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Short notice here. I call upon all Soylentils to submit Fine Articles to SoylentNews, but in this particular instance, any articles on the extremely embarrassing incident in the trailer park in Indiana involving White supremacist Matthew Heimback, founder of the Traditionalist Workers Party. Yours truly has submitted an entire shit-load of submissions, but for some reason they get rejected. I can only surmise that this is embarrassment by some editors who have alt-right leanings, or live in trailer parks, or have feelings for the old "Mother-in-Law".

But that is neither here, nor there. Soylentils are against censorship. Hell, we let Eth and jmorris, and Runaway post their crap, so why no report on the latest follies of the alt-right? No interest? Oh, seriously, who is not interested about a guy who lists his profession as "white nationalist", carries on an affair with the wife of his webmaster, who is also his father-in-law, and then assaults said father-in-law, and the daughter of the father-in-law, who would the the "wife" in question. Oedipus had it much easier than Matthew.

So submit away! Ten times a day, or an hour! Keep that queue full of submissions! Make the editors work!

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UPDATE! Wow, subs barely last half an hour now! Here are some more that have been, um, "declined".

Prominent US neo-Nazi arrested on domestic violence charge

And a totally unrelated, but very informative and interesting article on the source of alt-right anti-semitism.

Finally, another on the Israeli alt-right movement.

Just not of interest to Soylentils, huh? That's what they want you to think! (Not saying that there is an alt-right cabal controlling SoylentNews, but there just might be an alt-right cabal controlling SoylentNews.)

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What? No White Wakanda?
Or Antifa has succeeded?

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March 22, more declined submissions, which are actually quite interesting for the average Soylentil.
Jason Jorjani to leave the alt-right
Readership plummets for alt-right Breitbart without Bannon

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March 23!

We're sorry, your submission "Looking Under the Alt-Right Rock" was declined for the following reason:
We are not interested in the sexual habits of this individual.--JR

The editors felt it inappropriate for them to correct the issue themselves. Please feel free to correct the issue yourself and resubmit.

Such an interesting submission, Looking Under the Alt-Right, alright. Somehow I have the Idea that even if I fix it, and resubmit, it will still get rejected. But you know, despite Rhinos and K-pop, it is not about the sex.

Oh! The main thing is that janorinok is back! So nice to be denied by my favorite ed, who has safely returned from the jaws of death! Thank you, JR!

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March 25, 2018, Rejected again!
This one is good, can't remember what it is about. There are so many, so many.
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March 30!!! Oh, Noes! Crying Neo-Nazi story rejected!!!

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April 5, 2018
I have submitted several reviews, or stories about reviews, of a film that was premiered at the South by Southwest Festival in Austin, "Alt-right: Age of Rage", all of which have been rejected! It as if somebody does not want Soylentils to know about this movie?
  https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=25584 Enjoy.
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April 8, 2018
Can we just link my submissions page, so anyone can see the whole sorry episode?
https://soylentnews.org/~aristarchus/submissions

In Momenti ad Mortuum Ethanol_fueledum.

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April 18, 2018

Oh, the Soylent Carnage! A week's worth of worth submissions, rejected without comment, apology, or notification! Some were quite good, like the Anglo-Saxon archeology piece, and the bit on alt-right attacking professors. Or, we could read the eds lame submissions! Ha!

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April 30, 2018
"We're sorry, your submission "De Alt-Right: te vrezen of te bestrijden? " was declined for the following reason:" And nothing follows. Our eds can't read Dutch? What are they, Austro-Spanish-Hungarian?

Word of the day: Ableist.

How I saw Stephen Hawking's death as a disabled person

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Just in case we were wondering if arming teachers is a good idea:

As thousands of students walked out of their schools on Wednesday to pressure Congress to approve gun control legislation, three other students were healing from wounds inflicted when a teacher’s firearm accidentally discharged in a California classroom.

The teacher, Dennis Alexander, who is also a city councilman in Seaside, Calif., was showing the students a gun on Tuesday during his advanced public safety class at Seaside High School when the gun accidentally went off, Marci McFadden, a spokeswoman for the Monterey Peninsula Unified School District, said in a phone interview on Wednesday.

Across the country, another school was also investigating a weapon that discharged accidentally this week. The Alexandria Police Department in Virginia said that a school resource officer accidentally fired his gun inside his office at George Washington Middle School on Tuesday morning. Nobody was hurt, the police said.

