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Would-be NASA intern loses gig after vulgar tweet to NASA alum Homer Hickam, reports say
A woman may have lost a highly coveted NASA internship following a profanity-laced back-and-forth with a user on Twitter. That user? Famed former NASA engineer and current space council adviser Homer Hickam.
The exchange, reportedly captured in screenshots that rocketed across social media, began when a user identified as Naomi H. (@NaomiH_official) made an announcement to the world: "Everyone shut the f--- up," she tweeted, Newsweek and Buzzfeed News report, citing images of since-removed tweets. "I got accepted for a NASA internship."
After a Twitter user notes Naomi's "language," Naomi replies with a sexually vulgar tweet not at all suitable for publication. "I'm working at NASA," Naomi concludes. The user Naomi told off is Homer Hickam, the former NASA engineer and inspiration of the 1999 film "October Sky," based on his memoir. "And I am on the National Space Council that oversees NASA," Hickam replies, referencing his appointment to the advisory group earlier this year.
[...] Hickam said he takes no offense at the 'f-word,' but sought to warn her that NASA might. And while Hickam did not seek to influence the internship and had no authority to do so, according to the post, use of the NASA hashtag later alerted the agency to the irreverent tweets.
[...] Hickam later wrote about the incident on his blog, saying he had nothing to do with her getting fired.
“I'm a Vietnam vet and not at all offended by the F-word. However, when I saw NASA and the word used together, it occurred to me that this young person might get in trouble if NASA saw it so I tweeted to her one word: "Language" and intended to leave it at that.
Soon, her friends took umbrage and said a lot of unkind things but long after I was gone as I immediately deleted my comments and blocked all concerned.
Later, I learned she had lost her offer for an internship with NASA. This I had nothing to do with nor could I since I do not hire and fire at the agency or have any say on employment whatsoever.
[...] Naomi eventually reached out and apologized to Hickam. After the conversation, Hickam had kind words to say about Naomi. He also said he would help her find a better position.
She reached out to me with an unnecessary apology which I heartily accepted and returned with my own. After talking to her, I am certain she deserves a position in the aerospace industry and I'm doing all I can to secure her one that will be better than she lost. I have also talked to the folks that had to do with her internship and made absolutely certain that there will be no black mark on her record.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @08:53PM (22 children)
There you go, proper scientific proof backed with empirical fact - that Twitter, is for twits.
"Social Media" has not added any value to mankind, only incited hatred, division ..and profits for the 0.1%.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @09:02PM (20 children)
The great global dialog has revealed that only is the world incredibly balkanized, but so is each country.
Guess what? Diversity is NOT a strength; rather, agreement is a strength, and agreement tends to imply homogeneity.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by nitehawk214 on Thursday August 23 2018, @09:10PM (14 children)
Surrounding oneself with yes-men is agreement. I wouldn't call that a strength.
Neither diversity nor agreement is a strength. It is how one handles it that makes it a strength or weakness.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @09:25PM (12 children)
Yes-men are lying about their agreement. Ergo, there is not actually agreement.
Agreement is strength. That's why religious communities tend to be pretty strong, despite the fact that they agree on the truth of fairy tales.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @10:05PM (11 children)
Agreement leads to social strength (cohesion).
Diversity (of thought) leads to scientific and technological strength (innovation).
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @10:31PM (9 children)
Diversity of thought only leads to progress when there is voluntary interaction.
Otherwise, diversity of thought is guaranteed to devolve into a war for the reins of power. As soon as the United States promulgated a Separation of Church and State, religious wars died off in the West, because there was no longer a massive weapon of imposition by which one sect could impose its will on another sect.
You have to choose:
That's why socialism always deteriorates into "re-education" camps, which become gulags, which become murder camps; socialists always choose Big Government, because that's the only way they can figure out how to implement their stupid ideas, and thus socialists always give up on "diversity of thought".
