Today’s late links are brought to you by Benadryl.
- The French are using giant eagles (or tiny handlers) to fight drones. One presumes by carrying the terms of their unconditional surrender to the other party.
- Looks like the 4th Circuit wants to get smacked down on the 2A by the Supreme Court. Everyone knows that assault rifles just “go off”
- The Atlantic wants you to pay no attention to the entrenched bureaucracy behind the curtain
- Trump to issue new EPA orders. Hopefully, these orders were drafted and reviewed by someone who actually passed law school.
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Hello
Son of a….
show me stater?
Dis ain’t ovah.
Hello Misery. /Illinessian
Hello.
I left a somewhat lengthy comment late last night that most everyone will have missed. It ought to explain what’s been going on out there in the world of Kek for a lot of you.
It was a great summary. I’ve been in on it for a while. “What did you do in the Great Meme Wars, daddy?” ?
My memetic warfare contribution has been to pretend at being an SJW while simultaneously insulting them on Twitter. This permits me to fly under the radar of the rolling bans and squelching while still having an effect. Hilariously, SJWs buy my trolling often. Everyone on our side recognizes the tactics and help to agree and amplify with the occasionally horrific things I’ve said (sometimes I sound AntiFa-like in promoting violence with stupid colorful emojis and a “tell” that it’s all a joke).
I’ve contributed to some memes as well, and rabble rousing when it serves the cause.
I read something on the whole Kek thing…a giant troll operation against the “normies” that is turning into a religion/modern magic thing. Weird.
I found this and am still pondering it.
Yeah, this is one of the funniest strategies. I think they actually got the idea from Trump’s own tactics.
When someone tries to insult you and brand you as something you’re not, accept their label and turn it to your advantage. Sometimes their method of doing that is just to inject even more weirdness into it so that it becomes indefinable. The cult of Kek is mostly a response to the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Clinton campaign branding Pepe as a racist symbol.
The media called Trump a whiner. Even Obama chimed in. And he took the label, accepted it and said (paraphrasing) “Yeah, I’m a whiner. I whine and I whine until I win.”
And yeah, the “weaponized autism” is also referred to as “meme magic.” They realized a fundamental truth: image macros and short quips travel much further than long dissertations that the left refuses to read. You have to hit them hard with something very visual that goes from zero to triggered in a heartbeat.
There’s also a current trend of referring to young kids as OF or IN the internet as opposed to just growing up with it.
The kids know the Left is all fake and are gonna meme a thousand times better than we did.
So supposedly the Future is conservative. Kind of gives one hope.
It’s because kids have a really good sense of how to say exactly the right thing to really upset people. They try a bunch of memes and when the find the right one that makes proggies scream when hit with it, they spread the effective ones and start a cascade of triggering everywhere. Most of us who are old farts to the kids have forgotten how to do this in our path to adulthood.
It’s sad watching the left try to wrangle these methods under their own control (i.e. “this will trigger the right”). They’re so laughably bad at it that all it does is inspire more focused attacks.
It’s probably the first time that I confess that children being little sociopathic monsters can be a good thing.
Hillary bringing up Pepe on the campaign trail was glorious.
You can’t attack kek without making it stronger.
And dismiss it at your peril.
This would have never happened if Virginia Postrel was still in charge.
Who’s got the secret sauce for embedding images? img src doesn’t work
THIS IS A TEST
Did I pass?
reply hazy. try again
apparently the blink tag isn’t supported.
I know a thinly veiled expression of superiority when I see one.
*kicks can, pouts*
The Sacred Order of the Cat’s Ass runs this town
Lol. Well played, sir.
Nice…. I guess that makes me a Feline Nates Major?
Abusing your admin privilege? This beautiful offshoot’s just going to turn into Animal Farm, isn’t it, Napoleon.
::spit take::
Offshoot?
I couldn’t think of a better word.
It’s a fair word. I guess we never really considered what we “were” in that respect. Especially since there is a broad range of reasons for starting this site among the people who did so.
You’re in it for the chicks, right Sloopy?
I thought it was assumed that “broad range” meant “a wide range of broads.”
“Splitters!”
But if he’s snowball, we can run him out…
Snowball?
NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
Snowball was the pig That led the revolt with Napoleon in animal farm. Napoleon ran him out.
He’s the Goldstein to Napoleon.
More like Orwell’s glorified, hagiographic pig version of Trotsky.
Oh and now you abuse the edit feature… This is getting to Stalin levels of corruption here…
Or I’m crazy and didn’t see that link at first…
I remember. Unfortunately, Kevin Smith has ensured that “Snowball” will be Willam Black from now on.
Same with me Sloopy – I can’t make the association without Clerks getting in my head first.
Clerks, not Full Metal Jacket?
What kind of crowd did I fall into here?
John Wayne, is that you?
It would if the path was on the server and you had access to it. Sloopy, please give everyone access to the OS drive now.
SP will literally hunt you down by your IP address and kill you if you lead any of the admins down a bad path.
I have been chided for linking to this site too often, so I will limit it to once a week, SJWednesday.
I bet you didn’t know the gender binary was causing all the problems in the world, alternatively titled “A Banana Rests Harmlessly”
Wow. I checked out their homepage. That is the motherload of all derp.
“6 Questions to Ask If You Have More Privilege Than Your Partner”
“Healing from Toxic Whiteness”
and, probably most useful to their regulars: “Living Through the Fog of a Psychotic Break”
I siphon off my toxic whiteness and use it a degreasing solvent to clean my oven. It works pretty well.
giving a whole new meaning to Mr. Clean…
I use it on my eyes after reading Sugarfree’s work.
