himself to death with from a bunk bed after one particular bullying incident resulted in him laying on a restroom floor unconscious for seven minutes.

In the settlement, district and school officials continue to deny the allegations "and assert that they have not engaged in any wrongdoing."

 

[bintananth]

In the settlement, district and school officials continue to deny the allegations "and assert that they have not engaged in any wrongdoing."

Writing a large cheque to make something go away in exchange for not having to admit guilt is a time-honoured tradition. Had this gone before a judge and jury the school district and those involved would have been absolutely screwed. Doubly so if the local prosecutor wasn't overworked and also in a bad mood.

 

[Zachowon]

Gabriel Taye, an Elementary School student violently and repeatedly bullied over several months, including being beaten unconscious in an incident left unreported to the parents as the school decided to engage in a literal coverup when dealing with the parents including withholding evidence. lies and lies by omission.

Cincinnati schools to pay $3 million in Gabriel Taye bullying case, implement reforms

As part of the settlement, the district has committed to making sure what happened to Gabriel, who died by suicide after bullying, never happens again.

www.cincinnati.com

Gabriel Taye was an eight year old who dreamed of joining the military someday and liked to dress nice, including wearing neckties. It was with a necktie that the child eventually hung himself to death with from a bunk bed after one particular bullying incident resulted in him laying on a restroom floor unconscious for seven minutes.

The kid would have made a great service member.

This reminds me of what happened on Hood. Multiple times.

 

[ShadowArxxy]

Gabriel Taye, an Elementary School student violently and repeatedly bullied over several months, including being beaten unconscious in an incident left unreported to the parents as the school decided to engage in a literal coverup when dealing with the parents including withholding evidence. lies and lies by omission.

Worth pointing at this anytime someone complains that the bullying in Worm wasn't realistic.

 

[ParadiseLost]

Worth pointing at this anytime someone complains that the bullying in Worm wasn't realistic.

Lots of the kids in poor/bad neighborhoods have had zero positive role models and are borderline psychotic.

Meanwhile the teachers often don't really care to intervene unless there's literally a dead body. Indeed, its horrifyingly common for schools to have policies that essentially punish the bully and the victim the same, and even punish any "tattle tales" the same, just so they don't have to deal with it - which often ends up empowering bullies.

A lot of schools in America are great, the majority are just fine. But the lower end of American schools is just absolutely fucking insane.

This is before you get into the fact that drug dealing is pretty much universal in America middle and high schools.

 

[Clanner Moment]

Vaccine passports can liberate America

The CDC’s new mask guidance promises freedom. Vaccine passports can make it reality.

www.vox.com

Unlike many of the challenges we’ve faced with Covid-19 in the past year, there’s a clear answer: vaccine passports. Under this system, vaccinated people could provide proof of inoculation to unlock privileges they didn’t have before, like going into a grocery store without a mask or patronizing a restaurant with no social distancing requirements.
Other countries have successfully adopted this strategy. In Israel, which has the world’s most advanced vaccination campaign, a system of “Green Passes” has let the country almost fully reopen while seeing daily new Covid-19 cases drop by more than 95 percent and daily deaths nearly eliminated.

When Israel is a fascist apartheid state but its vaccine passport system is a model for the US.

 

[DarthOne]

Lots of the kids in poor/bad neighborhoods have had zero positive role models and are borderline psychotic.

Meanwhile the teachers often don't really care to intervene unless there's literally a dead body. Indeed, its horrifyingly common for schools to have policies that essentially punish the bully and the victim the same, and even punish any "tattle tales" the same, just so they don't have to deal with it - which often ends up empowering bullies.

A lot of schools in America are great, the majority are just fine. But the lower end of American schools is just absolutely fucking insane.

This is before you get into the fact that drug dealing is pretty much universal in America middle and high schools.

Yet more reasons why the education system needs to be burned to the ground and rebuilt. Especially in the cities. It would be a great stabilizing element there.

 

[Typhonis]

Charge the teachers as accomplices. Should solve the problem nicely, or force the administration to explain why they are punishing the ones reporting the abuse and the abused.

 

[Bear Ribs]

Charge the teachers as accomplices. Should solve the problem nicely, or force the administration to explain why they are punishing the ones reporting the abuse and the abused.

That's why schools are so fond of zero-tolerance policies, it lets them ignore sanity in favor of lawful-stupid "No tolerance, violence is violence. Yes, Billy broke Jimmy's nose and fractured his skull on the toilet tank, but Jimmy tried to stomp on Billy's foot when he was in the headlock so they were both in violation of our zero-tolerance for violence policy." The administration is free of blame or having to spend time figuring out solutions because zero-tolerance means they automatically punish everybody involved without having to make decisions.

Snitches getting punished works under the same rule. There's zero tolerance for anything related to drugs and Jimmy wouldn't know Billy was slinging dope to report it unless he was there and thus part of it. That this also disincentivizes students to report drug dealing and thus force the administrator to take action is the main benefit from their perspective.

 

[Rocinante]

That's why schools are so fond of zero-tolerance policies, it lets them ignore sanity in favor of lawful-stupid "No tolerance, violence is violence. Yes, Billy broke Jimmy's nose and fractured his skull on the toilet tank, but Jimmy tried to stomp on Billy's foot when he was in the headlock so they were both in violation of our zero-tolerance for violence policy." The administration is free of blame or having to spend time figuring out solutions because zero-tolerance means they automatically punish everybody involved without having to make decisions.

Snitches getting punished works under the same rule. There's zero tolerance for anything related to drugs and Jimmy wouldn't know Billy was slinging dope to report it unless he was there and thus part of it. That this also disincentivizes students to report drug dealing and thus force the administrator to take action is the main benefit from their perspective.

Yep, I got bullied a lot in school and always got suspended for fighting.

I learned to fight back because at one point I just let the bully hit me and I got suspended too. Didn't even fight back. Didn't want to get in trouble. So I just let myself get beat up. Got suspended for getting beat up by a bully.

After that I figured, I'm in trouble anyways, I need to ALWAYS fight back.

That reduced the amount of bullying I got by a lot, but I still got suspended every time.

 

[Bear Ribs]

Perhaps not as hateful as some news but the ultimate end-point of the modern and found art trends has been reached.

https://news.yahoo.com/italian-artist-sells-invisible-sculpture-120619989.html

Salvatore Garau has sold a sculpture entitled I Am for about 18,000 US dollars. The sculpture is invisible and made of air but Garau has stated that it needs to be displayed in a 5x5 room to contain it and it exists in the imagination of the person looking at the space it's in. He's compared it to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.

Garau has already made a second invisible sculpture of air (Dude's clearly a remarkably fast sculptor, possibly because of his chosen material) called Buddha in Contemplation. It's not clear if he's found a buyer yet.

 

[ShadowArxxy]

I think there's actually an interesting artistic thought there - it's just not one that's actually worth monetary value.

 

[Bear Ribs]

I think there's actually an interesting artistic thought there - it's just not one that's actually worth monetary value.

To be fair, money in the modern fine art scene rarely stays with the artists. The massive amounts of funds trading hands over a toilet turned on its side are used to launder funds, evade taxes, and facilitate the drug trade.

The Art of Money Laundering – IMF F&D

Tom Mashberg digs deeper into the loosely regulated art market—ideal ground for money laundering—and how best address this challenge.

www.imf.org