A white dude I knew through hoops left a comment on my page about Kyle Rittenhouse's victims. He said "play stupid games. win stupid prizes."

I unfriended him. Then months later he messaged me on Xbox Live asking why. I said it didn't matter.

Months after that he texted me to ask if thought people who voted for Trump were racist.

I have no clue why he was so focused on me not caring to be his friend. We weren't very close. But long story short I told him that anyone who voted for Trump in 2020 was racist.
In the exchange he defended Kyle Rittenhouse as just being in Kenosha to help people and wanting to protect property.

Now Kyle Rittenhouse is out on bail drinking underage in bars and flashing white supremacist hand signs in photos.

I haven't received a text from him.
But also Trump supporters stormed the Capitol building and caused all sort of property damage and killed a police officer a week ago.

Where were the "Kyle Rittenhouse's" of the world to protect property then?

I'll tell you where they were... storming the building.
I have still not received a text update about that shit.

Because the same way I know Trump voters are racist is the same way I knew Kyle Rittenhouse was a white supremacist.

The only thing that dude cared about was his own ego. He wanted me to absolve him of any complicity.
And because I wouldn't assuage his guilt he had to keep reaching out to me.

Essentially he wanted to say "You can't fire me I quit!"

Which is weird because I never really cared that much about him or unfriending him. For months this shit was on his mind.

But NOW?
Now I am wondering what the hell is up with him because I have a feeling he hasn't been very consistent with his hatred of property destruction and riots in the wake of the Capitol building being stormed.

Not that I'm gonna text him to find out though.

I KNOW I'm right.
The same way every Black person knows they're right about Trump and his supporters. The same way we knew we were right about Kyle Rittenhouse.

At some point you just get tired of talking to white people who continue to give whiteness the benefit of the doubt.
And they never acknowledge that they are wrong because to do so would mean to acknowledge that WE were right.
I can't imagine have that lack of empathy and yet still feeling a need for approval from me. Like he clearly doesn't really care how this makes me feel.

And he was expecting that same benefit of the doubt that he gives whiteness.

That we just "agreed to disagree."

Fuck that

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View the resolutions and voting results here:

The resolution titled "The occupied Syrian Golan," which condemns Israel for "repressive measures" against Syrian citizens in the Golan Heights, was adopted by a vote of 151 - 2 - 14.

Israel and the U.S. voted 'No'
https://t.co/HoO7oz0dwr


The resolution titled "Israeli practices affecting the human rights of the Palestinian people..." was adopted by a vote of 153 - 6 - 9.

Australia, Canada, Israel, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, and the U.S. voted 'No' https://t.co/1Ntpi7Vqab


The resolution titled "Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the occupied Syrian Golan" was adopted by a vote of 153 – 5 – 10.

Canada, Israel, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, and the U.S. voted 'No'
https://t.co/REumYgyRuF


The resolution titled "Applicability of the Geneva Convention... to the
Occupied Palestinian Territory..." was adopted by a vote of 154 - 5 - 8.

Canada, Israel, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, and the U.S. voted 'No'
https://t.co/xDAeS9K1kW
This is a piece I've been thinking about for a long time. One of the most dominant policy ideas in Washington is that policy should, always and everywhere, move parents into paid labor. But what if that's wrong?

My reporting here convinced me that there's no large effect in either direction on labor force participation from child allowances. Canada has a bigger one than either Romney or Biden are considering, and more labor force participation among women.

But what if that wasn't true?

Forcing parents into low-wage, often exploitative, jobs by threatening them and their children with poverty may be counted as a success by some policymakers, but it’s a sign of a society that doesn’t value the most essential forms of labor.

The problem is in the very language we use. If I left my job as a New York Times columnist to care for my 2-year-old son, I’d be described as leaving the labor force. But as much as I adore him, there is no doubt I’d be working harder. I wouldn't have stopped working!

I tried to render conservative objections here fairly. I appreciate that @swinshi talked with me, and I'm sorry I couldn't include everything he said. I'll say I believe I used his strongest arguments, not more speculative ones, in the piece.

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The first ever world map was sketched thousands of years ago by Indian saint
“Ramanujacharya” who simply translated the following verse from Mahabharat and gave the world its real face

In Mahabharat,it is described how 'Maharishi Ved Vyasa' gave away his divine vision to Sanjay


Dhritarashtra's charioteer so that he could describe him the events of the upcoming war.

But, even before questions of war could begin, Dhritarashtra asked him to describe how the world looks like from space.

This is how he described the face of the world:

सुदर्शनं प्रवक्ष्यामि द्वीपं तु कुरुनन्दन। परिमण्डलो महाराज द्वीपोऽसौ चक्रसंस्थितः॥
यथा हि पुरुषः पश्येदादर्शे मुखमात्मनः। एवं सुदर्शनद्वीपो दृश्यते चन्द्रमण्डले॥ द्विरंशे पिप्पलस्तत्र द्विरंशे च शशो महान्।

—वेद व्यास, भीष्म पर्व, महाभारत


Meaning:-

हे कुरुनन्दन ! सुदर्शन नामक यह द्वीप चक्र की भाँति गोलाकार स्थित है, जैसे पुरुष दर्पण में अपना मुख देखता है, उसी प्रकार यह द्वीप चन्द्रमण्डल में दिखायी देता है। इसके दो अंशो मे पीपल और दो अंशो मे विशाल शश (खरगोश) दिखायी देता है।


Meaning: "Just like a man sees his face in the mirror, so does the Earth appears in the Universe. In the first part you see leaves of the Peepal Tree, and in the next part you see a Rabbit."

Based on this shloka, Saint Ramanujacharya sketched out the map, but the world laughed