Several of us are convinced it’s satire. It has to be.
Andy Kaufmann is alive and running a website…
I remember reading a vegan screed once that declared how unnatural it is for humans to eat meat. According to them humans are not naturally hunters or meat eaters. People who run on feels live in a pretend world that is what they wish the real one is. Good luck with that.
*Over my shoulder people are wiping away tears and declaring in trembly voices that we will soon have people being shot trying to get over the great wall of Trump just like they were when trying to jump the Berlin wall.
And in their minds it was people trying to get in to USSR that were being shot…
Well, a lot of them were in the early 1940s . . .
I guess some vegans don’t believe in evolution. or teeth.
“It doesn’t take much cunning to sneak up on a leaf”
Swiss Kzinti?
Clovis man would like to have a word with them.
Clovis man did put a fine point on it.
Knappy.
forget it bacon, he isn’t coming.
*skulks off*
Resurrecting hawking certainly seems like a wise and fruitful course of action. Hopefully phase two involves destriers charging into the hordes of muslim invaders.
Wow.
Mom will give birth to terminally ill daughter to donate her organs
For this ‘Egoist’, that is one of those as ‘close as to altruism as I can tell.’
Baby organs are probably pretty hard to get. At least until China can sell the ‘this baby is a political dissident so harvest time’ argument.
“Interesting – expound further”
/CCP Central Committee
That’s a fucked up situation, but I don’t have a problem with the mother’s decision. It would take a firm will to be able to go through with something like that.
No kidding.
I’ve got to be honest here, I’m totally digging this place.
A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld Maryland’s ban on assault rifles, ruling gun owners are not protected under the U.S. Constitution to possess “weapons of war,” court documents showed.
Obviously the founders were looking to ban the revolutionary war.
Are they going to come for our Surplus Mosins?
I need my $80 Nugget.
They better stand behind 8 cinder block walls 2 counties away if they want to avoid the wrath of the Mosin.
$80. Haha sucker. I traded a Rick of firewood for mine.
+7.62x54r spam cans
I need my $80 Nugget
Dammit, wish I would’ve gotten in on the whole cheap-Mosin thing years ago. I might be a bit of a masochist, but I love shooting my Finnish one – it just cost me about three times the regular price. Damn if she ain’t a beauty though.
Or the sub $100 SKS packed in beautiful cosmoline…
*reminisces wistfully*
Local place had a couple Finnish Mosins and I was staring them down with intensity. Few beat up SMLEs as well, and a couple pre war Nuggets, which are interesting just for being more rare.
We tried to transfer an AR-15 to MD but it didn’t fit the criteria, which included a “heavy barrel.” So you can have your “assault rifle” as long as it conforms to the arbitrary specs set by the MD legislature.
You just need some pistols and shotguns to keep your state free, I guess. The militia don’t need no weapons of war.
gun owners are not protected under the U.S. Constitution to possess “weapons of war,” court documents showed.
Haven’t looked to see how they define that term, but if it includes “weapons issued to the military”:
(a) It doesn’t cover civilian model ARs.
(b) It covers probably millions of handguns in civilian use.
(c) Its going to catch a lot of shotguns.
(d) Its going to catch a few models of hunting rifles, unless the mods the military puts on them means the civilian models aren’t weapons of war (see, also, ARs).
Here’s hoping SCOTUS takes the appeal and doesn’t fuck it up.
“ruling gun owners are not protected under the U.S. Constitution to possess “weapons of war,”
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
First, all federal gun laws are blatantly unconstitutional. Second, in the miller case that upheld the 1934 NFA, the reason the ban on short barreled shotguns was upheld was that a short barrel shotgun was NOT held to be weapon of war and therfore not covered under the 2nd amendment.
Gun Grabbing anti-constitutionalists can all burn in hell.
There’s no way this doesn’t get tossed. And when it does, MD will probably get hammered as hard as DC did in the Heller case.
Not to be taken as a threat
Gosh man, are you trying to call Preet down on this place?
I get it, but gun stuff really gets me riled up. Guns are what brought me toward Libertarianism in the first place. I don’t believe there is any other political philosophy that actually respects my right to self defense and the means to accomplish it.
Oh don’t worry I wasn’t chastising you, just making the joke that came to my mind when you said it.
I only got into libertarianism for the girls.
🙁
Girls? You were misinformed.
I just had this conversation with a couple of lawyers. One was actually able to comprehend and extend my argument which is basically this:
The second amendment is perfectly clear. “Shall not be infringed” is absolute. So when people ask “Do you think people should be able to have machine guns?” I answer : “The language is clear. Not only can you have machine guns, you can have howitzers, battleships, nuclear missiles…. It might not be a good idea, but that is what the law says.”
At which point the lawyer with a clue said “which is why lazy congressmen should get off their ass and change the law instead of expecting the courts to cover their asses. If you don’t like it, amend the constitution. They have a whole process just for that, and it is pretty easy to do. ”
First and only lawyer I’ve heard that gets it. And I liked the interesting spin that it is the responsibility of the lawmakers to address this situation, not just the courts.
That has been my position for a number of years!
/Glances down at IL ARDC card
I have given that same response to many a person about gun control.
If you don’t like the second amendment, then change it. There is a process for it.
That was my Constitutional Law professor’s discussion on it, as well. There’s a perfectly usable amendment process, use that, but the 2nd says what it says and pretending it doesn’t, weakens the protections of everything else as well.
