Pac Man calls fro WBO to review fight. Seeds move on like they do every year at Wimbledon. A bunch of NBA teams show the world what a bubble really looks like. And the ASTROS!!!! That’s really it for sports. I’m not mailing it in. Seriously, that’s pretty much it.
So here come…the links!
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CNN builds land mine. Then steps on it. I don’t know how else to explain them intimidating a (supposedly 15 year old, gay) internet poster into removing everything online under threat of being doxxed…all for modifying a meme that’s been around forever in a way that makes fun of them.
Can we get a head count on all the Chicago Glibs, please? I want to make sure none of them were collateral damage.
Chris Christie does a really good honey badger impersonation. Look at that crazy fucker. He doesn’t care. He don’t give a fuck.
In important news that didn’t get very much coverage, the Baker-Hughes and GE merger has been completed. It should cut costs and make upstream operations more efficient around the world, positively effecting the costs for oil and gas exploration and distribution. But it’s not as shiny an object as others.
Joey Chestnut runs a train on some weiners. (SFW, ya pervs!)
(Note: I had a couple good pics and captions queued up, but CNN had to be assholes, so I only got to post the Chestnut one as the main image. Thank those assholes for deserving a lot worse than what I quickly found. And if you can’t tell, I’m really, really disgusted by what they’ve done in light of a clever meme put together by what is being reported as a 15 year old kid.)
That’s it for me, folks. Have a hell of a day!
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672 responses to “Wednesday Morning Links”
I think Chris Christie is somewhat thinner skinned then the ol honey badger. Throw some bees on the fucker, see what happens.
Somehow Trump manages to look as big as Christie in that picture.
Perhaps he should go to one scoop of ice cream.
I never thought I’d see any variation of the word “thin” in connection with Christie.
Chris Christie thinned out the herd of Pop-Tarts.
Chris Christie likes to take Slim Jims along for snacks.
And absolutely wrecked three boxes of Thin Mints.
Chris Christie ate a whole box of Wheat Thins with a whole can of Cheese Whiz.
Oi! THAT’S MY BREAKFAST YOU’RE DISSING!
Christie makes Rosie O’Donnell look thin.
First! And last. *Stafes away*
The boy just finished up this book.
Fake hairpiece guides a person to the presidency, sound familiar?
Why is the protagonist best friends with an evil genius?
Also, that mustache is weak.
I won’t tell the hair you said he looks fake.
Thank you, you put The Hair through enough suffering already having to deal with The Donald and The Hat.
The people going to the hospital for fireworks injuries are exactly who you think
What happens when you mix teenage boys with fireworks, in one chart.
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/7/3/15914160/fireworks-injuries-hospitalizations
reposted from last night. Sparklers can be fun. no injuries though.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_vaqR1k6RL4
Slo-mo Sparkler Action!
Huh. The only age group where women’s hospital visits for fireworks outnumber the men is 75+. We really need to educate those old ladies on how to handle fireworks safely.
I think that by 75 a lot of the men have dies already and it is up to the women to keep the do stupid stuff quota
*died
Crazy Russian Hacker weighs in on sparklers.
I always was philosophically against pay as you go pensions, I find them to put it bluntly immoral, but now after my dad died I am really fucking pissed at the Romanian pension system to be honest, can’t see how it is fair not to get shit after a lifetime of contribution. If it was a savings account my mother could have gotten something, which would have counted for her as she is not rich.
What do you find immoral about them? I’m not sure how else a private company can have a solvent retirement plan that pays out the full amount to survivors.
That they are glorified pyramid schemes that put burdens on future generations who are never asked if they agree to it, for starters.
And as for survivors, if you are not forced in a government ponzi scheme you can do all sorts with the money. Like save, invest, maybe help your children better so they can take care of you as you age etc. Lots of options. You may probably buy a private lifetime annuity or something which ends when you die, but that is by choice.
Ohhh you mean like Social Security? Yes, completely agree about something like that.
Pay as you go pensions also mean something like a company funded 401k. Every year, a company pays X amount into your pension and the employee is fully vested after Y years of employment. After being vested, that money belongs to the employee or the heirs. There’s no scheme or underfunded plans. I don’t know why they are still called pensions, since they really aren’t, it’s essentially a company funded 401k.
I mean I pay more than 20% of my salary to the government for a pension promises in 40 years
I understand, a difference in terminology but same loathing for a pyramid scheme that robs us. I’ll never see the money for social security that’s stolen from each paycheck.
One of Harvard University’s best known clubs has effectively expelled nine women, ending a two-year experiment ultimately prompted by activists who want to make campus groups gender-neutral.
The Fox Club, whose notable past members include British essayist T.S. Elliot and Microsoft founder Bill Gates, has blocked the full membership of nine women who previously enjoyed “provisional’ member status, effectively returning the club to its traditional all-male status, The Harvard Crimson reported.
The decision not to grant permanent membership to women signals the end of the unpopular experiment to allow both genders to join the group, which started back in 2015 after the university faculty pressured campus groups to become gender-neutral.
Harvard administrators have tried addressing the issue of single-gender associations on campus, instituting a controversial policy penalizing students for participating in all-male or all-female clubs.
https://heatst.com/culture-wars/harvard-universitys-all-male-club-defies-faculty-expels-provisional-female-members/
The article only offers up something along the lines of “the group didn’t vote for women to be let in yet” as the explanation. I honestly don’t know anything about the group, but I do wonder why…
Wouldn’t put out?
the issue of single-gender associations on campus
This is an issue why?
I don’t think the club is being single-gender. I think its being single-sex.
Who cares? (This is not directed at you). Let them have their own stupid club and you make up your own stupid club.
icy reaction from the Social Security Administration, I think it was a pretty cool way
that deserves a beady stare from behind the iron mask
local news: Vice President Pence says Grandville parade ‘lives up to every expectation’
“Can we get a head count on all the Chicago Glibs, please? I want to make sure none of them were collateral damage.”
On a per capita level Kansas City wins!
http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article159346484.html
Well, I guess they’re all dead.
What if women ruled the world?
An end to abuse, a law against mansplaining, and reparations for two millennia of injustice … as a new sci-fi art show imagines a female-led future, we ask comedians, writers, politicians and CEOs for their vision
Yes magically abuse would disappear. Also magically mansplaining would become something real not made belive bullshit.
Also reparations? Millennia of injustice? Lol.
Given that women are more likely to be abusers than men (men just get a bad rap because when they are they cause more physical damage to the victim) I find this hard to believe.
I’ve been mansplained to, if you consider it to be a guy talking to you like you’re stupid and framing it like, “Well, little lady…” I think it’s happened maybe 3 times in my life, so once per decade. It pisses you off when it happens, but it’s not an epidemic by any means. The fact that I can still remember the individual circumstances kind of emphasizes how much it’s not a common occurrence. I think I’ve actually been patronized more frequently by other women than by men.
I mean I hope that is parody.
Unlikely. I’ve talked with women who actually believe it.
” it is not possible to achieve the aims of feminism within the capitalist system.” there we go
I don’t know whether they aimed to make feminist women as miserable and angry as possible, but they certainly achieved it.
Ah, the trampoline test of deserved wealth. I’m afraid she’s got us.
^^I like your avatar.
“If you see your mother tell her, ‘Satan!’”
Most underrated psycho gross out punk heavy metal band ever.
Having the underling men quickly kill the dissenters. Yup ticks all those boxes. Justify if by saying your saving lives by getting rid of the undesirables.
Fewer killings but a lot more forced psychiatric care.
We don’t waste any time and we would do things a lot cleaner and a lot quicker.
Yeah, except take showers, get dressed, drive a car, start the workday, have a conversation about said workday, eat dinner,
reach climax.“reach climax”
I’m glad you struck that out.
The Fertile, MN women drive just as fast as any man. It takes them no longer to reach Climax, MN (official motto: Climax, it’s more than a feeling) Anyone who says different is part of the Patriarchy.
Last I checked the number of people dying was 100%, the only thing that was variable was the timing.
Also, fewer people dying means continually growing populations which is bad for the environment, so she is saying that women are shitlord eco-terrorists who hate Mother Gaia?
Shazia Mirza, comedian
Wait a minute, aren’t comedians supposed to be funny?
Not with women in charge.
“Humor here funny in different way. It not reinforce stereotypes. Comedy come from character, real situations. Not abstract craziness.”
We no can dunk, but good fundamentals.
As punishment, Sugarfree will be sentenced to death–BY SNU SNU!
[emphasis added]
Yeah, honey. It was just penis that caused that.
Cunt.
To be fair, from that culture, women aren’t free to make decisions like, when to go murder children.
Unless they are infidel children, then I am sure they can make that call.
“We don’t waste any time and we would do things a lot cleaner and a lot quicker.”
Wait, what? My wife normally does the grocery shopping for our house on Sunday mornings (heathen free time). It’s not uncommon for her to be gone for 2 or 3 hours. I would be suspicious except that I’ve been at Target with her before while she stands in the shampoo aisle for 30 minutes reading labels before walking away with the same one she always gets. Anyway, one day she was too sick and handed me a shopping list. I was back at the house with everything in 25 minutes. She looked at me like I was some sort of wizard or something. “How the hell did you do that?”
One of my first shopping experiences with my wife was getting a new purse. We literally went around a circle between 3 purses for 30min, before the decided.
It isn’t indecision that makes my wife take so long to shop. Her problem is organization. She buys things as she thinks of them. She doesn’t buy everything she needs in produce, then go the meat dept and buy all the meat, then move on the dairy dept.
No she buys apples, hotdogs, oranges, milk, chicken, cheeze….
You get the picture.
Does she make a list beforehand?
Pullleeeeeaze!
She’s so smart, she doesn’t need a list like me. (actually she does a much better job of remembering what she went to the store for than I am).
There’s a reason the phrase “A man with a plan” exists, and “A woman with a plan” doesn’t.
If women were in charge, humanity would be reduced to plowing the turnip patch in hopes that desperadoes don’t come and kill them and take everything within a generation. I don’t say this to damn or insult women. God knows they have many remarkable qualities. But, I’m talking about reality here. There simply aren’t enough women who have a clue about what is necessary to maintain a modern infrastructure, manage scientific discovery or maintain public order to support any of these things.
Oh but you don’t need to know any of those things to be in charge, your slaves can handle that for you.
They’d need rough men to maintain control over those slaves. Well armed rough men. And I’m sure those rough men would just happily cede control over all affairs to the matriarchy.
Whatever you say, Will Riker.
Okay, I have to plead ignorance here. Will Riker?
It wasn’t the best episode.
But the costumes were awesome.
Yeah, but not as bad as the Scottish highlands ghost episode
Ah, I see. My thought was that you’d wind up with something more akin to that of the Praetorian Guard, with whatever matriarchy was in charge serving as the puppets of the guys controlling the slaves. I see no scenario where a ruthless, heavily armed, group in control of the key resource that a society needs to survive (the talents of the slaves) doesn’t wind up calling the shots.
I don’t know. Men have been ceding lots of control to women over the last century.
And look how well that’s been working out.
Exactly.
If women are so superior and competent, why then aren’t they already in charge? Why has there never been a successful matriarchal society?
Why has there never been a successful matriarchal society?
