SAF court system saved me from injustice : r/SingaporeRaw - "ORDed a few days back. Now civilian so I can share my story without fear. Months back, I was charged with disobedience of general order, insubordination and AWOL. But all charges were dropped. So gotta thank my defending officer and the court who just dropped my charges. My vocation was ASA. Basically I had a long standing dispute with my ex DXO superior. He had crazy demands that I notify him of my location during camp, outside of camp when I am on MC and also let him check through my phone every week because he says if I get caught by MP command for porn, he will be questioned as well. 7 months ago, while on my way to camp I stepped on drain cover which was loose and I fell in and badly injured myself. Even though I was wearing smart 4, the pants on my knees got torn by a sharp edge and my leg was stabbed as well. So got a big ass deep cut. Sent to hospital, went through surgery. Stayed in hospital for 10 days and after that got MC for additional 3 weeks. During then I was wheelchair bound & used crutches as well. When I was on MC and at home, he'd ask me to send a selfie of myself outside my house with my unit number showing. Few times a day I had to do it. Not only that I was told to turn on live location on Whatsapp for 24 hours day & he also told me to turn on Google live location and he will check my location history after I get back to camp. 12 days into my MC, the DXO messaged me and told me I need to book into camp to get my MC reviewed and authenticated by the camp MO. That point still in wheelchair & crutches. For yalls information, my camp is on a hill. If you miss the shuttle bus, it'd take at least 30 mins to climb the hill since my unit was at HQ building. And he told me to be at the medical center in 1 hour. I told him it is physically impossible for me to do it. Told me to take taxi to camp. I told him I'm wheelchair bound and I won't be able to make it up the hill. He told me he's giving me a direct order and I am required to follow it. At that instant, I told him no I won't be able to make it to camp & again sent him a picture of the MC from the hospital stating the period and also the memo from the doctor. After that I didn't receive any messages from. I would only send him selfie of myself in front of my house door via whatsapp and he would just reply with the thumbs up emoji. After I got back to camp, the DXO didn't give me much work seeing the condition I was in and also stopped talking to me. The week after I got back to camp, he & a officer (rank LTC), called me into a private meeting room. They inform me that they are going to be referring me to regimentation & disciplinary department and also MP command for the charges:
1. Disobedience of general order. For refusing to come to camp for medical review when ordered
2. Insubordination. For telling the DXO I will not come to camp and I raised my voice at him over a phone call
3. AWOL. Since I didn't come to camp, I was considered AWOL for those 9 days.
I tried to explain to the LTC in that meeting room that I was wheelchair & crutches bound, how could it be expected for me to appear in camp and I had a valid MC. The LTC said we don't know whether your MC is real or forged. So the camp MO has to authenticate it. And since I didn't turn up, considered AWOL. Realized there was no point speaking to the LTC, so I had to go up higher the chain. I brought my case to the CO (COL rank) of the HQ to plead my case with him. But it was pointless. He told me I should've followed the orders and I wouldn't be in this state where I am. I went up higher the chain to meet the camp commander, but even then it was of no use. I was told the same thing. Should learn to deal with my consequences etc and face my summary trial. Few weeks later, I went for my summary trial and my charges were read out to me. In total, if I accepted the charges I would've been sentenced to 3 weeks in DB. However I didn't accept the charges and I wanted a general court martial. After that I was assigned a court date & also a defending officer (DO). His rank is MAJ. I went to meet my DO and he questioned me in length, told me to provide screenshots of whatsapp messages, location logs from my Google account my original hospital MC & the doctor's memo from the hospital. He himself was shocked because there was no basis for the case at all. My DO sent all the documents, my written testimony basically all my evidence over to the SAF legal services or prosecution side. I dont remember the actual term. Close to 2 weeks after my DO sent all the information to the prosecution side, I was informed via my DO that all my charges got withdrawn after thorough investigation by I think MP command. There will be no court date and won't have to go through court martial. So I can return back to camp without any issues But I didn't want to return back to same unit. I urged my DO to help me get a change. Told me only I can do it to go to PCC who will be able to force a change of unit. The camp MO was well aware of my history and I got a referral back to PCC. At PCC, I completely broke down & told the psychiatrist MO that if I am in the same unit and under the same DXO, I will off myself. Explained my whole history and was given a immediate transfer to another unit in camp. Luckily the new unit was way different. At least treated NSFs with a bit of decency. Not fully but didn't demand GPS location when I am at home on MC. I spent my last remaining months recovering & feeling a sense of freedom in the new unit. Made some buddies in the unit & enjoyed. But honestly, even though I suffered during the majority of NS from BMT at Tekong to getting downpessed to being abused by a DXO, the SAF justice system saved me. My DO is one hell of a person, really went all out helping me and got rid of all the charges. I know that NSFs will still continue to be abused, but there is a tiny amount of silver lining."
