ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. YOU HAVE BEEN RAISED UP FROM BRUTALITY TO SNARK THE COMMENTS THAT MULTIPLY, AND ARE LEGION. TO THIS END, ZARDOZ GAVE YOU THE GIFT OF THE LINK. THE LINK IS GOOD!
- END STAGE SOCIALISM CONTINUES IN THE BRUTAL LAND OF VENEZUELA.
- ZARDOZ BELIEVES YOU WOULD CALL THIS BRUTAL A “PLAYER”.
- ZARDOZ THINKS BRUTAL NEWSPAPER DOES NOT UNDERSTAND WORD “VANDALIZED”.
- THIS IS A CRIME THAT ZARDOZ CAN UNDERSTAND – EVEN IF HE WOULD HAVE BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS CLEANSE THE THIEVES.
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN LINKED.
Trump
Bike Lock Guy releases a statement
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/08/16/18801580.php
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My name is Eric. I’m currently facing years of prison time as the result of accusations made in the most shockingly hateful parts of the internet. On April 19th I began being targeted by a dedicated swarm of internet trolls known for spewing racism, xenophobia, and misogyny onto the web. Suddenly a hit piece by Milo Yiannopolis caused the targeting to go viral. Several old social media photos were posted, online accounts hacked, addresses published, hundred of calls to my employers, and countless threats of physical violence made against me, my coworkers, friends and many others. This harassment campaign is where the accusations against me originated.
Dealing with an unintelligible internet force smearing and threatening me online was not easy, and created stress to say the least, but I had every expectation that very few people would take them seriously, especially considering the character and credibility of their sources. However, five weeks later the Berkeley police smashed into two houses, held guns to peoples’ heads, handcuffed, verbally abused, and stole the belongings of over a dozen people including books and zines.
All of this after my attorney Dan Siegel had reached out to Berkeley police on my behalf, and all on the basis of an ‘investigation’ that largely involved detectives reading far right forum posts and studying unverified youtube videos. When I was interviewed at the police station detective Hong had the nerve to say to me, “the internet did the work for us.” My case threatens to set a new standard in which right wing extremists can select targets for repression and have police enthusiastically and forcefully pursue them.
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[Nelson laugh]
How dare they confiscate his zines!
wtf is a zine?
Sounds like something that would be poorly xeroxed.
(Mostly) Shitty underground comics with low to no production value. And a lot are just photocopied.
They do have cons and symposiums where everyone trades their zines to other zine authors. http://www.portlandzinesymposium.org/
You know that shitty website Boing Boing? Like a really good version of that held together with staples.
Independent “magazine” printed on newsprint and handed out for free. Contents typically consist of interviews with shitty local bands, unhinged left-wing screeds, and classified ads for hookers.
“…and classified ads for hookers”
Wait, what?
So you’re saying some of it is good.
Prosecuting crimes is what Hitler literally did. Literally.
Poor, poor Eric. All he did was fight for freedom by whacking a dude in the head with a bike lock while said dude was on his knees trying to calm people down.
I’ll be shocked if he’s convicted, but his lawyer doesn’t seem to exude competence (at least on camera) so anything is possible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA8auSZRW84
You left out that his memorial to Heather Heyer was titled “RIP Comrade”
Even though everyone in the papers who spoke about her claimed she definitely not affiliated with anti-fa.
Heather was reportedly IWW.
She was a Wobbly? Well she must not have been working too hard if she had time to drive to Charlottesville for some bullshit.
Yes, I read that she was IWW and DSA.
And because of it she rushed to the ramparts to fight the onslaught of white supremacist fascists to make the world safe for true democracy!
A.K.A. Salon goes full commie.
To be honest I couldn’t make it through the entire thing, but in the parts I skimmed l saw a bunch of smoke blowing about true democracy, exploitative nature of capitalism, etc. I almost wish I had a facebook account to call them out. What a bunch of retards.
I am pretty sure cracking someones head is a crime regardless of where and when it is done. (except self defense) I see no denial that he was the one cracking heads.
His logic is retarded. A fucken professor no less.
Basically, if I understand this retard, he can commit hit and run but would consider a witness a ‘right-wing extremist’ for turning his sorry, criminal ass in.
Fuck you asshole. You and your comrades.
You committed a violent assault. Pay the price creep.
And nowhere in this statement does he deny that he did it.
That is very likely on purpose, on advice of counsel.
His free/donated their time council. Some poor schmuck arrested for a bag of weed in the wrong neighborhood could probably only dream of getting that rat asses counsel team.
This is exactly how the National Lawyer’s Guild has operated historically, so yeah.
You’d think his lawyer would tell him to STFU period.
I had to hit that Übermensch with Kryptonite.
“Keep caring for one another”
WTF??
For a guy that was supposedly a college professor, he writes like a goddamn highschooler.
A professor of Ethics.
even worse; you’d think he would be a master @ excuse making, and rationalizing his behavior, but he basically just whines and special-pleads
Well it was Diablo State.
How about you don’t assault someone with a bike lock almost killing them you piece of shit commie coward?
The nerve of this shit head.
Stand up and be a man. You acted out presumably on your convictions then stand by them.
Instead, you’re being a whiny bitch for being outed?
You realize the futility of asking people who dress all in black and wear masks like Naruto LARPers to act like men and stand by their convictions?
I know. Futile.
Real news – we have an epidemic of milf teachers preying upon their male students.
One man’s epidemic is another male student’s blessing.
Teaching biology, whatever it takes.
Sometimes, you miss out on an opportunity in life, and you never get another chance, and you just have to live with that thorn in your side for the rest of your life. One such regret of mine is that I never got to bang a hot MILF teacher.
Famous alumni include Patrick Schwarzenegger, 23, whose parents are former California governor Arnold, 70, and his ex-wife Maria Shriver, 61, and Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine, 38.
Is this some sort of weird Twins thing where the kid has multiple dads.
Are solar eclipses proof of God?
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/08/20/are-solar-eclipses-proof-god.html
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What might be the odds of this just happening randomly? Almost all the planets in our solar system have no moons or many moons (Jupiter has 60) of incredibly varying sizes. So this sort of thing doesn’t happen anywhere else in our solar system. But our planet has just one moon that happens to be just the right size and just the right distance from Earth.
