We think Sloopy may be somewhere in Oklahoma or Hell. We’re rooting for Hell. But he should be back by tomorrow. In the meantime, nobody I care about played any sportzball worth discussing. So this morning its just straight to… the links!
Is Zimbabwe about to suffer the inevitable end of State Capitalism? The military is in the streets and the rumors are flying.
Conveniently, someone is robocalling Alabamans claiming to be Shylock GoldsteinBernie Bernstein of the Jerusalem Washington Post. Totally not a pro-Moore push-poll-style call.
Good news, everyone! In Scotland, only the well-off can afford to get pissed. There will be absolutely no unintended consequences! None!
Ordinary people did good yesterday when some asshole decided to randomly shoot up a school. My only wish is that
someone would have parked their car on top of the asshole pretty immediately.
Here’s a little guitar rock for your Wednesday morning.
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The Adidas tracksuit gives it away as a Russkie.
^Actual first, since there is a comment on a link.
Don’t chavs wear track suits, too?
When you add in the image composition, the state of the architecture, the facial features, the unlabelled bottle, etc. it still reads more Russian than Chav.
Oh, and the lack of bling.
they must also wear Burberry.
Its the Slav squat that really does it, tracksuit is a strong indicator though.
Earthquake in Korea today. 5.5 Richter. I barely felt it. This makes it the third minor earthquake I’ve been in.
Koreans are more worried about the earthquake being near nuclear reactors than they are about the NoKos.
The Norks are always there, so they’d turn into a nervous wreck fretting over them.
Broken reactors can be messy.
Everytime I hear of an earthquake hear my first thought is if the Canadians are starting trouble.
That’s silly.
It’s the Atlantans who have the Earthquake machine, look to Georgia.
When it’s a blizzard, be on the lookout for Canukistani advance forces.
Hey now. I don’t make fun of your crazy conspiracies, don’t go making fun of mine
You worried about New Madrid letting go?
I strongly suspect that if it were to come to blows the Norks would collapse like a paper bag. Defections, poor equipment and brainwashed idiots screwing everything up…they wouldn’t have a chance. I could be wrong and I hope we never find out.
The Norks would be defeated pretty quickly, but they would also do horrible damage to Seoul in the process.
I think you are correct, to a certain extent. What kind of condition is all the artillary pointed at Seoul in? I suspect it’s in less than stellar conditions.
South Korea lawmakers agree on tactical nuclear weapons
Getting ready.
The technological mismatch is far worse than the U.S. versus Iraq rounds 1 and 2. The Norks actually have older Soviet crap than the Iraqis did. The South Koreans have newer, better stuff than us.
Seoul would take a beating for a day or 2, then it would be over unless the Chinese decided to jump back in.
I tend to think so. Seoul would be…an unpleasant place to be in, however. I will admit, recently I’ve been hearing a lot more air force/jet sounds that I’m used to. You used to hear it maybe once every other day or so. Now I hear it maybe 6-12 times a day.
Speaking of that–you used to SEE Singapore’s air force doing drills. They flew so fucking low, maybe a few thousand feet. I know that sounds kinda crazy (or it is to me–I was under the impression that even a small plane would run into ground effect at like 150 or 200′.) but I could clearly see the details of the plane—markings, canopy. That shit woke your ass up.
My favorite propaganda tactic is this one guy who just Go-Pro’d a walk through a supermarket. He then put the vids on USB drives and floated them over to the North on balloons. Sounds kinda cruel, actually, but I hope it’s sunk in for them. Tragic that they really can’t do anything about it. Sigh.
What would a regular Nork do with a USB drive? Are there that many computers that someone could use that they could watch such a video and not be noticed?
Michael Moynihan had a big thing on it with Vice that was good. Apparently there’s enough up there that it makes a difference.
A NoKo soldier was shot 5 times crossing the border yesterday. He’s apparently going to make it. Crazy thing he did it at the ONE place where the Koreas actually face each other. Mad eyes watching that spot.
It was like a 20 yard sprint or something. Easiest and hardest spot to cross.
Fair point, that. Also he was a soldier so it’s not like he could choose where his organism was going to be placed.
Semi-OT: I was told that there is a $1million bounty on the gigantic Nork flag at Pyonyang(sp). It’s in the back of Soldier of Fortune, but I’ve never verified that because then I would have to actually read Soldier of Fortune. Capturing that flag would likely get you killed by both sides.
Wait, they’re still in print?
Good point about computers but many TVs can play USB media. I’ve also heard of folks tying DVDs to balloons for similar reasons.
We should airdrop a crap ton of liberator pistols into the labor camps.
We can afford to give away better handguns than that.
Hi-Points?
While they may not be the best, they still work, and don’t take longer to load than to manufacture.
They better tie little parachutes to them – getting hit in the head with one of those engine-block bolts would defeat the purpose.
Print the manual on the parachute.
“You mean, we are not meant to print the entire the entire bloody manual on the side of the pistol?” – Sturm, Ruger, & Co.
