ZARDOZ’S FRIDAY NIGHT LINKS

ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. THE GUN IS GOOD… AND THESE LINKS ARE ALSO GOOD. GO FORTH AND COMMENT!

  • HIS AURA SMILES AND NEVER FROWNS?
  • CHICAGO CONTINUES TO SEE ACTIVE BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS.
  • IRONY ALERT OR JUST BAD LUCK?
  • ZARDOZ HOPING SPANISH AND ENGLISH BRUTALS FIGHT OVER SPIT OF LAND…AGAIN.
  • PAKISTANI TALIBAN LAUGH AT CHICAGO BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS, SAY “TRY HARDER”.
BRUTAL ENFORCERS, ZARDOZ’S CHOSEN ONES! DO NOT CROSS THEM.

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187 responses to “ZARDOZ’S FRIDAY NIGHT LINKS”

  1. Hyperion

    It’s getting late have you seen my mates?

    Tell me when the boys get here

    It’s nine o’clock and I want to rock

    Want to get a belly full of beer…

  2. Hyperion

    I’m drunker than a barrel full of monkeys

    And my old lady she don’t care

    Your sister looks cute in her braces and boots

    Gotta getta handful of of her hair

  3. Hyperion

    Oh, don’t give us none of your aggravation

    We had it with your discipline

    Oh, Friday night’s alright for linkin

    Get a little action in here…

  4. Hyperion

    Wait… was that for Saturday night?

    1. Let me guess, you passed out last Saturday and are just waking up now?

      1. quincy

        Don’t other the flexibly scheduled!

      2. Hyperion

        Hmm, my hibernation chamber and me-clone cyborg are working as planned… more time to make up stupid lyrics… all going as planned…

  5. Brawndo

    Happy Friday glibs.

    OT: Anyone here play Dark Souls 3? Last DLC just came out, and it’s been confirmed they’re done making Souls games. After playing through it, I’m impressed at how well they were able to end the series, but I’m certainly gonna miss it.

    I’ve got that feeling you get when you finish a great book; it was a great time, but you know you’ll never get to experience it again for the first time.

    1. Hyperion

      Didn’t they just release a new DLC? I’m not a fan at all. But maybe because I got off to a bad start with the series. I’m a PC gamer strictly. I bought the first one as soon as it was released on PC. And it was impossible. Not because of the notorious difficulty of the game, I’m a long time (since 2007) player of action RPGs, but because the controls were so freaking bad you couldn’t play it. I waited for months with various hacks and patches that were supposed to fix the game, and just gave up. And even then, I think the game is more action and less RPG, which is not so much for me.

      1. John Titor

        I’m a long time (since 2007) player of action RPGs, but because the controls were so freaking bad you couldn’t play it. I waited for months with various hacks and patches that were supposed to fix the game, and just gave up.

        Dark Souls (and it’s collective sequels, though it improved as time went on) is nowhere near terrible in terms of controls, it stresses patience and careful action, which is counter-intuitive to a lot of modern players.

        1. John Titor

          Admittedly it’s a game designed for a game controller, and playing it with a keyboard isn’t a good idea.

          1. Hammercorps

            Bah. Planning a DS3 playthrough with a keyboard. I must be a repressed masochist.

          2. John Titor

            I played a couple hours of DS3, realized how fucked the multiplayer was, and went back to DS2. People may bitch about how off-base DS2 was (and they’re not wrong) but damn if they didn’t nail multiplayer in a way the other games fail at. I want my duels, dammit.

          3. Brawndo

            I started DS1 too late to get in on the multiplayer, but I agree, DS2s pvp experience is much better than 3, though they did add an arena system to DS3 in the previous DLC.

          4. Hammercorps

            Can’t stand multiplayer games, so I should be good to go there. DS3 will be my first foray into the series anyway, since Bloodborne isn’t on PC.

          5. John Titor

            I would honestly recommend playing DS1 first. It holds up and will probably remain a gaming classic, the only downsides are a few obvious design flaws (some related to multiplayer) that later games directly corrected.

