Our beloved Brett and Swiss are busy today, so you get C-squad links instead of their usual champion-stuff. Buckle up, buckaroos.
On the importance of good customer service in today’s market.- More chaos and destruction. (H/T to SugarFree)
- I know y’all hate Twitter, but who here hasn’t had a day like this? At least our new overlords will be clumsy…
- PC Master Race culture wars. Which side are you on?
- What’s wrong with having a first lady who doesn’t do anything? (Trigger warning: MSN + Autoplay… Clicking will basically give you cancer, is what I’m trying to say.)
Lastly, here’s some music to lift to; I’ve lifted to it, anyway.
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665 responses to “Tuesday Afternoon Links”
First?!
FIRST!
It’s the little things in life.
How do you know if Rufus is little?
He’s small. S-M-all.
Tell him something good.
Premature celebration. No formatting, no comments on the links provided.
/licks First gold medal ribbon. Winks and smirks at camera.
OK, it’s yours now.
Do you know where that has been?
Did you see what Riven was doing with the carrot?
Don’t you work!?!
I work at being…..FIRST!
You need to quote a link there eh…you know the rules. Sorey.
OMG ZERO PUNCTUATION!
Yahtzee lives in LA now, Riven. Lets go kidnap him.
Road trip!
Will he still bitch about Aussie game availability and cost?
Best part of that website his column was in. I still use “Pants on head retarded” on occasion.
Funnily enough, I’m elbow deep in trying to get my build together. I’ve read places like Logical increments and pcpartpicker, but am stuck trying to figure out what graphics card to upgrade to. Going from a 750Ti. Which was awesome and a power miser; but it’s just too slow these days for stuff like Witcher 3 and ARMA 4.
There’s a used gtx980 in my area for middle 200s. He claims he hasn’t overclocked it, but…you know. Alternately, there’s an open-box gtx1070 Strix for 420 ish, and I’ve seen RX 580s from 210 (4gb version) to 299 (8gb strix OC). Thoughts? Something else? I really don’t want to spend 420, but that sounds like a good deal for that 1070 in our miner-infested graphics market.
Processor’s a Ryzen 1700x on a x370 Mobo. 16GB ram.
It’s a good deal, but 980 is a fine card and will get you far in Witcher 3 (assuming you’re doing 1080 – if you want 2K and 60, that might be an SLI situation). 200 would be hard to pass on for me – if you can find another, SLId 980s will get you more than a single 1070. Even if not, prices can only go down (right? right, guys? *looks at availabilty, sobs*) so getting a cheap 980 to tie you over for 6-8 months will do.
Rx580s IIRC are basically 1060-equivalent, and so below 980, whereas 1070 is slightly faster than 980 by 15% or so.
I personally gave up on new cards and will get buddy’s old 980s, if I can ever figure out why my PC refuses to let the second card run…
Does your mobo support multiple graphics cards? I am a noob, and I didn’t pick out my new mobo for this feature—it does support more than 1 graphics card, provided they both aren’t too long—but I guess multiple graphics cards support isn’t a given.
I’ll go contact the guy selling his for 250 ish then.
It does! This used to house double HD6300s (talk about energy hogs). I think I had SLI working briefly but then I took one 980 out because fan was misbehaving and…
OK, right, that is why consoles got their start. I’ll start looking into IRQ numbers soon!
I used the 980 to upgrade R9380 and it’s really, really good. Gets over 60fps in BF1 on high graphics at 1080 if that means anything to you.
It will.
Oh, the halcyon days of trying to get games to fit with stuff like HIMEM and dicking with CONFIG files. I will say this about MS, as I fight with them about trying to transfer my Retail Win 7 Ulti, upgraded to Win10 Pro to my new build, Win 95 cut a lot of that crap out, and Windows 7 was a pretty damned good operating system.
Hilarity that, depending on who you look at, Win 7 gives you 10-15 percent better frame rates than 10. If I knew what I was doing, I’d go Linux. But I don’t.
I spent hours on Sunday trying to get windows to boot after installing a (Microsoft, not nVidia) driver update. In the end, I had to do “reset PC” thing from a stick.
If this thing literally wasn’t a Steam/Origin/GOG box, I’d be pissed. But I learned from trying to set up Win 10 the first time – all the games are on a separate hard drive from the OS. So I don’t have to reinstall every fucking game, just tell the DRM Storefront of Choice where the data files are located when I install it.
Modern Linux distros aren’t all that difficult as long as you don’t want to do anything too odd with them. But, while the gaming situation is a _lot_ better than it was a few years ago, there are still going to be a fair number of titles you can’t play on Linux for the foreseeable future, I think.
Unless you are running absolute bleeding edge tech all the way around, SLI is simply not worth the money. For double the price you get maybe 10-20% better performance, and’s thats only if the rest of your system can keep up.
I’ve yet to seriously challenge my 970. I was debating going with the 980 (this was awhile before the latest generation) and I’m glad I saved the cash.
My next build in a couple years is going to be pushing pixels on a 4k monitor, minimum. I want hella screen real estate!
Crazy is as crazy does
I KNEW IT, THE BUGS ARE TAKING CONTROL OF PEOPLE
I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords
dude that article’s photo is priceless. Put a tophat on it and make it your new avatar.
I was planning on using this one next.
I like it but the crazy stoned muppet in the link is still superior
Anyone else notice that she’s a Redskins fan? Dead giveaway right there.
I can’t say I’ve never considered drinking insect killer while watching my beloved team.
But I never stabbed anyone*.
*That wasn’t an Eagles fan.
He needs a bib that says ‘thats why’
Reminds me of…
Sometimes the book cover and the contents inside are a 100% match.
Jesus fucking christ look at that mugshot. It’s like the grinch and the joker had a retarded love child.
And she’s a Skins fan.
That’ll do it to you, trust me. This will be my first season Snyder-free. I’m looking forward to a lack of disappointment.
“She married Kim Gordany in 2003, and they had two children together: a son in 2005 and a daughter in 2008, according to court documents. They split in 2009 and officially divorced three years later.”
I’m shocked it didn’t work out.
Me too. This woman tried so hard to be committed.
Heh.
You gotta feel for those kids. Sometimes you just don’t get dealt a good hand.
I know I say it’s okay to stick it in crazy but this one is definitely not okay.
there’s a crazy:hot matrix that establishes acceptability.
http://imgur.com/ik9LqSX
and i just now noticed that crazy starts at 4. hahahaha
accept for the tranny zone.
*sigh* except…
This right here is why I don’t like hospitals.
“In my country, ‘Big Red X’ means, “do repeatedly”
The console side. *hunkers down for abuse*
dirty console peasant
I was born and raised among the master race but I betrayed them and chose console as my future. I will stand up beside you
Filthy traitor. When the revolution comes you’ll be executed by stacking Alienware towers on you (it’s the only thing they’re good for).
Better bring an good engine hoist
Xbox is my shame and pride. *raises head in defiance yet with tears in eyes*
*sneers from seat at PC*
gross.
This is a no brainer. Shooters with the wife on the console. 4x/RTS on the computer. Bourbon for both.
I still don’t understand why the PC side picked Trump with boobs to represent their cause.
EEEEeeeeeeew!
PC, but for practical purposes. In my line of work I need a hog of machine, so after building a decked out PC for work it just seemed stupid to plop down a bunch of money on another machine that my PC can already do the function of.
I’m the opposite. I don’t even own a computer, so console is easier/cheaper.
Console exclusives are nice.
I’m all down for console gaming. I draw the line at “it’s a retarded PC, and you can’t upgrade, and controls are shit for FPS and there’s no Steam Sales and do you REALLY need 60 fps? Really? We barely got to a point of doing 30 semi-reliably!”
I’d be fine with consoles if all their shitty little habits didn’t get leaked into the PC market (it’s gotten better recently though). Oh, console controls aren’t as good as a mouse for fast paced first person shooters? Better make FPSs worse and throw in aim assist!
The only thing that consoles do better than PC is racing games, because analog controls are always better than digital for throttle and braking. Everything else goes on the PC. Period.
Nah, third-person adventure games like Zelda belong on the console. I mean, yeah, I could drag comfy chair into living room, position it just-right to have the same view as my TV and play it but why?
Likewise 2D platformers, and no, I don’t care about “2D retro puzzle platformer with rogue-like elements #4485”
Anime Bullshit games can work either way.
And I’ll put a proviso on racing games – if you can get 3 monitor setup while nailing at least 60fps, a wheel and pedals installed, with Atmos sound, PC is absolutely unbeatable. It’s just that would cost you as much as a car, probably. But at least it’s theoretically possible (I think, with 1080tis, although I believe you can 3-way SLI them).
Fighting games too.
But shooters… I’ve been playing them since QW came out, and the idea of playing with anything than a mouse is painful to me.
Online shooters on the PC are great, except for all the cheaters.
I haven’t played much recently, but the last shooter I played a fair bit of was comp TF2. Cheating, at least detectable cheating, wasn’t tolerated, and because the games were organized and it was a fairly small scene it kept the riff-raff out.
Man, I miss the Quake/Unreal Tournament LAN party days. https://i.imgflip.com/1bu888.jpg
I always feel like I missed out on that. By the time I had a robust group of guy friends it was all Halo or CS:S. All the time.
Look what Epic Games has in the pipe!
Man, UT and Myth:The Fallen Lords were my first exposures into the world of online gaming (on a Mac no less!). I sucked but it was great.
Unreal Tournament 2004 is, for my money, one the best games ever made. Thousands upon thousands of maps and mods, a robust community and hundreds of servers to choose from (SAP forever!). I mainly play BF4 but it doesn’t scratch that itch the way Vehicle Capture The Flag did in UT2004. The alpha of the new version is great, the mechanics are pretty much the same (my old Nostromo gamepad macros work just like did in 2004) but it really, really, really needs more maps and some vehicles.
Er. Mah. Gerd.
Games ported with minimal effort to update the UI are my pet peeve. Dummies, we have a cursor.
I only play Go and Scrabble, so I don’t need the latest and greatest computer out there.
What side are you on if you got sick of the console shit, don’t ever want to run Windows again, so only buy games that run on Linux?
Linux and Mac machines are also PCs! Don’t let Microsoft redefine the term (I believe it came out of Apple I or II marketing itself as “A Personal Computer”).
Someone who thinks he should be able to control when and whether his shit gets automagically updated?
That has been my biggest pet peeve about Windows 10*. Oh what, you wanted to use that laptop? Ha ha, nope. Windows Update Module Installer or whatever the fuck it’s called is gonna need all your CPU for the next 2 hours. Oh, you have Win 10 Pro? How quaint. You still have to bow before Microsoft, peon.
