Quick, cheap, high quality- pick two. In this case it’s quick and free, the latter of which offends my Hebraic sensibilities. This is what “Hey, Old Man, you have five minutes to put together a post” looks like.
CNN scripts Town Hall questions, calls shooting survivor a liar. Keep it classy, CNN!
I’ll never understand the British. Never.
“Racially insensitive food.” And it’s not the delightfully named “Tetes de Negres.” This time.
“I have no idea what you’re talking about. Prove it.” I hope she countersues and makes her lawyers rich(er).
Sorry folks, this won’t happen again. Oh wait, yeah, it probably will.
CNN issued a one line statement in response in which they denied ever scripting townhall questions. Yet, they were caught doing so just this past election cycle, weren’t they?
And they have already found one student who flat out refused to ask CNN’s scripted question and walked out on the event.
Strange, people seem to think it’s no longer a great idea to let these kids vote? Maybe they realized they won’t be able to script them in the voting booth either.
All they need to do is script 60% of them in the voting booth.
He should have asked the question he wrote and they quashed.
It sounds like there was a speech involved as well, so…
Seems to me, the best thing to do would be to play along and then when its his turn call them out on live TV.
Whatever the producers try to do about it will make them look bad.
Who doesn’t consult they’re lawyer before publicly making a statement?
Yep, but Donna Brazile really regrets doing it.
https://nypost.com/2016/01/06/cnns-long-history-of-allowing-democratic-town-hall-plants/
There’s also just the odd coincidence of Democratic operatives routinely being allowed to ask questions at these town halls.
If this were reversed somehow, and Trump accused…oh, wait! We already saw any attempt to respond to pro-gun control victims/relatives get attacked as insensitive. But here’s CNN telling us that a survivor is a liar.
On the topic of the british, I can only assume that by the mid 1950’s Agatha Christie was getting fed up with the taxman, because almost every character in “4.50 from Paddington” has made a negative comment about the income tax.
By the mid-60’s the Beatles weren’t too pleased either. Seems the descendants of the once great empire have completely lost their balls to the Marxists.
+1 for me +19 for you
That whole album is great.
I think people who think that the Beatles are overrated are generally just being pretentious dicks. Sure, if one has the opinion that they aren’t the greatest of all time, I can certainly respect that.
But merely their influence alone does give them GOAT credence.
Rubber Soul and Revolver are probably my favorite albums of theirs. Pepper was revolutionary (Day in the Life might be the most important song of the century) but it’s certainly not my favorite. Magical Mystery is a perfect album. Abbey Road is as well.
The White Album has good songs but not a great album. Let It Be *IS* indeed very overrated.
I also like their early stuff. One of my favorite covers I ever did (drummer, here) was Hard Day’s Night. Such a good pop song. Paperback Writer, too.
Also: McCartney–Certainly the best all-around musician.
Harrison–Best single-instrument musician.
Ringo– Unbelievably underrated. Glue.
Lennon–My least favorite. But I’ll cut him some slack. I’m Only Sleeping is one of my favorite songs of all time.
The Beatles may have been revolutionary for their time and may have shaped the future of music, but the same way I’d rather fly in a 787 instead of a de Haviland comet, I’d rather listen to the music from the late 70s and early 80s than the Beatles.
Yeah, I just don’t truck with that thinking.
The Wright Bros. or Armstrong/Aldrin or Chuck Yeager (I don’t know why all of the first examples that came to mind were aviatory) get credit precisely for being the first.
Robert Johnson, too. Shitty recordings and I think only 7 of them, but the influence that he had sparked a whole generation of musicians. That so many greats look up to one individual for pioneering something automatically grants the founders with the adulation that they receive.
With all of their faults, we say the same thing about the Founding Fathers. The transformative nature of what they created and what lasted is what gives them the cachet that they have.
That shit is important, and it makes those that did it first Important regardless of one’s personal taste.
Completely agree with trshmnstr. They might have been important during their time, but compared to actual quality music (Led Zep, Scorpions, AC/DC) they just don’t have real lasting appeal.
Speaking as an Englishman, I could probably assemble all the Beatles tunes worth a damn and pack them on one, maybe 2 CDs.
@Elite: I love Zep. I really, really, really love Zep.
But…Plant et al I don’t think ever wrote a song that *meant* anything. Musically, holy shit were they better than the Beatles, even though I would argue not as innovative (but close?).
I love Tolkien shit too, but the storytelling and the wordplay in the Beatles lyrics really is properly good.
Yes, there are exceptions. And many. Fucking Ob-la-di motherfucker. But I can’t think of a single Zep song that is actually profound.
Whereas the Beatles I could name many or Dylan I could name dozens.
Also fun for me: John Bonham died but Zep still toured. I don’t like that usually. But they got Jason Bonham to play drums….I like that. If anyone is gonna play for the man it should be his son. And he can fucking play like a motherfucker. Ringo’s kid is also a helluva good drummer. I like that continuity. I guess that’s why monarchy is popular.
Plant et al I don’t think ever wrote a song that *meant* anything
Clearly, Evan has never listed to Stairway backwards
One of my (few remaining) friends is a Beatles freak – owns multiple copies of every album, including original British, German, and Japanese pressings. Also “top loaders’ and exports, also bootlegs etc. Obviously a fanatic – but he dislikes two of their albums: Meet the Beatles and Sgt. Pepper. The latter for Paul McCartney’s insipid “grandma songs”. And his favorite is the White Album, which rarely gets any play in my house.
Best Beatles album for me? Side two of Abbey Road.
Help!, Revolver, Rubber Soul are the sweet spot.
They invented power pop, jangle rock, and psychedelic rock. All in the span of about 12 months.
My friend’s mom is a huge Beatles fan, and so am I, after hearing them on a nice stereo setup from Vinyl. We used to play Tekken on my buddy’s Dreamcast while listening to the Beatles, because he was super good at using the audio queues to anticipate my moves, and with music on and the TV muted, he couldn’t do that.
They invented power pop, jangle rock, and psychedelic rock. All in the span of about 12 months.
This.
My favorite example.
Dig that Ludwig set Ringo is playing on. And George’s SG (maybe a 12 string?). Great song.
Standard, it looks like.
Holy shit! It sold for more than$500k at auction!
McCartney is a great songwriter and a good singer. But I wouldn’t call him a great bassist. Even if you limit it to British guys who played rock around the same time, John Entwistle and Jack Bruce were way better players. Frankly, better than Towshend and Clapton.
Listen to the bass line on Hey Bulldog, then reconsider.
I mean as an all-arounder. I really can only think of Beck and Dave Grohl as people who did the same thing.
Guitar, sing, piano, bass, drums, production. Not many people can clone themselves and be talented enough to play everything on an album. Definitely a (honed) g/d given talent.
“The Art of McCartney” has some fantastic covers by a wide variety of artists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_McCartney
I think the Beatles have some fantastic songs, but they also have a LOT of songs I can’t stand.
The “Let It Be- Naked” remaster is a great demo of how Specter fucked up the album, and that there was some great music there before he got his murderous grubby Jew paws on it.
I don’t mind the Beatles, and respect them. My problem is I’ve heard their good songs 10 million fucking times
I guess you can count me in among the pretentious pricks, although oddly enough I would pick the same albums (Rubber Soul and Revolver) from their catalog is you stuck a gun to my head and asked me to name two favorites. Something about the Beatles’ music always just seemed too phony and off-kilter to me. I can’t really explain it. Kinks and Stones for me, please and thank you.
“”Kinks and Stones for me, please and thank you”
+2
but i’m not really participating because i don’t really think ‘rock + pop’ is the beginning-ending of music in the first place.
I thought you were serious until the end there. That gave it away.
I have a vague memory of reading that Tolkien paid, at the height of his popularity before he died, something like 98% of his income from “The Lord of the Rings” in taxes.
Astrid Lindgren wrote a story about having a 101% tax burden. It swung the election of 1975 (I think). “Pomperipossa in Monismania”
Was she Russian? Who was she colluding with?
During the war Agatha was paying 95% of her income in taxes in addition to having British troops stationed in her home.
“I expected to be able to ask my questions and give my opinion on my questions,” Haab said.
Literally Loled at that. Thanks, kid.
Ah, the innocence of youth.
This. Is. CNN.
Reading that comment out of context I got an image similar to the one from 300, only CNN stood on the wrong side of the person and their “sparta kick” ended up knocking themselves into the pit.
“I’ve wanted to go to NYU since I was in 7th grade, and it breaks my heart that at this allegedly “diverse” and “global” institution, black students are faced with issues like this one,” she wrote.
“If you want to learn how to celebrate Black history and culture during this month you can ask the black students at this school instead of patronizing us with Koolaid, watermelon and ribs,” she wrote.
They should have just served McDonalds
Kid, anyone who celebrates the history of one ethnic group as separate from the society they are a part of is going to be at least a little bit racist.
This. I work with a lot of data collected about certain individuals, and just the other day it floored me that for the most minor things, they wanted to know the race of each individual. I get it for certain things: homelessness, etc. But why look at race with every other piece of data? It just seems like noise.
There is a socialist hubris which leads them to believe that with enough data, they will be able to solve all of society’s problems. It originated in socialist economic circles and migrated over to everything else.
Contrast that with the stuff they DON’T want to associate with race.
A little bit?
Serve a meal that black folks like get accused of stereotyping, serve one not associated with black people get accused of ignoring Black History Month. What oh what is an overly politically correct university to do?
Drop the PC, say “Fuck your feelings, you’re here to learn to think for yourself”?
People complain about fried chicken being served somewhere. I have not met a single human being in my life who does not like fried chicken
I like fried chicken.
I wish I could cook it correctly.
It’s only four or five ingredients, including the chicken and oil.
The parts where I screw up are oil temperature and cooking time.
You know, the hard part.
Remember frying chickens used to weigh 2 – 3 lbs. While that’s almost impossible to find now, try using chickens close to 4 lbs.
Best friend chicken I ever had was at a Ramada Inn restaurant in Lexington Kentucky. Last place I ever expected to get a good meal.
*freid – I don’t make friends with chickens
::mutters to himself, gets another cup of coffee::
His name was Colin.
I believe in you LH.
Great show, OMWC.
Location and name dont matter. It’s the cook that matters.
What is the name of this cook and where can I find him?
To paraphrase Dave Chappelle, if you don’t like watermelon and ribs there’s something wrong with you.
I don’t like watermelon.
You probably like chunky peanut butter, too.
Watermelon can be good, but a lot of times it’s not ripe enough and probably served too early.
I have not met a single human being in my life who does not like fried chicken
Vegetarians/vegans. But yes, no one I know who likes meat dislikes fried chicken. Done right, fried chicken is one of the best, ranking up there with bacon and beef tenderloin. If a school I attended was serving good fried chicken to celebrate black history month, I’d petition to extend it to black history year. Who cares if people call you racist if you get to eat good fried chicken?
I don’t like fried chicken.
Glad to meet you.
Well met, fellow human who does like fried chicken
*does not*
Hello lizard spies.
Yeah, but you’re from the land of tater tot hotdish.
The watermelon looked delicious.
Where did they find in season watermelon? That had to be imported from the southern hemisphere.
Ribs and watermelon? I wonder I can have her plate since she doesn’t want it. Skip the kool-aid though.
The worst thing about these idiot college kids is that that wasn’t a ‘black’ meal, it was a poor southern person’s meal. I agree that it’s been stereotyped as black, but I grew up in the South, and I ate collard greens, and watermelon, and fried chicken, and squirrel, and cornbread, and poke salat, and all of the other ‘black’ foods.
I’ll bet that dumb ass kid is from an upper-middle class household and wouldn’t know collard greens if they slapped him in the head.
I’ve been a fan of ribs, barbecue, collards, watermelon, cornbread, fried chicken, all the stuff you eat when the weather’s nice, and I had no idea all this time that I’ve been appropriating black culture.
#metoo
Funny, my colleague and I were having a conversation just yesterday about what type of vinegar is best on collard greens (yeah we both grew up in Florida). Total combined blackness: zero.
I am jealous, truly.
Fake. The shadows are wrong
Sloopy would have mentioned Man United is all I am saying
So OMWC is an improvement.
Sloopy, if you are reading this, I am kidding.
If you’re not, well, then…
I like soccer, but when MU get dominated for an entire game and it still ends 0-0…ugh.
Jose van Gaal
The origin of the name Meet Me at McDonalds remains a mystery to parents, teachers and authorities.
Uhh..because it looks like Ronald?
I looked at it and didn’t think of the clown – I thought of the hair in bad Liefeld art from the 90s.