It’s either give them detailed instructions or engage in the harshest Darwinian firearms education. You can’t assume an enslaved populace knows how to work a firearm.
UCS makes a good point. It might be a better idea to drop Charter Arms revolvers.
+1 I have no idea what would happen. But I know I don’t want it to happen.
At this point the US could pull entirely out of Korea and the Norks couldn’t defeat South Korea. In fact even using their nukes it wouldn’t be close. North Korea’s military is large and apparently well trained however with the exception of Air Defense systems their military equipment would have been considered antiquated in the 1980’s and as a result their military tactics are straight out of the 1950’s. An actual modern military with modern tanks and APC’s and modern C3i systems a third of their size would crush them, only problem is South Korea actually has a larger army so in a 1v1 fight there wouldn’t be much of a fight. The only real advantage the Norks would have is that they would be fighting defensively in their own territory for pretty much the entire war giving them the ability to make extensive use of prepared defensive positions and ambush tactics, that wouldn’t change the outcome but it would make it much more time consuming and costly for the South Korean military to defeat them. That combined with the civilian death toll that North Korea’s proximity to Seoul and possession of nukes would guarantee to result pretty much guarantees that there is not going to be a resumption of hostilities on the penninsula or a reunfication of the 2 countries any time soon no matter how heated the rhetoric gets.
The Irish certainly didn’t play. Talk about getting curb-stomped.
In Scotland, only the well-off can afford to get pissed. – fortunately poor Scots are to dumb to make their own hooch. Then again my grandma made Țuică using a small artisanal still on the stove in her one bedroom apartment. I smell a business opportunity (or is that cheap brandy?). Bootleg stills and Țuică classes for the Scottish
They’ll need the instruction. I mean, their most famous booze product today is Scotch. Scotch! You’d have to be a cirrhotic hobo to drink that stuff.
You eat cardboard for dessert after your bowl of sawdust cereal with skim milk.
That was uncalled for!
I use 2%.
Monster.
I find that hard to believe. Who do you think made all the stills in this country
Romanian immigrants?
The Scots smart enough to leave Scotland, and the Irish, and the Germans, and… well everyone was boozing it up when they got here, really.
They say when the Germans got here the first thing they did was build a barn. The English would build a church and the scotts would build a still
One of the first buildings built after the Mayflower landed was a brewery.
Didn’t they land at Plymouth rather than their original destination of Virginia partly because they ran out of beer?
Entirely because they ran out of beer.
Yes, but that was more the Mayflower staff than the transportees.
To be fair, back then beer largely meant “water that won’t make my ass spurt out shit like a Thompson typewriter.”
Although I reckon the water in depopulated Mass. was probably pretty ok to drink. But how would people from England know that?
True dat. My great-grandparents were a little late to the party but they got the right idea and moved to Philly in the twenties. Timing could’ve been better, but apparently Depression-era Philadelphia was better than Depression-era Kilmarnock. Or just regular ol’ Kilmarnock.
I’ve wondered about that in all seriousness, though. It really is as if the US (can’t speak for Canada but I assume it’s similar) attracted the cream of the crop of the Old World, at least philosophically. Maybe the Venn diagram of the kind of people who have the gumption to start a new life on an entirely different continent and the kind of people who value independence and self-sufficiency has a lot of overlap.
That is my heritage. With a smidge of Dutch.
*swigs bottle*
Sure, the Scots can’t figure out anything.
Although I guess that pales in comparison to the contributions of Romania to the world.
And yet today Scotland is an impoverished socialist shithole propped up by the English.
It’s almost as if the smart Scots all left.
Well, yeah, my ancestors certainly did, quite some time ago.
They had Hume and Smith at the same time, then forgot everything either said.
They can’t figure out that somebody has to pay for all their free socialist shit.
You know why god created whiskey right?
To prevent the Scots from taking over the world
You know why scots invented that joke?
To distract themselves from the sad truth when they ran out of whiskey.
It’s ‘whisky’, racist.
Look, One of these centuries, the Scots will learn to speak, read, and write English.
American English, as God and the Queen intended.
Why do they care if it breaches EU law? I thought part of the point of Brexit was so they didn’t have to care about that stuff anymore.
There was incorporating legislation that made the EU rules in effect UK law.
Stupid, I know, but it is what the law is. Plus, the breakup is not yet complete.
Cards Against Humanity was discussed in yesterday’s games thread. Sounds like they’re throwing down the gauntlet with their customers:
Cards Against Humanity Buys Land on US-Mexico Border to Block Trump’s Wall
Cards Against Humanity has never heard of Eminent Domain.
Companies should really stop this social signaling bullshit.
Also, what wall? I haven’t seen anything about one being built.
Yeah, I don’t understand why companies would think it’s a good idea to potentially piss off and alienate around half of your potential customers.
In cases like this, it’s still a founder-run establishment, and while he struck gold with his product (in terms of making money), he’s not actually that bright a guy.
Larger corporate entities, well it probably depends on how business-minded their corporate culture is, or how infected it has become with an ideology other than capitalism.