* = The amount of data it collects is much scarier, but it’s not in your face
Why would anyone be on the console side? Other than for access to the anti-consumer move of console exclusives, there’s nothing a console does that PC can’t do better. I don’t have to pay Steam $60 a year to play my games online. I can pick what I think is the right balance between resolution, graphics settings, and frames per second in every game. I can build my PC entirely to my specific needs/wants. Some would claim console is cheaper, but it really isn’t. You can build a PC with similar specs for around the same cost, and when you subtract the $60 a year fee just to play your games online, in the long run it is significantly cheaper. As for easier, there are tons of guides on building a PC, both with picking parts and putting the parts together.
https://www.mediaite.com/online/all-of-this-virtue-signaling-over-charlottesville-is-setting-dangerous-precedents/
Good piece
Thanks. Indeed, it’s pretty good.
Hi JS. Did you see? I’m first.
The next time the wannabe Klansmen and the wannabe Young Pioneers want to rumble, can we just evacuate the normal people and napalm the place?
I wish the Nazis and the Antifas would just each pick their toughest member and let them duke it out in the boxing ring.
Tony, no matter how hard you try, you’re not going to prevent the rumble, and you’re not going to end up with Maria.
I’m sorry. That’s horrible.
Listening to this to bleach my mind from that link.
PC Master Race culture wars. Which side are you on?
Nvidia, unless AMD has Linux support for its video cards, in which case I might just take a look at AMD’s offerings.
My brother has used Nvidia, seems he has less integration and support problems than my AMDs. However, it seems AMD chipsets have a longer compatibility span (once the games are actually patched to work with AMD in the first place)
Whenever I look around for hardware for Linux, which admittedly was a long time ago last I did it, nvidia comes up a lot as being Linux friendly.
I’m on AMD’s side. I’d like them to have a good card, but I can’t really justify getting any of their new offerings over friend’s used 980.
The fact that all their cards are being bought up by etherium miners isn’t helping. Pls AMD we need competition in graphics cards!
And get more companies on Ryzen train. We need competition in CPUs too!
I’m in the middle of an upgrade (see post upthread) and this is squarely in my interests these days. I’ve read lots of bitching about Vega: that’s it’s both too expensive, not fast enough, and way too power hungry. Though I think that’s a holdover from complaints about the highest end AMD cards with water cooling.
but who here hasn’t had a day like this?
It falling over at the end makes me lose it every time.
It’s still only like 10% less efficient and effective than my millenial interns
At least it doesn’t start a petition to get management to allow sneakers in the office.
me too, me too
I like how it keeps stepping while fucking up the box placement.
Those robots always look like the guy who drank 6 cups of coffee and is now running for the bathroom before his bowels explode.
Is this the robot overlords we were promised?
I liked the drunk robot video.
Yo Drake. Just letting people know I’m first.
We are already tired of your and Trump’s winning.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2017/08/15/charlottesville-showed-that-liberalism-cant-defeat-white-supremacy-only-direct-action-can/?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.618fdabc2a0d
Washington Post goes full Nazi. Never go full Nazi.
Let’s see now, where is the inevitable “black bodies”?
YAHTZEE!
Funny. Other than a despised fringe, there’s only one group of fairly mainstream politics that’s been calling for seperate facilities and services based on race, ethnic or sex.
So far it seems limited to college campuses.
Yet, how are the SJW complaints about “cultural appropriation” any different than those demanding ethnic purity?
A terrible, terrible violence promoting article and they should be fucking ashamed. They have to be able to realize what the ultimate outcome of what they’re advocating would/will be, and that’s unnecessary bloodshed, death, and destruction on all sides.
As I said on a previous dead thread, I’m starting to feel morally compelled to find an alternative to Amazon, which I love, because Bezos is allowing this inexcusable shit.
You know, if I hadn’t decided to consign the Washington Post to the “Weekly World News” bucket* months ago, I’d be doing it now.
* although that’s unfair to WWW, which had great pictures and layout design.
And some of the things in the WWW are true. Washington Post? Not so much.
Bat Boy lives
There has to be some column where Tom Friedman talks to Bat Boy about globalism.
I loved the WWN… I still have an issue on the bottom tier of my coffee table as a memento… “Kid Hercules: How Did Six-Year Old Get So Ripped?” and “Asia Miner: Family In China Digs To America“.
Ed Anger’s op ed pieces are a beacon of respectability and decorum compared to what I’ve been seeing recently.
The comments are balanced though…?
Between relatively sane and raving calls for genocide and martial law.
I mentioned this when Dean brought it up in the Morning thread. Is “Analysis” the same as their OP-Ed page? I mean, it’s a guest column, and the Post is private property, but does this article not being on their Ed page mean that they are endorsing it or neutral about it?
I’ve been confused about the rules of journalism ever since Journolist dwellers like Weigel not only weren’t sanctioned for being on the damned thing, it actually helped their careers.
So are you still giving it the old college try over at the old place? Has it descended into full-blown Lord of the Flies yet?
It’s not as explicit a call to violence as some of the comments here had led me to believe. It’s pretty delusional, of course. Par for the course, with all respectable people choosing to consider a mob assault by commies against a legal protest a “white supremacist riot”. If their goal is to try to make actual nazis sympathetic, kudos.
NVIDIA WILL SMITE THE AMD HEATHENS AND THEIR FALSE GODS! NON CONDUCTING LIQUID COOLANT AND DDR4!!
PURGE THE HERETIC! CLEANSE THE MUTANT!
sad robot.
Serious IKEA lamp vibes from seeing that. I feel such pity.
So I was thinking about this: remember when all the intellectual heavyweights on the left ridiculed GWB for his “Manichaean” good vs evil world view. They laughed when he said, “You’re either with us or against us.”
And now anybody who doesn’t shriek at the top of their lungs about teh white supremacism is obviously a closet NAZI.
I almost never post on Facebook and have it only to keep up with friends and family. I’ve now seen multiple posts from people, unfortunately including extended family, who have been posting that everyone is racist who is not speaking out about Cville… that silence or ambivalence is choosing a side.
I have been tempted to respond that I too am outraged by the silence regarding Antifa’s actions both in Cville and across the country, as well as the lack of response by local police. Doing so would immediately cut ties with half of my family. On the other hand, my wife would be furious with me so I better not.
Tell her shes either with you or against you. That should fix everything.
Better to just cut your ties with Facebook.
Tell them you know someone silent and ambivalent who is a Zionist Jew. Watch the rationalization machine shudder with the effort of lifting that unpleasant load.
AMD for CPUs, Nvidia for GPU
I’m not in the market for a new PC (just built one recently), but I’ve heard good things about AMD’s current CPU offerings. They dumped that Bulldozer crap and seem to have decided to compete with Intel on the mid-priced market again.
They were garbage at one point but I’ve heard they’re coming back. Had I not picked up an i5 last year I’d consider doing an AMD build.
The last AMD build that I did and liked was in 2009, when they were still making the Phenom series which competed well with Intel’s mid-level Core offerings at the time (this was back when the Core 2 was still around and the i3/i5/i7 series just started). I tried another AMD build later in 2012 but I wasn’t impressed and sold it.
My current build is AMD, tail end of bulldozer architecture. Only real problem has been heat. Of course, I don’t get into all the number crunching. It does what I need it to and don’t care about much else.
I’m pretty happy with my R7 1700 build, seems to handle anything I throw at it with ease.
Wax Tailor is good.
a more libertarian themed one of his
fuck the police!
LOVE that one. Haven’t heard the first one yet, but I will listen to it this evening. With speakers and everything
You kids today your computers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZAajrxvDs4
https://medium.com/@harterhealing/how-america-spreads-the-disease-that-is-racism-by-not-confronting-racist-family-members-and-friends-effb68da7e97
“In counseling many white Americans who are against racism, one thing stands out: they are afraid to confront their racist family members and friends. They are against racism, but they also love their family and friends. I am often asked, “April, I don’t know what to do. How do I confront them without upsetting them?” Racism is complex in scope because it is both a mental illness and a value. In order words, it is a valued, sheltered, and protected mental illness.”
Hahaha, these assholes actually took the time to create a chart. A fucking racism scale chart. What this tells me is that no matter what white folks do, even the ones who try to help alleviate racial tension, they will always in someway be at fault and are a bunch of fucking racists.
These idiots WANT racism here, there, and everywhere. And if they can’t find any, they’re happy to invent some.
This.
I read the other day that Vox Day, someone I am not familiar with, says that if you are running a company and find out one of your employees is an SJW, you should fire them immediately. I honestly can’t argue with the guy.
Without a doubt. Keep that shit AWAY from your business, family and life as a whole.
Pure toxic hell awaits.
Unfortunately, absolutely true. The truth is that they destroy every institution they touch. They aren’t interested in the organization’s ongoing success, but aggrandizing their politics. The only nit I’ll pick is that it’s better to find a way not to hire them in the first place.
You should read his book “SJWs Always Lie.” There is good advice in there for those who work around these demon spawn and do not have the authority to fire them.
Wow. Citing black on black crime is ‘racist’ even though it’s statistically provable. Half of those aren’t even racist. And whypippo who bust other whypippo using this chart as a guide are idiots.
April can suck my white dick.
And oddly enough, the ones citing black on black crime are usually the black ministers and other members of the black community. The idea is how can we tell white folks to “care” about us when we don’t even care about ourselves? White folks aren’t selling us the drugs on the street corner or forcing the gang members to shoot up a block full of children playing outside.
Black activists never ever want to see the truth and live in a world full of delusions and victim-hood.
Problem is they’re out to demonize whites.
I think I’m gonna draw a line….here.
Actually they are – to what race do you think the guys running the CIA belong?
I know this one – Lizardmen, right?!
Black activists never ever want to see the truth and live in a world full of delusions and victim-hood.
Because they’re like all social justice cadre activists. They ultimately don’t give a shit about the ostensible target of their activism. Do you really think it would be a stretch for
Herbert KornfeldShaun King to switch over to being an feminist activist, a trans activist or just a plain old socialist activist? The “oppressed” are merely a constituency for them.YOU TAKE THAT BACK!
Herber Kornfeld was an authentic mothafucka, you whore! How dare you shit on his grave!
*pours out a 40 and pivots a table in honor of a great man*
Bah! Everyone knows the A.R. Posse was just a bunch of bitchez! It’s the Paybo Mastahs who rule the roost!
I’ve had fun accusing the posturers of racism. “Six black children were murdered in Chicago last weekend and you didn’t make a peep. Some rich white lady gets run over and you go apeshit. You need to check your white privilege.”
That jib of yours, I like the cut of it.
I am a little disappointed there was not a quiz to tell me how racist I am based upon my choice of food, books, movies, hobbies etc.
Here, I found the answer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79hRMiSMxFY
Damn it, I thought poppy had fallen back into the eldritch pit that spawned it
Written by:
Looked like Harter Heating at first, I thought she had a respectable trade job. That would have been weird.
I wonder where she’d mark herself on that chart, vice where I’d mark her, but that would make me a leftist.
They forgot the “I agree with MLK” over on the far left of the chart.