Using the best data possible, we set out to find the middle of nowhere
No wonder so many Glibs are in Montana!
Bezos is building a 10,000 year clock becuase he couldn’t find a bigger waste of money after buying the Washington Post.
*rimshot*
Your on a roll today.
CALL HIM BUTTER!
Serious question. By using square kilometers pixels, wouldn’t changing the prime meridian of where those pixels started by 500m greatly change the outcome of this ‘study’
Why all the fancy math? As any progtard can tell you just drive 35 minutes in from a Coastline and you are officially in the middle of nowhere.
I’ll be back next week. I’m just swamped getting ready for the auction this Saturday.
Oh yeah. And for the Big Ron Swanson fans out there: https://twitter.com/nick_offerman/status/966565390351388672
Is that what Twitter is…GIFs by retards?
That pretty much sums it up…GIFs and memes substituting for anything intelligent.
That’s Buzzfeed’s business model.
Another barren source of amusement.
“Pro slaughter agenda.” Look at all this straw they’ve slaughtered.
Libertarians get like one character on the major networks, and the asshole who played him ends up co-opting the image to become one of Hollywood’s most insufferable progs.
Our people oppressed. We need to start demanding representation in media like other minorities.
“Nick Offerman, your lighthearted show gave added to the oppression and misunderstanding we libertarians suffer. Please donate all your earnings, plus interest into this fund”
bitcoin only, please and thank you.
I’ve known he was an prog idiot in real life since I threw his autobiography away about 5 years ago. In between signaling that in real life he has the ‘correct viewpoints’ he spent pages bragging about his youthful sexual exploits. I found that particularly distasteful since he included enough details so that whoever his high school girlfriend was could be easily identified by anyone from their community. Pretty classless if you ask me.
“he spent pages bragging about his youthful sexual exploits”
People who do this are a combination of lying and grievously insecure.
That was the impression I got. A gentleman doesn’t write about all the times he banged his high school girlfriend when she, her family, husband, kids, etc. are almost assuredly going to read the book.
On one hand, if you don’t want people to know about it, don’t do it, especially with an asshole like that guy.
On the other hand, he’s a sick fuck who deserves to be knocked down a peg or 10.
Yeah, I tried watching a stand-up special of his on Netflix once, since I like the show Parks & Rec and even though I already knew he was a liberal there are some liberal comedians who are really funny. And he was funny, for a bit, but then he started opinionating and I lost interest and turned it off. Since when did people start thinking that earnest moralizing was a genre of comedy? I don’t like it: keep your sermons and comedy separate, thank you very much.
It’s a bonehead move in my opinion, but then again he is a prog. He could have made unabashed manliness/libertarian-lite his shtick and stayed popular. My prediction is that he peaked with P&R and will be unknown in a few years.
Since Stewart, John made a mint doing it.
I didn’t mind it too much when Dave Chapelle did it
Damn. I guess I need to check the inlaws polebarn for vintage signs.
Was the NRA trolling by using the Leslie Knope GIF? Or are they completely untethered from pop culture and have no idea who Leslie Knope is?
Either way, Ron Swanson > Nick Offerman.
From wikipedia: “On whether he is a libertarian like his character Ron Swanson, Offerman has stated, “While I admire the philosophy of the libertarian mindset, I think it’s proven to be ineffectual in actual governance. So no, I’m not. I’m a free-thinking American.””
Aubrey Plaza? So would.
Meh. So many better regular non-acty girls out there.
Koolaid, watermelon and ribs
I don’t see the problem.
maybe she just identifys as black
No chicken? And where’s the slaw? Macaroni salad? Potato salad? Corn on the Cob? This cookout isn’t all that well stocked.
This cookout isn’t all that well stocked.
That’s the truly offending part.
Aramark food is worse than terrible. This is par for the course for them.
Last time we drove through a black city neighborhood my son noticed that there seemed to be a chicken place on every corner. He also asked if we could try one.
Did you?
No – I think we were on our way someplace. I would have if not.
I stopped in a Deli in South Carolina that advertised Gyros on their signage. I had for some reason expected Greeks or maybe Turks. Turned out to have an all-black staff (may have been family run, don’t know). Still, the gyro was decent, as were the sweet potato fries.
It’s racist to taint black owned businesses with your whiteness. //sarc
It’s racist to taint black owned businesses with your whiteness. //sarc?
FTFY
Hands down best wings I have ever eaten came from a gas station in the ghetto in North Little rock.
Mac and cheese and deviled eggs. I worked for a while as a security guard at a Navy base in the Florida Panhandle. All but one of my co-workers was black. Every so often we’d have a potluck type lunch, and there was always homemade mac and cheese and deviled eggs. Excellent mac and cheese, I might add.
Man, good deviled eggs are sublime. Banana pudding is on that list, too.
I object to the blacks appropriating my southern poor white culture. Next thin you know collard greens will be claimed by the negros!
The auction is here, by the way. In case any of you are looking for something to piss a little money away on. You don’t even have to show up. You can buy online.
https://www.proxibid.com//asp/Catalog.asp?aid=138450
Thanks. Some interesting stuff there.
no guns. 🙁
100% sure there are a million laws about the auctioning of firearms.
Either that or, as happens often, connected parties make off with them instead of auction them.
Sloop,
Not sure if you have the time and/or inclination to change it, but Lot #5026 – the ‘Vintage Red Wood London Telephone Box’ – it’s a close reproduction, but it’s a stretch to call it ‘Vintage’.
The GPO as it was then only ever made 2 models in wood, and it’s doubted whether any examples of those models even exist anymore. The authentic ‘traditional’ boxes were all cast iron or aluminum (with some of the really old models made from concrete).
Thanks. I’ll change it to say “London-style”. Its definitely old enough to call vintage based on the wiring in there.
Is it bigger on the inside or does that only apply to Police boxes?
Well, they’re big enough that you can fuck inside them – the old ones, anyway.
The much older ones that were built until the 30’s were actually big enough to sleep in, if you didn’t mind scrunching up, but they got wicked cold.
Oops, yeah, also, those phone boxes were everywhere in the UK – not just London.
/persnicketty critic
Well they’re mostly sold as London boxes, so that’s why I cataloged it that way. People searching Proxibid for a red phone box are likely gonna put London in the search.
That was how Robert McCulloch ended up with London Bridge
This just in – Marco Rubio sucks.
Jim Jordan on the other hand, seems to understand how deals work.
Should reciprocity be mandated via the feds instead of the individual states?
The problem there is that you’re then going to be on something looking awfully like a registry.
Also, I live in a state with permitless CC, so how would this law affect me?
You’d almost certainly need to get a federal ‘permit’.
“1. Any citizen who has not been convicted of a violent felony is permitted to carry, openly or concealed, any weapon they own or have the permission of the owner to carry.
2. No state may ban the ownership, purchase or possession of any weapon which was produced or sold across state lines.
3. No state may ban the ownership, purchase or possession of any accessory, component or ammunition associated with a weapon under section 2.”
/My replacement for the NFA.
Yes, but you’re not the guy drafting, or voting on the law.
Fuck you, cut spending.
/out of other responses.
Should reciprocity be mandated via the feds instead of the individual states?
Its right there in the Constitution:
If we’re not going to have Constitutional Carry, but use a state licensing system instead, then the issuance of a CCW license is an “act” of a state.
“I hope she countersues and makes her lawyers rich(er).”
Completely disagree, OMWC. Once she did it twice and confirmed the glitch, she was absolutely stealing from the bank and from the bank’s customers with each subsequent transaction. Just because someone leaves the door open doesn’t give you the right to go in and steal.
Maybe she thought they were new five dollar bills… I’ve seen dumber.
Where’s the photo of the money cake?
Oh, no photo? How strange!
You’re presuming the bank has evidence that she got the bills and that they didn’t fuck up somewhere else. It may be true, but see how far “it’s true but I can’t prove it” goes when the bank decides, incorrectly, that you fucked up.
I think banks screwing people over and not fixing it have lost them sympathy. Like when they take your money by mistake and say it will be credited to your account in 30 days, when it took 30 seconds to steal your money.
…or when someone writes you a check that bounces, and they don’t notify you for three weeks, so you end up bouncing 8 checks (at $35 bucks a pop for overdraft fees).
She received the $100 bills used for a car down payment from a “student loan” and “car wreck settlement”
I might not have read the article closely enough, but I thought the contention on the woman’s part was that she did not in fact get $100 bills, has a reasonable explanation for the withdrawal pattern (really, she doesn’t need one), and has the receipts showing dispensations reflecting $5 bills, whereas the bank loaded the wrong shit in the ATM, is missing a bunch of hundreds, and is blaming her because she’s the easiest mark. If she knew something was up, yeah, she has a moral duty to return the money and mention something to the bank, but if she’s just the person they picked to blame then they’ve absolutely got the burden of proof, and it looks like they haven’t met it.
There is probably quite a bit missing from the article. One this is; I thought every single ATM is constantly under video surveillance. If she got a bunch of $100 bills a bunch of times, they’ll have it on video.
I’d say legally, it’s hers if the mistake happens once. Once she kept going back, it’s theft.
Ethically and morally, she should have returned the money (and the bank ethically should have given her a reward for doing so, but that never seems to happen when I give back extra money I receive).
ATMs have a camera built into them to make sure the person using the machine is recorded to be identified in cases where someone claims someone else must have used their card. There are not typically cameras positioned to catch the denominations of bills spat out, and you’d have to get a lucky shot from the existing cameras to catch that.
I’ve never gotten a bill larger than a 20 from an ATM, even when withdrawing 200-300 dollars. Is it normal to even stock them with Franklins?
Not in my neck of the woods. I used to work at a bank and we’d only load the ATM(s) with 20’s.
I can get century notes, but you have to go inside the bank to get them.
The ‘New’ Conservatives: Pro-Gay, Pro-Pot, Pro-Russia
Soros believes in a free and open society? Really?
Free-shit and open to the right people
I have come to honestly believe that the line “Some people just want to watch the world burn” applies to Soros.
The time to make money is when there is blood in the streets. That is his MO. Sew discord, crash the economy, buy everything up at fire sale prices then sell it back at pawn shop prices. The misery that man has caused is immeasurable.
The longer I go on, the more I think that progs have adopted the practice of Taqiyya. They lie, dissemble and deceive while covering their true motives as a matter of practice. It’s also why they keep switching around all the terminology associated with their movement. Under the hood, it’s just good ole’, down-home, Marxist-Leninism but they’ll never reveal that.
Q, this is why the radical left had training camps in Muslim countries starting in the 60s. It acted as an outreach program for the USSR, and helped train up local and foreign terrorists.
Ex-Google engineer: I was fired for being too liberal
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/02/ex-google-engineer-i-was-fired-for-being-too-liberal/
Unless he’s using an older version of the term, I’m skeptical.
He may have been fired for office politics (the traditional version).
I’ve not read the article.
Using an older version of the term?
“In a culture where it’s common to respond to diversity initiatives with ‘we can’t lower the bar’, implying a baseline assumption that women, non-binary people, and men of color are incompetent, it’s equally important that we don’t do the reverse: that we don’t insist on white male competence even in the face of clear evidence to the contrary.“
Nope
Last year, Damore argued that due to their biological differences, women may not be suited for leadership.
That’s not what Damore argued.
But if we say it over and over again it becomes true.
Unfortunately that seems to be effective against most people.
Yeah, but telling the truth doesn’t make Damore look bad.
Meaning what? He went full tankie? He advocated for a firing squad wall next to the ball pit?
Bullshit
Keep it classy, CNN!
Saw the bit about them scripting students yesterday. There’s even b-role which I watched. I’m concerned that there is anyone who still takes them seriously. But, you know, “facts first” or something. Dana Loesche did alright in that staged anti-gunners town hall (except for supporting an useless ban on bump-stocks. Though, I suppose the NRA’s position on that may simply be a pr move. Anyone could make one of those things, after all.). Speaking of Dana Loesche, I’ll be in my bunk.
You don’t even need a bump stock, you can do the same thing with some rubber bands and a little practice.
All you need is a belt loop and a thumb.
All I needed was a Twinkie and a baseball bat. Oh, and two feathers from a Harlequin Quail.
A bump stock ban does nothing amd shows the spinelessness of the NRA. What’s the NRA going to get out of it. Adulation from the progs?
3 cheers and donations from the Democrats?
An endorsement from Michael Bloomberg?
No. they will give something up, get nothing in return, ano continue to show their true colors as mushy 2A advocate who are more than willing to sell out the principles of their members in a futile effort to appease people who can not be appeased.
Fashion company loses social media followers over same-sex ads
I bet the Russian bots followed those companies, just so that they could unfollow them in this situation.
