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1. What is the mentality that leads to mass shootings in the first place? What demographic makes up a majority of mass shooters in America?
2. Defund the police and find a peacekeeping organisation that isn’t filled to the brim with racist, trigger-happy thugs.

@Meanlucario
He created Tesla, which not only makes electric cars, but also spooked other car manufacturers to make more electrics. This is definitely good for the environment.

His public behavior and nonexistent work-life balance in his companies definitely aren’t good, but at least he did something good for the world, unlike many other celebrities.

@Commune
Speaking of other celebrities… WTF?

In a shocking development, while being questioned during an investigation into the Trump org’s financial fraud, Trump plead the fifth. It should be noted that on several occasions Trump has stated that only criminals plead the fifth.

He also took the opportunity to call the NY AG a racist, just to keep things classy.

And news from another asshole,

Elon Musk admitted to his biographer that the reason the Hyperloop was announced—even tho he had no intention of pursuing it—was to try to disrupt the California high-speed rail project to get in the way of that actually succeeding.

If you’re wondering why he would do this, it’s the same reason Ford/GM/Chrysler lobbied to kill street cars and buses: more highways for more cars for more profits.

But anyway, answer the question, lolibro.

Well, more power to you if you think that blatantly dismissing potential evidence presented by someone else who is sincerely trying to follow through on your insistence for such proof (as if they believed that you were genuinely arguing in good faith) in an attempt to troll them and possibly waste their time is something worthwhile doing in almost any sense, I guess.

@Violet Rose in The Rain
So you haven’t read any of it, you’ve just googled “things to say when someone doesn’t like CRT”, and forgot the bit where you accused someone who’s read the actual primary texts of “having a completely wrong definition of it.”

I figured, since you also fell for the “2% of Elon Musk’s wealth could solve world hunger” propaganda. You really should stop making this your life 24/7.

Target the premises that open the door to ecofascism, and target them while this movement is still small - before the entire right mobilises to win people’s hearts and minds on this issue. Our saving grace is that it’s still too early for the reactionaries to accept climate change, many people still can’t see the crisis in-front of their eyes, but that’ll change.

To weaken their cause in the future, these premises must be destroyed:

• The idea of individual responsibility. This leads people to blame the poor who don’t have any means to live sustainably, and to avoid looking at the systems that keep them poor. This also allows philanthropic billionaires to look like hero’s in the eyes of the public when their PR team plants a dozen trees, or something equally unhelpful.
• The myth that newly industrialized and developing countries are to blame for the climate crisis. This’ll be an easy scapegoat in the future, as westerners could then both be nationalistic, seeing their nations as having never contributed to the issue, and climate “solutions” would come to mean imperialism/colonialism. This could further radicalize people into seeing climate change as a result of race alone. Especially when climate refugees start to amp up, “first they ruined their own countries, now they’re coming here to ruin ours!” will be the rhetoric.
• The myth that overpopulation is the issue. As you said, the sympathy to Thanos is telling. If overpopulation is the problem, depopulation is the unspoken solution. Fascists, of course, will use the point above to further condition people into accepting the depopulation of “polluting” ethnic minorities.
• The benevolent billionaire myth. The cutesy sympathy to Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and others right now is just cringey, but will evolve into the acceptance and even championing of oligarchy or dictatorship if conditions continue to worsen. If billionaires love us and the Earth so much, and provide us with all these amazing technologies, we must give them more power to save us, right? Worker power must be suppressed for the billionaire class to be free, as they’ll say.

A lot of these premises are already lodged deep in the minds of many people, including liberals. It seems almost harmless now, but if those people see their lives start to collapse, if they fall into poverty and despair, if politics becomes more than just a civil discussion to them, an ecofascist movement will use these premises to their advantage.

And of course they won’t call themselves “ecofascist”.They may even want to distance themselves from the current alt-right, who people are becoming more skeptical of.

The reason for bathroom segregation is to stop sexual assault. But if anyone can just claim to be transgender that safety measure (which is flawed anyway because of homosexual sexual assault, which also exist) fails.