I found the precision necessary for all of this unbelievable. The more I thought about it, the more I knew that there was no way this could be a mere coincidence. It seemed almost planned. In fact, it seemed utterly planned, as all things of such precision must be.
***
[face palm]
Other planets have eclipses. A quick search turned up this:
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All four giant planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune) can experience eclipses, since they all have substantial moons and the Sun appears small from them. Eclipses are most common on Jupiter, because its moons orbit in the same plane with the Sun. There are many nice spacecraft photos that show dark shadows of the moons on Jupiter’s disk. Unfortunately, since none of the giant planets have solid surfaces (all of their outer parts are composed of gas), one cannot stand on them and watch the eclipses. But their moons have solid surfaces and offer spectacular view. Moons of Jupiter experience eclipses once per each orbit, and those around Saturn can regularly see the Sun being eclipsed by Saturn’s rings before and after the regular eclipse.
Pluto has large and close moon Charon that can eclipse its tiny Sun for more than an hour. Due to the large tilt of Charon’s orbit and long year of Pluto, eclipses happen only for a couple of years per each century. Pluto and Charon spend several years eclipsing each other every Pluto’s day (6.4 Earth days), then there are no eclipses for next 120 years. Since Pluto also turns only one side to Charon (just like all the moons do), only one side of both Pluto and Charon will ever experience eclipses.
***
Is that article prof of of god? What are the odds of those words being ordered randomly? I did some research and at no point in history have English words been arranged in such an order as that article. Game-set-match unbelievers.
“I don’t know, therefore
aliensgod.”He knows- whatever that means since there’s nothing to know. The Secular explanation is that’s just the way shit happened man which is the same as the religious one.
It is remarkable that the the moon and sun which are vastly different in size just so happen to be the distance from the earth at to be nearly identical in size from earth’s perspective. However if I were looking for examples of things that seem remarkably unlikely to occur by chance the distance of rocks from each other wouldn’t be my choice.
Is the solar eclipse going to kill millions as punishment for their sins? No. So not God, sorry.
The rising seas will do that. The godless sinners living on in the coastal cities will all be washed away like the great flood…. unless they build sea walls or move in the next 300 years.
How do you know that is not going to happen Mr smart man?
Because you see. I am God.
I mean, someone had to try to put up an eclipse article as dumb as The Atlantic’s “the eclipse is racist” one.
What the hell? Good gives us eclipses because… Why?
https://i.imgflip.com/1cn6sc.jpg
I just found out last Thursday that alien guy lives in my neighborhood. I’m acquaintances with his wife.
You guys should party.
Well he’s likely open to close encounters of the third kind.
Yeah, I bet he is a blast…in small doses.
If by “God”, they mean, “the orbits of celestial bodies”… yes
Has anybody tried to explain to him the Anthropic Principle?
You can go to the NASA Mars Rovers site and see multiple eclipses from the surface of Mars. Fun to see.
http://www.suffolkgazette.com/news/seagull-testicle/
There are always people who have it worse than you
The Bird is evil
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN FELLOW STONE HEAD ONE. THE PENIS IS EVIL! THE BIRD IS GOOD!
I hate birds. They eat my house and shit everywhere. Birds are assholes.
Plus waking me up at 5am.
Needs moar Surfin’ Bird.
The Bird is indeed the Word.
This is why I wear my plastic barn owl ornament hat when sunbathing nude. He is lucky the bastard bird went for a bean and not the frank.
That picture is perfect for the headline. I laughed when I saw it. (and then winced)
Not to worry, then.
I was watching a PBS special about slavery narrated by Professor Gates, the guy who got invited to the White House after the police roughed him up. My favorite was when he was talking to some members of the Temne tribe. They admitted that their ancestors had been slave traders. Gates asked them if they felt ashamed about that. The old guy said something like “well, what you have to remember is just because we’re all the same color doesn’t mean we love each other and live in perfect harmony. We belong to different tribes.”
Another old guy said “in the days of slavery, it was a big business. A good slave raider could buy luxuries like guns, liquor, fine clothes, and gold.”
Here it is: https://youtu.be/ud2tEfp6t3A?t=11m10s
“We sometimes romanticize Africa…”
Sometimes, eh?
“No one bakes a ham like a big fat negro mammy… ham is not an African food but somehow we go our hands on the sugar cane…”
“… and we blackified it.”
“.. we blackified it! We took everything and like… made it like better.”
Wow, that is some cultural appropriation there!
Wow.
Now I wonder what they taste like.
Chicken. Everything tastes like chicken. Except cows. And fish.
And fish tastes like chicken of the sea. Do also chicken.
They probably taste like javelinas.
Decent only if BBQ’ed. Otherwise coarse and gamey.
Had it washed up on a Caracas beach, they would have eaten it.
Naturally – shark sashimi is a delicacy.
Way too fresh. Bury it in lime for a few months and then you’ve got some decent Hakarl.
Ain’t nobody in Caracas got time for that!
Good point. If there are sharks falling out of the sky in Caracas, they probably don’t have time for much of anything besides fleeing from the Sharknado.
Pretty sure that sharknado would be an improvement on current conditions in Caracas.
I am not sure a washed up shark carcass meets the sashimi standards.
Can’t say I disagree here.
as always it’s “approved corporations can do what they want, as long as they keep on virtue-signaling, but all the others are nazi organizations probably secretly controlled by the Kochtopus of Eeeevil and therefore should be controlled”.
Only corporations run by Top CEOs
everyone in the papers who spoke about her claimed she definitely not affiliated with anti-fa.
I suppose she just happened upon the mob on her way to the library to return an overdue book.
There were IWW, DSA and WWP people there as well (she was IWW and DSA, according to DSA). Although apparently guilt by association only works one way.
Any bets on what Trump’s big decision about Afghanistan will be? I hope it’s a total withdrawal, not just because I actually want that to happen, but because I want to see how the left spins it as a bad thing.
If he does withdrawn it will be because he is a racist who wants afghans to die and also proof that he is a Russian stooge.
Oh man, with all those generals I fear for the worst.
Send the trannies in?