In fact, if all support online for Donald Trump comes from Russian bots, wouldn’t that mean there really isn’t a problem with racism in the US? It all comes from Russia.
Depends on which narrative I am pursuing at this very moment.
Because there aren’t any gay people in the fashion industry?
If a bunch of gay shit started showing up in my insta feed, I’d unsubscribe too. Fucking idiots.
You mean making ads that appeal to less than 5 % of your target audience is a bad idea?
“Lust’s passion must be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.”
-Marquis de Sade
http://archive.is/BSFDM
1, 10, 11, 15, 18, 21, 36, 37.
I’m late for the office but I don’t care. Orgy.
Truly, this is the start of a movement that will shape our times and redefine how we all think about black history month…
I for one support ending this racist and segregationist observance. We need history for all americans!
“horror stories”…..give me a break
Impressively unimpressive and un-newsworthy numbers. I bet everyone of of those Kardashian idiots crush those numbers with every single tweet they tweet.
Was that Florida School Shooting (did I do that right? Me not know “trademark” html) chick sporting a crew cut before this happened, or did the trauma make her hairs fall off?
I gots ta know.
It reminds me of an old girlfriend I had who cut her hair that way (this was radical back then, like 1973 or so). We used to call her “Schnauzer.”
Belly dancer arrested for ‘performing with NO KNICKERS’ is finally home after Egypt ordeal hell
The 31-year-old was thrown in jail for three days after officials saw smartphone video footage of her dancing at a club in Egypt
Would. With extreme prejudice.
Is this another one of Evan’s?
You stay away from my lady that I might have an illicit affair with.
Allow me to be the first to offer her political asylum, and an open and safe space for her to live her art.
STEVE SMITH PERFORMS WITHOUT KNICKERS. DOESN’T GET ANY LOVE FROM EVAN.
Did CNN also say they’d never, ever give a political candidate a set of debate questions to review beforehand?
I repeat: over the past 2 years, they have given us ample reason to not believe a thing they say. Each new lie is a data point further validating that model.
N.J. prison officials skipping public hearing on sex abuse behind bars
+1 Caged Heat
It’s a good thing for the country that our propagandists are so stupid. They were much more effective when they were more measured and patient. However, since succumbing to TDS, they’ve tossed their masks and begun acting in anger which has made them incredibly stupid. CNN has done more to kill any gun control case with their extreme overreaction and exploitation than the incompetent Repubs could do. I watched excerpts from the “town hall” yesterday and it was absolutely shameful; a combination of a struggle session and a show trial. It may whip up your true believers, but you’re repelling persuadable people in the middle. As is typical, their hubris is bringing them down; hubris in their belief that everyone thinks the way they do, and those that don’t are too stupid to know the difference and will simply do as they’re told.
People were screaming “murderer” at Loesch. It was a sad spectacle.
You can’t have a rational discussion with someone who cannot see past their emotions. You also can’t have a rational discussion with someone who assumes you have bad intentions, rather than have a different opinion on how to achieve the same end goal, which in this case is to prevent violence against innocent people.
The evidence suggests that their end goal is not ending violence against innocent people.
They’re fucking commies. Killing innocents is the end and the means.
“which in this case is to prevent violence against innocent people”
While some of the rank and file gun grabbers are motivated by this, their overlords are motivated by one thing and one thing only; power. They’re not stupid; they’ve seen the stats and know that gun control does absolutely nothing to improve safety, they just want a disarmed and helpless population.
I agree with you and Unciv. I just try to give the benefit of the doubt sometimes. To the average person anyway, not to the politicians and other anti-gun leadership.
I agree that there are certainly people on the anti-gun side who believe on a sort of visceral level that since bad people kill people with guns removing guns means that bad people can’t kill people any more. After a while, it works out to something like making it more difficult to kill a lot of people at once (which is already statistically like winning the tragedy Powerball) or making it more difficult to kill people (which is belied by statistics as well), finally arriving at people associating guns with violence and violence with murder.
It’s a little like someone who has never owned a swimming pool and has no interest in owning one looking at the stats of children drowning in swimming pools and saying, “Damn it, these children didn’t have to die! No more privately-owned swimming pools!” Or looking at how many people are killed in train accidents and saying, “Trains are murder machines! Down with Big Train!”, and ignoring or hand-waving the consequences of eliminating trains.
“Let them eat cornbread.”
That’s worth a beheading
“CNN released the following statement Thursday morning: CNN did not, and does not, script any questions for town hall meetings, ever.”
They become incensed at being called liars.
Dress codes are about compliance and conformity which is the whole point of public school – producing cattle.
I dont even know what to say about the food story. The story is a spoof, right? Hint: Black people in the south eat the same foods that white people eat.
ATM lady? That happened to me once. I was out of town on vacation and the machine dispensed 4 Hundreds instead of 4 twenties. I checked my balance and it showed an 80 dollar reduction. I just walked into the bank and told them what happened. They switched the bills for me, shut the machine down for repairs and everyone was happy.
I would not have proceeded in the same fashion.
Think we found our new Fed Chair.
The question I have is: what is the lady’s legal responsibility? Morally and ethically, what you did is the right thing to do. But legally? I can see about 3 different possibilities, but I tend to go with the middle one: Whatever happens in the first transaction is fair game. Tough for the bank, don’t screw up. After that, the woman was intentionally taking advantage of a known situation and owes the bank the money back.
I don’t know the answer to that. Are there laws about this? Is it fraud when a machine dispenses too much money?
There was a vending machine at work several years ago that reliably dispensed 3 20oz sodas if you put a five in and Ave change as if you bought one. I don’t drink soda, so I never took advantage, but a lot of guys milked that machine for a long time. I don’t think they were guilty of any crimes.
Is it fraud when a machine dispenses too much money?
That’s a good question. I’d also ask, is it fraud when an employee dispenses too much money? If there was a teller who reliably gave 100s when they should have been giving 5s, and this teller was doing so unintentionally, would the customer who regularly asked this teller for 5s without alerting the teller or the teller’s manager to the error be committing fraud? I’m curious, because whenever there are these “new” questions raised by technology, I like to find the “old” equivalent to the situation and apply a consistent principle across both new and old.
Even on the first transaction you would be taking something that isnt yours.
“I’m a priest. Not a saint.”
I think the issue here is proving that she did, in fact, take hundreds and not fives. She’s maintaining that she didn’t, and I don’t know how the bank could prove that she did. So far, the only thing that is known for a fact is that the bank is missing hundred dollar bills. Nobody can even prove that the bank stacked hundreds in the fives slot. I agree if she did she has a moral burden to return the money, but I’m not willing to give the accuser the benefit of the doubt here.
It’s pretty clear that there was some laxity somewhere here, but I can think of a few ways that the bank ended up with an ATM that is missing a $12,000 in $100 bills. One of them is the way the bank claims, which of course indicates that they themselves are admitting that one of their staff was grossly negligent and may have broken internal policies in the way cash was handled.
Another way cash could be mishandled is that whoever loaded the machine pocketed a $10,000 banded wad of $100’s plus a few extras, having seen the defendant withdraw in an unusual pattern over the preceeding day or so. If internal procedures are so lax that (allegedly) a teller can load a $5 feed with $100 bills, I don’t find it an implausible scenario.
Fact is that the onus is on the bank has to establish their claim. They’ll need to explain away how it took so long to identify the problem (was the defendant the only person who received $100 bills? How likely is it that she was the only person to use the ATM over that span of time?)
This isn’t about punishing the bank because banks typically run in ways that benefit the bank over their clients. It’s simple burden of proof territory. If I were an investor in, or customer of this bank, I’d be asking some pretty pointed questions.
This is very true, it is on the bank to provide evidence that this allegation happened. And a lot would have had to go wrong: a negligent employee stocking the wrong bills, the machine not catching this error (the technology exists for machines to read the bills themselves, so it would be negligence on the bank for not having an ATM with this tech), and no one else dispensing 5s (a pretty common note) and catching the error.
“Black people in the south eat the same foods that white people eat.”
Exactly. My brother-in-law is from South Carolina and he likely eats more collard greens than any black person I know – puts enough bacon in em that my daughter calls it “bacon salad”. Fried chicken, pulled pork, black eyed peas, cornbread, watermelon – these things are universal among southerners both black and white.
You’re talking my language chip, and I’m as southern cracker white as they come.
It has always been that way. I used to have, maybe still do, a historic black and white photo from pre-WWI days showing a railroad building crew on lunch break. There were about a hundred of them, black and white, standing around a 10×5 foot bbq grill which was completely covered with goat. they were all shouldered up to each other and up to their elbows in bbq goat.
I would probably buy that CNN doesn’t script the town hall questions themselves. However, I think it’s pretty obvious that they select the questions and questioners that they will allow to be aired so that ONLY CNN’s narrative is advanced. They don’t write the questions, but they write the questioners. It’s the same thing, but it allows them self-righteous preening when someone says the questions are scripted.
The real question is: ATMs dispense in 100’s and 5’s?
I’ve met a handful of ATMs that dispense demoninations from $0.01 to $20, but they were few and far between. (Yes, it could issue coinage)
My current bank ATM does this, at least down to $1 level, which I find stupid. I think it does change, but have never seen that in action.
Yeah, I use an ATM in NYC That will dispense a couple of $100s if you make a $500 withdrawal. Don’t know of any that will dispense anything smaller than a $10.
New York University served up a “Black History Month” meal at one of its dining halls — complete with watermelon-flavored water and collard greens — and had to apologize when students called the school out for playing into racist stereotypes.
Those students’ heads would explode if they saw this video.
Try this link instead.
“Just be yourself!”
inappropriate racist hilarious
This was the funny inappropriate racist picture I thought you were going for.
Says the new President of South Africa. That should work out great.
“Mugabe didn’t confiscate hard enough!”
I’ve seen interviews with members of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) where they say Zimbabwe is doing very good.
Rhodesia was the “Breadbasket of Africa” a net exporter of surplus food with a strong base from which to grow the economy. After confiscation, Zimbabwe is wracked by shortage and famine and had to discontinue the ZBD because they ran out of space to add zeroes to the bills they were that worthless.
I don’t know what metrics these people are using, but going from “poised for greatness” to “broke and starving” is not “doing very good”
“Let’s just add a little socialism…AHH SHIT!!”
It’s like they have never heard of scientific notation
When you have a full stomach, racism is worse than starvation.
Working hard to turn South Africa into just another African shithole.
It’s like they want to prove every white racist right once and for all.
It’s isnt about race, it’s about culture, but of course only 1 in 100 people understand that.
1-in-10-Million Supernova Shot
Would you call it a money shot?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_DkwFi9jnQ
“New York University served up a “Black History Month” meal at one of its dining halls — complete with watermelon-flavored water and collard greens”
I don’t get what the big deal is; “black” foods like watermelon, collard greens and fried chicken are all delicious, what’s to be ashamed of?
They Want to be offended at something.
Exactly.
Yeah, the watermelon and fried chicken stereotype is ridiculous anyway. Of course black people like fried chicken and watermelon; everybody likes fried chicken and watermelon.
Watermelon
Good lord…
I had karaage tonight for dinner. “Fried Chicken”. After eating it, I had to ask my wife, “Where da women at?”
I’m actually not a big fan of watermelon – messy and often relatively flavorless. Fried chicken, on the other hand…..if I can only have one food for the rest of my life, I’m taking Bojangles and I’m not looking back.
messy and often relatively flavorless.
Once you know how to pick a ripe watermelon (or even better, grow one) and properly carve it, all of your criticisms go away.
I’m actually not a big fan of watermelon – messy and often relatively flavorless.
That’s the problem with watermelon: so many of them sold/served are sub-par. A good watermelon is amazing, but most watermelon are “meh”. For me, watermelon, cantaloupe, and bananas are all in the category of fruit I rarely eat because while they can be great if you get the right pick, the average is disappointing.
Tomatoes, too. In the winter I only buy Campari tomatoes because all of the others are unripe flavorless garbage.
Bojangles? Not Canes or Popeyes?
Nah. Canes is ok, but I prefer chicken on the bone. Popeyes is OK, but Bo is better.
Canes is intensely overrated.
Suck it Canada!
Oh, come on. I thought Canukistanis were made of sterner stuff than that.
Ha!
Damn. That page led me to look up Nadia Comaneci today
Would
Looks like you turned up the A/C.
Is it too much to ask you guys to win in regulation for once?
/wink.
Got home from a 16-hour day and saw that the game was on and had to watch it. Then it went to overtime, and a shoot-out, and the shoot-out went to overtime. Worth it!