They have calculated that they can syphon more money out of the donations than they can make from paying customers. Other than take money they aren’t going to do anything. They will also keep whatever eminent domain money they get paid for the land they are purchasing.
Always keep in mind, through all the bullshit and fury, it is always about the money.
Based on personal experience, more than half. The leftists can offended by the game.
When your game is an affront to political correctness, you might not want to piss off the anti-PC crowd.
They’ve had a long history of trolling their customers, it’s part of their image. I believe the first was the year they sold literal shit to their customers, one year they sold nothing, and there were a couple other Black Friday things they’ve done.
People love proving Barnum correct.
Elon is counting on it.
In those cases the customers were in on the joke, not the butt of the joke.
This seems like a dumb move, I guess they’re ready to quit making money now. Fair enough, I’m sure they made enough to just walk away at this point and spend the rest of their days social signaling.
Doesn’t the US already have a claim or something to the land on the border?
If not, it’s a pretty easy ED. Nothing we like for people’s land, but this would be one of the most basic arguments behind it, right? It seems a little different than “we want to build a shopping complex and casino.”
Bridges and border walls are going to survive court challenges to Eminent Domain, even before Kelo.
The “phantom reference:” How a made-up article got almost 400 citations
http://retractionwatch.com/2017/11/14/phantom-reference-made-article-got-almost-400-citations/
Harzing found “most citations to the phantom reference occurred in fairly low-quality conference papers,” and were written by authors with poor English. She said she suspects that some authors may not have understood that they were supposed to replace the template text with their own or may have mistakenly left in the Van der Geer reference while using the template to write their paper.
We’ll have our own World Cup! With blackjack! And hookers!
I thought the original was already the corrupt version.
“It’ll be the best World Cup, classy, classier than the other one!”
To be honest, America should decriminalize sex work and gambling country wide…
They aren’t in the decriminalizing business. I hear they are gonna ban strawberries and rhubarb pretty soon
Not ban, just increase the regulatory requirements for sale.
Nope, ban. They will confiscate all shipments and destroy them voluntarily of course. The Kratom ban was just the start. Now they can ban anything that at least one person called poison control about.
I have my own personal grow of each. You’ll have to come and dig it out my land!
Your land is about to get to get classified as a refuge for triple toed yellow grasshoppers.
See Wickard v Filburn.
Don’t worry Mr Escobar, they will be by shortly to eradicate
Just think of the licensing and training fees one could extort in a legalized sex work industry …
I suggested this immediately after the US was eliminated. Now with Italy to join in, it might happen.
Its the NIT of international soccer!
You say that in jest, but sometimes the NIT is more interesting.
More on Rhodesia.
Once again, the Daily Mail is so far out in front of everyone else. There is some good background for those of us who were concerned with other things in 1980.
Mugabe being out is a great first step for the country. Will he be replaced with more of the same?
I hope it improves and doesn’t follow the traditional African model of replacing one shitty dictator with another shitty dictator.
Don’t worry, it will… follow the existing template for African regime change.
I hope Santa Claus brings me a winning lottery ticket.
The problem in Zimbabwe isnt Mugabe. It never was.
Well, yes and no. To run a formerly productive nation rich in resources into the ground takes a special kind of leadership.
Not that special. Happened loads of times. I mean it would be more special not to run it into the ground
He meant ‘special’.
Mugabe, Chavez, Castro… see a pattern.
So you are saying the problem is colonialism I hope. Otherwise you may end up on thin ice
Zimbabwe is a wonderful land. The problem is that it is full of Zimbabweans. Mugabe will be replaced with someone worse. I see a refugee crisis in their future.
You know who else thought that the problem with a nation was the native inhabitants?
The Ayatollah?
Francisco Pizarro?
Andrew Jackson?
Barack Obama?
No, wait! I know this one. We get more than one guess, right?
Edward Longshanks.
La Raza?
Progressives and Hillary?
Custard?
Custer*
Edward the Longshanks?
Damnit Suthenboy!
Longshanks was great for England.
Suthenboy, beacon of hope.
*thumbs up*
Zimbabwe was Africa’s breadbasket before Mugabe took over and drove the white farmers out.
He gained popular support through anti-white messaging and promises of land redistribution.
The land got redistributed – to people who didn’t know how to farm.
Yep. Good book on Zimbabwe.
But I was told if we just get rid of all the white people, paradise will appear again, like it once was before the white devils.
Well, the white guilt will be gone…
Ok, what is the deal with the Daily Mail? Most times I hear it referenced I hear it with the disclaimer that it’s from the Daily Mail so take it with a grain of salt, but I’ve seen them break multiple big stories that the mainstream often didn’t want to touch, and most of them were pretty good. I know the MSM has set the bar for reputable very, very low, but just how reputable is the Daily Mail on whole?
It’s a tabloid. Doesn’t mean they can’t break real stories like the National Enquirer did with John Edwards.
Damned by faint praise.
I have $110 Trillion Zimbabwe.
I keep it in a cardboard envelope with $1US.
