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You phoned this in didn’t you?
Or you should wait til your’re not high to post. *takes hit off some moonrocks*
Or wait until he’s even higher. Don’t mess with an artist’s process, bacon.
I was trying to get it in late last night. Yeah, it’s short.
I did look up the nickname for Venezuela, though, so you can thank me for that.
Bueno trabajo on translating “random drunken asshole”. Me gusta!
Thanks, I wasn’t sure about the word order. I tried to use the little Spanish I knew.
I thank you for all of it, including dem titties.
Do you know who has Dem titties?
Chuck Schumer
Those are moobies or mitties.
Those mitties were water skiing during an historic vote on healthcare!
Yeah, just keep bringing the hotties and I think we’re good:)
Secret Nazi President has plans within plans. He has been destroying the Valenzuelian economy for decades, in preparation for this moment.
Soon, there will be Trump Beachfront Towers throughout the land.
Trump’s just going to invade and take all of the oil. He’ll setup a puppet regime with Donald Jr. as dictator and rename the country to Trumpistan. Mwaahaaahhaaahaaa!
No, you’re thinking of Iraq. Venezuela will Trumpuela.
No, it’ll be Trumpland, because they’re gonna learn to goddamn speak American!
He’s going to bulldoze the entire country and turn it into a theme park? Hair and Hat shows nightly!
A theme rape park! With pussy grabbing! And piss hookers!
Unfortunately that already exists, it’s called Johannesburg.
Venezuela will Trumpuela.
Iraq will be given to Jr. as “Trumpistan”. “Kekistan” was a finalist, but rejected for obvious reasons.
Venezuela goes to Ivanka, and will be called “Ivanzuela”. Hardly a name change at all, really.
Look out Uber: Lyft is upping its Crony-Game
Is that a joke? Please tell me that’s a joke.
I would say this proves she knows how to boost Uber/Lyft userbase (as she has done so for them in the past).
It’s a brilliant move. I hate Jarrett with a passion of a thousand suns but with her on board, the likelihood of some government fuck messing with them decreases.
Ugh, now I have to support Uber just because.
Uber is anti gun. You’re fucked either way.
I was talking with my Lyft driver a few weeks ago about how choosing a ride-hailing app seems to have gotten really political all of a sudden, and she told me that she just tries to be a good Christian. Then she drove in the bike lane for 20 blocks.
Christians hate bicyclists. Everybody knows that.
2 wheels bad. 4 wherls good.
It’s right there in the Scripture.
If god would have meant for you to ride, he would have put wheels on your ass.
Ten Wheels Best
Probably wasn’t being used anyways.
My Lyft driver (the only one since I’ve only ever used it once) was telling me about the cyclist that rear ended her when she was hauling a fare and how pissed off she was that he scratched her bumper. I loled a bit.
“It is extraordinary to me,” said he, “that you people cannot take care of yourselves and your cyclists. One or the other of you is for ever in the way. How do I know what injury you have done my automobile. See! Give him that.”
she told me that she just tries to be a good Christian. Then she drove in the bike lane for 20 blocks.
*checks Scriptures* She’s good. I don’t see any “Thou shalt nots” that apply to bike lanes.
Then she drove in the bike lane for 20 blocks.
Maybe she did it in HIS honor? You know the Lord is always by your side.
Did she have far-away eyes?
Maybe she was letting Jesus take the wheel. It’s not like the Romans had bike lanes on their roads.
Is it too much to hope that this Imran Awan arrest is a noose around DWS’s throat? (I know, I know, RACIST.) It’s just too weird and suggestive to be nothing. And not in the “Trump Jr. met with a woman who claimed she had dirt on the DNC” suggestive, but authentically indicative of Schultz’ priorities and loyalties.
I just checked CNN and this isn’t on the front page, so it can’t be true. But there’s a global warming doom story right there at the top. Also checked NYT, not there either, but there’s a Tump/Putin story right there at the top. FAKE NEWS.
And don’t forget about today’s NYT school choice article.
I don’t like Trump at all but the greatest thing he did when he ran and won was exposing the impotency of the media.
They consistently lie and try to create narratives but yet continually outsmarted by a man who they view as stupid and dangerous. It’s a great time to be alive.
What are you talking about? He’s guilty of mortgage fraud or something. DWS fired him as soon as she found out. Don’t you MSM bro?
I have zero evidence of this, but if they have connections to Al Qaeda or the Taliban in Pakistan I’d have to see a doctor about my schaden-boner.
Not that it will happen, it just wouldn’t surprise me.
*Adjusts foil hat*
From what I’ve read, it sounds like the guy likely has some damaging stuff on the one with the unwashed hair, and who knows how many of her comrades.
Undoubtedly. I just wouldn’t be surprised to find out they’ve been selling that damaging info to the warlords back at home.
Can you imagine the fallout in 2018 and 2020?
The MSM will be dragged nazi-punching and virtue-signalling to the reporter-table,on this story. They will give it the most cursory coverage before doing everything to bury the story, unless some snotnoggin Republican is discovered to have possibly considered using the same,IT company, at which point we will get 24/7 reporting about why the GOP doesn’t care about national security.
http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/07/29/against-signal-boosting-as-doxxing/
ENB got ‘triggered’ over some guy’s joke saying that ‘what women who support liberty can do’ with a picture of a sandwich. ENB re-tweeted this and announced that his potential employers should be aware of this. Trying to ruin some college kid’s life over a joke seems weird.
This all started after ENB tweeted that she was upset that the Young Americans for Liberty conference did not have any women speakers. Must we adopt the Left’s identity politics? What happened to focusing on individuals?
Article above talks a little about this.
The mask has slipped, though.
What, is she claiming that women who support liberty cannot make a good sammich? I don’t get it.
Once again the Media gives us good reasons to hate them.
“If you win a million First Amendment victories in the Supreme Court, but actively work to undermine the social norms that let people say what they think in real life, you’re anti-free-speech.”
Yes, within broad limits.
Social (nongovernmental) sanctions could come in if someone wanders *really* far away from legitimate topics of debate. What if, instead of mocking libertarian SJWs, a guy had said the Holocaust was a hoax, or that the government should run the economy and “liquidate kulaks and wreckers”?