          6. John Titor

            @Brawndo I can at least appreciate the fact that gimmick builds are still viable (see: Atomic Karate). One of the best duels I ever had in DS2 was against a guy cosplaying as John Cena with a melee build.

          7. Hammercorps

            Does it? I’ve been hearing the opposite from several people, which is that it hasn’t aged too well in comparison to 3. Is there any plot stuff I’ll be missing if I skip 1 and 2?

          8. John Titor

            Also Brawndo, what’s your typical build anyway? Personally I’m what the community calls a ‘dex fag’ and I tend to roll on a glass cannon build (no shield) with something like the estoc or the uchigatana.

          9. John Titor

            @Hammercorps DS1 is basically all of the major plot that affects the series, it doesn’t matter that much in the long run though. What DS1 succeeds at its being a standalone game, while DS2 and DS3 are quite masturbatory about DS1. The controls have improved over the series, and some design flaws have been corrected (the tutorial in DS2, for example, is way softer than DS1) but the games tend to follow a general trend that DS1 excels at. If you don’t care about multiplayer I suggest it first (and on a controller).

          10. Hammercorps

            Guess I’ll probably go for that then. As soon as I get my controller back. Oh well, Resi 7 is still here.

          11. John Titor

            If you need backup in DS1 or 2 (Scholar of the FIrst Sin edition) I’m John Titor on Steam as well, and I’m always willing to help out new players. DS2 more heavily stresses the co-op nature of the series though, and is the one I’m most familiar with.

          12. Brawndo

            @Hammer: If you play the games backwards, DS1 will feel like a downgrade mechanically. I went back after DS2 to do a level 1 playthru and it took awhile to get used to the absence of omnidirectional rolling. With regards to the story, the games have recurring characters and themes, but the game isn’t as linear as most.

            @JT: I had a lot of fun with a quality build with a few different weapons available on switch depending on my opponent, but since the DLCs dropped, I’ve been playing as “MyDadFUGSme.” Exclusive use of the Fume Ultra greatsword. Technically the highest damage UGS (I think) but it’s weight precludes use of armor that provides any poise at all. It’s essentially a joke build, which is why it’s so fun when it works.

          13. Hammercorps

            Might take you up on that. I’m Hammercorps on Steam as well, didn’t find you on Steam though.

          14. John Titor

            @Brawndo You’re triggering my memories of Fume Knight, which was probably the hardest boss in the series for a shield-less motherfucker like myself.

          15. Brawndo

            @JT yea Fume probably took me more attempts than any other boss in the entire series. He made me quit the game twice. And then when I came back, after not playing for a week, I beat him in 2 tries. Kind of reminds me of that study that says you don’t truly learn something until you sleep, and then it becomes ingrained. Or something.

          16. Brawndo

            Some people swear by it, and I imagine some actions might be easier because you can achieve an action like kick or jump attack with one button as opposed to having to do a combination of presses.

      2. Brawndo

        I had a similar experience at first (i play PC only as well), but I also had a controller so I wasn’t stuck using keyboard and mouse, thank Zardoz. I gave up on Dark Souls halfway thru the Undead Burg, because it felt like there was something I wasn’t getting. Thankfully, I came back and played thru the entire series.

        The controls are actually one of the things that stand out to me as something they did very well, it just takes getting used to.

      3. Seguin

        DS1 was a notoriously shitty port on PC.

    1. leonadasiv

      I’m sick of intersectional stuff, let’s hear about parallel femenisim.

      1. quincy

        Parallel lesbianism is boring. Scissoring involves some sort of intersectionality. In a geometrical sense.

        1. DenverJ

          69 would be parallel

          1. quincy

            Boring!

          2. BakedPenguin

            ‘Scuse me, Scarlett Johansson scissoring with another hot woman won’t be boring for a few more years. Some of us are old.

          3. Yusef drives a Kia

            +3+4+5 plus infinity

    2. westernsloper

      Knowing this, I somehow think Johansson missed the point of the Women’s March and what it means to be a white ally during a time when being a racist is suddenly mainstream again, thanks to the Reddit wet dream living in the White House. In taking a role that was originally written as a Japanese character, Johansson knowingly took an opportunity away from an Asian actress. She is just the latest Hollywood actor playing an Asian person on screen and to make a good amount of money doing so.