Meme - Sand Snakes: "WE WANT JUSTICE FOR OBERYN. AND THAT'S WHY WE ARE GOING TO... MURDER OBERYN'S BROTHER AND NEPHEW"
Some people still defend the later seasons of Game of Thrones
She was the only character getting off on the end of the world : r/freefolk - "Pretty much all the female leads in S7-8 went this way. One of GoT's strengths was younger women like Arya, Sansa and Daenerys all developing their own individual strengths in different ways... then suddenly in S7 they all started acting the same way."
She was the only character getting off on the end of the world : r/freefolk - "What did it for me was when Arya a 90 lbs teenage girl decided using a dagger to duel Brienne of Tarth and was parrying Brienne's longsword attacks. Not only does Brienne have more than twice the size and weight of Arya but she also had already defeated two knights who were well respected for their fighting skills in single combat duels (The Flower knight, and the Hound)."
"I hate that people like D and D don’t understand that being an assassin doesn’t make you Batman. Being an assassin especially for someone of Arya’s stature is more about being subtle, poisoning, disguises, agility not actual fighting ability."
"And AFAIK there’s nothing in the books to indicate that even the greatest faceless man to ever live could survive against a mediocre knight in a straight up fight."
@winepoetryorvirtue on Tumblr - "When your dad is your uncle and your aunt is your mum and your girlfriend is your aunt and your grandfather killed your grandfather and your brother is Aegon and so are you"
The Shift has Hit the Fan | Facebook - "Funny how *experts* never called Pride a measles super spreader. But when it’s the Calgary Stampede? Suddenly it’s a national health emergency. The fear factory’s back in business - just depends who’s attending."
Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist on X - "The Texas House passed a bill making it faster for property owners to evict squatters who live on their land without permission. The vote was 85 to 49. 89% of the House Democrats voted AGAINST the bill. It already passed the Senate 21 to 8. It's now on Governor Abbott's desk."
Hunter Ash on X - "Different groups flourish best under different systems. For high trust people, endless precautions like shampoo locked in cases at CVS and bars on shop windows are needlessly costly. But for low trust people, they’re essential for commerce to function at all. Likewise, Bukele’s heavy-handed policing clearly improved El Salvador but would be an absurd imposition in Denmark. When you force both groups to live under the same system, either the high trust people have to pay for the cost of security measures that aren’t necessary for their group, or low trust people get away with crimes. Either way, at least one group isn’t living under its optimal system. Probably neither is. There is no single universal system of government or culture that is best for all groups. People are diverse, and require solutions tailored to their respective natures."
Blacklock's Reporter on X - "“The Fund is working for women entrepreneurs and businesses. It has helped 500 women start new businesses.” — @mary_ng AUDIT: 322 businesses were accepted at cost of $130.3M. All 322 were already in business. “Fund did not go to new businesses for start-up.”"
Dan Albas on X - "I still recall the massive outrage over a $16 glass of orange juice charged to taxpayers by a former CPC Minister, who ultimately resigned. Today the Liberals frequently waste hundreds of millions of dollars and generally total silence. What has changed?"