Because if guys wanted to figure out what a successful matriarchal society would look like they’d talk to engineers, to scientists, to business executives, to economists or to political scientists.
Now look at the ladies who were selected to analyse this.
Well partially because until the invention of the gun women never really had a way of enforcing their rule, and for whatever reason once the gun was invented women weren’t smart enough to realize that a tool which allowed them to be at parity with men for the ability to inflict violence was invented and they shied away from them.
The rest, have you ever known a woman to be able to make up her mind on a course of action?
The mystical Patriarchy which was put in place by the Patriarchy Leprechauns with their magic
I blame Tricknology.
Wimmin!
Always trying to they hands on me lucky charms!
Who says they aren’t in charge? Lead from the shadows…
The closest I can find is the Minangkabua around Indonesia. They aren’t matriarchal but women control local and domestic affairs and are the primary landowners, men control, religion, military and regional affairs.
According to Camile Paglia, women ruled the domestic universe for eons of time and were in charge of everything having to do with home.
We’d all become sex slaves possibly, so it wouldn’t be so bad!
+1 boy and his dog
Sounds great. Until you find out who your mistress is.
http://tinyurl.com/ycqxppfo
Least necessary sign ever.
Has Trump explicitly said he would nuke Norf Crea?
It cracks me up that feminists almost unanimously voted for Hillary Clinton – a total warmonger with a long history of cronyist dealings – yet they still believe that the world would be more peaceful and more equal in terms of wealth if women were in charge.
If women were in charge, it would be eight women with obscene wealth. Which is totes better for the po’.
Not to mention that their other option was a perpetually-unemployed communist married to a golden-parachute con artist wife who committed bank fraud on a massive scale.
Real pair of winners, that.
Let’s hope we get the right TOP.
MEN.WOMEN.It’s always camps with them, isn’t it?
I was visiting my Mom last weekend. Dad – who always kept her grounded in reality – passed away last year. She told me Trump was going to be impeached for beating up that CNN reporter. It took me a few seconds to realize that she was talking about the wrestling video. I started to try to explain to her that it was fake and that everything on CNN should be considered fake until proven otherwise. I saw I was getting nowhere and quickly gave it up.
Sorry to hear about your dad. Sounds like your mom is like some of the people in my family who have lost their grip on reality. Best just to let them enjoy their fantasies and let it go.
An old one, it still makes me laugh every time I see it.
We wouldn’t miss that part much.
So, does the threatened CNN doxxing rise to the level of blackmail? There are going to be a hell of a lot of pissed 4Channers and Redditors out there that are going to make CNN fervently wish they hadn’t done this.
Well, CNN has told the story two ways:
1: the kid fessed up and removed it first
2: they go r him to remove it and reserve right to doxx him if he violates their “agreement”.
If the latter, it sure sounds like it.
They emailed him their threat. He apologized before they “spoke with him”, but not before they emailed him to say that they knew who he was.
So CNN has legal controlling authority now?
If you ask them, and Cuomo they do.
This is trending:
https://twitter.com/hashtag/CNNBlackmail?src=hash
This will be fun. Kim Dotcom and Trump Jr. are using it.
CNN infuriates me. I will never give them a click.
I’m eagerly awaiting the 4chan response.
CNN has no idea who they are fucking with, pol just spent six months driving a has been celebrity insane, for CNN they can do a lot more
Me, too. I really hope 4chan sees this as a threat to their thing (which it is), and responds . . . massively. In a battle of wits between 4chan and CNN, I know who I am betting on.
Weaponized autism will always beat empty suit
Since CNN came out and blatantly said that they decided not to dox him precisely because they extracted an apology from him and that they reserve the right to do so in future if he makes fun of them again…. fuck yes that’s blackmail.
So they’re embracing their role as heel, but doing so in such a way that they actually become a heel rather than the funny caricature a heel is supposed to be. Good job, guys.
Yeah. They can’t rip off the NWO shirt and reveal the yellow Hulkamania shirt. They can’t do anything now but be the assholes that threatened to doxx someone for a silly meme.
Their only hope now is that it increases their ratings temporarily by people just looking to see how they’ll fuck up next and at the same time clean house and/or change their programming to something other than their version of news. Maybe just use all the syndicated turner atuff TBS can’t run for lack of time
Actual blackmail no. However, depending on what State he is in I’d say its a good bet that he’d have a tort action for violation of his right of publicity.
Are modern men becoming CELIBATE? Online movement is encouraging men to ignore women
Still why should I complain, just leaves more rampant totty for us real men, eh?
That sounds like a really stupid headline. lemme see… express.co.uk. Wow i did not expect that from such a quality outfit.
I’m guessing the author is a extreme feminist who blames the lack of interest in her on male celebacy. So she dug up some unknown group as proof.
“Men shouldn’t be allowed to choose to be celibate. That sexually oppresses us free women.
I notice she doesn’t even try to refute what they say. (Probably because she can’t). I guess she thought posting some of the truths they speak would make them look ridiculous?
Sounds good, but I couldn’t do without the mansplaining.
I fully support any man better looking, younger and/or wealthier than me becoming a member of this movement.
lol
The Committee to Protect Journalists said in a statement this week that the tweet “undermines the work of the media in the U.S. and makes it more dangerous.” CNN said in a statement that the tweet “encourages violence against reporters.”
“I’m sorry you’re such a bunch of thin-skinned pussies.”
While they blithely ignore the actual rhetoric of encouragement of violence against the right and Republicans, which arguably influenced the Scalise shooting.
Bull shit. They alone undermine their work. They refused to do their fucking jobs under Obama and he proceeded to treat them like the whores they are.
I’m now firmly convinced that CNN is run by whiny little bitches.
Whoever made that editorial decision just doomed them to being the ass end of every other joke for the next year.
Currently the top post on reddit
Uh…some….*interesting* links on the sidebar there….
Nice teenaged life you have there, it’d be a shame if anything happened to it.
CNN now has a whole subreddit dedicated to mocking them
This might get me to spend some time on Reddit.
yayyyyyyyy
Wouldn’t the simple use of a VPN prevent CNN from doxing him?
Nope. A VPN hides (with caveats) the IP address assigned to you by your ISP by routing your traffic through another party’s servers, preventing (with caveats) copyright enforcers (i.e., in a BitTorrent context) from contacting your ISP to take action against you. A VPN may also similarly impede law enforcement or government surveillance, but there are enough caveats, some of them quite large, that they should be considered inappropriate for this purpose.*
If the individual in question had not been using a VPN, CNN still would not have been able to automagically get his IP address — they would have to ask Reddit for it, and Reddit would likely not provide it. Or, giving the reporters too much credit, they could engage in a bit of social engineering to induce him to visit a page on a server under their control, and get his IP address from the logs.
Even then, they would have to then approach his ISP and ask for his identity based on the IP address, and the ISP would not give it to them.
tl;dr in the hypothetical though not totally implausible scenario in which they obtained his IP address, then if he was using a VPN they’d be faced with asking a VPN provider who would not (or hopefully, could not — lots of caveats) provide his identity to do so, and if he was not using a VPN they’d be faced with asking an ISP who would not provide his identity to do so. So same end result.
Most doxxing, whether by CNN or by /b/tards, is just looking for clues in someone’s post history: mentions of first (or full!) name, ethnicity, age, location, former locations, occupation, alma mater, hobbies, etc. that tend to seep in over time, and/or taking advantage of shared usernames, email addresses (when visible), or avatars.
*Not that I am not in the business of advising people on how to impede law enforcement.
Edit faerie, I beseech thee: save me from Preet!
We got this “Carl” by the balls, boys. Now if we can just get his IP address…
Good luck, I’m behind 7 proxies
In white English please, Carl.
Realistically, being a primary content creator that publishes on popular platforms like Youtube, makes it very easy for organizations to dox you. The unsubtle and pervasive connections between your followers, and who you follow, make inference of your identity pretty easy, as soon as the connections lead to a web product that demands to know your identity, like Patreon, Google Anything, etc. Just as in olden times, the way to distribute samizdat is via a dead-letter drop of the content to a distributor who knows your product, but not your identity.
The problem is that nowadays, the urge for fame is so great, that a top-class polemicist or caricaturist who doesn’t also want to be infamous, is rare.
Thanks for the detailed explanation. I had been under the impression it was much easier to link someone to their IP address (if not using a VPN). At least, I would think not using a VPN would provide their location which would make a person much easier to dox when combined with other clues from posting.
Getting an IP address is useful if you can’t associate identities in other ways. In a practical sense, obscuring your IP address makes life harder for law enforcement and firms like google to build a behavioral profile, because that’ll provide a clear link between different personae and a physical location. If you don’t obscure your physical location, then they can tell right the way down to a physical connection that is associated with someone who pays a utility bill.
For the average non-data-center/non-LE/non-GovDept doxxer, much of that data isn’t realistically available to them (until someone hacks their cable provider), but the ‘friends network’ usually isn’t hard to follow. Given that most people who someone wants to doxx are basically media whores, they’ll usually have attracted a bunch of hangers-on who follow them around (or are followed by him)
Right, that makes sense.
Your ISP-assigned IP address often does impart some information on location, but it varies widely in quality. Free, publicly-accessible IP-to-location services will best-case probably get metro area, sometimes city — but are often wrong. Anecdotally, I’ve been falsely geolocated many states away on multiple occasions.
The likes of Google, of course, being able to correlate IP addresses with actual GPS data, can obviously make both more accurate and precise estimates for themselves than free IP-to-location services will.
So punching down is now OK?
I wish someone would set up a website so I could keep track of what is currently acceptable and what isn’t.
The right does it, even if the left has previously done it: NOT OKAY
The right does it, and the left hasn’t: LITERALLY HITLER. But now it’s okay for the left to do it, too
The right doesn’t do it, but the left routinely does it: speaking truth to power.
The right doesn’t do it, and the left doesn’t either: “It’s time we have a serious discussion about the political necessity of bringing bike locks to political rallies.”
You’re confusing action with identity in this case. Punching down, punching up, it doesn’t matter what you actually do, but what your politics, gender, race are… ah, what a wonderful world the “anti-bigotry” crusade of the left has wrought.
The CNN reporter in question actually said “No! We weren’t threatening! We were just saying that we don’t have an agreement about anonymity!”, as if anyone believes that.
Jesus Christ. As I said yesterday, they made a raging asshole (look, I don’t care if the star of david post was just a joke meme; if you fuck goats ironically, you’re still a goatfucker) look completely justified and sympathetic.
I don’t even know what he was supposed to be apologizing for – mocking CNN?? That calls for an apology?
He was apologizing because he supposedly (according to CNN) made racists jokes in his other posts to troll people. If all he had done was made the meme, I bet he would have told CNN to fuck right off.
Uh huh….are they going to track down every internet troll who makes a racist joke now? If not, why not?
I mean, we all know why not, but someone should be holding CNN’s feet to the fire here on why this guy was newsworthy.