      Oh fer fucks sake. Who cares. I didn’t know Scarlett was a “March” speaker. I retract my goal of stalking her now that she is single.

    3. John Titor

      There’s been a goddamn obsession with the identity politics surrounding Ghost in the Shell, and very little talk about how incompentent Hollywood is at dealing with/converting anime.

      If there isn’t a moment like this it’s proof of Hollywood’s inability to simply convert existing properties to live action.

      1. Hammercorps

        To be fair, has Japan ever done a good live-action adaptation of an anime?

        1. John Titor

          Nope, which should probably be an indicator of how mass-produced conversions of anime content is a bad idea, but they keep doing it anyway.

          1. Hammercorps

            Have you watched it yet? It heard it was an entertaining action movie, but not much else. Planning to get my cyberpunk fix in October anyway.

          2. John Titor

            I’ve got very little interest in Hollywood remakes, and somehow I doubt they’ll be able to say anything more substantial than the original (the fact that they’re reproducing scenes shot-for-shot is probably a bad sign). I’ll probably watch it later on.

          3. BakedPenguin

            Someone here mentioned one of the first ‘anime’ (right term?) I ever saw. It was the Battleship Yamoto (I believe) brought from the sea floor and remade as a space ship. Watched it in the late 70’s.

          4. Hammercorps

            I guess maybe now’s as good a time as any to admit I’ve never watched an anime in my life. Barring a single episode of Death Note. Oh, and the South Park episode making fun of it.

          5. John Titor

            Cowboy Bebop. Or Psychopass (for libertarians). Watch it. Love it. Join the weeaboo horde.

          6. Hammercorps

            Honestly, I probably would if it wasn’t for the way it looks. I can’t stand that part of anime.

          7. John Titor

            Is it just the design of characters (i.e. the eyes and such)? You tend to adjust pretty quickly to it. I tend to recommend very Westernized anime for people who want to get into it.

            Spike Spiegel is the coolest, manliest motherfucker in the galaxy.

          8. Hammercorps

            Mostly the design of the characters. Also due to the fact that the anime that I’ve seen (admittedly, very little,) just seems to be mostly still images that are jiggled just a little bit.

          9. Number.6

            For my sins, I got hold of Nausicaa for the child who became Texan Libertarian Student Daughter, and she never looked back.

            When I watched it, all I could do was go “urrrgh”.

          10. *single tear slides down cheek*

          11. *salutes BP*

            I loved that!

          12. John Titor

            I forget how old you guys are sometimes.

          13. *scowls at JT….sort of*

          14. Heroic Mulatto

            Eh, I liked the Grimdark+Batshit Insane live-adaptation of Casshern. Yes, it’s a wee-bit pretentious, but overall it’s an interesting re-imagining that I would have liked to have seen more of.

          15. John Titor

            The live-action version of Uzumaki basically killed my faith in the Japanese converting things to live action. Why they’d even try that (with their CGI) is just stupid.

        2. WHERE MY STAR BLAZERS MOVIE?!

    4. Agent Cooper

      I wouldn’t stop at her bottom line, if you know what I mean.

    5. Grumbletarian

      I sure hope this person was railing at the interracial marriages in the new Beauty and the Beast movie. How many asian and black people were cavorting around in ballrooms in medieval France? All those roles were taken from white people!

    1. Hyperion

      First high rise cemetery? Or maybe I team up with Musk and start the first cemetery on an asteroid. Pets at a discount. Imagine fluffy floating in space at 100,000 miles an hour in blissful eternity.

      1. Hammercorps

        Planning to give Clyde Tombaugh some company eh?

    2. Brawndo

      Maybe if we stopped war stuff, there wouldn’t be that many people needing to be buried.

        1. Brawndo

          I shower too regularly to be a hippie.

      1. westernsloper

        I am no scientist, but I am pretty sure everyone is going to need to be buried/burned/hucked in a dumpster at some point.