Teacher’s Gun Is Accidentally Fired During Public Safety Class, Injuring 3

It's a very close race in the 18th district of Pennsylvania. A VERY SPECIAL election. And we haven't gone through all the legal on that one. Whoever ends up winning, it'll be a hard fought victory. The people of Pennsylvania are great. If they chose Rick Saccone for Congress, he will be much better for steel and business. Very strong on experience and what our Country -- and our 🐘 Party -- needs. We need that seat, believe me. We need more Republicans to continue our already successful agenda! Rick is a great guy. He's always had my TOTAL support. I'm not a lawyer, as everybody knows. I'm a builder. I'm an actor. And I'm a politician. But if there's anything I can do on the legal, anything he wants, he knows where to find me. Rick's a fighter, I know he's going to fight very hard on the legal. And Jill Stein, maybe she'll raise some money to do a recount. Or whatever she does with that money.

But if they chose Conor, they made a great choice too. I'll work with him. And I think we can get some terrific things done. So many Dems do nothing but obstruct. And they talk about nothing but Donald J. Trump. I just came back from San Diego & Los Angeles, they love me there. Tremendous crowds wherever I went. But Dirty Maxine is always going "Trump, Trump, Trump." Instead of fixing some of the big problems in her district -- a very sad situation, totally out of control. Conor's not like that, he's never said anything against me. That's very special. And very smart. I love the way he looks, he's a handsome guy. He supports me on the steel & aluminum tariffs, which I did for the hard working folks in Pennsylvania. He knows Pennsylvania needs them. So we can stop losing our industry there. Have you seen his ads? He has a great one where he's shooting, maybe an AR-15? They're saying it's an AR-15. Very gun-adept guy, very weapons talented, he's part of the 20% with military or special training. Our military needs to be much stronger, so strong that no one will want to get into a war with us. I know Conor wants that, 100%. Hopefully he'll see how important it is to upgrade & modernize our nuclear arsenal. He goes both ways on abortion. Like the guy who left, former Congressman Tim Murphy. That was one of his big issues, probably the biggest. And he decided to go both ways on that one.

The drugs, I love what Conor's been doing about the drugs. As you know he did some great work with the U.S. Attorney's office in Pittsburgh. Where he was a prosecutor. So many drug dealers LOCKED UP because of him. You kill 5,000 people with drugs because you’re smuggling them in and you are making a lot of money and people are dying. And they don’t even put you in jail,. That’s why we have a problem, folks. I don’t think we should play games. And Conor doesn't play. The only way to solve the drug problem is through toughness. When you catch a drug dealer, you’ve got to put him away for a long time. Great job!

Some countries have a very, very tough penalty -- the ultimate penalty. And, by the way, they have much less of a drug problem than we do. A while back I talked to the President of Singapore, President Tan -- they replaced him with a lady now. And I asked him, are you having the same problems we're having with the opioids? And he told me, "we have a zero tolerance policy. That means if we catch a drug dealer, death penalty." Same thing in China, they do executions, they're very tough about it. The Philippines, President Duterte is doing a great job. I don’t know if this country’s ready for it, but I think that's a discussion we have to start thinking about. Probably you'll have some people who say "oh, that's not nice." But we have to do something. And believe me, eventually we'll get something done. Do you think the drug dealers who kill thousands of people during their lifetime, do you think they care who’s on a blue-ribbon committee? We can't just keep setting up blue ribbon committees and all they do is talk, talk, talk.

First on CNN: Emails show Ben, Candy Carson selected $31,000 dining set

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Queen Elsa came to Boston and pushed a police wagon out of the snow

An Unwanted Kiss on ‘American Idol’

It was my great honor to deliver a message at the Marine Core Air Station Miramar to our GREAT U.S. Military, straight from the heart of the American People: We support you, we thank you, we love you, and we will always, always have your back! pic.twitter.com/oCt1nH3DON

All across this nation, we pray for our country and we THANK GOD for our United States Marines! Thank you. God Bless You. And God Bless America! pic.twitter.com/vKXBd0CGH1

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Rex Tillerson has been fired as Secretary of State; CIA director Mike Pompeo has been nominated to replace him. Donald Trump’s nominee to replace Pompeo at the CIA is Gina Haspel, who had been the agency’s deputy director.

