🐱 Interesting clickbait, op-eds, fluff pieces and other smaller stories

CatParty
102943266-caitlyn.530x298.jpg


http://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/24/caitlyn-jenner-halloween-costume-sparks-social-media-outrage-.html

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...een-costume-labeled-817515?utm_source=twitter

It's nowhere near October, but one ensemble is already on track to be named the most controversial Halloween costume of 2015.

Social media users were out in full force on Monday criticizing several Halloween retailers for offering a Caitlyn Jenner costume reminiscent of the former-athlete's Vanity Fair cover earlier this year.

While Jenner's supporters condemned the costume as "transphobic" and "disgusting" on Twitter, Spirit Halloween, a retailer that carries the costume, defended the getup.

"At Spirit Halloween, we create a wide range of costumes that are often based upon celebrities, public figures, heroes and superheroes," said Lisa Barr, senior director of marking at Spirit Halloween. "We feel that Caitlyn Jenner is all of the above and that she should be celebrated. The Caitlyn Jenner costume reflects just that."
Click to expand...
 
  • Winner
  • Like
  • Feels
Reactions: poggies123_, Retreaded Tire, Cereal Killer and 24 others
Click to expand...
https://pledgetimes.com/legal-proce...ying-a-swastika-flag-during-independence-day/

While it is illegal in neighbouring countries (Sweden, Russia, etc), Swastika has been officially deemed legal in Finland, causing drama and butthurt in the (((Usual Suspects))).

According to the District Court, the swastika flag is not prohibited in Finland.
Helsinki the district court has dismissed charges against five men for carrying a Nazi flag in a demonstration on Independence Day 2018. The district court referred to freedom of speech and expression.
According to justice, during World War II, the ideology of National Socialism included persecution of the Jews, racism, and the genocide of Jews and certain other minorities. However, this is not enough to prohibit the Nazi flag as incitement against a group of people, as the prosecutor had demanded.
The swastika flag is not prohibited in Finland, the court pointed out.
Click to expand...
 
  • Like
  • Feels
  • Informative
Reactions: greengrilledcheese, NoReturn and TheMagician
Shmuel Sam Coinsniffer said:
https://pledgetimes.com/legal-proce...ying-a-swastika-flag-during-independence-day/

While it is illegal in neighbouring countries (Sweden, Russia, etc), Swastika has been officially deemed legal in Finland, causing drama and butthurt in the (((Usual Suspects))).
Click to expand...
PS1gamenwatch said:
What about the Hindu and Native American versions?
Click to expand...
Swastikas are just stylized versions of the big dipper. Banning all of them would be like banning those dumb constellation necklaces or other celestial bodies like the sun.
Obergruppenführersaal_mit_Schwarzer_Sonne,_Wewelsburg_(10573256656).jpg
 
  • Like
Reactions: Clovis and Brahma

High Springs Firefighters rescue a goat from a Sinkhole​

1630358890291.png

High Springs Firefighters responded to their fifth sinkhole this year at 2:30pm on Aug. 29th.

The sinkhole was reported at 14548 NW 268th Street, with a goat trapped in the sinkhole, said Public Information Officer (PIO) Kevin Mangan.

Mangan said Firefighter Adam Hudson descended into the 30-foot-deep sinkhole to rescue the goat.

Both the goat and Firefighter Hudson were hoisted back up with little trouble and no injuries, said PIO Mangan.

The crew was only on the scene for 90 minutes.

Mangan said the High Springs Fire Department thanks their recent purchase of new rope-rescue gear, and continued technical rescue classes attended by the firefighters, for their speedy rescue.
mycbs4.com

High Springs Firefighters rescue a goat from a Sinkhole

High Springs Firefighters responded to their fifth sinkhole this year at 2:30pm on Aug. 29th. The sinkhole was reported at 14548 NW 268th Street, with a goat trapped in the sinkhole, said Public Information Officer (PIO) Kevin Mangan. Mangan said Firefighter Adam Hudson descended into the...
mycbs4.com mycbs4.com
Shmuel Sam Coinsniffer said:
https://pledgetimes.com/legal-proce...ying-a-swastika-flag-during-independence-day/

While it is illegal in neighbouring countries (Sweden, Russia, etc), Swastika has been officially deemed legal in Finland, causing drama and butthurt in the (((Usual Suspects))).
Click to expand...
Hah, hah. The spiciest element of this is that Finland banned the local branch of the Nordic Resistance Movement and their tiwaz rune flag a couple years ago, for being 'violent' (an activist punched an antifa who had spit on him and the antifa died of a drug overdose a day later). So now 'autonomous nationalists' with absolutely no connection to the Nordic Resistance Movement have taken to marching with swaztikas.
 