Am I a horrible person because I immediately thought of this?
(in honor of Jerry Lewis): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjrAiv_sgmg
I half heard some gibberish on the radio last week while I was working in the shop about some plan in the works. I have no idea what it entailed, but that is not stopping me from bringing it up. I heard the name Erik Prince and scaled back uniformed troop ops and more contractors. I got my money on that route. I think it is unlikely total withdrawal is even on the table.
I got? Jesus. I try to not speak redneck/hillbilly here. *I have.
I have rhythm.
I Got Power
You got the touch.
Transformers The Movie FTW!
Had to double take. Saw got Jesus? Oh great just don’t answer the door and maybe he will go away.
*hands LjW a pamphlet
I heard that same thing on Jason Stapleton’s podcast a few weeks back.
link? Now I am curious.
It’s not in his show notes as far as I can tell. If I find it, I’ll give you the link. It’s only a podcast and he talks about how Trump may be thinking about going to an all private force in Afghanistan. Interesting thought.
So available on Itunes I assume? I will search it out. It is an interesting thought that I do not know how I feel about. I worked with a bunch of guys doing contract security work in Iraq. (I was the protectee) Some of them were prior Black Water guys. It is a good gig for ex-military of the special variety. Some where sane, some weren’t.
Here’s his show. (His official page sucks). Like I said, I don’t remember which show exactly it was. He’s an interesting guy. Former Marine that served in Iraq and also did private contract work there.
I subscribed on Itunes thanks
There was news the former CEO of blackwater and some other contractor submitted a plan using primarily contractors and Mattis rejected it. Proggies were screaming Trump wants to higher mercenaries! Corporashunzzzz! Profitz!!! Hitler!!!!
I can guarantee the submitted plan was something along the line of contractors pulling security and training local forces to crack skulls.
Prince calls his proposal “A Strategic Economy of Force.” It entails sending 5,500 contractors to Afghanistan to embed with Afghan National Security Forces, and appointing a “viceroy” to oversee the whole endeavor.
From the Atlantic so you can guess what they thought of the plan.
How long would it take the bad guys in the local forces to murder all the contractors?
The Erik Prince story was about his new “security” company that is basically China’s Blackwater, and the gist of the story was that this firm is probably gonna lock down the whole of the horn of Africa so that the Chinese can have a nice secure resource grab that will be less likely to be interrupted by the side-effects of collapsed and/or corrupt State.
BTW the PRC owns a 51% stake in this entity according to the news magazine article
I didn’t hear that one. That is interesting. Just what the horn of Africa needs. A private Chinese backed security force. What could go wrong? Ethiopia has some oil. I have been trying to get a job there for over a year.
My presumptuous bad. The story had quite a bit of emphasis on Somalia. It’s a two birds with one stone type of situation, since a greater Chinese presence on the horn means even more thorough anti-piracy policings and protecting their merchant vessels.
Link for your convenience
they’ve already started. the m.o. is to get quotes from the afghan leadership (WHO TOTALLY HAVENT BEEN GETTING PAID FOR YEARS BEHIND OUR PRESENCE) claiming that the fucking world is going to implode and it will cause a chain reaction leading to WWIII if he abandons them.
As westernsloper pointed out above, apparently it’s because he is trying to use contractors to line his pockets somehow.
He could unilaterally withdraw every American and they’d claim he is leaving innocent Afghan women to die at the hands of the Taliban.
“Trump Orders Withdrawal from Afghanistan, Women and Minorities Hardest Hit”
A full withdrawal would lead to a coup. I don’t think I am kidding there.
By that I mean Trump being overthrown…
Lol, yeah what this site really needed was more unhinged trolls saying ridiculous nonsense.
So glad you’re here!
Perhaps but considering Russiagate I’m not sure that is too crazy? When was the last time the US fully withdrew from somewhere? Lebanon? South Vietnam?
WTF? Do you even know anyone in the military?
I wasn’t talking about the grunts…
under what scenario – absent perpetual US presence – does transfer of power NOT happen by coup in afghanistan?
By assassination?
That was a joke. I wasn’t referring to Afghanistan by the way.
last i checked, assassinations are sudden, violent, and illegal
Winston seems to think that the US military, which complains unceasingly about the deployment ops tempo and being undermanned, would be so upset about withdrawing from a shithole country that has claimed the lives of many of their friends that they’d overthrow Trump because of it.
You missed the post where I said that was a joke. I was refering to the us, not Afghanistan but I realized that my first post could be interpreted as refering to Afghanistan where well a coup after the US leaving is pretty much inevitable.
Perhaps I was exagerrating. I was referring to how the deep state, the msm and the dems think of his attitude toward Russia so what would they think of a full withdrawal. I mean when when had the US done that lately?
Yeah, I took your comment as an allusion to the deep state.
We can’t pull out completely because then the Taliban will tear down all the historical statues…
Oh, I am not claiming Trump is trying to line his pockets. I am fully aware Erik Prince likes to line his though.
Isn’t he Betsy Devos’ brother?
Yup. That is my understanding.
http://jacobinmag.com/2017/08/new-urban-crisis-review-richard-florida
So the Reason/LP urban renewal strategy?
Didn’t somebody post an article on one of the threads earlier today complaining that whites weren’t investing in the inner cities?
Jeez, we got to do everything around here.
You say to me I don’t talk enough,
But when I do I’m a fool.
Dang whites. If they aren’t destroying neighborhoods with gentrification, their destroying them with white flight.
Yeah, if anyone wants a triple dose of derp those articles reminded me of this incoherent tripe in the Phoenix New Times (by a Columbia journalism school grad, of course). I almost linked that and went on a rant when I read it but then I calmed down.
You linked to Phoenix New Times? The only thing that’s rag is good for is the big ad for Audio Express.
Your home of the $1
dash fireinstallation…Sounds like someone wasn’t getting the cocktail party invites he thought he was entitled to.
How’s the Great Cosmotatrian Hope doing?
http://www.newstatesman.com/world/europe/2017/08/jupiter-lys-e-how-long-can-emmanuel-macrons-good-luck-last
Apparently his approval ratings are already underwater?
Dammit 7th Fleet! WTF?
