Outside the Asylum
Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Sun, 06/07/2020 - 5:07am
violence
For Discussion Purposes: Video Games, Movies, Guns.
Submitted by Shahryar on Mon, 09/09/2019 - 1:52pmThe other day I posted this on Facebook. I'm curious to see what C99ers have to say about it since you/we are a different sort of crowd.
maybe it *is* the "video games". Along with other sick weirdnesses of our national culture. Yes, there's the availability of guns, obviously. But then...so I was at the Hawthorne Hideaway last night to see the Zags.
Why Is There No Violent Yellow Vest Uprising in America?
Submitted by leveymg on Wed, 12/12/2018 - 3:19pmWidespread social violence, extreme income inequality, and rage at perceived injustice are the classical indicators of the onset of political rebellion.
By the indicators that are commonly used to predict violent political insurrection, America, rather than France, should have been the first to erupt into widespread street protests and rebellion. There are factors at work that aren’t being taken into consideration in the standard model, as will be explained, below.
Blade Runner 2049 - Dystopias R Us, Qualudes (and spoilers) included
Submitted by arendt on Sun, 10/29/2017 - 10:33amBlade Runner 2049 is a waste of your time and money. Don't bother with it. It loots the original movie to obtain the worldview behind this movie's "plot". It adds nothing of value to the original, well-done dystopia, unless you count total boredom as a new theme.
Standing against bullying
Submitted by Robyn on Wed, 10/04/2017 - 1:14pmOn Sunday I wrote about Kylie Perez, the New Jersey transgender student at Eastside High School who was assaulted in the hallway of the school.
Missouri transgender teen slaughtered in Ozarks
Submitted by Robyn on Wed, 09/27/2017 - 1:33pmEarlier in my life, I lived in Joplin, MO. This story makes me shudder.
Ally Lee Steinfeld, 17, of Houston, Missouri came out as a transgender girl in May. In June, she posted on Instagram:
I am proud to be me. I am proud to be trans. I am beautiful. I don't care what people think.
An even score as the storm hit
Submitted by Robyn on Fri, 09/15/2017 - 1:50pmTwenty-six year-old Derricka Banner became the 20th transgender person murdered this year when she was shot to death in her car early Tuesday morning in Charlotte, NC, as rain and wind from Irma were lashing the city. Montavious Sanchez Berry, 18, was arrested later on Tuesday and charged with the murder.
Banner was originally from New York, but has recently been a resident on Lenoir, NC. Sanchez is a Charlotte resident.
I think this article comes right in time - Chris Hedges nails it
Submitted by mimi on Mon, 08/28/2017 - 4:14amHow ‘Antifa’ Mirrors the ‘Alt-Right’
I can only say that I have a lot of respect of Chris Hedges as a writer and intellectual. Honest to the bones, imo.
Phoenix crowd videos itself committing hate crime
Submitted by Robyn on Tue, 08/22/2017 - 2:17pmPhoenix transgender teen Dakota Kern, 18, was invited to a pool party this past weekend. She shouldn't have gone.
Too many
Submitted by Robyn on Fri, 08/18/2017 - 2:10pmLast Saturday in Waxahachie, TX, Gwynevere River Song reportedly got into an argument with another adult in her home, which led to that other person shooting Song to death. We have no idea what the argument concerned, but we do know that Song was a transgender woman. The assailant was also injured during the shooting and he was transported to a hospital.
