What's in the news?

[LisztesFerenc]

  Wait, not that long ago, but earlier this week, whilst Star Bucks has only just announced the ban. Same difference.

[Tolvo]

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/st-louis-police-officers-indicted-on-federal-charges-accused-of/article_4a82d209-b3cd-565e-9a97-309cf1c2a5af.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=user-share

So four cops who beat protesters have been indicted. Not for beating protesters. They got indicted for covering up that they did it to one in particular, who was an undercover cop. Probably cops shouldn't abuse people, just saying, but at least they are indicted since one of the people was an undercover cop.

[Lustful Bride]

Convicted child rapist, who impregnated one of his victims (14 at the time), apparently has the right to see his child. Someone like that should never be allowed to see any children. He shouldn't even be allowed a chance at parole or ever leaving prison.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-46368991

[Deamonbane]

Legal guidelines in England and Wales state that all parents, regardless of parental responsibility, should be given notice of care proceedings.

This means that by default, a convicted rapist does have the right to be notified of care proceedings involving his child.

If they are married to their victim, men convicted of rape have parental responsibility and will automatically be a party in any court proceedings in which they will have their interests considered.

That's the legal status that gives parents right to be given information about and be involved in important decisions affecting their child's upbringing.

This doesn't mean they have any automatic rights to contact with their children however.

Any application for access will assess the risk to a child and their welfare before allowing contact.

Councils can apply to the court to make an exceptional order in order to avoid notifying a parent of care proceedings - although it's not guaranteed this application will be successful.

These are usually only granted in cases where the child has no relationship with the father - such as in cases of stranger rape - or where there is a risk to the child, for example in cases of extreme domestic violence.

The law should be changed in that regard, but thankfully, it doesn't grant the rapist any contact rights to the child.

[Tolvo]

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/costs-confederacy-special-report-180970731/?fbclid=IwAR1HvJc7jsxqPeyEjq3x9-iLyPNmuz7AQ_C6BmksWcj6F0NIxBQIjFJzOJM

A report on the Lost Cause Neo-Confederate belief and why we have the racist statues today which ignore actual history and glorify the Confederacy and how much tax dollars goes into them.

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-11-30-bethesda-bans-fallout-76-player-for-life-following-shocking-homophobic-attack

Also some video game news, though it is political so I'm putting it here, Bethesda banned players who harassed other players while claiming they were eliminating all gay people among lots of others homophobic remarks and things.

[TheGlyphstone]

Why am I not surprised to learn that 76 can't even get its abuse report function to work properly?

[Tolvo]

You say can't get it's abuse report function to work properly. The problem is they literally don't even have one. All you can do is ignore, you can't report.

[TheGlyphstone]

Eh, I will count 'does not exist' as an extremely severe failure of function.

[Tolvo]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/take-number-migrants-blocked-border-wait-turn-apply-asylum-210835939.html

So the USA isn't quite at tattooing the numbers on people in the camps but we are getting close.

Especially when people working these orgs and in camps in the USA have a history of not calling people, even children, by their names and instead using their numbers to refer to them.

[Lustful Bride]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/dc-clerk-stalls-marriage-over-foreign-new-mexico-id-card/ar-BBQj5os?ocid=spartanntp

……*slams face into desk* just....just....aaahhhh

[Tolvo]

https://www.texastribune.org/2018/11/30/dallas-indicts-amber-guyger-cop-botham-jean/?utm_campaign=trib-social&utm_content=1543608470&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Also some good news in regards to this case.

[Iniquitous]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/dc-clerk-stalls-marriage-over-foreign-new-mexico-id-card/ar-BBQj5os?ocid=spartanntp

……*slams face into desk* just....just....aaahhhh

I think my brain just died.

[Oniya]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/dc-clerk-stalls-marriage-over-foreign-new-mexico-id-card/ar-BBQj5os?ocid=spartanntp

……*slams face into desk* just....just....aaahhhh

Even old New York
Was once New Amsterdam...

[Sara Nilsson]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/dc-clerk-stalls-marriage-over-foreign-new-mexico-id-card/ar-BBQj5os?ocid=spartanntp

……*slams face into desk* just....just....aaahhhh

I want to say that is just one idiot, but I was told when shipping an order to Vermont that I needed a customs form since that was outside of the USA. oO

[Tolvo]

I mean if you want some idiocy. The Neo-Nazis the Proud Boys did a big bunch of goofs recently.

https://www.wonkette.com/super-smart-proud-boys-accidentally-reveal-secret-identities-of-their-elders-to-literally-everyone

https://splinternews.com/proud-boys-failed-to-redact-their-new-dumb-bylaws-and-a-1830700905

They posted online documents about their new laws for the Proud Boys with the names of their new leaders redacted.

The problem is how they redacted them. They changed the color of the background black behind the text so you can't easily read it. Because they are complete morons. So if you just change the color, or with less effort drag your mouse over it and highlight them, you can just read everything they "redacted." So they were so stupid they doxxed themselves.

