All the hate I get for posting Breitbart has reminded me of something urgent - I need to go and share some RT links!

Spike has shown us the full potentiality of disagreeing with a news source by simply arriving with another source that is corroborating the initial post.

Can there be anyone smart who disagrees with you?

Or are you the only one with correct thoughts in the world?

Casey is right.

Breitbart is guilty of reporting the facts from a conservative perspective.

If you are truly a liberal person who respects everyone’s human rights, it will not be the case that you have to treat the conservative opinion like toxic sludge nobody can encounter. You won’t agree with it, sure, but you will respect the people who have it and not be against sharing your society with them.

But people from Lemmy have rolled up here like they are going to get me to recant the fact that I read Breitbart in addition to dozens of other sources.

It’s riediculous &* I am glad that Casey is here to do some of the debating int he comments with me.

I am actually part of the moderator team here & the general ethos of Hilarious Chaos is the allowance of divergent opinions and all manner of discussion.

There’ll be no banning of Breitbart news here, lol.

Aw, is “Snuz” supposed to be for ‘snooze?’

Because at first I thought you were talking about snus and snus is awesome.

Goodbye, Phil! I am not sure what I will do without all of your witty commentary and posts through the years.

Let us know if you have a change of heart.

You got triggered because someone else shared a link to Breitbart?

lol

I will agree as I cannot think of anyone besides you who is not in a political cult.

But I do have a personality…! Not a great one, but it’s there…! I have all kinds of hobbies and vices and tiny little virtues (I do not talk during movies in theaters upon pain of death, for instance).

To be completely fair, if there were entire parts of Mexico City where there was little Spanish being spoken because of American remote workers living there… Wouldn’t the Mexicans have a right to complain about this even though, obviously, Spanish is another colonizer language…?

For real - also very nice to see that familiar name…!

lol that is good, very nice

Chat GPT on some of the terms used here for all of us non-Hindus:

[>](Kinnar

Meaning: A term used in India (and South Asia) to refer to transgender or intersex people, especially those who are part of the traditional Hijra community.

Context: Kinnars often live in close-knit communities (called deras) and have distinct social and cultural roles, including performing at weddings and births for blessings.

Note: The word kinnar is sometimes used respectfully, though context and tone matter — it can also carry stigma depending on who’s using it.)

🏠 Dera

Meaning: Literally means camp or community settlement.

Context: In this case, it refers to a communal household or spiritual organization where kinnars live together under a leader.

Example: Nandlalpura kinnar dera = the kinnar community house or group located in Nandlalpura.

👩‍💼 Nayak

Meaning: Literally “leader” or “chief.”

Context: In kinnar communities, the nayak is the head or senior guru who leads the dera, manages its affairs, and oversees the welfare of its members.

Comparable term: Similar to a matriarch or head elder in a communal or religious group.

Dholak

Meaning: A two-headed hand drum, a traditional percussion instrument used widely in Indian folk and devotional music.

Context: The dholak accompanist (like Raja Hashmi) would typically play music at ceremonies or performances, including those by kinnar groups.

So, in plain English, the passage is saying:

The attempted mass suicide happened after alleged harassment by Sapna, who is the leader of a community of transgender people (kinnars) living together in Nandlalpura. Sapna and her supporters were accused of mistreating others in the group. After the news spread, Sapna was arrested, and her associate — a drum player named Raja Hashmi — went missing. He was allegedly involved in the harassment and in extorting money from members of the community.

More on this:

Extortion, Hindutva, Faction Wars: Behind Suicide Attempt by MP’s Trans Persons

Amid ongoing initiatives to bring transgender persons into India’s social and economic mainstream, a recent incident in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore has yet again exposed the complex realities of life inside the city’s kinnar deras and the fierce power struggles within them.

It began with panic and disbelief. On 15 October, 24 members of a transgender faction led by Guru Sapna Haji in Indore’s Nandlalpura area consumed phenyl in an attempt to end their lives. While initial reports dubbed the incident as “bizarre”, claiming it to be the result of two feuding factions, the reality on ground was different.

The mass suicide attempt came in the wake of alleged harassment by Sapna, the nayak (head) of the Nandlalpura kinnar dera, and her supporters. Soon after news of the incident spread, Sapna was arrested, while her alleged associate, Raja Hashmi, went missing. Hashmi, a dholak (percussion instrument) accompanist, was accused by local members of being the “mastermind” harassing kinnars of the dera and extorting money from them.

This is the most recent article I can find. The initial one was from two week ago, and the above from four days ago.

I changed the headline to “(Hardcore/Headline Edited) Teacher SA’s & murders partner’s daughter, 4”

Do you think that is an improvement?

I will try to do this more going forward.

Yeah, I admit the crime section has some hardcore headlines here and there. I’ve actually censored a headline before.

Your comment makes me think that I should consider doing it more. Perhaps I will edit this very headline to try to help with this situation.

Some more:

The toll of 115 suspects and four policemen killed was an increase over what authorities originally said were 60 suspects dead in Tuesday’s raid by about 2,500 police and soldiers in the favelas of Penha and Complexo de Alemao. …

The toll of 115 suspects and four policemen killed was an increase over what authorities originally said were 60 suspects dead in Tuesday’s raid by about 2,500 police and soldiers in the favelas of Penha and Complexo de Alemao. …

A day after the police operation paralyzed the city, residents of the Complexo da Penha favela recovered dozens of bodies from a forest on its outskirts, including one that was decapitated, AFP journalists witnessed.

“They slit my son’s throat, cut his neck, and hung the head from a tree like a trophy,” said Raquel Tomas, the mother of the 19-year-old who was found decapitated.

“They executed my son without giving him a chance to defend himself. He was murdered,” she told AFP, her voice shaking.

“Everyone deserves a second chance. During an operation, police should do their job, arrest suspects, but not execute them,” Tomas added.

I believe it is because it is seen as a right-wing talking point. I am not accusing the left of supporting the criminal, I think they just downvote thinking, “Oh, this is what the right wing wants to talk about, so this is unhelpful and we should not be talking about this…!”

I think it’s an inappropriate thing to downvote.

And let it be known I post any and all crime stories - ones where trans people are the victims of hate crimes, and ones where they are offenders; ones where the molesters are priests and Republicans, and ones where they are teachers and Democrats.

I think… all crime should be talked about, and it is good to think about what your own shortcomings may be in terms of this sort of thing, right… So I am very much opposed to downvoting any news that I feel can produce discussion.

It’s about time to say it doesn’t matter what you want, Bibi.