Ya. I could get on board with a constitutional amendment granting US govmt the power to regulate (in the modern sense of the word) stuff needed to make nuclear weapons. I’d want to see the wording off course, and I’d want to grant as little power as possible to get the job done, but I’d be OK with that.
The Atlantic wants you to pay no attention to the entrenched bureaucracy behind the curtain
I read a couple of “deep state” apologia, the other day; probably not that one.
They boiled down to, “We’re not as bad as Egypt or Turkey, so stop talking about a ‘deep state’ you anti-government freaks!”
Egypt’s deep state is at least still doing its job, Turkey’s crapped out recently.
I work with a guy from Turkey. He believes that it was a kind of deep-state who tried to kill Erdogan but svrewed it up. He tells me they were the same guys who helped him purge the army and bury Ataturk’s secular state.
Wouldn’t be surprising. Rely on “the generals” to step in every time and sooner or later someone will realize that the place to start is with those same generals, rather than passing legislation.
Looks like the 4th Circuit wants to get smacked down on the 2A by the Supreme Court.
I wonder if journalists who use the word ‘assault rifle’ realize how stupid they sound.
English Language 101.
Assault is a verb.
I think they realize that they sound authoritative and knowledgeable and that they perfectly conveyed just how dangerous those killing machines are. And they probably realize that they are wicked-awesome and the proles are all just illiterate idiots.
Or how pointless the ban is. Does their ban define assault rifle?
A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld Maryland’s ban on assault rifles, ruling gun owners are not protected under the U.S. Constitution to possess “weapons of war,” court documents showed.
You can have my stone axe when you pry it from my cold dead fingers.
What about bow hunters? Flintlock gun collectors? Hell, people use their fists in war when TSHTF. They gonna start lopping hands in Balmer next?
Weapons of war, now that’s a fun rabbit hole to go down. What is classified as a weapon of war? Honestly, what hasn’t been used, at some point, as a weapon during a war? If the Jason Bourne movies are to be believed, and they are the most realistic movies out there, anything can be used to kill your opponent.
It would ban us from possessing dirty bombs, biological weapons, poison gas, white phosphorus, and canister munitions for use against human targets. And probably a couple of others I can’t remember.
You mean it wouldn’t prohibit ownership of those weapons, as those are no longer weapons of war. At least in the sense that they are banned in war.
Right, right. Shit. I can’t keep their current stance straight.
Sweet! I can finally start planting those land mines again.
A new meaning to ‘get off my lawn’
“Bouncing Betty here says, ‘go ahead, step on my lawn'”
+1 Farnham’s Freehold
+1 FRONT TOWARD ENEMY
Ball point pens, staplers, 2×4. I’ve lots of stuff in war movies kill people.
I understand machetes are very popular is parts of sub-Sahara africa.
Napolitano’s argument goes: Since all the rights of the government only come from the People, it’s impossible to give the government rights that the people don’t have. So allowing the government to have weapons of war, while the People don’t, makes no sense.
The problem is that far too many of the People believe it’s just the opposite. We’ve conditioned ourselves as a society to believe that our ‘rights’ (and that word has lost all meaning) come from the government. I’m not sure how we got to bickering over cherry picked language in individual amendments when the founders were pretty clear the intent of what they were trying to create. Then I don’t understand why so many want to be ruled by some jackasses 2000 miles away either.
And the walking sticks that the WWI officers used to carry – banned.
And the pistols – banned.
And the clubs they used for scouting out No Man’s Land – banned.
And bayonets – banned.
Rick Danko, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel, and Robbie Robertson – Band
Levon Helm, you philistine!
Swagger sticks aren’t much for walking. I’m surprised they haven’t made a comeback. Sure you can’t use them to rectify malingerer anymore but a much better pointing tool for PowerPoint slides than a laser point.
Personally, I’ve always had my eye on the RSM’s pace stick. Now there’s a badge of office.
What the heck is wrong with David Frum and his TDS?
Shut it Rufus, keep him down there, if we’re lucky he’ll be America’s problem forever.
*petitions for deporting Frum to Newfoundland*
Now you’ve gone and done it. Sessions is going after benadryl.
In other news:
At least some in the media are honest
The military is designing mittens of leather and Kevlar, an anti-blast material, to protect their talons,” Agence France-Presse reported.
Great. The talons will be pristine as the charred carcass falls to earth.
To be fair, fighting against radical Islamic Arabs is one of the few times I’d go “yep, they’re probably not going to be able to shoot that eagle down.”
Only if Allah will it! (Which he rarely does when it comes to marksmanship)
Its the new Chinese way of increasing the chichen foot market!
This one was too rough for the actual post.
Ouch
36 hours? Jesus, Stephen Hawking could beat someone to death with a bat faster than that.
I laughed out loud. Like literally out loud, not metaphorically. There’s something wrong with a person who would laugh at that.
I laughed too, so at least there will be a fellow glibertarian to hang out with in the circle of hell we are headed to.
I’ll be meeting you guys there. Good one sloopy! And by good, I mean horrible…in a good way.
Welp. Looks like it’s a party.
After a few centuries the burning pitch feels like warm bathwater – so I’ve heard.
I’ll save you all a seat at the bar.
I hear its a dry heat.
OMG you mean we’re going to Phoenix?
67 year old lady. Claims she had been smoking “Love Boat” with her 63 year old beau the night before. I’m guessing she’s not quite Sammy Sosa.
I didn’t read the article. Had to be Florida?
DC. Maybe we’ll get lucky and that will become an epidemic there.
Hopefully she was dating a senior bureaucrat?
Whoa….
PEOPLE confirms
More like DEAD PEOPLE, ammirite?
