A lawsuit accusing the publisher of the
neo-Nazi site Daily Stormer of coordinating a “terror campaign” of
online harassment against a Jewish real estate agent cannot be dismissed
on First Amendment grounds, a federal judge in Montana ruled this week.
In his ruling
denying a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, Dana L. Christensen, the chief
judge for United States District Court in Missoula, Mont., wrote that
the real estate agent, Tanya Gersh, was a private citizen, not a public
figure, and that the publisher, Andrew Anglin, incited his followers to
harass her as part of a personal campaign.
Thor: I’ve failed you. I spent four years desperately trying to track down the remaining Infinity Stones but I never could and now half the universe is gone. I’m so sorry. I’m sure the rest of you have done twice the amount I have.
Natasha:
Steve:
Clint:
Tony: ummmm we spent the past 2 years not speaking after we had a fight in a Tesco carpark.
Not much is mentioned about weddings in lore, but we know quite a bit about marriage. Marriages were rarely (if ever) for love. They were to acquire status and security. And while the bride and groom had the final say, arrangements were made by the families because if the couple should divorce or one partner die, the dead partner’s family cares for the children and remaining spouse. There would be a bride-price paid by the husband’s family according to her status. This was not so much as buying a possession, but ensuring the husband can care for his wife and future children. If he should die, or they divorce that money would take care of the woman.
Modern women are not the type to let their families pick their husbands, and want to marry for love rather than security. Bride prices are also seen as rather outdated. These traditions can be forgone.
The actual wedding was rather simplistic.
Weddings would usually take place in the warmer months, and on Freyja’s/Frigg’s day (Friday).
The night before the couple would be separated, the man would go to a bath house with his father and married brothers and friends, and the woman would go to another bath house and be bathed by her mother and female married family. The woman would make her own dress.
The man would have to find an ancient sword to give to his wife. Their are accounts of men breaking into burial chambers.
He would give his wife the sword on the day of their wedding overseen by a Gothi. The sword would be saved for their son.
The wedding would start with an animal sacrifice (usually a boar for Freya or Freyr, or a goat for Thor).
The couple would exchange rings and vows. A race would then take place between the men and women of the wedding party, losers would serve the feast.
Today there is no “right” way to recreate a wedding. It can be done with as little or as much accuracy as the couple chooses.
Typically evergreen and more rustic decorations are used and pagan music such as Wardruna or Amon Amarth is played.
A note on homosexual marriage: marriage was used to produce children and secure social standing. Male homosexual sex was considered unmanly, so neither of those could be accomplished. But toady marriage is for love, so love who you love.
An anguished question from a Trump supporter: “Why do liberals think Trump supporters are stupid?”
The serious answer: Here’s what we really think about Trump supporters – the rich, the poor, the malignant and the innocently well-meaning, the ones who think and the ones who don’t…
That when you saw a man who had owned a fraudulent University, intent on scamming poor people, you thought “Fine.”
That when you saw a man who had made it his business practice to stiff his creditors, you said, “Okay.”
That when you heard him proudly brag about his own history of sexual abuse, you said, “No problem.”
That when he made up stories about seeing muslim-Americans in the thousands cheering the destruction of the World Trade Center, you said, “Not an issue.”
That when you saw him brag that he could shoot a man on Fifth Avenue and you wouldn’t care, you chirped, “He sure knows me.”
That when you heard him illustrate his own character by telling that cute story about the elderly guest bleeding on the floor at his country club, the story about how he turned his back and how it was all an imposition on him, you said, “That’s cool!”
That when you saw him mock the disabled, you thought it was the funniest thing you ever saw.
That when you heard him brag that he doesn’t read books, you said, “Well, who has time?”
That when the Central Park Five were compensated as innocent men convicted of a crime they didn’t commit, and he angrily said that they should still be in prison, you said, “That makes sense.”
That when you heard him tell his supporters to beat up protesters and that he would hire attorneys, you thought, “Yes!”
That when you heard him tell one rally to confiscate a man’s coat before throwing him out into the freezing cold, you said, “What a great guy!”
That you have watched the parade of neo-Nazis and white supremacists with whom he curries favor, while refusing to condemn outright Nazis, and you have said, “Thumbs up!”
That you hear him unable to talk to foreign dignitaries without insulting their countries and demanding that they praise his electoral win, you said, “That’s the way I want my President to be.”
That you have watched him remove expertise from all layers of government in favor of people who make money off of eliminating protections in the industries they’re supposed to be regulating and you have said, “What a genius!”
That you have heard him continue to profit from his businesses, in part by leveraging his position as President, to the point of overcharging the Secret Service for space in the properties he owns, and you have said, “That’s smart!”
That you have heard him say that it was difficult to help Puerto Rico because it was the middle of water and you have said, “That makes sense.”
That you have seen him start fights with every country from Canada to New Zealand while praising Russia and quote, “falling in love” with the dictator of North Korea, and you have said, “That’s statesmanship!”
That Trump separated children from their families and put them in cages, managed to lose track of 1500 kids. has opened a tent city incarceration camp in the desert in Texas – he explains that they’re just “animals” – and you say, “well, ok then.”
That you have witnessed all the thousand and one other manifestations of corruption and low moral character and outright animalistic rudeness and contempt for you, the working American voter, and you still show up grinning and wearing your MAGA hats and threatening to beat up anybody who says otherwise.
What you don’t get, Trump supporters in 2018, is that succumbing to frustration and thinking of you as stupid may be wrong and unhelpful, but it’s also…hear me…charitable.
Because if you’re NOT stupid, we must turn to other explanations, and most of them are *less* flattering.
“It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.”
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