I’m halfway convinced this person should go ahead and get outed, get fired from their job (if they aren’t the 15 year old), or get banned from colleges if they are a 15 year old, then sue the crap out of CNN and Ted Turner for blackmail/ extortion in civil court. All you need there is preponderance of evidence (essentially 50.1% likelihood of having done it) to get a judgment, and Turner would likely settle before that point, since CNN already looks like huge dicks for this. Also, I work in a customer service field, and just seeing this from CNN, and that Zillow thing, I wonder who the hell is in charge over there. If I were to call a customer back for information about a complaint, I leave one voicemail, and if I don’t get a return call, I’ll assume we screwed up, and try to find ways to make our process better for our customers, even without feedback.
Ted Turner sold CNN and the rest of TBS to Time Warner twenty years ago and more or less left the company 10-15 years ago.
Sounds like a plan. Heck, if he even got one million and learned some basic investment principles, he could live the rest of his life at a fairly comfortable standard with no need for college or a job.
Its absolutely unacceptable. The news here is CNN blackmailing someone, not some random internet troll making memes/racist jokes.
his apology reads like it was written by a cnn lawyer.
I have no problem with a teenage edgelord shitposter getting a little heat for his garbage content, and the idea of CNN melting down over a teenage edgelord shitposter is why the Germans invented schadenfreude.
I just had a “crystal ball” moment.
Wait for the DoJ to press criminal charges, then go through years of appeals until it finally lands in front of a Supreme Court with three Trump nominees on it. At which point it will be decided that, no, media corporations can’t blackmail kids.
5 years later, everyone will still be talking about the case that killed “freedom of the press” with a Trump stacked SCOTUS – all without knowing any details about the actual case.
Nahh, that kind of thing couldn’t happen!
Canada
https://twitter.com/Lauren_Southern/status/882347723894145024
Unfortunately she falls on the wrong side of the hot/crazy line.
Disagree. She’s hot enough that it would take full-blown bipolar disorder to make me stay away.
Then stay away.
But she’s the hottest man in Canada.
Yeah, she’d pretty much have to be so crazy she’d try to put a Happy Meal on layaway.
Then how about this:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4666396/Kristen-Stewart-Stella-Maxwell-attend-Chanel-launch.html
Those two are not hot. IMO.
Was that the point?
You win Count Potato, Lauren Southern is definitely more desirable than those two, but that isn’t saying much.
More like an alternative if you thought she was too waspy or too thicc.
Olivier Pole
No idea who this is, but a girl named Olivia Pole would be kinda funny.
Ivana Pole would be funnier
Nice.
They both look like they really need to shower.
Together.
I’m with Chipwooder. Your line is way too ‘anti-crazy’.
How is she crazy? Or do you mean crazy hot? Because I follow her on YouTube and she seems pretty intelligent.
How is Lauren Southern crazy? Let alone too crazy to bang. I think your dick might be broken.
Not so sure of “crazy” but her material after leaving Rebel Media has drifted a bit “Stormfront-y” although I’d still let her eat weinerschnitzel in bed.
This, I can see. I’d guess that’s more expediency than actual conviction, but I do agree that she’s said a fair number of questionable things lately.
She’s having some trouble monetizing her YouTube streams, IIRC. That may moderate the more extreme stuff, or cause it to compound.
Yeah, that’s the crazy I was referring to.
I’m a-skeered of what would happen what she’d do to (((me)))
I’m aryan-enough that I think I’d like to risk Death by snu-snu.
She’s specifically said in a recent video that she ain’t down with White Nationalism. So not sure how she’s being Stormfrontish.
OK, I’ll be delicate here and cite stuff like her recent video on the “Great Replacement”.
It’s drawing a lot of interest from a lot of audiences, which in itself isn’t bad, per se – she’s not responsible for what her viewers think, but she’s moved in a more strident anti-immigration direction than a lot of people are comfortable with, and attracted a different following, so some of us are – I’m sure – taking notes on the trajectory of her (apparently) evolving views. That’s all.
Whether or not the biological descendants of the original inhabitants and progenitors of western civilization are being demographically displaced/replaced isn’t really up for debate, it’s happening. Whether or not that should inspire neutrality, glee or resentment is a matter of subjective value. If that makes you gleeful, that does not necessarily make you a proponent of genocide. If it makes you resentful, that does not necessarily make you Literally Hitler.
But nobody’s accusing her of being Literally Hitler. What’s happening is that people are looking at her work and her analysis a bit more critically, and at the moment, the jury’s out on where she’s evolving to.
I don’t think that a reporter should be reluctant to be evaluated in that way. One of the other – and I think more pertinent observations is that either she is becoming, or seems to be becoming more of an activist in her now-solo reporting, and that warrants a further degree of scrutiny, and potentially a reevaluation of her ability to be objective.
I never really considered Rebel Media to be bias free. But their bias happens to be towards something more closely resembling truth and rational thought than I find most other places.
Meanwhile in morons posing as reporters, NY Times “Lifestyle” reporter posts picture of what is fairly normal, winding ATC approach into JFK. Says pilot was drunk. Everyone, including the airline, tell her it’s a normal approach and she’s an idiot. She doubles down, calling everyone shills and insisting she’s right. It’d be funny if it wasn’t so pitiful.
https://twitter.com/JiHyun42/status/880434886666055680
omg – she triple-downs. Even against evidence. Everyone who disagrees is a troll.
That was incredible. Just what I need for a
MondayWednesday morning.BAAAAHAHAHAHAHA
*claps furiously*
That is awesome CNN and the NYT making today entertaining!
I commend her on bucking the “Asians are smart” stereotype.
Flying is hard.
Okay, now here I’d agree with you on the hot/crazy line, even though she looks kinda cute.
I think she’s doubling down, poorly, for the notoriety. I don’t think she believes her own bullshit.
And they wonder why no one likes them. Journalism is where all those kids who were socially awkward, but not intelligent enough to be considered nerds, go. It’s like the coworker who pretends to know everything, but doesn’t have a dang clue.
Shame, she’s cute.
Her website… her website is amazing.
Gurl, call Scott Aukerman and and get yourself a Squarespace promo code.
*disappointed sigh*
“over 12”? Unless you’ve written many dozens of plays, why not specify that it’s thirteen or fifteen or eighteen? And if you’re going to use the “over” or “more than” device, why not a clean number like ten?
And why “12 and seven”? It should be “twelve and seven” or even “12 and 7”, but not mixed like you’ve got it.
Also: does the “over” cover the seven screenplays, or is it exactly seven screenplays?
I can excuse a stupid typo in many instances, but not in a promotional website by a professional writer.
Proofreading and research are beneath her. She shits golden nuggets every morning.
AP style guide used to say you spell out numbers under ten, but not 10 or over. No idea if that’s current, but I’ve seen it that way.
She has a website. No time to peruse but I’m sure it’s filled with crazy.
http://www.jihyunjlee.com
Her Tweets are awesome. She’s nuts.
I dont think she is atypical. It sure explains a lot.
Looks like she shut it down (went private). Screen shots?
ooh, I’ll start looking.
man, i thought maybe she was a parody for a bit. I guess it’s real.
the big one
then she goes and yells at anyone who disagrees. calls them paid trolls because they don’t have a bunch of followers.
try two.
That’s gold, Jerry! GOLD!
She’s trying to get in early on the “TRUMPWANTSTOPRIVATIZEATC!!!1!ELEVEN!”
trainflight.* Unlike my comment which is really late. Who will employ me to comment on this site?
even American responded to her and told her she was wrong, and she tells them she’s right; THE TOWER WAS WRONG. LOL
That was really good.
As an aviation geek and a general misanthrope, that whole thread made my day.
Whoops. Tweets be protected now. Ha ha ha.
(supposedly 15 year old, gay)
Supposedly he’s not 15 and actually a middle-aged man, according to Kaczynski’s Twitter feed. But who knows if he’s lying. Anyway, their article rubbed me the wrong way too, threatening to doxx someone because they made a gif that was obviously an over-the-top joke. What a bunch of bullies.
Germany must brace for more attacks by radicalized Muslims: officials
Imagine how bored these officials would be if they hadn’t spent the last decade importing as many Muslims as possible.
Oddly, the Austrians don’t want to brace themselves.
You know who else caused Germany to brace for attacks?
Eisenhower?
Refugees?
Germanicus Julius Caesar?
Napoleon Bonaparte?
David Hasselhoff?
Herman the German?
Um, not sure why a statue in New Ulm, Minnesoda would scare Germans, but if you say so…
Herman the German
Stalin?
Nena?
Geoff Hurst?
Wow. Now that one is obscure. Well, at least to someone like me who doesn’t follow metric football.
It’s not that obscure. If you really wanted to be obscure, you could go with Tofik Bakhramov (assuming the apocryphal story about why he allowed the goal is true).
I read the blurb on Wikipedia. What’s the supposed reason?
Bakhramov was Ukranian, and was the linesman who allowed the goal (the referee didn’t see it). The story goes that he was asked why he allowed the goal, and that he answered, simply, “Stalingrad”.
Obscure to some, distant, ancient memory to others.
Indeed, I remember the game.
Emperor Valentinium?
George FUCKING Patton, that’s who.
Veganism: What The Health: A Wolf’s Eye Review
I think there is so much confirmation bias and inherent uncertainty in diet studies that you can’t take most seriously. That being said I sincerely doubt quality meat is bad for humans and I wouldn’t care if it was, for the change of an extra 1.7 years of average lifespan or whatever.
a private citizen who has issued an extensive statement of apology, showed his remorse
I can’t believe they let him off so easily. Why no pelting with rotten vegetables and horse shit in the stocks? Why no crawl through the mud to the whipping post? Why no forced bloody self-flagellation?
Too soft, CNN. You’ll never get to be Pope of the Church of Social Justice that way.
He has learned his lesson in this struggle-session. If he makes another meme, it’s off to the gulags.
National treasure David Burge on the CNN doxxing:
Rex Tillerson @RexTillerson
If #CNNBlackmail proves one thing it’s: CNN is only capable of real investigative journalism when it’s in their best interest to do so.
That stings.
Also ALSO in idiot reporters, the DPRK News twitter account tricked the New York Times
https://twitter.com/NonWhiteHat/status/882438229844254721
Has the NYT reported on Tweets from Godfrey or Spicier yet? Because that would be just as fun.
The CNN Twitter feed is hilarious.
Yup, real classy move by CNN. Threaten some random guy on the internet who made a silly little GIF. God, I think they might secretly be pro Trump. How else do you explain them constantly acting so batshit insane to prove Trump right when he calls them fake news?
CNN secretly pro Trump-that actually explains a lot.
That was quick: https://www.reddit.com/r/CNNmemes/
Links on time…it is almost like someone thought Monday was a Holiday.
I accept full responsibility for what I did. I know it hurt people and I promise you the links will not suffer on a four day weekend again. I hope this can also serve as a learning experience for other bloggers how actions can hurt others.
If I violate this statement, feel free to publicly shame me again…with my name, address and phone number.
Yours truly,
SloopyAssholeInca.
It wasn’t a 4 day weekend. It was a two day weekend, then a 1 day workweek, then a Holiday, then a 3 day workweek.
From my perspective it was actually a 5 day weekend…to be followed by a two-day work week. Just sayin’
From my perspective it’s just been a normal workweek. (Lazy bums, thinking they get normal days off because “holiday.”)
So your saying you work for the Kremlin. How else can you explain your employer not celebrating Merica. And don’t give me any b of this “Canadian” hooie.
Nope, not Canadian. We celebrate Merica in the most American way possible; making money!