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @10:57PM (8 children)
As usual, your use of "socialism" is wrong. You're thinking of Communism. This has been clarified enough times that I can only assume you're a shill trying to prevent people from realizing socialism is a great thing. The only downside to socialism, taxes, is completely nullified by the benefits to individuals and societies such as education and healthcare. Y'know, those things that help keep the country prosperous and capable.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @11:06PM (4 children)
Re-educate that AC about the face and neck until he loves Socialism!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @11:22PM
no need, people can swim on shitpool of their own stupidity and lack of understanding until our demise as dominan species
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 24 2018, @03:51AM (2 children)
Hey, you can still disagree with the idea of using taxes to fund universal health and education. We already mostly have education anyway, so it isn't some wild stretch of the imagination.
All I'm saying is get your facts straight.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 24 2018, @05:52AM (1 child)
I'm saying "I don't want to take anything from you." You are saying "Pay your fair share, Comrade", while you point a gun in my face.
We can't just agree to disagree. This is a serious dispute, and you're the one making things dangerous.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by fyngyrz on Friday August 24 2018, @05:53PM
Uh-huh.
No tax-supported roads for you. No tax-supported law enforcement or national defense or fire trucks for you. No tax-supported emergency relief for you. No tax-supported schools or libraries for you or your children. No tax-supported scientific development for you, or the results thereof. No tax-supported national park excursions for you (you can't get there anyway, as you can't use the roads or sidewalks to ride or walk, and you certainly can't travel across private land unless you compensate the owners somehow, and since you get no law enforcement services, they can shoot you if you try, so...) No tax-supported food inspections for you. No use of tax-supported currencies, or use of tax-supported regulated undertakings like banks and stock markets. No use of drugs that are approved for use by tax-supported systems and/or had tax-suported R&D. No Internet for you — after all, it was a tax-supported program that brought it about. No use of technology that came about because the "gummint" (including NASA, btw) supported it. No travel on aircraft routed by tax-supported air traffic control. The only jobs you could do would be at home, as you can't ravel anyway. No use of power that comes from any plant that was tax-supported or operates courtesy of government safety inspections. Etc.
Honestly, that's my fondest dream. You and all the other people of deep conviction like you who are convinced that "taxes are theft" should suddenly find yourself with no requirement to pay taxes (you can't use money anyway, so that works out fine), unable to travel, victims of un-remediated criminal activity, illiterate, technology- and communications-bereft, consuming foods and drugs of dubious and risky provenance, drinking water from barrels, all the while watching everyone else drive by on the roads you can't travel on. Your only transactional capability would be barter of things you could make while sitting on your tax-free property, because you can't travel or use money. I wonder what you'd produce worthy of another person's attention?
If I were Dear Ruler, I'd happily sign an order that lets you withdraw from the tax system and straight-up denies you access to any of the benefits: direct, indirect, or derived. Because you "don't want to take anything." If only your wish could come true. I want that for you. I really do. My only requirement would be that you have a brilliant dayglow tattoo across your entire face that identifies you as what you are, a tax-free citizen. It'll make it easier to aim at you if you try to cross anyone's land without permission, you see, and and also makes sure you stay true to your beliefs, and we both agree that's important, right? A serious dispute.
Everyone else would continue to try to make the system we have evolve and improve, suffering the admittedly sometimes very difficult slings and arrows of discourse, disagreement, and inevitable setbacks. While occasionally shooting trespassers. That part, at least, would be fun.
PS: Not thinking this profanity issue should have any effect on employment. This post is just in response to your "I don't want to take anything."
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday August 24 2018, @05:00AM
Education and health care are not infinite value. Therefore, there is some sufficiently level of taxes which those benefits can't nullify.
Further, there are other obvious costs to state funding and control of education and health care which aren't being considered here, such as not funding education that questions the state's actions, or health care for parties which criticize the state.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 24 2018, @08:26AM (1 child)
How many socialist countries have you visited?
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Friday August 24 2018, @03:32PM
Can't say I've visited any Socilaist Countries, but I have visited Ex-Socialist Countries. They seem to be doing much better now, thanks.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday August 23 2018, @11:41PM
"Diversity" of hiring, in this case probably a furry of color judging by the language and the avatar, does not necessarily equal diversity of thought.