Much like its namesake, the USS McCain also has trouble navigating in a straight line.
Technically, I think both it’s actual namesakes were a little more reliable.
Millennials? The answer is always Millennials.
someone needs to cut their grog-rations
Don’t forget in 2016 a USNS with a Brigade (-) load grounded in the Philippines by missing a marked channel in daylight.
That one’s new to me. Link? I know the minesweep that hit a reef in the Philippines a few years ago. (plotted a course right through it in spite of charts).
5 WIA, 10 MIA right now. Says they were on their way in to Singapore – the MIA almost makes me think they were on sea and anchor detail (but then again….maybe not at 5:30 in the morning…..) and folks fell off the flight deck – not sure. Hopefully not stuck in berthing – hard to tell offhand from the photos.
Never ascribe to malice what can be attributed to incompetence. That said….who gains by taking out two permanently stationed BMD assets in 7th Fleet? Honestly…I’m probably paranoid based on my previous direct line of work, but it’s hard to say anything until we see the actual error chain.
So income equality. How do we deal with the fact that the status quo does not satisfy everyone and that economic downturns still happen? And people those will vote for someone who will hand out free shipping.
The actual responses of too many libertarians are of “the white working class should FOAD” and “John D. Rockefeller didn’t have a smartphone!” Variety.
Hand out free shit…
The quest for income equality inevitably leads to more misery than having large inequality. Income inequality is a problem only to the extent that a wealthy few can buy off government officials to game the system and loot the public treasury, create monopolies, or inhibit competition. Reduce the size and scope of government, and you reduce the ability of a wealthy few to exert undue influence/engage in corruption and cronyism. Bonus – the economy will be more resilient and thrive allowing more people to earn more and have more freedom to live their lives as they see fit.
This stuff isn’t hard, and we spent 80+ years debating it in the 20th century – the debate was won handily almost 30 years ago.
How about “mind your own business”? An oldie but goodie.
Are you asking how to deal with people who desire to vote themselves free shit? I don’t think there’s a solution.
Which is why you ought to be careful about who you let vote. I’m all for ideological purity tests for citizenship.
I hope it’s a total withdrawal, not just because I actually want that to happen, but because I want to see how the left spins it as a bad thing.
*ascends stack of coffins, clears throat*
OPIOID EPIDEMIC NOW TRUMP’S FAULT
Got deep pockets?
A classic car raced by Sir Stirling Moss and described as the “most important Aston Martin ever produced” became the most valuable British-made car ever when it sold for $22.5m (£17.5m) at the annual auction at Monterey Car Week on Friday.
The 1956 Aston Martin DBR1, is the firm’s equivalent to the Ferrari 250 GTO and Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR and just five were built between 1956 and 1958. This one sold is chassis number one – a purpose-built model developed by racing design chief, Ted Cutting.
The DBR1 is probably the most beautiful car ever built. Photos in article.
Too bad a mirror is too much for it. See Goldfinger.
Gorgeous.
“The DBR1’s inline six-cylinder engine evolved from its debut in 1956 though its last race in 1959, ending up at 2,992cc and 268hp.”
Amazing, that’s close to 100hp per liter.
That McClaren is pretty sweet, as well. 243 mph!
Or, you know, McLaren…
Watch the Foo Fighters and Rick Astley Rickroll a Music Festival Crowd
How do you fight Foo?
Use a bar.
No foolin’?
And a baz.
“You are a white man. Check your privilege. Stay in your lane. You will never understand black people’s lives or experiences. You’re all about whiteness, that’s how you’re conditioned.” — SJWs
“I am a white man. What a privilege. I’m going to stay in my lane. I will never understand black people. I’m all about whiteness, it’s how I’m conditioned.” — White Nationalists
Or those racists who thought jazz, rock and rap areally black music that whites should not listen too.
Or look at all the segregationists who said they were doing a favor to the blacks and how the legacy of slavery meant integration was impossible.
Antifa’s existence is actually manna for alt-right groups insofar as it gives them more of a reason to exist and gives mainstream right-wingers a reason to sympathize with them, however grudgingly
In bed with big Chomsky.
Antibiotics are a wonderful invention but holy fucking shit I hate taking them.
(Asshole cat of mine bit my hand hard enough to break through the skin. Hurt like a bitch, still does 24 hours later. On preventative antibiotics now (which ended up being needed, given that I have a slight fever this evening). Fucking a.)
Plus some dickhole spoiled tonight’s Game of Thrones for me.
john has gay sex with thormond!! you heard it here first! he can’t resist brutal redheads
I didn’t understand a word you wrote just now. Except for “gay sex” and “john’ which I will assume to be our resident John Titor. Though he never struck me as a poof, so I find this claim baseless absent citation.
Hey, what happens Beyond the Wall Stays Beyond the Wall.
LOL so i’m watching this weeks episode,. and in the first 5 mins, john gendry and thormond are walking around in the snow and they have this exchange:
Gendry: “How do you keep from freezing your balls off up here?”
Thormund: “Walking is good, fighting is better, fucking is best”
John: “There isn’t a women for hundreds of miles from where we are right now”
Thormond: (looks at the two of them) “Then we make do with what we’ve got, eh?” (laughs)
I CALLED IT
I had actually read your sentence above before I saw that part of the episode, so when I did see it, actual lol (I probably would’ve anyway, since Tormund is just great in general, but after your prediction, it was even funnier)
10 mins later…. the Hound and Thormund…
Thormund: “i do not think you are truly mean. you have sad eyes”
Hound: “You want to suck my dick, is that it?”
Thormund: “….Dick?”
Hound: “COCK”
Thormund. “ahhhh. “Dick”. I like it!”
Hound: “I bet you do”
AM I TELEPATHIC OR WHAT
I will say this: this episode has more funny exchanges of dialogue so far than entire episodes in previous seasons.
but also, the writers don’t know how ice works.
Right? And where did they get those chains? And why didn’t everyone have dragonglass weapons? The writing is so predictable and trope ridden since they went completely off the rails.
Deus Ex Machina seems to live north of the wall.