I stand corrected. You sir are a true American hero.
This guy gets it.
Well from my perspective the Jedi are evil!
Look, if you want to understand the great mystery, you must study all its aspects–not just the dogmatic, narrow view of the Jedi.
Hell, they probably like sand, the clowns.
+1 Grey Jedi
“Only a Sith deals in absolutes.”
“LOL the irony, dude.”
“You know what the fuck I meant!”
No, this will not stand Secret Nazi President will see to it!
::Runs to safe space::
I wasn’t paying much attention this weekend (or any weekend). This is part of my “work”week routine.
I did note HM’s meat on the grill.
Jesus, dude. Never apologize. The people are clearly getting what they are paying for.
Okay, I’m real late here, but I just couldn’t help posting this article from Slate: Fireworks bad because birds get scared.
One commenter had the sense to point out it should be a wash, though, because all the cats are scared back into their houses. This was one of maybe three (out of 75) comments that didn’t somehow connect this to TRUMP. Slate never disappoints.
At the dump near the end of the Langley AFB runway, all the wheel loader drivers used to carry shotguns with explosive flare rounds to scare off the seagulls that would pose a danger to the jets. The gulls would always come back after a few minutes. I guess nobody told them they were supposed to have PTSD.
Do birds even have enough long term memory to develop PTSD from repeated exposures to loud sounds?
Some absolutely do, Crows and Ravens for certain. Now whether they possess the emotional capacity to develop mental issues like PTSD I have no idea but the have clearly demonstrated long term memory of negative events including taking revenge out on humans who have threatened them weeks and even months later.
That said, I highly doubt they are phased by the fireworks any more than they would be by a thunderstorm.
We had a local murder of crows who seemed to know the individual members of my family. They could certainly differentiate enough so that when we went out in the garden, the crows on point duty ignored us, but anyone else coming along and they’d be calling every time.
Is there a way to specifically encourage birds like crows, ravens, and magpies to hang around your home? I don’t want to put out a bird-feeder with carrion in it… but I’d consider it, is all I’m saying.
Our landscape has lots of high trees, pretty densely packed. I think crows like to establish a cordon within the trees – in our case, their cordon was about 300 ft across, all within trees. The problem is that I think crows are kinda nomadic. This ‘clan’ stayed a couple years, then disappeared, and then (I think) came back a few years later.
I don’t think they’d use a feeder even if you put one out. I think the ‘draw’ for these guys was a rather efficient family of coyotes living on some town land further down the stream from us. That or the bobcats.
The entertaining thing about crows is the efficiency with which they’ll mob any raptors trying to make inroads into the territory. The number of red-tailed hawks, sharp-shinned hawks and falcons they saw off was very impressive.
That sounds fascinating. I’m not much of a bird-person, but crows just amaze me–for the reasons you described and others already mentioned here. I’d love to have a daily perspective, but this isn’t a particularly tree-y area.
There’s always the Crow Cam ….
I watched a special on crows once that confirmed that not only could they identify individual humans but they could pass that information to other crows.
I, for one, welcome our *Crow Overlords.
* this sounds like a bad heavy metal group
You’re just Courting Crows, LH.
+1 Nevermore
They can also make novel tools in shocking speed. Very cool stuff. Except you know. The evil.
LOL
Murdering is our family tradition.
Dozens of people were struck by gunfire in Chicago, some of them fatally,
No, they were shot. By other people. They weren’t “struck by gunfire” you sneaky passive-voice-using fuckhole. There was a perpetrator that did this, not an inanimate object acting on its own.
Murderers be smart to shoot people on a day when everything sounds like a gunshot.
On the local DC news this morning, the anchors acted shocked – SHOCKED! – that there were a bunch of shootings last night.
Somebody should find that clip of Hillary, surrounded by bodyguards, stumbling into her limo, and paste the CNN logo on her head.
So, on the other side of the idiot table, yesterday NPR’s twitter account was posting the Declaration of Independence. That’s all they were doing. 140 characters at a time, the Declaration of Independence. A fine thing to do on the 4th of July.
Here’s an example of the results: https://twitter.com/DoubleEmMartin/status/882323633439358976
The St. Paul paper the Pioneer Press had a very rare letter to the editor.
I’ll keep you posted when his fellow pigs run him off the job.
Wow. Gotta give props to Detective Kamoske. I hope she enjoyed her job, because I see a forced retirement in her future.
She works in Madison, WI.
1. It could just be WI-MN trolling.
2. It is Madison, she might be okay.
Note: the one time I probably shouldnt have been driving after drinking, I was followed home by a Madison cop. I think I was technically legal, but anyway, probably still under the minimum BAC for driving in WI (which I think is .12).
Wow, still a fairly reasonable bac compared to .08 a lot of states including Ohio have gone to.
You missed the joke.
I said .12 is the MINIMUM.
Meaning you aren’t allowed to drive with a BAC **under** that.
Their law is .08 too, IIRC.
Good WI joke there robc
.08 is right, but we take our DUI so serious here in WI that for first time offenders you have to right “I won’t drink and drive again” 100 times on the whiteboard.
fuck… write
The roadhouse near our old cabin is Siren had no problems giving you a to-go cup.
Yeah, WI has a very lax approach to drinking. I still don’t get their fascination with brandy though.
Hey Utah decided that .05 is too much. Look I don’t drink, but that’s F***ing ignorant.
Hahahaha, CNN reporters literally cannot stop lying
In reference to the CNN gif meme. “This online troll is going to apologize now that we blackmailed him!”
1 hour later after article goes up and internet goes nuts…. “The guy apologized before we even reached out to him!”
I listened to Sargon for the first time yesterday. He was talking about some reporter bitching about violent rhetoric against journalists. In it he laughed at the journos saying “your scared of teenagers in their bedrooms”. This whole shit show just shows how true that is.
I was skeptical of Sargon before I ever listened to him because I thought he was just some gamer dude that like to make feminist call-out videos. But he’s actually very well versed in classical liberal philosophy. He makes some good content. I probably listen to more of his stuff now than any other youtuber or podcaster.
Yeah, for being a lefty, Sargon is a very interesting and informative listen. Probably my favorite YouTube channel I follow.
Over at reason, I once reposted a YouTube comment from one of Sargon’s videos that read something like “Hillary declared war on a cartoon frog; the frog won.”
MJ Green’s reply was (I paraphrase) “Meh, I got over his schtick a while ago”. I was curious about that, but asking would have meant reading more MJ Green, so I passed.
Sargon is pretty good on most issues concerning media/culture. His economics is horrendous though, he’s a socialist. (I haven’t listened to him in years so this may have changed)
Libertarian economics is the last frontier for someone that gets redpilled. Socialism just feels right for many.
Sargon is horrendous on economics, his “take down” of anarcho-capitalism was hilariously pathetic, about as hand-wavy as it’s possible to be. Funny thing though, I’m not sure his economic views are much worse than Nick Gillespie’s where it’s a difference of degree, not of kind.
Well, the AnCap takedown was pretty funny, but you gotta realize, Britain’s a society where very few people have been able to make a persuasive case for ancap. For many years, tyranny has rested pretty lightly upon their shoulders, and ‘anarchy’ hasn’t ever had much traction because its “devotees” have been either punk rockers or foreigners.
There ARE ancaps in the UK (shameless plug for Samizdata.net who have some quite persuasive contributors) but the strawmen Sargon was tilting at were the most compelling targets he could imagine, aside from some pretty weak-sauce youtube personalities.
He’s anti-socialist, or at least has been lately. Calls out the free college/Berniebro crowd pretty routinely. But he also conflates corporatism with capitalism, and afaict stays silent on the NHS like a good Englishman.
I think his laissez faire lifestyle courtesy of his $5k/mo Patreon income has made him rather amenable to market economics, especially where it intersects with freedom of expression.
I regard him as a radical centrist. Useful for calling out idiocy on the extremes, but not at all useful for cutting to the heart of any particular issue, aside from Anita Sarkeesian.
He is decidedly not a socialist, though he may have been at some point in the past. But I’ve only been tuning in for the last few months.
I’d describe him as a classical liberal. You should see his disdain for the Labour party, drawing comparisons to Venezuela and Cuba. and he’s frequently arguing with commies on twitter spouting Party propaganda. He’s very aware of the history and track record of socialism and communism. That may not make one a full blown AnCap, but far better educated than most.
It’s probably a more recent development, too. I think that because most of us who have engaged with commies before learned quickly that it’s pointless, and will only further entrench them in the comfort of their soviet propaganda.
This was definitely a new development. Last video I watched of his was an hour long debate between him (representing pro-socialist positions) vs. ThatGuyT (I think – promoting capitalism).
He’s “of the left” .. pro-NHS, pro-“benevolent dictatorship” (up until the guys with short haircuts and guns turn up to stop him doing something HE wants freedom to do) but generally free-market – presumably until it gets “too big” or “too monopolistic”. Its hard to understate just how attached the Brits are on a visceral level to having a health service that looks just like the VA here, but more costly.
It’s very very difficult for a Brit to imagine a Britain where you really are so free, that bad things could happen to you. He’s a victim of his upbringing. I know, it took me years to get to where I am.
I’d do the ‘shrug’ emoji, but I’m too dumb to figure out the keypresses.
Same here. It’s very hard to talk to me European family and friends about this stuff, they just don’t get it. And Americans don’t really get it either, not because they don’t understand the arguments, but because they’re complacent and take it for granted.
Listening to the interview I mention below, I kept thinking that Sargon would only need to live in the US for a year or two, making the same amount of patreon-bucks, before he would become a full-on ancap.
I don’t even think it would matter where in the US. Montana or LA, He’d come out a libertarian or ancap.
He considers himself a Classical Liberal now. Go watch his recent interview with Dave Rubin. I like both of them, but dammit someone needs to send both of them a care package consisting of about 5-10 books about history and philosophy.
Rubin thinks progressives somehow broke away from liberals, and that liberals need to take back the progressive label, oblivious to the fact that progressivism is actually ideologically consistent(ly fascist) throughout history and infiltrated liberalism when they became too obvious. While Sargon doesn’t understand that positive rights cannot easily co-exist with Classical Liberalism. He has read Hayek at least, but thinks that as long as a policy applies equally to everyone in society, it’s fine, regardless of how much that policy shits on self ownership or property rights.
I don’t see how unnecessary government monopoly of health care fits in with “classical liberalism”. Not that I disagree with most of videos.
He’s economically feeble.
Currently, he’s pro-free market, but has a terrible blind spot when it comes to orphan economics. He ‘gets’ that minimum wage is bad, but I get this nasty feeling that he feels that someone, somewhere, needs to be taxed heavily to pay for starving pickaninnies somewhere.
He’s allegedly been reading Hayek recently though, so he might be salvageable, if he ever gets over this (platonic) love-fest with Laci Green and Anita Sarkeesian.
He’s going through that Dave Rubin/John Stossel road where he slowly realizes that leftism is ALL horseshit, not just a little bit.
I contribute to the Rubin Report monthly. Dave is doing some damn fine work. I also contribute to Philip DeFranco. These guys are slowly taking down MSM simply by producing better content. Market FTW.
