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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."

 

[Troonos]

29 y.o. Louisiana man pretends to be his own r.etarded brother in order to hire care to change his diapers so he can get a stiffy.
Currently charged with "10 counts of sexual battery and human trafficking (labor), and one count of possession of a schedule II controlled dangerous substance."

Spoiler: Link

NOPD: Man pretended to be handicapped to trick home care workers into changing his diaper

A New Orleans man has been arrested for pretending to be handicapped in order to have home health care workers change his adult diaper.

wgno.com

Spoiler

NOPD: Man pretended to be handicapped to trick home care workers into changing his diaper

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NEW ORLEANS – A New Orleans man has been arrested for pretending to be handicapped in order to have home health care workers change his adult diaper.

Twenty-nine-year-old Rutledge Deas, who also goes by “Rory,” created multiple social media posts for home health care workers.

Deas would specify in the ads that the services would be for his 18-year-old mentally and physically handicapped brother, “Cory.”

Deas would then pose as “Cory” and pretend to be handicapped while the nurses changed his adult diaper, a process Deas used to “obtain sexual arousal,” according to the Louisiana State Police.

Home healthcare workers became suspicious of the scheme on at least 10 separate occasions.

Deas was arrested at his home without incident and charged with 10 counts of sexual battery and human trafficking (labor), and one count of possession of a schedule II controlled dangerous substance.

The investigation remains ongoing, and additional victims are anticipated.

Anyone suspected of being a victim of Deas is urged to contact LSP Detectives at (504) 310-7000.

I am so, so excited about the coming ABDL holocaust.

 

[Cat Menagerie]

Spoiler

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — A former employee of a dispensary claims he was fired for refusing to sign a policy that prohibits employees from bringing meat to work.

He said he was fired after he stood up for a coworker who was sent home because of a sandwich with lunch meat that was discovered in the fridge.

"He was belittling her on. 'I can't believe you brought in dead animal flesh into the store,'" Chad Story told News 4.

Story is talking about his former boss, the owner of Friendly Market, a dispensary with a policy that no meat is allowed in the store at both the Norman and OKC locations.

Earlier this week, Story said one of his coworkers broke that policy.

"She brought meat into the store. She had lunch meat," Story said.

When management discovered it inside the fridge, Story said his co-worker was sent home for two days.

"She was literally balling her eyes out," Story said. "I saw her on her way out the door."

Story said he decided to stand up for his coworker and confronted the owner.

"He said, 'Well, Chad, this doesn't concern you.' And I said, 'Well, it does.' And he said, 'Well, have you brought meat into the store?' And I said, 'Absolutely.' And he said, 'Well, good. You'll have a meeting right after her,'" Story told News 4.

Story said he was fired during that meeting because he refused to adhere to the 'no meat' policy, which reads in part, "Your personal thoughts on this subject are respected by your freedom to consume meat products anywhere you want, EXCEPT inside the Holy space we've created at Friendly."

"I did my best to try to try to talk with Chad, as long as I could, to try to explain it to him but he was adamant that he was not going to adhere to the policy," Robert Cox, the owner of Friendly, said.

Cox, who's a vegan, said the policy is in place because of a personal conviction.
"The death and dismemberment that is associated with the getting meat on your plate, I'm just saying, I'd like there to be a higher vibration at Friendly. We're really trying to raise vibrations," Cox told News 4.

Oklahoma is an employment-at-will state, so the policy and the reason Story was let go is legal.

"You can't fire them for being black, but you can fire them for knowingly bringing a turkey sandwich in," Ed Blau, an attorney, said.

So at the end of the day, it's a difference in two opinions at the heart of the situation.

"I just ask them one thing and one thing only, don't bring meat into the store," Cox said.

"If there is no harm being done to a human, then everybody should be able to keep doing what they're doing," Story said.
Cox said he offered Story severance and Story declined it. Story said that's because he feels if he accepted it, what he is standing up for would be "for nothing."