*strongly narrows gaze*
Yes! My first @ Glibs
Speaking of TDS- it occurs to me that one reason so many people are outraged by Trump is their slavish reverence for the Imperial Presidency and the personality cult-ism it engenders. They revere the President is a lordly higher being; someone to be revered. Then, one day, they discover the court jester has ascended to the throne.
It’s like a Catholic waking up to find Pee Wee Herman has been chosen as the new Pope.
My feeble hope is to see them awaken from their slumber and recognize the folly of devotion to government and the vermin who run it.
What? If PeeWee Herman was the new Pope I would absolutely become a Catholic. Are you saying you wouldn’t?
especially of Larry Fishburn could turn Cowboy Curtis into Cardinal Curtis
I challenged Trump to a swim across the Tiber one day. He called out, “Help me, I’m drowning.!” When I went back to help him, he threw his toupee in my face and called me low energy as he climbed up on victory point.
This was part of my criticism of The Other Side’s coverage. It was less about the Imperial Presidency, however, and more about a general unconscious bias towards viewing politicians as a whole with a TOP MAN ideal. I never saw a Reason writer try to psychoanalyze a career politician. But then Trump is elected and suddenly it’s Armchair Psychology day. They’re willing to hold Trump to a standard above other politicians, and I argue that it’s a product of a TOP MAN bias.
“Oh, Obama can’t be a narcissist, he’s in the public service, and speaks so calmly and rhetorically. But Trump, he’s a narcissist, he’s a boorish capitalist.”
How many R writers do you think pulled the lever for Obumbles? My guess: all but one or two.
I suspect you’re wrong, especially in 2012, however, I’m curious who are your 2?
This should be easy enough to check for someone less lazy than me. For the last few cycles they’ve posted who they’re voting for. IIRC, “not voting” is the number 1 choice.
the court jester has ascended to the throne
Stolen.
it occurs to me that one reason so many people are outraged by Trump is their slavish reverence for the Imperial Presidency and the personality cult-ism it engenders
Is it reverence for the Imperial Presidency, or just for Obama? I will give it to you that the air of Messiah worship surrounding Obama for 8+ years has been absolutely disturbing, but I’m not sure we’ve seen anything like it before. Even popular ex-Presidents like Reagan and Clinton weren’t treated with the same reverence that Obama gets.
Even most liberals would admit to Bill Clinton being a piece of shit if you pressed hard enough, but fall back on him being “our piece of shit.”
Very much so. My recollection of the liberal reaction to Clinton’s misogyny is that it was, basically, “Oh, Bill, you horny old rascal! Just can’t keep it in your pants, can you?”
King Verence des a pretty good job.
of course, I don’t.
‘does’
Now you’ve gone and done it. Sessions is going after benadryl
In other news:
At least some in the media are honest
The French are using giant eagles (or tiny handlers) to fight drones.
The Falconist
Ok, now you’ve done it, Sessions is going after benadryl.
Last night I had to make a run to Walgreens for the wife who is down with the flu. I had to wait around to get the good stuff from behind the counter because “the man” is all worried that I’m about to cook up some meth.
He, Donald! you wanna do something of use with that executive order pen? Get rid if the idiotic restrictions on sudafed.
Thanks, Don. I’ll be over here while I wait…..
Yeah, the war on ephedrine is absurd. I’m not even sure who started that crap, but without looking I’m going to guess that John McCain and/or Chuck Schumer had their hands in it.
If I followed the rabbit trail correctly, it looks like it was Bart Stupak in the house and Slade Gorton in the senate.
There’s no way those names are real.
I remember Slade!
I think the last time I actually laughed at something Colbert did was when he made a joke about going out and buying some meth, then some getting some matches, some anti-freeze and renting a hotel room …. so he could make some Sudafed, because he had already bought up his monthly allotment and he couldn’t breathe.
In other news:
At least some in the media are still honest
“Trump to issue new EPA orders.”
I have coal beneath the dirt on my property. There is not a lot, most of it was dug out in the 1930s. I currently cannot extract the coal from property for any use without a mountain of permission slip that I can not afford. I would like Trump to disband the EVA so that I can dig out the coal on my place, convert my wood heater to coal, and never have to cut anymore firewood.
At least some in the media are still honest
Is posting links broken? I just tried 3 times, no go.
Here is a random link about posting links.
I will say this, a preview button would be nice. Not that I would use it properly. They just look nice.
Thanks, bro. I’m a software engineer, I don’t really need a HTML guide. It just isn’t working for me, not sure why. I posted links yesterday.
Yeah. I posted the link as a test. Hence the random use of whatever was the top link on google. Now we have our answer. It’s just you. It is probably Weigel griefing you.
There’s something in that link that will not let it be posted here as a link:
“https://news.grabien.com”
“story-brzezinski-our-job-control-exactly-what-people-think”
There’s something in that link that will not let it be posted here, even as text. Weird. The link is on drudge right at the top:
MSNBC BRZEZINSKI: ‘OUR JOB’ TO CONTROL ‘EXACTLY WHAT PEOPLE THINK’…
https://news.grabien.com/story-brzezinski-our-job-control-exactly-what-people-think
Wow. In my head I picture him saying that on a Sunday morning news show while the South Park “THIS IS WHAT THEY ACTUALLY BELIEVE” blinks across the bottom.
I can do it. It’s just confusing because there’s 3 fields to fill: Text, URL, and Hover Text. I can’t figure what the TEXT field is for.