Philip DeFranco is mostly very good, but he also has this irrational fear that no net neutrality means that some Silicon Valley prog can limit his speech and not suffer the consequences of him losing their business.
Yeah, I saw that video too. I posted a reply noting that he completely ignores/misses the other regulations that using a title 2 classification opens the internet up to. Unfortunately, my reply was not selected for the Friday show. Sometimes I consider starting my own YouTube channel to do deeper dives into the topics he only does a surface-level analysis of.
I was really thinking about starting up GlibTV as competition for ReasonTV. I need to learn how to edit videos first, but I was thinking about a series where I dissect and constructively critique DeFranco vids.
I am also interested in GlibTV.
But no SugarFree reenactments
I could do the editing (I used to do wedding vids), but I’d need either 1) a new edition of Adobe’s Premiere Pro or 2) some other software.
A monthly subscription to a video editing suite (such as Adobe Premier Pro) should be well within the means of this group.
Hmmmm. For another tenner a month, I could upgrade from what I’ve got to the Full CS Suite . . . {ponders getting into video editing}
I’m not a video editing professional, but it’s my understanding that there are some really good free open source packages out there for it. The only one I have some experience with is Blender, and it works great, but the video editing tools are only a small part of a very large whole. It does have a compositor built in as well.
There is also: ShotCut and OpenShot for video editing, and Natron for compositing.
https://www.shotcut.org/
*sad trombone*
well, there goes my idea.
that was supposed to be to you, LH.
Yeah, in a lot of his videos I get the impression that he is really close to getting it on these things. He just needs to take that next step.
Hayek does seem to resonate with some leftists and left libertarians, I’ve noticed.
Well, he said nice things about the payroll tax that one time.
His love-fest for those two is like CNN and Trump.
Ahhh, but AFTER you contacted him, clarifying that you knew who he was and that the clock was ticking on his identity being exposed.
Sorry – his specific denial is “he apologized before we SPOKE”
they don’t claim he apologized before they contacted him.
“Secret Service ‘questions Kathy Griffin for over an hour’ as it probes provocative photo stunt showing her holding ‘Trump’s’ decapitated head”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4666448/Secret-Service-questions-Kathy-Griffin-hour.html
Fake news?
It’s stupid, but isn’t it routine for the Secret Service to investigate even obvious non-threats?
Yep, and they make those investigations as obnoxious as possible to get the point across, threatening the President is no joke.
It’s plausible. But that article is not well-sourced.
Would be funny if their investigation exposed the money counterfeiting scheme that’s kept her talentless ass afloat all these years.
There is an image containing the personal info including phone and address of every CNN anchor floating around now.
First they pick a fight with Trump then they pick a fight with the internet. CNN hasn’t realized they aren’t fighting Lindsay Graham anymore.
Given what 4chan did to Shia Labeouf, you’d think these news outlets would have learned by now.
This is bad. Somebody is going to get hurt and it’ll all be blamed on anyone marginally to the right of Bernie Sanders.
I was trying to think up destructive and violent vandalisms that could occur against CNN without hurting any people. All I could come up with is someone blowing their satellite uplinks on their roof of sledgehammering them. Would cause property damage, and not likely end up with anyone hurt, but get the point across to them.
People die each day they don’t see CNN. Destroying their link is worse than murdering children.
Funny. I see nothing about CNN’s bravery at the NYT.
The NYT is still busy fighting with pilots.
To conclude my tweeting escapades last night with some particularly rabid progs, I completely tied one of them into a knot by saying that “progressivism” and “neoconservatism” are just two words describing the same philosophy in both parties. He channeled some of Cenk Uygur’s incoherence in his response to me (if you want to follow my political Twitter, I’m @CHLoving23:
We want to use the ring to destroy Sauron.
It annoys me when progs try to claim Orwell. He may have been a socialist but he most definitely would not have been a prog.
When one of the Kek accounts told him that he was channeling 1984, he was like, “huh, I’ve never read 1984”. I think it’s his version of newspeak.
Wait, a dude who calls himself Winston Smith and uses a picture of Orwell has never read 1984?
I think that he thought the account was a stereotypical dumbshit on 4chan (who are often not dumb at all), and lied to his face like a good prog does.
Which is funny, because anyone who has read 1984 would recognize the reference.
And most people who hasn’t read 1984, haven’t heard of it.
On second thought, he might actually be illiterate
It is pretty effective to compare them to puritans. One says tomato the other says pahtahtoe but they are both groups that obsess about controlling others thoughts and actions. I find that that is a pretty good slap to the head of progs.
On the crowded train and covered my mouth as I coughed. Now I got a handful of phlegm and no tissue. What’s the libertarian solution?
Wipe it on the nearest child
BINGO!
Dribble it all over your face and lips so that everyone can see.
Just lick your hand
Ewww! Who knows where that thing has been!
And then chew on the result loudly with molars, using an open mouth.
Hand in pocket? /Mr Bean
This is why you’re supposed to use the crook of your elbow.
Deal with it in a mature and adult fashion
Note that he’s still typing on his phone…….
Use one of those magic time-stopping watches they have over there. I heard about them in a Japanese Audio-Visual documentary.
I’ve uh….heard…about that technology. I’ve never SEEN it mind you, I swear….
Put a newspaper discreetly over your lap.
Make some pumping motions with your phlem hand under the paper
Sigh happily
Wipe phlem on train window
I’m doing it!
Gotta represent for all us gaijins!
I did that once in high school. I had terrible allergies and my sneezes were phlegmy disasters. No tissues handy that day. So I pocketed the mess and prayed nobody had seen.
Don’t any of you people carry a handkerchief? What kind of monsters are you?
Sure, I’ll just tuck it into my blazer pocket like a jaunty bit of flair and hope I’m sophisticated enough to distinguish between it and my necktie when I’m horking up a good one.
You have my utmost confidence!
Handkerchiefs are just tiny smallpox blankets.
Which is why I carry one everywhere in Arizona.
Mine is taupe.
SJWednesday: Word Salad Edition
Man, I’m in my office on the 24th floor, and I can smell that bullshit all the way up here!
And to think, that bullshit probably got her an advanced degree.
It reads like Mad Libs if Mad Libs were repulsive rather than funny.
Is there an English translation for that?
I believe it roughly translates as, “People with multiple identity group points need to be obeyed and the rest of you need to shut up and follow us.”
Mission failed.
Jesus Christ, who can read that and stay awake? Three sentences in and I felt like I had taken an ambien.
Maybe that’s what they mean by “woke”.
SJWednesday: Body Positive Edition
Pretty sure that last paragraph contradicts itself.
Apparently “body positive” means being an obese slob, feeling good about it, and demanding others feel good about it too.
I was talking more about the gender race bit. They say that not thinking about it is not body positive, but that it’s impossible to understand a minority body.
Typical prog BS.
“A Hawaii-themed restaurant owner in Oregon was forced to close down following accusations of cultural appropriation.
Cloud Davidson opened The Hapuna Kahuna Tiki Bar & Kitchen on June 22. He was forced to shut it down just weeks later.”
https://heatst.com/culture-wars/hawaii-themed-restaurant-owner-forced-to-close-after-accusations-of-cultural-appropriation/
I can’t wait for someone to start on all the cultural appropriation in the Disney Princess movies, and the themed restaurants at Disneyland.
You kidding? That happens all the time.
When I see them issuing press announcements to the effect they’re closing the Pocahontas Diner because of it, I’ll grin. Not until then though.
Disney has “fuck you” money, though. This poor soul in Oregon doesn’t.
I’m moving to Portland and opening a “WHITE FOOD” restaurant. Let’s see how long that lasts.
As long as all the food you serve is literally white. Biscuits and gravy FTW!
Hmm… the last neighborhood party I threw was Tiki-themed. /hides in shame
The 2nd most epic drunk party I ever threw for former student workers was tiki-themed. No one had to go to the hospital, which is why it came up only second.
Man, I didn’t know that Portlandia folks desired Aryan purity, too!
Yes, because our country isn’t basically the biggest group of appropriators ever. See ‘Trump and the Russian Conspiracy with Arthur Fielder!’. And don’t forget that our national anthem uses music that was the theme song of a drinking club, and “My Country Tis of Thee” uses the music to the British national anthem, “God Save the Queen”. American culture is the culture of taking the stuff we like from other cultures, then mashing it together in weird ways or just using it outright if it’s good enough as is.
We get it from our language which does the same.
By dog, if those SJWs try to shut down the Tonga Room, I will have a total meltdown.
In short, intersectionality isn’t a theory of difference. It’s a theory of oppression. And when we treat it simply as a way to understand our differences, we erase its powerfully subversive critique.
Thus, we need to recognize that it’s an act of intellectual, discursive, and rhetorical colonization for white folks (and folks with other forms of privilege) to erase the critique of power from our use of intersectionality.
Unlike colonization of land and bodies, this discursive colonization is harder to interrupt because it’s harder to see, but this doesn’t mean that the colonization of inersectionality is somehow not violent.
Oh.
Some more local news: 300-person fight closes Grand Haven State Park during holiday weekend
Huh. No photographs.
Volvo to stop producing combustion engine only vehicles in 2019.
But, if they’re making hybrids, they aren’t forgoing the combustion engine altogether.
I was gonna post the same thing. Someone needs to explain to this reporter what “forgo” means.
Are you advocating violence against a reporter? Because it sounds like you be are. /CNN
hah! new quotables.
Don’t dox me bro!
This needs to be a meme.
Yeah, with the CNN logo over the cops’ (security guards’?) faces
Don’t Dox Me Bro! meme
Either that, or explain that hybrid vehicles have an internal combustion engine as well as an electric motor.
In this case you have the rare instance of the headline being more accurate than the article as the headline makes it clear that they will be forgoing cars exclusively powered by IC engines meaning that they will all be either Hybrids or full electric vehicles.
It looks like they’ll be offering more pure electrics and will be offering a hybrid option (not required though) on all their production vehicles.
That’s fine. They will still be producing combustion engines if they’re making hybrids.
Yeah, they do need to be a bit more precise with their language.
If there’s one thing strong enough for a northern European winter, it’s a battery.
Nowhere in this article does it state that they have hired the misplaced aircraft engineers that were laid off when Saab went belly up, which means they will not produce squirrely, FWD cars that make drifting in a high school parking lot so much fun.
In other words, this does not change my decision to not buy a Volvo in any way.
If they keep this shit up they wont be offering anything.
Man, I was kinda hoping they’d be doing more S60 polestar but I guess there isn’t a reason for me to want a Volvo anymore.
“Swedish comedian Emma Knyckare is organising a “man-free” music festival in her home country in response to rape and sexual assault claims at festivals.
She suggested the idea after reports of a number of sexual offences at Sweden’s biggest music festival Bravalla, which has now been cancelled for next year.”
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-40504452
“Swedish comedian” What an unlikely juxtaposition of words.
Meatballs are kind of funny.
It just that after you cut out all the taboo subjects in Swedish hyper-PC culture, what’s left to joke about? Tampon taxes and vodka-rations can only take a gal so far.
Saab?
Nobody likes a Saab story.
This is why the show Welcome to Sweden was so fucking sad and depressing. And it was a comedy.
You see if she had tried to organize an Immigrant free festival, she’d be called racist.