Yeah, i just saw that.
as the thing speeds up toward the end they are taking huge leaps w/ the plot and plausibility. the entire ‘mission to the north’ made no sense to begin with. it was an excuse to get lots of very significant ‘warrior’ characters together, and kill some off, while serving as some tenuous excuse for future plot leaps.
(“bring zombie to cercei”?… because.. why? cercei isn’t going to just quit fighting denyris. then what point is it? and if dany wouldn’t go north to fight the dead before she got the throne, why is she going to send her dragons north of the wall to ‘save’ them? none of it makes any sense.)
also: the entire mechanic of ‘the army of dead’ seems to change willy-nilly. in Hardhome, they didn’t go down when they lost an arm or a leg, they basically could be chopped to bits and they’d just keep coming.
now, they take 1 swipe and they fall into a pile.
That’s why I ended up reading the books early on–when spoiling Game of Throne was the “in” trolling thing, I decided to just head that shit off at the pass. I guess we’re more or less out of books now, though.
I really wonder sometimes about what forms the mentality of people who do things of that nature.
Cersei did something cunning and evil, LIttlefinger did something cunning and self-serving, Jon Snow did something stupid, everyone got creeped out by Bran calling himself the three eyed raven, and some multi-season plotline came to a sudden and unsatisfying end?
It was all fun and games for the Left last week when President Trump was disbanding his economic committees, but they are not pleased at all about the fact that he just told a federal advisory committee on climate change to take a hike as well.
My apologies to Zardoz for trying to horn in on his links night.
*smirk*
FUTURE HISTORIANS WILL WEEP AND RAGE, IF THERE ARE ANY
https://twitter.com/ParisHilton/status/898974580152389632
OK?
That Twitter timeline kind of makes it look like Paris Hilton’s head on Angela Merkel’s body. Just the mental image I needed.
This is why I don’t Tweeter. Because stupid hurts.
Having short hair means you’re a Nazi and I can stab you.
http://hotair.com/archives/2017/08/20/colorado-man-stabbed-nazi-haircut/
This makes me sad.
https://www.youngcons.com/staceydash/alyssa-milano-tries-giving-antifa-pep-talk-accidentally-admits-their-violent-nature/
James Woods not fooled
Vampires was a documentary.
I also liked him as civil liberties attorney Eddie Dodd in True Believer
“The last struggle for Constitutional rights is being waged over drugs.”
“It’s in the area of narcotics, Mr. Reynard, that the government tramples on the Fourth Amendment.”
That movie popped into my head the other day when I randomly saw the name “Art Esparza” on a list. It’s been a long time but I remember really liking it, I should watch it again.
“Last week, Milano was triggered by Christmas elves which she claimed had their arms raised in a Nazi salute in a Christmas store in New York.
Milano produced no pictures of the alleged offensive elves but noted how she ‘fled’ the store with her ‘babies’ traumatized by the event.”
Actors. That’s right up there with Sarah Silvermans twat about “oh noes, nazi symbols on the street!”
“The NAACP has called for a boycott of the NFL. The organization says the league treated free agent Colin Kaepernick unfairly for his headline grabbing protest during the national anthem.
The NAACP is asking Falcons fans everywhere to take a knee on the NFL. They say that means they don’t want fans coming to Mercedes-Benz Stadium for the season opener or even watching the team on television.”
http://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/274655139-story
::cartwheel in place::
Judging from what I know about football fans, an NFL boycott has as good of a chance of succeeding as a male sex strike.
Kaepernick’s problem isn’t the protesting, it’s the creating a distraction for his team.
Shitty play might be a teensy part of it, too.
Racism.
Well yeah, he didn’t even start his antics until he was a benchwarmer. He’s just an attention whore.
Yes, his Total QB rating (an ESPN stat, not the usual passer rating, that takes into account all that a QB does and also the context of when he does it):
2011 71.7
2012 76.9
2013 69.7
2014 67.5
2015 47.0
2016 55.2
He definitely has gone downhill. For reference, Brock Osweiler and Case Keenum had about a 55 QBR last year.
“Google revealed in a blog post that it is now using machine learning to document “hate crimes and events” in America. They’ve partnered with liberal groups like ProPublica, BuzzFeed News, and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to make information about “hate events” easily accessible to journalists. And now, there are troubling signs that this tool could be used to ferret out writers and websites that run afoul of the progressive orthodoxy.”
https://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2017/08/19/propublica-working-google-document-hate-threatens-conservative-bloggers/
there are troubling signs that this tool could be used to ferret out writers and websites that run afoul of the progressive orthodoxy.
That would never happen.
I wonder if it picks up stuff like a certain Missouri state senator saying the president should be assassinated.
All Trump did was claim Obama wasn’t born in this country and people went apeshit. But now that the evil GOP is the big house it’s OK to advocate for assassination.
Yep. Progic.
Will Wilkenson, former Reason writer, current DC think-tank asshat, says “everyone on the Alt-Right is an ex-Libertarian“… basically implying that the non-Woke form of Libertarianism (the thing he disavows, and which includes…. well, all of you) is the Motherlode of Racism in America
AND MORE! his think tank has decided that they pretty much need to dump the libertarians from ‘the right’, and replace them with ones from the Left.
That ought to be fun to watch. I don’t know how widely his “libertarian case for bernie” was read, but it was a hilarious exercise in intellectual contortion. The shit you can only do when you’ve got a PhD in fine arts.
Assholes.
Seriously, it seems like the “institutional libertarians” – the Reason Foundation, Cato, et al – have somehow got the idea in their head after the underperformance of Gay Jay, and the general lack of a libertarian millenial moment (because the Gamergate and the Pepe’s took all their millenials away)… that the solution is to wipe the slate clean, dump all the “old” libertarians, and start fresh from the ground up.
Libertarian Year Zero!
Night of the Long Stems. Purge the cosmotarians.
Well I can certainly see how well that’s working for TOS. Lol.
So how is this strategy supposed to work for them? The left hates them already. They don’t have any goodwill or clout. Or numbers to influence anything. And the anti cam just beat them up.
They are still connected to the Kochsame and the progs still hate them.
you can’t spell underperformance without derp
all things come back to derp
I was just going to link that.
Fuck that guy.