[Sara Nilsson]

I mean if you want some idiocy. The Neo-Nazis the Proud Boys did a big bunch of goofs recently.

https://www.wonkette.com/super-smart-proud-boys-accidentally-reveal-secret-identities-of-their-elders-to-literally-everyone

https://splinternews.com/proud-boys-failed-to-redact-their-new-dumb-bylaws-and-a-1830700905

They posted online documents about their new laws for the Proud Boys with the names of their new leaders redacted.

The problem is how they redacted them. They changed the color of the background black behind the text so you can't easily read it. Because they are complete morons. So if you just change the color, or with less effort drag your mouse over it and highlight them, you can just read everything they "redacted." So they were so stupid they doxxed themselves.

Like, I don't expect much in the way of brains from them.. but come on!

[TheGlyphstone]

The last bit is just baffling, because it extends the 'cuck' ban to members' boyfriends. That either means they allow girls or gay guys in their club, and I'm not sure which is less plausible.

[TheGlyphstone]

George H.W. Bush, 41st president of the US, has died at age 94.

[TheGlyphstone]

Couldn't link from my phone:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/01/politics/george-h-w-bush-dead/index.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/30/us/politics/george-hw-bush-dies.html

https://www.foxnews.com/us/george-h-w-bush-41st-president-of-the-united-states-dead-at-94

[Icelandic]

George H.W. Bush, 41st president of the US, has died at age 94.

Well fuck. I can't say I know his politics very well, but he always seemed to be of great character.

That's unfortunate to hear. :c

[RedRose]

Convicted child rapist, who impregnated one of his victims (14 at the time), apparently has the right to see his child. Someone like that should never be allowed to see any children. He shouldn't even be allowed a chance at parole or ever leaving prison.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-46368991

This is a thing I can never understand.
I SUPPOSE I am ok with him hearing of big news about the child from his cell or something… But nope, no meeting, no "right". My friend could see her kids once a month under supervision and she didn't rape anyone.

Especially when people working these orgs and in camps in the USA have a history of not calling people, even children, by their names and instead using their numbers to refer to them.

This is really a thing?? why??

Wow President Bush...

[Icelandic]

This is a thing I can never understand.
I SUPPOSE I am ok with him hearing of big news about the child from his cell or something… But nope, no meeting, no "right". My friend could see her kids once a month under supervision and she didn't rape anyone.

This is really a thing?? why??

Wow President Bush...

Oh hey how is that... Yellow Jackets protest(?) going on? Is it over yet where you are orrr?

[gaggedLouise]

Oh hey how is that... Yellow Jackets protest(?) going on? Is it over yet where you are orrr?

*checks a Paris newspaper (Le Figaro)* It's still in a red phase. "LIVE: Fifteen hundred yellow jackets gather next to the Champs-Elysées". Apparently there are demonstrations/clashes going on once again on the famous avenue. :(

It seems there are about two hundred peaceful demonstrators on the avenue but 1500 anarchist yellow-jackets who poured in from the streets on the sides of the CE to try to take over and create violence against the police. The constituency who have come to throw stones and fight, you know... 

http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2018/12/01/01016-20181201LIVWWW00026-en-direct-gilets-jaunes-un-nouveau-samedi-de-manifestations-en-france-et-sur-les-champs-elysees.php (in French, and with tight updates: no video)

[gaggedLouise]

Holy crap - this update from the same source: "3.000 clashers/vandals (casseurs) next to the Arch of Triumph" 

Stone-throwing, shouting of swearing words and police having to use tear gas in that location sounds like the most shameful spectacle one could imagine. For you Americans, it's like a lengthy, violent clash next to the Lincoln Memorial.

[Icelandic]

*checks a Paris newspaper (Le Figaro)* It's still in a red phase. "LIVE: Fifteen hundred yellow jackets gather next to the Champs-Elysées". Apparently there are demonstrations/clashes going on once again on the famous avenue. :(

It seems there are about two hundred peaceful demonstrators on the avenue but 1500 anarchist yellow-jackets who poured in from the streets on the sides of the CE to try to take over and create violence against the police. The constituency who have come to throw stones and fight, you know... 

http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2018/12/01/01016-20181201LIVWWW00026-en-direct-gilets-jaunes-un-nouveau-samedi-de-manifestations-en-france-et-sur-les-champs-elysees.php (in French, and with tight updates: no video)

Oh wow, yea they are still going it seems.

https://www.politico.eu/article/yellow-jackets-demonstration-brussels-police-van-ablaze-as-yellow-jackets-protests-hit-brussels-eu-quarter/

Some of them moved to the EU capital.

It's like DMZ but french. (obscure comic book reference.)

Holy crap - this update from the same source: "3.000 clashers/vandals (casseurs) next to the Arch of Triumph" 

Stone-throwing, shouting of swearing words and police having to use tear gas in that location sounds like the most shameful spectacle one could imagine. For you Americans, it's like a lengthy, violent clash next to the Lincoln Memorial.

So a typical Wednesday? Although our political instability has actually gotten better I think. Antifa and the White Nationalists seemed to have blew off their steam already.

Oh wait, are you French?