In fact, modern diversity hiring will likely being less diversity of thought, unless you count interrupting engineering meetings with righteous gripes about insignificant social constructs which have nothing to do with engineering. What's even more amazing is that there are dumb-fucks coming to the rescue:
Sheesh, it takes even me about 24 shots of Jagermeister before I start using that kind of language in public.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 24 2018, @05:07AM
Yes-menning can be dangerous, because you then start to see censorship of other views. Like you see right now with Social Media shutting down "hate speech". Who decides what that hate is or where the line is drawn... slippery slope to Adolf's Dream part the next (left or right, extreme regimes are bad). It is extremely worrying that these giant online sites run by PFYs or simple $-agendas have so much sway over society and its "direction" (read: straight down the drainhole).
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @09:22PM (3 children)
The great global dialog has revealed that only is the world incredibly balkanized, but so is each country.
While that may be true, your assertion that it hasn't incited division is demonstrably false. It has incited division, not just in the US, but in places like Myanmar where it has been used not just to incite division and violence, but outright murder-by-mob.
The fact that it reveals balkanization within societies does not mean it hasn't also incited such divisions, and it's pretty clear it has (you only need to spend a few minutes reading the news to see that, or hell, just look at the US president's twitter history).
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @09:29PM (2 children)
The division was always there; it's just that people didn't know about each other—they didn't realize that total fuckwits were living right next to them.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @09:51PM (1 child)
Your neighbors are liberals too huh?
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @10:12PM
They must be the children of conservatives, trying out being liberal but still not free of their parent's idiocy.
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Friday August 24 2018, @01:38PM
Lack of diversity leads to entire populations being wiped out by disease. Happens to trees and plants (dutch elm disease), happens to people (particularly inbred royalty), happens to computers (Windows.) Things don't tend to be very strong when they're dying of a dozen different diseases that are perfectly adapted to their homogeneous environment.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 24 2018, @05:05PM
Well, you know, except for the serendipitous introduction (via F-bomb) of a young person to someone on the National Space Council and film inspiration, who is now personally helping said person with their career.
Or post-disaster coordination.
Or laying bare just how divided the U.S. as a nation actually is.
Maybe some other things too...
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @08:54PM (8 children)
Don't have a public social media profile and behave like you're talking amongst friends.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday August 23 2018, @09:02PM (5 children)
Unfortunately, Twitter is part of reality now...
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @09:48PM
The personal and the private are easily confused on a platform like Twitter. Case in point - the tweeter in chief. People using the platform to unwind and shoot the shit get to mix with people using it in a professional capacity; endless drama ensues.
(Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Thursday August 23 2018, @11:40PM
Whose reality? The marketoid's reality, trying to sell you a cell phone, download their free app/malware, and making sure their Tweeter logo appears next to the name of every news anchor on the 5 o'clock news?
Thankfully I see absolutely no requirement for me to ever use the Twitter(R)(TM) web site.
I have to use a car to get to some places, I have to use a (regular) telephone to call some people, I have to use a credit card to pay for some things, I have to send some things via US Postal Service, I have to use the internet to obtain/provide certain information. Not that long ago I had to send a fax. That is my reality. So far I have not seen any requirement for me to use Twatter(R)(TM).
(Score: 4, Insightful) by edIII on Thursday August 23 2018, @11:47PM (1 child)
Only if you accept that to be true. Part of reality? What does that mean? I can't live without Twitter, I can't conduct my daily affairs without Tweeting, Twitter is as important as air? I would argue that oxygen is a reality, water is a reality, eating every day is a reality.
Isn't there something like 25% of America that gets along just fine without most of the Internet (Google/Twitter/Facebook)? So far I've not been required to tweet anything to a government agency, and it simply doesn't come up in my daily affairs. Especially since I eschew marketing of all kinds, which precludes the constant demands that friend/follow somebody. I would never participate in social media for any reason really, and my daily affairs continue to not be impacted by it. All the important events in my life are communicated via other communication platforms.