So the anti-gunners are out in force, as per the usual. I saw that there are more idiots destroying their AR’s like the one awhile back that I was pretty sure was a phony. That one still had the tag through the chamber. I suspect the newest one circulating is also a farce.
“I support the second amendment, BUT a) I don’t understand the premise and/or b) allow me to explain how I actually do not support the second amendment.”
“That one still had the tag through the chamber.”
LO fucking L.
Those people cutting up their ARs and putting it on YouTube are the worst kind of attention seekers. If they were really doing it for the reasons they claim they wouldn’t make a production out of it.
My reaction to the miter saw guy was “Even if you clipped the gas tube with that cut, the gun still works, and swapping the barrel/gas tube assembly will get you back in business faster than that cut took”
Gun control advocate doesn’t understand how guns work? Color me supprised.
Yeah. Gotta cut the reciever to really make your point. Anyway, grandstanding idiots gonna grandstand.
Right, “I’ve seen the light on gun control, so I’m going to turn my totally legal AR into a fully-functional SBR on YouTube!”
“I have seen the light on gun control – repeal the NFA today!”
Larry Correia has an excellent piece on the topic.
That page isn’t loading.
I got it now.
“Police are awesome. I love working with cops. However any honest cop will tell you that when seconds count they are only minutes away. After Colombine law enforcement changed their methods in dealing with active shooters. It used to be that you took up a perimeter and waited for overwhelming force before going in. Now usually as soon as you have two officers on scene you go in to confront the shooter (often one in rural areas or if help is going to take another minute, because there are a lot of very sound tactical reasons for using two, mostly because your success/survival rates jump dramatically when you put two guys through a door at once. The shooter’s brain takes a moment to decide between targets). The reason they go fast is because they know that every second counts. The longer the shooter has to operate, the more innocents die.”
Maybe that is true in some places, but it doesn’t seem like it’s true everywhere.
Yes, this would be news to the ghosts of a bunch of dudes who were at Pulse.
Overall, a terrific piece, though.
Now usually as soon as you have two officers on scene you go in to confront the shooter
I call bullshit. The cops actually pulled out of the Orlando nightclub. And I distinctly recall other situations where the cops waited outside, allegedly to set up their tactical situation, but it sure seems like it is until they are sure the shooter is dead.
There are exceptions, I am sure, but I think the “every cop goes home safe, no matter what” mentality is what is “usual”.
Correia is a copsucker, it’s true, but I’ll grant that his lived experience, with the guys he hangs out with, might be realistic.
The general principle stands – cops will move in once they have a tactical advantage – and in some police departments, a ‘tactical advantage’ is understood to mean a 16-man team with heavy weapons and a flamethrower – but the point is still there if you’re trapped in a “Gun Free Zone” with an active shooter – the cops won’t be able to save you, and one realistic solution to that is to permit motivated CCWs on the school’s payroll to carry.
The general principle stands – cops will move in once they have a tactical advantage
Sure. And that’s the problem. Tactical advantage = reducing risk to the cops. So, no matter how many people die, they will wait around for a low-risk situation.
In Orlando, they actually hung out in the parking lot listening to people bleed out, begging for help on their cell phones.
It’s only a problem if you’re forced to rely on them to save your life.
I’m not sure there are many people around here – even the cop-supportive ones – who really believe that’s a good thing.
French government unveils tougher asylum rules in new bill
Racists! Nazis.
It’s funny that almost every single European leader has criticized Donald Trump of being a horrible xenophobe, but then placed more stringent controls on immigration than he has.
while providing help to those who want to go home.
Vacation time. Only have to buy a one way ticket.
Take this for data. I was looking at ‘school shootings’ incidences in Canada and USA. Did you know there have been 13 shootings (including 3 in Montreal) in Canada since 1975?
This is a country with strict gun control.
By contrast, there have been, according to wiki, 24 in the USA since….1764. 16 of those coming since 2000.
This in a country with has hundreds of millions of guns in circulation while experiencing a decline in gun violence.
FEELZ >>> data and logic
/prog
Strange that over half have been since 2000. I wonder why kids think this is a viable response to their problems.
It’s become a cultural touchstone. With each new shooting and freakout at the national level, the odds of another one go up.
Take Nicolas Cruz, literally flay and skin him in the public square then burn him at the stake with his screams for everyone to hear and it might help dissuade the next one.
Seriously. Let’s bring back Drawing and Quartering just this once.
Or just somehow (I know it’s impossible) get the media to shut the fuck up about school shooting. I’m convinced these assholes are all loser attention whores. Incentives matter. Their goal is to become famous and our media happily obliges.
I took one look at Cruz and thought MR. It is written all over him. I worked with a thousand patients just like him.
*MR = Mildly Retarded
Keep in mind that crazy, developmentally disabled and pure evil are not stand alone characteristics. I cant tell the number of times I have heard “You cant blame him! He’s crazy!”
“I do blame him. Just because he is crazy doesnt mean he isnt evil”
I’m with you Lach. The media attention that these losers get inspires the next one far more than access to a gun.
Nice, I’m stealing that.
It’s not strange. Eric Harris got exactly what he wanted. He never in his wildest dreams thought he would be so successful.
Cruz needs to SPEAK. Now. Get his ass in front of a camera as fast as you can. He can end this. Call me naive but I really, really believe this. I can’t believe they haven’t thought of this, but then again, I’m not.
+1 Marc Lèpine
Seriously. That one still stings.
What’s even more bizarre is they called for (and still do) more gun control. I think we’re at the point where a couple more restrictions and we may as well ban them outright.
This despite a few years back the Auditor-General calling the gun registry an inefficient and obscene financial boondoggle with little facts to back up such a scheme.
“16 of those coming since 2000.”
How many since Facebook?
By contrast, there have been, according to wiki, 24 in the USA since….1764. 16 of those coming since 2000.
I think you may have been looking at the wrong wiki page. According to this, there have been 479 school shootings in US history. The majority have happened since 1990. Assuming the list here is comprehensive, the real start of the school shooting era could actually be traced back to the 1960s, as that’s when they seem to really start picking up instead of just being a rare occurrence.
I should add that the point still stands that gun control does not end school shootings. Both Canada and Australia have had more school shootings after they implemented gun control than before.
The fact that this woman was screwing around is less troubling to me than the fact that she apparently hooked her side piece up with all kinds of perks on the taxpayer dime. Of course, also if she were a man, she’s be getting #metooed and immolated by the feminazi outrage brigade too, but that’s to be expected since all men are predators.
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/02/21/double-standard-nashvilles-adulteress-liberal-mayor/
It’s the “D” after her name that gives her the pass. If that was a female Republican, she would be openly mocked as a slut in the media.
“People that we admire can also be flawed humans, and I’m flawed, and I’m incredibly sad and sorry for the disappointment that I will see in those little girls’ faces…”
Jesus me can these idiots stop invoking the children?
Why do you want kids to die of cancer Rufus?
“Of course, also if she were a man, she’s be getting #metooed”
Yup. If she were a man, this would be “yet another man abusing his position of power to take sexual advantage of a poor helpless woman.” But it’s all good when a woman in a position of power gets involved sexually with a subordinate.
Why TF is the mayor of Nashville taking publicly funded international trips?
Why TF does the mayor of Nashville have a security detail?
Of course her husband isn’t leaving her. He’s a leftist prof. He probably watched.
What Grinds My Gears: Why isn’t the #MeToo movement more gay?
Everyone wants a bite of the grievance apple.
I dunno, that movement seems pretty gay.
What’s that guy who blew the whistle on Kevin Spacey, chopped liver?
blew the whistle on Kevin Spacey
So it was consensual.
It’s ousted powerful men from their powerful positions.
This is an incredible accomplishment? There’s no mention of guilt or wrongdoing.
“In fact, the lack of diversity within the movement is #MeToo’s biggest issue.”
Really? I think #MeToo’s biggest issue is the abundance of asinine cases of “sexual misconduct” that get thrown into the same category as actual rape. Or maybe the biggest issue is the whole “guilty until proven innocent (and not even then)” deal.
There’s a reason for this, and probably not one the author has contemplated. On average, people find those similar to them to be more attractive and so more often pursue those similar to them. Thus, your straight, cisgender, white women get the spotlight because their harassers are more likely to be straight, cisgender, white men, a favorite target of the leftist grievance mongers. To diversify the #metoo movement’s victimhood would necessarily diversify the people being accused of crimes/impropriety, which would complicate things due to intersectionality. It make for a much simpler narrative to avoid diving into this.
Theshearfucked up at work last night. It took a bit of effort, buys it’s fully functional again.
I love that you work in one of the only proven places where T-100s can be effectively destroyed.
It will come in handy.
What do you have against 90s model toyota pickups?
/guy who doesn’t know what a T 100 is
luuuved my ’98 Toyota T100. Slow, primitive… but you sure had the feeling you could have driven it up a wall.
Awesome LH. My grandfather had a T 100 when I was a kid.
I learned to drive in an 83 model toyota pick up. I have a soft spot in my heart for 80s/90s toyota trucks.
One of my way down the road things to do is to buy and restore a late 80’s yota.
You have a great (Polish? Eastern Euro for sure) name to yell at, a la a disgruntled police chief yelling at a loose cannon detective.
LACHOWSKY! T100=Terminator. You uncultured swine.
He had the Connors terminate him by lowering him into a tremendous vat of molten steel.
That I have to type this out in order to explain is truly vexatious. I award you no points.
(Other than being a very interesting chap! Just in this particular instance, you are woefully ignorant and I must heap mounds of fun upon you.)
The two terminators in that file were a T-800 and a T-1000. The closest you get to T-100 is the Cyberdyne series 800 model 101 designation.
God dammit. Yes. The T 101.
*Hangs head in shame.*
Copy. Wasn’t thinking terminators.
/drowsy from working all night.
When I first took the job at the mill my brother asked me, “do you have a plan formulated for the inevitable terminator attack?”
/hangs head in shame
Elbag is the town from which my ancestors hailed. It has been owned by Germans and poles at different points in history. My surname is polish but my antecedents who came to the U.S. in the 1880’s spoke german.
You have the most amazing toys where you work!
Oh, for fuck’s sake. Bloomberg idjits are interviewing some banker, and now they’re talking about gun control. “Why don’t you (the banking industry) just refuse to process gun purchase transactions?”
Why don’t you fuck off and die, Bloombergers?
Oh geeze, cause if we started inserting ourselves into arbitrary political debates, that would open up other businesses who don’t do that. Who would want to do business with a money-changer who tries to intervene in their purchase process.
Guns are a huge market, and not supporting those transactions would hit bankers bottom line.
If they were to refuse to business with a certain business because of morality, and have greater than a 20% market share, I would consider that trust like behavior, and as much as I do not like Anti-Trust laws, they should then be applied to that business.
Look. It’s not a cake…
“Why don’t you (the
bankinginsurance industry) just refuse to processgun purchase transactionsabortions?”What about muh rights!!!
This is the difference. I think Banks should be able to set up their contracts to do both of these things. I just think it’s not good business sense.
The left thinks one of these is a undeniable right and the other is about killing innocent animals.
Nobody could possibly first go to their amd get cash to make the transaction with. Prohibitionists are fucking stupid.
Bitcoin would hit $100K if banks decided to stop processing gun purchases.
Utopia update.
https://nypost.com/2018/02/21/venezuelans-with-transplants-live-in-fear-as-medicine-runs-out/
Fucking State Capitalism!!111!!!!
I sometimes wonder whether there is some level of forced attrition of undesirables (e.g. expensive individuals) at-work here.
I don’t think the question has ever been “do they work?” it’s been “should they be prescribed as often as they are?”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2018/02/21/drugs-do-work-anti-depressants-should-given-million-britons/
On the plus side, it should give us some evidence to study regarding whether SSRIs have an impact on teenage spree killings.
LOL. My web filter is now blocking feministing.com as “Pro-Suicide and Self-Harm”
Well, reading their stuff does give me an odd urge to but my head in the oven…
Are you Cold?, It doesn’t work like that,
You know who else ended up advocating Suicide and Self-Harm…
The Heaven’s Gate cult?
Ozzy Osbourne?
Emos?
Also, I wish my grass was Emo, so it would cut itself.
I cant believe no one named Nancy Pelosi’s pal Jim Jones.
Johnny Mandel and Mike Altman?
Nancy Pelosi’s pal, Jim Jones?
Also a Utopia update: Maduro’s decided to say “fuck it” and get rid of any last pretense of non-dictatorship.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-43149871
“Venezuela is going through a protracted political and economic crisis.”
But the article won’t tell you why…
It’s hard to constantly pretend when you’re not committed. I guess he’s more honest with himself than say, hm, let’s Barry?
let’s say
Damn, two errors today.