        1. mr simple

          This is true, but cemeteries are a waste of good real estate. Just burn me up and return my nutrients to the soil.

    3. No politicians, no family members. There you go. I think I qualify – but I would rather be local, so some kid can trace my headstone someday with a paper and crayon for a grade school project.

      1. dbleagle

        The Punch Bowl National Cemetery on Oahu will fill up soon as well. I sorta agree with Swiss. If you visit a National Cemetery you’ll be amazed at the number of graves that are family members of veterans. No independent graves for family members and no graves for politicians not otherwise eligible. If a vet wants family members bury them stacked in a common grave or urn spot.

        I have told my family feed me to the sea or to western primary predators. But do get the VA headstone and use it as a coffee table at the house, no need wasting a quality piece of marble. After my kids pass on give the marble to a local artist to use as they wish.

        1. I told ’em to get the free VA headstone and park me local. Arlington should be for those that got more than I did.

        2. one true athena

          My father-in-law is buried at Punchbowl (Army medic, Korea/Vietnam). Well, “buried” he’s in the urn mausoleum. They built this mammoth new structure to accommodate a bunch more slots, but the grounds are pretty full. And my Mother-in-law will be tucked in there with him when she passes, but yeah, separate plots don’t seem really right. If space was infinite, then sure, but it’s not.

          1. dbleagle

            It is a wonderful setting and I enjoy strolling the grounds and thinking about the histories of those who are buried there. If anybody seriously believes that only “the christians” defended this country then the Punch Bowl will disabuse them of that fantasy.

            But there is no way to expand the cemetery since it is up to the crater rim in many spots. There are chunks of military controlled land on Oahu that can be a fitting replacement, but somebody better designate that land pronto.

  6. SQWRLZ

    Does ZARDOZ have an FFL or does he manufacture and deliver within free states?

    1. Number.6

      In-state private transfer.

    2. ZARDOZ

      ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. ZARDOZ GIVES THE GIFT OF THE GUN. DOES IT REALLY MATTER WHERE THE GUN IS MADE?

  7. Feller Named to Review Team for Papers of Abraham Lincoln

    But what’s the feller’s name?

    (I guess this joke needs a Southern accent)

    1. leonadasiv

      I guess I’m beyond help, because that’s the way I read the headline at first and second glance.

    2. Or Irish. I’m reminded of the joke about the two Irish lumberjacks who went to America and returned home a failure. When asked why, they responded that all the jobs called for tree fellers.

  8. SIV

    As I expected the facts from the full police report reveal that, while not technically liable under the traffic code, the killer robot deathtrap actually caused all the shiny-side down mayhem in that autonomous Uber accident.

      1. westernsloper

        While the Tempe Police Department originally deemed the autonomous car not to be at fault, the incident report suggest that it might have been taking the same sort of risks that any inattentive flesh-based operator might have.

        The Volvo operator — who was allowing the vehicle to run in autonomous mode — states that the XC90 impacted with the CR-V at roughly the posted speed limit of 40 mph, making no attempt to stop. It had not reacted to the changing light or the slowing traffic.

        I don’t know. When I am approaching an intersection and everyone is slowing, I slow down and don’t run Yellows. I drive like an old lady now though.

  9. straffinrun

    Why are the links in bold? Are my eyes shot?

    1. DenverJ

      Blood shot

      1. straffinrun

        Money shot. Got a tissue?

        1. ZARDOZ

          ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN AND SIGHT IMPAIRED ONES. ZARDOZ’S LINKS ARE BOLD!

  10. DenverJ

    The picture in that Uber story: the face in the mirror does not match the arms.

  11. straffinrun

    “The network of terrorists has already been broken and it is our national duty to continue this war until [we see] the complete annihilation of the scourge of terrorism from our soil,” read a statement issued by his office.

    Sharif, he don’t like it.

    1. Number.6

      Low hanging opportunity for an awesome link there, @straff ….

      1. straffinrun

        I serve ’em over the plate. Sorry, I mean over the wicket with a googley over under for 110 for 28.