I just hand type links. The problem is that right now, it stopped working for me. I even tried to noob way and it doesn’t work. I hit post comment and the entire comment disappears. I’m gonna try restarting the browser, must be a browser issue.
Well, shit. This link will just not work. If anyone cares, you can cut and paste the URL, that works.
https://news.grabien.com/story-brzezinski-our-job-control-exactly-what-people-think
another try
something in this that won’t let it work here as a hperlink
story-brzezinski-our-job-control-exactly-what-people-think
Pbbbt. Hand type. Real developers post their comments in vi.
You are probably one of those new-fangled fancy-pants guys who reads the web in emacs.
How can feminists reach conservative white women?
More than half of white women voted for Donald Trump. How can feminists reach out to them?
“Why did white women vote so differently to Latinas and black women? In Our Separate Ways: Black and White Women and the Struggle for Professional Identity (2003), the authors Ella L. J Edmondson Bell and Stella M Nkomo find that because white women grow up in households where they are accustomed to having access to power through their white fathers and husbands, we expect that patriarchal power will also be accessible to us. We “can get caught up in assimilating white male models of behaviour,” becoming “competitive, instrumental, and individualistic”.
“Black women, by contrast, grow up in communities of resistance and under the shadow of racism. White women don’t expect to have to struggle in the same way. Given these conditions, how can feminists reach very conservative white women?…
“Becoming a feminist is a massive shift in world view. For very conservative, white, heterosexual women it involves giving up what might otherwise seem to be your few remaining privileges: the social affirmation of motherhood, the security of family and tradition, the approval of the community….
“What do highly conservative white women need to hear in order to think feminism has anything to do with them? The first thing they may want to hear is that they are important and we want to listen. The radical feminists of the 1960s and 1970s argued loudly and often about the importance of listening to women. And lesbians are particularly good at listening because our primary commitments are to other women.”
How can feminists reach conservative white women?
…
The radical feminists of the 1960s and 1970s argued loudly and often about the importance of listening to women.
“Listening” = “You shut the fuck up and fall in line, you stupid WASP bitches.” And if those women don’t accept said listenings, they’ll be declared gender traitors or some such.
^This. The stench of their desperation is heavy.
Its coming out of their whatevers
I know we all have made this point before, but how the general public doesn’t immediately identify this kind of thought as racist, sexist and demeaning, is astounding to me.
“Black women, by contrast, grow up in communities of resistance and under the shadow of racism”
Give me a break. FFS, these people think we’re still living a hundred years ago. Worse, that is the world they want to live in.
Stuff like this is utterly bizarre to people outside of the United States. I wonder why a great deal of the world thinks you live in an ignorant racist dystopia?
Because those people have the loudest voices & they won’t STFU and realize we are in fact one of the least ignorant and racist places on earth.
This. If you think the US is a horribly racist place, try spending some time as a racial minority in Asia or southern Europe.
“There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.”
Booker T. Washington, 1911
They might. After all, there’s a reason so many women voted against the feminist #I’mWithHer party line.
Stop posting nonsense like “Healing from Toxic Whiteness” for starters.
Tone your feminism down to like 4% of your max and suddenly they’ll be more interested.
It’s your beliefs, stupid. They disagree with you.
I so want to steal that, but the only people I would use it with are friends and family, whom is like to keep…
(I luckily work in a very libertarian company)
Try not running a crooked, incompetent, evil bitch who’s only achievement ever was marrying a successful man.
Are we talking about actual 60’s and 70’s feminists, or are we talking about third-wave feminists, because there’s a world of difference between those groups. That’s like comparing Rousseau to Pol Pot.
They’re just not femsplaining it right. They need to femsplain harder.
For very conservative, white, heterosexual women it involves giving up what might otherwise seem to be your few remaining privileges: the social affirmation of motherhood, the security of family and tradition, the approval of the community….
Or maybe the feminists could try adopting those things for themselves.
So they are arguing that women should give up on motherhood and family? Because I can tell you there is a reason those digital affirmations exist, and they both aren’t going away. Think survival of the species… (Of course we know femenist are no good at evolution
Becoming a feminist means that you have to accept a victimhood identity. Maybe happy, married, family oriented, women (not just white women) are happy in their lot and are interested in conserving it. Maybe they don’t want to buy into the destructive to the family ideology of the mode feminist movement.
I’m remembering how stunning and brave Murphy Brown was for having a child without a man. From that point on single-motherhood became the woke thing to do.
And Dan Quayle’s bitching about it was the Republican party in microcosm during that time.
“Why did white women vote so differently to Latinas and black women?”
Stupid question. The answer is: The patriarchy. She has to femthink harder.
This isn’t rocket surgery, married women are more likely to vote Republican/conservative, single women (especially single mothers) are more likely to vote Democrat/liberal because caring for children takes a shit ton of resources, resources belonging to men/financially stable families. In other words, each are voting for their own interests, single women/mothers for the stolen “free shit”/ married women to stop their shit from being stolen.
Statistically, white women are more likely to be married than Hispanic and black women. Hence, more white women are willing to vote Republican than black and Hispanic women.
The majority of poverty in this country can be solved by making single motherhood a stigma and the majority of crime can be solved by legalizing drugs. But you are a considered crazy and the world’s biggest asshole if you suggest either, so we continue to do the same thing over and over again expecting different results.
you could “Grab ’em by the pus…:
I can dig out the coal on my place, convert my wood heater to coal, and never have to cut anymore firewood.
I used to know a guy who lived in an old cabin with nothing but the original fireplace for heat. He found some coal along the railroad tracks one day, and decided to burn some in the fireplace. He said that coal burned so hot he had to open all the windows.