Cox also said he doesn't like the word fired, and feels Story chose to abandon the job when he wouldn't adhere to the policy.

OKC dispensary employee without job after refusing to sign ‘no meat’ policy

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — A former employee of a dispensary claims he was fired for refusing to sign a policy that prohibits employees from bringing meat to work. He said he was fired after he stood up for a coworker who was sent home because of a sandwich with lunch meat that was discovered in...

kfor.com

God, what an obnoxious faggot. I'll never step foot in that dispensary.

 

[break these cuffs]

I'd like there to be a higher vibration at Friendly.

God damn hippies.

 

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"Holy space we've created at Friendly"

Fucking hell.

You can remove religion from humans, but you can't remove spirituality. The radical left just replaced Christianity with worshiping their own fucking farts.

 

[keyboredsm4shthe2nd]

"Holy space we've created at Friendly"

You're a weed dealer, calm the fuck down.

 

[MediocreMilt]

Beyond the Halloween Rush: We Asked 13 People at NYC Craft Stores What They’re Making (via Man Repeller)

So obviously this story isn't very interesting (they really are just talking to random people trying to buy paint and stuff). But I scanned through it, and some of the people interviewed are men.

Can you imagine that? You're at a craft store, looking for some paint or something, minding your own business, and some chick comes up to you:
"Excuse me sir, hello! My name is Mallory, I'm a writer at Man Repeller. I'm writing a piece on how people are celebrating Halloween this year. Do you have time for a short interview? "

And I dunno, I started cracking up at the image. It seems so surreal in my head that I almost think they must have lied to people about where they work.

 

[Mike Faragay]

Spoiler

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — A former employee of a dispensary claims he was fired for refusing to sign a policy that prohibits employees from bringing meat to work.

He said he was fired after he stood up for a coworker who was sent home because of a sandwich with lunch meat that was discovered in the fridge.

"He was belittling her on. 'I can't believe you brought in dead animal flesh into the store,'" Chad Story told News 4.

Story is talking about his former boss, the owner of Friendly Market, a dispensary with a policy that no meat is allowed in the store at both the Norman and OKC locations.

Earlier this week, Story said one of his coworkers broke that policy.

"She brought meat into the store. She had lunch meat," Story said.

When management discovered it inside the fridge, Story said his co-worker was sent home for two days.

"She was literally balling her eyes out," Story said. "I saw her on her way out the door."

Story said he decided to stand up for his coworker and confronted the owner.

"He said, 'Well, Chad, this doesn't concern you.' And I said, 'Well, it does.' And he said, 'Well, have you brought meat into the store?' And I said, 'Absolutely.' And he said, 'Well, good. You'll have a meeting right after her,'" Story told News 4.

Story said he was fired during that meeting because he refused to adhere to the 'no meat' policy, which reads in part, "Your personal thoughts on this subject are respected by your freedom to consume meat products anywhere you want, EXCEPT inside the Holy space we've created at Friendly."

"I did my best to try to try to talk with Chad, as long as I could, to try to explain it to him but he was adamant that he was not going to adhere to the policy," Robert Cox, the owner of Friendly, said.

Cox, who's a vegan, said the policy is in place because of a personal conviction.
"The death and dismemberment that is associated with the getting meat on your plate, I'm just saying, I'd like there to be a higher vibration at Friendly. We're really trying to raise vibrations," Cox told News 4.

Oklahoma is an employment-at-will state, so the policy and the reason Story was let go is legal.

"You can't fire them for being black, but you can fire them for knowingly bringing a turkey sandwich in," Ed Blau, an attorney, said.

So at the end of the day, it's a difference in two opinions at the heart of the situation.

"I just ask them one thing and one thing only, don't bring meat into the store," Cox said.

"If there is no harm being done to a human, then everybody should be able to keep doing what they're doing," Story said.
Cox said he offered Story severance and Story declined it. Story said that's because he feels if he accepted it, what he is standing up for would be "for nothing."