        1. BakedPenguin

          If you’re playing Test cricket, you’re doing it wrong.

          If you’re playing 20/20, good onya, mate!

          1. straffinrun

            Since I was going for gibberish, yay!

  12. Vhyrus

    OT: My gf is working on a poster for her art class. The poster is supposed to convince people of a point of view. GF is doing an anti SJW poster. Currently she has a picture of two Antifas beating the crap out of a person with the words ‘When does moral superiority allow this?’. It also has a hashtag at the bottom. Can anyone think of anything more creative or impacting? Also what would be a good hashtag? We’re trying to trigger as many snowflakes as possible with this.

    1. “Can you spot the fascist?”

      1. Agent Cooper

        This is good.

    2. straffinrun

      I whipped this out pretty quick. Maybe NSFW/Art class. If you want a hashtag, suppose I could add it.

    3. westernsloper

      #FuckOffSlaver

      1. westernsloper

        I can make the T-shirt if you would like one.

        1. DenverJ

          He can. He was wearing one at the Meetup

          1. westernsloper

            The latest t-shirt I am working on:

            I fully support
            #GenderIdentity
            I am this one.
            (Insert crude drawing of a penis)

            But I am not happy up my penis drawing yet. (I have to be true to my art)

    4. Gilmore

      “GOOD GUYS” DONT WEAR MASKS

      1. Juice

        Except for the Lone Ranger and Batman.

    5. Heroic Mulatto

      Currently she has a picture of two Antifas beating the crap out of a person with the words ‘When does moral superiority allow this?’

      When the person you’re beating the crap out of is a furry?

      1. jesse.in.mb

        Not on Friday, bro.

      2. ZARDOZ

        ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN HEROIC ONE. GO FORTH AND BEAT FURRIES!

    6. Gilmore

      anyway, i think if your gf wants to improve her art skills, probably better to generate her own stuff and then have people critique her own stuff. you learn by doing, failing, re-doing, failing, re-doing, and eventually learning what you’re good at and what to leave out. looking outside yourself for ideas is just putting that process off.

      if you just want to bite good leftist-mockery stuff, on the other hand… this guy seems to have made a career out of it.

      http://thepeoplescube.com/

      its been around for years. literally hundreds of examples of the type of thing you’re talking about.

        1. one true athena

          Love the “CHE IS DEAD – GET OVER IT” shirt in the sidebar.

          1. dbleagle

            I loved that one too. I am not a nice person and enjoy telling progs exactly how Che fucked up by the numbers and ended up with his hands mailed back to Castro, De Opresso Liber.

    7. Number.6

      #smashthefash

    8. Gadfly

      The wording is a bit…wordy. I’d go with something more pithy and subtle such as “Love Conquers All”. Since a lot of the violent mobs have used the “Love Trumps Hate” slogan unironically, I think emphasizing the dissonance of such a sentiment compared with their actions would be the strongest route. It might be too subtle to properly trigger, though.

    9. one true athena

      #NAZISPUNCHING

      they’ll think it’s “Punching nazis” at first, but it’s backward

  13. westernsloper

    An Uber driver from Florida named Bree has revealed how she inadvertently drove her boyfriend’s mistress to his house.

    HA! That is awesome.

  14. Guess which news outlet published *this*

    “…In interviews, officials at a half dozen higher education institutions say they are taking steps to address the consequences of allowing provocative speakers amid heightened awareness of racial, ethnic, religious and diversity issues after the election of Donald J. Trump….

    “…The debate is complicated, as institutions try to balance their support for free speech with the ethics and security costs of hosting controversial figures….”

    1. westernsloper

      Having hovered. I guess the NYT’s.

      1. Rhywun

        I didn’t even have to hover.

        1. westernsloper

          At least you didn’t berate me for being a spoiler.

          1. Rhywun

            Oh, I considered it.

          2. westernsloper

            LOL. As well you should have.

    2. Rhywun

      I was right!

      1. It is kind of a distinctive style.

        1. Rhywun

          Well-constructed whoppers, for one.