In 2002, Haspel was present, in a supervising role, at a “black site” in Thailand where an individual named Abu Zubaydah—believed to be a top al-Qaida official—was tortured. Zubaydah was waterboarded, slammed against a wall, and confined in a “coffin-like” box. As ProPublica reported in 2017, though, “CIA analysts were wrong when they had identified Zubaydah as the number three or four in al-Qaida after Osama bin Laden. The waterboarding failed to elicit valuable intelligence not because he was holding back, but because he was not a member of al-Qaida, and had no knowledge of any plots against the United States.”

He remains imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay and, as the New Yorker’s Dexter Filkins has noted, lost his left eye at some point after being captured under circumstances that remain unclear.

When questions began to swirl about the Bush administration’s use of the “black sites,” and program of “enhanced interrogation,” [Haspel] began pushing to have the tapes destroyed. She accomplished her mission years later when she rose to a senior position at CIA headquarters and drafted an order to destroy the evidence, which was still locked in a CIA safe at the American embassy in Thailand. Her boss, the head of the agency’s counterterrorism center, signed the order to feed the 92 tapes into a giant shredder.

Trump’s Nominee to Lead CIA Supervised Torture of Mistakenly Identified Subject, Then Destroyed Evidence

Had a terrific Summit Thursday at the White House. We had some fine folks. Brent Bozell of the Media Research Center, Melissa Henson -- she's a mother -- of the Parents Television Council,Strauss Zelnick of Take Two Interactive & Rockstar Games, Pat Vance of the Entertainment Software Rating Board, Mike Gallagher of the Entertainment Software Association, and Robert Altman of ZeniMax Media -- my little brother Robert Trump is on their board. Vicky Hartzler, one of our wonderful Republicans in Congress. Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, he's doing great things with our Police. Some good people, I assume they're good people. And I showed them some clips we put together, these are scenes from video games. Some look so real, right? They're not real, they're all Fake. And I asked, this is violent, isn’t it? youtu.be/0C_IBSuXIoo

We have to look at the internet because a lot of bad things are happening to young kids and young minds and their minds are being formed. We have to do something about maybe what they're seeing and how they're seeing it. And also video games. I'm hearing more and more people say the level of violence on video games is really shaping young people's thoughts.

And movies. You see these movies, they're so violent. And yet a kid is able to see the movie if sex isn't involved, but killing is involved. And maybe they have to put a rating system for that. You get into a whole very complicated, very big deal but the fact is that you are having movies come out that are so violent with the killing and everything else that maybe that's another thing we're going to have to discuss.

The movies, the video games, obviously a very big part of our economy. Very important to our economy. But I'm asking the folks in those industries to explore things they can do on their own to make things healthier in society. Because I think maybe when folks see so much fake violence, it can lead to real violence. This is not a guns thing. And by the way, we're not doing the age restriction on the guns. I was kidding, obviously I was kidding there. So our Second Amendment people can relax about that one. We're doing the concealed carry for teachers, for our very gun-adept teachers, instead. The 20%. MAGA! whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/readout-president-donald-j-trumps-meeting-video-game-industry-leaders

Black Panther has a 6.8 on Douban, described as the Chinese IMDB, compared to 97% on RottenTomatoes and a 7.8 on IMDB.

“A torture for the eyes”: Chinese moviegoers think Black Panther is just too black

Some moviegoers disliked Black Panther because they felt Marvel was trying too hard to be politically correct (link in Chinese). While many reviewers on Douban stopped short of leaving overtly racist comments about the film, many discussed their discomfort of being surrounded by so much blackness.

“Maybe the Chinese are still not used to a film full of black people,” wrote one reviewer on Douban (link in Chinese). The commenter said he had to pinch himself more than 10 times to stay awake during the movie because “Black Panther is black, all the major characters are black, a lot of scenes are black, the car-chasing scene is black—the blackness has really made me drowsy.”

Another reviewer who came into the theater late made a similar observation: “When I entered the theater, a bunch of black people was fighting in the night… I’ve never been in a theater so dark that I couldn’t find my seat.”

Someone else said the experience was worse in 3D (link in Chinese): “The film is filled with black actors and actresses. Also, because the film’s colors are a bit dark, it’s nearly a torture for the eyes to watch the film’s 3D version in the theater.”

The movie made $63 million on its opening weekend in China, which should put it around #30, a couple spots behind Iron Man 3, which had awkward content shoehorned into its Chinese version.