That part ran off the page.
the mother of the murder suspect who killed at least 3 people in Charlottesville Virginia
So… he ran over the two cops in the helicopter, too?
That is some effective racisming, right there, boy, I tellyawut!
He’s a regular surface-to-air missile that boy is.
In order words, it is a valued, sheltered, and protected mental illness.
Gender dysphoria?
Lastly, here’s some music to lift to; I’ve lifted to it, anyway.
Music to lift to
And what does it say about me that I recognized the preview image in your link?
Music to lift to.
How adults handle people believing in stupid shit.
Daryl Davis is a national treasure.
I think my girlfriend would have a knack at this. 1, shes a woman, and guys like tits of all colors. 2, she’s a mulatto, so she has racial common ground. 3, shes knowledgable about southern history and can recite random facts about the tennessee battleflag, etc. 4, and most importantly, shes racist as fuck against black people.
Killer punchline. I literally lol’d
Ever seen uncle ruckus? My gf has him beat by a country fucking mile.
HANG THAT NIGGA NOW, I GOT THE ROPE RIGHT HERE.
The boondocks was/is one of my favorite adult swim shows
Strange. My other than my ex not knowing about Southern history, this sounds familiar.
Perfect.
The NAACP (in it’s current form) will always want there to be race tension or at least the appearance of such because their existence depends on it. The NAACP of the past did really good work for the black community but they have long outlived their usefulness. The nail on the coffin for me was when they went after school choice and sided with the teacher unions.
BTW, this picture is worth a caption contest:
https://cdn1.ijr.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/screen-shot-2016-12-22-at-105223-am-1024×768.png
“You thinking what I’m thinking?”
or
“What’s up my Nigga”
or
“If I don’t make eye contact I might not have to go to jail for crushing a Cracka”
“I just let one go…wait for it…wait for it. Hee Hee.”
Not a caption entry, but… I just don’t get how I’m supposed to take those Klan guys seriously. They’re walking around wearing a fucking Merlin costume that their cousin-wives probably cobbled together with shit they grabbed from the closeout section at Joann Fabrics.
Merlin wouldn’t be caught dead in that. That outfit screams fake wizard Harry Potter stuff.
“You like Prince? I like Prince.”
“I have the weirdest boner right now.”
He really is.
Watch all of the documentaries he’s done. They are fucking superb.
http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2017/08/15/abrams-calls-for-removal-of-confederate-faces-off-stone-mountain/
Now they are going after Stone Mountain. The sad and stupid part of this is that if you ever go to Stone Mountain it is full of black people. Black people love Stone Mountain. These people are animals.
If you ever get a chance, you should read about the Chinese Cultural Revolutions because the parallels from then and now are frighteningly similar. Upon commencing with their orgy of violence, the Maoists who were mostly college students went into the museums and destroyed ancient Chinese artifact and tried to rewrite history. To them, the history was something that was viewed as oppressive and against the ideas of Mao and Communism.
This is exactly what this is. The only difference is that they don’t have the ability to kill people by the millions, yet. The only positive thing is that the madness eventually broke in China. Surely to God it will run its course here.
That’s why even if they don’t know it, hate the Second Amendment and why we must fight their chipping away at it.
I have a dailykos article from like 2008 talking about why liberals should love the second amendment. I like to silently drop it on progs in the middle of debates.
Because a crossbow bolt in the back of the head hurts worse?
Pisser is that a bunch of lefties are now asking about guns from their enthusiast relatives. Normally, I’d be delighted to share my hobby. But not if I think the SOB is just trying to learn about them so he can shoot at people like me 5-10 years down the road.
JT straight up called this yesterday. Someone needs to mail him a cookie.
Yeah, uh, ‘called it’.
*Pulls sheet over time machine*
…his world lines argument was so convincing too…
Hey, if I come back and do absolutely nothing it’s still the same world line. Now, the time I accidentally ran over Winston Churchill in 1924 on the other hand…
Command & Conquer: Red Alert was a documentary?
Damn it titor
Yep. The Marriott next to my office in Atlanta has Stone Mountain photos in all the rooms. I expect those to be gone soon.
Overt Racism confirmed.
/April Hartner
Just rework a face to look like Trump, that’ll appease them.
“Most saliently in the context of the Google memo, our scientific educations almost never talk about the invention of whiteness and the invention of race in tandem with the early scientific method which placed a high value on taxonomies—which unsurprisingly and almost certainly not coincidentally supported prevailing social views,” she writes, declaring that the European Enlightenment was less a function of “objective ‘science’” than an outgrowth of “the rise of violent, imperialist globalization during the same time period.”
Most curricula, she elaborates, gloss over the fact that many European scientific advances during that time “were in fact collations of borrowed indigenous knowledge,” while “far too many universally call technology progress while failing to acknowledge that it has left us in a dangerously warmed climate”
http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9585
TW: usual CampusReform cancer
collations of borrowed indigenous knowledge
Let’s get more specific, I’m interested in her citations. EM field theory? Fluid dynamics? Anesthesia?
Aw, honey, if you think you’re powerless now, just wain until you get what you’re asking for.
That’s what these people don’t have a clue about. And it has the potential to get very, very, dangerous. For everyone.
Is any of that supposed to make sense?
It’s like someone tripped on a thesaurus.
the invention of whiteness
This is a Duplass Bros movie title, isn’t it?
“Split the atom’s heart, and Lo!
within it thou wilt find a sun.”
Explain THAT, Mr. Potato.
Now THIS is virtue signaling.
https://twitter.com/bakeanddestroy/status/897167665244102656
What if you don’t want to condemn Nazis, but want flowers for your gay wedding?
Yeh. But did you notice?
I’m first.
No you weren’t. You didn’t post anything relevant to the actual links. THIS IS NOT ‘NAM. THERE ARE RULES.
Look, Rufus has said he was first more times than anyone has said he wasn’t first. Democracy. Consensus. Etc.
He’s like a Nazi, if you call him first enough times, people will start to believe it.
No, I didn’t notice. Or care.
Rules is rules. No first for you!
Apparently it takes brass balls to say “Nazis are bad”
I’ve been a fucking HERO for years, by that standard. Where are my laurels, my concubines (100% free range, organic, consensual concubines, of course)?
sorry, anyone who uses ‘AF’ in any way other than to make fun of themselves is too stupid to be listened to.
That is insightful af.
Ernst Rohm has a total sad.
2500 miles away from VA, local agitators held their protest in support yesterday. Lots of red and black stars and the usual regalia of a muderous ideology being presented unchallenged as noble people. One of the photos showed a girl holding up a sign, with a pointed stake and a baseball in her backpack. What kind of supposedly peaceful protesters bring baseball bats?
http://www.jammiewf.com/2017/anti-trump-activist-executes-his-republican-neighbor-u-s-media-yawns/
A republican without a gun? Fake news!
That Nazi temporarily blinded me!!
Also, are they referring to the LCP? I didn’t know it came in .380.
The LCP was originally a 380, then they supersized it and made it the LC9.
There’s also the LC380 where they took the supersized LC9 and turned it into a 380 again
Ruger is the Taco Bell of gun makers. They just mix and match til they find shit that sells.
Ruger makes good shit. Yes some of it is crap, but 8 out of 10 are usually good.
I’ll admit that I really didn’t like the feeling of the LCR that I handled at the gun store. But my GP100 in .357 is the most solid gun I own. Accurate as heck, too. I would concealed carry it all the time if not for some sartorial impediments that I have yet to work out.
Interesting…thanks. I have never had any interest in buying a .380.
Browning makes a scaled down 1911 in 380. I have never wanted a 1911 or a 380 but holy crap I almost bought one of those the first time I held it.
doesn’t sig make something close to that?
You know, I did see that once. Maybe as a first centerfire for a kid.
Sig P238. I owned one but Gorbachev rid of it for reliability issues.
Browning makes a scaled down 1911 in 380.
Co-worker has one. Cool little gun.
What about a white tuxedo?
Lynching remained a form of public recreation well into the boom years of the Roaring Twenties.
Ah, the good old days, when every tree and lamppost was festooned with black bodies. It’s a wonder there are any left.
Then we elected Progressive Woodrow Wilson who fixed all that racism.
“The arm of justice fetters men for years. It strikes death to the murderer. It can take property and life. Must it confess it is too weak to protect those whom it has confined?
“The arm can destroy. Can it not protect? If the life of one whom the law has taken into its custody is at the mercy of a mob the administration of justice becomes a mockery….”
Charles Bonaparte, Republican Attorney General, 1909
Yep, those couple dozens of cases a year nationally sure were ‘a form of public recreation.’
But what the fuck were you people on in the 1890s?
This stuff?
Warty’s Great, Great Grampa?
“Left-Wing Activists Target Professor Who Wasn’t In Charlottesville
Quinn was assaulted by a barrage of profanity, vulgarity and ugliness on his Twitter and Instagram accounts. The messages called him a dirty racist and demanded the university fire him. His critics also provided his address. Quinn subsequently decided to flee to safety, staying with a friend for the night”
http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/15/left-wing-activists-target-professor-who-wasnt-in-charlottesville/
Until these left-wings animals face the consequences of their actions, this will continue.
Politicians and ‘business leaders’ need to cut out the virtue signalling shit and cops need to enforce the law. These people are attacking INNOCENT people. Now try and tell me they’re not worse than ‘white supremacists’.
Attacking INNOCENT people on social media, you mean. A less sympathetic person might suggest that using Twitter, etc., is sort of like joining a cult that occasionally performs human sacrifice — don’t whine when it’s your time, if it never bothered you before.
https://pjmedia.com/ronradosh/2017/08/14/trumps-statements-on-charlottesville-reveal-a-deeply-flawed-president-at-his-worst/
One of the interesting effects of Trump has been to allow the old commies like Radoosh to go back to their roots and become full commies again.
I said to myself, I said, “I bet John Means Ron Radosh,” and so it was.
He was the guy who made the shocking “discovery” that the Rosenbergs were guilty, just like the jury said.
(Yeah, the FBI wasn’t convinced of Ethel’s guilt – I suppose they thought she just baked cookies and had teas).
Naturally Radosh has been trying to make up for his heresy ever since.
I have never fully trusted any of the former commies who suddenly got religion and went conservative. I think you have to have some kind of serious personality defect to ever be a real communist in the first place. And that defect doesn’t go away just because you suddenly reform.
Hey, what about Frank Meyer?
And Whittaker Chambers?
i said fully. Some I trust more than others.
And C. S. Lewis’s wife?
William J. Murray III
“One morning in 1959, a friendly looking Fuller Brush salesman named Bob Lee. Mother [the atheist Madalyn Murray O’Hair] let him in, and after a few minutes, she discovered the man was a member of the Communist Party. He had heard of her desire to go to Russia through the party grapevine. He urged her not to do it. He reasoned that there was a greater need in the United States for good agitators, those who could work here to overthrow the government.” – Murray, My Life Without God, WND Books, 2012, p. 32
Paging several glibs…
Most of us did jump because of religion, we had Kronstadts.