The USD is worth more…
The Daily Mail is out front of everyone else in underage celebrity daughters.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5085515/Kaia-Gerber-resembles-mother-Cindy-Crawford.html
I would have a hard time believing she was under 21 forget under 18
Gotta love how in the caption for most of the images they call an APC a “Tank” but the for some inexplicable reason they correctly identify the same vehicle as an APC.
I guess for most of the reporters it works the same as with guns, all rifles are AR-15’s so all armored vehicles are “tanks”
Look, it’s got armor and a gun on top!
Never mind the door in the back and the side ports for the passengers to see/engage the enemy…
Faceless sex: glory holes and sexual assemblages
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1466-769X.2010.00452.x/full
According to our previous research, the use of glory holes in public venues such as saunas and bathhouses is very popular. The popularity of glory holes is due in part to the anonymous sex that these architectural elements allow. This post-structuralist theoretical reflection seeks to understand the specific nature of anonymous public sex among bathhouse patrons, focusing on the links between desire–architecture–place–sexual practices. Drawing on interviews with glory hole users gathered during an ethnographic research project in bathhouses, this essay goes beyond traditional public health discourse to offer an original perspective on anonymous public sex. Utilizing the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari’s concepts of assemblages and machines, we re-theorize glory hole sex – what we call ‘faceless sex’– and rethink the ways that desire is imbricated with our understanding of architecture, place, and public. Finally, we reflect upon the particular ethical challenges that are posed by these particular sexual practices, and ask whether a post-structuralist ethic might be possible.
Shorter-
Some people have strange kinks.
You won’t get postmodernist brownie points by being short. The longer and more obscurantist the better
If you’re really short, the glory hole can be problematic.
It’s hole, some guys just stick it anything hole shaped.
And then get surprised when it rots off.
+1 Amazonian Dick Mushroom
The real question is why wouldn’t you want to have sex with someone you can’t see.
Nope, nope, nopity, nope! not clicking.
C’mon. It’s Danny Devito.
Architec…NO! The people don’t care about the architecture, they like that they’re getting snu snu from some lady on the other side and don’t have to care that she’s probably a 2 or 3. They like butts, not buttresses.
“Lady” Keep telling yourself that, you might start to believe that’s actually a woman in the next stall.
“saunas and bathhouses” – it seems pretty clear the article is about gay men so no women involved
I know that.
Behold! was sounding willfully obtuse on the matter.
You pretty much have to be willfully obtuse to use a glory hole.
…not that I’d know from personal experience. A friend told me, I swear.
*cancels appointment at local bathhouse*
10 Worst Toys’ list includes swords, drones, fidget spinners
Libertarian Christmas present list.
That list all has one thing in common – all the fears are of people being stupid with what children and what degree of supervision gets applies.
And the damn tightrope? It’s a rope. Of course they’re going to be required to say there’s a strangulation warning. They might have to warn that someone could tie it into a noose and scare the easily triggered.
Irwin Mainway just laughs at these pikers.
“Mr. Mainway, it’s nothing but a bag of broken glass! “
Zombie Strike Dreadbolt crossbow?
I kinda want one just for that ridiculous name
“Price of World Cup rights halve following shock Italy elimination – report
Tuesday 14 November 2017 | 10:22 CET | News
The price of TV rights to the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia have halved following the shock elimination of Italy, according to industry sources cited by La Repubblica. Under a headline reading simply “Goodbye Russia” the report described the national squad’s failure to reach the World Cup for the first time in 60 years as a sporting catastrophe.”
No shit. FIFA ain’t too happy I reckon.
Let me get out my tiny violin…..
It better be played by Paganini.
And it’s a Stradivarius!
You’d think that an organization as corrupt as FIFA wouldn’t let something like that happen.
Their hands were tied when Italy tied Haiti, Luxembourg and lost to Portugal in 2015 thus sealing their FIFA coefficient ranking. They never take it seriously and they paid dearly for it this time.
Not that you care.
To be fair no one should care to much about football.
This.
It stings but I still have to cut my bagel right now.
Not that you care.
I really don’t.
Trump’s America!!
Making Futbol Football Again!
Making Futbol
FootballSoccer Again!It’s not just that I don’t care, it’s that I do not understand what you just said.
It’s both, really.
Well Romania also did not qualify so double pain for FIFA
Damn that hurts. Grabs knee and starts rolling around on the ground. Sees the ref isn’t buying it, so gets up and runs away.
I’m surprised the rights weren’t sold already.
They were still haggling over the proper bribes.
Your Ph.D. Thesis Sounds Funky! Let’s Dance to It
To make their esoteric research more relatable, Ph.D. candidates turn them into wacky videos
https://www.wsj.com/articles/your-ph-d-thesis-sounds-funky-lets-dance-to-it-1510613621
Paywalled.
Utah man says high school mascot’s name sounds like male genitalia
Looks like this will be a long, hard fight.
Just let them play with their balls already.
That school is getting the shaft.
Just make sure all the players are protected.
That may be a bit of a problem, their main rivals are the Trojans.
So sounds like it’s covered.
A stiff resolve, there.