That would be great. I use wood as my primary heat source. (I have an out door wood burning heater) I spend a lot of effort that I would rather not cutting firewood to make my house warm.
Anyone else get random posts with no reply button on them? I’m using the computer, not the phone…so the entire screen is being used.
Once a string of replies reaches the right side of the screen, the reply button gets lost. At least that’s my experience.
So the far-right comments can’t be replied to?
So yokel. Much bigot.
Only when threading gets very deep.
These euphemisms…
Someone should tell Brooks. It’d basically be an “align right” for him.
Our job is to control what people think
ANOTHER TRY…
The French are using giant eagles (or tiny handlers) to fight drones. One presumes by carrying the terms of their unconditional surrender to the other party.
Nice
Right here, this is how you keep commenters. *waves flag of the Glibertarians*(yes, all of your thoughts on what this flag should be would be appreciated.)
A monocle hovering above toiling orphans, with “Fuck off, slaver” below…maybe in Latin to be all classy?
My avatar may be appropriate, Seeing as we libertarians are all for child labor.
Picture of a middle finger?
My submission, I googled “glib freedom”. My skills are predicated on google having an image. ‘Cuz I eat crayons.
What flag?
My avatar? Just needs some orange background and we be rockin dat flag.
I have my theory on which one of you did this.
Neigh, no one would do that around here. Hay, you might want to canter off to another site to check it out.
I saw a story the other day about a gardener being arrested for being caught raping a dog in some dudes yard. People be weird.
BItch be lyin!
Give a dog a bone.
It’s a song, saying and now action.
I was wondering who here did this. At least we know it wasn’t OMWC.
Smells like Crusty’s handiwork.
Pro-abortion-rights feminist acknowledges that coerced abortions actually are a thing
“The bigger problem with viewing abortion through the restrictive lens of “choice” is that the conversation completely sidesteps the reasons that may lead to an unintended or unwanted pregnancy in the first place.
“Research has shown that between 6 and 22 per cent of women who seek an abortion also report experiences of intimate partner violence, in which that violence forms the basis for the decision to terminate the pregnancy itself.
“Indeed, some men use forced pregnancies (through birth control sabotage, for example) as a tool of control to keep their partner from leaving them, or simply as continuity of their abuse.
“Physical violence often begins when a women is pregnant, or can escalate if violence is already present in the relationship….
“When ‘choice feminism’ focuses solely on women’s unrestricted access to abortion and contraception, it misses the opportunity to discuss issues like pregnancy coercion, men’s refusal to wear condoms, and forced abortion — in other words, the limitations of women’s choices in abusive circumstances.”
Just to be clear about her bona fides as a prochoice feminist, a couple of quotes to prove her allegiance:
“…a pro-life political position that fails to trust in women’s equality, which places foetal rights above the mental and physical health of a woman, and doesn’t recognise women in law as agents capable of making informed choices, is incompatible with feminist politics.”
and
“Rachel Hirsch is currently completing her PhD at the University of Melbourne. Her research examines the links between sexual violence and Australian football, with an emphasis on the intersections between sport, law, and culture. She has an avid interest in feminist theory and politics, and proudly lives in a home filled with cats.”
Parody profile? Has to be a parody, right?
*head-desk*
Don’t you dare take away my beloved footy, bitch.
I must go now, the AS400 needs me.
(God, I hate that system)
Crikey, those still exist?
Unfortunately, yes. But that is always my thought too. Its like the 1990s all over again.
Wow. You just gave me flashbacks. We had a bunch of terminals on an old, old AS400. The terminal servers were in the pipe chase on each floor, and every now and then they would freeze up. So we’d get a bunch of calls that “the system is frozen”.
The remedy was to go down to the pipe chase and press the reset button on the terminal server.
I’m way too lazy for that.
So I wired into the reset button and ran the wire all the way back to the IT office. And then I wrote a little program to ping each of the terminal servers. If they didn’t respond, I’d send a signal out the serial port where one of the guys in the electronics shop had rigged up a set of relays to push the button for me.
Dumbest thing in the history of dumb things. But it worked like a champ and I never got another call about the system freezing up. So we spent 3 days busting our ass to get it working, and eliminated a couple of work interruptions each day for a bunch of users.
Lazy can be really productive, if properly applied.
At my first IT job, they had all of these old inline printers running, printing packing slips and invoices all day non-stop. They had an entire room for that with these two older ladies who had been there for like 40 years, typing that stuff up all day. I started talking to one of them one day and she had a rubber mallet lying on her desk. I asked her what it was for and she told me that the IT guy that had been there before, the one that slept in his office most of the day (the office being a hall closet converted to office) gave it to her and told her that if the printer ‘froze up’ to just hit it with that and only bother him if that didn’t work.
One department in a company I worked for needed someone lazy to streamline their process. They had documentation faxed to them daily, these faxes were converted to PDF and put into a shared Outlook folder. Each person in the department would find “their” documents, print them out to the printer. Pick up the printout, and scan them back into PDF to put into a new location. They did this for years…
One company I worked for, they had no shared data. No database of any type, or any way to enter data. All of the managers had their own spreadsheet on their desktop with their data. In meetings they would sit around and argue for 2 hours about whose data was right.
What was the one where a guy put a pin on the end of an old computer cd tray and wrote a script to open the cd tray every x hours to push a server reset button… That was pretty classic.
Ah, the AS 400. The store room where I work is still using that. I’m 29 years old. I think that system is older than I am.