    3. If there were threats of violence against a lefty speaker, the universities wouldn’t be putting up with the heckler’s veto.

    4. straffinrun

      Free speech needs to be balanced with nothing. It’s not a see saw. You either have it or you don’t. Also, considering the security they usually provide don’t do jack squat when protesters take over the stage, why even have it?

      1. DenverJ

        “controversial speakers” = anybody not 100% committed to the destruction of freedom, and those speakers should hire the Hell’s Angels for security.

        1. dbleagle

          “Worked” at Altamont.

    5. Brawndo

      Its *President* Donald J Trump

      1. Hammercorps

        Pretty sure he’s still #nottheirpresident

  15. OT: I know the Devils aren’t going to the playoffs, but now you’re allowed to step on a goalie’s stick?

    They wouldn’t have allowed it if it happened to an Original Six goalie.

    1. Rufus the Monocled

      Where have you gone….George Hainsworth.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hainsworth

      1. Rufus the Monocled

        ?

    2. Rufus the Monocled

      What a sweet backhand by Crosby tonight in shootout. Timed it so perfectly he just had to slide it gently between the King’s pads.

      1. DenverJ

        I’m pretty sure you’re writing soft gay porn, not describing an athletic match.

        1. westernsloper

          They shower together. so…

        2. Rufus the Monocled

          He came down on Henrik, elegantly weaving and holding his stick firmly preparing to expose his vulnerabilities.

          1. DenverJ

            That’s… Huh. The perfect comment. Rufus wins the internet for, well, I think it’s gotta be the whole year.

      2. Rhywun

        I don’t know why I bothered watching. The Rangers lose at home – it is axiomatic.

        1. Fuck the Rangers and the most overrated arena on earth.

    3. The Blackhawks needed no such help tonight.

  16. Gilmore

    So i just watched Epsiode 1 of that Letterkenny show.

    so good.

    i am a little put-off by the fact that the christian minister is a stereotypically-gay-southerner. I had a hard time rationalizing why a southern minister would migrate to the land of snow and moose and inverted-accents where there’s plenty of jesus loving folk right there in the temperate zone of dixie.

  17. westernsloper

    (not sure if this was linked yet) I saw this linked to in an article I read today. From the land down under.

    Rather than wail about the supposed liberation in a woman’s right to choose to shun paid employment, we should make it a legal requirement that all parents of children of school-age or older are gainfully employed.

    The comments are kind of funny.

    1. Hammercorps

      Did you read the one about how well that worked out in Soviet-era Romania? Was quite a god comment, was a bit disappointed not to see any spittle-filled rants against it.

      1. westernsloper

        No I hadn’t. I went and looked. That person knows whats up. I think almost all the spittle filled ranting leftists live in the US and Europe. I only met one Aussie who was a statist in the several years I worked on that side if the planet.

        1. Hammercorps

          Really? Surprises me, I assumed Australia was more like Britain in that regard (probably because of their strict gun laws). Would you say libertarianism has a foothold there, or not at all?

          1. DenverJ

            Yes

          2. Number.6

            Not sure that it’s necessarily a libertarian society as such. It’s more a healthy disrespect of authority in general.

            They even made a movie about it.

          3. John Titor

            I think it’s more of a class and/or urban vs. rural divide in Australia more than anything else. Folks in the outback are probably more anti-statist than the overwhelming urban population on the coasts.

          4. Hammercorps

            Sounds like the Mountain West of America.

          5. BakedPenguin

            “Don’t put your aufority on me!”

          6. westernsloper

            No place on the planet understands the 2nd amendment, and everyone I have met overseas thinks it is craziness (except a handful of Canadians). Even countries where every mud brick house has an AK in the closet they will say it is crazy to let people legally own guns. Most Aussies and Kiwis I have met though were very libertarianish. I am not sure how they got to where they are as far as Government goes. Then again, all the Brits I know are liberty minded too. It just might be the circles of people I have met. Oil and gas types who work and not the ones who think the state is the answer.

          7. Hammercorps

            I heard somewhere that the Czech Republic was considering and/or attempting to pass their own version of the 2nd Amendment through their parliament. Not sure how it worked out though.

