What's in the News? 2.0

[Lustful Bride]

So Alabama.....I.... I legitimately don't know how to word this. And I am of two minds on this, so im just gonna leave the link here.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/alabama-gov-kay-ivey-signs-chemical-castration-bill-into-law/ar-AACGgy2?ocid=spartanntp

[Tolvo]

Quite ineffective, and also alarming given the resurgence in popularity of trans and gay predator myths. Though many states already legally require trans people to be chemically castrated(They consider it necessary to be considered another gender), and that is common globally.

[Skynet]

So Alabama.....I.... I legitimately don't know how to word this. And I am of two minds on this, so im just gonna leave the link here.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/alabama-gov-kay-ivey-signs-chemical-castration-bill-into-law/ar-AACGgy2?ocid=spartanntp

Welllll not only did Alabama almost elect Roy Moore, make abortion illegal even in cases of rape and incest, and even expanded joint custody rights for rapists who brought a child into the world via nonconsensual sex, this chemical castration bill seems a way for them to cover their own asses.

https://www.alternet.org/2019/06/under-new-law-rapists-in-alabama-could-sue-for-custody-over-children-women-are-forced-to-carry-to-term/

https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2019/06/alabama-banned-abortions-then-its-lawmakers-remembered-rapists-can-get-parental-rights/

[RedRose]

Custody right for rapists… Why not also serial killers

[Sara Nilsson]

https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/vatican-rejects-trans-people-says-they-annihilate-the-concept-of-nature/#gs.hu4jtc

The Vatican has issued a statement rejecting trans people, saying they ‘annihilate…the concept of nature’.

In a new document issued during Pride Month, the Congregation for Catholic Education has issued a crushing statement on trans issues.

The office responsible for overseeing education calls trans people experiencing ‘nothing more than a confused concept of freedom in the realm of feelings and wants’.

Say what you want but us trans people have some amazing powers I guess. Not only can we transform like a butterfly we can also annihilate the concept of nature. Fuck yeah we rock. At least that is what I am choosing to take from this, I am not going to be lectured about nature or anything by a group of old men that keep defending child rapists.

[Regina Minx]

https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/vatican-rejects-trans-people-says-they-annihilate-the-concept-of-nature/#gs.hu4jtc

Say what you want but us trans people have some amazing powers I guess. Not only can we transform like a butterfly we can also annihilate the concept of nature. Fuck yeah we rock. At least that is what I am choosing to take from this, I am not going to be lectured about nature or anything by a group of old men that keep defending child rapists.

Fuck yeah, SN.

[Blythe]

>_>

One quote stood out for me in the article link:

However, this is the most critical statement on trans people the Vatican has given since the pontiff compared trans people to nuclear weapons.

I mean, damn, I didn't know I was apparently on my own a loaded weapon capable of mass destruction, but...okay then. I'm right with you in how you feel, Sara. ^^;

[legomaster00156]

Oh, trans people, please do not annihilate our cities.

[Tolvo]

"Oh I didn't know you were trans."
"Then perish."

[gaggedLouise]

Wow, police efforts against democracy/civil rights protesters in Hong Kong are getting ugly - just days after almost a million people got out on the streets for (mostly peaceful) demonstrations. Tear gas and rubber bullets... 


https://edition.cnn.com/asia/live-news/hong-kong-protests-june-12-intl-hnk/index.html

[Avis habilis]

I mean, damn, I didn't know I was apparently on my own a loaded weapon capable of mass destruction, but...okay then. I'm right with you in how you feel, Sara. ^^;

I had always assumed you were a kaiju, myself.

[Lustful Bride]

House passes bill to reactivate the 9/11 Victim compensation bill.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/house-panel-passes-9-11-victims-bill-after-jon-stewart-testimony/ar-AACMtZ7?ocid=spartandhp

[Lustful Bride]

Outrage in the Phillipines as a Philipino fishing vessel is believed to have been sunken by a Chinese vessel, leading to 22 sailors being abandoned at sea until rescued by a Vietnamese fishing vessel.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/philippines-slams-sinking-of-boat-by-suspected-china-vessel/ar-AACLSBb?ocid=spartandhp

[Oniya]

>_>

One quote stood out for me in the article link:

I mean, damn, I didn't know I was apparently on my own a loaded weapon capable of mass destruction, but...okay then. I'm right with you in how you feel, Sara. ^^;

I apologize for the potential earworm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAMN6ykgmn4

[Yukina]

I had always assumed you were a kaiju, myself.

I was always wondering when a Blythrus vs Godzilla film would come out.

[Mantis Shrimp Prime]

https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/vatican-rejects-trans-people-says-they-annihilate-the-concept-of-nature/#gs.hu4jtc

Say what you want but us trans people have some amazing powers I guess. Not only can we transform like a butterfly we can also annihilate the concept of nature. Fuck yeah we rock. At least that is what I am choosing to take from this, I am not going to be lectured about nature or anything by a group of old men that keep defending child rapists.

‘Efforts to go beyond the difference, such as the ideas of “intersex” or “transgender”, lead to a masculinity or feminity that is ambiguous,’ the document stated.

The Vatican also calls on doctors to ‘intervene’ on intersex patients, even when parents do not agree.

I keep wanting to make sarcastic comments or laugh over how foolish this is, but I keep remembering the kind of evil this sort of view supports.

"Yes, we just want you to be happy with the body God gave you, transgender people. But, oh, intersex people? You're the work of Satan, you gotta fix yourselves."

[Sara Nilsson]

If I don't laugh I will just go crazy with all the hate towards us trans people. So .. I laugh. Especially when the statements are that absurd.

https://splinternews.com/new-york-gets-rid-of-religious-exemptions-for-vaccines-1835501252

New York removes religious exemptions for vaccines joining California, Arizona, West Virginia, Mississippi, and Maine.