I'm more upset about the reward cards for groceries being a reality, and that reality is the best prices only come with a suspension of your privacy. The workaround is to share one account with dozens of people, and/or keep shifting accounts.
You say that like I should just give up and get a Twitter account :)
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2) by black6host on Friday August 24 2018, @02:28AM
It hasn't been hard for me to find someone who wants the "points", or whatever else the stores are shilling. I do agree with you and I'm sure the grocery powers that be (and pharmacies, etc.) are thinking of ways to prevent people from doing that. The clerks don't mind that the name on the screen is a different gender from mine. I might get asked about it but I've never been refused. Hell, it used to be that the clerks would scan their own card for me. And they're the front line right now. Yes, it will change and all your fears (and mine) may come true.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 24 2018, @04:08AM
it's not part of mine except when I see this kind of thing on the news
(Score: 2) by driverless on Thursday August 23 2018, @11:58PM
Oh god, this one is even better than the notorious "This is a lighthouse. Your call". I wonder how long it'll take to reach meme status?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 24 2018, @01:34AM
That's how that cunt's friend talk.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by tangomargarine on Thursday August 23 2018, @08:57PM (15 children)
Not really sure this is the lesson they want to be conveying...more "you done fucked up, better luck next time somewhere else", less "but that's okay, we'll hire you anyway."
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @09:15PM (9 children)
Remember, if you are a furry or a feminist, you can be as disrespectful and vulgar as you like, and get promoted for it.
Hickam is just trying to head off unwanted SJWs winging at him. Now he is the one that is scrambling to get on his knees before his masters.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @09:18PM
And he has deleted his twitter.
Hey, look who the bullies are now.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by VLM on Thursday August 23 2018, @09:52PM (4 children)
He's white knighting, LOL. Should be on THOT patrol and tell her she'll never work in the industry again. If the intern were a male, like Ethanol Fueled, perhaps, things would actually be enforced rather than glossed over.
Also unlike Naomi, Ethanol fueled would have at least been entertaining.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @10:42PM (3 children)
I thought the exact same thing, that he is being a sissy-cuck-white knight. I wouldn't hold a grudge against her, but definitely not help her get a better position when she was an ass.
Plus what does this teach others? That you can be a rude selfish vulgar jerk to complete strangers, suffer no consequences, and in fact be rewarded.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 24 2018, @02:43AM (2 children)
Worked for President Trump.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 24 2018, @03:25AM (1 child)
Quick, subpoena him to congress, make him invest $100k in legal counsel, and then perhaps indict him for felony picking up a seashell in violation of any foreign law, then lying about it, or both!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 24 2018, @03:57AM
I guess I parsed GP's words differently than he had intended, but the game is that anyone willing to work with Trump will be dragged into the meat grinder of politicized justice. Besides possibly getting fucked over by Trump too.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @10:20PM (2 children)
Yall are crazy. Crazy crazy crazy. She lost the internship but then "Naomi eventually reached out and apologized to Hickam. After the conversation, Hickam had kind words to say about Naomi. He also said he would help her find a better position."
Some people respect others that are able to admit they are wrong and demonstrate they are actually good people. You wackos can never admit when you're wrong and believe in the nuttiest versions of reality spoon fed to you by Alex Jones and a bunch of Russian trolls.
I almost feel sorry for you lot but then you open your mouths and spout off the usual bigoted horse shit, and poof my conscience is realigned.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @10:41PM
Still their are those, like this guy, who want to suck dicks and balls. Troll harder!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 24 2018, @08:26PM
This person didn't "admit that they were wrong" until they found out whom they were talking to and the fact that it cost them a great deal in life.