Cox also said he doesn't like the word fired, and feels Story chose to abandon the job when he wouldn't adhere to the policy.

OKC dispensary employee without job after refusing to sign ‘no meat’ policy

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — A former employee of a dispensary claims he was fired for refusing to sign a policy that prohibits employees from bringing meat to work. He said he was fired after he stood up for a coworker who was sent home because of a sandwich with lunch meat that was discovered in...

kfor.com

God, what an obnoxious faggot. I'll never step foot in that dispensary.

I mean.. he did offer them severance, and it seems as though they knew about the policy upon being hired, and chose to break the seemingly one rule management cares about. Also, they weren't fired on the spot, they had meetings, refused to adhere to policy and therefore were fired, hence the severance. The owner is definitely kooky, but it seems as though the employees knowingly broke a rule they didn't expect anyone to take seriously, but it was actually a rule that was taken seriously; then when they had to face consequences for breaking said rule, became incredibly indignant.

Seriously though, how small business owners do you know who would offer severance pay to hourly employees... Shit's unheard of- especially under these circumstances. Like I said, the guy sounds like he's camped out in left field, but objective reasoning is on his side in this situation.

 

[RichardMongler]

Nazis Got Me Kicked Off of Twitter:

Last Friday, I spent the evening worrying about what to do about a neo-Nazi internet campaign targeting me for physical violence. This is not the first time something like this has happened to me but the experience is always unnerving. I reached out to some friends and colleagues to brainstorm solutions and lost a bit of sleep.

When I woke up on Saturday, I found that my Twitter account was permanently suspended. As far as I could tell, individuals on the far-right had launched a campaign to mass report my account and got me kicked off the platform.

As a journalist, Twitter is a critical reporting tool for me, and over the course of the weekend I reached out to Twitter a handful of times trying to determine why, exactly, my account had been suspended and what, if anything, I could do to bring it back. Though my account was eventually reinstated, the experience reinforced my understanding of Twitter as a platform of opaque, contradictory, and inconsistent moderation processes.

In retaliation, far right activists, including a racist, misogynist gang called the Proud Boys, used the messaging app Telegram to encourage others to report my reply to Twitter.

The whole saga began in May 2019, when a far-right troll posted a Twitter thread in which he claimed to have uncovered nefarious associations between antifascist activists and journalists who report on the far right, a common tactic employed by the far-right to discredit journalists and incite harassment that often entails death threats. I wasn’t named in this thread, but I am familiar with the work of the journalists and activists who were.

Exasperated, I responded to the troll’s thread using some unsavory language: “What the fuck is wrong with you cunt.” While I stand by my response, it goes without saying that it was upsetting to some on the far right, who likely knew the tweet would be found in violation of Twitter’s vague and inconsistently applied policies about “hateful conduct.” Either way, I paid a price. In retaliation, far right activists, including a racist, misogynist gang called the Proud Boys, used the messaging app Telegram to encourage others to report my reply to Twitter, leading to the permanent suspension of the account I’d used since college. The Proud Boys’ effort to mass report me via one of their Telegram channels was publicized by a handful of anti-fascist Twitter accounts at the time. That Twitter account was never reinstated, and I had to boot up a back-up account.

Months passed without any incident — perhaps in large part because I’ve kept my account mostly on private. Then, on Friday, I became aware that I was included in a new harassment campaign targeting people who have been critical of the far right, and which called attention to individual Twitter accounts. (Out of concern for other individuals involved, I have decided to keep specific details of the incident private.)

When I checked my Twitter account on Saturday morning, I found an email from Twitter alerting me that my current Twitter account had also been reported. The email said: “We have investigated the reported content and could not identify any violations of the Twitter Rules or German law. Accordingly, we have not taken any action at this time.” Clearly action had been taken, though: My account was suspended.