We have to rely on normal, sane people telling the difference between advocating for a mainstream position, and mocking those holding different positions, and being a cat’s paw for actual totalitarianism.
Also, it would still be OK to hire a holocaust-denier in a job which didn’t involve sharing their views with the public, or interacting with Jews. A Communist might benefit from actual working-class jobs, with the understanding that if he tries to corrupt his colleagues he’s out.
I argue that you could hire a holocaust denier in any position up to and including head of the anti defamation league, provided he did not allow his personal feelings to interfere with his job. While that would be damn near impossible in certain positions it doesn’t mean one cannot perform their job. I am sure there are 9/11 truthers or Obama birthers that have security clearances. I would argue that is not a conflict of interest as long as that individual keeps his opinions and his work separate.
In principle, yes, but this conversation started with a guy posting stuff under his own name, so I was thinking about a parallel case of a Holocaust denier posting under his own name, etc.
“libertarian SJWs”
Wow. I have no idea how you square that circle.
You don’t. I will debate anyone to the death that social justice and justice are 100% incompatible.
“Social justice” is like “liberal” – the wrong kind of people appropriate the term, but can have a nicer meaning.
Now, I wouldn’t want to debate to the death, but here is the <a href="This is a link“>Catholic Catechism summarizing social justice:
“IN BRIEF
“1943 Society ensures social justice by providing the conditions that allow associations and individuals to obtain their due.
“1944 Respect for the human person considers the other “another self.” It presupposes respect for the fundamental rights that flow from the dignity intrinsic of the person.
“1945 The equality of men concerns their dignity as persons and the rights that flow from it.
“1946 The differences among persons belong to God’s plan, who wills that we should need one another. These differences should encourage charity.
“1947 The equal dignity of human persons requires the effort to reduce excessive social and economic inequalities. It gives urgency to the elimination of sinful inequalities.
“1948 Solidarity is an eminently Christian virtue. It practices the sharing of spiritual goods even more than material ones.”
Oops
http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p3s1c2a3.htm
And for those who think that free competition, a level playing field, and abolition of unnecessary regulations enables economic development which in turn enriches people, then they are also believers in social justice even under the definition under 1947.
To me that’s just taking ‘civilized society’ and renaming it social justice.
For the record, I am referring to the modern definition of social justice, which is that if a large enough
lynch mobgroup of peoplefoam at the mouthdecide that an event is beyond the pale then they can unilaterally take action against the actors involved.Sure, but the modern definition of “liberal” is “taking away liberties for the sake of the regulatory state.”
I will debate anyone to the death that social justice and justice are 100% incompatible.
Indeed. Social justice is a euphemism *spit* for collective punishment.
The use of the term in the Catholic Catechism has been overtaken by the current political/ideological movement.
Again, the term “liberal” has also undergone…a few modifications.
Some other examples of terms which started out describing Good Things and which are now getting hijacked in the name of Bad Things:
“civil rights” (Give me what I want right now and I’m not going to be civil about it)
“libertarian” (see Reason magazine)
“reproductive health” (killing babies in the womb)
“defense” (whatever wars I think my country needs to fight)
“compassion” (forcing people to be “compassionate” – not always with good results for the putative beneficiary)
“freedom fighter” (assassin, terrorist, general thug)
“justice” (my side wins)
Here’s Roaming Millenial on Social Justice.
*swoons*
“Broad” limits? Really Eddie? It’s 2017.
The only limits to broad’s limits can be defined by Thicc Thursdays. We’ll let you know if she’s fat, not thicc.
Because no modern news story is complete without tweets, ENB’s friend Kat Murti makes the following distinction:
I get that angle, but personally I’d just ignore the idiot. Don’t feed the trolls and all that.
As for complaining about the lack of female speakers, I understand how the optics might be unfavorable, but if they weren’t addressing female specific issues or purposefully trying to reach out to women, I don’t think it is a big deal. Complaining about the lack of women speakers must likely did more to damage to the message than the lack of female speakers did. The vast majority of women are capable of listening to men talk about liberty, and the ones that aren’t are the women that are openly hostile to libertarianism.
I don’t know about this specific individual, but look at the people whom the Libertarian Party and Reason (to give just two examples) have often designated, or sometimes even paid, to promote liberty.
Real high standards you have there, guys.
It was a joke. A bad one at that. Julie Borowski had the right take on this, but then ENB and Liz Wolfe found it necessary to mock her.
https://twitter.com/JulieBorowski/status/891800282702729217
I never thought that I would say this but what a fucking c-word.
(ENB not Julie)
Julie Borowski is a national treasure.
Amen. YAL would sooner book her to speak than ENB. I think that’s why ENB is pissed, because no libertarian organization outside of the Koch network wants her around.
Interesting. When I hear ‘feminist’ I think ‘marxism with tits’ because that is what I see a lot of. Collectivism in any form is the antithesis of Liberty. One cannot be a subscriber to Marxism and be a champion of liberty. Collectivism is about raising the collective above the individual and Liberty means raising the individual above the collective. It is idiocy to think one can be a ‘left leaning libertarian’.
Feminism these days is rife with Marxism and has nothing to do with equality of the sexes. In fact, just the opposite. It doesnt even seem to seek to raise women up, only to tear men down, most particularly white men. Equality of the sexes can really only be found in one place: libertarianism. Libertarianism raises up the individual, all individuals equally. It recognizes the inalienable rights of every person regardless of what they have between their legs, how they dress, or what they identify themselves as. The crazies that believe they are something they are not have just as many rights as the most heterosexual white male. The woman has just as many and important rights as the man.
Lastly I see the tweet there with Pepe the frog wearing a feminism t-shirt and Borowoski says “Make feminism more appealing!”. I dont think she has a clue what Pepe is. The best I can figure she thinks ‘Hey that frog got popular, lets put him in a pink feminism t-shirt and we will get popular too!’. It shows a profound lack of understanding. Stupid, if y ou will. I am reminded of Iowahawk’s “Find a respected institution, kill it, gut it, wear it as a skin suit and demand respect”
THIS. “Social Justice” is just identity politics and collectivist thought. Totally antithetical to individualism and libertarianism.
Feminists have always been leftist. How can you be obsessed with an ideology that promotes big government as the cure for all our ills, without being a leftist? They just have their own pet issues within the sphere of leftism, but they’re no less leftist because they tend to focus on certain issues. They want the government to be able to force you to do things they like and not do things they don’t like, just like any other leftists.