*Didn’t jump.
I, for one, await the battle of the Johns.
THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!
Starts popping the corn yo.
Alexandra Vandernoot… yum yum.
Yes sir.
HM, thanks for mentioning Less Wrong this morning. I checked out a couple blog entries and decided to pick up a copy of Rationality from AI to Zombies.
If it weren’t for lurking amongst our fellow Glibs, I’d be reading the book right now.
what about Matt Cvetic, he was a… COMMUNIST FOR THE FBI
(starring Dana Andrews)
P.J. O’Rourke? Hillary endorsement aside.
Too much of an aside for my taste.
Yeah, his “she’s wrong but she’s wrong within normal parameters” line was pretty depressing to hear from somebody whose writings I’ve rather liked. You’d think that his lifetime of particular experiences would have immunized him to TDS, but alas…
Trump is destroying the media in today’s press conference and I’m loving it. There will be some epic outrage on tonight’s news shows.
OMG! He’s putting the revisionism front and center. George Washington will be on the chopping block now. How will the cultural revolutionaries not take that bait now?
I just saw a bit on Fox. Kat Timpf had a bit of a meltdown.
Meltdown for…? And wood.
In reaction to what Trump said — something akin to she couldn’t cry because of eye make-up. I don’t remember her exact words.
“What’s wrong with having a first lady who doesn’t do anything”
What’s a First Lady? I don’t find any description of such an office in the Constitution.
A First Lady is like Rufus, but a chick.
Don’t you First Ladies work?
31st! Ha! Take that Rufus!
What kind of supposedly peaceful protesters bring baseball bats?
Maybe she was panning to do a little freelance body work. Those Mopars are all NAZIS!
speed dents
Western Civilization:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4792724/Candice-Swanepoel-Alessandra-Ambrosio-lingerie.html
I love how the robot just dumps the cart at the end. Like, “fuck this shit – it’s 5 o’clock somewhere”
I love how it just falls over right after. “Oh shit, maybe I should fake a seizure!”
This shit is getting ridiculous:
https://twitter.com/Lauren_Southern/status/897523817089605632
She is rather fetching. The tech companies are infested with fascists. DOJ needs to regulate the living shit out of them. I know that is not something you should normally support, but these assholes deserve it.
As much as they deserve it, regulation isn’t the answer. The answer is free market. As the price of technology falls, let the established companies try to fight off hoards of competitors on their own. Then those with better service and policies will win.
Eh, maybe it will be the last regulation that finally collapses everything, so you can have a free market.
If ISPs and other tech companies want to be treated like public utilities, with anti-trust exemption, liability exemption from the content they carry, and exclusive utility rights of way, then they damn well need to start acting like public utilities.
Honestly, I’d suggest the real answer would be serious IP reform. That would fuck the living shit out of the tech oligarchs more than an mountain of regulation.
Hedgehogs? meh. Pricks.
Serious question time: At what point do you say fuck this shit? How much do you have to get disenfranchised, shat on, demonized, marginalized, and devalued before you get violent? Because if this continues, if people keep closing off all non violent communication cause it hurts their feelings, then violence is not only inevitable but justified at that point.
You say “fuck this shit” when there’s a plausible and reasonable catalyst *on a personal level*, ideally after a lot of other people have lost their fucking minds. Work hard not to be in the vanguard, it’s the best you can hope for.
They are very fortunate in their enemies. If you were going to get violent and do something about this, you wouldn’t march around Charlottesville with Tiki torches. You wouldn’t say a word and varies well known SJW media and tech figures would start showing up dead. One of these days they are going to piss off enough people they are going to get a real enemy and a real terrorist opposition and they are never going to know what hit them.
Most of them are too stupid to even realize the danger of what they do and how a real fight would end.
The day antifa pisses off enough vets is the day the bodies start to stack.
Oh, I’m sure they’re itching for the opportunity to spit on some veterans just like those hippie jackasses did to troops coming home from Vietnam. The modern-day Left always wants to see themselves as the reincarnation of protesters in black and white photos.
Unless if they have other children to care for, I just can’t understand why Charlie Gard’s parents didn’t leave a trail of bodies of all complicit.
Not antifa/SJW, but same ultimate shared totalitarian goal.
Because they aren’t evil and recognize the futility of raising the black flag.
Most people don’t have the combativeness to attack a system that can absorb whatever they do to its members without even blinking. Most people look at it and say, “I can’t even make a dent in that” and just try to save whatever remains of their lives and to escape that hell.
It’s a rare breed that goes all John Wick on the monsters.
We have very different definitions of evil then.
They actively prevented free movement of the family and killed the child. I see little difference between that and someone breaking into a home, restraining the parents, and executing the child.
No, I don’t mean the doctors and social services people. They are fucking evil… full stop.
I mean the parents. Good people have a hard time flipping a switch and killing people. Even when they are wronged. Even when the wrong is depriving your child of life-saving medical care to make a political point.
If I were to bet on the parents’ mental state right now, they are emotionally exhausted and just want the nightmare to end. Going for revenge would just prolong the parents’ torment.
I understand, sorry I mistook your wording.
I do think it’s not a good vs. evil hang-up with the victims but rather a learned culture that has removed any sense of independence or individual self-ownership. The same thing applies to self-defense which a lot of people now seem to be incapable of, even to protect their families from active harm.
My future brother-in-law comes from one of these families where they believe firearms and self-defense are inherently evil. I’ve since taken him shooting and made him understand he needs to be able to protect my sister instead of curling up into a ball if evil threatens. It’s a pretty incredible transformation to watch once that cultural bubble shatters.
Like I said earlier, the antifas are radicals who hate everyone to the right of Stalin. It would beyond trivial for a group with a little bit of cunning to stage false flag terrorist attacks against the establishment right and corporate left in their name.
Eh, not yet.
Stop using Instagram, Google, and Twitter. Use Gab, DuckDuckGo, etc…
At some point we’ll have our next regularly scheduled civil war. But I’m not firing the first shots because a pretty girl has to change internet services.
I’m certainly not implying that losing your instagram account is cause to start up the woodchippers, but this is not an isolated incident and this shit has kicked into high gear lately.
Unless your company (like Gab) is explicitly set up to be alt-right, it will get taken over by SJWs.
Twitter didn’t start banning people right out of the gate. Their initial philosophy was “freedom of speech uber alles”. But SJWs worked inside and out. That’s why that “has-been conwoman with no influence” got on their fucking Trust & Safety Council (oh wait, she’s merely a “partner”).
Google didn’t start as a safe space for snowflakes. It took a lot of work to get them there over many years. So yes, go to Vid.me – if they ever get to 20% of YouTube numbers, same will happen. New Facebook, new Instagram – they’ll grow large enough to do this shit, or get bought out by people who will do it. And hey, libertarians aren’t allowed to complain because they’ll be hypocrites!
Or you can sit with few thousands racists and anti-Semites and trade “Don’t tread on me memes” (insert Glibertarians.com joke here)
You’re not really helping make a convincing argument that free helicopter rides aren’t the only way out of this.
I’ve been saying that for awhile now, but nooooo! I’m the asshole, apparently!
I am simple man from peasant country. Your flying metal birds confuse and scare me. I like good, natural method: Maxims and open pits.
Seriously, alt-right didn’t come because racism is a disease that white people don’t get inoculated against. It came about because all of fucking right (libertarians included) is absolutely worthless fighting SJWs. It’s all “no, no, we won’t demean ourselves, we have our precious principles, look, we stopped them here…for 10 minutes…once…and now they won, oops!” while those assholes keep gnawing and gnawing at a bone until they win.
Yes but the end conclusion of this entire argument always ends up at Pinochet and mass graves. I’m not entirely against a purge to show these morons what actual oppression is, but I don’t see a libertarian outcome from it.
There is no libertarian outcome I can see, because libertarians refuse to show up to the fights. Had the Reason/Cato crowd decided to fight SJWs the way they fought (and still fight) SoCons, alt-right would be way less appealing. But I don’t remember Reason being GamerGate Central (Cathy Young, bless her, writing couple articles notwithstanding), or giving Sargon or Razorfist a voice, or matching The Great Trumpening 2015-2017 with an anti-SJW Crusade.
If they had, they’d have pulled at least half of the young people who aren’t committed racists and anti-Semites (standard disclaimer: racists and Jew-haters exist, are part of alt-right and libertarians should not want them).
I more mean that purging leftists for wrongthink doesn’t have an eventual libertarian outcome, regardless of how the libertarians were interacting. And I don’t think how Reason/Cato act matters in the long run at all. They aren’t an avenue that those attracted to the alt-right are interested in, nor would they likely ever be.
I mean, a huge part of the appeal of the alt-right is the same pathetic tribal egoism that infects social justice. “You’re part of this group, this group is good, ergo, you are good.” That’s a psychological feedback loop that libertarians will never, ever have because it’s contrary to its core ideals.
They aren’t an avenue that those attracted to the alt-right are interested in, nor would they likely ever be.
OK, alt-right proper with its Jew fixation and “muh posterity is in teh preambles!” no.
But less idiotic ones, they could have. I only observed GG as a well-wisher and those people were desperate for any positive press. They adored Kristine Hoff-Summers and adopted Cathy Young as their grandma, and Milo got his start to stardom being the first journo to side with them (and crack the GameJournoList story). People who watch Sargon should be the demographic libertarians are fighting for tooth and nail.
I post Pinochet memes on occasion just because. Usually on libertarian pages where it will be understood as a joke as intended but every now and then seeing the shit that progs post I think “Rick, your need to step back from the computer or you’ll ruin your social media”
Helicopters are inefficient. Do what the Argentines did, and use C-130s.
Needs more “cuck”.
I should have qualified with “if you do set it your business as explicitly alt-right, it’ll end up another Stormfront, a small pool of idiots no one wants to do anything with”, yes. I don’t disclaimer it enough, alt-right are dangerous and wrong, and if they had the influence of SJWs I’d be railing against them.
To the best of my knowledge, I’ve not used the term ‘cuck’ in writing, even ironically.
Wait, I lied, I did ask if it was possible for a man to cuck himself, after one of Trump’s “open mouth, step on dick” moments!
Nah, its too soon for that. I figure they’ll keep this up until it finally affects enough people negatively in a personal sense. Maybe like one side shutting down a substation with a large enough metro area losing power on a particularly hot day.
I’m just speculating.
Calm down, Malcolm X. Yes, a lot of people hate you, want to strip you of your rights, make you a second class citizen. But
1) there aren’t nearly as many of them as they would have you believe
2) you haven’t had it bad as loads of other people in our history who still managed to endure without too much violence
3) the civil rights movement proves businesses can be forced into non-discrimination via political means
4) and at any rate you’ll get vastly more traction as an agent of love and positivity than hate and negativity.