I appealed the suspension, writing to Twitter a few times and laying out the external harassment campaign. Twitter didn’t give me any details that would confirm that the account stemmed from the external harassment campaign, but the campaign launched only a matter of hours before my account was suspended; reports on my account were only of my profile, not of any specific tweets, indicating that whomever was behind the reports is not following me on my private account; and after covering the far right for a few years, one sort of gets used to experiencing harassment on social media when the far right goes after you elsewhere.

In response to my emails on Saturday morning, Twitter sent a reply to inform me that the suspension was “permanent” and furthermore, to accuse me of “managing multiple accounts for abusive purposes.” The response was both infuriating and confounding. Not only was I the one being targeted for abuse, but the only other Twitter account I have ever had was permanently banned months ago following a similar far-right mass reporting campaign.

Three days later, Twitter reversed course; my account was back up and running. The company’s press team did not reply to my requests for comment for this article, and its written policies and rules provide little insight into the mechanisms and processes behind disciplinary actions.

I am not the first journalist Twitter has suspended following apparent far-right incitement or false mass reports. “The fact Twitter’s suspension system is so reckless is absurd,” says Ana Valens, a NSFW reporter for the Daily Dot. “Careers are made and broken by it.”

Valens, who also uses Twitter for work as an adult performer, says that she’s “explicitly seen right-wing trolls announce that they sent a false positive targeting my account around half a dozen times,” adding that she has also been mass reported by other trans people who do not share Valens’ more progressive views on certain LGBTQ issues.

Valens says Twitter has suspended her account twice and in both cases, she was able to lift the suspensions early by contacting Twitter’s press team. She says not everyone who gets mass reported by bad actors has the ear of a press contact at Twitter, though, and explains that her “press contact has since left, so now if I’m banned again I have no fucking clue how to get unbanned.”

Naftali Bennett, a pseudonym used by the editor of Jewish Worker, a left-wing site that publishes commentary on social and political issues, says that far right activists have mass reported the site’s Twitter account leading to suspension at least three times. On the same day that my account was reinstated, the Jewish Worker Twitter account was suspended for 12 hours, too, after the Proud Boys mass-report Telegram channel posted about the Jewish Worker’s tweets. The tweets the Proud Boys were after pertained to the now-defunct neo-Nazi website, Iron March, which recently experienced a massive data leak. Bennett says that the constant harassment “terrifies the shit out of my wife,” who fears for their children’s safety.

Katie Notopoulos, a reporter for BuzzFeed News, saw her account locked for 10 days in 2017 after far-right activists reported a tongue-in-cheek tweet she posted in 2011 about her disdain for white people. Notopoulos says that both Twitter and Facebook’s systems for evaluating reports of abuse lack “nuance” on a large scale: “So [social media moderators] treat someone saying ‘I hate white people,’ which is clearly a joke, the same as actual harmful racist terrors.” She adds that nowadays, she’s “slightly more sympathetic to Twitter’s efforts to clean up harassment” and that “Twitter has actually done some good work in the last two years to clean up its platform.”

For those who rely on Twitter for professional purposes, losing your account permanently can have serious consequences. Getting locked out of an account temporarily amid harassment and threats of violence is, at minimum, frustrating. (It can also be confusing: my first suspended account was quietly reinstated without explanation shortly before this article went live.)

Far right activists understand this. By getting journalists booted from Twitter, they cut us off from a critical means of engaging with our professional community and social circles, while sending threats and other harassment both on and off Twitter.

Twitter’s easily exploited report feature and inconsistent enforcement of policies means that bad actors can hijack the platform’s tools and use them as weapons against the very individuals they were meant to protect. Twitter’s policies around moderating “hate speech” currently lack full acknowledgment of the fact that there’s a difference between swearing at a far-right instigator or making a joke about hating white people, and inciting racist or misogynistic harassment. For that to change, Twitter would have to commit to discerning and enforcing the difference, probably using some combination of improved personnel training and better A.I.