Experts In 12 States And Cities With LGBT Protections Debunk The “Bathroom Predator” Myth. Experts – including law enforcement officials, government employees, and advocates for victims of sexual assault – in states and cities with LGBT nondiscrimination laws have debunked the “bathroom predator” myth, calling it baseless and “beyond specious.” None reported incidents where sexual predators had taken advantage of LGBT nondiscrimination protections. [Media Matters, 3/20/14]

Washington Blade: Law Enforcement Officials In Delaware, Maryland, And Washington, D.C., Report No Issues From Nondiscrimination Laws. The Washington Blade contacted law enforcement officials in Washington, D.C., Delaware, and Maryland – all of which have LGBT nondiscrimination laws – to ask if the “bathroom predator” myth had come true. Law enforcement officials reported that their civil rights laws hadn’t been linked to any crime. A public information officer with the Baltimore Police Department called the “bathroom predator” talking point “the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard.” [Washington Blade, 3/31/16]

Texas Experts Debunk The “Bathroom Predator” Myth. Experts – including law enforcement officials, government employees, and advocates for sexual assault victims – from three Texas cities with LGBT nondiscrimination ordinances debunked the “bathroom predator” myth, citing empirical evidence and experience working with sexual assault victims. [Media Matters, 10/15/15]

Florida Experts Debunk The “Bathroom Predator” Myth. Experts – including law enforcement officials, government employees, and advocates for sexual assault victims – from 10 different Florida cities and counties with LGBT nondiscrimination ordinances debunked the “bathroom predator” myth, citing empirical evidence and experience working with sexual assault victims. [Media Matters, 1/12/16]

Seventeen School Districts Debunk “Bathroom Predator” Fears About Protections For Transgender Students. Seventeen school districts across the country, representing over 640,000 students, have implemented nondiscrimination protections allowing transgender students to use the facilities that correspond with their gender identity. None of them have experienced issues concerning inappropriate bathroom use. [Media Matters, 6/3/15]

Four North Carolina Universities Debunk The “Bathroom Predator” Myth. Davidson and Guilford colleges and Elon and Wake Forest universities have policies allowing transgender students to use the restrooms and facilities that correspond with their gender identity. None have reported negative incidents concerning bathroom access as a result of their nondiscrimination policies. [Media Matters, 4/5/16]

Six California School Districts Report No Inappropriate Behavior After Implementing Protections For Transgender Students. Media Matters contacted officials from a number of California’s largest school districts to determine if predictions about issues arising from providing protections for transgender students had proved accurate in the first month of a statewide school nondiscrimination law. None of the school districts reported incidents of harassment or inappropriate behavior as a result of the law. [Media Matters, 2/11/14]

National Sexual Violence Resource Center: The “Bathroom Predator” Myth Perpetuates “False Narratives,” Making It Harder To Prevent Sexual Assault. Laura Palumbo is the communications director at the National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC) and a longtime expert on sexual violence prevention. In an interview with Media Matters, Palumbo explained that the “bathroom predator” myth perpetuates false narratives about sexual violence, making it harder to prevent sexual assault. Palumbo said the myth operates off of the “wrong assumption that we know who predators are and what they look like or what they behave like. Most people who experience sexual violence are harmed by someone that they know and trust.” Palumbo herself has “never heard of … instances” nor “seen any research” to substantiate the transgender bathroom boogeyman. [Media Matters, 4/21/16]

Houston Chronicle’s Lisa Falkenberg: “Bathroom Predator” Talking Point Is An “Urban Myth.” Pulitzer Prize-winning Houston Chronicle columnist Lisa Falkenberg reached out to state and local experts across the country to ask if the “bathroom predator” myth had proved accurate in cities and states with LGBT nondiscrimination protections, concluding that the talking point is an “urban myth.” [Houston Chronicle, 8/22/15]

Crosscut’s Independent Investigation Debunked The “Bathroom Predator” Myth With Evidence From Nevada, Oregon, And Hawaii. The independent nonprofit journal Crosscut contacted officials in Nevada, Oregon, and Hawaii, three states with LGBT nondiscrimination laws, to ask if the “bathroom predator” horror story had proved accurate. Officials from all three states reported that their civil rights laws hadn’t been linked to crimes in public bathrooms. [Crosscut.com, 2/10/16]

PolitiFact North Carolina: We Haven’t Found Any Instances Of Predators Using Transgender Protections As Cover In The United States. PolitiFact North Carolina investigated claims made by Equality NC’s executive director, Chris Sgro, who said that many large cities have LGBT nondiscrimination protections and that there “have not been any public safety issues in those other communities.” According to PolitiFact North Carolina’s research, there haven’t been a single case of someone using transgender nondiscrimination laws as a cover for criminal activity. [North Carolina Politifact, 4/1/16]