Perhaps go back to square 1: don't be an absolute asshole in the first place. The lesson should be that you can _not_ lash out without regard for others.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by krishnoid on Thursday August 23 2018, @09:25PM (2 children)
Sounds like he considers aerospace industry as a meritocracy. I'll bet he's also heard much worse through his military and professional careers, to the point where the language used was more a faux pas than a shocking incident.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @09:53PM (1 child)
Here is the 'reality' of the world. Piss off the wrong people and no amount of 'know how' will get you that job. Everyone likes to pretend they are in the upper 1% of the 1% in smarts. But if you are a complete ass and can not get along with others even before you start the job, that job is not going to happen. It is best for everyone involved that you do not get it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 24 2018, @03:28AM
Not being radical enough in SJW dominated orgs can get you PNGd in your entire industry.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by TheGratefulNet on Friday August 24 2018, @01:13AM (1 child)
college age is still very young. why have someone be punished for something so stupid, when you can forgive and she'll have learned her lesson well enough.
the whole thing could be made into a big positive, depending on how you handle it.
they used to call it a 'teachable moment'.
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
(Score: 2) by black6host on Friday August 24 2018, @02:34AM
Young? Yes. The best time to learn such a lesson. A lifetime to not make the same mistake. If she were to do this when she was later in her career the consequences could have much more weight. Wish I had learned, when I was young, what I know now. And some of the best lessons we experience in life are accompanied by great sorrow. Still, I don't regret learning from those lessons.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @09:20PM (2 children)
... is dead.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 24 2018, @12:24AM
Oooh, as a necrophiliac it's time for me to do my thing ... giggity
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 24 2018, @03:04PM
is f*king dead ..
FTFY.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @09:27PM (7 children)
Shouldn't that be free speech?
(Score: 5, Informative) by bob_super on Thursday August 23 2018, @09:36PM
It it's private free speech, no problem.
The moment she explicitly associated herself with NASA, they have the right to an opinion.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by ilPapa on Thursday August 23 2018, @09:39PM (5 children)
No, you dumbfuck. Telling a member of your new employer's advisory council to "suck my dick and balls" is not protected speech. Or rather, it's protected, but you're not protected from the consequences.
Why do people so misunderstand the contextual meaning of "free speech"?
Plus, this particular doofus was a furry, so NASA probably dodged a bullet on this one.
You are still welcome on my lawn.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 24 2018, @08:32AM
But that's not what was said.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 24 2018, @09:11AM
And the situation itself is different. You are all crazy in your 'Murrika a little bit.
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Friday August 24 2018, @01:53PM (2 children)
If this was SpaceX, that would be true...but since NASA is a US federal agency it's not that simple. NASA can't fire you just because you said something that they disagree with, because they're required to comply with the First Amendment right to free speech.
Of course, as soon as she starts mouthing off about being a NASA employee, it could be seen to cross the line between her own private speech and speech on behalf of the agency, and THAT is definitely something they can fire her over. So the real problem is where she said "I work for NASA". Remove that statement and there shouldn't be any issue, regardless of who she's saying it to.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by ilPapa on Friday August 24 2018, @03:34PM (1 child)
Where did you get the idea that if you're a government employee, you can tell your boss to "suck my dick and balls" and not get fired?
As I said, free speech and the First Amendment are very misunderstood around here.
You are still welcome on my lawn.
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Friday August 24 2018, @03:48PM
That's not what I said, and that's not really what happened in TFA either...so I don't see your point.
Check Garcetti V. Ceballos -- if you are employed by the government, they are only allowed to use that to limit your speech if that speech is directly related to your job or duties within that job. If it's speech made on your own time, outside of your job, not related to your job, then they can't do a thing about it. So it's not the profanity that cost her the job, since she WAS doing that on her own time in her own home, it's the fact that she made that profanity represent NASA.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @09:49PM (8 children)
A few profane words should not disqualify anyone from being hired for any job, if those words were not said during the job interview or while working at the job.
The US is in the grip of mass insanity.
The people who think someone should be fired for profanity should go fuck themselves.
( yes, I am aware that my use of profanity was ironic )
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @10:00PM (2 children)
When you are dying of rectal cancer, you'll look back at your post and wish you spent more time exercising and less time being a SJW sheeplet. Moron.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 24 2018, @01:08AM (1 child)
Why don't you post your name and address so we can meet and discuss this in person.
I would like to see whether you can back up your mouth when you're not hiding behind a keyboard.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 24 2018, @08:19AM
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.