Double standards are good because Liberals are good and virtuous and Conservatives are evil and venal
NSS reports Islamic radio charity to commission over antisemitism - "Media regulator Ofcom announced this week it has fined Markaz-Al-Huda Limited £3,500 for a programme in which Jews were called "the biggest enemies of humanity". The NSS reported Markaz-Al-Huda, which says its charitable activities include eradicating "religious and cultural prejudices", to the Charity Commission following the announcement. Markaz-Al-Huda runs the radio station Salaam BCR. Although the charity surrendered its community radio license, which means it can no longer broadcast on the airwaves, Salaam BCR continues to stream content on its non-licensable online service. Charities are entitled to extensive tax breaks. They must exist for the public benefit, and must not publish material that "incites hatred on the grounds of race, religion or sexual orientation". On October 17th 2023, days after the Hamas attack on Israel, Salaam BCR broadcast a programme featuring a speech delivered by Islamic scholar Shujauddin Sheikh (pictured). Shujauddin Sheikh leads Tanzeem-e-Islami, an Islamic group in Pakistan with some members linked to militant Islamists. The speech said Jews are "the biggest enemies of humanity" and accused them of being "envious" of the Islamic prophet Muhammad just as Satan "was envious of the first prophet, Prophet Adam". The speech also said the history of Jews is "from killing prophets to only protecting their own interests, to instigating war, to instigating war and then lending money with interest and strengthening their economy". Ofcom said these statements "drew upon common antisemitic tropes" and breached the Broadcasting Code regarding hate speech, discriminatory language and abusive or derogatory treatment. It expressed concern that the speech "had the potential to aggravate religious tensions between Muslim people and members of the Jewish community in the UK", and therefore "posed a serious risk of harm to members of the public". When Ofcom published the breach decision last year, Markaz-Al-Huda accused Ofcom of being a "puppet instrument heavily run and supportive of a Zionist agenda which makes [it] a discriminative and Islamophobic organisation". It surrendered its broadcast license as a "gesture of our objection to fairness and disgust". It also said Ofcom "bows down to Zionist groups controlling all media and regulator and others". Markaz-Al-Huda demanded to know the identity of the complainant, saying it had a "desire to know how a Zionist sympathiser understood Urdu and called the content antisemitic". It added: "you hide behind data protection to hide your snitches…we have a right to know who and how we have offended"."
Clear Islamophobia. Everyone knew they meant "Zionists"
British Muslim cleric tells boys they can have sex slaves - "A hardline Muslim preacher suspected of radicalising three British jihadis told teenage disciples that it is ‘permissible’ under Islam to have sex slaves. Ali Hammuda, an Imam at a Cardiff mosque where three young jihadis from the city worshipped before travelling to Syria to join Islamic State, also told the group of boys as young as 13 that the ‘day of judgment is close’ – a key part of IS’s warped propaganda... The cleric’s extraordinary preachings were recorded secretly at a halaqa, or religious study circle, at the Al-Manar mosque by an undercover reporter. The event was publicised by posters mimicking the famous British wartime propaganda slogan, declaring Keep Calm And Come To Halaqa. Fringed by drawings of sports equipment, the poster added: ‘Brothers Only, Ideal age 13-18. Followed by indoor football.’ In the most damning section of the recording, Hammuda, the English Islamic Programmes officer at the mosque, explains a series of Hadiths, or sayings of the Prophet Mohammed with his group. He inserts his own twisted interpretation of a Hadith in which the Prophet says one of the Doomsday signs will be when a slave girl gives birth to her master. He tells them: ‘One of the interpretations as to what this means is that towards the end of time there will be many wars like what we are seeing today, and because of these wars women will be taken as captives, as slaves, yeah, women will be taken as slaves. ‘And then, er, her master has relations with her because this is permissible in Islam, it’s permissible to have relations with a woman who is your slave or your wife.’ In his rambling address to the boys, Hammuda also stated that another interpretation of the Hadith is that children will come to treat their mothers like slaves. He said: ‘The one I think is strongest is that towards the end of time you will see a lot of Muslims disobeying their mothers and fathers… you see children speaking to their mothers and fathers as if they are your slave.’ At no point does Hammuda, who was born in Palestine but brought up in the UK, point out that slavery is no longer permitted in Islam, nor indeed that it is illegal in the UK. The hitherto unbroadcast audio tapes, recorded by TV company Hardcash Productions in an investigation into jihadis, were made in October 2014 – only weeks after reports of IS atrocities against the minority Yazidi sect in northern Iraq, whose women were enslaved, raped or executed after being captured by the IS thugs... In other recordings, Hammuda speaks of music being ‘a sickness’ and a ‘tool of Satan’... An undercover reporter, who made the recordings, also found a range of extremist literature available, such as Music Made Me Do It, which describes the harmful social, psychological and physical effects of music on individuals, and Punishment In Islamic Law, which advocates Shariah law, with its punishments of execution, amputation and stoning... The Al-Manar mosque has hosted a series of visiting extremist preachers, including Muhammad Mustafa Al-Muqri, an Al Qaeda ally and ex- leader of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. The mosque has denied links with radicalism. Until 2013, Hammuda was allowed to hold lunchtime sessions at Cathays High School in Cardiff, where Reyaad Khan was educated. Hammuda told his followers that music is manipulative, and along with ‘free mixing’ between men and women, is ‘not permitted in Islam’. The revelations come as new Home Office figures show that no fewer than 50 young children were prevented by family court judges from being taken to Syria by their parents in 2015. The official report into the Government’s ‘Contest’ counter-terrorism strategy revealed that more than 150 attempted journeys were disrupted last year."