^^This^^ Feminism was never a respected institution. It started as giving women rights men had without the responsibilities that came with those rights. Now that it succeeded with that, it’s about adding to women’s privileges and tearing men down.
Erm, making a “make me a sammich” joke means the person thinks women shouldn’t be libertarian? How do you jump to that conclusion if you aren’t a raging moron?
Yeah, I do not get it at all. I support women being libertarian and still being able to make a good sammich. What’s wrong with that? On the serious side, If you react like ENB did, it just proves to everyone that you are not a libertarian.
Men are better at making sandwiches than women, anyway.
It would have been better just to respond in kind.
“Eunuchs should just go draw me a bath.”
Her complaints are exactly why Trump won in the first place, except she’s claiming to speak for libertarians. It’s not enough that people have a skewed view of us, now they are being told we’re the same as the screeching derps who have flooded college campuses. Thanks for nothing ENB.
If the media pays any attention at all, it will say there’s a war for the soul of libertarianism between reasonable moderates like the people at Reason and extreme ideological alt-right Trump-loving racists like…well, can you think of any examples?
Tom Woods, Walter Block, and pretty much anyone and everyone casually associated with the Mises Institute. They don’t need large media to smear these people as ‘racist’. Reason has already done most of the heavy lifting. Nick Gillespie smeared Block as a racist for his discussions about the Civil War.
Gillespie also recently implied that libertarianism is rife with anti-Semitism for some reason.
Hey Gillespie, where’d all the Jews in your comments go?
Social conservatives are self-hating gays, so by analogy, Glibertarians people are self-hating Jews.
/sarc
Well, John T., just look at all the anti-Semitism at this site…
Horrific.
Also, don’t forget the hate that libertarians have for people such as Ayn Rand, LV Mises, and Milton Friedman. Hell, I only have bought books by 2 of those authors!
I’d link to the interview where he makes this implication, but it’s really bizarre. Either Gillespie is completely out of touch, hangs out with a lot of anti-Semites, or is actively trying to smear libertarians. There’s really no rational reason for why he made that suggestion.
Nick just believes that only the cosmos are true libertarians. To be a true libertarian, 3 things are required.
1. Hate Trump, Trump bad!
2. I care about what millennials think.
3. Every moment is ‘the’ libertarian moment.
I was kind of hoping a mainstream media outlet would give a shout-out to this site as an example of how libertarianism has deteriorated since the good old days of (insert name of dead libertarian whom they used to call a fascist).
“(insert name of dead libertarian whom they used to call a fascist)”
Rothbard? He use to even write for Reason. If his corpse were reanimated there would be no way in hell that the current Reason would ever hire him. They would probably just endlessly virtue-signal about how much they dislike him
For MSM purposes, any dead or retired libertarian or Republican will do. When they were actually walking around influencing events, they were evil Nazis, but once they’re off the public stage, they’re perfect foils for faux-sympathetic, concern-trolling articles, about how Republicans/libertarians/conservatives used to bring such constructive ideas to the table but now they’re totally evil.
Yes, Rothbard would work – didn’t he oppose the Iraq War? Didn’t he say nice things about the Communist historian Herbert Aptheker’s book on slavery?
He also mourned the death of Che, by stating ‘an enemy of the empire is my friend’.
Make Libertarianism radical again. All of this warped social signaling is disgusting.
I will debate anyone to the death that social justice and justice are 100% incompatible.
So, he’s cool with the Norks, ISIS, Iran, etc.?
“Any group that isn’t explicitly right-wing eventually becomes left wing.” Well, libertarianism definitely isn’t right wing, ergo…
Who are Glibertarians?
Thanks Alex, I’ll take “messicans,pot or ass sex” for $400.
“Or”? what is this “or”?
“AND”!
SOREY.
ENB has been playing cultural gatekeeper for libertarianism on Twitter for months, lecturing people on their various sins. It’s extremely obnoxious and a pretty good indicator of Reason’s lack of pull nowadays. Because when she pulls shit like this what she actually gets is a bunch of libertarians telling her she’s full of shit with a couple cosmos and progressive feminists supporting her.
Joke’s on her, I don’t have Twitter. Suck it, ENB.
Your avatar reminds me of the Thundercats you cis-shitlord you.
That fact that ENB can be even considered a ‘libertarian’ makes a complete mockery of the notion. This is a woman who’s beliefs outside of sex trafficking, food trucks, Uber, and abortion is big government all the way through (even when it comes to abortion she wants government funding). She’s a dissident progressive and I don’t know why she doesn’t just admit that. What’s the big deal? I like some dissident progressives like Glenn Greenwald.
This creeping bullshit of identity politics into Reason and Cato really makes a mockery out of the whole concept of treating people as individuals and not as part of some group.
There’s like three writers at Reason who are still worth reading. The rest are just a waste of time
Spot on.
What happened to that cool Irish guy who contributed an article?
(not Irish-American, Irish-Irish)
I just found out that my Irish last name translates to “blackie”. Huh.
Schwartz?
Well makes sense, you are a pack of potato niggers (my favourite slur of all time).
Your last name is Tyrone?
/I’ll let myself out
County Tyrone
(I can’t find it now, but there was a comedian with a monologue about naming hurricanes after black people – “Look out, Tyrone’s coming!”)
None of you disappoint. Thanks my brothas and sistahs.
I think you’re referring to the guy who writes for Spiked.com (Brendan O’Neill). I don’t think he was ever a Reason writer. They just republished some of his articles
I think the articles Reason published were originals, not republishes from Spiked or Spectator. Although he will write more than one article on broadly the same topic (e.g. abuse of 1984).
“I think the articles Reason published were originals, not republishes from Spiked or Spectator. Although he will write more than one article on broadly the same topic (e.g. abuse of 1984).”
I didn’t know that
Brendan O’Neill? I guess he prefers writing for a <a href="https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/author/brendan-oneill/"good magazine.
He also writes for Spiked Online, where he’s an editor, but google it cause I can’t be arsed with two links. It’s anarcho-Marxist-liberal (no that is not a thing, guys!!!) revisionist-Trotskyist site that is better than I make it sound.
Let’s try unfucking the link.