I had the pleasure of working on one of the first AS/400s released into the wild. This was in 1988, so it is very close to being older than you.
we just migrated off of our old AS400 system right about a year ago.
we could do almost anything on that system, the new system is far less amenable to workarounds and cleverness
Submitting without comment because thinking about this too hard may make my brain melt.
Truly, his power is great. Is there nothing he cannot do?
“Is there nothing he cannot do?”
By himself, yes there are a few things. But when he merges with Putin and becomes the TRUMPUTIN, truly nothing is beyond his grasp. I mean, after all, he hacked our democracy. Who can hack our democracy?
Robert Reich …. I’m at a loud for words to explain my feelings about him…
Advanced dungeons and dragons is better than regular dungeons and dragons.
#Trumpocalypse
I’m just waiting for the part where they run out of PUTIN!, and go straight on to space aliens or bigfoot, whichever comes first.
STEVE SMITH NO MAKE TRUMP DO THINGS, HE JUST PARTY WITH HIM THAT ONE TIME.
Clowns
My first thought was “parody account.”
Yep, people don’t have agency, events occur because they are willed into existence by Trump’s rhetoric.
I need to start selling Trump-repelling rocks.
Here’s one at the top.
Anwar al Awlaki says hi.
I’ve seen derpbook progs claim that the riots were a false flag. They are desperate.
These are the people who think intentions or just saying something makes it come true, so I see where he is coming from. Fortunately for us it doesnt work that way.
Our plunge into darkness, courtesy of You-Know-Who
The United States has no ministry of culture. In this vacuum, the N.E.A., founded in 1965, serves three critical functions: It promotes the arts; it distributes and stimulates funding; and it administers a program that minimizes the costs of insuring arts exhibitions through indemnity agreements backed by the government. This last, perhaps least-known responsibility, is crucial. This fall, the Met will host a major exhibition on Michelangelo that will bring together masterpieces from across the world. The insurance valuation is a whopping $2.4 billion — not even our museum, the largest art museum in the nation, could come close to paying the premium for such coverage without the federal indemnity the N.E.A. makes possible.
No Ministry of Culture? No wonder Hillary lost!
Jesus Christ. these people never read 1984. Or maybe they did…
I know, right? WIthout federal support for the arts, it’s no wonder the voters supported Trump and his Orwellian agenda!
But who could be against a Ministry of Love? It’s about love!!
They think it’s a guide book.
^this^
When you can read 1984 and believe that being pro-big brother makes you part of the revolution, you’ve truly lost your grip on reality.
^This^
“See? Without an enormous government sucking the productivity out of the economy, we couldn’t have art exhibits!”
“Michelangelo”
Well, it’s a good think that guy was able to rely on a Ministry of Culture, or he would have never done anything, amirite?
These people don’t realize that a ministry of culture actually proves how massively inefficient and irrational the state is. Art is inherently a solipsistic product, it serves no other function than for its own sake. Any public funding for art is either a waste of money that could be directed to their supposed goals, or used to create propaganda to prop up the state.
+1% for art requirement
It’s gotten so that new road projects have these scrap metal heaps by the side of the road just to meet that idiotic requirement. Or an installation on top of the roof of a new building where no one will ever see other than the HVAC mechanic.
according to Forbes:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Met would die without that $13 million of government support.
There was an econtalk back in 2015 I think where the guest argued that the law should be changed allowing museums to sell off the art that is never going to be displayed to help with revenue.
Basically, any decent size museum is displaying a small percentage of their art at any time, and maybe 10% will ever see the light of day.
So the NEA is backstopping losses just like Fannie and Freddie.
So what is the insurance premium? Conveniently not mentioned.
Why would it matter if the artwork no longer was sent to other museums and people traveled to see the art? International travel is relatively cheap these days. Other than these type of traveling shows are money makers for both the sending and exhibiting museums.
I’m also guessing that the valuation is just a dart thrown at a number. It’s irreplaceable really but as a number, and it’s too expensive to exhibit, then it’s probably a net negative value just to store it indefinitely. Adjust accordingly.
I fear that this current call to abolish the N.E.A. is the beginning of a new assault on artistic activity. Arts and cultural programming challenges, provokes and entertains; it enhances our lives. Eliminating the N.E.A. would in essence eliminate investment by the American government in the curiosity and intelligence of its citizens. As the planet becomes at once smaller and more complex, the public needs a vital arts scene, one that will inspire us to understand who we are and how we got here — and one that will help us to see other countries, like China, not as enemies in a mercenary trade war but as partners in a complicated world.
Without government support and encouragement, art will be a thing of the past. Art does not arise from the hearts and imaginations of individuals; creativity, like rights, must be conjured up out of thin air and bestowed upon those deemed deserving, by government bureaucrats.
“I’m glad I had the opportunity to watch that nude interpretive dance…it really enhanced my understanding of this complex and changing world! I’m still trying to figure out the meaning of that thing with the chickens, but maybe it was intended as a reassurance that the Chinese government wasn’t waging a mercenary trade war.”
I’m too lazy to look it up, but the Bastiat quote would seem appropriate here.
Why is it they never pull out renaissance Florence to bolster this argument?
Is Renaissance Florence one of the supporting characters in a chick flick? You know, the protagonist’s eccentric friend who encourages her to overcome her shyness and stand up for herself?
Don’t be so silly. She’s the sassy waitress at Mel’s Diner known to invite one to hiss her grits, you philistine. Pretty sure the grits thing is a euphemism.
all of your thoughts on what this flag should be would be appreciated
A small, helpless, wounded dog being devoured by a pack of bigger, stronger dogs.
With DEATH TO THE WEAK below.