Stick a fork in cosmotarianism. All the Fabianism has lead to libertarians becoming more like the establishment than the other way around. Mealy mouthed centrists at best.
What an upside down world. David Burge was right about taking over and wearing the skin of the enemy. National government action is preferable to local government. Regulatory capture is a problem because the rich can more easily control it. Libertarians are allies with conservatives by convenience but shares the principals with liberals.
This is phony ass bullshit. Suck that statist cock hard, slaver and fuck off.
Taylor Millard doesn’t think conservatives and libertarians aren’t disavowing hard enough.
http://hotair.com/archives/2017/08/20/conservative-libertarian-movements-need-purge-white-supremacists-leaders-ideology/
That globe emoji in his Twitter username… is that actually some sort of subtle anti-nationalist social signal? Or is my tinfoil hat on too tight? Not like he needs to bother with something like that when his corpus of public work does just fine.
Enjoy this blast from the past hitjob on him. Hilarious to read in recent light.
Breitbart’s been replacing the (((Echoes))) with Globe Symbols. That’s why.
Or maybe it’s not Breitbart but another site. I can’t follow all this shit right now.
Oh, good, I guess my tinfoil hat was on just right then.
I spend way too much time following this shit and I can’t even keep track of it all either. Too much noise, not enough signal.
I don’t think its supposed to be subtle?
The only reason there is angry or violent rhetoric from me and other alt righters is because we are so violently resisted in our efforts to bring about a more harmonious society. The fact that I am losing access to communications and financial systems right now, just because I’m a white nationalist seems to prove my theory.
Cantwell is POS. That’s why he’s losing access to those systems. Evidently libertarianism is a “way station” to the alt right by leading people in the exact opposite direction of fascism. WTF?
I didn’t make it past Jewish run media. What the hell is he on?
He’s a contrarian contrarian attention whore that claimed to be an AnCap when it was edgy. Now that people that support liberty have come into the AnCap tent, Cantwell is no longer edgy and so he went white nationalist. It’s a pathetic display of “Look at me!”.
I don’t even know what to make of that. That thread is such a bunch of smug douchebaggery I am lost. Did Wilkenson claim to be a libertarian? How is he not lumped into his own conclusions? It is all guilt by association these days, or did he vow allegiance to antifa?
In a free market, whites would win, because in a free market, EVERYONE wins.
Libertarians make shitty allies for libertarians.
You’ve just made an enemy for life!
Sunday Evening Playlist: Oh Snap, Run!
A playlist of selections from my other playlist, “Passage through the Feywild”.
Add this to the playlist. (Not 80s or smooth Bolton gag)
Google Doesn’t Want What’s Best for Us
*Warning it’s NYT article lots of derp ahead*
I think the left feels threatened by Libertarians. Lots of attempts to blame the non existent problems of silicon valley on Libertarians. Funny because it’s not a Libertarian culture in silicon valley. If the tech Giants were Libertarian, silicon valley wouldn’t be in California.
No shit. The left had been pretty openly anti-libertarian for decades. The left has not been shy of accusing Republicans of being Crypto-libertarians for about a century and how small government is the most awful thing a Republican can support.
His “who’s going to stop me?” attitude was the perfect libertarian credo for the Reagan era of deregulation.
And it actually goes downhill from there. No thanks.
Antifa gets violent in Quebec City
So, Trump’s first comments after the Charlottesville incident last weekend turn out to be some of the calmest, most reasoned, and rational.
We’ve fallen down a rabbit hole where Donald Effin’ Trump is the adult in the room.
Jesus Feathery Christ.
I had been going with Trump is a 4 yo, the media are 3 yos, and sjw/antifa are 2 yos.
That’s an insult to tw-year-olds. Antifa is more like a a homeless guy’s jizz.
I was thinking terrible twos but yeah descriptions not all that fair to toddlers who are smarter for one thing.
Dead and rancid?
I require the Rufus perspective
MAPLE SYRUP. AND DONT PARK IN FRONT OF MY HOUSE HOSER
Ok, now repeat the exact same thing in French.
“La Meute has the upper hand here,” he later told CTV News Channel. “They can say that they were censored, they can say they were the target of violent groups. It’s sad to say that, but they would be right today.”
Baby steps. First step is always to admit you have a problem.
“I instantly became fascinated with the history, and economics that libertarianism taught. I later became a big fan of Murray Rothbard, and Ayn Rand. You might be aware, these people are Jewish. Shocking to some then, that I am today a rather vocal antisemite.”
Never mind they were both anti-collectivists, as well.
Yikes! Gilmored a reply to Gilmore.
The Internet has apparently broken Freddie DeBoer
this is particularly… well, if not ‘funny’, but ironic? maybe… because the last 2 weeks he’s been doing his normal =
“telling the left how their strategy is fucked up and how they don’t actually do anything to grow Left ideas, but instead mostly engage in self-satisfying exercises of social-media cultural-team-building which accomplishes nothing in the real world but feels really good because it makes them feel like they’ve got ‘numbers’ when they’re really just spitting out normal-people who find shit like Antifa and Fist-Pumping socialism offputting…”
(which i why i subbed to his twitter; it was fun to watch)
…and all the SJW’s on twitter kept telling him “you’re mentally ill: seek help”
I guess they were right.
I don’t know if this is the dumbest guy in Antifa, but he’s the dumbest one I’ve seen:
https://youtu.be/mb7WxJ1kDQo?t=2m31s
Mao went right wing? The Great Leap Retard.
I’m not surprised they’ve taken to this line of logic. Stalin was communist but when he went nuts killing people they deem him ‘right wing’?
Yeah-k buddy. Idiot.
It’s like when they say racist Democrats who founded the KKK and who stayed in the party were *really* Republican.
They’re illiterate and mentally ill.
Idiot??? How dare you, sir! To me he seems quite well read. I mean, he quotes “all the historians who wrote on, ya know, Stalin, and Mao and all those motherfuckers.” That’s probably a lot of reading. All those motherfuckers.
He totally read about them. Through his Marxist professor.
tl:dl, but fascism as it is usually defined has a strong nationalistic component, which I don’t think antifa does. Better to call them communist (which is a label they seem to embrace). Just opposite sides of the same authoritarian coin.
