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Genuinely Nice Planet: A New Hope

I discovered I have a Metal Girl Alliance at my job. There's this one coworker who calls me "he," and the MGA is there to constantly correct her.
 
Problem 1: Aging telephone pole is a danger and needs to be replaced.

Problem 2: Toucan has hollowed out a home in the pole.

Solutions 1 & 2:

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Retail is soul crushing.

As I was sitting on a bench at work, taking my break, a little girl, I'd say 7-8 years old, walked up to me and handed me flowers. I wanted to cry.
 
The Christopher Street Liberation Day Parade, 1973:

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Everybody should learn a little history this month, just to better themselves.

The idea for a gay community march started in 1970 with the Christopher Street Gay Liberation March. The event originated outside of the Stonewall Inn, at 53 Christopher Street, the morning of June 28, 1970, and continued up Fifth Avenue to end in Central Park. The march started with only a few hundred people at Stonewall and ended with several thousand by the time it concluded in Central Park. The marches formed to bring gay and lesbian individuals together and show they were a sizable minority population, something that mainstream society did not believe. The purpose of the march was to build a safe community for homosexuals and part political rally (they were uniting for legal rights). Specifically, in the 1970s there was a need to create legislation that would protect this community from police brutality and police raids of gay bars and clubs.

The marches continued to bring awareness to causes that were specific to the homosexual community. By 1973, the Christopher Street Liberation Day March was already an expected event. In a New York Times article, Homosexuals March Down 7[SUP]th[/SUP] Avenue; Bars Represented To Each His Own’, John Darnton writes, “Singing, chanting, clad in festive and arresting garb. thousands of homosexuals and supporters of homosexuals’ rights marched through mid-Manhattan yesterday, past smiling policemen, wide-eyed tourists and blase New Yorkers who passed it off with a live-and-let-live shrug.” This shows the acceptance in a few short years by New Yorkers to the Gay Liberation Movement.
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The linked NYT article is a hoot.

At least seven homosexual bars were represented, including the so‐called “leather bars,” such as the Roadhouse and Frizby's, whose marchers were dressed’ in cowboy motif, complete with a horse rented for the occasion.

There were also, for the first time,. organized groups of transvestites under the banners of the 82 Club and Harry's Back East bar.

“These people have rights,” observed Gwen Saunders, the club's owner, who drove a blue Pontiac from which Ty Bennett, a female impersonator, tossed kisses right and left.

Near the front of the march were three parents from a newly formed organization called “Parents of Gays.” Among them were Dr. and Mrs. Jules Manford, marching next to their son, Marty, and bearing a placard that read: “I'm proud of my gay son.”

At the end was a large contingent of Lesbian feminists, preceded by the “women's marching band,” which hammered out a version of “Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here.”

By‐standers reacted with now I've-seen-everything smiles and magnanimous comment.

“I'm amazed and astounded, but that's the way they want to live and that's alright with me,” said Tony Geraffo, a retired restaurant-owner from East Brunswick, N.J. His comment was typical.

Elsewhere along the route, stereotypes crumbled, as three taxi‐cab drivers honked their horns in time to the chants, and one chauffeur and one construction worker waved to the marching crowd.

“Today, you got to go along with the program—to each his own,” observed a watchman outside 491 Seventh Avenue, near 36th Street.

“Nothing shocks me any more,” said a customer in the Lunbill Cafe at 232, near 24th Street.

“They basically don't bother anyone, and who says we're right,” commented Mrs. Martha Gorman, attending a home furnishings show in the Statler Hilton Hotel across from Pennsylvania Station.

One person who was shocked was 15-year-old Karen Mopsik, whose 13-year‐old sister was snapping away with an Instamatic camera. “I didn't know there were so many,” she whispered. “Is this normal around here? They'll never believe this back in Dallas.”
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And then the political right decided to use it to get hayseeds so angry they'd vote to cut their own throats economically. Be proud, Lee Atwater. Take a bow, Pat Robertson. You will go down in history with Roger Taney and Father Coughlin.
 
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So my gf has been a history teacher for 15 years. She has a teaching degree in Urban Ed. Until Friday she had literally never heard of CRT until I informed her about it. She has been stewing about it ever since...

Well she has some relatives that, while being of high levels of intelligence, are total GOP Fucktards. One of them decided to post on Facebook about CRT. One of his dumb fucktard friends spouted off about how it is the most divisive and racist thing in this country. She dunked on him so hard I think even Mark Zuckerburg winced. It was glorious...and the moron kept popping back up like one of those boxing clowns and she just kept knocking him down.

If there is ANYONE who would have seen CRT taught in practice it would be her. She would love to teach what they seem to think is being taught. When she did a deep dive into what it is her eyes bugged out. It took her all of 3 minutes to know there is no way it could be implemented, even by her who is an expert in critical thinking teaching practices at multiple levels, for anyone that hasn't taken classes at an upper division level. You can't even scratch the surface. The amount of background you need and foundational learning cannot be done in K-12...especially when there are graduation standards in place that wouldn't even allow it. We live in one of the most liberal states, in a super liberal district that is being run by a massively liberal Dept. of Ed. and even they wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole.