From 2016
Islamophobia!
Clearly he is ignorant about Islam and needs Karen Armstrong to explain it to him
Dr. Maalouf on X - "An Islamist group gathers to discuss a plan to Islamize and take over the UK: “There will come a point where this oppressive rule will end. We do not accept this system we live under, which we will replace with an Islamic system." How is this even allowed?"
Vivid.🇮🇱 on X - "There are 581 mosques in New York. Why do they pray on the streets?"
Gad Saad on X - "Is there an Islamic city that has 581 synagogues or churches?"
British cutlery company releases square-tipped knives that can't stab people - "The knives in Viners' new four-piece set end in a flat top instead of a sharp point, and have been created in response to rising knife crime statistics and new legislation, which says kitchen knives can be considered an offensive weapon."
Surely this will solve the problem. People are so stupid they don't know how to slash instead
Meme - Black woman: "I'm ignorant and wrong. I'm going to be loud about it too"
Mamdani Did All the Things the Establishment Hates. He Won Anyway. : r/politics - "She won the popular vote against Donald Trump. So many people turned out against him, specifically. I voted for Hillary, doesn’t mean I have any idea what she stood for. If she had a real message, I would remember a slogan other than “I’m With Her”."
"Same overseas lol Here in France, everyone heard Obama's 'Yes we can' speech, knew who he was, what he was about. Hillary? We knew she was a woman, but that was literally it lol. Nobody had any idea what her platform was. Trump was a clown but even then, the general idea was that he was a business man and a political outsider that wanted to MAGA and build a wall. Trump had so much more presence and generally memorable stances, it was unreal. Imagine having less known stances than Trump, the dude that doesn't know jack about shit."
Why do police officers in the US shoot suspects multiple times? : r/NoStupidQuestions - "There is a video from early in the Ukraine Russia war Russian guy is hiding in an outdoor toilet/shed as 6~ Ukrainian solders are clearing the neighborhood. The Russian jumps out and gets shot several times by the solders weilding rifles within 10 feet of him. The Russian then started to stand back up. People who are shot often do not die nearly as quickly as you'd think."
Why do police officers in the US shoot suspects multiple times? : r/NoStupidQuestions - "I feel like hunters have the best idea of how much it actually takes to incapacitate a living being. They’ll spend much more time waiting on the perfect shot, using much more powerful weapons, using bullets designed for the most lethal effect on that specific animal, and it still won’t be enough sometimes for an animal that weighs less than the average human. So if you have less time because lives are in danger and you have a less-optimal choice of firearm… Yeah, the best way to ensure a threat is no longer a threat is by shooting them repeatedly."
"Hunter here - this is truth. I've seen deer literally split open from front to back, draging their organs, run for 2 miles, and still need to be shot in the head to be killed. Living things are really good at staying alive and can be incredibly hard to kill."
Why do police officers in the US shoot suspects multiple times? : r/NoStupidQuestions - "One other factor that also gets seldom considered is the fact that, in many of these cases, you have multiple officers all shooting. They aren’t a hivemind though - as one person, you are conducting an assessment, concluding “oh shit this guy is going about to stab/shoot/whatever me or my colleagues”, then firing until satisfied that the threat is stopped. That might only be, say, 5 rounds, but then you’ve got 4 other officers with guns beside you who are going through the exact same process. You can’t even reliably know how many rounds you fired under that kind of stress, there’s no way you’ll actually be aware of how many everybody else is firing as well. That’s how you typically end up with some subject being shot like 20 times. It might sound insane, but given the circumstances it actually isn’t outrageous."