That Looks like not fake news. Interesting.
It’s surprising, since every time I’ve read a B. O’Neill article, I’ve agreed with it. He’s either a crappy Marxist, or I’ve missed his shit ones.
I think he means the Spectator is a left-wing magazine with contributors who aren’t always left-wing, or at least not insane.
Brendan O’Neill is a dissident Marxist. I would sooner read him than half the staff at Reason
O’Neill will talk about helping the poor in a lot of his work, and he does mean government funding when he says stuff like that. His appeal for libertarians, however, is the fact that he hates modern progressivism and social justice politics because he thinks they’re shallow and surface-based, and he’s right.
Spiked Online is the ostensibly Anarcho-Marxist magazine whose articles 90% of the time are Reason-sans-social-justice.
The Spectator is a Tory magazine (longest-running magazine in English, they claim) which runs articles ranging from Thacheritte Tory to Corbyn Labour.
I highly recommend adding both to your daily trawl.
Eddie I would be shocked if they published that guy again. He was definitely an unapologetic deplorable along the lines of us. He didn’t have a single ‘to be sure’ in his entire article.
We should see if we could snag him for an article. I wouldn’t know how to find him again.
They published his article in June on the subject of Katy Perry unwoke hair thing. Nothing since, and his previous was in February.
Yeah he was running pretty much weekly content until the site had its sudden change in editorial standards.
That fact that ENB can be even considered a ‘libertarian’ makes a complete mockery of the notion.
Oh, it’s dumber than that. ENB is lecturing other people on whether they’re ‘libertarian’ or not. She threw Lauren Southern under the bus for pretty much no reason other than the fact she doesn’t kowtow to the same social values. She says the ‘alt right’ was the best thing to happen to libertarianism because it cleared out all the racists (might have even been a dig at us, because what’s she’s actually saying is how everyone is distancing themselves from Reason’s cosmotarian left-wing submission).
Obligatory point: the Koch ‘low tax liberal’ formula has been around since the 80’s with millions of dollars behind their efforts and yet they have never won a single election as a Libertarian, Republican, or Democrat.
The opposition to ‘low tax liberal’ centered around Ron Paul, Rothbard, and the Mises Institute has been feuding with the Koch wing since the 80’s and is substantially less well funded. And yet, they currently have two sitting congressmen (Amash and Massie) and a Senator (Paul).
she doesn’t kowtow to the same social values
Since libertarianism is about the role of government, “social values” got nothing to do with it.
i just think the fact that people get so fucking catty over stupid tweets.…
….which then subsequently sparks debate between thousands of spectators on the “who is right and who is wrong”-nature of said catty-tweet-fight…
….which then provokes actual fucking long-form analyses of the nature of the right or wrongdoing….
… means that everyone involved fucking sucks and i hate them all. for god’s sake, just tell each other to fuck off and move on. Not every minor squabble online has to turn into a goddam soap opera
but NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO everyone has to go all, “I’mma tell your future bosses about your sexism!” and the other is like “you’re violating your own libertarian principles!” and then the chinstrokers are like, “this illustrates something i’ve been saying for a long time about value-systems in conflict with various….”
I just want someone to step in the middle with an airhorn and be like, [HORN HONK] = “EVERYONE SHUT THE FUCK UP AND GO BACK TO YOUR JOBS. NOW”
Very good idea
Right. That’s what should have happened. But, instead a woman with a so called ‘libertarian’ publication couldn’t take a joke and so she re-tweeted his remark and tried to make him unemployable.
UGH, OMG LIKE THIS IS TOTES THE PATRIARCHY IN ACTION TIWTANLW
“I am a frequent Lyft passenger and have been inspired by the strong community John and Logan have created that is dedicated to enlightened corporate values,” Jarrett said in a company blog post.
Nothing says enlightened corporate values like appointing a black woman to your BoD.
Nothing says enlightened corporate values like appointing a black
womanfemale influence peddler with no business background to a lucrative sinecure on your BoD.Let’s just call a . . . nope, not going there.
This all started after ENB tweeted that she was upset that the Young Americans for Liberty conference did not have any women speakers. Must we adopt the Left’s identity politics? What happened to focusing on individuals?
She was never more than a tiny blip on my radar, but she definitely lugs the humorless scoldery of feminism around with her like some sort of massive goddam participation trophy. She might as well be a staffer for Elizabeth Warren.
This is the big picture of trump tweets on trans in military. He was being a lightning rod and taking all the heat for the generals essentially. They want to get away from social engineering the military that obama imposes
http://amp.dailycaller.com/2017/07/25/mattis-orders-full-review-of-any-military-training-that-has-nothing-to-do-with-warfighting/
hooray!
Excellent. Mattis has been amazing. There’s a lot of good in the Military Times source article.
Trump’s tweets were basically a way for him to take all the shit at the same time generals could say potus orders
Progs of course didn’t understand this in their melt down
They always are. Waiting for the other shoe to drop affter the initial meltdown has been very satisfying.
Yes
What, are you telling me that the number one job of the military is not to continue the fight against global warming? This Trump is way worse than we could have imagined.
I will never be able to take the word ‘warfighting’ seriously. It sounds like something some pacifist writing a satire made up to mock the military.
They briefly mention that in that 2 part series I linked on my friday post. You should take a look at those JT I think you would have some insight on them.
That crap is still going on?
Everyone in the military gets the same haircut, the same uniform worn the same way, the same equipment, follows the same rules and protocols, is in the same chain of command. When you are given a lawful order there is only one response allowed. The military is about uniformity and obedience. This may seem stupid or offensive to some but the military’s job is defeating enemies and they have a lot of experience in that, they are good at it.
Demanding that trannies be allowed to deviate from the norm, to introduce non-conformity the uniformity of the military is not about rights. It is about the left (which hates the military) trying to gum things up, pour sand in the gears, in order to lessen its effectiveness.
Trump told them to fuck off and he was right to.
Everyone in the military gets the same haircut
Nope (and thank god because I don’t ever want to see female service members with the haircuts they demand for men).
the same uniform worn the same way
Nope (and thank god for that, I don’t want any military to ever make women wear pants as part of dress uniforms).
Demanding that trannies be allowed to deviate from the norm, to introduce non-conformity the uniformity of the military is not about rights.