The grammatical error chart in my room is sterting to swell.
These euphemisms are getting . . . really opaque.
Take this for data. I was looking at ‘school shootings’ incidences in Canada and USA. Did you know there have been 13 shootings (including 3 in Montreal) in Canada since 1975?
This is a country with strict gun control.
By contrast, there have been, according to wiki, 24 in the USA since….1764. 16 of those coming since 2000.
So, what you’re saying is, America is an anarchic child slaughterhouse and all guns should be confiscated and fed into Lachowsky’s smelter..
Well, we really need to make sure we kill at least 1/5 of all Republicans to send a message that deviation from goodthink will not be tolerated.
http://abc7.com/news/thousands-of-illegal-guns-melted-for-use-in-ca-infrastructure/2233829/
Not my plant, but one owned by the company I work for. It makes me sad to wanton destruction like this.
Looking at that pile of guns, most of them look completely off-the-rack shotguns, bolt-actions, and a few semi-autos. All of which are legal, with the possible exception of a few semi-autos, in CA.
So why are they described as “illegal” guns? Were they illegal because they weren’t registered? I thought CA called that “undocumented”, and did nothing about it.
My guess is it’s a civil asset forfeiture situation.
FTA
No illegal per se, but used by felons.
Yet they are referred to as “illegal guns”, repeatedly. Not “guns confiscated by police” or “guns used in crimes”.
That is easy – Journalists are ignorant about guns and the law.
Et tu, Nick Offerman?
https://www.thewrap.com/parks-rec-cast-co-creator-extremely-unhappy-nra-tweeted-leslie-knope-gif-please-eat-s/
“Pro-slaughter agenda”? Oh please. I repeat, the greatest gift we have is having such moronic opponents; hyperbole like that is utterly ineffective.
“Pro-slaughter agenda”?
This is what I was talking about. They are disingenuous and liars to the point of parody. I once watched a debate where it took a whole 5 seconds for the anti-gun person to demonstrate that he would not argue in good faith. He said something along the lines of “I’m glad to be on the side of peace as opposed to the side of violence and death” in the first few seconds of his opening statement.
But enough about Planned Parenthood, we’re talking actual enumerated rights.
Some local news:
‘Blackface’ incident sparks community debate for Forest Hills schools
which, of course, brought in the NAACP
8 apply for vacant Forest Hills School Board seat, NAACP calls for diversity
Forest Hills is a fairly wealthy area east of me – and is also pretty lily white. Per Wikipedia 2000 Census.
The racial makeup of the community was 95.28% White, 0.64% African American, 0.20% Native American, 2.63% Asian, 0.34% from other races, and 0.91% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.95% of the population.
the students in the district who identify as either black or a person of color
Couldn’t they be represented by a candidate who identifies as black or a person of color? Why the slide from “a black person or other candidate of color” to “students in the district who identify as either black or a person of color”?
I fully intend to use the “identify as” clause when I start interviewing again.
I identify as the new employee at this firm. Alternatively, as the litigant suing for discrimination.
The Canadian glibs are trying to bury the fact that the US has kicked their asses twice at their own sports today in South Korea. Especially in curling.
https://twitter.com/MrT
h/t Gilmore
SJThursday: How To Write About Anti-Semitism Without Mentioning the Largest Source of Anti-Semitism in the World
“when people shout “Jesus loves you!” at us.”
a)I’m guessing this almost never happens
b)While this would be annoying, I’m gonna need some additional evidence to sign on to it being “quite dangerous”.
This has actually happened to me a fair number of times for such an absurd thing. Still, I’ll take it over the time a drunken lady screamed at me for killing Jesus.
b) Agreed. I just laugh at how people waste their precious time.
Fair enough.
I once had evangelicals knock on my door, brimming with pamphlets and invitations to their church. Despite the image I like to promote here, in real life I have an almost pathological aversion to being nasty to people who aren’t being nasty to me, so I didn’t want to tell them to piss off. Instead, I thought I would think fast and tell them I’m Jewish. Big mistake – they apparently didn’t run across too many Jews, so they started asking me all sorts of questions about Judaism. Would have been much easier just to take their material and throw it away.
I had a friend in high school who is a Messianic Jew, and our high school was about 20% Jewish (18% Reform). Our lunch table had some interesting theological discussions for the two years he was there.
Replace “Christian” with “Islamic,” and see if they’re any more willing to stand by this rubbish.
…
(Aww, who’m I kiddin’?)
Say what you will about Venezuela. To be sure, they might have some food distribution hiccups, now and then, but at least their children aren’t gunning one another down in the classroom.
They’re just getting murdered and butchered as street food.
*has sudden craving for tacos al pastor*
Nah, padre got butchered awhile back.
Minnesoda Supreme Court settles highly controversial case.
A rube in the most hillbilly suburb of the Twin Cities won $400K after the state Supreme Court refused to overturn a lower court’s ruling. The plaintiff was a hillbilly who collected deer carcasses from the side of the road. He said that despite having a contract awarding him all the deer, the county used workhouse inmates to pick up the deer. The $400K was to compensate him for the lost profit between 2009 and 2015.
That seems like a lot of money for picking up dead deer. It seems like it is something you could add to the state troopers/sheriff’s deputies duties.
He had a contract. If he wasn’t picking up the carcasses fast enough, the city should have taken him to court first, then gotten the convict laborers involved when the judge ruled him to have failed his obligations.
I wasn’t complaining about the guy winning the case. I agree that he had a contract with the county and they broke it.
What amused me the most about the story was that some guy was clearing $60K/year as the deer knackerer. I can see why the county wanted to move to something cheaper. If the journalist was ambitious, they would dig into how this guy got that contract in the first place. My guess would be that he was friends/relative of some county manager.
I don’t like the idea of convicted laborers. Sounds kinda gulagish
True. It is however, expressly permitted under the current constitution, and an option the city has.
The guys that clean and maintain the local hockey arena are from the county workhouse. They do get paid, though.
When I lived in Memphis the municipal rifle range/trap pits were all staffed by inmates from the county workhouse.
My buddy and I would laugh about the idea that all of us would leave our rifles and ammo back on the benches with the inmates as we all walked at least 25yds away to check our targets.
Aww man, for a second there I thought my hometown of Hamel was about to get a shoutout.
Hamel doesn’t count anymore. It’s full of 600K houses, now!
I think maybe it’s time for some streetview and zillow surfing today 😉
How long have you been away?
Little over 20 years now. In fact, I remember when the “Street of Dreams” was built and had (I believe it was 5) massive custom homes built on a street right adjacent to where my neighborhood was.
Yeah, over on the west side. The area just East of those is now a huge Lennar development. It’s weird how different it is in just a few years.
The good news, though, is that they have stopped that fucking civil defense siren at 11:56 every day. My office is in Hamel and that thing drove me insane.
Where are you now?
That development was one of the first things I noticed on google earth this morning, wow. And then the Street of Dreams houses are all north of a million dollars per zillow.
You’re a Maple Grove guy, right? Working some from home or are you commuting to/from Hamel on a regular basis?
I’m in Phoenix now, right downtown in a 90+ year old house / historic neighborhood. Haven’t met up with any Phoenix Glibs yet, though I know we’ve got a few around here.
Yep. MG is home. I have an office in Hamel, but work from home a lot. It’s less than a 15-minute commute, though.
Phoenix sounds nice right about now! You ever get back to Minne?
I haven’t been back in a long time, it’s probably been 8 to 10 years (I took my wife there one summer, but we didn’t have our kid yet, so bare minimum it’s been over 7 years).
All my family that was there have relocated, and most of my closest friends have also moved away. Nothing, unfortunately, is really pulling on me to dedicate a trip back.
NAACP President Cle Jackson has encouraged community members to attend the 7 p.m. school board meeting on Monday, Feb. 19, to talk about the board appointment and policy recommendations regarding the incident. The meeting is at Meadow Brook Elementary, 1450 Forest Hill Ave. SE.
“They must put forth some effort in filling the vacancy with a black person or other candidate of color because the students in the district who identify as either black or a person of color have no voice or representation at this level of leadership,” Jackson said.
I read that as “Che” Jackson, at first, and it made perfect sense.
Re: Culinary racism
I’ve actually been thinking about something tangentially related to this recently. It seems that in recent years more and more people are suffering from gastric issues, and there are all sorts of fad ideas promoted on how to curtail this (gluten free, low carb, etc.). This is purely speculative, but what if the abrupt change in diets facilitated by more and varied foods becoming available are at fault? Years ago most people’s diets were limited mostly to regional fare which was predictable and consistent, and today you can obtain all manner of exotic cuisine just about anywhere in the United States. It could be that most people’s bodies simply aren’t biologically tuned for consuming a lot of these foods. I’m not saying this is a good or bad thing; it’s just a thought.
You’ll have to pry this bowl of chicken vindaloo out of my cold, dead hands, mate.
What you eat determines the makeup of your gut biota. The population of microbes shifts based upon what there is for them to consume. Over time they become acclimated to a certain type of diet. When you eat someone with a markedly different compositional profile, they eat what they can, but their waste products and leftovers vary greatly and your body reacts to that negatively.
“When you eat someone with a markedly different compositional profile”
That’s why I only eat locally sourced people. I don’t want to get a tummy ache.
Zombie UCS confirmed.
Do I look mindless to you?
… well you are a government employee, aren’t you?
(j/k, I can’t resist a hanging curveball)
Where I work and whether or not I can think are two unrelated matters.
“Where I work and whether or not I can think are two unrelated matters”
citation needed.
It seems that in recent years more and more people are suffering from gastric issues
Mostly psychosomatic. The gluten thing, for example. Double blind studies have demonstrated that there is no such thing as non-Celiac gluten sensitivity, and Celiac disease is quite rare. When people in the study were given non-gluten food and told it had gluten, they suffered ill effects. When given food containing gluten and told it was gluten-free, they were fine.
Wait what?
There’s widespread clinical evidence that reducing gluten intake can be beneficial for non-Celiac patients with assorted auto-immune diseases, especially gastro-related ones.
Relevant study here.
There might be something to it. Lactose intolerance rates do vary by ancestry, so people eating outside of the range of diet their ancestors adapted to may face increased issues in other areas as well. I fully support dietary cultural appropriation, but some people may have to consider the pros and cons of eating a tasty dish they may not be evolutionarily adapted for.
Jesus me can these idiots stop invoking the children?
So, what you’re saying is, “There should be a bounty on them.”
This story makes me smile a lot.
Minnesoda lawmakers had to sit through a sexual harassment training session. Next maybe they will have to get their pensions from Social Security and their health care from the MinnSure exchange.
Uffda. Want a spike in your blood pressure?
Read this list of “common sense” gun control laws.
The slaver who wrote this claims to be “gun owner in favor of action to prevent, to the extent possible under the Constitution, the irresponsible and violent misuse of firearms.”
“Gun Owner” = has a sweet collection of CO2 replicas and a couple of super-soakers. Wears tactical baseball cap for credibility.
He’s concerned, Holiness! And a father!
These ‘common sense’ ideas have been trotted out forever. I give it a few more days.
Mills is expanding their gun counter, btw.
Really?
I need to work on my youngest kid some more. He is starting to think about getting a new summer job. Need that discount.
Yeah, they are moving it directly across from where it is now, in that open area that is used now for seasonal stuff. They are apparently going to have many more guns out for fondling, etc.
My kid loves working there.
…to the extent possible under the Constitution…
Shall not be infringed.
I was thinking of having that scrawled across the dozer blade of a giant robot a character is cobbling together in the back of his scrap yard. It’s a hulking bruiser that’s supposed to get into a fight with three smaller, more agile but less hard hitting models.
Now sure how it will go over, but it would fit the builder’s personality.
My wife hates guns irrationally. Her father never fails to wear shirts such as “What part of ‘Shall Not Be Infringed’ do you not understand?” and “Prayer is the best way to meet the Lord but messing with my granddaughter is faster” with a skull and crossed pistols on it. I think if I can gradually pull her away from Maryland and closer to Texas she’ll come back around.
Well, y’know, she was younger once, and if her father dressed like that all the time, and she was a rebellious kid (a behavior I guardedly approve of) it’s not surprising there’s a negative reaction.
I’m lucky because we’re a 100% 2A-approving family, but a friend of mine stopped being a shitlord about his 2A rights and within a couple of years, family opposition diminished considerably. Most normies get fed up with the “I’m Pro-Choice” and “Rather be judged by 12 than carried by 6” tee shirts after a while.