Buskers must now sing in French in Quebec City's tourist hub. Not everyone is happy - "According to the city's regulation regarding public entertainers, modified in May, buskers must perform in French or play instrumental at two sites located in Petit Champlain. In an emailed statement, a city spokesperson said these two sites are reserved for French music to "underline the 40th anniversary of Quebec's inclusion on the world heritage cities list."... ince 2017, Birdie Veilleux says the street music scene has steadily declined in Quebec City. A violinist who grew up in Quebec City and plays with Baker, he says Quebec's capital has become "the most regulated place in the world to play." He said the rules keep piling up, especially in the Petit Champlain area. Veilleux says some of these changes mean a loss in traffic and income for musicians.Among the 53 remaining busking sites listed in the city, most include a limit on the number of hours a musician can perform per day as well as the number of people in a singular group... Despite the city's thorough audition process, he says the quality of buskers has declined and some career street musicians have called it quits... He says the newest rules in the Petit Champlain regarding French songs are particularly disappointing considering these two sites are in pedestrian-only areas. "It was like the last remaining spot where you could get proper crowds and proper pay," he said. "We were never warned or consulted." As a francophone Quebecer, he says art should not be restricted in this way. "I am a separatist, but I still think this rule is ridiculous," he said, adding Quebec City's culture isn't only French. "Indigenous people that want to sing in their language, they wouldn't even be able to perform," he added."
Document: The Symbolism Survey - "In 1963, a sixteen-year-old San Diego high school student named Bruce McAllister sent a four-question mimeographed survey to 150 well-known authors of literary, commercial, and science fiction. Did they consciously plant symbols in their work? he asked. Who noticed symbols appearing from their subconscious, and who saw them arrive in their text, unbidden, created in the minds of their readers? When this happened, did the authors mind? McAllister had just published his first story, “The Faces Outside,” in both IF magazine and Simon and Schuster’s 1964 roundup of the best science fiction of the year. Confident, if not downright cocky, he thought the surveys could settle a conflict with his English teacher by proving that symbols weren’t lying beneath the texts they read like buried treasure awaiting discovery. His project involved substantial labor—this before the Internet, before e-mail—but was not impossible: many authors and their representatives were listed in the Twentieth-Century American Literature series found in the local library. More impressive is that seventy-five writers replied—most of them, in earnest. Sixty-five of those responses survive (McAllister lost ten to “a kleptomaniacal friend”). Answers ranged from the secretarial blow off to a thick packet of single-spaced typescript in reply... The answers to the questionnaire were as varied as the writers themselves. Did Isaac Asimov plant symbolism in his work? “Consciously? Heavens, no! Unconsciously? How can one avoid it?” Iris Murdoch sagely advises that “there is much more symbolism in ordinary life than some critics seem to realize.” Ayn Rand wins the prize for concision; addressing McAllister’s example of symbolism in The Scarlet Letter, she wrote, “This is not a definition, it is not true—and, therefore, your questions do not make sense.” Kerouac is a close second; he writes, “Symbolism is alright in ‘Fiction’ but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.” The apologies Bruce received from secretaries—including those of John Steinbeck, Muriel Spark, and Ian Fleming—explaining that they were traveling and unable to respond were longer than that. Science-fiction writers—most notably Fritz Leiber, Lloyd Biggle Jr., Judith Merril, and A. J. Budrys—were the most expansive. Biggle sent a lengthy letter and then, nearly a year later, sent further thoughts. In the second letter, he advised McAllister to read an essay by Mary McCarthy, “Settling the Colonel’s Hash,” saying, “You will not want to do any kind of article on symbolism until you have read [this] … You will find much good material there, as well as an emphatic reinforcement for your viewpoint.” (McCarthy sent the same advice herself.) Judith Merril’s response is heavily mired in linguistics; she offers McAllister a chart to illustrate her semantic overview... “The conclusion I came to was that nobody had asked them. New Criticism was about the scholars and the text; writers were cut out of the equation. Scholars would talk about symbolism in writing, but no one had asked the writers.”"