          8. Vhyrus

            The czechs are extremely gun friendly. They are the only first world country other than america to have real concealed carry.

          9. KSuellington

            I’ve spent about seven years outside the US, mostly in Brazil and Europe. It is few and far between that I encountered anyone that really appreciated the 2nd. I know a few Brazilians that have figured out that banning guns just means the criminals are the only ones to carry.

          10. westernsloper

            I would think Brazilians would figure that out given the crime rate. I have only visited/traveled through Europe, and never spent any good amount of time in S America, but I have worked with many guys from all over the continent.

          11. KSuellington

            They have basically banned the private legal ownership of most guns in Brazil by the proles. Gun crime is, of course, rampant. Some have figured it out, but less than you would think. I have had a gun at my head there (by the military police) and I knew a number of Brazilians that also had, either by criminals or uniformed criminals.

        2. Vhyrus

          I have an internet pal from Australia who is absolutely a statist to the core and quite proud of it.

    1. Juvenile Bluster

      …and I just realized they’re a parody. Never mind.

    2. jesse.in.mb

      This is a spoof feed, no?

      That’s an awful lot of photos of people taped to street signs.

      1. straffinrun

        Is that a parody of a parody wrapped in a satire of irony?

        1. jesse.in.mb

          Parodies all the way down?

    3. westernsloper

      It is still good though.

  18. straffinrun

    We need to talk.

    Despite how Jackson’s attack and charges have been described in this case, it’s usually rare for white Americans to be characterized as “terrorists.” For the most part, terrorist is a term applied to black and brown Muslims. It conjures images of a foreign threat driven by distinctly “un-American” ideologies.

    1. westernsloper

      But in reality, there is nothing foreign or un-American about terrorism. Jackson’s hatred of black men and fixation on their relationships with white women echoes a long, grim legacy of white racial terrorism in the United States. For centuries, white Americans have lynched, shot, mutilated and otherwise brutalized black men and boys at whim, often as retribution for perceived advances or violence toward white women.

      That is a good point. The common denominator there though is that historically, all those sick fucks who did that where Democrats with goals of stopping equality of opportunity. Some things never change. Only methods change. Fuck that guy who killed the elderly man. Let him rot. Terrorism it is not though.

      1. straffinrun

        See, Robbie, ^that is how you criticize a piece without virtue signaling. Calling balls and strikes as objectively possible means people will tend to respect your opinion.

      2. Pat

        There’s a question of scale as well. According to the absolute highest estimates:

        3,959 black people were killed in “racial terror lynchings” in a dozen Southern states between 1877 and 1950

        Not to minimize those deaths or the brutality of them, but Muslims completely caught up with goddamn near a century of “white racial terrorism” in one day.

    2. DenverJ

      Yeah, the guys who did the Ok City bombing weren’t called terrorists. Oh wait.
      And Waco. And those guys who took over the federal building in the park. And the unibomber. No, none of them were called terrorists. Only brown people are called terrorists. Obviously, the war on terror is racist.

      1. DenverJ

        Also, IRA, the Greek Communists, the Basque seperatists, etc.
        I swear, I’m so tired of the “rascist” card being deployed.
        In fact, I’m so pissed, I’m going to go find a brown orphan from the coal mine and promote her to head orphan.

        1. DenverJ

          And by “head orphan” I mean she’s 18 and you know exactly what I’m saying, win wink nudge nudge

        2. Pat

          Don’t forget The Tea Party.

          It has become commonplace to call the tea party faction in the House “ hostage takers.” But they have now become full-blown terrorists.

          They have joined the villains of American history who have been sufficiently craven to inflict massive harm on innocent victims to achieve their political goals. A strong America has always stood firm in the face of terrorism. That tradition is in jeopardy, as Congress and President Barack careen toward an uncertain outcome in the tea party- manufactured debt crisis.

          Yes, the problem in America is that we are too reluctant to devolve into screeching histrionics and call our political enemies terrorists and Nazis.