If this guy wins, it will be a seminal moment in mascot history
Yeah the Trojans take all the fun out of everything
Ha. At least their mascot won’t look like a penis, unlike the neighboring school: https://goo.gl/images/7Xmi5M
(My high school)
On the subject of goofy high school mascots…..in Yuma AZ, Yuma High School’s teams are the Criminals.
Its a play on the town’s history. Yuma was the site of the territorial prison.
I only know that because I have several relatives that still live in Yuma.
I knew it because I took the 3:10 there.
IIRC, there was a point where the old prison had to temporarily be used as the high school building. Some of the other school sports teams started taunting Yuma High School for being “criminals,” and YHS decided to own it.
Well its Yuma. There’s plenty of other things to taunt them about.
My wife grew up near a town called Hooker their mascot was the Horny Toads.
That’s running with what you have and having zero fucks to give.
The school district’s rep responded perfectly I think:
damn you!
*shakes fist at compgrokker*
Muhahaha
Teacher: “Ok kids, who can tell me what to do if a crazed gunman starts trying to shoot up the school? Yes Timmy?”
Timmy: “Banzai charge?”
Teacher: “Good heavens no! That’s cultural appropriation. See me after class. Anyone else? Kevin?”
Kevin: “Zerg rush?”
Teacher: “Very good, Kevin.”
Susan: “But if the gun makes him so dangerous, why can’t the teachers stop him with a gun-”
Teacher: “Detention!”
Goddammit, I have this crossed circuit in my memory that mixes up Banzai and Bonzai, and I envisioned a swarm of little trees going after the gunman…
Midget eents™
We can market that UCS.
Those maples are not to be trifled with
The school rep does some great trolling:
To be fair, most kids will not know how to pronounce the word.
They should go with “Punic” instead. That doesn’t rhyme with anything dirty.
SJWednesday: Well, You’re Going to Have to Read This One for Yourself Edition
Derp overload
“As uncomfortable as this may be to admit, women within the military are nowhere near as vulnerable as women, queer, and trans people of color in the third world” – this bit, to be fair, is true
“Of color” seems a bit redundant given the demographics of the third world. Although, I think the author is too ignorant of the source of most third world violence to grasp that it’s sectariant violence between otherwise very similar (in appearance) people that accounts for the bulk of it.
Doggie update.
Vet is still not sure what’s wrong. But, she is doing better. She only had four accidents yesterday.
She is really rocking the diapers.
I saw your post yesterday but the links were already dead.
How old was she when you spayed her? If it is urinary incontinence, I can tell you more about that. Proin will help initially but prepared for the efficacy to decrease over time. My since passed Doberman was spayed too early due to misinformation from the vet and became incontinent. She leaked constantly for the next 7 years. One of the very many vets I saw had 3 female Dobermans, all incontinent, because she spayed before their first cycle.
We spayed her before first cycle on recommendation of the vet.
Our vet told us the opposite. No consensus was our understanding. Similar to…
We chose to wait with our recent pup.
I’ve always had vets who said to wait for the first cycle.
The li’l slut we have now managed to get pregnant on her first cycle, but the spaying took care of that, too.
The spaying before the first cycle is pushed because many vets and the industry (SPCA, etc) figure the greater good of dogs getting spayed before it’s possible to get pregnant is worth the damage done to the occasional individual dog.
Larger dogs and certain breeds (especially Dobermans) are especially prone to incontinence following early spaying. I ended up buying water proof toddler mattresses for our dog and did a load of sheets everyday that covered it. It sounds like it might be incontinence then based on the early spaying and if she was completely housebroken pre-spay. You can try Proin and see if that helps.
Besides incontinence though, it’s good for the early growth development to leave them intact. Think about those castrati.
Yeah, my vet suggested we wait to spay our GSD. No troubles after one cycle.
Yeah, I leave our male dogs intact for as long as we can stand it, just to get the proper development (balls = testosterone = muscle).
I do like to point out to people asking when/if our dogs are “fixed” that castrating a dog is not fixing it, its actually breaking it.
“Fixed” might also mean taxidermied (fixed in place)
There are different degrees and shades of women.
In the early 20th century, progressive intellectuals charted the ‘IQ’ of nations and ranked them accordingly. We (rightly) mock this today but, here the progressives are at it again.
They never learn.
shades of women. – about 50 would you say?
Probably more!
This has to be nearing the asymptote on peak derp doesn’t it?
This is absolutely true, but it has more to do with how women relate to each other rather than anything the military did to them.
Important sportzball news, Australia qualifies for World Cup: http://tinyurl.com/y8jetore
(safe link: goes to Fox Sports Australia)
New Zealand-Peru today for last spot.
Would love to see the Kiwis do it but I think Peru will win fairly easily.
Perus is solid.
I actually caught a couple of their games in qualifying.
Didn’t they semi-choke in their last qualifying game to miss out on automatic qualification?
Yes. I guess they did.
Did I just write Perus?
My God Scotland.
How does a place at the centre of The Enlightenment fall so far back into the darkness of progressivism?
Hitler?
t(-_-t)
As was discussed earlier, all the good Scots left a long time ago.
