How does the World view America these days?

[cwmbrancity]

Denny's is under-rated imho

 

if you're down with an omelette, basic fuel, bosh

 

met someone from Buffalo today & compared greasy spoons, a fry-up from the north of Eire tops all

[Zephyr_Nova]

Denny's can be good, depending on who's cooking the food.  it really does vary wildly from location to location, shift to shift.  

[Salvatorin]

https://nativeyouthleadership.org/

https://waterprotectorlegal.org/

if you wanna gawk at natives than you might as well use your outrage to look at these sites

[ignatius]

 

 

here's the story.. and your pill of rage for the day

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/maga-hatted-teens-harass-native-182138098.html

 

 

i hate these kind of clickbait clips that only provoke unfocused hyperbolic responses. there is a lot to unpack in just this clip even without knowing the full context. on a basic level there isn't very much happening in this video. but you have to look at the subtext. on a very basic level this looks a lot like any example of a gang of teenagers getting a 'dangerous' kick from being somewhat confrontational to an 'other', in this case a native american elder. then you add in the aspect of the maga kids bringing their arguably mocking energy to the indigenous people's march, which is a serious thing trying to address real problems, and also consider the callous history of abuse towards natives by colonists and this becomes more nasty of a thing. on surface value this is just teenagers being assholes. but it signals to a larger cultural malaise.

 

 

 

a lot of people were reminded of similar scenes of teens "just standing there" 

 

 

and apparently they were yelling "build the wall" at some point and yelling at Native Americans to build a wall is obviously not about immigration.. it's about white supremacy which is the path these little maga fucks are headed down. that maga hat is some kind of license for little cocky fucks to be assholes beyond just normal stupid inexperienced ignorant teenager bullshit. they put it on and they think they're bigger or part of something bigger that makes them 'supreme' non-whites.  these kids feel entitled and yes they're stupid teens who probably have shit parents and shit educations. but that's how the world sees america these days.. that's how a lot of america sees america these days. 

Edited January 20, 2019 by ignatius

[Zephyr_Nova]

They were from a Catholic high school, according to my facebook feed WHICH NEVER LIES TO ME.

[bendish]

One of the most depressing things I’ve seen recently. Teaching high school I’ve noticed more and more that boys in particular have this propensity to entitled arrogance and ignorant contrarianism. And that there is literally no way to change their minds despite the fact that their mums still pack their lunches and iron their boxers.

Edited January 20, 2019 by bendish

[usagi]

it's all the worse when you realise that most of the time that kind of callow pigheadedness can only be knocked off course by some hard reality check, and when you're born into wealth and privilege and private schools and segregated communities, there is little prospect of any reality check. these people are often ideally positioned and groomed to become leaders. and so nothing changes.

Edited January 20, 2019 by usagi

[goDel]

I'd expect them to just fail in the educational system. How can they succeed with their mindset? They probably end up playing games the entire day.

 

"GG"

[Hk47]

Fucking depressing.

[bendish]

elder uncle nathan's reponse:

What a guy. Respect. 

[ignatius]

Some of those kids will face disciplinary action from their school including possible expulsion

 

https://www.newsweek.com/maga-cap-wearing-pupils-catholic-school-who-taunted-native-americans-could-1298460

 

 

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[ambermonk]

Some of those kids will face disciplinary action from their school including possible expulsion

 

https://www.newsweek.com/maga-cap-wearing-pupils-catholic-school-who-taunted-native-americans-could-1298460

 

 

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I hope that includes the little prick who stared down Nathan. Whether the school is sincere about justice or just doing it to save face, it's a step in the right direction.

 

it's all the worse when you realise that most of the time that kind of callow pigheadedness can only be knocked off course by some hard reality check, and when you're born into wealth and privilege and private schools and segregated communities, there is little prospect of any reality check. these people are often ideally positioned and groomed to become leaders. and so nothing changes.

I hope this possible expulsion will at least knock some sense into them. They're still young, and they're at a ripe age for both making plenty of fuckups and room for self-improvement. My hope is that this behavior will be more difficult in general to get away with without consequences down the road.

 

(I sure said 'hope' a lot)

[Zephyr_Nova]

 Wait... so those kids were participating in an anti-abortion march?  Expulsion's not going to do much if they're just going to go right back to an environment that's cultivating this sort of behaviour.  They r fuct.

[ignatius]

 Wait... so those kids were participating in an anti-abortion march?  Expulsion's not going to do much if they're just going to go right back to an environment that's cultivating this sort of behaviour.  They r fuct.

 

 

it's a private catholic school.  a lot of schools like this are pretty much brainwashing centers. arguably all schools are to some degree but religious schools are often culturally exclusionary. there's a very focused narrative to their education. if a kid is in there for entire education from preschool to adulthood the kids is probably gonna end up w/certain views/beliefs and an air of superiority by default. 

 

evangelicals and hyper religious people often have at minimum a very cocky sort of world view because they have this 'relationship' w/god and sort of 'have it all figured out' and things that fall outside of that world view they have.. are 'weird' or for 'abnormal freaks'. 

 

had a chat w/a nice young kid who was maybe a year before college age.. and he was an evangelical homeschooled kid and was talking to other kids of similar age about things like heaven and when reincarnation came up as a topic his immediate comment was "that's weird and makes no sense" but the idea of dying and going to heaven was of course much more possible and he had no doubt that's what happens when you die. never mind there's a few billion people or however many.. who have a strong belief in reincarnation as part of their religion. 

 

those kids in the maga hats seem more like frat kids in the making. they'll be sexist, homophobic, white supremacists and probably not even examine those things as flaws... until they are made to cry about it. 

 

https://nypost.com/2013/03/24/fdny-ems-lt-spews-racist-anti-semitic-tweets-but-cried-when-confronted/

 

[Rubin Farr]

Some of those kids will face disciplinary action from their school including possible expulsion

 

https://www.newsweek.com/maga-cap-wearing-pupils-catholic-school-who-taunted-native-americans-could-1298460

 

 

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The smugness on that kid's face will follow him for life. Seeing the old guy in tears really angered me, he was here first!

[ignatius]

FLOL... the whole narrative seems to be bullshit. apparently the native american guy walked into the group of kids who were waiting to get on a bus or something. 

 

full details in this guy's video 

 

[Salvatorin]

all clickbait is bullshit 

[ignatius]

all clickbait is bullshit 

 

 

need to get it tattooed on my eyeballs. too easy to buy into someone's news bait.  fucking ay. 

[ambermonk]

Welp, the MAGA crowd are gonna have a field day once they all get wind of this debunk.

[Extralife]

Kid still needs a face punching.

[ignatius]

Kid still needs a face punching.

Apparently he got doxed.

 

What a shit show. It sucks to be fooled by the prevailing wind of bullshit.

 

Just makes me want to pay attention less and less.

 

 

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[whosebrian]

Kid still needs a face punching.

[usagi]

great. this ploy is now going to fuel further normalisation of shitty right-wing attitudes.

 

everyone is shit.

[Extralife]

great. this ploy is now going to fuel further normalisation of shitty right-wing attitudes.

 

everyone is shit.

[Zephyr_Nova]

I feel this is a good time for me to whip out the only Marilyn Manson song you really need.

 

 

https://youtu.be/5nXCZhqTIps