        3. Gadfly

          Plus even among those who are more inclined to use the term terrorist to describe Muslim terrorists than non-Muslim terrorists, I’ve never seen someone make a distinction between the white and non-white Muslims, so the racist angle in that statement was total crap. No one declines to call the Tsarnaevs terrorists because they’re white.

      2. westernsloper

        I didn’t even think of those fuckers. Good point.

        1. KSuellington

          The SLA and the weatherman are generally not brought up by leftists very much.

          1. westernsloper

            Ya, we don’t need that history either.

          2. one true athena

            hell, they can’t even call violent protestors violent. Would these same people decrying the lack of white terrorists actually call an antifa who, let’s say, sets off a pipebomb at a Shapiro talk a ‘terrorist’ at all?

          3. DenverJ

            No. He will be referred to as a hero: antifascist Resistance hero.
            The press has been solidly Statist for at least 30 yrs. They control the agenda, more importantly​, they control the terms of the argument.
            Thus, Robert Bork becomes a verb, a lifelong Democrat with Jewish children becomes a antisemite, the same man, who proudly carriesbthe rainbow flag at the Republican convention and who has spoken favourably about gay marriage becomes homophobic…
            My favorite is the new group of “anarchists” who rally for more government.
            “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”
            We are fighting ignorant idiots, and we are losing.

  19. Juvenile Bluster

    UConn women lose!

    Why on earth was I up watching this past midnight?

    1. I was pleased to wake up this morning and see they had lost. (I wasn’t watching the game at all; I watched Federer beat scumbag Kyrgios.)

      I’m always pleased to see them lose because there’s this undercurrent in the coverage of them that if you don’t root for them you must be a sexist. Same thing about the US women’s soccer team, and the Williams sisters in tennis (and that one has the racism card, too).

  20. KSuellington

    The Dubs and Rockets game is currently excellent.

  21. jesse.in.mb

    Google April Fools joke is live in Maps (for Android at least) there’s a Ms. Pacman button.

  22. straffinrun

    Reread Hamlet, King Lear, Epic of Gilgamesh, the past 2 months. It’s been 20 years since my first reading and it’s been a totally different feeling. I’m wondering what else to go back and revisit. I’m thinking Titus Andronicus or maybe even The Sun Also Rises. Any classics to recommend?

  23. cyto

    On the Pakistani car bomb….

    What I don’t understand is this: this tactic actually seems to be an effective political tool. One would think that even in the face of an unpopular government, killing a bunch of innocent people in the marketplace wouldn’t turn public support toward the people killing random citizens going about their daily lives.

    And yet time and again we see that it does. There must be some very basic, primitive psychology at work. Like something that dates back to hunter-gatherer tribal days. Maybe a mechanism that allows a challenger to kill off key leaders of a small tribe and seize control of the group. In that scenario, lacking some psychological mechanism that would allow the people to forget that their father/cousin/uncle/etc. got murdered by this guy and follow him, hostile takeovers would be impossible. So I suppose there must be some monkey-brain stuff going on that makes people actually turn to the guys who are violently murdering their relatives and friends for leadership.

    It sounds so implausible, but there has to be a deep-rooted mechanism at work here. Otherwise, I just don’t see how people like the Taliban or Al-Qaeda ever get support.

    1. Suthenboy

      It is tribal warfare. The bomb was set off at the woman’s entrance to a Shiite market. Very unlikely that any of the people the bombers are targeting are going to be family of their support base.

      Caveman kill the other caveman tribe, bomber caveman tribe cheers. It isnt deep or complex. It is just naked barbarism.

  24. Suthenboy

    Larry Elder on FOX just now:

    “Between Chris Matthews, Uday and Husay (Saddam Hussein’s sons) I am not sure who I would first like to see go feet first into a woodchipper.”

    *After seeing footage of Matthews compare Trump’s children so Saddam’s children.

  25. Protestors storm and burn Paraguayan legislature after it amends Constitution to lift President’s term limits

    The report I heard on the CBC this morning seemed to be giving tacit support to it, because the President has opposite political views to the Venezuelan president, and because the CBC is jealous of the amount of money the President has.