It’s less about non-conformity (although that is a problem) and more that post-op transgenders are a medical liability that have no real reason to exist. Sure, you might be able to supply them at a FOB, but imagine if you have a transgender officer in the middle of fuckbutt Afghanistan who doesn’t have access to their hormone treatments. Without said treatments said officer is in a very bad place emotionally and mentally, as any person would be if you ripped out their pituitary gland. It’s the same as anyone with diabetes, hepatitis, thyroid problems, etc. Just unnecessary medical complications that disqualify you from service.
You are nitpicking. The military is about uniformity. Collectivism of a sorts is advantageous to the military. I didn’t necessarily mean all genders in every branch was identical, of course.
By ‘its about’ I meant the motives of most of the people protesting Trump’s decision. There are some who are confused enough to think that this movement is motivated by a concern for LGBT rights. It is not.
Read an interesting piece by a veteran of Afghanistan about how deployments to front-line posts are incredibly stressful emotionally, and positing that a trans person being cooped in a tinderbox with a bunch of men is almost certain to result in unnecessary conflict and degradation of unit effectiveness.
Again, the question isn’t “How do we accommodate trans people in the military?”. Its “Why should we accommodate trans people in the military?” Would doing so result in a more effective military, net-net? So far, I haven’t seen a single person argue that our military will be a better military with trans people than without. A better social experiment, certainly. But not a better military.
The issue is that the left are not even considering whether or not this would cause any problems. To them, feelz and identity trump all other issues or concerns. It’s the same when they complain about not enough women in STEM fields. They cannot accept the fact that the only reason why that’s true is because most women themselves are choosing to not pursue STEM fields as a career. That doesn’t fit their narrative. They would rather force women who don’t want to be an engineer, to be an engineer, than to accept reality and just leave people the fuck alone.
Have some extra time today. The Klingon course is almost over. My final speaking test is in a week and my reading and listening tests in 2 weeks. By the bat’leth of Kahless, I wanna just qapla and get the hell out of here.
In recent news, a horrible, senile dictator eats a lavish meal while his people starve:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/feb/20/robert-mugabe-91-elephant-president-birthday-zimbabwe
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The supreme leader, commander-in-chief of the armed forces, first secretary of Zanu-PF, president of the Republic of Zimbabwe, chair of the African Union and Southern African Development Community, and sole Zanu-PF presidential candidate for the next elections – hopefully to be held in 2018 – turns 91 on Saturday.
The extent of Robert Mugabe’s demigod status in Zimbabwe is mind boggling. Mugabe’s birthday bash is scheduled to be held next Saturday in Victoria Falls, at the Elephant Hills golf course.
It is reported that the budget for the event is a cool US $1m, mainly raised by cronies who will no doubt be jostling to be front of the queue to wish their supreme leader many happy returns.
There have been reports that poor villagers throughout the country are being forced to donate money and goods. The leader of the Progressive Teachers’ Union, Raymond Majongwe, has said teachers throughout the country were forced to contribute up to $10 towards the feast, which 20,000 people are expected to attend.
On the menu will be two elephants, two buffaloes, two sable antelopes, five impalas and a lion kindly donated by a local farmer.
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Another proud victory for socialism.
All statists–from Pelosi and Gore to Mugabe and Castro–want this to be the normal situation for the world. They lack the capacity to enjoy any good thing unless they know that regular folk cannot enjoy it, too.
They hate capitalism so much because it commodifies luxuries.
I’m embarrassed at how long it took me to figure out that some people really do get off on pushing other people down. So people get so hooked on it that they pursue nothing else.
Instead of trying to argue with authoritarians on the facts, it’s better just to force them to confront them with their desire to shove other people’s faces in the dirt.
Zimbabwe is a good case of what a Mad Max world would actually look like.
I think Margaret Thatcher said something to the tune of: “They would rather that the poor were poorer, provided that the rich were less rich. So long as the gap is smaller, they would rather have the poor poorer.”
Their fight against inequality was never about helping the poor, it’s all about pulling down the successful.
Prime Minister’s question time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdR7WW3XR9c
(and look who the smug person is over her left shoulder)
“Zimbabwe is a good case of what a Mad Max world would actually look like”
What are you even talking about? Every enlightened European knows that the Mad Max world is the United States.
It was before Obama, anyway. The piles of dead bodies in the streets for lack of healthcare, women bleeding out in back alleys from seedy abortionists, gun battles in the streets, sea levels rising…pure madness. And now it’s coming back because the evil white men amended the Constiution to prevent black presidents from serving more than two terms!
Well, except Zimbabwe’s roads are good enough for Mad Max.
aren’t damnit
I’m embarrassed at how long it took me to figure out that some people really do get off on pushing other people down.
Theirs is an alien perspective that I think (hope) most people don’t share.
Tangentially related: what is your opinion of the concepts behind “Pendulum” or “the Fourth Turning”?
It sounds like the Greek idea of Kyklos or the Islamic concept of ‘Asabiyya. There is nothing new under the sun when it comes to human behavior.
half remembered quote: the pendulum swings back and forth at its own pace and is not much affected by the yelling of the people clinging on to it.
Envy is the most productive of the mortal sins.
I’m surprised that Obama didn’t attend.
Zimbabwe is a fucking tragedy. I remember an acquaintance of mine was cheering on Mugabe taking the farms from the white landowners, and while I understood the anger that the black majority population had against the whites, taking their land wasn’t going to do produce anything of value or create equality.
Years later, it’s well known that the lands that Mugabe and cronies stole was given to their supporters….which not only precipitated the exit of whites (the ones with the skills) but also drove their country into hyper-inflation and poverty.
Just bad luck. /Heinlein
They farm lions? That is not a job I want.
Gotta go milk the lions again….
Just watch out for hunters trying to shoot the lion.
Well, that would make Mugabe 93 now, is he still alive? Maybe elephant meat really does prolong life.
Incredibly OT: http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/lgbt/Protesters-fight-against-bias-at-Apostolic-Church-of-God-/59949.html
“More than 50 LGBT activists and allies turned out Sunday, July 30 for a protest outside of Apostolic Church of God, 6320 S. Dorchester, to speak out against the dismissal of a woman church member after she married her female partner. Chic Chic’s Social Club hosted the protest. The woman, who prefers to remain anonymous, was a member of the church for 30 years. Her grandmother and mother also belonged to the church, which is affiliated with the Pentecostal movement, and her friends say she is devastated by this situation. Her daughter attacked the church on Facebook, including its pastor, Dr. Byron T. Brazier.”