So progress :)

[Tolvo]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/14/homophobic-attack-bus-outrage-media-white

Words from one of the women who were both attacked while with their girlfriend that had their photo heavily circulated online, about rainbow capitalism, about those who support harming her using her image to pretend to care about queer rights and oppression, and how she and her girlfriend got more sympathy because of their appearances.

[Lustful Bride]

Too much Smartphone use (angling your neck constantly down) may actually be hurting your neck due to bone growth.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/humans-have-started-growing-spikes-in-the-back-of-their-skulls-because-we-use-smartphones-so-much/ar-AACTeeJ?ocid=spartanntp

[Tolvo]

https://theoutline.com/post/7556/lgbtq-media-disaster?zd=1&zi=zque3fsj

A very great article by a friend of mine Katelyn on the serious lack of LGBTQIA+ people actually investigating and reporting news stories focused upon LGBTQIA+ issues. This goes into detail with examples where completely untrustworthy people are quoted as sourcs and elevated despite having no knowledge on these subjects, how many trans journalists are being pushed out, the lack of people reporting on and writing about these subjects who have any understanding of them, how many are just going for sensationalist news and causing great harm to various communities.

[Lustful Bride]

Chronic Wasting Disease (A prion illness similar to Mad Cow) is continuing to spread among deer. And it is possibly it may jump to humans due to people possibly eating a deer infected with CWD and not knowing it.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-deadly-deer-disease-is-spreading-could-it-strike-people-too/ar-AACSuCj?ocid=spartanntp

[Tolvo]

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Concord-Massacre-Plot-Foiled-511341082.html

It is being reported that on Monday a Neo Nazi terrorist was arrested who was plotting a mass shooting of Jewish people.

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/15776387/united-states-v-8chnet-9120-double-diamond-parkway-suite-5901-reno-nv/

While it started in April, it has been noticed that 8chan has warrants for searching and seizing property at their offices that are in the USA relating to a mass shooting by a member of the pedophile haven and Neo Nazi terrorist site. It sounds like they are also looking to find people who are of the site to act as witnesses.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/15/us/phoenix-police-investigation-shoplifting-incident/index.html

https://twitter.com/QasimRashid/status/1139922742046838785

Content warning for police violence against black people and specifically black children.

Story and video above of police officers handcuffing then sweeping the leg of a black father with his family, the threats the police made to the mother with her children who the officer pointed a gun at, including the children, while threatening "I'm going to put a fucking cap in your fucking head." They arrived because of a call for shoplifting as their small child took a doll from a store. The police report noticeably was missing the misconduct by the officers and only came to light because of bystanders recording the incident with their phones.

[Skynet]

Andrea Pitzer, an author and journalist who has written about a global history of concentration camps for the past 75 years, and goes into detail how the detainment facilities for immigrants in the US meets the definition.

"What's required is a little bit of demystification of it," says Waitman Wade Beorn, a Holocaust and genocide studies historian and a lecturer at the University of Virginia. "Things can be concentration camps without being Dachau or Auschwitz. Concentration camps in general have always been designed—at the most basic level—to separate one group of people from another group. Usually, because the majority group, or the creators of the camp, deem the people they're putting in it to be dangerous or undesirable in some way."

Not every concentration camp is a death camp—in fact, their primary purpose is rarely extermination, and never in the beginning. Often, much of the death and suffering is a result of insufficient resources, overcrowding, and deteriorating conditions. So far, 24 people have died in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement under the Trump administration, while six children have died in the care of other agencies since September. Systems like these have emerged across the world for well over 100 years, and they've been established by putative liberal democracies—as with Britain's camps in South Africa during the Boer War—as well as authoritarian states like Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union. Camps set up with one aim can be repurposed by new regimes, often with devastating consequences.

I'd also like to mention that 1,500 children who went missing while being detained are still unaccounted for.

[Sara Nilsson]

https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-48635969

The current Ebola outbreak has crossed into Uganda. Thankfully the Ugandan government was quick to react vaccinating health workers, closing market places etc to prevent it from spreading so the experts are hopeful it wont keep spreading. It is quite scary considering what a mean fucker Ebola is.

[Tolvo]

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/08/technology/youtube-radical.html

An article about interviews with a former member of the Alt Right, how he fell down the youtube rabbit hole, how youtube encourages people to watch more extreme of videos and voices via their system with recommendations that lead to far right extremists, conspiracy theorists, and Neo Nazis such as Steven Crowder, Lauren Southern, Stefan Molyneux, Paul Joseph Watson, and more. It contains information from former workers at youtube on how the algorithms were designed explicitly without care for preventing harm, and that the goal was engagement, views, and view time, or in other words money. And how youtube has not cared about this issue. Despite the fact that many extremists have cited youtube as how they came to view the world as they have, including mass shooters(Though it is not the only avenue for this).

It also includes some discussion on how left wing youtubers are using some of the style of far right videos to lead people into questioning conspiracy theories. Now note you still shouldn't just hang on the every word of popular people speaking on a subject, Hbomberguy a big left wing youtuber(though not the biggest) always stresses to actually look up information about what he's talking about and to check his source too, as one shouldn't just listen to anything he says without question. Many mention this regularly which is very true, it's important to verify and actually look for sources even for causes you agree with. Don't fight one form of extremism by falling into another close minded rabbit hole.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfLa64_zLrU

A video by the person being focused on, with his channel about his descent and how he was led down this path, with advise on how to recognize when it's happening to you and advice for helping friends who are going down this path.