Someone needs to be the voice of Reason here, and it might as well be libertarians. It’s not like the far right isn’t going to be any less apt to wipe us out than the far left.
IMO the move to violent opposition is driven more by organization then by passing some threshold of unbearabity. The USSR was an inbearable shithole but without a way to organize a potent resistance it remained for a very long time.
The US was probably more free pre-revolution than now.
It’s like a market, when the incentives make sense people will fight. If a state seceded it would probably set off a civil war through the entire US since the gasoline has already been poured.
More leftist book-burning and suppression, wonderful! Tell me who the fascists are, again?
IT’S A BLACKLIST!!!!!!
It’s not going to really work very well…
Get a brain! Morans
I didn’t think Charlie Kelly was politically active.
He ran the Dennis Reynolds campaign!
Shit, I forgot!
All these PC Master race comments and not one “mine is bigger” PC spec flex?
Well…I might be alone on this one, but….um, nothing.
She has an 11 year old son. Maybe she likes raising him. What a concept.
If you’re not clamoring for a drug war, single payer healthcare, or giving out bad nutritional advice, in what sense are you a first lady?
Just her being around once in awhile to admire is good enough for me.
Michelle Obama gave these people the idea that the unelected position of FLOTUS is supposed to act as the nanny-in-chief for the entire nation.
Hillary Clinton gave these people the idea that being FLOTUS and picking out the drapes in the White House is supposed to make one the most qualified presidential candidate. Ever.
I believe that started with
NannyNancy Reagan. She was like your grandmother. The bitchy one, not the nice one that baked things.Or Eleanor Roosevelt.
God, I miss Wegmans.
Me too. Even though I have Publix now, which is also up there as one of the best supermarkets.
This is why licensing is so important. If you left it up to the crazies at the ride sharing companies, you would end up with maniacs for drivers randomly beating passengers. Oh, wait…
The family of the Fargo Nazi claims in followup story that they are getting threats from people who think they are Nazis too.
You know maybe you should use this as a moment to reflect. Groups that make threats against people instead of arguing the merits of an issue should probably not be too welcome either.
If Nazis have no place in this country, it is not much of a stretch to say those who raised them have no place either. Collective guilt sucks dude. You should have thought about that when you decided it was okay to decide who is and is not welcome in this country based on something besides their actions.
It’s also tacit approval to do whatever you want to Nazis.
And to anyone you merely label as a Nazi.
It is probably best not to voluntarily involve oneself with a public shitstorm.
I don’t know if they’re aware but the original NAZIs numbered millions, took over their own country, then a few neighbors, and mowed over half of Europe.
We fought them because of the wars and murders. The 200 or so people in Charlotesville are not in the same ballpark in violence or power.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-14/report-%E2%80%98unite-right%E2%80%99-organizer-jason-kessler-was-occupy-movement-obama-supporter-8-m
Unite the Right Organizer was an Obama and Occupy Wall Street supporter.
So professional huckster, or false flag?
Why not both?
There’s a segment of the neo-Nazi movement that lives up to the socialist part of that name. I mean, these people are mostly unsophisticated knuckle draggers, so economics aren’t really an issue for most of them (other than, that black guy took the free shit that belongs to me!).
One of the guys interviewed for that Vice piece (he’s the round guy with black hair and a beard who formed the white student union at Howard or some shit) was spewing all kinds of bullshit about Jewish bourgeois and bankers, etc.
Plus, zerohedge. So tifwiw
reposted from the am links
I don’t know what genre this falls into.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/450470/charlottesville-virignia-robert-e-lee-statue-remove-right-decision-confederate-monuments-museums
Rich Lowry is brain dead.
What do we do with National Parks like Gettysburg? Erase them?
Fuck you NR
Rich Lowry is a dipshit, but he specifically said move the monuments to cemeteries and national parks. So I wouldn’t say he wants to erase them
I live next to the Jefferson Davis monument. You would think the confederate president would be a target but it doesn’t seem to be. There’s a farmers market there on weekends.
I guess it’s because it’s too far from urban centers and blue enclaves. Another words it’s in a place where people are more concerned with things that effect their lives than with statues.
Which sort of sets that whole cliche about country people being wise with common sense. We I see people going mad about a statue I can’t take them seriously.
Trump decided caving was a bad idea after all
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/trump-lashes-alt-left-charlottesville-says-fine-people-204005828–abc-news-topstories.html
Good for him. He is exactly right. He is standing up for civilization and rational thought. He will, of course, be hated by all right thinking people for doing that.
Not good enough.
The statue-topplers and road-blockers in North Carolina included a contingent from the Marxist-Leninist Workers World Party. Trump needs to demand that the Dems and the media and the activists disavow, specifically, all communist, Marxist-Leninist participants in lawless activity.
I agree. But considering the sorry gutless nature of everyone else in Washington, I will take what I can get. But you are absolutely right he should have gone further.
Turn this into a question of “I denounce all totalitarian socialists, whether Marxist-Leninists or National Socialists. What about you leftists?”
Make them have conniptions.
Also, see below.
One of them just got arrested. This should be fun.
ONLY WE, THE MEDIA, ARE ALLOWED TO INVENT CONVENIENTLY VAGUE TERMS FOR OUR IDEOLOGICAL ENEMIES
To be fair, as bullshit a term “alt-right” is, at least it’s in reasonably common usage. Who says “alt-left”?
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/03/why-the-alt-left-is-a-problem
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-alt-right-the-other-alt-right-and-the-rise-of_us_583884ece4b0c2ab944368dc
http://time.com/4593753/bernie-sanders-alt-left/
Two of those are from 2016, so spread over time, almost no one. Meanwhile I hear or read the word “alt-right” at least a dozen times a day. In fact, someone on TV said “alt-right” while I was typing the previous sentence.
I’m not disputing that its less-used. Of course its less-used. Because “Antifa” is one term already in use for “Alt-Left”, and before that it was “Bernie Bros”. It has been in use for a long time and was just a rhetorical term to identify the more-leftish-than-thou wing who considered Bernie’s Democratic Socialism too-accommodating of capitalism.
…. the recent hot-take interpretation on twitter is that it was just invented by Trump a few hours ago.
Brilliant.
One of the few good things about the Trump Presidency is that he is willing to not only fight with the media, but he’s also willing to point out their hypocrisy and inconsistencies. I wish every establishment GOP member would learn for him and not be easily cowed by the media.
There’s actually many good things that have happened in the Trump Presidency as long you don’t count the establishment assholes in the Senate. I just hope that none of the threats & actions he’s made to some countries lead to war, then I’ll really have a less positive view on him.
I hope Paul Ryan is primaried the fuck out of office.
That would be nice, but I actually think the Senate needs more RINO cleansing than the House does. Voting out Flake/Heller/Wicker/Hatch/Corker next year and putting in nu-Righters in their place would be exactly the punch in the teeth that the GOPe needs.
Along with RINOs Murkowski & Collins.
Murk isn’t up until 2022, and Collins in 2020. Getting the ones that you can next year would be a giant wake-up call to any remaining RINOs.
Fair enough.
Always seem like the worst Rinos get themselves into the long seats – looking at you Lindsey.
This is why Kid Rock would be a great politician.
Trump’s authentic to a fault sometimes, but this is where being authentic is a wonderful, beautiful thing. Anti-fa needed to be called out, and he’s the only (mainstream) GOPer with enough balls to do so. Good for him.
And I cannot see this costing him a single vote. The only people who are going to have fainting fits about it hate him anyway.
Exactly. The Leftists and Cocktail NeverTrumpers that didn’t vote for him before will likely never be satisfied no matter how “presidential” he acts, so Trump should just narrowcast and do stuff that his base loves. It’ll likely get him more admirers long-term.
I am somewhat annoyed that he used the bullshit ‘alt-left’ term that some leftists are using to distance themselves from the crazies…while silently backing their intimidation tactics.
‘Radical/Extremist left’ would have been better.
Ctrl-Left is beautiful on multiple levels.
How about “communists”?
Nope, that’s worse because it allows normal leftists to distance themselves and also bellow about McCarthy. Making it about a specific part of the left is important because it drags them into the same game they’re trying to play with the right (i.e. everyone is Nazis because a few of you are Nazis).
At least it would be accurate. So would be “Marxists”.
“It’s unclear what Trumpt meant by the “alt-left.” No, it’s not.
The author is a Columbia journo graduate, and bald-faced lying seems to be heavily pushed on the curriculum there.
What a secret Nazi.
(When I saw that press conference, I actually started “mwahahahaha”-ing. Hopefully didn’t get swastikas in my eyes, that would be terrifying.)
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His Holiness has jurisdiction there, too. Behave yourself.
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um…
*scurries away*
Flattery will get you everywhere.
And thank you!
(S)he wouldn’t exactly seek the company of ass-kissers and bimbos, but (s)he wouldn’t reject them out of hand, either…
I’m not a bimbo.
Is Swiss trying to clean up this PR mess?
Oh for fuck’s sake.
How about this:
“One of our asshole employees fucked up. We fired him. Dinner’s on us tonight.”
Wish I had been there “I’ll shower when I get my gold back!”
*rises, orders an imaginary 21 Isherman gun salute*
[random slow clap gif inserted here]
*strongly narrows gaze*
…
*kicks 80 year old safe deposit box under desk*
The best version of Redbone yet
I honestly did a triple-take at this and still don’t know if its what the headline suggests:
Backlash over GOP bills to shield drivers who hit protesters
… i mean …. really? Its open season on running down Antifa? Or is this some wild distortion of something…
still… for a moment there i was like, “Damn, someone’s got some balls on them”.
A bill came up in the North Dakota legislature to do this after those “water protector” assholes were blocking highway traffic during the DAPL protests. For the life of me, I can’t remember if it passed.
Durham protester charged in Confederate statue vandalism
“”Don’t mistake restraint for inaction,” [the sheriff] said. “Had I ordered my deputies to engage a hostile crowd, there would have been serious injuries. Statues can be replaced; lives cannot.””
What, did NC sell all their fire trucks in the 70s?! Come on fuckers, I know you have a crate of nightsticks just ITCHING to taste commie blood again.
Some of these people were probably social-signalling bystanders. Zero in on the hard core of agitators, there’s no way they can succeed in a mass prosecution.
They don’t have to charge everyone they arrest, but this to me is an implicit admission that government really is there to farm the tax cattle and nothing else, because all it takes to get something done is form a mob and find one guy willing to take the fall. That’s fine, but now I have no incentive not to form my own mob and go do whatever the fuck I want now. Is that guy they charged going to pay to replace the statue? I’ll bet you a shiny nickel he won’t. So we’re on the hook for all the damage these fuckholes do.
Some of these folks (see below) are hardcore Marxist-Leninists…they want to be the Tribunes of the People and lead them to the promised land of communism….they want martyrs in the worst way…and I mean worst way…
In the link above, the Workers World Party claims that the person who took down the statue was one of their own. Now they’re calling her a “comrade” and a “freedom fighter.”
