Nice Planet 18: Welcome To Our Planet. Sorry It's So Messed Up.

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

“BREAKING: The FBI has determined that NASCAR driver Darrell “Bubba” Wallace was not the target of a hate crime and that a rope “fashioned like a noose” had been positioned in the garage stall he used for Monday's race since October.”

[Kepler]

A US soldier? Well hot d*mn, let's build a statue of this man so we don't forget our history!

He failed, too.

[aparch]

A US soldier? Well hot d*mn, let's build a statue of this man so we don't forget our history!

[Kepler]

Budding Republican.

An Army private confessed to sharing secret information with a satanic neo-Nazi-group in a plot to attack his own unit while it was overseas and cause “the deaths of as many of his fellow service members as possible,” federal prosecutors in Manhattan said on Monday.

The private, Ethan Phelan Melzer, was charged in an indictment unsealed this week with collaborating with the Order of the Nine Angles, or O9A, a group that prosecutors described as “an occult-based neo-Nazi and racially motivated violent extremist group.”

...

Private Melzer, Ms. Strauss added, had tried “to orchestrate a murderous ambush on his own unit by unlawfully revealing its location, strength and armaments to a neo-Nazi, anarchist, white supremacist group.”

The F.B.I. and the Army foiled the plot in late May before it could be carried out, prosecutors said, and Private Melzer, 22, of Louisville, Ky., was arrested on June 10.

While he was in custody, he declared himself to be “a traitor against the United States” and said his plan to stage an assault against an unidentified military base was “tantamount to treason,” prosecutors said.

Federal prosecutors said that O9A, which, like other extremist groups, often communicates via encrypted apps like Telegram, espoused “a diabolical cocktail of ideologies laced with hate and violence.”

Experts have said the group, which is based in Britain, overlaps to some degree with better-known neo-Nazi organizations like the Base and Atomwaffen, whose members have also been prosecuted by the federal government. O9A’s followers have expressed admiration not only for Hitler but also for Islamic terrorists like Osama bin Laden, prosecutors said.

It was unclear on Monday whether Private Melzer had a lawyer.

I'm sure BigLaw will get right on that.

[Kepler]

That seems to be the new deflect tactic. They say it never happened and bring up Jussie...

Those wily Africans loaded themselves onto the boats.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

That seems to be the new deflect tactic. They say it never happened and bring up Jussie...

The borschtbots say that every time someone has a tragic COVID story, too.

[Handyman]

That seems to be the new deflect tactic. They say it never happened and bring up Jussie...

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

A noose was found in Bubba Wallace's garage today...Wallace is the only black driver in NASCAR, and was the one who made a big push for NASCAR to ban the Confederate Flag.

https://twitter.com/BubbaWallace/sta...98390288121861

Comments under star tribune article on this are mostly that he did it, he planted it, hoax, jussie smollet etc.

[aparch]

The infield and garage hot passes were not sold for this race, so the garage area was limited to individual race teams, NASCAR officials, and staff/employees/contractors for Talladega Superspeedway. Marty Smith on ESPN had some choice words, and made it sound like they have an idea on who was involved. Generally there are lots of cameras in the garage area between NASCAR and the teams themselves.

This sickened me reading the Tweets when I saw it (Sarah Spain posted photos from the ESPN Sportscenter broadcast). This disgusts me that someone would do that.



Then again, earlier, there were photos posted of a plane hired to fly over the track repeatedly with a giant confederate flag in tow, along with the banner DEFUND NASCAR.

[MinnesotaNorthStar]

A noose was found in Bubba Wallace's garage today...Wallace is the only black driver in NASCAR, and was the one who made a big push for NASCAR to ban the Confederate Flag.

https://twitter.com/BubbaWallace/sta...98390288121861

[St. Clown]

I'm absolutely disgusted reading through the replies to this Tweet.

Men can be the worst.

I didn't get all that far through the thread, and it makes me want to purchase a shotgun to carry around and challenge any man who comes near my little girl. That whole thread is just so enraging.

[aparch]

I'm absolutely disgusted reading through the replies to this Tweet.

Men can be the worst.

[Kepler]

I have a modest proposal.

Let's kill all the racists.

[MissThundercat]

Trump admin finalizes rule that rolls back protections for trans people in health care. Too angry to link.

Crickets from the "all lives matter" crowd.

[Kepler]

Re: Nice Planet 18: Welcome To Our Planet. Sorry It's So Messed Up.

Shouldn't this be Genuinely Nice Planet? Just sayin....

Maybe a UNH game thread.