If by "celebrating" you mean I "agreed it was a good move", yes. I can understand why that club wouldn't want that kind of d-bag as the President.
So when a company responds to a vocal minority and fires an adult employee out of fear that's bad...but when a college debate society responds to a vocal minority and ousts their president out of fear that's good?
This is the least self-aware post I have ever seen from someone who spends a ton of time online.
There's no absolute right and wrong. Every company/entity makes its own decisions and people will agree with some and disagree with others but, yes, I'd prefer that a group, like the current example, internally evaluates the situation and makes a decision.
They were wrong.
I was referring specifically to the far-left Twitter mobs at the time. The ones who were getting people fired for saying "All Lives Matter", for example or tried to pressure Trader Joe's to change the name of the line of Mexican food called "Trader Jose" because it was racist.
I never said differently dipshit. I responded to @Ramrouser because his beloved Adminstration has made a point of defending much older people in much larger leadership roles by labeling them as kids saying stupid things. You're so busy chasing your tail in circles that you cant get your own dick out of your mouth long enough to realize the point I was making versus the one you wanted to argue.
Can you explain why conservatives are so disingenuous about "cancel culture"? The Dixie Chicks' careers essentially ended because conservatives were angry that the lead singer said she was embarrassed that George W Bush was from the same state as she was. All because of conservatives flooded country music radio stations telling them not to play their music.
You seem angry.
So when you said we've moved past the era of "Twitter mobs" you mean only "left-wing Twitter mobs" (but didn't say that) and you don't care that we are now in an age of right-wing Twitter mobs?
You're trying to draw some arbitrary line between "bowing to pressure from an online mob" (bad) and "internally evaluate the situation and make a decision" (good) but the two things you're talking about don't happen independently of each other. The pressure from the "online mob" is part of the internal decision making, and you can't isolate those things from each other and try to group every firing into one of those two buckets. You are just sort of arbitrarily deciding that this decision must have had more to do with "interna; deliberation" than "outside pressure" with absolutely zero awareness of what happened inside the group.
At you? Perpetually.
Good point on the Dixie Chicks. I hated the way they were cancelled by their audience just because they were expressing their opinions about the Bush and the war. I wish that wouldn't of happened and my side would have been more tolerant and understanding. I'm a big fan of the group, btw. That's just one example. The left took cancel culture to a whole new level.
Oh really? What rules did he break?
theintercept.com
Can you provide some more context on this? I see he wore those socks at practice. What are the NFL rules on socks at practice?
“… Arriving at the local jail [on September 22], the officer with the warrant unfolded the piece of paper. “Just to clarify, this is what they charged you with,” he told Bushart, pointing and reading aloud: “Threatening Mass Violence at a School.”
The Absurd Prosecution of a Man Who Posted a Charlie Kirk Meme
Larry Bushart Jr. posted trolling memes on a Facebook thread about a vigil for Kirk. He’s been in a Tennessee jail ever since.
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Born and raised in West Tennessee, Bushart worked as a police officer and sheriff’s deputy for 24 years, then spent another nine with the Tennessee Department of Correction before retiring from law enforcement last year. His politics made him an outlier among his neighbors. Like many people, he reserved his most strident opinions for the internet. On Facebook, Bushart slammed President Donald Trump and his followers, whom he likened to a cult. He quarreled with vaccine skeptics and fought with election deniers. As things took a darker turn during Trump’s second term, Bushart posted memes decrying the president’s increasingly authoritarian moves. After Kirk’s killing on September 10, Bushart posted furiously, repeatedly, about why the right-wing activist did not deserve to be lionized — and warning about the escalating assault on free speech.
His posts were not limited to his own feed. That Saturday morning, in a Facebook group called “What’s Happening in Perry County,” Bushart spotted a thread about an upcoming candlelight vigil honoring Kirk in the county seat of Linden, a small town some 45 minutes away. He fired off a rapid series of trollish memes. One showed a scene from “The Sopranos.” “Tony, Charlie Kirk died,” Carmela Soprano says. “Who gives a shit,” Tony replies. Another quoted Kash Patel’s press conference after Kirk’s murder, where he said, “I’ll see you at Valhalla,” depicting the FBI director in a Viking costume and holding a rubber chicken. The most vulgar meme appeared to capture the moment Kirk was shot, accompanied by the words, “Release the Epstein Files.”
But it was a more innocuous post that would soon send Bushart’s life spiraling out of control. It was an image he had previously posted to his own feed to little response: a photo of Trump alongside a quote, “We have to get over it.”
The meme, which had been circulating for more than a year, drew from remarks Trump madeafter a January 2024 school shooting in Perry, Iowa. Beneath the quote was a line providing context: “Donald Trump, on the Perry High School mass shooting, one day after.” Above the image were the words “Seems relevant today.”…”
“… In Tennessee, a wave of firings and suspensions took place across the state, with numerous public employees and college and university staffers punished for their posts. A high school science teacher was suspended after being targeted by the right-wing website The Federalist for an Instagram story calling Kirk a “POS” and quoting his reaction to the 2023 Covenant School shooting in Nashville, which left seven dead, including three 9-year-old students. “It’s worth to have, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God given rights,” Kirk had said. And, under pressure from Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn, who is running for Tennessee governor, a university fired a theater professorfor posting an old article about Kirk’s comments, issuing a statement explaining that the professor had “reshared a post on social media that was insensitive, disrespectful and interpreted by many as propagating justification for unlawful death.”