I’m gonna punch the next person who prattles on to me about “commonsense gun regulations”
They’re not regulations, they’re manufacturing standards. Can’t have deviation in bore diameter outside of the margin of safety, now can we?
Until recently you could respond by re-framing it in terms of other rights: “common sense regulations on free speech”, “common sense exceptions for police brutality”, etc, etc. But now people just seem to nod along in agreement.
who doesn’t like “common sense”?
They keep using that term. I don’t think it means what they think it means.
Definition of common:
…
5 a : falling below ordinary standards : second-rate
This could have been a really interesting article if it had been written by someone who could write.
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/22437323/grand-canyon-only-profit-team-division-is-building-monster-desert
It’s about Grand Canyon University, the only for-profit school in NCAA Division I.
There were some quotes from representatives from other universities that I found telling. Anyone who is that utterly ignorant of reality has no business being involved with educating young people.
Why progressive communitarianism is unworkable, reason #56894056
Want’s to work with gay people, doesn’t know what a “bear” is?
Why progressive communitarianism is unworkable, reason #56894056
Fucking excellent.
“Who do I talk to about my anti-stereotyping campaign? Not you, you don’t fit my stereotype.”
Not my plant, but one owned by the company I work for. It makes me sad to wanton destruction like this.
I wonder if any of those guns “fell out” of the hopper en route to their doom.
That would be a shame.
Fucking cops had already picked out the keepers. I guarantee it.
I don’t know about the attitudes of your average steel mill employee in Rancho Cucamonga, CA. If there was a pile of 5000 guns laying in the scrap yard at my plant, not many of them would make it to the furnaces.
Speaking of Terminator….Gun guys, help me out!
The gun Arnold uses in the beginning of the movie is lever action but he loads it with shotgun shells. But the wounds the T1000 gets are singular rather than a spread pattern. Which to me indicates a rifle. Though he is shooting at close range (like the scene where he’s shooting at T1000 in the hallway after taking the gun out of the rose box) so I don’t know how that works.
But he also busts open a lock while riding on his bike, which to me sounds more like a precision shot from a rifle rather than the spread of shot.
What type of gun is it? Shotgun or rifle? I didn’t know that there were lever-action shotguns but I also don’t see why that couldn’t be possible. I’m sure they exist.
I always thought it was a shotgun, but I’m a gun retard.
Internet to the Rescue
Damn you!
Shotguns can fire slugs.
But the wounds the T1000 gets are singular rather than a spread pattern.
(a) There are lots of lever action shotgun models around. Not a whole lot of them actually in circulation, relatively speaking, but they are definitely a thing.
(b) Slugs. Shotgun slugs are a brutal weapon. That’s why I took my 1100 with a rifled slug barrel when I went bear hunting. I could put almost half a pound of lead in the air in 5 seconds.
Totally blanked on slugs, even though that I have fired them.
And I always forget that shotguns can be rifled. That seems to make everything make sense.
Additional question: It seems to this layman that using shot in a rifled barrel is a very, very bad idea. Shot would ruin the rifling, right? A smoothbore uses shot and rifled uses slug. That’s what makes sense to me, but I am also an idiot.
Can you interchange them–is it not as big of a deal as it seems to me?
Also: I would argue that T2 is arguably the best action movie of all time. And it has the two best chase scenes ever (I’d put the LA drainage chase above the helicopter one, but goddamn that pilot had balls to fly under an overpass).
I kinda hate James Cameron now, but he’s done enough good work to garner enough good faith for me to never doubt him. True Lies is criminally underrated. That era Tia Carrere is my dream girl.
I’m told shooting shot through a rifled barrel is a Very Bad Thing. I’m not 100% sure, since the shot cup and wadding might protect the rifling, but why risk it?
You can shoot slugs through a smooth bore. Not very accurate, but I don’t think it would hurt the gun.
My slug gun is actually my bird gun, with a barrel swap.
It’s a Winchester 1887
Its a Winchester 1887 with a modified loop on the lever to make the one hand cycling of the action work
Well, first off, Hollywood is ignorant regarding firearms so don’t look for accuracy in movies. That being said:
Lever action shotguns exist
At close range you don’t get much pattern spread, so the shot acts somewhat like a single projectile as far as impact point.
A shotgun could also be firing rifled slugs rather than buckshot.
SHOCKING REVELATION FROM CNBC!
Florida state employees’ pension fund has investments in gun and ammo manufacturers.
Oh, shame. Oh ignominy.
Annnnnnnd they are up 5% intraday
And they’re gonna make a ton of cash offa that once Trump starts gun-control-by-executive-fiat
The gun Arnold uses in the beginning of the movie is lever action but he loads it with shotgun shells.
I believe there is such a thing as a lever action shotgun; loaded with slugs…
But slugs haven’t got shells.
They had snail envy and crawled into shotgun shells.
There are all manner of firearms in configurations that one wouldn’t normally expect. I have a buddy who owns and love a his pump action 30-06.
I believe this gun exists because of Pennsylvania restrictions on deer hunting with a semi auto. The pump gun was created to give hunters a better option for follow up shots than a bolt gun.
https://www.remington.com/rifles/pump-action/model-7600
Can’t open firearms links from work, but I only have one question – how are the rounds arranged in the magainze?
It’s a box magazine. 30-06 spritzer rounds make it a bad idea to stack them in a tube.
Amnesty International, to derp or not to derp?
A resounding derp.
Citations needed. By the way, “migrants and refugees” don’t actually have a “right” to enter any country they choose.
You beat me to it
I’d like to see one single citation of him being anti- gay, women, or girl.
On the contrary, based on his behavior prior to being elected, he is objectively the most gay-friendly president we’ve ever had.
If groups like Amnesty were actually willing to discuss the problems inherent to mass migration for the host countries, I might take them seriously. But their objective seems to be fully open borders with no questions asked or requirements set. In which case, they can go fuck themselves.
How dare you oppose the Cultural Enrichment these people bring you you cultureless westerners, Scruffy!
/prog off
No, their objective is advancing Leftism. Amnesty Int’l is at the ‘wear their carcass as a suit’ phase of Progressivism.
Wayne LaPierre at CPAC. With this I can agree with progs – the NRA sucks filthy whore ass.
Quote via Tweet
VCDL!!!
Trump is now a Dem.
Sanguine wrt principles? Silly you, Trump was a Dem the whole time!
Now? He’s always been one for the most part.
His fans seem to think he’s some sort of conservative savior.
He was the least bad option in the general election. I have no illusions about him being driven by principles.
Then again, I voted Cruz in the primary.
So you’re a fan, then?
Of some of the actions taken. But not of the man.
Big fan, this guy. A real strumpet.
from his Playboy interview (1990ish):
https://filthy.media/donald-trump-playboy-interview
Well, his trade positions have been consistant apparently.
When I walk down the street
Savior? More like savoir-faire.
Christ twatter is such a cesspool. How anyone could spend significant time on there is beyond me.
Lol, but I thought Trump takes all his marching orders from the NRA anf Fox News, wha happen????????. Those uswless fucks in Congress just got a signal to move forward on this, after all thru wouldn’t want to lose their reelection.
The Liberty Caucus needs to step up their game, hard.
I’ll take it over the time a drunken lady screamed at me for killing Jesus.
Now this is stuck in my head
Mostly because this is a community that I respect the hell out of and whose advice I value,
If any of you Glibs have experience with multiple lost pregnancies in a short period time, I’d appreciate any input in how to help the misses. My handle with a K in front it @ Gmail.
It’s getting hard for me to know how to deal with this.
Sorry man 🙁 . I got nothin’ other than just treat her well.
Lach, I’m so sorry to hear about your family’s troubles. I sent you an email about the problems my wife and I had. Not sure if there is advice in there, but definitely some commiseration.
Had that happen twice – it’s not as bad emotionally as losing a *family member/death but it sure is close enough.
*long-term with history
Really sorry to hear it, Lach.
Please accept my sympathy.
Check with hospitals that have big labor and delivery programs. They see (or know about) a lot of miscarriages. They might have support groups or counseling or something that might help.
Hospitals are bureaucratic, so the trick will be finding the right person to talk to. I would expect the L & D nurses to know, but they aren’t easy to get ahold of. If there is a community wellness person, they would know (or could find out). As with most bureaucracies, its kind of a crap shoot/takes some persistence.
Sorry man. Let us know if we can do anything for you family.
Sorry Lach. My wife’s had some difficulties too and I’ll send you what seemed to help some. In the end though, its a hard thing to go through no matter what you do or say.
Sorry man. Don’t have anything productive to offer other than this is actually incredibly common. Actually, I do have one thing to offer. This is as terrible for you as it is for her. You are allowed to mourn. As a man, you have a duty to your wife to support her. But that doesn’t include pretending it doesn’t affect you. You don’t have to lie to yourself.
Sorry 🙁
My niece lost seven pregnancies before being blessed with her healthy daughter. One she had to terminate a healthy pregnancy due to her own health. That took an emotional toll.
Had it been closer to home, I’d probably have more advice. I did tell her that she’s probably the strongest person I’ve ever met, to go through all of that.
So Trump, notorious attention whore, is jumping in front of a parade? Shocked, I am. Trump has always been a NYC limousine liberal with a heaping helping of superpredator paranoia on top.
It’s hard to read the tea leaves with any certainty, but the background check stuff sounds a lot like the “enforce the laws we have” stuff which has been around forever.
Well the one source of joy in all of this is that anti-gun people who are almost all TDS sufferers are finding themselves in the awkward position of agreeing with Trump’s tweets.
My big fear at the beginning of his administration was that the liberals would realize that if they stroked Trump’s egos he would govern as a fairly liberal Democrat (especially with all the Never Trump silliness from the GOP).
Luckily they doubled down on the Trump is Hitler rhetoric and missed an opportunity to advance their agenda.
International protest movements like the Women’s March and #MeToo, and mass demonstrations in Poland, Zimbabwe and India all reflect what the report termed “a new era of social activism.”
Belt-fed pussy hats, FTW!
a new era of social activism
Carrie Nation had the harpy harriden/militant martinet act perfected over a century ago, assholes.
Welp, I’d say Trump’s reelection chances just dropped to about 10% or less. Progs will still hate him and a big chunk of the people that got him over the finish line this time will stay home. So much for him being some kind of “crazy like a fox” political genius that Trumpsters kept saying he was.
That percentage will be based on what the Dems throw against the wall for 2020. If they go full-SJW / lefty to appease the base, then there will be a lot of “lesser of two evils” voters. Also economy.
They will absolutely go full SJW prog. I’d almost guarantee that Kamala Harris or the fake Cherokee will be their nominee.
The sad part now is whoever they run will win. Alienating gun owners was just about the stupidest possible thing Trump could have done.
Ehhhh….we’ll see. For one thing, it remains to be seen how much Trump actually means this. Is he actually going to promote legislation, or is this just his usual Twitter diarrhea?
It ain’t over until Sarah Huckabee Sanders sings.
I predict most will be forgotten (barring another multiple-body shooting) by 2020.
That Tweet is the nail in the coffin. He was very specific about the gun control measures he wants to take, and they go further than most Dem proposals I’ve seen.
What if he signs a compromise bill the includes National Concealed Carry Reciprocity?
Not big enough. At this point total repeal of the NFA would be the only thing I’d accept for any concessions anywhere else.
Yeah that killed it for me. I was convinced he was basically controlled opposition through his campaign. When he won I fully expected a Bush III administration. Despite being pleasantly surprised a couple times in the last year and thinking he might get my vote in 2020, he seems to be drifting toward meeting my expectations.
This is no “drift”. This is a hard-left turn.
That’s assuming he had any trajectory in the first place. He’s an unprincipled populist doing what populists do. I’m sure he thinks he’s responding to the will of the people.
He thinks he can win over the Lefties. What he’s doing is alienating conservatives, while the Left will never embrace him. Does he not have pollsters to tell him to STFU?
One would think. I agree with you that it’s a huge tactical blunder. 4D Chess fail.
Probably the most effective pro-gun advocate in his inner circle is Eric. I’m gonna sit on the fence with this and wait to see what happens. Make the 48-hour rule a 72-hour rule, with option to extend.
Agree wholeheartedly. The industry needed a jump-start, though. This might just do it.
Doesn’t even matter if these restrictions actually happen. The fact that he went squishy *at all* alienates enough people in places like Pennsylvania, Florida and Michigan that he loses. People forget that he didn’t win by much despite his big EV advantage. He’s toast.
Oh, on the re-electability issue?
I think that people will vote based on outcomes. If this tweet turns out to be bloviation, or lead nowhere, people will forget it as long as the economy is reasonable.
