posted by HereticIf only I could right now. Damn work...
3 days of beverages upcoming; hang in there.
A lot of noise coming from the left about Twitter "moving right". I mean, wow, NOT sensoring views you disagree with is now right wing?
But of course it is. One of their platforms becomes a little less of an echo chamber and suddenly it's a crisis.
I think Trump's negative impact is masking just how out of touch the Dems are becoming. They look at the mid-terms as a victory because they didn't get historically shellacked. Except they likely would have if not for Trump.
posted by QuakerOats3 days of beverages upcoming; hang in there.
Rookies
posted by geeblockThere is zero evidence of Target having these things in kids sections or marketing them to kids, Correct? Despite some loser on Libs of tik tok telling you they saw it right? They are clearly for adults, to say otherwise is just dumb. When faced with these facts, "well im not sure if i really believe fact checking websites". When in fact that same site has been used on here 100 times when people agree with it, and it never gets questioned.
I googled the topic and every result on the first page said that Target had removed some of its stock due to the backlash and wouldn't state which items were removed.
Sometimes it's really just that simple.
It had nothing to do with Twitter/LoTT
My question to you is: After Russiagate, why aren't you even a little bit skeptical concerning fact checkers?
Bonus Point: I wasn't on this site for a while, so who cited what while I was gone doesn't mean shit to me.
posted by AutomatikI love Super Target.
The closest Target to me is in The Highlands. I've been there, but when I go to the Highlands I think Kohl's is the better department store.
Everyone needs to put down the roasted rock roast.
Target alway smells like throw up.
posted by CenterBHSFanEveryone needs to put down the roasted rock roast.
again funny that you just accept her story as true but disregard their story...hmm i wonder why
again here is their story and yes they did provide screenshots that you can actually look at WITH TIME STAMPS. hers is redacted.
here is their story believe what you want. Based on the video and her irrational behavior theirs makes more sense to me. And they showed screenshots with times to corroborate. This is cut from a newsone interview they did.
He is only 17 years old, and he is an avid Citi Bike rider. He knows the system in and out.
He told me Citi Bike is like his "car." He uses it every day because it's cheaper than the subway.
He lives in the Bronx, and he uses Citi Bike to travel from borough to borough with his group of friends. All the boys in the video are teenagers from West African immigrant families
He explained to me that when they are out riding, they stop before the bikes hit 45 minutes because the cost of the fare increases at that point, even for riders with reduced fares.
On that day, he found the highly coveted but hard to come by new e-bike after walking around the Bronx for 20 minutes. These are the newest bikes in the Citi Bike fleet, but they aren't easy to find.
The boys found their bikes and spent the rest of the evening riding them. They first went to Harlem where they stopped to re-dock. Then they continued on to the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
They stopped and got frozen yogurt, and then they went to the docking station on 1st and 30th to re-dock the bikes and reset the timers again.
He says she saw them at the rack with their bikes. There were other bikes in the rack, but they weren't the motorized ones the boys were on; they were manual pedal bikes.
He says she asked two of his friends if she could take their bikes. They politely declined, telling her that they were still using them and would be leaving soon. The other four boys were sitting on their bikes, but he was just standing next to his.
She approached him and asked if she could take his bike. He politely declined. She tried a different approach and told him that she was pregnant. "Can you help a pregnant lady out?"
He then informed her that he had used the bike to ride all the way from the Bronx, and he needed it to make his way back home.
It was then that she leaned over into his personal space and scanned the barcode into her app and attempted to take the bike from him.
The boys immediately began calling for someone to record her, and this is where we came in on the video.
During the course of the action in the video, the bike was pushed back into the dock again and reset.
At this point, he typed the number of the bike into the app and put it back on his account, and when he did that, SHE SNATCHED HIS PHONE.
I want everyone to remember that
put out a narrative on behalf of his client that painted those boys as criminals. His carefully worded statement intimated that she had the bike first and they forcefully took it from her.
On a side note her receipt that was shown shows she had the bike for 1 minute which would match up exactly with how the teens story played out. his receipt shows having the bike before and after her exactly matching his story.
posted by gutShe was a pregnant woman - sitting on a bike SHE paid for - and being acosted by 5 young men. That you see this any other way shows you have a warped perspective of the world that views everything through race.
This has nothing to do with race. It's some disrespectful youths harassing a pregnant woman. She actually paid for it twice, the second time after he pushed the bike back into the console.