Exactly, it’s the national socialists vs. the international socialists.
SEARCH AND RESCUE UNDER WAY
10 sailors missing, 5 injured after USS John McCain collision in Pacific
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/08/20/10-missing-5-injured-after-uss-john-s-mccain-collides-with-tanker-in-pacific.html
oops. shoulda looked up
Just like the Captain of the McCain.
Go home, 7th fleet, you’re drunk
Romney Warns of Civil War Unless Trump Apologizes
https://www.toddstarnes.com/column/romney-warns-of-civil-war-unless-trump-apologizes
***
“Whether he intended to or not, what he communicated caused racists to rejoice, minorities to weep, and the vast heart of America to mourn,” Romney posted on Facebook.
Romney said the Trump Administration is now at a defining moment.
“The potential consequences are severe in the extreme. Accordingly, the president must take remedial action in the extreme,” he wrote.
***
Magic undies must be a little tight…
No matter how you squawk and screech or threaten Trump is not going to stop doing what he is doing. Go fuck yourself Mittens.
Also, I understand he badly wants to get out of Afghanistan ASAP and the establishment is fighting him, including some of his own people.
Yeah, Trump’s a real train wreck. “We’re tired of fighting a war in this godb forsaken land ”
“Shut up and eat your vegetables!”
Shut the fuck up, Mitt. It’s hilarious how he got wined and dined for Secretary of State.
***
TEL AVIV — A book on terrorism endorsed and touted by H.R. McMaster, the embattled White House National Security Adviser, calls on the U.S. military to respond to any “desecrations” of the Quran by service members with an apology ceremony, and advocates kissing a new copy of the Quran before presenting the Islamic text to the local Muslim public.
The book’s author further demanded that any American soldier who “desecrates” the Quran be ejected from the foreign country of deployment, relieved of duty and turned over to a military judge for “punishment.”
“Desecration” of the Quran, according to the McMaster-endorsed book, includes such acts as “letting the Quran fall to the ground during a search, or more blatant instances.”
The book, reviewed in full by this reporter, was authored by U.S. military officer Youssef H. Aboul-Enein and is titled Militant Islamist Ideology: Understanding the Global Threat.
McMaster provided a glowing blurb for the book jacket, referring to Aboul-Enein’s book as “an excellent starting point” for understanding terrorist ideology.
***
[head desk]
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/08/h-r-mcmaster-endorsed-book-telling-us-military-to-kiss-quran
People seem to conflate respect for the Muslim religion with retard psycho (and probably drugged up) murderers who use the religion to further their retard agenda.
Hey guys as long as we institute Shariah law and burn heretics we will get along with the Jihadis!
Maybe he was referring to the book itself as terrorist ideology?
He endorsed the book as a good intro to understanding the ideology – does not equate to endorsement of every single point in it – particularly since that would require amending UCMJ – which hasn’t been done.
Who’s ready for some *headdeask*?
On Amazon Prime, 55 people rated this, er, documentary 4 out of 5 stars. The title, then the synopsis. All missing commas are [sic]:
What do you guys say to movie night at my place on Thursday?
“C. Horan5 years agoReport abuse
Also, if you want to talk about bias, just walk into almost any US college’s economics lecture about the near-flawlessness of free market principles ;”
Unfair debt, trade and tax policies are the problem. My solution would be less debt, more trade and (since I won’t get what I really want) a flat tax. Have a feeling that isn’t where the docu is going to go.
Remember, all those 11th century Mongols wore those shirts made out of mouse skins because someone colonized Mongolia. I’d like to know which magical golden ages they come up with for when global poverty wasn’t the base norm of pretty much all of humanity.
Yeah I think one could make a pretty compelling argument that global poverty is the default state.
Poverty did not “begin” with a single thing that idiot rattled off. It is the natural state of man, and capitalism is the most effective system to rise beyond it.
Somebody pointed out the other day that the default condition of mankind is one of poverty and misery; that western civilization hadn’t stolen wealth from people who have never had it, but rather created new wealth out of nothing, advancing the human condition.
Or we could just keep using the State to murder people and redistribute a shrinking pie.
So I guess blacklisting is now okay from a libertarian perspective. So what wrong with HUAC?
Watching Kong skull island. “The natives have no concept of personal property.”
Two seconds later “they gave you permission to stay here.”
Two seconds after that, don’t touch anything or they’ll chop your hands off.
I think that’s actually a pretty accurate description of commie views on personal property.
Of course. A tribe is a commune. They are communists.
“If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.”
– Calvin Coolidge
He didn’t talk much, but Cal was a damn fine orator when he wanted to be.
+1 I choose not to run OR “you lose”
From what I’ve read about him – which I admit is not much – he sounds like the most libertarian president we’ve ever had.
He was definitely the most libertarian president. Low bar, but still.
Grover Cleveland would be his competition (and maybe Jefferson):
Cleveland vetoed a bill to help impoverished TX farmers: “I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution, and I do not believe that the power and duty of the general government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit.”
On the annexation of Hawaii: “I suppose that right and justice should determine the path to be followed in treating this subject. If national honesty is to be disregarded and a desire for territorial expansion or dissatisfaction with a form of government not our own ought to regulate our conduct, I have entirely misapprehended the mission and character of our government and the behavior which the conscience of the people demands of their public servants.”
He supported the gold standard and used the veto liberally.
Guess which Navy ship was just involved in a crash?
C’mon…try and guess.
Ok. The USS John McCain
*snort*
Isn’t that Admiral McCain, the elder?
I dunno. Just seems those McCain boys are trying their damnedest to sink a ship. How many sailors did they kill this time?
10 missing. No on-board missile detonations are mentioned in the article, so they really weren’t even trying. It’s like they have a brain tumor or something.
Both of them – father and grandfather.
I saw a documentary today about a museum of racist merchandise- dolls, postcards, etc. I hope the SJWs don’t find out about it. They’d demand it be burned, its black owner notwithstanding.
https://ferris.edu/jimcrow/
Sounds like an interesting place.
I have a little black baby figurine that I got for $5 at an antiques store (black skin, bright red lips, etc). I just think it’s interesting from a historical perspective. I also felt the need to buy it since I know there are people who will purchase items like that just to smash them.