I feel bad for the woman who was dismissed but everyone with a shred of common sense knows that a lot of black churches are against homosexuality.
I remember when Lefty Hate Radio in Chicago was running ads about the gay marriage thing, trying to convince listeners that it was a good idea. The voices they used were stereotypically black.
My mom and stepdad who are both union Democrats hates the fact that the Democrats would rather put gay issues ahead of the black community’s issues. All these alliances that the Democrats have constructed are slowly crumbling apart before our very eyes.
It’s the nature of the two party system. You end up with alliances of people whose values are fundamentally at odds: libertarians and SoCons in one party, LGBT activists and Black Churches in the other. It has to fall apart eventually, right?
“All these alliances that the Democrats have constructed are slowly crumbling apart before our very eyes.”
To them (the Democrats), this means that they are not identity politicking hard enough.
“On the eve of the election last month my wife Judith and I were driving home late in the afternoon and turned on the radio for the traffic and weather. What we instantly got was a freak show of political pornography: lies, distortions, and half-truths — half-truths being perhaps the blackest of all lies. They paraded before us as informed opinion.”
Bill Moyers, presumably listening to Rush Limbaugh.
I larfed.
Pippi Longstocking books charged with racism
German theologian says that Astrid Lindgren’s books contain ‘colonial racist stereotypes’
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/nov/09/pippi-longstocking-books-racism
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Astrid Lindgren’s much-loved books about Pippi Longstocking, she of the red hair, incredible strength and impossible lies, have been described as racist by a German theologian.
Dr Eske Wollrad, a feminist theologian from Germany’s Federal Association of Evangelical Women, has claimed that Lindgren’s classic children’s novels “have colonial racist stereotypes”. In Pippi in the South Seas, “the black children throw themselves into the sand in front of the white children in the book,” she told German paper the Local. “When reading the book to my nephew, who is black, I simply left that passage out.”
Wollrad neglected to mention that Pippi goes on to mock white children for their obsession with school. “If you come across a white child crying you can be pretty sure that the school has either gone up in flames, or that a half-term holiday has broken out, or that the teacher has forgotten to set homework for the children in pluttification,” she says.
The Pippi Longstocking books were written by Lindgren in the 1940s, covering the adventures of Pippi, an inveterate liar and eccentric whose parents are dead and who shares her house with a monkey and a horse who lives on the porch.
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It’s a good thing these old novels are the worst examples of bigoted propaganda in Germany right now, and that there isn’t any other kind of bigoted propaganda with which a Christian theologian should concern herself.
She also brought down the Swedish government with one of her short stories, Pomperipossa in Monismania, which was written after Lindgren realized she was paying an effective tax rate of 101%.
If their in a “you know who else…”, But that’s just too easy.
I read Walter Lord’s The Miracle of Dunkirk and was highly impressed – now they want me to see the movie, but the thing is I’ve done a 180 on movie watching. I used to watch every movie there was, unironically, from the good movies to the bad ones to the “I can’t believe you watched that” ones. Now the whole format no longer does it for me, even with what I presume are Great Films on Serious Topics. You watch a big screen (or big-screen TV) and get less information than a book you can read at your own pace.
Should I send in my application for AARP membership now?
I was invited to join AARP at the ripe old age of 20, because I have the spending habits of an ailing pensioner.
Wait-a-minute… you’re not UnCivilServant
In my college years, I made UnCivilServant look like Richard Pryor from Brewster’s Millions.
My furniture consisted of 2 folding chairs, a folding table, and a desk I found on the side of the road. I slept on a foam pad.
I like being able to fit everything I own into my car. Makes moving easier.
I started getting the AARP letters in my teens, because my grandfather had the same first name as me.
I’ve found I tend to bounce back and forth between mediums. Sometimes I’ll enjoy playing a big RPG for weeks at a time, other times I don’t play anything and prefer watching a movie or a TV show, and then move from that to reading several books.
I like movies on serious topics because they can do a better job on capturing character’s reactions and emotions (IE, the human side of topics, especially on war,) but I always go to books for the actual information.
The problem with movies about Serious Topics is that they have very limited time. Even when they are done really well, they have to rely on set pieces to make a point, and if you’ve been watching movies for a while, you recognize them for what they are. You can feel all your strings being tugged at once, there’s no subtlety to it, and you realize that it’s probably complete horseshit and never actually happened at all.
I swear the are doing this to me on purpose.
Airbnbigotry: Tech and Civil Rights
Unaccountable tech companies should not be trusted to enforce our civil rights…
by Vanessa A. Bee
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/07/airbnbigotry-tech-and-civil-rights
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It was the 2015 winter season and Airbnb wished it was doing what it does best: quietly raking in the profits of the most wonderful time of year, when most of us scram to—or ghost away from—our precious families. Instead, Airbnb had a racism scandal on its hands. News media had picked up on a working paper out of Harvard showing that securing a rental on Airbnb was significantly harder for Black travelers. The “trust and safety” mantra at the heart of the company’s culture—which allows hosts to see the names and photographs of potential guests before accepting their request—enabled pervasive digital discrimination.
It’s quite possible that for Airbnb’s Board of Directors, a swatch of mostly white men, the study’s conclusions came as a revelation. But as a dark-skinned, Afro-Franco-American woman and relatively frequent Airbnb guest, an announcement that the sky is blue would have been more surprising.
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*they are doing*
stupid kyboard.
The sharing market poses a problem for leftists. When there is no formal business upon which to place regulatory requirements, how do you enforce the government’s will?
I’ve always said that it is far easier for government to social engineer via regulations upon business than it is by enforcing those regulations at the individual level. Most people would chafe mightily at having their options limited by direct intervention of the State, but they don’t question it at all when their options are reduced or disappear because the government made it illegal for a business to sell them.
I agree. It is very easy to disassociate “businesses” from the people that comprise them.
“Unaccountable tech companies should not be trusted to enforce our civil rights”
What does that even mean?
It means they can’t control individual Lyft drivers the way they can control a formal business and it pisses them off.