It’s not like this is the first time he’s twatted something dumb that goes nowhere. It’s only special in that it strikes horribly close to our dark, individualistic, uncompromising hearts.
You’re also forgetting who he would run against. I doubt they could sway pro-2A people in those same states Trump won.
Also, economy is paramount.
I think this is just his usual horse trading. He wants to allow armed teachers.
Also there are too many popular youth shooting programs to simply ban ownership, so the over 21 thing could get watered down to insignificance.
Well the one source of joy in all of this is that anti-gun people who are almost all TDS sufferers are finding themselves in the awkward position of agreeing with Trump’s tweets.
True.
I dunno about that, it seems to me to be a bunch of “You’re not going far enough! It’s an empty gesture from an NRA shill!” stuff. Nothing he could do would make them stop hating him.
Even if he proposed full confiscation, they would still hate him. And now his “base” is going to hate him, too. Brilliant.
It’s the dumbest thing.
He just shot himself in the foot.
Rand 2020, though
Not that it matters but he won’t get my vote again.
hopefully the lynxs have been up long enough that OT is OK.
From yesterday’s SSC
http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/02/21/current-affairs-some-puzzles-for-libertarians-treated-as-writing-prompts-for-short-stories/
comes this:
Thanks for this.
i follow Scott on twitter, but he doesn’t notify people of new stuff (or at least i never see it)
The comments are predictably dreadful. I guess it’s not too surprising that many otherwise intelligent people are prone to technocratic fetishism.
Scott: These arguments are all based on straw-man positions
Multiple idiots: But what if I rephrase the same straw-man positions with lots of words? What now, smart guy?
that was excellent reading.
i liked the “Man in the High Castle”-revelation-ending
– “what if this whole world is just a thought experiment by a communist with a crappy understanding of political philosophy trying to weak-man libertarianism?”
(turns and looks at reader)
This touches on something i’ve mentioned a couple times in the past
a mistake many libertarians make is advancing political arguments as tho they were purely *moral* ones. And if you do that, you’re basically ceding ground to this critique.
Political arguments aren’t trying to accomplish proofs of moral-absolutes: they’re trying to find ‘least bad’ arrangements of social-relations which maximize benefits and minimize conflict/coercion (at least some do).
Shocking news – one of those supposed “gun guys who now is getting rid of his guns” is a fraud. Who knew???
LOL. He mounted his scope backward!? What a fucking loser.
I’m still waiting for someone to expose the two ‘victims’ from Parkland that are being treated like rock stars. The CRISIS actors claims may not have been true but I’m sure these two kids have been groomed for this occasion for quite some time. It’s disgusting how these sociopaths cannot distinguish signaling from empathy.
https://twitter.com/nickgillespie/status/966508961846431744
Oh, I have a question: “Why won’t you go away? I mean even Bob Barr went away, as he should have.”
Here’s one – why did you agree to a statist, left-leaning VP candidate who was a disgrace to the term “libertarian” and spent his time praising Hillary Clinton?
Why do some ostensibly libertarian people still defend Weld is my question. No one defends Wayne Allyn Root who was as much a libertarian as Bill Weld (meaning not at all).
https://www.thejacknews.com/about/featured-writers/
ENB retweeted this idiot:
“Do you remember your assistant principal. Now imagine that person with a gun.”
https://twitter.com/7im/status/966437975482511360
ENB is a prog. Just like 90% of TOS.
The beer I had last night.
If you like Little Debbie Oatmeal Cream Pie, then this is the beer for you. It was a little flat, even from the tap, and didn’t have a lot of body. But still an interesting comparison against my normal vanilla porter.
“Woman shunned by Jehovah’s Witnesses kills entire family: cops
Friends said they believe the 45-year-old mom was driven to kill after she was shunned by the Jehovah’s Witnesses, the religion she was raised practicing, according to the Detroit Free Press.
The family of four reportedly left the religion more than five years ago over “doctrinal and social issues.”
Other former Jehovah’s Witnesses told the newspaper that when people stop practicing the religion, current members — including parents — are no longer allowed to communicate with them.”
https://nypost.com/2018/02/21/woman-shunned-by-jehovahs-witnesses-kills-entire-family-cops/
Common sense Christian denomination control etc.
I had a good friend in high school who was a JW. Since I was a born-again atheist he and I would argue religion all the time.
He and I hung out a few years ago – by then he had left the church. He said, “I should have listened to you back then. You were right.”
One of the big reasons he left? His wife, due to a difficult pregnancy / operation may need a blood transfusion. He had to go to the elders to ask for permission. They declined. Luckily she didn’t need the transfusion but that was enough for him. And he still had to “get permission” to leave the JW church.
He didn’t bother to get their permission, right?
He did – oddly enough. Old habits die hard. I gave him shit for it.
btw, I tried to get him to join Glibs since he is of a libertarian / free market bent but no evidence that he ever visited.
So, Scientology with a Christian wrapping?
That’s what it sounds like.
I can’t cite a source but I’ve read/heard that suicide is common among JW’s for the same reason. Once you are out everyone in your life disowns you. Gee, that kind of love and mercy makes me think highly of the watchtower society…..
I remember seeing a doc or something on the Mormons years ago where some Mormons acknowledged that the believed very little of what the church taught. When asked why they didn’t leave they said it would leaving friends and family and they wouldn’t do that.
Its amazing the stranglehold Mormo has on his followers. Some protestant churches get a little…bitchy when you cross them, but nothing like the wrath of Mormo.
I may be stepping in it here but that’s why I consider Mormons/JW’s to be large cults. They take religious coercion to the next level. I’ve had some brushes with protestant coercion and while ugly, there aren’t any real repercussions that come from disassociating. In the LDS/JW communities it can have an irreparable impact on your social and potentially financial wellbeing.
I agree with your assessment, but would clarify that the coercive parts are a symptom, not the cause of them being cults.
In your view what is the cause?
Most Protestant churches consider the Mormons a cult – or at least they used to, I haven’t kept up with it that much lately. The JWs were looked at as outside orthodox Christianity but not necessarily a cult.
I grew up in a pretty fundamental church so almost everyone that didn’t have the same interpretation of the Bible was more or less a considered a cult. I did go to a JW meeting with a girl once……it was weird.
Yeah, I’ve been to a couple of fundamental churches every now and then. They often come across as more cult-like than whomever they’re criticizing.
Yeah being convinced that you are the “one-true” anything tends to alienate people…….I’m sure there is a Hihn joke in there somewhere
The view of them as a cult comes from them having an extra, newer holy text in addition to the Bible, that text having a lot of very different ideas in it than the Bible. That’s the same reason that in the early days Christians viewed Islam as a cult and in the early days Jews viewed Christianity as a cult.
I guess that’s what Trshmnstr was getting at above. I agree with that definition when viewed through a religious framework. From a secular standpoint I think the willingness to use coersive, manipulative, threatening pressures to recruit, retain and put down dissent of their members is what makes a cult a cult.
“Hollywood’s New Matinee Idol: Karl Marx
More gushing over the prickly German journalist who wrote the book on Communism.
Having received an Oscar nomination for his documentary about James Baldwin, I Am Not Your Negro, the Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck created considerable anticipation for his equally political follow-up, The Young Karl Marx. Alas, this is not the first time Marxism turned out to be a crashing dud.
Films about writers face a big obstacle from the start: No one wants to watch a movie about a nerd scratching away at his desk. But Marx was a bit more than just a writer. Unlike the usual fight-the-power types, he actually did fight the power — and was forced out of three countries for it. Today’s radicals never even make good on their promises to move to Toronto.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/02/hollywoods-new-matinee-idol-karl-marx/
Marx was much less than just a writer, he was also a perrennial mooch who abandoned his wife and kids and had an expectation of being financially taken care of by other people.
He also, apparently, had poor personal hygiene.
Hey, just like his modern disciples!
I’d rather watch a satire of a murderous tyrant, thanks.
Does the slavish Marx biopic have Steve Buscemi or Jeffrey Tambor? I think not.
I might go see this and do a review for the site.
Trump says, “Raise age to 21.”
Okay, fine. If 21 is the minimum age for gun ownership, it should also be the minimum age to vote, or enter military service. Let’s get this stuff synchronized.
But let’s lower age of consent to 15. For the children.
https://twitter.com/radleybalko/status/966388287706419200
Simplified Tweet: “I’ve never been to a school in a poor community and it shows”
You can criticize having police in schools, but you should also acknowledge that at some schools, particularly in cities, police at schools is a welcomed development among most students
Watching Balko’s downward spiral has been sad. It’s getting tougher to recommend his book to my conservative friends because one look at his twitter and they won’t take him seriously.
“Our progressive friends enjoy boasting of their purportedly evidence-based approach to social problems, but when it comes to firearms, it is pure Kulturkampf. Firearms, in their view, are an atavistic enthusiasm for rural primitives and right-wing militia nuts, a hobby that must be tolerated — if only barely — because of some vestigial 18th-century political compromise. And that is why the Times can publish observations such as this one from psychiatrist Amy Barnhorst — “laws designed to preserve the civil liberties of people with mental illness place limits on what treatments can be imposed against a person’s will” — without even bothering to try to account for the fact that we also have some laws, right there in the Bill of Rights, that limit the ways in which government can impose on other civil rights, including the right to keep and bear arms. That’s why they don’t even understand the right protected in the Second Amendment as a civil right.
And that’s why the Times remains unembarrassed by routinely displaying on this subject a level of ignorance that would cause its editors to blush in shame if the subject were, say, Shia–Sunni relations or the geography of Togo. This has many unhappy consequences, one of which is that the Times is distorting public discourse about this important subject when it should be enriching it.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/02/another-misfire-at-the-new-york-times/
On the contrary; their ignorance is a badge of honor to them. They wouldn’t possibly sully their first rate intellects by learning about such a barbarous topic.
Amanda Marcotte actually wrote that after Newtown.
Indeed. Now let’s do another lengthy feature on the positive impact of communism…
It’s great for women. They have such wonderful orgasms.
“we also have some laws, right there in the Bill of Rights,”
Umm, what?
They are laws. It’s just that they were codified by the people and are enforced against the government. We’re used to it being the other way around.
Oh, OK. I just have problems with Rights being called laws. Laws can be repealed and/or modified, rights cannot.
Unfortunately, the Bill of Rights is very much in the category of laws, then. While the rights it compels the government to respect are inalienable and universal, the thing itself can be reinterpreted, amended, repealed, or just ignored.
But I think Williamson’s point was more, if you appeal to law, then you cannot exclude the Second Amendment. It is also a law, and as far as these goings go, a higher law than any bill passed by Congress or regulation promulgated by the executive branch.
The right is the underlying moral principle, the law is the codified rule put in place to protect the right.
“place limits on what treatments can be imposed against a person’s will”
And this is considered a bad thing? I understand the moral arguments involved but to just assume that’s not a point of contention is painful.
It ain’t over until Sarah Huckabee Sanders sings.
I’ve got my fingers crossed. I’d be perfectly content to see Trump re-enact Obama’s bitch-faced crybaby performance in the Rose Garden when that Manchin bill went down in flames.
Here’s a nice little non-culture-war link. #OldBoffinStrong
HOW I BUILT LEONARDO DA VINCI’S LATHE
Not quite true though.
What da Vinci came up with was a way of maintaining angular momentum. The bow lathe had been around for thousands of years before Leonardo, and in practiced hands, was quite capable of producing turnings as good as a mechanical lathe.
It was the standard tool upon which lances were made.
Leo’s addition appears to be just the flywheel.
I’m not an expert, but the article does address bow lathes. I do believe this is the first evidence of a non-reciprocal lath.
Pole lathes were being used by bodgers in Britain’s forests until the early 19th century, and they were turning things like banquet table legs on them.
This article has a comment about the treadle lathe, criticizing the practical limit on the rotational speed of such a machine if employed without gears, which I consider somewhat truthy. There are some materials which you really need to have running at high speed to turn effectively.
Are there any examples of lathes of the “great wheel” design being water-driven? Belt and pully setups could trade torque for speed relatively easily there.
The only purpose of the flywheel is to maintain angular momentum. If you have a source of motive power which is pretty consistent, it’s unnecessary. Industrial Revolution-aged machine shops were driving belt-and-pulley systems, but the large wheels inherent in the gearing functioned as their own flywheels to some degree, so the addition of a separate arbor flywheel would have been somewhat redundant – and would have reduced the power train’s efficiency.
I remember seeing somewhere (might have been a tool museum in Western PA) an old lathe with a huge ‘flywheel’ which they used to turn wagon wheels – but I might be misremembering.
Another non-Kulturkampf link.
https://www.lehmiller.com/blog/2015/1/23/11-scientific-facts-about-the-female-orgasm
Pure click bait.
