To be fair, the face on that mural is strangely scrambled below the nose. Maybe you could tell it’s supposed to be John Lewis based on the location, but can you really recognize him from that Picassoed mess?

It’s the white father of the boy (Brunson) who answered the door with a gun in his hand, not the black father (Nash). It feels like THAT should be the main story, though I suppose “Texas homeowner almost shoots himself in the foot while answering door” happens several times a week, while a 9-year old angrily whipping…

Oops, you’re right, complete misreading on my part. Too late to edit. Maybe flyingstitch can dismiss my post.

Agreed, but it’s so discouraging that he still felt he needed to say “he feared for his life” because of the “big girl” who appeared to not even have noticed him. It’s like it’s such a foolproof get-out-of-jail-free card that they use it even when they appear to have a good case otherwise. 

It looks like a very clumsy and amateurish attempt at optimizing the article for search engines.

It was the US that kept suggesting that Poland might give its MiG fighter planes to Ukraine. Problem for Poland is that could very well invite a retaliation from Russia via missile strikes on Polish airfields. So Poland basically said “You’re so eager for Ukraine to get our MiGs? Here why don’t YOU give it to them…

It’s actually not different from men’s/women’s international soccer at all. In both cases the revenue generated by the men’s teams dwarves that of the women’s.

No, you’re confusing “Poland didn’t open its borders” with “Ukrainian border guards who are undermanned because of the war are unable to process tens of thousands of refugees quickly.”

The war started on the 24th. Poland relaxed the rules at the border on the 25th. By the 27th a 115,000 refugees in the country already.

“Most nations are smart enough to give foreign nationals respect during times of crisis in order to garner sympathy.”

“You’re literally suggesting that the African students are somehow not endangered enough to flee a warzone as quickly as the whites. Who gives a fuck if they are in their 20s. Irrelevant.”

That’s pretty much it, but it’s kind of like US southerners saying their controversial statues are of “fighters for States’ rights.” Their contribution to history as anti-communist fighters was negligible to the crimes they committed against civilians. Hopefully they’ll win now and replace the statues and rename the…

Ukrainians have already figured out their own “life-hack” for dealing with unsupervised Russian troop carriers:

The Soviets invested a lot into universities, and decent infrastructure and educational traditions remain in many of the former republics, plus the new countries themselves try to keep investing into it. The low cost of living makes it attractive to students from developing nations. I had an acquaintance from Brazil wh…

I’m guessing the exemption is that if you have the passport of another country then you can leave, and Israel grants citizenship to any Jew who wants it.

Ukraine’s fascists and Nazi collaborators murdered nearly 100,000 Poles during the war, plus thousands of Jews. Ukraine still has monuments to the collaborators, political movements named after them; it’s been a bone of contention between Ukraine and Poland for a long time. That’s much bigger than being forced to wait…

No, of course not, the male African students should be able to leave Ukraine and enter Poland; Poland said it will accept all third nations fleeing the war. But from the point of view of the Ukrainian guards, if you see “your own” women with children and seniors waiting half a day or more in the cold then it’s…

Everyone is waiting a long time, 10 hours seems like a low estimate. At the busiest crossing into Poland the car queue was 20 miles long and hardly moving at one point, some drivers decided to abandon their cars and proceed by foot. There’s usually no food until they cross the border, and there aren’t enough guards on…

I’m not surprised. Not because I knew there’s racism there, but because this is war, it brings out the worst in people. Fear leads to tribalism, nationalism, and other ugly “isms” everywhere.

Sorry to necromance this old thread, but there is a Karens series now! Look up “Karen metal” on YouTube. This one is the star of Karen Metal 3, which admittedly is not as good as Karen Metal 2, or Karen Metal 4 (“No Pomegranates”), but it’s still worth a watch and listen.