Well, no company should be “enforcing” anything, other than its contracts.
And this is why all companies must be replaced by government. So then we can get more rights.
Any relation to Samantha?
It is reported that the budget for the event is a cool US $1m, mainly raised by cronies who will no doubt be jostling to be front of the queue to wish their supreme leader many happy returns.
There have been reports that poor villagers throughout the country are being forced to donate money and goods. The leader of the Progressive Teachers’ Union, Raymond Majongwe, has said teachers throughout the country were forced to contribute up to $10 towards the feast, which 20,000 people are expected to attend.
I’m sure Charles Blow will be along shortly to lecture us on wealth inequality.
News media had picked up on a working paper out of Harvard showing that securing a rental on Airbnb was significantly harder for Black travelers.
Maybe I’m crazy, but when I read stuff like this, a little voice in my head screams, “Business opportunity!”
Battle for Raqqa in pictures: the death throes of ISIS(?)
http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-what-the-fighting-against-isis-looks-like-raqqa-2017-7/#its-estimated-that-20000-50000-civilians-are-still-trapped-in-the-city-with-coalition-forces-having-it-completely-surrounded-a-child-who-was-also-able-to-escape-raqqa-is-seen-below-with-his-cat-in-a-refugee-camp-in-northeast-syria-16
Intense.
Death throes? I sure hope so.
There are still potential recruits out there for the next gang of fanatics, but choking off this particular gang might at least slow down the process.
The median age of the Muslim word is about 20. It’s pushing 40 in most western countries.
There is, IMHO, a misplaced focus on killing their grunts, which is the easy part. Most of them are just brainwashed losers. The hard part is countering the funding and the propaganda.
The Salafists spend oodles of money on madrassas where they churn out militants like an assembly line. That $100 million spent on a shiny new F-35 might do more good funding a few thousands moderate madrassas.
The people who are most likely to turn would-be jihadis to a more peaceful path are other Muslims. Their message could use some support.
The biggest problem is that the militants have the Qur’an, the example of Mohamed, and the consensus of centuries of Islamic scholars on their side, and so they can drown out more moderate voices. At some point, the violent teachings must be criticized and discredited, or they will never go away. That criticism needs to come from other Muslims.
This. The entire discussion around Islamic terror should be centered around finding ways to ensure the Saudis can’t fund their idiocy worldwide while promoting alternatives. There are so many versions of the same story: “Oh, our mosque had some laid back Indian imam, then we got a big cheque and he was replaced with a fire-breathing Salafist.”
Hey Eddie.
For you.
Let’s try that again.
http://imgur.com/a/QFrjU
Thank you, even St. Francis de Sales looks more spiffy with a top hat!
tidbit about the St. de Sales:
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In his capacity as provost, Francis de Sales, engaged in enthusiastic campaigns of evangelism in an area that had become almost completely Calvinist.[5] According to J. Ehni, despite de Sales’ zeal, courage and patience he met with absolute failure at Thonon, the capital of the Chablais province, where the residents had made an agreement to refuse to hear the eloquent preacher.
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“I introduced Christianity to Mongolia. It didn’t take, but it was worth a shot.”
He was bishop of Geneva, but couldn’t live there because Catholicism violated the laws of that Protestant commonwealth. He did some mission work in some of Geneva’s former hinterlands, sometimes he’d sleep in a tree so the wolves wouldn’t eat him.
Less dramatically, he wrote spiritual advice for laypeople in additional to apologetic works and in general his writings were influential enough that in 1923, Pope Piux XI proclaimed him the Heavenly Patron of all Writers.
A good bio of him is *The prince bishop : a life of St. Francis de Sales* by C. H. Palmer (Ilfracombe: Stockwell, 1974).
He was basically the anti-Puritan, despite the turbulence and stresses of his life he kept an outward tranquility and an unwillingness to employ the customary Counter-Reformation rhetoric against his foes.
And while I don’t think he wore a top hat, I can see him doing it as part of a charity fundraising scheme of some kind.
Death throes of ISIS(?)*
*In Iraq, possibly.
Syria’s a whole other ballpark.
They are certainly not lacking in pump-up music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b_cw3rhAyY
Makes The Trooper sound like the I Love You song from Barney
“Unaccountable tech companies should not be trusted to enforce our civil rights”
What does that even mean?
I suspect it means, “Why won’t AirBnB send armed thugs to these people’s houses and force them to do what I want?”
Well, I mean how else can anyone get some rights if it’s not through force against someone else’s rights?
So, the NYT now have an article defending… Jeff Sessions? from that old meanie, Trump. This cannot be the same Jeff Sessions who libertarians and lefties alike hated before Trump was even president, can it?
Watch sessions now kick the left in teeth after they have just praised him
I suspect this feud was all a ruse to create distance between trump and Jeff such that if Jeff drops hammer on them they can’t scream collusion
Hammer being illegal spying, awan bros and what they were up to with dnc, and leaking classified info
If that does turn out to be true then I think a lot of people have seriously underestimated Trump. Of course the left has no morals and would just as quickly throw Sessions back under the bus.
After the complete 180 the left did on Comey, how can anyone doubt their lack of morals and principles? If Trump starts up on how bad Hitler was, the next thing you’ll see is the left defending Hitler.
I hope that’s what is going on – Trump using his magic Twitter powers to get the DemOp types on record supporting Sessions, and then Sessions uncorking a massive investigation of the illegal activities of the DemOp Complex.
Trump could Tweet about his approval of breathing and the NYT would have a sourced article about the dangers of excess air inhalation within the week.
Haha saw an article where lefties were all concerned about his eating habits
+1 scoop of ice cream?
Apparently, he put ketchup on steak and that’s some sort of abomination.
Fuck, he did?
God dammit now who I am gonna vote for? A man has to draw the line somewhere.
That’s not steak. A steak is juicy and is cooked to medium rare. Any more done-ness and you are just eating beef.
STEVE SMITH LIKE WELL DONE AND BY DONE MEAN RAPE.
Both putting ketchup on steak and cooking steak well done should be capital offenses.
The man eats pizza backwards. He’s a monster.
France’s only jihadi “deradicalization” center is closing — it was voluntary, and it was empty
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/07/frances-only-jihadi-deradicalization-center-is-closing-it-was-voluntary-and-it-was-empty
[head desk]
“jihadi “deradicalization” center”
This sounds like something Obama came up with.