Anyways watching stupid people get owned always makes the planet better :^)
 
Handyman said:
So my gf has been a history teacher for 15 years. She has a teaching degree in Urban Ed. Until Friday she had literally never heard of CRT until I informed her about it. She has been stewing about it ever since...

Well she has some relatives that, while being of high levels of intelligence, are total GOP Fucktards. One of them decided to post on Facebook about CRT. One of his dumb fucktard friends spouted off about how it is the most divisive and racist thing in this country. She dunked on him so hard I think even Mark Zuckerburg winced. It was glorious...and the moron kept popping back up like one of those boxing clowns and she just kept knocking him down.

If there is ANYONE who would have seen CRT taught in practice it would be her. She would love to teach what they seem to think is being taught. When she did a deep dive into what it is her eyes bugged out. It took her all of 3 minutes to know there is no way it could be implemented, even by her who is an expert in critical thinking teaching practices at multiple levels, for anyone that hasn't taken classes at an upper division level. You can't even scratch the surface. The amount of background you need and foundational learning cannot be done in K-12...especially when there are graduation standards in place that wouldn't even allow it. We live in one of the most liberal states, in a super liberal district that is being run by a massively liberal Dept. of Ed. and even they wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole.

Anyways watching stupid people get owned always makes the planet better :^)
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Handy - can paste some of the give and take here? It would be cool to see some her replies that might actually give some of us here more ammunition to address the orcs in our own lives.
 
Handyman said:
So my gf has been a history teacher for 15 years. She has a teaching degree in Urban Ed. Until Friday she had literally never heard of CRT until I informed her about it. She has been stewing about it ever since...

Well she has some relatives that, while being of high levels of intelligence, are total GOP Fucktards. One of them decided to post on Facebook about CRT. One of his dumb fucktard friends spouted off about how it is the most divisive and racist thing in this country. She dunked on him so hard I think even Mark Zuckerburg winced.
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Dr. Mrs. took somebody like that down, too. Republican voters talking about CRT is like third graders giving their opinion of quantum physics:

1) It's not what you think it is.

2) It's not what the idiot pundits you are watching say it is. It has very little to do with Critical Theory which is what they are all b-tching about. Critical Theory itself has been superseded for 50 years.

3) CRT requires 10 years of education and about 50 Very Heavy Books to understand its context, if you want to bother. (I wouldn't. It's passe.)

4) Insofar as it matters it is now accepted as an uncontroversial framework of understanding race and power, but the frontier of research is decades past it. Thinking it is "taking over our schools" is like saying music is under threat from a new threat called "grunge."

5) Stupid, uneducated people should not give their opinion on subjects which are debated by smart, educated people. They make themselves look even more foolish than usual. Stick to sportsball and guns -- those are your speed. This is way above your pay grade.
 
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Slap Shot said:
Handy - can paste some of the give and take here? It would be cool to see some her replies that might actually give some of us here more ammunition to address the orcs in our own lives.
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I tried looking for it...but I am not friends with the fucktard so I would need to use her comp. I will see what I can do though :^)
 
Kepler said:
Dr. Mrs. took somebody like that down, too. Republican voters talking about CRT is like third graders giving their opinion of quantum physics:

1) It's not what you think it is.

2) It's not what the idiot pundits you are watching say it is. It has very little to do with Critical Theory which is what they are all b-tching about. Critical Theory itself has been superseded for 50 years.

3) CRT requires 10 years of education and about 50 Very Heavy Books to understand its context, if you want to bother. (I wouldn't. It's passe.)

4) Insofar as it matters it is now accepted as an uncontroversial framework of understanding race and power, but the frontier of research is decades past it. Thinking it is "taking over our schools" is like saying music is under threat from a new threat called "grunge."

5) Stupid, uneducated people should not give their opinion on subjects which are debated by smart, educated people. They make themselves look even more foolish than usual. Stick to sportsball and guns -- those are your speed. This is way above your pay grade.
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The look on her face when I told her that the moron in Idaho who brought the bill to ban it used To Kill a Mockingbird as an example was priceless. Way to tell the world you never read the book...these are like the old hags back in the day who wanted to ban books like Huckleberry Finn...

It is like I said a week or so ago...calling what is taught in K-12 CRT is like calling learning the planets Astrophysics.
 
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;n3668516]The way Germany and most of Europe is coming together to give a massive rainbow middle finger to Hungary is amazing to see.
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Can you point to something on the story?

Edit: never mind.

UEFA's stance is, of course, ridiculous. There is no such thing as a neutrality on social issues. If you ban Germany displaying rainbow lights to protest Hungary's homophobia then you are supporting Hungary's homophobia.

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor."

Fuck Hungary, fuck conservatives everywhere, fuck UEFA.

End the Right.
 
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