Click, ‘bate, amirite
“Do you remember your assistant principal. Now imagine that person with a gun.”
As I recall, the assistant principal at my high school was a colossal douchebag. He was also an ex-Navy fighter pilot. Nobody would have thought twice about letting him have access to a pistol on school grounds.
Of course, it never occurred to any of us that such a thing might be necessary.
Now that I think about it, it would not surprise me in the least to discover he had a .45 in his desk drawer.
We had a Vice Principal Cummins and a Miss Nudie, which, believe me, was never a source of ribald humor among we sophisticates.
LOL wut? Which HS did you go to?
Porn High
That was middle school. In high school we had a twenty-something hotty blonde, I forget her name, but I’m convinced she was fucking some of the jocks.
We did too. She was a Spanish teacher that was maybe two years out of college, 24 or so, and there were nonstop rumors about which students were nailing her.
Our high school secretary was a gorgeous blonde, the archetypal MILF before it was a term. Maybe early 40s, fantastic body. She didn’t dress like a high school secretary, that’s for sure. She dressed like a businesswoman, but one who wore fairly short skirts and rather high heels.
Kind of sad to think that she’s an old lady now. Or dead, one or the other.
The headmaster at my high school was a former paratrooper. I think he could handle a firearm just fine.
But let’s lower age of consent to 15. For the children.
For sex changes, anyway.
“-about 5% of shooters are mentally ill
-the mentally ill are FAR more likely to be victims than perpetrators
-gun violence is overwhelmingly NOT caused by mental illness. stop stigmatizing and scapegoating them.”
https://twitter.com/gogreen18/status/966520065314062341
Hold up, Laci Green wrote something intelligent?
*checks rest of feed*
OK, stopped clock yada yada, carry on…
She kind of looks like Riley Reid’s less attractive older sister.
Not that I know who that is, of course.
Better complexion and THICCer though.
Profession: “sex educator”.
I’ve always wondered exactly what the fuck that means. If we’re talking pure mechanics, I can teach that in about 15 minutes. If we’re talking underlying chemistry, hormones and mechanisms, I think a biologist or MD would be better qualified. So that leaves all the other PoMo crap that has no basis in reality.
Therefore: I conclude that Professional Sex Educator = Propagandist for Marxist LGBTQWERTY++ Agenda
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DWlJUHYVAAAWdAC.jpg
LOL
tee hee
https://twitter.com/MaxinePWaters/status/966699217157836801
Dammit, I was had! I was took! Bamboozled! Run amuck! Led astray!
In my defense, Maxine Waters is nuts enough that the parody can be difficult to separate from the actual Maxine Waters.
‘Peach 1492!
The number of people who get fooled by that account is quite high. I must admit, that particular tweet got me too.
It’s the fact that Max is off her rocker to begin with. Not hard for people to believe absurd comments came from her.
You would think James Brown would have better taste in music.
“FWIW, Jennifer Lawrence (!) has responded to WarmCoatGate. I disagree with the idea that “anything a woman chooses to do” = feminism. Also, I felt like the whole “Jeremy Irons in chaps business” was a clue I don’t think this is the biggest issue facing the world…”
https://twitter.com/helenlewis/status/966327266212016128
WarmCoatGate??
Was PokiesGate already taken?
Enrollment at The Evergreen State College is plummeting, despite a near 100% acceptance rate. The President of the school blames, well, everyone else (specifically, politically minded social media attacks).
Article is from a professor at Evergreen. I fear that like Bret Weinstein he may soon become a former professor.
Related:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/after-decades-of-growth-colleges-find-its-survival-of-the-fittest-1519209001?mod=trending_now_1
In a just world, places like this would be the first to go; unfortunately public institutions will probably be propped up by the State for a while.
Also related to higher ed bubble:
http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2018/02/gallup-only-23-of-law-school-grads-say-their-education-was-worth-the-cost.html
In talking to a lot of parents recently about college searches, the vast majority told me that they have no intention of funding the stupidity. Look for hardcore, no nonsense schools to do really well in the coming years.
Community college, and fuck your puppetmaster degree, you’re studying auto tech.
And even if you want the four year degree, just do two years of community college and then transfer to a four year school. You get the same degree at a much lower cost.
^^^Absofuckinglutely. Given the way that college costs are exploding, were I to ever have a Q Jr. this is exactly the approach I would take.
1) Go in with a plan for what you will study
2) Demonstrate to me that what you will study will lead to some kind of gainful employment
3) Get your general education requirements out of the way at CC
4) Finish up at the local state school
5) If you wanna go to grad school, you’re on your own
Can confirm: paying out of pocket for my associates. Loving Autocad, actually. So… precise. So liney. WHY YES I’LL FILLET THAT.
Riffing off what I said before to you: Take that, put it close to your heart and run with it. Finding something that you enjoy doing and can provide employment is as precious a gift as you can ever get. Learn everything you can and try to become the best at it.
I had never thought about that – it’s not what I did. But I worked with a guy in Pensacola who was having his kids do exactly that. One of them was at UF after doing two years at Pensacola Junior College, the other was at PJC doing the same thing. They get the same UF degrees as their classmates, but they pay a third less for them.
Plus, if you go to a CC part time, work, and live at home, you can save up quite a bit of money to pay for school.
So… precise. So liney.
Literal lol!
What Q said, dude. My friend installs solar systems and I’ve never seen anyone so jazzed by their work. He’s busy as hell and makes a ton of money. You ask him a question about it and he can go on forever. It’s cool.
Does he do custom planets, or just off the rack planets?
Whatever the mice tell him to build.
He does them all. Well, except Uranus.
Take that, put it close to your heart and run with it.
Well, my real passion is making asinine comments on an internet comment board, but I’ll settle for BIM if it pays.
Well, we are, and will be ‘funding the stupidity’ on a conditional basis. Teenage (at the time) Libertarian Student Daughter will be on the hook for about 50% of her college costs, but it would have been 100% unless she chose one of a (quite generous) list of course/college combinations.
#6.2 is a bit tougher, but the same general rule applies. Once he decides what he’s going to start out studying, there will be a variety of places where – if he gets into them – we will be paying 50%. The other 50% is down to him. Any scholarships he gets will help reduce the overall cost, and will be split evenly between SWMBO/my costs and his.
There’s no way they go thru’ higher ed without some skin(=pain) in the game.
Yes, we are doing the same thing. I only meant funding schools that are actively hostile to my values and in no way get the little bastards ready to make money.
I’m fortunate. I’m getting no pushback from my kids on the standards I’m applying. LSD is getting a bit of hassle from me because of the major she took, but the underlying course is a very solid, traditional “Great Books” Liberal Studies course that I’m supportive of.
#6.2 is currently undecided, but I suspect will be doing a business course. Again, somewhat skeptical because I know it’s no guarantee of a good career in itself, but the schools he’s looking at have good placement programs, solid business connections and in two cases, I should be able to use personal connections to get him into very good firms – assuming he doesn’t change direction.
All of the schools Spawn 1 looked at are very, very career focused. Paid internships during, placement help, etc. I liked their ROI sales pitches, too. He will be attending a hardcore engineering school in the fall that doesn’t have declared majors until after two years. I kind of dig that.
Spawn 2 still has a couple years of HS, but we’ve started the ‘anti-follow-your-dreams’ programming with her, too.
If Spawn 2 is a coffee drinker, a few visits to Starbucks should make the point.
I’m all for following dreams, but when it comes to education and livelihood, practicality comes first. If your dream is to be a painter, you don’t need a degree to do that; you can paint while you’re getting a degree in chemical engineering.
Well, the career choice for LSD is in Catechetical Ministry and is likely to stay that way. Me, not being a papist, finds it weird, but it’s a real job and vastly more valuable to people who value it, than – say – Social Worker. She’ll never become a millionaire, but it’s a niche that has real jobs, and the school she’s at is pretty much the gold standard when it comes to training.
#6.2 – it’s a bit early to make his decision but he has a mind that will probably serve him quite well in business and finance, although he’s probably a reasonably good fit for engineering too, so we’ll see where that leads.
Even better, she has an older cousin who followed her dreams straight to poverty and is now back at home and back in school learning to do something that, you know, pays the fucking bills!
Q’s right. You don’t need a degree to be an artist. Go forth and art.
I have a number of musician buddies who have great non-music careers and still manage to play gigs and have a great time. It’s not that hard.
Or write.
The professional academics did not care for my output. It didn’t pander to their preferences and biases. (My degree is in computing anyway)
Today, in professional-grade resting bitch face:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5421963/Kaia-Gerber-Gigi-Hadid-Lara-Stone-walk-Max-Mara.html
I mean, they’re animated coathangers, so they need to do what they’re told to get paid, but someone needs to stop thinking that Kristen Stewart’s ‘Look’ is attractive.
Kristen Stewart is gorgeous. She just needs to stop dressing like a hobo.
Quit hobothering, shitlord.
She’s a bag of antlers.
Kristen Stewart has the “kinda cute stoner girl next door” look down cold.
Fashion shows are remarkable at taking attractive young women and making them look awful.
Well, to be fair, given how critical women are of each other’s looks, there might be some point in making the potential purchaser say to themselves “I’d look far better in that dress than that arrogant, homely bitch”, but that’s not how fashion shows work, as I understand it.
Voluptuous women attract attention to themselves, not the clothes they are wearing.
Jiggling boobage works for some brands, like Victoria’s Secret because they are about glamour not fashion.
She looks like a still-attractive Elizabeth Hurley, like what from the movies and like.
^^^Yes. Those same attractive young women would also look about an order of magnitude better if they gained 10-15 pounds.
Cigarettes, diet coke and cocaine don’t create a curvy shape, I guess.
This is what just burbled up out of the simmering cauldron of my imagination:
A Winchester saddle carbine, in a Buffalo Bill Cody -style beaded rifle scabbard, with the legend, Shall not be unfringed.
You’re welcome.
“Late last month, the Game Developers Conference announced that it would give its annual Pioneer award to Atari’s co-founder Nolan Bushnell, who ran the company until its sale to Warner in 1976. Advisors likely assumed the award, given to those who “developed a breakthrough technology, game concept, or gameplay design at a crucial juncture video game history,” would be wholly uncontroversial—Bushnell founded Atari, Atari created Pong, Pong’s success spawned the entire gaming industry. Bushnell himself had never been a controversial award recipient before, like in 2009 when he received the coveted BAFTA Fellowship award. But GDC’s announcement was met with significantly more pushback.
A #NotNolan hashtag started up. Women game designers asked GDC to reconsider giving the award to Bushnell in the wake of #MeToo and a heightened awareness of sexism in the workplace. They didn’t say that Atari’s co-founder deserved no recognition—just that holding him up for special honors in 2018 felt like it was sending the wrong message.
Eighteen hours after the award was announced, GDC revoked it, saying that its picks “should reflect the values of today’s game industry.” Bushnell followed up with statement in which he apologized “if my personal actions or the actions of anyone who ever worked with me offended or caused pain,” and said that he “applaud[s] the GDC for ensuring that their institution reflects what is right, especially with regards to how people should be treated in the workplace.”
Over the last week, Kotaku interviewed 12 of Atari’s earliest female employees, in the hopes of hearing their stories—good or bad—about working at Atari in the ‘70s and early ‘80s. The culture they told us about was certainly, as Playboy described it, one of “sex, drugs, and video games,” but one in which all 12 employees say they freely participated, if they participated at all. Many interviewees said it was the best job they ever had, adding that news of Bushnell’s rescinded award struck them as shocking or unfair.”
https://kotaku.com/sex-pong-and-pioneers-what-atari-was-really-like-ac-1822930057
So it was another witch hunt? There’s a fuckin’ surprise.
Hidden Fingers, the Nolan Bushnell story.
I think that GDC has every right to rescind the award if Bushnell didn’t reflect the values of today’s prod-nosed, puritan, social Marxist game industry.
It’s not a club I’d want to be invited to join or associate with anyway.
Today, in professional-grade resting bitch face:
Needs moar raccoon-mask eye makeup.
Today, in only white people can be racist:
https://twitter.com/Lauren_Southern
I’m assuming you’re referring to the lovely comment hashtagged #KillTheBoers. I’m sure Twitter will get right on banning that call to violence… any… minute… now…
Well, something happened. The tweets are gone now (including Southern’s retweets).
Lauren Southern. Would, would, would and twice on Sunday.
Roger that.
In case you were curious Q, the House
KillState, Veterans, and Military Affairs committee did it’s job and all three pro-gun rights bills werekilledpostponed indefinitely on aparty linemajority vote.I figured as much.