The out-side.
nerd.
It’s a fair cop.
“”The people decided to take matters into our own hands and remove the statue,” said Thompson, a member of the far-left Workers World Party and a student at N.C. Central University. “We are tired of waiting on politicians who could have voted to remove the white supremacist statues years ago, but they failed to act. So we acted.””
Is it just a rhetorical device or do dipshits like this really think they speak for “the people?”
It gets better…see below.
Her employers said, “We want to create a space where everyone feels safe to share their opinions” as they threw the contents of her desk out the window.
LOL
“Business Insider” (who the fuck named it that?) is now claiming Trump “had a meltdown” at the press conference.
Because he pointed out the two-sided nature of the bullshit in Charlottesville.
MUH NARRATIVE!
There are things to be angry at Trump about. But it is never the things the media is angry about. In fact, the more angry and crazy the media is about something Trump has done, the more likely he was right and is touching a nerve.
The stuff you should actually be mad at Trump is covered by Ron Paul. It’s the stuff that’s actually popular among the media: unconstitutional missile strike, threatening sanctions on Venezuela, etc.
Eh the Venezuela stuff the media doesn’t like because they are sympathetic to socialism
With in-depth research (lasting about a minute) I was about to find out more about the Workers World Party to which the statue-toppling woman belongs.
A sample of the party’s wisdom
“Why the DPRK needs a nuclear deterrent
“Since 1950, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea — north Korea — has lived under the shadow of a U.S. nuclear attack….
“This persistent U.S. threat of war is why the DPRK has allocated precious resources to become one of the world’s nine nuclear weapons states. It is now estimated to have around 30 such bombs — out of the more than 15,000 nuclear warheads in the world….
“If even those “in the know” here are speculating about what atrocities Trump could be capable of, what are the leaders of the DPRK to think? Isn’t it absolutely their duty to do all they can to prepare for the defense of their people?”
Jesus christ the sky is yellow in their world.
I’m just some random guy with Google, looking up what these people publicy aver about their views…yet the media seems uninterested in these details.
Their nuclear program is so they can extract payoffs not to be crazy
Our beloved Brett and Swiss are busy today, so you get C-squad links instead of their usual champion-stuff.
Phrasing?
#2, can’t spell champion without C.
can’t spell champion without C.
Чемпион. Are you happy now?
nyet.
You have got to be kidding me.
Is this that weightlifting, surfing, servicer-of-Morgan-Fairchild asshole from TOS?
A black guy reached for something in a car and wasn’t murdered. Progress!
Joking aside, cops got his finger in a good place, hes not telling him to turn the camera off. Everyone walks away.
There’s ample examples of actual police misconduct and outright brutality to point to. This one doesn’t really outrage me at all.
I wasn’t outraged at the story, i was outraged to think that shithead got his own column.
No, the commenter @ Reason stole his handle from this editorial-writer, who is a longtime cop-sucker in the media
Huh. They sound exactly the same.
“It doesn’t take much for a police officer to achieve infamy today. Such is the media’s thirst for outrage at perceived police misconduct that an officer need not shoot or beat anyone to satisfy it”
Yeah, right. You see, this is why so called conservatives are often just as much douchebag as the left.
PC Master Race culture wars. Which side are you on?
If by “challenging their crown” you mean that over a year later they came out with a card that can does alright against their best-in-value top tier card, and sometimes competes with their mid-top tier cards at another 100W+ of power consumption, then okay.
Very hopeful for a stronger showing from AMD, but frankly, I am disappoint. If for no other reason, this lackluster launch means Nvidia can delay Volta consumer cards for another 6 months if they want.
…and again…
“Some governments as well as peace groups are calling on the U.S. to step back from its threats to attack the DPRK. But they are also saying the north Koreans should “freeze” their nuclear weapons program.
“If the DPRK were to agree, would they guarantee its safety? What if the U.S. attacked anyway? What would they say — “Sorry”?…
“It is the right of oppressed people to choose the form of their struggle. As the Black Panthers put it, they have the right to resist “by any means necessary.” It is up to the oppressed to decide what tactic is best suited to their conditions. Those who come from the oppressor nation must not dictate how it should be done.
“And the same is true on the international arena. If the people of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea have decided that the only way they’ll be safe from another U.S. attack is to have a nuclear deterrent, the best thing we in the U.S. can do is try to make sure that such an attack by the U.S. never happens.
“Those of us who live “in the belly of the beast” cannot put conditions on those living in countries oppressed by imperialism. Our job is to defend their right to liberate themselves.”
But see how many media outlets run with stories about “white supremacistss versus Marxist-Leninist North Korean sympathizers.” It’s racist demonstrators versus anti-racist counterprotestors.
It’s Nazis vs Commies is what it is. If they could just kill each other off, the rest of us would be better off. Of course the leftist media are on the side of the Commies, it’s sort of like being on their own side, so…
Liberate themselves by nuking others…makes perfect sense.
I hope Trump learned his first and final lesson to never try to appease these assholes.
Trump somehow got China to tell them they’re on their own if they fuck with the USA, and got Kim to walk back his threat about Guam. When has that fucker ever walked back his crazy talk before? Maybe he respects Trump more than the last wuss.
I think the Chinese really do believe that Trump and Mattis will fuck North Korea’s shit up if they attack one of bases or our allies. The Chinese do not want to have to fight us because of Kim’s stupidity.
Wait, you mean a threat from Trump and James “If you fuck with me I will kill you all” Mattis seems more credible to a foreign government than a threat from Obama and Ash “Former Harvard professor” Carter. No way. Where is my shocked face?
Obama: Alright Kim, you better knock it off. If if if if if you fire a missile over this uhhh this this this this line… I really mean it!
Kim: *fires missile over line*
Obama: Uhh…
Obligatory
Tiilerson and Mattis was the best choices for their job.
Don’t forget Betsy.
I fucking love her, if only because the teacher unions and their supporters went absolutely apeshit.
“Peace Groups” should be in sneer quotes. A lot of them are fronts for international socialists.
One of the things I loved about the movie The Iron Curtain (another Dana Andrews movie, this one a dramatization of the real-life Igor Gouzenko for our Canuck friends) is how the opening actually discusses the Soviets having “peace organization” front groups.
That reminds me: What happened to the Somali that blew away snow white in Minnesoda? The press buried that sucker faster than Jimmy Hoffa.
Not here. From today’s Red Star:
Search of Justine Damond’s home draws scrutiny in southwest Minneapolis
Just read it. So much bullshit I can’t choose anything to excerpt.
Okay, a local rag runs one story a month later. My argument stands.
He’s not taken Perez’s place as DNC chair yet?
*golf-claps*
I’m assuming it’ll be the usual of “wait a year, pretend to investigate, get fired, followed by settlement another 18 months later that gives him back pay and he gets hired elsewhere” but he really, really chose the wrong victim.
But if he doesn’t get the standard procedure, then it genuinely looks like racial discrimination – “cops have full immunity, oh, black guy shoots a blonde woman – to the stocks with him!”
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He’s absolutely correct. Let the idiot legacy media huff and puff all they want but that’s the truth.
Well, there goes the Manufacturing Council…
Fuck them, someone will be glad to take their place.
The Manufacturing Council was doomed when the fuckers found out The Donald didn’t invite them in for handouts.
He didn’t?!
I mean, he explicitly said that’s how the game is played at that roast charity thing. I assumed it was to get them inside pissing out!
There is no way these guys would virtue signal off the gravy train.
I’m sure that the Outrage sub-committee of the Manufacturing Council will still be meeting often.
“PC Master Race culture wars. Which side are you on?”
This is a freaking joke, AMD sucks ballz, in a bad way you know.
Which side are you on?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK0_6a_zF-Y
Not his. The filthy commie.
How about this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdOCWUgwiWs
Geez, aren’t you just full of tunes for slavers today!
Then I shall submit this as a late addition to the discussion last night about when it is acceptable for men to cry:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87Xkr8z3lEo
Now that’s more like it.
We could use another Winston about now.
Warning: The comments are a fountain of derp. Don’t go there, it just ruins the whole thing.
I just want to say two things:
First, that i disavow racism, white supremacy, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, anti-immigrant xenophobia, arachnophobia and Global warming denialism.
Second, that if Liverpool doesn’t get their porous back line sorted out, they’re gonna be a mid-table team this year.
arachnophobia
I lol’d
Good result today though.
A win is a win. And two away goals. But still…fuck, that back line is a joke.
Plus we gave away 2 points Saturday. I’m preparing to see a lot more of that this season. And if Coutinho is gone, we’re gonna definitely be mid-table.
How about man-bear-pig?
Real football begins on Friday at 2030 CET.
I’m too lazy to scroll up. Who had the first post today?
Uh, it was me! Witty and on-topic. You should’ve seen it!
The first post? I did.
The first comment on this post? Who cares
Trump’s recent statement on Charlottesville, while typically bombastic and error-rich, hit exactly the right tone. The far left ist outraged. Doubtlessly the far right, too. But I suspect a majority or at least a whopping plurality agrees with the core of this statement. And he addressed the core issue of historical revisionism.
Since I missed the auto sub-thread about clutches this morning, I’ll weigh in here…I’ve had the same Nissan Maxima for 20 years since the last time I was looking my requirements were a) a 6 or 8 cylinder sedan with b) manual transmission. I realize I’ll soon have to start looking again and my preferences are the same. It’s probably been 10 years since the Maxima last came with a manual option, and I think I’ve found exactly 3 matches among current new cars: BMW M3, Chevy SS and Cadillac ATS. All go for more than I’d really like to spend. So I might expand the search to 4 cylinders. Libertarianjoe mentioned his manual Mazda, and if it’s a Mazda 6 that looks like a good sized car albeit 4 cylinders. Any other Glibs have any recommendations?
SOOOOOBAAAAAROOOOOO!!!!!
SOOOOOBAAAAAROOOOOO!!!!!
I remember my first lesbian experience.
turbocharging is a proven method for gay deterrence.
Go on…
WRX is a good one.
Roommates new GTI is also very fun.
I concur with the WRX reco, although it is a 4 cyl (turbo, though).
What’s your budget? Do you want sporty or comfortable?
Thanks both, was just about to ask Impreza or WRX.
Probably would spend around 30~35k. I’ve given some thought to going a couple years back to when there were more choices and getting a low-mileage used car also.
A couple years old, but may help.
Excellent, thanks. Even a sub-set at the link to Sedans.
You can get a used STi for that price. It will be wery fast and fun. Also look at the focus ST and the GTi
I love Subarus, but for the love of Enki do NOT buy a used WRX (or STi.) The primary market for the WRX is dipshit boy-racers with just enough money to swing the loan payments, but not enough to keep up with the maintenance. You do not want the car that they’ve done who-knows-what to for who-knows-how-long.
meh. I bought a used STi with some basic mods with 15k miles on it and it has been the most awesome and rock solid car I have ever owned.