Like many who use it, I’ve come to the conclusion that Twitter is generally a terrible website. There are elements that can be useful or even fun, but the site often seems set up to enable abuse by bad actors and to annoy users with reams of advertisements. But, if I am going to leave the site, I’d like it to happen on my terms.

 

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"Waah waah, they used our own rules against us, that's not FAIIIRRRR!"

 

[Super-Chevy454]

I guess some Democrats might regret to not have kicked Bill Clinton, Al Gore would had been president. https://www.americanthinker.com/art...al_gore_from_becoming_a_10year_president.html ( http://archive.ph/RbguU )

November 17, 2019
How the Democrats Bungled Impeachment and Prevented Al Gore from Becoming a 10-Year President
By James Nollet
With the Trump impeachment drama in full swing, it is useful to look back into history to see how past impeachment activity can impact the future.
We all know that the Republicans acted against their own interests when they impeached President Clinton in 1998, because this caused an electoral backlash against them in 1998. But what few realize is that the Democrats, too, at this time, acted against their own self-interests by their refusal to convict Clinton in the Senate, thereby preventing the accession of V.P. Al Gore and causing the election of the second President Bush in 2000.

To see how this works, let's go back to 1963, to the days before the assassination of President Kennedy. As popular as JFK was after his death and remains today, that was only an outcome of being assassinated. While he was alive, he actually was not a particularly popular president.
Patrick Buchanan has written about this. In his past writings, he cited the fact that Look Magazine had run a story in November 1963 titled "Kennedy Could Lose" (the 1964 election). When the news of the assassination broke, Look frantically tried to recall its issues, but it was too late; they had already hit the newsstands. (A similar scramble to spike a gauche story occurred at this time too when LIFE Magazine successfully recalled a story from its November 26, 1963 edition that would have examined LBJ's corruption with the likes of Bobby Baker and Billie Sol Estes.)

Had JFK not been assassinated (and had he been healthy enough to run, which is another story altogether...), 1964 looked to be a spirited election between him and his good personal friend, Barry Goldwater. Goldwater would have run a competitive race and might well have defeated Kennedy.
But the assassination changed everything. When John F. Kennedy the man died, he transmogrified into St. John the First in the hearts of most Americans. He was mourned as a holy, sainted martyr. His successor, Lyndon Johnson, became the Joshua to the JFK Moses, the St. Paul to the JFK Jesus — the one who caught the torch from the falling divine ruler and held it on high, thereafter leading his chosen people to new heights of progress and virtue.
The post-assassination President Johnson became the loyal disciple and successor of the fallen hero and everything he (supposedly) stood for. LBJ thereafter was unbeatable in 1964. Nobody could have defeated him. Remember when John Lennon said the Beatles were more popular than Jesus Christ? Well, in 1964, LBJ too was more popular than Jesus Christ. He could have defeated the real Jesus Christ in an election.

The same kind of thing halfway happened in 1999 — and woulda, shoulda happened to a far greater degree if the Democrats had been clever and Machiavellian enough to recognize their opportunity when they had it in their grasp. Up to the point of the Senate trial of Clinton for impeachment crimes, the Democrats, with their many media allies, had done a masterful job of stampeding the American public into a general support of Clinton against those cruel, evil, dastardly, nasty Republicans.
But in order to ensure a continued supremacy and domination of American politics for the next generation, all they needed to do was scrounge enough Judas Democratic senatorial votes to convict aptly named Slick Willie in the Senate trial and thereby complete Bill Clinton's own transmogrification from Bill Clinton the corrupt, perjuring adulterer to St. Bill the First. But they blew it.

 

[LordofTendons]

I guess some Democrats might regret to not have kicked Bill Clinton, Al Gore would had been president. https://www.americanthinker.com/art...al_gore_from_becoming_a_10year_president.html ( http://archive.ph/RbguU )

I don't think getting your brains blown out and getting kicked out of office after being blown are the same thing.

