After Hillary puts them in the spotlight, Nazis Nazi-splain the alt-right on Twitter

Ironically our shit and nasty tabloid press was whipping up hysteria about Poles becoming the largest immigrant group in the UK, overtaking the Asians (UK definition) today although I don’t know how they work these things out most of the Asians I knew when I lived in the major Indian/Pakistani/Bangladeshi bits of Bristol and Manchester were UK 2nd and 3rd generation citizens. I didn’t want to pick the newspaper up to investigate further lest it cause me to spontaneously combust.

OMG EJ, you too? We must be related!

Great job proving Trump isn’t cozying up to blatant racists, blatant racists.

Up to and including the guy credited with inventing the term Alt-Right

https://mediamatters.org/research/2016/08/25/white-nationalists-stand-trump-after-clinton-highlights-his-racist-alt-right-ties/212674

I keep thinking of this (which may be looks-shaming, but what the hell):

@Nequam: Ah good old Jesse Custer. As an Northern Irishman living in New York Garth Ennis does have very strong views on the cultural melting pot dream of the USA. He’s all for it and won an award for a comic where Tommy “Hitman” Monaghan and Superman just chatted on a roof about what it meant to be an American.

You ever briefly become authoritarian enough your head to think “Wow the world would just be a much better place if you took all these people, put them in a giant pit, and paved over it?”

But then you remember that’s the kind of childish thinking that makes these people so intolerable in the first place.

@ikan: All too often, though I tend to think of it less as “authoritarian” and more as “homicidal”.

It’s also funny that they included Mediterranean in the European diversity meme. Did they not realize that not all Mediterraneans are European? I doubt they meant to say that they consider North Africans white!

Note to the Alt Right(or Fascist) : European isn’t a race. I think you might be looking for the word Caucasian. And if you think white people need a “homeland” so badly, may I recommend Snake Island. Off you go, the rest of us won’t miss you.

Ah, yes, love thy neighbor. Said by the world’s most obscure Jew…hmmm, his name escapes me at the moment. *shrugs* I’m sure I’ll remember it someday.

The “Love Your Enemies” meme appears to be advocating the conspiracy theory that Christianity was deliberately created by the Jews

I think it was created by that one really obscure Jewish guy that I mentioned above, but I still can’t remember his name….

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@Alan

I can’t even start to guess as to why that is, though that is a neat observation. Also there are a couple cases where it differs (at least for me):
-Numbered avenues (Eleventh Avenue), I stress the number.
-When abbreviating avenue (Park Ave), I stress the name.

@Alan
Park Avenue, but Church Avenue, Clarendon Avenue, Flatbush Avenue, etc. Mixed bag

@Falconer

I saw an “infographic” on Tumblr that purported to show the relative numbers of the various “races” but was so blatantly massaged that I don’t see how anyone could take it seriously unless they wanted to believe it

One page back 🙂

@ dlouwe & Axe

A proper peer reviewed scientific survey (me and my mates saying stuff and nodding) would suggest that, for Brits at least:

1. It’s Street that’s the exception. Everything else, Avenue, Road, Drive etc gets the stress on the type of thoroughfare

2. That’s unless we’re clarifying directions (“Is that First Avenue or Park Avenue?)

3. It’s the other way round in German

Our working hypothesis is that originally there were only streets, so you needed just to differentiate which one. Then someone invented Avenues and that threw people so you needed to emphasise that you meant the new thing.