And if the US was actually a libertarian country thins may make sense. But it is not the case.
I dare say, even in our current corrupted form, we’re a fair sight more libertarian than Scotland.
Hey now, Americans aren’t free to have sex with their sheep. Libertarian my arse.
That depends on the state.
I dunno the US has some bad stuff. And for me it is hard to add up infringements of liberty and decide which is less.
With the whole vice thing US is worse – drugs, gambling, prostitution etc. With police brutality it is worse. With eminent domain like stuff it is worse. It is better with guns, and somewhat better with taxes. Not sure with pointless regulations, you lot have tons of those.
We seem to be heads-and-shoulders better with free speech.
Don’t worry, the progs are working on that one, along with curtailing due process.
True, i give you that
“With police brutality it is worse. ”
I mean, is it? Do Romanian cops not have prisoners “slip down the stairs?”
Sure but the subject was Scotland not Romania.
Do the scots have English poilice where it’s “Stop, or I’ll say Stop Again”? or did they employ Scotsmen?
The US used to be a more libertarian country, but generations of progs starting with Woodrow Wilson ruined it.
Yes, scandinavia and scotland were also more libertarian in 1910
Socialism is a worldwide cancer.
It was at the outset, the constitution is pretty clear on that.
Well it boggles the mind a bit, but sadly that was the trajectory of the world. All countries got rich on freeish market capitalism and then turned prog. I guess the reasons are many, from populism inherent to full popular democracy, to people not valuing liberty, to marvels of public education, to increased utopic thinking with increase prosperity. And a million more.
A lot of the evolution started with compassion for the poor. Industrialization gave rise to a more visible form of poverty which led to massive voluntary efforts to alleviate same. When these didn’t work, or didn’t work quickly enough, there were calls for more to be done. Throw in utilitarianism arguing that preventive efforts were cheaper than cures and you get increasing government involvement. Then, when Bismarck-like figures realize that welfare can be used to increase the power of the nation-state…
I think it was also a lot of top men not liking liberty and finding ways to get the populace under control again. Bread and circus.
Once the unproductive were able to vote themselves free shit and the politicians could buy their votes with taxpayer’s money, it was all over.
Industrialization gave rise to a more visible form of poverty which led to massive voluntary efforts to alleviate same.
Slight quibble. Industrialization brought a whole bunch of poor people to the city/town to work. Poor people dispersed at approximately 1 per five acres who would have to get together and march somewhere are not a huge danger to the rich. Poor people crammed 200 per acre less than a mile from the rich are an acute danger. The best way to keep them from looting your house and factory is buy them off.
Yep, that too. When the “city beautiful” movement was gaining ground in the late 19th century, one of the selling points for redevelopment was to build wide, straight avenues connecting to central government buildings which would make it easier to set up cannons to take care of any rebellions.
Once you get rich with Capitalism, you can afford stupidity like Socialism/Marxism/Progressivism/ad nauseum.
It’s always fun to see a prosecutor get their comeuppance:
If you’re going to drive for a rideshare, get a dashcam and record each trip for your own protection.
Taxi cabUber confessionsIsn’t that the one where she confesses that she doesn’t have the money to pay, but will do anything for a ride, and by “ride” she means she’s horny…
Nice
“You’re so stupid. I want the cops to come so that they can f— you up,” Warner can be heard saying to Platt on the video recording.”
Jesus Murphy.
That was her winning quote. Don’t ever confirm what everybody suspects to be true.
“I’m very sorry for the language I used. I’m not proud of it,” Warner said at a press conference as she fought back tears. “I appreciate being given the opportunity to give my side. I’m not trying to make any accusations against that driver. I don’t know what’s in his heart. I can tell you that not everything he said was true. I never touched him.”
What a bitch. She didn’t even apologize for threatening to use her position offer someone, and guess what honey, your a known liar now, so I’m not going to believe you when you said you didn’t touch him.
She does seem contrite but man that quote above. That’s the troubling one.
You get the feeling when push comes to shove she’d have no problem with that.
Also she’s cutish.
#muhmisogyny
Contrite because she got caught and torched her career. I don’t think she actually believes she was in the wrong.
I’m not sure I read contrite from that statement. It sounds like she’s copping to what can be proven and insinuating that it was justified in a “I’m sorry he put me in that situation” type of thing. She shouldn’t be trusted with the authority of holding the remote, much less any kind of legal power.
I looked at it again. You’re probably right.
That poor woman. It could be weeks before she gets hired back into some other gubmint job where she can rightfully abuse the plebs.
If this dude took a swing at her, he’d be looking at 20 years. She’s a prosecutor AND an attractive woman, so he’d have been out of luck if he hadn’t recorded their interaction. She’s probably just upset she got caught acting like an asshole, I bet more than anything she’s just pissed at him and herself for being so stupid. People that act this way rarely ever act this was just once.
Bingo. She undoubtedly pulled this “Do you know who I am?!” routine many times before.