She should just keep out nonwhite males. Sorry but in Sweden they’re the root of the sexual assault problem.
They need to teach Swedish cucks not to rape…
I think she should do the exact opposite, because it’s woke and
non-oppressiveintersectional. Only exclude white males, including white male police. Make sure to hand the men who are allowed in pamphlets about feminism and the evils of (white) men as they enter.*Throws a bag of popcorn in the microwave*
We already had that here, it was called Lillith Fair
Strange how they’re so eager to exclude white men. You’d think they’d want their didactic, proselytizing events to include as many white male shitlords as possible.
They’re not here to enact your labor of learning.
Which reminds me, what ever happened to Paula Cole? She was kinda hot back in the 90’s.
So I realized that I am in a bit of a ruck when it comes to shit I read online. I really only go to like 6 different sites regularly (as in to actually read) and I’m sure I’m missing out on a bunch. I…tend to get easily stuck in ruts, sadly.
I spend the most time here and branch out on the links you guys post. HM….looking right at you BigDaddy….I go to avclub for pop culture stuff (and tune out everything political), cracked for humor, espn/cubs blog/fivethirtyeight/fangraphs for baseball, imgur to completely waste time, bbc/various news outlets…and I’m sure I’m forgetting some stuff but not much.
Really I’m interested in more sites like Mental Floss, where I can peruse a wide variety of mostly scientific but also playful and interesting shit, particularly history/science I’m not too dumb for.
I did not list my pornographic tendencies, for obvious reasons.
I’d love to hear some favorite haunts that you guys check out on the reg. Thanks! End transmission.
damninteresting.com
Very eclectic mix.
http://www.badassoftheweek.com/, it’s pretty good and entertaining if you like history, I also just like to take Wikipedia cruises, wherein I pull up an article then follow the interesting links and see where it takes me.
I can get lost on Wiki for hours. I have to stay away from that place.
I am a wiki junkie. Badassoftheweek. I forgot about that place. Good call Ricky.
My big problem is that I can’t….do nothing for a shit. I’ve been an insomniac for quite a while.
Been like that my entire life. I can’t go to bed unless I’m completely exhausted and falling asleep where I sit. Usually I get to bed between 2-3 am, get up at 6:15. Every so often I’m tired enough to go to bed maybe 11-12.
To clarify – by “can’t go to bed” I mean that I get anxious as all hell if I get into bed and don’t immediately fall asleep. I start watching the clock: why is this taking so long, I’ve been lying here for 20 minutes, why can’t I fall asleep?
I used to be the same way. Tried everything under the sun and finally came upon liquid melatonin which helps immensely. The pills never cut it but the liquid does for some reason.
Heat Street is good for laughing at progs, but they are folding so they won’t be around much longer.
Has Cracked eased up on the proggy noise? They used to be great, and then by 2-3 years ago every other article was some pile of leftist horseshit, so I stopped looking.
They have not. I had once thought to get in some paid writing practice my submitting articles to them but they really jumped the shark a few years ago, and seanbaby hasn’t written an article in recent memory so that kinda keeps me away too.
What a shame…they were my go to during the aughts along with the Onion. Now they both suck.
They absolutely have not. It’s incredibly infuriating, cuz I normally really like them.
One of their features the other day was “Serena Williams is a Great Athlete Period.”
I’m not going to click.
“Serena Williams is
athe Greatest Athlete To Have A Period.”And honestly, if you are looking for something random stumbleupon is great for dredging up weirdness, cool things and randomness (depending on your interest)
Big fan of StumbleUpon. Faaaaabulous time waster.
thirded.
No wonder you’re in a rut.
*Rimshot*
For Canadian small-c “conservative” stuff, smalldeadanimals.com. For “culture/culture war” stuff, Arts & Letters Daily (aldaily.com). ZeroHedge.com for the cray-cray (with the occasional really interesting tidbit). dpreview.com for all things related to cameras/digital imaging. duolingo.com to brush up on my appalling French. ModelMayhem.com to find my next
victimwilling subject for my photographic endeavours.And of course, I constantly do the same as you — “branch out” from the various links I see on those sites.
etymonline.com, where you can learn the origins of the word G-string.
http://boards.4chan.org/pol/catalog
Why you tryin’ to scare the kid? He’s not ready for that, though to be fair, are any of us really?
None of us are ever truly ready for /pol/. I’ve lurked for years (with the occasional post), and I think i have a pretty good grasp on “chan culture”, but even I proceed through the gates of /pol/ with the utmost caution. It doesn’t help that Stormfags/actual nazis are shitting up the board. Ironically LARPing as nazis was edgy and funny.
Fair enough, I lurk there every now and again, but never post. It can be wildly entertaining, deeply disturbing and sometimes insighful, rarely all at once. Usually though it’s just weird and funny, minus the stuff you mention.
go read 8chan pol for a while first. Then go back to 4chan pol. It won’t seem nearly so nazi.
Psh I was on /b/ starting in 2003. I ain’t shook.
Also /gif/ is my go-to porn source cuz it doesn’t get filtered by the goddamn Koreans here.
Evan confirmed /ourguy/
So, you remember Snacks then?
CafeHayek.com
“wide variety of mostly scientific but also playful and interesting shit, particularly history/science I’m not too dumb for”
http://slatestarcodex.com/
My constant visits:
diyaudio dot com – mostly for the interesting tube audio circuits though I’ll also read the solid-state forum.
the Truth About Cars
Steve Hoffman Forums – for music discussion even though it leans towards dinosaur rock,
Systems of Romance – a blog where you can download obscure Coldwave/Darkwave music from the 70s/80s
failarmy on youtube when I’m feeling redneck-ish
I still read John Derbyshire’s Radio Derb transcripts for the occasional nugget. I also follow Mickey Kaus on twitter. He’s a bit of an old-school Democrat but isn’t (too) insane.
Youtube gets a high amount of use from me – mostly for searching for new music to listen to. Or watching a Nigel Farage speech, or obscure movie clips.
Note – this is a big departure from my earlier days when I would spend hours reading political commentary – NRO Corner, Belmont Club, Instapundit, R**s*n, etc etc. These days I don’t feel like I’m gleaning anything new from these folks. They are more like barometers of what is happening in the world. I’ll sometimes visit Powerline but never liked I used to.
I usually check in on Insta twice a day, but more thru’ habit than anything else.
I hit Belmont Club regularly, and I’ll often see what Michael Totton is doing.
I still follow Insty fairly regularly because he generally has pretty interesting links, and I still check Ace of Spades because he makes me laugh even when I don’t agree with him. Don’t really do any other political blogs anymore, though.
Mickey Kaus is really interesting. He’s a rare breed, the type of old-time liberal-but-not-proggy Democrat you hardly ever see anymore.
Kaus is great but he doesn’t do enough car stuff like he used to.
Hey guys, thanks. Def gonna bookmark this list.
It’s not in my routine, but I check out fredoneverything now and again to see what the old codger is writing about lately. He’s a former DC correspondent who quit America to live somewhere in Mexico as an expat, so his views are mainly cultural doomsdayism.
Ace of Spades for the lulzy rabid anti-leftist posts. It’s something of a palette cleanser after a day of media-driven headlines.
I rarely remember to check Maggie’s Farm, but I’m rarely disappointed when I do. It’s a daily links blog manned by libertarianish writers, but they spotlight a lot of apolitical content.
I like boredpanda. It’s one of those clickbait listicle sites, but their listicles are pretty entertaining, as listicles go.
Listicles.
Now, looking at this guy’s resume, I assumed he’ll be easily confirmed as the new surgeon general, but at the same time, if the left has more fainting sessions, I think I’ll know why.
Trump is literally Hitler, so his surgeon general must be a doctor of death.
One thing’s for sure: if this vote is on party lines, we’ll know which party is the Racist Party.
Ha, no joke. But the repubs won’t call team blue on it, and besides, he’ll be working for the wrong type of administration, so he’ll be no better than an uncle tom in dem eyes anyway.
Show off.
Too good to study robopsychology, shitlord?
pfffft, big deal. Peter Venkman has Ph.Ds in parapsychology AND psychology.
Oh great, another middle finger to folks suffering from chronic pain.
His bow tie game is on point.
Everyone just calls him Dr. J.
CNN is bragging about having forced this guy to apologize for criticizing them.
“How CNN found the Reddit user behind the Trump wrestling GIF”
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/04/politics/kfile-reddit-user-trump-tweet/index.html
Don’t feel sorry for him–he’s a racist!
And the video was advocating violence–even if he denies it! (Otherwise why bring it up?)
Boil it all down–they’re bragging about intimidating someone into publicly apologizing for making fun of them.
It’s shameful behavior by CNN.
I sense a great disturbance in the Force, as if the legions of 4chan shifted their gaze to CNN . . . .
Please, God, I hope so. All out war between CNN and 4chan (because you know CNN would try to hit back) would be beyond epic. Please please please.
My understanding is that they’re threatening to dox CNN’s CEO in retaliation.
I saw there was some sort of protest at the writer’s place.
Just read that CNN got his IP address from Reddit and got his Time Warner ISP to identify the user. Not sure if true.
If that’s the case he’ll be rich as fuck when this is all over. Good lord.
yeah, that can’t go over well.
So it seems that Andrew Kaczynski, the CNN drone who blackmailed HanAssholeSolo, was one of the media assholes behind the Justine Sacco thing. What a cunt.
Here’s my shocked face…huh must be broken
Best email I’ve received since I started working here (I monitor our “general inquiries” inbox)
You forwarded it to sales, right?
Totes!!
The best part was “small island in Sydney nsw the worst place to live ever seriously”. I’m still LOLing
Worst Hugo Drax impression evah!
Wow. Breathtaking. I used to follow the Space Launch Services industry quite closely back in my MBA days, and still dip my toe in from time-to-time. I’m assuming this guy has no clue about how to even use a search engine to answer a basic question like “how much do satellites cost?” or even “Can you just buy an off-the-shelf, ready-to-go satellite from some manufacturer?”
Breath.
Taking.
Well, maybe you can help me out?
I’ve got a great design for a hyperspace drive, but I can’t get anyone at NASA to return my emails!
Elon Musk called but he goes on for hours–such an annoying little twit.
Miguel Alcubierre would like to have a word with you.
Speaking of satellites, I watched a documentary called Sputnik Declassified. It actually concentrated more on the American side: von Braun’s team versus the Navy’s attempt, Project Vanguard.
Project Vanguard was given the green light to launch the first satellite but ran into a bunch of delays. Von Braun, however, had more experience and actually had a usable rocket that ended up carrying a dummy load to space before the Russians ever did it. Long story short, we could have beaten the USSR to have the first satellite.
That person has a plan, and probably shouldn’t be handed satellites.
I still haven’t figured out what to do with the email – whether it’s even worth it to pass along to the support folks or anyone, really. I did forward it to a couple colleagues for lulz
Don’t stick your nose in crazy, either.
The only emails I don’t generally forward are the bank account in Nigeria ones. But I do agree this guy should not be encouraged by giving him the slightest attention.
Print, frame and hang on wall.
What is it with Aussies and written communication? I have one Australian client, and every email reads like it’s been through six cycles of Google Translate, starting from Klingon. This is the first indication I’ve seen that maybe it’s not just him.