(Score: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Friday August 24 2018, @04:18AM
Agreed.
The way I read TFA, it's not likely she was fired merely for profanity. She was fired because when reminded politely on a prominent public forum that her language choices might draw negative attention, she instead turned around and acted like a jerk by replying in an even more excessively vulgar manner to one of the most prominent former members of the organization she was now hired to.
It's a combination thing -- the profanity PLUS repeated mentioning of the organization's name in vulgar tweets PLUS acting like an ass to a prominent public figure associated with said organization... all on a forum that is displayed publicly.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 24 2018, @09:55AM (1 child)
Agreed, fuck NASA. And what i find laughable is the god damn sensoring of e.g. songs with profanity, but no action is taken when using regular words to say things that are clearly even worse than "shit" or "fuck" or whatever.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 24 2018, @11:31AM
You seem to be an emotionally intelligent, entitled millennial. NASA won't miss you either. Enjoy your fulfilling career as a Starbucks barista or Chipotle burrito artist.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by urza9814 on Friday August 24 2018, @01:59PM
The fact that she used profanity is not the issue. NASA, as a US federal agency, has no legal right to fire someone for their speech.
However, she specifically used her employment at NASA to justify that profanity. That kinda crosses the line from being her own speech into something which could appear to be speech on behalf of NASA itself. THAT is a problem. Say whatever you want in your free time, but if you're going to try to use your employer as a shield, you'd better be sure they're OK with that first...
(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Saturday August 25 2018, @04:30AM
I think she was disqualified for being FUCKING STUPID. Someone who acts inappropriately like this obviously doesn't understand that doing so is stupid and could jeopardize human lives for doing other stupid things.
Join the SDF Public Access UNIX System today!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @10:03PM
He's found her an internship in the Soviet cosmonaut division, where she can suck Ivan's dick and balls all day long. I hear they need some more female cosmonauts since they're down to the last one.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @10:15PM
(Score: 1, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Thursday August 23 2018, @10:31PM
I don't have that word in my vocabulary. And never have. There are NO TAPES!
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @10:35PM (4 children)
Gotta love it.
All the RWNJs are out in force saying fuck this girl because reasons, but then they turn around and SCREAM about conservatives being held accountable for what they say.
It has been a slow death for this site, soon you'll be able to enjoy your alt-right circle jerk unimpeded by opposing views. Enjoy! Maybe some of you moderates will see the type of people they ally themselves with once there are no liberal views to hate on.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @10:44PM (3 children)
Or maybe you'll quit your feeble attempts at trolling?
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @10:47PM (2 children)
You're a sad sad person.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @10:53PM (1 child)
Why, thank you. If you can't troll, you can at least be flattering.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @11:03PM
You need to work on your vocabulary, you keep using words incorrectly. Triggered nut, your tantrums are just shitposting, up your game buddy.
(Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Thursday August 23 2018, @11:18PM (3 children)
Sigh. Here we go again. Some numbnut posts something dumb on Twatter(R)(TM) and everyone feels obligated to take it way too seriously. Or seriously at all.
If it had been a racial comment at all, they would have been immediately unpersoned and it would have made the damn national news for some reason.
Please, make it stop!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 24 2018, @11:51AM (2 children)
This is a phenomenon born of SJWs and their mob justice. They have created a monster and I see no end to it. They have weaponized outrage and now even those with common sense fear association with anything said by anyone which might offend somebody that might call the monster down upon them. As long as it is successful in achieving political goals, I see no way it will stop anytime soon. Tolerance is an anachronism these days regardless of where you fall on the political spectrum.
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Friday August 24 2018, @02:02PM (1 child)
Meh, that wouldn't necessarily be a problem if it was confined to Twitter where it belongs. The stuff that goes on there is really no worse than the gossip you'll hear in the parking lot of my apartment complex. The problem is that news agencies like CNN have decided that this kind of crap needs to get global news headlines every damn time someone gets a bit offended by someone else's gossip.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Friday August 24 2018, @03:50PM
Sounds like you just described the entirety of Politically Correct speech.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"