“If you have to ask if someone ‘knows who you are’, you’re not famous enough or important enough for your name to change their minds.”
oh man that’s some good stuff. what a bitch. glad we have ubiquitous cameras now with our phones.
SJWednesday: Sad Asian Edition
Yep, that’s sad.
My money’s on it’s meaning that it’s a silly bit of nonsense invented by the kind of people who wish to do nothing but wallow in their own imagined travails.
“Asian sadness” – they are not really sad, their eyes are just that way.
I actually lol’d.
https://youtu.be/UEaKX9YYHiQ
So being rude is “healing for marginalized people” and I suppose calling them out for being rude or asking them to stop is the height of oppressive white privilege.
As fun as it is watching them derp harder and harder, I worry that it’s eventually gonna cause a backlash that swings too hard in the other direction.
They have to encourage behaviour that will prevent self-advancement. A courteous and polite person has a better chance of landing a real job, making something of themselves, and not being a perpetual victim.
^This^ Although I don’t think its so calculated, I think it’s just a base “I feel this so I must act on it/its a good idea.” It’s the total lack of inhibitions, self control and long-term thinking.
“…my depression being linked to my Asian American and trans identities…”
You lost me right there. I am sorry you are nuts. I hope it gets better. Goodbye.
n. So, what could “Asian sadness” mean
You suck at math?
“isn’t just something I made up to make myself feel special!”
Sounds like some self awareness is starting to arise in this one. Better ship this unit off to the reprogramming camp before it becomes completely aware.
So, the new CEO of my company is coming to my plant for a tour today. It’s always funny when something like this happens. We try and make this place look nice and clean. It’s impossible.
It’s so clean. Do ya’ll even work?
Presumably, if the CEO is even remotely competent, they’ll look at the actual output of the facility to answer that.
It’s really a statement on middle management that they don’t think a CEO will be able to accept that some heavy industrial facilities are just going to be dirty.
Yeah. But I find that in general – unless you have a fairly experienced, independent middle manager – middle management gets stuck in this mode of only acting on explicit direction from their management.
I’m going to assume the CEO will have no idea what he’s looking at. The production process shouldn’t be his area of expertise.
That strikes me as wrong from an efficiency standpoint. If the CEO is expected to have the final say in projects, they should at least be familiar with how the work being done is actually performed to be able to judge if what the people advising him are shelling out bullshit.
Don’t be surprised if he does. Not every CEO comes up through the finance ranks.
“my plant “? Electricians these days they think they own the place
The people have sized the means production!
Super size me!
I have a little stock in the company, so technically I’m part owner.
Also, the reason we have a new CEO.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-corruption-gerdau-br/police-raid-brazil-steelmaker-gerdau-summon-ceo-to-testify-idUSKCN0VZ09X
Brazil. Where corruption is how it’s done.
Bravo.
What are the odds a President Clinton would be offering her sympathy and support to Bob Mugabe on the morning news?
Just “sympathy and support?” We be pulling another Libya right now.
Speaking ov Lybia, apparently in the Tripoli slave markets, agricultural laborers are going for $800 a pair.
Any good financing deals going on right now?
No, I think it’s a cash and carry only operation. No good contract enforcement now that Gaddafi is gone.
Much better prospects in orphan futures
I want to know why that horrible bitch isnt wearing orange overalls.
Because all the corrupt criminal politicians who operate at the highest levels of our government can’t start prosecuting each other for their crimes. They are all guilty and all work together. If one goes down, that one is going to sing and then the whole scheme falls apart.
In booze news you probably didn’t need. Pabst Blue Ribbon is getting into the bourbon market. They already had invested in New Holland last year, who has a brewery and distillery.
So, instead of just making shitty beer, they will also make shitty bourbon. Got it.
Strange, that’s not labeled Straight Bourbon. Wonder why?
Necessary perhaps because it has only a passing acquaintance with the inside of an oak cask? I have some reservations about a bourbon from the same product line as soda-pop flavored beer.
My guess is that they aren’t doing the distillation, and are purchasing it from one of the industrial ones. Since it’s most likely a blend, it won’t be straight.
And please, it’s not pop flavored beer, it’s flavored malt beverage (still better then alcoholic seltzer water). I was surprised that I hadn’t heard about them investing in New Holland before, they put out a great bourbon for beer lovers called Beer Aged Bourbon, it’s bourbon finished in the casks that they used to age Dragon’s Milk.
My understanding of “straight” was in regard to the aging time, but since you made me look it up, I’m wrong. Aging is one requirement, lack of adjuncts is another, so they can’t call it straight after they flavor it. I remain skeptical regarding the final product.
Eh, po-tay-to, po-tah-to. Fine, fine, I will no longer sully the good name of beer by conflating it with alcopop.
Last night, Zimbabwe’s military stormed the country’s national broadcaster’s studios to declare it is ‘targeting criminals’.
The army was praised today by the nation’s influential war veterans for carrying out ‘a bloodless correction of gross abuse of power.’ The military will return Zimbabwe to ‘genuine democracy’ and make the country a ‘modern model nation,’ said Chris Mutsvangwa, chairman of the war veterans’ association.