It’s the “e-mail composition as an exercise in stream-of-consciousness transcription” school of writing. The Aussies seem to be particularly good at it.
Relevant to the discussion about transgender treatment for minors.
http://dailysignal.com/2017/07/03/im-pediatrician-transgender-ideology-infiltrated-field-produced-large-scale-child-abuse/
TW: Daily Signal.
I’m still on the fence about this hullaballo, but I think the perspective from an actual pediatrician is valuable.
The vast majority of kids can’t stick with a musical instrument long enough to play it well. Letting them (or encouraging them to) decide to chop off body parts or alter their body chemistry in permanent ways is a ridiculously bad idea.
Relevant:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gtx7OVYby0
No need to read further…
I have very strong reservations about “treating” gender dysphoria in adolescents. The usual treatment is massive doses of hormones and hormone regulators. I can’t believe that isn’t going to have permanent effects. Doing that to a developing minor who can’t consent to it strikes me as ethically questionable at best.
Huh. Any pediatrician that is party to anything like that is committing financial and professional suicide. The chances of some adult suing the dogshit out of them for facilitating their mutilation as a child seems to me 100%. Either that a bullet to the head.
That could get pretty wild with a joint custody type situation. The one parent with primary custody gets some hormone therapy going before the other catches wind.
As far as I know, nobody is doing “gender reassignment surgery” on minors, just hormone therapy.
Which is plenty bad enough, IMO. I have very serious concerns that one of these deeply unhappy and mentally unstable people is going to sue the everloving shit out of the doctors who administered hormone therapy to them as a minor without their consent.
So, on the story of the day, CNN is self destructing before our very eyes. The threatening of the Reddit user is burning up the intertoobz. The guy is apparently not 15 years old, but in his 40s maybe. Not sure where the 15 year old thing came from, but doesn’t seem to be true. But it doesn’t matter, the mob has already been unleashed on CNN and they’re hungry for some blood.
+1 Streisand Effect
Fifteen or forty, what they did was bullshit.
Exactly and I think they’re going to pay dearly for it.
Dear dog, I hope so. It would make my month.
For sure. I can barely comprehend how utterly fucked up the ultimatum they put into that article is.
I’ve read that about five times so far and it seems to get worse every time.
~~~magic edit fairy~~~
And a belated thanks to you, Magic Edit Faerie!
That just means he can sue.
can he sue?
You bet your ass he can sue.
Can he win? Who knows.
Apparently he has a bit of a racist commenting history… That’s CNN’s current defense for doing what they did.
You know who else had a bit of racist commenting history…
Al Campanis?
‘Merica?
Irish?
NPR?
THE ENTIRE WORLD?
which they absolutely knew about before researching him.
Not sure where the 15 year old thing came from, but doesn’t seem to be true.
Well, if CNN says he’s not 15, we can take that to the bank. *eyeroll*
CNN screwed themselves again. Now they can’t out his real identity (and age) unless he breaks the deal. Leaving the field open to pranksters to make up shit that CNN can’t really refute.
Here’s what happens when you’re TOO nerdy.
WTF?
No, you dumbshits, Win the Future is not what that stands for. Almost anyone who sees that will be saying to their self, what the fuck? What the fuck? Do these guys even internet?
They want to make engineering degrees free for everyone.
They recruited the guy from Third Eye Blind to run for office.
I think WTF is appropriate.
“They recruited the guy from Third Eye Blind to run for office.”
What we need is our own water boy!
I can just imagine the debate questions,
“Mr. Jenkins, can you explain what this line means, “[…]I must confess, those little red panties, they pass the test, resting on the belly face down on the mattress–what?”
Makes for a good campaign slogan: “We want someone else to get us through this!”
Is that how its gonna be?
“like making engineering degrees free for everyone”
That’s where I stopped. The cost of an engineering degree is not what stops people from going into it. It has been shown that your paycheck as an engineer doesn’t really matter where you go to school, so shelling out big bucks for it doesn’t matter. The reason people don’t get engineering degrees us because it’s hard. (Says the engineer turned econ graduate)
But it is nice that this guy has agreed to pay all the engineering teachers out of his own pocket. /derp
They just want cheap engineers. A key provision would likely be that ANYONE going to school for such a degree would get tax payer support for it. I know it’s hard to imagine a CEO shilling for an increase in funding to third world immigrants, but let’s just entertain the idea for a moment.
Well, what’s not to like about paying millions of people to go to engineering school and flunk out because they really don’t want to go to engineering school, but it’s free!
The horror! How dare an entrepreneur seek to pay the lowest wage possible and maximize profit!
Go back to gliberpopulism.com, Mulatto!
How dare he use the government to force others to subsidize his business by paying for other people’s education.
You performed the fallacy of going from a general statement to specific, unless you thought I was referring to one of those non-binary gendered entrepreneurs who uses “they” as a singular pronoun.
I really wish people would knock that off.
The Royal We is cool, though.
Calling out a specific exception to a general statement isn’t a fallacy. There are many ways for an entrepeneur to pay low wages and maximize profit. Some are good, some aren’t.
You just committed the fallacy of pretending that someone else committed a fallacy to cover your rear. My comment was very specific.
But considering the part of the quote I was commenting on didn’t include anything about the specific proposal FreeSociety was referring to, it was a non sequitur. That’s why, you know, I didn’t cut and paste his entire quote.
The quoted text of me saying “They just want cheap engineers” is being said precisely as a response to the guy’s call for “free” engineering degrees.
He says in regards to a proposal to have tax payers pay the tuition. Great snark though, I’m sure that comment would make a lot more sense to the commenters over at Vox.
No, I didn’t. You know that. Stop arguing in bad faith.
I see somebody is familiar with the Five D’s of Dodgeball. Great dodging, HM.
What do you do with your econ degree?
I got a job as a data analyst for a market research firm, but then ended up playing programmer for then too. I just got a new job as a technical support engineer. I love development so hopefully I can use this to jump into their dev team or business Intel team.
I got a job in finance with it.
Could be worse, they could be shilling for free gender and race studies degrees for everyone.
After all engineers make good money so those engineering students are destined to become top 5%ers but how can we make the world more woke when the only job gender studies students are able to get is barista and paid protester?
Simple: tack a bunch of social wokeness propaganda courses onto the engineering degree.
A strict licensing and certification program run by the local Community College would cover that. They could form a collective that ensured that the quality of barista-ing and rioting met some basic standards, ensuring a quality experience for coffee-drinkers and padlock-victims alike.
The dues paid would allow the people who administered the certification process to run crowdsourced, organic, sustainable education programs to maintain the good name and reputation of barista and paid protester-dom
Do it.
Watching CNN immolate itself is giving me near-orgasmic levels of schadenfreude. I’ve considered CNN to be partisan fake news since the original Clinton News Network days; watching it gain a perception among the general public as a trusted, unbiased source of news always made me taste bile. I sincerely hope that it continues down its current path until its credibility is Pravda level.
Pravda level?
They’re already there, and hurtling beneath it so fast their leading edges are glowing white hot from the atmospheric compression.
Since you people are making me read CNN: Trump doesn’t pay women the same as men, blah, blah, blah
As I am certain many of you know, salary for federal workers is determined by the position, the responsibilities associated with said position and is subject to a predetermined scale from which the government cannot deviate. Given the nature of unionized employees, an EO office in literally every location, it is very unlikely that Trump can pay men more, even if he wanted to. So why are women paid less?
It looks like they found the answer on accident.
“It looks like they found the answer on accident.”
And they either don’t understand it or they’re deliberately being dishonest. I’ll take both.
The other day I saw someone post that article, and right next to it post a 2014 Washington Post article about the same thing.
And, of course, the exact same thing was true under Obama.
What was the disparity in the Clinton campaign? I forget.
While it may draw an icy reaction
I feel like this is totally “gaze-bait” to get a reaction out of Swiss.
So setting off fireworks in Florida is technically illegal. I say technically because there are huge fireworks shops all over the place, and when you buy them you’re signing a statement that says you’re doing it to scare birds off your property. Obviously, nobody’s using them for that, but everyone just looks the other way because Florida.
Anyways, the local PD posted a gentle reminder of how it’s illegal to set off fireworks. Whatever. They got like 100 replies saying “WELL COME ARREST MY NEIGHBOR FOR SETTING OFF FIREWORKS!!!”
1. There were several dozen people in just my neighborhood setting off fireworks. There are probably thousands around the city. Yeah, they’re totally going to arrest them all.
2. Fuck, how many dogs (and people) would die if they tried to do that?
The more important question is how many sheriffs would not win reelection.
Lasalle parish, La had a law and order sheriff that was going to crack down on drivers. Everyone in the parish ended up with a ticket for something. He wasn’t able to finish his term. Three years in he walked into city hall and threw his badge at the police jury. He gave them a cussing and as he stomped out they said
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0BTdo6qGwo
There is a Huff Post article on the whole Hanassholesolo thing. I won’t link it, but the commenters are hilarious. A bunch of progs fearing the hate and violence that Trump has created. Umm have you looked in the mirror?
First the left defends the UKs right to order a baby to die and now they defend CNN for threatening a Reddit user who posts a .gif. All in less than a week. Stay classy, leftists, don’t let that mask slip or anything.
What mask?
Donald Trump- America’s greatest enemy
Whether he is actually clinically ill is a matter for psychiatric professionals to consider. But when you take the above behaviors and combine them with his resistance to doing the work needed to be president, to sitting down for briefings, to reading background materials, to familiarizing himself with details enough to manage his staff, there is clearly a problem. Compound it with his deliberate reluctance to fill key positions in government and his wild flip-flopping on critical issues from relations with China to trade, and you come to a conclusion that it may be that Trump’s fitness to serve as president is our nation’s core national security issue.
Not only does the president diminish the office with his pettiness; he also shows disregard for constituti
onal principles including free speech, freedom of religion and separation of powers, and he operates as though he were above ethics laws. Daily he shows he lacks the character, discipline, intellect, judgment or respect for the office to be president of the United States. In normal times, this would be worrying. But look at the news. North Korea is moving closer to having the ability to deliver a nuclear weapon to the United States. A confrontation is coming that will be a test of character pitting North Korea’s unhinged leader, Kim Jong Un, against our leader.
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The United States has had a wide variety of presidents; we have as often been victimized by their errors of judgment as we have benefited from their leadership. But the stark reality is that objective analysis reveals that we have never before seen a president so unfit for office. Even President Richard Nixon at his moments of darkest paranoia was a professional public servant who understood the office and the stakes associated with it. One might, on this Independence Day week, have to go back to King George III to find a head of state who so threatened America. But there is no precedent for one whose character is so obviously ill-suited to the presidency.
Pants-wetting TED talker mewling and puking in the house organ of the deep state. If only we hadn’t passed that stupid 22nd Amendment, God King Obama would still be here to nuzzle and nurture us.
Who’s the last President who *didn’t* do every one of those things?
Leftists love the Constitution, didn’t you know? I mean except for the parts they don’t like.
” he also shows disregard for constitutional principles including free speech, freedom of religion and separation of powers, and he operates as though he were above ethics laws.”
But Hillary lost.
Are “Ethics Laws” a thing? I thought they were just laws.