“OK, has everyone brought their costume for the Brony convention?”
But we may frighten the other Bronies.
STEVE SMITH GOING TO BRONY CONVENTION. AND BY CONVENTION MEAN RAPE.
OKAY OKAY FINE
I’VE BEEN TO BRONYCON
THREE TIMES
THERE ARE YOU HAPPY NOW?
Ok, who’s going to follow Juvenile Bluster to the next Brony Convention to make the call? We’ll all have our Brony costumes ready for the crashing. “He invited us, it was him!”
-Been to Bronycon
-Watches all the dumb and weird animes.
I’m really glad Juvenile Bluster is here as a distraction for everyone else’s weird hobbies.
Video of John Titor and Juvenile Bluster meeting.
Bronycon couldn’t be as bad as this
Is this for those free radicals I keep hearing about?
For those of us with mediocre internet connections, might I request some JPEG compression?
Egypt: Muslim military officers beat soldier to death upon learning he was Christian
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/07/egypt-muslim-military-officers-beat-soldier-to-death-upon-learning-he-was-christian
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CAIRO (Morning Star News) – Egyptian military officers beat a new soldier to death on July 19 upon learning that he was a Christian, relatives said.
Joseph Reda Helmy of Kafr Darwish village, Beni Suef Governorate, had just completed training at Mobarak military training center and was transferred to Al-Salaam special forces police unit, where three officers killed him, relatives told Middle Eastern media. The Egyptian army told relatives Helmy died of an epileptic seizure.
His father, Reda Helmy, told Al Karma TV by phone that his large, strong son had arrived at the camp at 2 p.m. and was dead by 8 p.m. In the same program, the deceased’s cousin, Youssef Zarif, said he received a message at 2 a.m. on July 20 from the Ministry of Interior to come and retrieve Helmy’s body.
When Zarif arrived, he asked to meet an officer and was initially rebuffed. Eventually he met with an officer who told him that Helmy had died of an epileptic seizure. Zarif refused to believe the army explanation, saying Helmy was a healthy, quiet person loved by all in his village of Christians and Muslims. The heavily Muslim country has population that is about 10 percent Christian.
He told Al Karma that the extensive bruising he found on the body did not look like those of an epileptic episode. He said Helmy had bruises on his head, shoulders, neck, back and genitalia, with the worst injuries occurring on his back.
The doctor who examined the body refused to bow to pressure from those who brought it and reported that the cause of death was not natural, Zarif said. A prosecutor accompanying the family firmly concurred and demanded an investigation, he said.
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to paraphrase a Pimp Named Slickback. Has *not* killing them with fire and pissing in the ashes been working? I mean, scientifically speaking, has *not* killing them with fire and pissing in the ashes produced the desired result?
So Scaramucci’s gone already.
We need to start a campaign for SugarFree to be hired as Press Secretary.
Goddammit, I wanted at least six months of him calling people cunts and burning messages in gasoline on reporters’ front lawns.
c’mon Agile Cyborg
It’s really hard to be Press Secretary from a Buddhist temple on a mountain.
Trump has already fired Scaramucci.
He’s actually living up the ‘You’re Fired’ routine, no? Fire Sessions now, Trump, Fire the garden gnome. You can do it!
What the actual fuck is going on over there. I’m really starting to worry now.
Trump secretly reads Glibertarians. He’s making room for SugarFree.
I think if SF’s writing ever made it to the MSM it would cause actual deaths.
And this:
“The decision to remove Mr. Scaramucci, who had boasted about reporting directly to the president, not the chief of staff, John F. Kelly, came at Mr. Kelly’s request, the people said. Mr. Kelly made clear to members of the White House staff at a meeting Monday morning that he is in charge.”
Ah, that clears it up. Scaramucci pulled the ‘you’re not the boss of me’ card, which prompted Kelly to pull the ‘Are you sure about that?’ counter.
I like this Kelly. A man who sees the value of “pour encourager les autres”.
“Pour encouragement on the autistic”?
Its a quote from Napoleon. When he got tired of Nelson kicking his navy’s ass all over the ocean, he’d hang an admiral “to encourage the others”.
“just days after Mr. Scaramucci unloaded a crude verbal tirade against other senior members of the president’s senior staff.”
The guy might be a nutcase.
If he is he’s a high functioning one cause they showed him multiple times on Fox news and he managed to get through every session without bursting into fits of Tourettes.
Yeah, amazing. And is it just me or does Trump seem to have some sort of obsession with military officers?
Who doesn’t love a man in uniform?
Oh wait, I mean “You know who else loves a man in uniform?”
The Village People?
The guy might be a nutcase.
Isn’t he a Wall Streeter? Because crude verbal tirades are pretty much a stock in trade on Wall Street. Seriously, the Master of the Universe types that (used to?) populate Wall Street just love to prove how tuff gai they are by cursing and screaming at people.
But can he do the fandango?
Gah! You beat me.
I was going to make that joke and see who got it. I haven’t had much time today to be here.
Cognitive privilege is just like white privilege.
What if someone has both?
+2 shitlord
I’ve got this nagging feeling that Trump is really just Satan pulling Humanity’s leg.
The guys who wrote Left Behind saw it coming but realized no one would believe it if they wrote Antichrist-as-Trump character.
Isn’t the AntiChrist character in Left Behind Romanian?
*Eyes PieinTheSky suspiciously*
So my mom bought me ‘left behind’ when I left for my first year of college. I’m pretty sure she had no idea what it was and I sure as hell didn’t know what it was but I was bored one night and tried watching it with a female dorm mate of mine. I got about halfway through before I said ‘fuck this I can’t take anymore of it’ and went to turn it off. My hardcore catholic venezuelan friend said ‘no wait let’s finish it!’ and then about 15 second later said ‘fuck this I can’t take anymore of it’.
There’s a movie of that horseshit? All I remember are the books that were usually substantially marked down at bookstores.
Yup. Starring Kirk Cameron, natch.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_Behind:_The_Movie
Sad thing is I’m rooting for him. *pulls out big foam finger and hoots*
Tim LaHaye wrote a book about “the four personalities” before he co-wrote “Left Behind”.