Maxine Waters is the gift that keeps on giving.
I can’t laugh about her any longer. I think she’s honest-to-goodness schizophrenic. She needs help.
Even Chris Hayes is looking at her like she tucks her shirt into her panties.
and people make fun of Trump’s hair. her wig creeps me the fuck out.
You are thinking of Hank Johnson. Waters is just a shill with an IQ below 60.
Functional retard. The problem with quoting her in text is one misses how ridiklis she sound when sayin’ it.
Although, you have to admit that it would be impossible for anyone to say that and not sound ridiculous.
Fo sho
You have to wonder why these people did not just stay with ‘mo free shit’, that was actually working.
Go gata!
Wait, that was a Corrine Brown.
Jesus, that woman was insanely stupid too.
Maxine Waters is the Black Caucus version of Nancy Pelosi. She eats lead paint, folks.
I see we’re running on the 90s definition of ‘hacking’ again. A.K.A. Not hacking.
“Hacked into our election” She really has no idea what she’s saying, just repeating the current holy words.
Good morning, QueerGlibertarianRightWingWackos!
The simple fact that Maxine Waters has been elected to Congress repeatedly is enough to make me think the American system of public education is an abject failure, and cannot be replaced in its entirety soon enough.
It makes me suspicious it’s all going according to plan.
It makes me think the Joozians at the network are planning a plot twist for “Earth”.
Anytime some asshole tries to make it about race, I present to you one John McCain. Is there something in the water in AZ? Lead?
I’ve had a long time to think about this, and at first I was against, but now for. We need term limits. 4 terms in Congress, period, then that person goes home and assumes life as a private citizen, banned for life from ever serving in public office again, as a bureaucrat, and cannot be involved in lobbying of any kind under severe penalty of law.
Right away we get rid of Waters, McCain, Schumer, Feinstein, and more. What’s not to like?
I’d settle for term limits right away. The rest of that stuff has no chance of passing. But I think term limits could be sold pretty easily.
Last night I had a long phone conversation with a old high school friend and long-time Democrat.
He started ranting about how much he hated Donald Trump – and always has since the 80s. I don’t some much in reply because I don’t want to damage the few friendships that I have left.
After calming down he say that the reason that Trump won is because “the Left” has overreached: specifically pushing transgender rights, the bathroom wars, and trying to move the culture war too soon and too fast. And also the term “flyover country”; the attempt to make the left and right coasts the centers of cultural and political power.
Anyhoo- he’s an interesting guy but suffers from the only child mentality (he doesn’t play well with others) and some Aspie-ness (like me!).
I’ve got only one lefty friend that I’ll talk politics with. He actually will admit that I honestly believe that my preferred system would help the poor more than his preferred system. I won’t argue politics with any friends, acquaintances or co workers unless they at least give me that for starters.
And here we go
Ellison, Ellison, woot woot!
Democrats say that Trump isn’t denouncing anti-Semitism hard enough and then go ahead and elect an honest to goodness anti-Semite to head their party.
Just don’t try to discourage them. Go Ellison!
I’ve been listening to a Podcast called Wrongful Conviction
First episode is an interview with one of the Central Park Five and how he was railroaded into becoming a suspect in the rape of a jogger. Disturbing. The second episode dealt with Barry Gibbs, who served 17 years for a crime he didn’t commit – thanks to a cop who was working as a hit man for the mob. Also some discussion on prosecutors and their lake of accountability.
not meant as a reply – derp.
Maybe Barry didn’t commit that murder, but look what he did to music in the 70’s. I say put him back in.
We need term limits. 4 terms in Congress, period, then that person goes home and assumes life as a private citizen, banned for life from ever serving in public office again, as a bureaucrat, and cannot be involved in lobbying of any kind under severe penalty of law.
My version was (I think) 12 years; up to two terms as Senator. Then released back into the wild, to be shot on sight if they return to the Beltway for any reason.
“Then released back into the wild, to be shot on sight if they return to the Beltway for any reason.”
+1 rule I like
Late links? Brett L is Robby Soave. You heard it here first.
I’d settle for term limits right away. The rest of that stuff has no chance of passing. But I think term limits could be sold pretty easily.
Montana has term limits, and the
good government partylefties are incessantly bleating about lack of continuity and “good people needlessly forced out of public service”.*I’m taking a flyer on a strikethrough; fingers crossed.
This is one of the rare situations where the left is often quite honest that what they really want is to grab power – because they can pass it off as bringing more free shit to their subjects.
Ha!
As of a few moments ago, the top five stories on You Know Where have a combined total of 19 comments between them, and those stories have been up for a while now.
So much of the content I consumed over there was actually created by commenters. That’s what they’re missing out on over there. It ain’t our page views they’re losing–it’s the free content. They didn’t have to pay us to write content for their site.
I’d post to both sites, but today I’m having a hard time finding something over there worth responding to. It really is about interacting with you people.
I’m not consciously avoiding the place, but if all I can interact with over there is sock puppets, after a while, I’ll stop looking.
I stopped looking a while ago Ken. You hit the nail on the head. Even the idiocy they wrote (Dalmia, Suderman, chapman) would generate a lot of interesting comments.
Completely agree. I used to check that other place fairly regularly throughout the day on my days off, but since this site started I find myself only looking over there maybe a few times a day. Not much to respond to over there, and there’s only so much entertainment in getting Hihn all worked up.
wait, he’s over there?
When I checked some comments yesterday I saw a bit of a Hinhfection going on.
I miss that loon.
Pewdiepie’ latest video response to the WSJ.