I’ve noticed a lot of rhetoric about how Trump must be mentally ill. It sounds like an angle to use the 25th amendment.
There was a #25thAmendmentNow hashtag going on when he posted that CNN wrestling meme, so that might clue you into the current narrative.
If only we hadn’t passed that stupid 22nd Amendment,
Bill Clinton would still be President. There is no candidate that could beat him in the last 20 years.
I thought the constitution was over 100 years old and written by old white slaveowners in a language that no one understands?
Shia LaBeouf is an asshat of major proportions, but if this trailer is any indicator, his work looks good here. And it looks like a promising movie.
+1 “Shut up and act”
Sadly, he figured acting and activism are the same thing, what with that root word and all.
It feels like they’re copying the movie “Rush“, which was still quite good fwiw (esp if you like racing)
i think it might be a harder stretch to make Tennis into some life/death battle.
LOL
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Andrew just called me,he told me “I was indeed intending to blackmail that guy with my statement”~Anonymous Source
please help me I want to know where to buy a satellite and launch it into space like NASA has also do i need a mesh network and,use it for my own internet service provider as my own business. Who can help me or provide answers it’s,been very longtime with no answers no funding no grants,or help or anything at all. like you have but the biggest satellite and where to buy it and who off and how much etc. I do not live in AMERICA I live unfortunately in a small island in Sydney nsw the worst place to live ever seriously anyhow please help I am desperate for answers NASA won’t reply to my emails or anyone and no one has answers
And- thanks in advance. Please end reply to “skynet@ yahoo.com”. You’re the best, can’t wait to get started.
Let’s see how they cooked the books on this poll. A 15-point favorability of CNN among “independents”? I get the massive partisan divide, but you would think that his fight with CNN with boost his independent support, not hurt him…unless a bunch of progs think that they’re independent and checked that box on the poll.
Who’d they call, CNN families?
Confused? let a world renowned philosopher explain things.
The Sanders campaign, however, broke dramatically with over a century of U.S. political history. Extensive political science research, notably the work of Thomas Ferguson, has shown convincingly that elections are pretty much bought. For example, campaign spending alone is a remarkably good predictor of electoral success, and support of corporate power and private wealth is a virtual prerequisite even for participation in the political arena.
The Sanders campaign showed that a candidate with mildly progressive (basically New Deal) programs could win the nomination, maybe the election, even without the backing of the major funders or any media support. There’s good reason to suppose that Sanders would have won the nomination had it not been for shenanigans of the Obama-Clinton party managers. He is now the most popular political figure in the country by a large margin.
Activism spawned by the campaign is beginning to make inroads into electoral politics. Under Barack Obama, the Democratic Party pretty much collapsed at the crucial local and state levels, but it can be rebuilt and turned into a progressive force. That would mean reviving the New Deal legacy and moving well beyond, instead of abandoning, the working class and turning into Clintonite New Democrats, which more or less resemble what used to be called moderate Republicans, a category that has largely disappeared with the shift of both parties to the right during the neoliberal period.
Yes, that’s right. The NYT called Noam Chomsky to find out how to cope with Trumpism.
It’s a derp landslide. Hard to know what to quote, but I thought “elections are bought” was particularly risible, all things considered. If that were true, Hillary would be President, and the Democrats would have about a fifteen seat majority in the Senate.
Chomsky continues his slide into dementia….
From the interviewer:
The philosopher’s lament. Being a witness is harder than actual suffering.
Men die in overseas wars; women hardest hit.
/Clinton
“Why are we still here? Just to suffer? Every night, I can feel my leg. And my arm. Even my fingers! The body I’ve lost, the comrades I’ve lost; won’t stop hurting. It’s like they’re all still there. You feel it, too, don’t you? I’m going to make them give back our past!”
–Noam Chomsky
Hey now. By this point on the dementia slide Kojima’s writing is more incoherent and rational than Chomsky.
Speaking of dementia, Ridley Scott extemporizes on the meaning of Blade Runner and its upcoming sequel. His spiel is… more revelatory than informative.
1. “The ‘reveal’, Baldrick, is as predictable as this punch on your nose”
2. Why is it that when these cinematic wunderkind are interviewed, they all come across as being utterly mundane?
Scott’s dementia is pretty apparent with his recent Alien work as well. Explaining away the monster and building up a dumb mythos about God makes your horror movie worse you idiot!
But…Trump was a billionaire, he must’ve bought the election, somehow! (Hint: the election was 1 billionaire against about 100 billionaires. Big business was all in line for Hillary)
What about Ossoff not being able to buy his election?
I actually wonder if the progs really do think that money is everything. No need to get a decent candidate (like one who lives in the district), just throw money at the election and you will win!
I love, love, love the recent revisionism that Obama was some sort of mild-right centrist.
That’s a recurring talking point with the Secular Talk progs, that their views are the “real”, international centrism. They may have a point: the majority of the world is full of leftist hellholes.
I’ve seen that one too, but I’m talking about the meme that it was Obama’s right-wingism that tore down the Democratic Party. You only really get it from Bernie fans, aka the delusional.
I ain’t never apologizing if Trump used one my edited photos.
And here it comes:
CNN: “Need to point out again that HanAssholeSolo is a middle-aged man. People claiming he is 15 are wrong. Some are intentionally spreading this.”
The replies are definitely worth perusing. A fave: “my “unnamed source” confirms he is 15, in a wheelchair and is a cancer survivor, and volunteers at a soup kitchen.”
It’s not him being 15 that’s got people upset dipshits.
I love that person solely for making CNN write “HanAssholeSolo”.
How soon do you suppose Brits will not only permit terrorist nutjob Sally Jones back into the country, but pay a ransom to bring her back and make a cause celebre of her return a la American lefties and Bergdahl?
Dissecting the Twitterverse: After half a year on the dole, ESPN’s favorite commie Kaepernick decides “Screw that SJW mask, I’m a full-blown Cultural Marxist now!”
If he’s going home, does that mean he’s staying in Ghana? Somehow I suspect he won’t be. Also, how exactly did the Declaration of Independence itself specifically rob his ancestors of their freedom?
If I were a college admissions officer and I got an application from a kid whose dopey gif meme became a national obsession, I’d seriously consider offering him a scholarship.
Of course, if I were a roving malfunctioning robotic emissary of peace, i would unhesitatingly eradicate the biological infestation known as humanity.
And that one guy; I’d definitely not let him start talking to me.
Julian Assange says felony.
Bored, so I made this. Hope I don’t get doxxed.
Totally not coerced.
I’m telling CNN. *Struts out of classroom, hall monitor swingin’*
https://i.imgflip.com/1s0w3y.jpg
I’m talking about the meme that it was Obama’s right-wingism that tore down the Democratic Party.
Mitch McConnell made him do it. The big bully.
He couldn’t stand the swish of those Kentucky thighs.
I, for one, welcome our *Crow Overlords.
That’s what Custer said.
Didn’t help.
Someone let me know when TSTSNBN issues a think piece saying that criticizing CNN for this blackmailing is anti-freedom of the press and that they had every right to do it. And to be sure, there will be no “To Be Sures”.
Jimmy Carr can’t keep his fucking mouth shut.
I hope that for the rest of his life he is beset with paranoia every time he has a conversation with a stranger.
I thought you were talking about this guy, and then I thought “who the fuck is listening to him to begin with? He sucks.”
So, Sargon from YouTube just posted a link saying CNN just might have gotten the wrong guy (no time to check right now). Sweet Jesus, if that’s the case…
Yeah, Daily wire just posted something along the same lines.
Links?
See Sargon of Akkad’s YT comments.
Daily Wire
Eh, even the quote from Mr. Hole in original CNN article gives that information:
What the President’s feed showed was not the original post that was posted here, but loaded up somewhere else and sound added to it then sent out on Twitter. I thought it was the original post that was made and that is why I took credit for it.
On 4chan some users are saying that they’ve seen the meme in 2016 so they don’t even believe that Mr. Hole was the original creator of the version without sound. I would post a link to the thread but I’m at work so I can’t access 4chan.
Mr. AssholeSolo*
Yeah, that clip goes back at least as far as when Trump announced he was running for president.
I’ve seen it with Clinton instead of CNN at the very least, I’m sure there were other replacements.
Memes like that are almost like mad libs.
I love the CNNtard telling us that meme existed absolutely nowhere else anywhere on the internet but at reddit. Nobody ever posted it, forwarded a link, nothing. The only possible way any human being could have seen it was to go to reddit.
There’s no video’s of the WWE anywhere, we all know that. especially no videos with a pop culture celebrity. That would be unheard of on any video site.
The CNN Blackmail war of 2017.
Honest to God, this is almost as much fun as the week after Donny Two-Scoops won the election.
Youtube probably thinks I’m some ultra right wing alt righter.
If it doesn’t exist already, at this point there needs to be a gif of a tag-team match: Trump finishes wailing on CNN, then tags out in favor of another CNN which continues to beat CNN/itself up. Seriously, make this happen.
CNN takes out the trash
CNN takes aim
Ouch. Dat gotsta leave a melon-sized bruise.
Sargon from YouTube just posted a link saying CNN just might have gotten the wrong guy
FAKE NEWS
How does CNN refute that without actually doxxing the guy? Which they promised not to do unless he broke the deal?
Next up: Thousands of people claiming “I am HanAssholeSolo”. The meme pic can be the shot from Spartacus with all the crucified slaves, with CNN logos over the faces of the Roman soldiers.
This just will not stop providing me with much amusement. Watching the Better and Smarter Than You crowd completely beclown themselves is just way too much fun.
Being entertained this afternoon my Colion Noir giving the smackdown to racist shitbags. Did you know that grown-ass man Colion Noir was being “used” by the NRA?
He nuthin’ but their house boy yo,
He’s really great at exposing the racism inherent in the progressive ideology.
It just pisses them right off.
Holy shit, best comment yet.
“So, you’re saying that Han didn’t meme first?”
Next time my work is stressful and my bosses are yelling at me and I think I will be fired any second, I’ll just think of what it must be like in the CNN building today and relax.
I think we all agree there is no conceivable possibility that two or more people could have strikingly similar ideas more or less simultaneously. That’s preposterous.
All is not well in the rocket industry. Who’s the resident rocket guy? Vhyrus?
The most amusing thing about the whole CNN incident is how utterly fucking tone deaf they are to the general mood in “real life” and social media. I am 100% certain they discussed the doxxing in their weekly staff meeting and were cackling with delight over how much people will love it. “We’re gonna be heroes!!!”
Twitter apparently has decided not to let CNN have all the fun, and pulls #CNNBlackmail from the list of trending hashtags.
4chan and reddit must be wondering what they did to make God love them so much.
What a day to be alive!!!
/the_donald right now
One more, then I gotta get to work:
What CNN did is clearly a crime under New York law:
And federal law:
I lied. Last one: Looks like CNN probably got the wrong guy. They went after a guy who posted a gif to reddit; the Trump retweet looks like it was taken from a video from a Facebook page. The differences aren’t minor – Trump’s is longer, has sound, and has the bigger aspect ratio. Its a little odd to me that they claim what Trump got was the reddit gif that somebody fooled with before it went to Trump, when in other parts they say the reddit gif and the Trump tweet came from different video sources, but, hey, Buzzfeed.