I drove a MINI Countryman manual just this afternoon. Fun car.
I had a rental Mazda 6 recently – decent car. You will also find that most brands have gone 4cyl, even for larger vehicles. The glory of automotive regulation!
Never owned a Subaru, but those who do seem to love them.
I had a Hyundai Elantra rental (another enjoyable drive) lately and I was struck by how much less work the engine does vs. my ’97 Maxima. 70 mph is about 3000 RPM in that, and was about 2100 in the Elantra. Thanks (or blame?) CAFE I guess?
That’s more a product of gear ratios than engine. My STI is at about 3k at 70 mph and surely has no shortage of horsepower.
Yes, they are geared for max fuel efficiency, not smiles.
The Mazda 6s, depending on trim level, and there are a gazillion, is a fun hot little car that you can actually carry stuff in.
Automatic trannies are just better these days—more gears, faster shifting, better integration with all of the other driver aids. And I love manuals with synchro. (You can stick needing to double-declutch where the sun doesn’t shine)
Grew up with little Honda coupes with manuals. The automatics are just better now. It’s an amazing time to be an automobile fan. Family sedans could run the ‘Ring at speeds that a Porsche couldn’t do 40 years ago.
Then again, I have a Prius, which is basically a golf cart on steroids. A very capacious golf cart to be true, but it’s totally an appliance.
Modern autos are great, but toooooooo complex. If you are gonna hang on to it, manual is still way cheaper to service.
Part of the manual’s appeal is nostalgia (first car was a 4-speed Dodge Omni) and part of it is the anti-theft system. As in, how many car thieves can drive one these days?
Well, if you want to drive some autos, we have a Passat that is a great car. Fucking huge, really. 1.8 liter turbo 4 that gets awesome mileage but will still get up and go. They are cheap, too.
Get a Z while you still can.
Is Generation X America’s Last Hope?
Magic 8 ball says: don’t count on it.
Im expecting the children of the millennials to do great things, in spite of their parents. Nothing like a low bar to stoke one’s enthusiasm.
I think that the Millennial’s children will most likely be Conservative as fuck. Not in a political sense but in a lifestyle sort of way.
Libertarian moment?
I’d like it to be true, if nothing else to annoy JT, but – generation whose voice was Kurt Cobain? HA!
Disclaimer: I hated that fucking guy and his fucking band and wanted to punch all of their whiny dicks off when I was a teenager.
You let me draft every single Millennial with no oversight on how I train them and I’ll have them fixed in a year.
Some of them may be eaten by wolves.
Wolves are you solution for everything!
I’m not judging, we should try a wolf-based policy or two.
Hey, it’s not the wolves’ fault if they get eaten, just means they didn’t wrestle well enough.
Cobain the voice of a generation? HA! The only people who believe that are the few remaining Cobain fanatics.
Reality bites.
This needs to happen also.
Charges sought in statue destruction
These people are completely fucking out of control and if something isn’t done, it’s going to get a lot worse. This has nothing to do with slavery, it’s a bunch of leftists attacking western culture and capitalism.
“Takiyah Thompson, a member of Workers World Party and student at N.C. Central University, was arrested after activists held a press conference at NCCU Tuesday afternoon.”
If anyone wants to google ‘World Workers Party’, they’ll find a nice ‘Hands Off Venezuela’ banner right there on the front. Fuck these assholes.
See above. (North Korea has the right to defend itself with nukes against American aggression.)
More wisdom from the Workers World Party
“After 36 years in U.S. federal prisons for his role in the Puerto Rican independence struggle, hero Oscar López Rivera was welcomed by his enthusiastic and loving supporters in the California Bay Area on May 31.”
Fuck that POS Obama for releasing that unrepentant irredentist. He should have rotted in prison.
One moderate republican I know who has an unusually balanced view of things is still pissed that the Hamilton guy who has a contract with Disney got absolutely zero main stream flack for his support of that terrorist. He calls him “Don Oscar”.
http://www.thewrap.com/lin-manuel-miranda-says-wants-return-hamilton-chicago/
Demands from the cultural revolutionaries that struggle sessions be attended.
You say Takiyah, I say taqiyah. Let’s all the whole thing off.
“There is an unfortunate—and ironically statist—tendency among some libertarians to only be interested in those injustices committed by the state. But of course hatred and greed and the quotidian injustices that result from these base emotions are entirely private. Likewise racism, sexism, and other kinds of social justice -isms are not caused primarily by the state. But the difference is that from these private forms of social injustice emerge society-spanning patterns of inequality.”
-Libertarianism.org a project of the Cato Institute, is a major resource on the theory, history, and philosophy of liberty.
Da Fuq did I just read?
Cato has cocktailpartyitis. See also, that anti-gun thing they did.
All good things must come to an end.
Reddits libertarian community is like that too. Lots of “libertarians” who support single payer.
If I can’t get actual free markets in healthcare, then I support whatever derpy state solution that will collapse fastest.
This article goes there too. All aboard the guaranteed income train! Choo, Choo!
That’s not the plague that’s come to infest Reddit’s libertarian community, though, who are basically socialists who want legal weed and think social media accounts should be considered public property, because it’s a human right to have unimpeded access to Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
People give my generation a lot of shit on here… maybe we deserve it. *hangs head*
No clue, you didn’t provide a link!
N00b. You’re not supposed to read the links.
https://www.libertarianism.org/columns/libertarian-social-justice?utm_content=58849947
Fuck fuck fucking fuck, how retarded does the fucker think his readers are?
God help, give me Bernie Sanderses of the world over lying hypocrites like this!
Does this tie in to HM’s Thick and Thin libertarianism? Or is it just totally outside and a hatch job on our ideology?
No, I think it’s a fair representation of Thick Libertarianism HM mentioned. It’s not dissimilar to “blood & soil” guy, maybe more openly prescriptive than he was.
The author
https://twitter.com/paulcrider/status/889876576254386176
*headdesk*
Gay jay, is that you?
The obligation to provide people stuff or go to jail is freedom. You should have seen how much positive freedom the slaves had with all their obligations.
Are there really that ‘few’ anarcho-capitalists? it seems it is a significant portion of libertarians. Also, don’t they know it is ‘black bodies’ not ‘black lives’. duh.
Ah, I see, it really is cosmotarianism. You can parrot the prayers of leftists all you want, they’re not gonna give up their religion.
Cato, Removing the true oppression from society: Knowing looks from neighbors.
But a basic income would remove the paternalistic and condescending aspects of status quo welfare: drug tests, having to prove you’re looking for a job, items proscribed from food stamp purchases, knowing looks from neighbors, etc.
So, the best way to cure poverty is to make people comfortable in it? Gotcha.
Is their any evidence blacks are harmed by the justice system disproportionately that wouldn’t also be evidence men are harmed disproportionately.
I’ve yet to see any.
I’m sure they are.
But to actually quantify it is difficult, as you don’t know for sure the true difference in crime rates between communities. If you take ‘disproportionate impact’ to it’s logical conclusion you’d have to strike down laws against murder because too many blacks are being imprisoned for it compared to whites.
I do think poor people are more likely to be harassed by cops by dint of walking everywhere and generally looking shady. Or if they are driving, their car is more likely to be out of compliance. Theres all sorts of reasons the relative economic weakness of the black community as a whole results in a higher rate of interaction with the police, but it doesn’t explain all the difference. I do know that when taking into account the relative rates of police interaction, black men are no more likely to be shot and killed by police than white men.
Read this thread (which is what the above “author” was commenting on)
https://twitter.com/liberalcurrents/status/889818322627432448
I think I’m allergic to twitter. The interface is a mess.
I appreciate the effort. The second last post is funny.
I thought it imploded with
“You say “fatal” I say just “flaws”. Everything has flaws.”
I can’t respect a man who clearly never played Mortal Kombat.
The whole conversation reads like an argument with a libertarian troll version of ELIZA.
I feel dumb. I don’t get or follow that.
Don’t. I’m pretty sure it is just dumb, a feature, not a bug of Twitter.
Idiot. Almost all the evils of segregation and denial of civil rights were only propped up by the state edifice. Without Jim Crow laws to control private transactions, racism (and along with many other -isms) quickly gets slapped by that invisible hand.
I try to be a little forgiving in my definition of libertarianism, but anyone who advocates that we have to turn the state into an abusive agent in order to go after private abuses falls outside any such definition as far as I’m concerned.
Life, liberty, property, speech, press, assembly, religion, petition — these are (but some of the) freedoms all enjoy, regardless of ideological motivations or social inequities
Murder, rape, assault, theft — these are crimes and the state can and should prosecute them, regardless of ideological motivations or social inequities
If you cannot accept these premises, no matter your intentions, you’re not really a libertarian
I should point out that he says he doesn’t support state solutions to these problems… but then kind of goes on to support state solutions to the problems under the guise of pragmatism. I’m pretty suspect of that argument.
Yes, if many people don’t go along with the solutions, who else but the state is going to impose them?
The first bus companies in the South were private companies, and they charged a nickel. That was it. That was the rules. Pay your nickel, sit where you like. The Democrat government hated that, so they took over the bus lines and then segregated them. Same thing with street cars. Created by private businesses, who did not segregate, then regulated out of existence by a segregationist government.
I have never heard this before. It kind of figures. Fits in with Milton Friedman’s statement that:
“The Los Angeles Branch of Workers World Party held a successful fundraiser on July 2 in support of their four Che Brigadistas who will travel to Cuba in October….
“…They will also participate in the Day of the Heroic Guerrilla on Oct. 8 — the national event honoring Che Guevara on the 50th anniversary of his killing by the CIA in Bolivia.”
This seems like something worth celebrating. 😉
I see people reacting to Trump’s statement that Washington was a slave owner in a typical disingenious fashion. I mean they are going after Calhoun and Taney who weren’t Confederates either. Also Washington did rebel to create a slave state since the US had slaves and the UK proper did not. Also these same people will bring up how American was created by slave owners and how slavery ws America’s Original Sin when it is not convenient.
Also Washington and Jefferson being slave owners was not something that was ignored by British propaganda. Didn’t Samuel Johnson bring that up? George III accused the rebels of wanting to create an empire.
“How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty from the drivers of Negroes?”
Samuel Johnson
I know we’ve read (on TOS) about people trying to take down Jefferson memorials because slavery. Not like Washington is any different in that respect.
(for some reason I never hear anything about memorials to Woodrow Wilson)
Or FDR.
There was a movement to rename some university building named after Wilson, but I don’t remember where.
Actually there was a thing on TOS a year or two ago about SJWs at a university whining about a Wilson statue because of his wrongthink.
SJWs are defined by their historical ignorance and lack of loyalty.
Wilson is easily the worst President in American history. I’m for tearing down anything with his name. Even the neighbor Wilson on Home Improvement.
