For instance even you above mentioned that Galadriel just "brainlessly" jumps into the sea but given they were going on a one-way trip to some sort of elf Valhalla I'm not sure she had much of a choice. To any rational person jumping off a ship many hundreds of miles from land is certain ...

If she went to Valinor she could never return Well, returning isn't really the point. There's encountering Halbrand in the middle of nowhere and a side-trip to Númenor. It's a contrivance to set up a significant part of the story. All authors use contrivances to tell their stories, but when the qua...

Like I said, numbers talk, bullshit walks. I haven’t seen a metric exist that doesn’t show brown people getting the shortest end of American justice, in excess of their numbers in the population. Have you? Miss the point, my ass. It seems my command of the English language is not what I thought it ...

Really? Is it really so difficult to get your head around what Cito and I are saying? That there is a difference between cops shooting or otherwise attacking non-white folks for minor transgressions or no transgressions at all and shooting somebody who has just slaughtered 21 people? Do you think th...

What happened is the police killed a brown man doing the same thing that white men who were not killed by police have done. But, I think you already knew that, didn’t you? Two things: why comment on things you ( general you) know shit about in the first place? And secondly: there’s enough racism al...

Well yes, my initial reaction was basically that a brown mass murderer ended up getting shot by cops here while the white mass murderer in Buffalo was not. As it turns out, they took their own sweet time to do that. Who knows, maybe they were debating amongst themselves whether shooting that guy wo...

What happened is the police killed a brown man doing the same thing that white men who were not killed by police have done. But, I think you already knew that, didn’t you? Two things: why comment on things you ( general you) know shit about in the first place? And secondly: there’s enough racism al...

Oh well, I guess I have to apologize to Alan C.
He probably means that the Hispanic police force of Uvalde is racist because they only shoot members of their own Hispanic community but not white folks. That makes sense alright.

Shooter was gunned down this time, seems he didn't happen to be white? So what are you saying? A member of the Hispanic community who killed members of his community, starting with an attack on his grandmother was killed by members of a largely Hispanic police force because of racism? Or what is th...

Standard 'mental health' explain-away in effect, but it never seems to occur to any of these fuckwits that even if they're right that a guy who murders a bunch of random children has mental health issues (well, duh!) they need to explain how gun culture is so permissive that people with violent men...

because if you keep idiots from getting immunized through infection, this is going to take a whole lot longer. Have you kept tabs on reinfection stats? quite frankly I haven’t kept up since we’re on numbered Omicron variants and stopped using new letters. What is it about wearing a mask that you do...

overheared today that my company is removing all measures next week. No more masks indoors and restaurants at full capacity. after that it’s only masks on public transport. bloody about time as far as I’m concerned. Well, lucky you. You probably do not have highly vulnerable folks to look after. we...

overheared today that my company is removing all measures next week. No more masks indoors and restaurants at full capacity. after that it’s only masks on public transport. bloody about time as far as I’m concerned. Well, lucky you. You probably do not have highly vulnerable folks to look after. Th...

Last time I said I was out, I was in a really bad place. This time, I'm leaving a really bad place; this place. There comes a point in a relationship when you just have to recognise that the ther party simply doesn't care any more. I've reached that point and, after a decade of trying to drive some...

In other news: Recent research has it that about 20% of the German population believe in conspiracy bollocks regarding the Ukraine war. Unsurprisingly, supporters of the German Nazi Party are most susceptible to said shite. Also, there’s a considerable overlap with antivaxxers. Who woulda thunk. And...

If I never see you write something ever again know that I have valued your input more than you might imagine. Wish you well, but ultimately I just wish you would’t go. This.^ But hey, at least we got the mods to do something . They can no longer pretend they are unaware of having a racist trolling ...

Ironically it appears the Israeli's are now calling out the Russians on this same racist shit: Israel outrage at Russian claim that Hitler was part Jewish (BBC) Israel's foreign minister has denounced as "unforgivable" remarks by his Russian counterpart that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler "...

32 People tragically dying of smoke inhalation is not a lynching. Far right Russian extremists exchanging gunfire with far right Ukrainian extremists is not a partisan justification for inflicting tens of thousands of civilian casualties a decade later. Two women displaying an anti-Soviet banner in...

Spearthrower wrote:More unattributed pics, and no forthright statement, i.e. yet more empty trolling.

Disappointed. I was hoping to learn about Iceland‘s and Tonga‘s nefarious machinations in the Ukraine war.

Cologne, Germany

The artist is famous for his banana graffiti, hence the hat.