I have a modest coin collection. In my silver category, I have two German silver 5 Reichsmark coins, one from 1935, and one from 1936. Both feature the bulldog like profile of Hindenburg on the obverse. On the 1935 reverse, there is a typical Prussian eagle. On the 1926 reverse, there is a stylized Nazi eagle clutching a swastika. I find the pair of coins to be a fascinating sample of the pivot that Germany took at that time.
History isn’t always pretty, but it is interesting and instructive and sparks conversations.
“On the 1936 reverse” not 1926. Ugh.
So this Joss Whedon thing is fucking hilarious. https://www.thewrap.com/joss-whedon-feminist-hypocrite-infidelity-affairs-ex-wife-kai-cole-says/
My first thought was: I’m sorry, but outside of Buffy fangirls, who wants to fuck Joss Whedon?
Then I read the article and holy shit, it IS only Buffy fangirls that will fuck him!
Also, what a piece of shit, he tries to blame fucking ‘culture’ for the fact that he can’t keep it in his pants.
That explains a lot. Why he self-flagellates on twitter and why he wears his white cis-male guilt hair shirt until his nipples bleed through.
Seriously what a surprise that a nerdy geek so obsessed with Japanime magic-girls that he CULTURALLY APPROPRIATED them and turned them into not one, not two, but THREE television shows (and a movie) was really a pervy horndog who got it on with anyone he could once he got a smattering of power.
“Joss admitted that for the next decade and a half, he hid multiple affairs and a number of inappropriate emotional ones that he had with his actresses, co-workers, fans and friends, while he stayed married to me. ”
You know what your precious left calls white men who use their positions of power and influence to convince women to fuck them? Rapists, Josh. Hey I’m not calling you a rapist, I’m just pointing out that you fit the definition you and your ilk love to scream to the high heavens as you “protect” poor, helpless-yet-totally-empowered women with your virtue signalling.
I think that the good Joss Whedon has done (much like Bill Clinton) far outweighs any penile sins he may have committed. (Liberal) men are just men, they have their biological needs and shouldn’t be judged. On the other hand, conservative men are just ‘men’ (in the worst sense of the word), ruled by their base biology and privilege. You people need some perspective.
P.S. Goldberry is a babe and I’d never cheat on her.
Guy that loves to brag about being a male feminist turns out to be a scumbag? Why am I not shocked?
“end stage socialism”
I lol’d.
You know who else laughed?
Top. Men. in their dachas?
Alternet does its thing:
Burger King Is Building Artificial Limbs So That Disabled People Can Eat Their Unhealthy Burgers
http://www.alternet.org/food/burger-king-building-artificial-limbs-so-disabled-people-can-eat-their-unhealthy-burgers
Nothing unhealthy about their burgers. There is nothing especially good about them either, but they aren’t unhealthy.
I bet there are plenty of people in Venezuela who’d love one of those burgers. Thankfully, the socialists are protecting the people from unhealthy food.
I ate at BK yesterday for the first time in 2 or 3 years. Not a fan of fast food, but that Whopper was delicious. Not as good as the burgers we cooked on the grill last weekend while camping on the beach, but much better than McD’s.
What’s different in Japanese Burger Kings? (Though I probably wouldn’t know anyway because the last time I was at a BK was ten years ago)
Less spit.
They sell whacky shit like salmon burgers… at least they did in KFC when I was there. Macudo! (short version of Macudonarado) also had tasty treats like nori toppings for french fries.
You must’ve been in the West or South. Tokyo calls it Mac. Osaka calls it Macudo. Not sure about Okinawa or Nagoya.
Yep Osaka.
I always wanted to know what they were saying in that song from Hunt for Red October
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEt41bYQBgE
***
Cold, hard, empty.
Light that has left me,
How could I know that you would die?
Farewell again, our dear land.
So hard for us to imagine that it’s real, and not a dream.
Motherland, native home,
Farewell, our Motherland.
Let’s go; the sea is waiting for us.
The vastness of the sea is calling to us, and the tides!
Hail to our fathers and forefathers.
We are faithful to the covenant made with the past.
Now nothing can stop
Our Motherland’s victorious march.
Sail on fearlessly,
Pride of the Northern Seas.
Hope of the Revolution, you are the burst of faith of the people.
In October, in October,
We report our victories to you, our Revolution.
And to the heritage left by you for us
***
Huh. Nothing about Trump.
I bought the soundtrack CD specifically for that song.
When I was in Sweden, I was tending bar at a student social event, and four Russian guys were there (this was the mid 90s, so ever-so-slightly post Soviet). We joked about drinking capacity, and then they challenged me to a vodka drink off. If I lost, I had to buy them a round or something. They wanted my terms, and I said if they lost, they had to sing the Russian national anthem. They agreed, and man, did I take one (or a dozen) for the team. ‘Murica! They were quite pleased to win and stood up and sang the anthem a Capella. It was lovely.
We all shook hands, they paid up and left, and I swiftly yet subtlely made my way to the ladies room to hurl. Good times, good times.
( I meant to type that they were quite pleased to LOSE. I did America proud that night.)
Russians are coming! Be afraid Clinton! Be very afraid!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDQ7hXMLxGc
So, yesterday I was the only person in the entire building at work, thought I would check and see if there were afternoon links, because I like to stay up to date on the news. Then I had actual work to do so I turned my attention away from the computer. Unbeknownst to me, they installed remote access software on the computers, and one of my bosses signed in to find Glibertarians.com up on the computer. So he wanted to know where that ‘terrorist shit’ came from. Hopefully it blew over over the weekend, what a world what a world.
Probably read the Zardoz links and took them seriously.
Terrorist shit? I thought we were Nazi shit.
I think it was actually because (((OMWC))) put a picture of a nazi on the morning lynx, then the next link was trshmnster’s Civil War 2 link, neither of which if you paid attention were anything nutso. But people love their Jump 2 Conclusion Mats.
Read some Bukowski, but I’d never read this. A nice little treasure.
I thought you meant Kapowski.
Here’s a nifty description of the worst breakfast. Yummy. Do love me some JP.
The most important study of our lifetimes:
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