Last edited:
  • Informative
Reactions: Irrational Exuberance and glass_houses
Chase Bank had cancelled Michael Flynn. https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/08/chase_bank_just_cancelled_general_michael_flynn.html

August 31, 2021

Chase Bank just cancelled General Michael Flynn​

By Lauri B. Regan

There’s a new front in the progressive war to turn our nation into a dystopian society ruled by left-wing autocrats who seek to punish anyone who does not fall in line with their dictatorial rules. Conservatives have seemingly become inured to the cancel culture that silences their voices in classrooms, across social media, and in corporate board rooms, but the campaign against th em is intensifying with the aid of some corporate behemoths.
Michael Flynn, a retired three-star general who served our country with distinction, notwithstanding the Democrats’ attempts to malign and jail him simply because he was a Trump supporter and appointed to head the National Security Agency, just had his credit cards cancelled by Chase Bank. Chase claimed it was doing so due to “reputational risk.” And while Snopes and others concluded they could not confirm the authenticity of the letter from Chase to Flynn, which was posted on social media and has since gone viral, Chase has declined comment on the matter leading to the conclusion that the cancellation of Flynn’s cards did in fact occur.
Click to expand...
 
  • Feels
Reactions: albert chan
  • Like
  • Informative
Reactions: albert chan, NoReturn, VIVIsectVI and 1 other person
I am the Muffin Maker said:
www.vox.com

What we still haven’t learned from Gamergate

Gamergate should have armed us against bad actors and bad-faith arguments. It didn’t.
www.vox.com www.vox.com

I actually guffawed in public while reading this. Abortion being banned in Texas is really the fault of gamer gaters.

archive here: https://web.archive.org/web/2021090...ssons-cultural-impact-changes-harassment-laws
Click to expand...
Lmao this is still real.
1630653542121.png

How the FUCK is this still REAL?
Kornula said:
ABBA has reunited to record a new album....why, god. Why???
Click to expand...
Don't talk shit about ABBA you black-ass fucking nigger.
 
  • Like
  • Informative
Reactions: Irrational Exuberance, anionfarflung, albert macdonald chan and 2 others
  • Like
  • Informative
Reactions: Clovis and NoReturn
Was going to put this in the Celebrity News Megathread, but this seemed good enough to post on here

Jimmy Fallon Audience Weirdly Celebrates Demographic Decline Of White People | ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
www.zerohedge.com www.zerohedge.com

Jimmy Fallon Audience Weirdly Celebrates Demographic Decline Of White People​


After talk show host Jimmy Fallon mentioned the fact that the latest official U.S. census data shows white people are in demographic decline, his audience responded with enthusiastic applause.


Yes, really.

“The results of the 2020 census just came out – for the first time in American history, the number of white people went down,” said Fallon.

The in-house audience, the significant majority of whom were white, reacted with glee and elongated clapping.

Even Fallon seemed to be taken aback by the response, remarking, “Interesting reaction to that.”

He then made a few lazy jokes based on white people tropes before commenting, “Fox News declared it a national emergency.”

While the skit would previously have been a throwaway nothingburger, anti-white racism is now systemic within the entertainment industry.

As we highlighted last week, non-Hispanic whites in America have shrunk by 8.6% over the last decade alone and now account for 57.8% of the U.S. population – the lowest share ever.

This was celebrated by Washington Post journalist Jennifer Rubin, who welcomed the revelation as “fabulous news.”

As we have emphasized before, anyone who suggests that the demographic decline of white people may be a negative thing is demonized as a dangerous “conspiracy theorist.”

However, so long as you’re lionizing and soft lobbying for the elimination of people based on their skin color, that’s normal, funny and progressive.

Meanwhile, the entities that amplify all this claim to be combating racial discrimination while literally fomenting it.

But their audience appears to be dwindling.

“Fallon’s ratings, not surprisingly, have imploded over the past several years,” writes Chris Menahan.

“His show went from getting around 10 million viewers a night in 2014 to about 1 to 1.5 million a night in 2021 — which is pretty funny in itself.”
 
  • Informative
  • Like
Reactions: Clovis, millais, Torque Wheeler and 1 other person
VIVIsectVI said:
www.news.com.au

Capital letters are now ‘officially racist’

Sky News host James Morrow says capital letters are now "officially racist". It comes as a university academic in Canada is pushing to desist the use of capital letters except to "acknowledge the Indigenous struggle for recognition". "They get rid of capital letters except for the capital 'I'...
www.news.com.au www.news.com.au
Click to expand...
Does this mean they will stop capitalizing “Black”?
 
  • Like
  • Informative
Reactions: The Valeyard, Billy Budd, Clovis and 4 others
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back