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I am glad they got pardoned but the sad thing I find is that they were charged and convicted of any crime in the first place.
 
I am glad they got pardoned but the sad thing I find is that they were charged and convicted of any crime in the first place.
There is no rule of law in the US.. there is only the mob and politics and in the end maybe you get pardoned unless the mob murders you first.
 
Yet another babylon bee prophecy fulfilled lol.

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Start winning again ? They had won 44 in a row heading into Sweden game at the Olympics . Is this woke stuff a very recent affliction of the team ? Lol


Donnie is spot on here. Kind of a long winded way of saying, "shut up and play". Oh, and when you lose, if you then win, you are winning again. What you did prior to the losing, doesn't mean anything in the context of "winning again".
 
Donnie is spot on here. Kind of a long winded way of saying, "shut up and play". Oh, and when you lose, if you then win, you are winning again. What you did prior to the losing, doesn't mean anything in the context of "winning again".
Did you hurt yourself answering this ? Take it easy man . I know you love you some Orange Lard but relax
 
Similar to the eyes, the ears can hear what they expect to hear.
If you saw the video of this guy supposedly yelling a racial slur, there were three attendants in purple shirts standing like 3 seats away from this guy. Wouldn't you think they would have turned around and escorted him out if he was yelling something that offensive? Nobody in the entire section flinched.
 
Similar to the eyes, the ears can hear what they expect to hear.
This makes a very convincing case that the guy was yelling for the mascot:


There was just one problem with all this. Video of the incident shows the fan in question not even looking at Brinson or the game at all. He is looking at the Rockies’ mascot, which is named “Dinger,” waving to him and calling out his name. The Rockies acknowledged this Monday by retweeting sportswriter Thomas Harding, who covers the team: “I have talked to the #Rockies, who investigated the incident, tracked the fan, talked to #Markins [sic] Lewis Brinson. And as many of you and #9NEWS has reported, the fan was yelling for mascot ‘Dinger.’ Apologies come from the club, which also thought it hears the insult. And from me for casting aspersions on the fan base and stadium worker. The team also tracked video and audio from both broadcasts, even talked to season ticket holders, the fan and his wife. I am happy for the conclusion.”
 
I think all other news is going to become secondary for awhile as everyone remotely calling themself "journalist" tries to get their Vietnam moment with the evacuations in Afganistan. It's pulitzer whoring time.
 

Things have changed. The unthinkable, the unimaginable and the inconceivable are hard upon us. We face not one, but three simultaneous existential emergencies, and while each is distinct, it’s time we understood that, ultimately, they are not different threats at all, but rather different manifestations of the same threat. Meaning that the insurrection crisis, the COVID-19 crisis and the climate-change crisis are really, at bottom, just facets of a misinformation crisis.


If you consider how belief in risibly false information ginned up by social media — e.g., Donald Trump won, vaccines magnetize skin, cold snaps disprove global warming — has impeded if not paralyzed our response to these and other issues, the truth of it becomes evident. Cronkite, Huntley and Brinkley are long dead, the local paper just a shadow of itself. Social media purport to fill the void and as a direct result, misinformation has reached critical levels.


It’s not that no one saw this coming. Warnings go back at least two decades, including in this very space. But the threat seemed so theoretical. Who knew that it would have such real and profound effects? Who knew it would cleave this country — this planet — like an axe, splitting the informed off so decisively from the proudly misinformed, the adherents to crackpot theories and screwball beliefs that would have been laughed off the public stage in 1963 but that, in 2021, find strength in numbers and validation online? And that now emerge as a clear and present danger.

Just this week, for instance, a United Nations panel issued a report warning that climate change has brought us to the point of catastrophe: “code red for humanity.” It’s a truth underscored by our own eyes, by the hundred-year events that now happen every year: devastating floods, blistering heat, raging fires, rampaging storms. The damage, we are told, is irreversible. We can only mitigate it.


You’d think such a dire prognosis would leave us united on the need for immediate action, but Fox “News” saw little to worry about, bringing on climate denier Marc Morano to assure viewers that the U.N. just wants to take their cars. “You’re being conned,” he said, “if you’re falling for this U.N. report.”
And so it goes.

The need to teach our children well — media literacy and critical thinking, in particular — has never felt more urgent. Indeed, it is not too much to call it a matter of survival. After all, the insurrection crisis threatens our country, the COVID crisis threatens our health and the climate crisis threatens the only planet we’ve got. But the misinformation crisis either caused or exacerbated them all. So the obvious epitaph if we do not survive these challenges would be ignominious, but fair:
 
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Things have changed. The unthinkable, the unimaginable and the inconceivable are hard upon us. We face not one, but three simultaneous existential emergencies, and while each is distinct, it’s time we understood that, ultimately, they are not different threats at all, but rather different manifestations of the same threat. Meaning that the insurrection crisis, the COVID-19 crisis and the climate-change crisis are really, at bottom, just facets of a misinformation crisis.
I'm on my phone and didn't see who posted this post. This first paragraph was spot on. Then everything went off the rails.

We are in an existential crisis of misinformation.People want to exaggerate everything. Covid is bad, but we've had worse. Climate is changing but fewer people are dying with weather related events than anytime in the past. The "insurrection" was a minor disturbance compared to just months before when protected protesters caused real panic and destruction. A few hours is now considered worse than a couple blocks that were occupied for over 100 days. Misinformation is overwhelming our society to act like the opponent is the devil and their side has pure motivations.

Things have gotten bad but the author of the article is an instrument of the destruction rather than trying to solve something.
 
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