 

[AlexJonesGotMePregnant]

Nazis Got Me Kicked Off of Twitter:

No surprises here. Found this tweet (archive) and looks like once again... no (((surprises)))

I really don't buy into the whole lizard-people controlling the world theory but jfc jews are giving nazis a lot of conspiracy fodder

 

[Gustav Schuchardt]

Pizza Express bombed with satirical reviews after Prince Andrew used them for an alibi for a night where he is accused of having sex with the then under age Virginia Roberts. Also, lizard people do not sweat.

Pizza Express in Woking flooded with fake reviews after Prince Andrew said he was there on night of 'teen sex' claims

PRINCE Andrew’s revelation of having dined at Pizza Express in Woking 18 years ago during his bombshell interview last night led to a flurry of fake reviews online. In his extraordinary inter…

www.thesun.co.uk

 

[Malagor the dank omen]

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No surprises here. Found this tweet (archive) and looks like once again... no (((surprises)))

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I really don't buy into the whole lizard-people controlling the world theory but jfc jews are giving nazis a lot of conspiracy fodder

This is the problem with the jews: The whole conspiracy about them controlling the world and wanting non-jews to be cattle for them is very far fetched but god damn if they are trying really hard to make it look like it's a real threat. They either don't give a flying fuck and they know that if someone dares to raise the finger they can scream racist to shut them down or they are the most idiotic plotters in the whole world.

 

[Sīn the Moon Daddy]

This is the problem with the jews: The whole conspiracy about them controlling the world and wanting non-jews to be cattle for them is very far fetched but god damn if they are trying really hard to make it look like it's a real threat. They either don't give a flying fuck and they know that if someone dares to raise the finger they can scream racist to shut them down or they are the most idiotic plotters in the whole world.

There's no single Jewish mastermind behind the whole thing any more than there is a single mastermind behind any of this shit. It's just busybodies screaming at eachother and yes men scrambling to interpret their bosses drunk rambling.

 

[Malagor the dank omen]

There's no single Jewish mastermind behind the whole thing any more than there is a single mastermind behind any of this shit. It's just busybodies screaming at eachother and yes men scrambling to interpret their bosses drunk rambling.

So it boils down to how the left operates: there is barely any real consensus and you have 8 people tugging into a different direction each. And they don't want to reach an agreement with anyone else because their way is the right way and everyone else is wrong.

Sounds about right.

 

[AnOminous]

This is the problem with the jews: The whole conspiracy about them controlling the world and wanting non-jews to be cattle for them is very far fetched but god damn if they are trying really hard to make it look like it's a real threat. They either don't give a flying fuck and they know that if someone dares to raise the finger they can scream racist to shut them down or they are the most idiotic plotters in the whole world.

Seriously, there is a bunch of shitheads who openly say they want to flat out fucking gas you and you wouldn't pay any attention to the fuckers?

 

[DavidFerrie]

A UK resident who posted this on another board said that Scottish SJWs are easily the worst local variant of the type in Britain:

Student slams Disney for being 'horrendously outdated and offensive'

Lauren Robertson re-watched Disney favourites - accusing most of them of 'portraying racist and exaggerated stereotypes'. The student, who studies at Aberdeen University said they were 'dodgy'.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[MeatRokket08]

South Dakota anti-drug campaign launches "Meth. We're on it"

South Dakota Governor launches "Meth. We're On It" campaign

South Dakota governor Kristi Noem unveiled her state's new anti-drug campaign on Monday, but many are criticizing the program's name.

www.newsweek.com

 

[neverendingmidi]

South Dakota anti-drug campaign launches "Meth. We're on it"

South Dakota Governor launches "Meth. We're On It" campaign

South Dakota governor Kristi Noem unveiled her state's new anti-drug campaign on Monday, but many are criticizing the program's name.

www.newsweek.com

This is anti-drug? Christ, what were the rejected slogans? "Meth, Fuck Yeah!" "Meth, Gonna Get It!"