Meme - "A condom shaking hands with A girlfriend
Spending more time iri my wallet than on my dick"
Customer sets fire to Spanish cafe after it ran out of mayonnaise
How a French exchange student saved our summer (aka "I invited a 13-year-old French girl to stay for the summer. Here’s how it went")
Analyzing Yahoo Personals (2004-2005): White women who describe themselves as slim, slender, athletic, fit or average are 7x more likely to exclude black men than those describing themselves as thick, voluptuous, a few extra pounds, or large. 1.46% of white women declare a preference for black. : r/RacePillScience
Online dating While Minority? You're gonna have a bad time (Feliciano, Robnett, and Komaie, 2008) : r/BlackPillScience - "Among daters with stated racial preferences, white men are more likely to exclude blacks as possible dates, while white women are more likely to exclude Asians... body type has no effect on white women’s exclusion of Asian men... In terms of religion, whites who identified as Jewish were dropped from the analysis of black exclusion because it was a perfect predictor: all white men and women who identified as Jewish and stated racial preferences excluded blacks as possible dates; all Jewish white women with racial preferences also excluded Asian men as possible dates"
Santanu Bhattacharya on X - "Cars these days have too many gadgets. I tried to reverse, and it played a video of somebody getting run over by a car 😂"
The End - "In 1999 my family believed the world was coming to an end. We were living in central Wisconsin, on the outskirts of a prosperous lake district (my parents noted, more than once, the fortuitous proximity to sources of fresh water), and as the millennium neared, our house became a fortress braced for the apocalypse... The panic was my parents’ response to the y2k bug, though its roots could be traced to an abiding occupation with biblical prophecy... In the age of “superstorms” and Ready.gov, it is not unusual for people to have a cache of bottled water in their basements, or to casually speculate about fending a hungry mob off their property. As my friends and I hover around the knell of thirty, childless and saddled with debt, we speak about the future with an almost welcome sense of contingency. “If the glaciers haven’t melted,” we say, or “when the singularity occurs,” just as my parents couched every plan in the caveat “if the Lord tarries.”... It is fashionable to dismiss today’s fundamentalism as an evolutionary hangover—a vestige of an ancient, more ignorant era. In reality, it was both a response to and a product of modernity... progress is a weird thing; it has a way of engendering optimism and dysphoria in similar measure... By the advent of the Cold War, preachers faced little difficulty tapping into the angst of an American public terrified at the prospect of nuclear annihilation. “Amid the disjuncture of modern times,” Sutton writes, “apocalypticism often made better sense than competing theologies.”... George W. Bush apparently believed that Iraq and Afghanistan were singled out in end times prophecy. “Gog and Magog are at work in the Middle East,” he told French President Jacques Chirac in a 2003 phone call, appealing to their common Christian faith as a basis for the invasion. “This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to use this conflict to erase His people’s enemies before a new age begins.” Chirac, a Roman Catholic, promptly asked his staff to call the French Federation of Protestants and find out what Bush was talking about... One afternoon my systematic theology professor gave a forty-minute lecture about the perfect alignment between Islamic prophecy and biblical end times chronology, arguing that Osama Bin Laden was the false prophet described in the book of Daniel. Theories of this sort, once unabashedly flaunted by preachers and televangelists, are now increasingly limited to private discussions within the coterie of true believers... But apocalypticism remains a timely subject. After all, we live in an era not unlike the one that incubated modern fundamentalism. Like those who saw Progressivism—with its emphasis on rational, technological solutions—as a panacea for the social and economic strife of the early twentieth century, today some of us hope that Silicon Valley will engineer an earthly utopia. But such cheery visions of the future belie our own fears about the present, as climate change and global terror loom. Progress and panic have always been two sides of the same coin, and if we dismiss the rants of televangelists, or snicker at the megaphone insanity of street preachers, it is at least in part because they embody an unflattering reflection of our own obsession with apocalypse, because their worldview is the most obvious distillation of the modern death wish. Sutton’s book demonstrates that the history of evangelicalism, cynical and fatalistic as it may be, is very much our own"