I’m more annoyed about it because the arguments are “DURR HURR HE WAS A RACIST” rather than, say “he abused the power of the government and legitimately oppressed people”, “he got us involved in the dumbest war of the century” or “he carved up the world like a jackass and made problems we’re still dealing with today.”
I think in late 2016 they were going after Theodore roos statue in manhattan
They’ll probably go after Wilson first, he does have genuine racist things to go after for.
From WaPo, April 4, 2016
Not true in Princeton – there is a massive movement to rename the Woodrow Wilson school any many historians have 100% renounced his legacy.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?425541-14/woodrow-wilsons-legacy
Er *when it is convenient*
Also they are going after Jackson who opposed Calhoun on States Rights. And Harvard Law dropped their shield because it was the arms of a slaveowner who wasn’t a Confederate either.
Also before anyone mentions preserving or expanding slavery well the Brits wanted the colonists to stay east of the Appalachians while the colonists wanted to move westwards. And who did that benefit in the South?
Not to mention some people argue that if America was still British then they would have abolished American slavery in 1833.
When will New York City be changed?
Hey!
Also forgetting the State and Albany.
Do liberals think before they say things? Because this …
If Germany didn’t declare war on us first, we probably never go to war in Europe (debatable I know)
Plus Pearl Harbor was on December 7 and the German declaration of war on the US was December 11, so that’s at least 96 hours.
Saturday afternoon to Monday afternoon is 48 hrs. ANd trump gave the correct statement Saturday…he responded within hours in a pc
Hitler assumed power in 1933, invaded Poland in 1939, invaded France in 1940, declared war on us in 1941, and we finally started fighting them directly in… 1942
Well, he’s right. That wasn’t 72 hours.
“I haven’t slept for 10 days. Because that would be way too long”
To be fair, he did send US ships to oppose the Kriegsmarine before the war was declared. It was not just posturing.
There was that whole Lend-Lease business, too. But the point is that “under 72 hours” was not a meaningful response timeline for anything except Pearl Harbor, which as anyone smarter than Bluto knows, was done by the Japanese.
What is an enlisted passenger?
From cursory search, I’d guess a military person of some kind who is not a part of the ship’s complement?
One of those fat guys they make sit in strategic locations on underweight small-plane flights?
LOL
I mean, that’s an actual Shareblue blue checkmark you got yourself right there. Not thinking is actually a hard requirement of his profession.
FDR was a racist who put Japanese people in concentration camps and let their property be stolen. Can we start tearing down his statues now?
Asians are below black people on the progressive stack. Get woke, bro!
To be honest, some of my favorite porn has Asians below black people as well.
Just thought I’d throw that out there.
Thank you so much.
Heyooooooooo
Me right now.
Most destructive conflict in human history = Someone gets run over by an asshole.
Yep. Sure. Exactly the same.
FDR would have found a way to get the war he wanted.
Forget it, he’s rolling.
“The neo-Nazi march in Charlottesville would represent a big step forward if it leads to the falling of confederate monuments everywhere.”
One guess as to who wrote this.
Ulysses S. Grant?
But…but…It could be any non-Fox/Breitbart journalist!
Is it a trick question? Are you mind-fucking us? Expecting Soave or ENB as responses?
I’ll go mainstream – Krugman!
Dalmia?
A Winner Is You!
OOOH YEEEAAAAAAHHH!!!
She should stick to…
What the hell is she good at again?
I don’t think her articles even generate that many clicks. She’s good at cashing paychecks partly comprising of Reason donations, which I’ve since stopped making, I can tell you that.
I used to hate click on her stuff and slag her in the comments at the other place and I imagine a lot of the others did here too. I honestly can’t recall ever reading her stuff and thinking “Well, that’s an interesting take.”
Calling Bobby Jindal the Indian equivalent of an Uncle Tom?
Anti-Hindu propaganda and bigotry?
LurVing immigration and hating Modi?
Guys, don’t click this link of Dalmia permanently ruining your sex drive. Don’t do it!
You did it, didn’t you???
What’ll really bake your noodle later on is ‘Where was she carrying that cigar?’
My bunk: I’ll be in it.
I did.
Now I know her technique.
Even Gettysburg?
Does that include tearing down tombstones of American civil war vets (personal tombstones, not monuments) of some of our nation’s ancestors?
(Meant to include: Confederate Civil War vets there)
Or course! And immediately stop the VA from paying for CSA headstones.
#notinournationalcemeteries
Are you a prophet (because that is what’s going to happen)?
Welch? Gillespie? Rich Lowry? Hugh Hewitt?
Hewitt? He’s been very pro-Trump. In fact I rather like his no-bullshit defense of Trump. Pretty much boils down to “Yeah, he’s an inartful jackass, but if he gets his tax plan through he can be as big a jackass as he likes.”
Robby Soave?
Trump should bring up New York and Albany. Then if deBalsio and Cuomo complain accuse them of being Jacobites who want to create a Catholic theocracy. And point out the NYC flag honors the Dutch who brought slavery to America in the first place
Trump should tell the republicans to get a fucking tax cut plan on his desk and tell the democrats to just keep fucking around in circles.
OK, wow, I just actually watched that Trump clip and him going “I’m not finished, fake news” when they’re trying to cut him off for calling out the left’s culpability has me laughing. I honestly can’t see any other stuffed-shirt that’s even come close to the office pulling stunts like that in a press conference.
Man, if he can just restrain the drug warrioring and warmongering…
Wisdom of the Workers World Party from four years ago
“Following Lenin’s death the enormous difficulties involved in trying to build socialism in a very underdeveloped country, encircled by imperialism, led to struggles in the party and then to backward steps. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin purged Bolshevik opponents while making concessions to careerists and increasing inequality.
“Nevertheless, at the same time the Soviet Union launched the first and biggest affirmative action program in history. Every person had the right to education in their own language. The Soviet five-year plans created the world’s second-biggest economy. Everyone had a job.”
Yes they did.
SMH.
It’s Wikipedia, which is basically controlled by various cabals of mentally ill leftists on disability who have 24/7 to wikilawyer and edit things. Over time, almost all the sane people who value their time above zero gave up.
Wikipedia’s good for looking up noncontroversial stuff. For anything with political implications it’s a dumpster fire.
Indeed… the weeks and weeks of pointless edit warring over ethnic food articles (seriously stupid back and forth edits about the {{provenance}} of any foodstuff from Mesopotamia, North Africa, the Med, and The Levant) and the constant personal attacks on my talk page by angry vandals just got to be too much and I walked away from my copy editing and vandalism patrolling.
What horseshit.
Wife and I recently watched a BBC show on Marx, and it was practically a hagiography. They made some of the same points above about Russia not being developed enough to handle socialism. These assholes never learn, do they?
Not developed enough means what? Not enough shit to steal?
If I remember Marxism overview, not developed enough to support a large educated working class which is necessary for revolution, while depending on a huge peasant class which, due to its attachment to the ownership of the land, is the enemy of the revolution.
Also, lots of very very poor people (lumpen-proleteriat) who are useless if not actively harmful to the cause of workers’ revolution, as they don’t actually work.
IOW communism didn’t work in the USSR because they had too many people to purge? Seems legit.
More like “Marx prophesied what conditions are required for Marxist revolutions, and those conditions weren’t even close in Russia in 1917. So now we will pretend it doesn’t count. Even though we (well, Marxists of the day) counted it at the time.”
So they blew their wad too early, murdered countless millions of people, and despite that appalling lack of comprehension of their own philosophy, they want another bite at that apple.
May be a little unfair, given that commie revisionists are not their historical Soviet counterparts, but I seriously have to question the wisdom of idiots who look on the Soviet experiment as a simple failure of timing rather than a murderous fable on human fallibility.
Yeah, it’s ye olde “capitalism was required to establish an industrial civilization for socialism to loot” argument.
Not enough shit to steal?
Not in so many words, but pretty much. Of course, there’s also the whole “agrarian” strain of communism, from Mao to Ho Chi Minh to Pol Pot, which sees the situation rather differently.
That one had to be invented from whole cloth by Lenin once he won a war and found majority of the country was peasants. One part of why it was called Marxism-Leninism (because, even though he was majorly revising Marx, he didn’t want to get saddled with Revisionist label).
The TL;DR version was Russia was too feudal and needed to progress more into a capitalist phase before they could transition into state capitalism, socialism, communism, then Worker’s Paradise. Standard Marxist view of progressive history, it’s one of the reasons that Lenin pushed the country out of war communism after the civil war with the NEP.
Marx thought the revolution would come in the industrial cores of Europe, primarily Germany and England.
Try this one out: http://theweek.com/articles/712961/lessons-russian-revolution-100-years-later
Lessons from the Marxist revolution: not enough Marxism, needed to prog harder.
How long Jeff Davis and Co get the Oliver Cromwell/cadaver synod treatment?
How long until all Confederate Graves are dug up?
To be fair, Cromwell deserved it
Isn’t he the one they executed after he was dead?
yes
There is still a marker at Westminster Abbey.
Dirty rotten scoundrel imo
Sanctus Carolus Rex Britanniae et Martyr and all that jazz.
I get he was bad news but the hatred seems kind of out of proportion. The kings of the day weren’t great guys either.
I’m being a hyperbolic. Certainly digging up a corpse and putting it on trial is insane.
That said, I’m a high church Anglican, so King Charles I (the King Cromwell regicided) dying to protect that tradition from Puritans like Cromwell is important.
Cavalier!
*loads blunderbuss*
/Roundhead
*takes hot rollers out of hair, adjusts hat and ostrich feather until it’s just so*
Peasant!
/Prince Rupert
You know I caught the Rasmussen poll on this and 70% of Americans believe in keeping the Confederate statues.
I don’t think Democrats realize what a self-righteous echo chamber they’re in.
The problem is that the vast majority of people simply don’t give enough of a shit to take time to stop the progs, which leaves the real deplorables to do the job, and that becomes… problematic.
Yeah, I care and it’s way, way down on my list of what’s important. For most people it isn’t even on the radar.
That’s where a friendly media comes in. They always have the bullhorn and so they make it seem like the percentages are reversed.
So obviously 70% of the people are racist. And at least 18% of Hillary voters are (since 52% of the people voted for someone else).
The leftist salami strategy is working wonders. At this rate Reason, the LP and most Republicans would endorse an out and out commie.
“…I think what we did was the best way, and not just the best way, but the only way, because the state, the Klan and white supremacists have been collaborating…”
Hmm, that’s really a surprise.
“Update: According to Workers World Party Durham Branch, Thompson has been bailed out of jail”
You know, we need to have a purge style fever dream day, where for just one day the world works exactly the way the progs pretend it does. If there are any left after that day we can then ask them their opinion.
I’d settle for an annual televised BATTLEU ROYARE.
Short intro, BULLETED links, and a music link.
Not C-Squad, you’re the best lynxer!
LOL
Pretty sure Fearless Girl is a slaveowner, so Imma just go over and rip down her sculpture. And sell it for scrap.