And, good lord man, you're citing TikTok videos and Twitter feeds when multiple journalists confirmed she had a receipt for the bike. That TikTok video you posted didn't appear to show the bike number. Granted, I didn't spend a lot of time watching it expecting it to be up to your usual standard of heavy on imagined racism, low on actual facts.
so you didnt watch it lol...but still commented. and how were they disrespectful. They seemed calm and polite even as she took his phone and was acting irrationally. she was never sitting on the bike and never claimed to be fyi. Maybe you should actually at least watch it.
https://newsone.com/4592993/sarah-jane-comrie-update-citi-bike-teens-mother-speaks-out/
posted by geeblockOh the hypocrisy of this statement. Everyone on this board KNOWS what "side" of any topic that comes up you will be on as soon as we know what color the people's skin is. Don't try to paint him a racist when you do the same damn thing on every story. Good Lord.again funny that you just accept her story as true but disregard their story...hmm i wonder why
posted by geeblockso you didnt watch it lol...but still commented. and how were they disrespectful. They seemed calm and polite even as she took his phone and was acting irrationally. she was never sitting on the bike and never claimed to be fyi. Maybe you should actually at least watch it.
https://newsone.com/4592993/sarah-jane-comrie-update-citi-bike-teens-mother-speaks-out/
So far your best sources are his "sister", his mom, and his attorney, pressure sure none of those people would be biased right?
posted by jmogSo far your best sources are his "sister", his mom, and his attorney, pressure sure none of those people would be biased right?
just like her attorney correct?
posted by jmog
Oh the hypocrisy of this statement. Everyone on this board KNOWS what "side" of any topic that comes up you will be on as soon as we know what color the people's skin is. Don't try to paint him a racist when you do the same damn thing on every story. Good Lord.
im not painting anyone as racist i wasnt talking about him specifically but in general, im just saying why are we automatically disregarding one person's side of the story and accepting another's when one person on the video is clearly acting irrationally and the others are calm. You can try to paint me as always being pro black or whatever but im 50% white and grew up around 90% white people. Yea her story got out first and she hired a lawyer and a publicist. Hes poor and 17 years old. He didnt disrespect anyone and was calm and she wasnt.
You lack the ability to have a conversation or deal with anything i post and can only respond to this part of the post because you realize that his story makes way more sense than hers. So instead you try to say ok geeeblocks racist again so you dont have to admit you were wrong. I have asked before to please just stop responding to my posts. You literally only have two responses it is well i dont like the source, or geeblocks racist. Meanwhile people can post from any right wing source all day long as long as you agree with it. Have a good weekend.
posted by CenterBHSFanThe closest Target to me is in The Highlands. I've been there, but when I go to the Highlands I think Kohl's is the better department store.
Heard the North Face ad makes Target, Bud Light et.al. look tame
posted by geeblockim not painting anyone as racist i wasnt talking about him specifically but in general, im just saying why are we automatically disregarding one person's side of the story and accepting another's when one person on the video is clearly acting irrationally and the others are calm. You can try to paint me as always being pro black or whatever but im 50% white and grew up around 90% white people. Yea her story got out first and she hired a lawyer and a publicist. Hes poor and 17 years old.
So for you, it's a class issue?
posted by friendfromlowry
Yeah, very obscure Zelda reference lol
Target Gay Pride Display pic.twitter.com/RWTGor1IBJ
— Brent Terhune Special on Amazon (@BrentTerhune) May 26, 2023
posted by CenterBHSFanSo for you, it's a class issue?
I’m not doing another move the goalposts huge debate on this it’s not that important. You have access to her side and his side make ur own decision on how u feel about what happened there are screenshots by both and some video. Enjoy your weekend
posted by CenterBHSFanYeah, very obscure Zelda reference lol
I lol’d. I had just finished that part of the game yesterday.
posted by geeblockI’m not doing another move the goalposts huge debate on this it’s not that important. You have access to her side and his side make ur own decision on how u feel about what happened there are screenshots by both and some video. Enjoy your weekend
I'm not arguing.
But I can definitely understand if you were looking at it from a class issue rather than a superficial issue if what people look like. I might even agree if I chose to bog down my today. Maybe tomorrow.
posted by geeblockim not painting anyone as racist i wasnt talking about him specifically but in general, im just saying why are we automatically disregarding one person's side of the story and accepting another's when one person on the video is clearly acting irrationally and the others are calm. You can try to paint me as always being pro black or whatever but im 50% white and grew up around 90% white people. Yea her story got out first and she hired a lawyer and a publicist. Hes poor and 17 years old. He didnt disrespect anyone and was calm and she wasnt.
You lack the ability to have a conversation or deal with anything i post and can only respond to this part of the post because you realize that his story makes way more sense than hers. So instead you try to say ok geeeblocks racist again so you dont have to admit you were wrong. I have asked before to please just stop responding to my posts. You literally only have two responses it is well i dont like the source, or geeblocks racist. Meanwhile people can post from any right wing source all day long as long as you agree with it. Have a good weekend.
1. 1/2 white or not, doesn’t change your stance as always on one side of the issue.
2. I call bullshit as I call out QO and his moronic shit all the time and I did Spock too when he was here.
3. You did call people racist even if not him specific with your post, so don’t try to back out of that corner. Even if you are 1/2 white you ALWAYS side with the POC in a story, it’s hilariously obvious to everyone.
Checking out this thread for the first time after a week or so:
Wonder how this worked out for them?
This weekend, Chicagoans should expect to see yellow-vested Peacekeepers on the streets.
— Governor JB Pritzker (@GovPritzker) May 25, 2023
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