Of course they will.
“said Chris Mutsvangwa”
So, what you’re saying is that Mutsvangwa is the next Mugabe? Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Pabst Blue Ribbon is getting into the bourbon market. They already had invested in New Holland last year, who has a brewery and distillery.
Boilermaker in a can?
Also, those tractors New Holland builds will make harvesting the barley more efficient.
This is what I was thinking.
NYT reporter pretends there’s no history of Joe Biden getting handsy with women. Hilarity ensues.
TW: Twitchy
That’s the thing now with the left. They just blanket over stuff.
‘What? Oh that? That never happened!’
I literally had a prog tell me, after all we know of the Clintons, all of a sudden ask for proof of her corruption. It was staggering especially after he just ranted about Trump being a literal racist and Nazi.
I don’t even know how to find the point of entry to debate with them at this point anymore.
They can see one of their own rape a child in front of their eyes and skin a live cat on national TV and still they’ll just blink blindly.
She later doubled down.
had to stop watching. creepy factor too high.
Some of the guy’s commentary is a bit over-the-top (chest grope, Sessions hand swat) but I couldn’t get over the playing with and smelling of hair. Gross!
New York – you suck. I’ll will never, once, ever, call the the Tappan Zee Bridge the Cuomo. Not unless it collapses under the weight of it’s own corruption and stupidity.
You’re not alone.
It corsses the Tappen Zee. Thus, it is the Tappen Zee bridge.
And when you knock on it, you’re tapping the Tappen Zee bridge…
The original bridge was officially the The Governor Malcolm Wilson bridge, but nobody ever called it that. I suspect the same thing will happen with the Mario Cuomo bridge.
Who was Malcom Wilson?
Oh, the chief Toady to Rockefeller.
If you want to get technical, the Tappen Zee Bridge was renamed after Wilson in the 90s.
Oh, and there’s this tidbit about why they picked the second widest point on the Hudson for the bridge:
Hilariously, for a long time when I was a kid, I thought that the Godfather books were written by Mario Cuomo, and that made sense, since he was a corrupt New York politician.
How about a compromise: call it the Mao Cuomo bridge.
That’s not a bad idea, but think the usual suspects will consider that a compliment to Cuomo.
Mother Jones revealed to be nothing more than a Dem propaganda outfit?? Heavens! ENB hardest hit:
When the Pope stopped being Catholic, I got worried.
At least water is still wet.
Are you sure about that?
Unless we can get a grant to study the wetness of water to verify the original findings…
Paid for by taxpayers, of course.
What would you like the answer to be?
/Government Contractor
the Cuomo
That sounds like something referred to in the “academic exploration” of Glory Hole Culture linked above.
All right, I’m going in. My county library has a copy of Zardoz. I just put it in the DVD player…
You fool! That’s obviously a trap to suss out Glibs. Now you’re on a(nother) government list.
(Dons tinfoil, offers roll to Drake)
Have you, or do you plan to, take(n) drugs or drink heavily?
I hope you didn’t get the book.
Do you have your Speedo? It’s not the same experience if you’re not wearing a Speedo.
And crossed pistol belts.
And … he’s gone.
On the tech side of things, FireFox 57 is a steaming pile of shit. They broke NoScript! The best security add-on for any browser.
I blame teh gays.
It seems to me that the Mozilla people actively seek out and kill those features it’s userbase likes.
Some changes I can understand, even if I don’t agree with them (hiding the menu, getting rid of the title bar, removing the status bar), but others just baffle me (getting rid of tab groups, revamping how add-ons work). The worst part is that there’s no notice of what the changes in the new version are. So there’s going to be a lot of people out there who had their browsers configured by their “tech guy” that are going to be a lot more vulnerable until the dev behind NoScript is able to get it updated.
Can you explain them to me then? Because these still baffle me. (I got addons to undo these changes and get the proper look and feel back)
At least in 56.0.2 you don’t need add-ons to bring all of those options back, they put them into the Customization options. As for why, it’s a simple explanation, most users don’t reference them, and it makes the browser look and feel more like Chrome. It’s like FireFox wants to be the second best Chrome, instead of being the best techie browser.
If I wanted a browser that looked and acted like Chrome, I’d have installed chrome.
Exactly.
Grease Monkey is affected, too. Monocle seemed to revert back to a previous version
The rollback isn’t painful. I’d recommend backing up your profiles as a safety measure, but all you have to do is download the 56.0.2 version off of the FireFox site, run the installer, and point it at the same install directory (which should come up as the default). The only think I lost on my home machine when I did that was theme.
I’ll do that at home, but at work I’m stuck with the new one.
Yeah, that side bar thing sucks. Make a change to say a change was made.
No-script, had to disable that as well. bummer.
At some point I guess I’ll check the NYT for a thoughtful, carefully reasoned take on how Trump’s willful thoroughgoing demolition of the State Department and America’s professional diplomatic corps was the root cause of the (thus far) bloodless coup in Zimbabwe. Oh, if only…
“The worst crime for which he can never be pardoned is that he dared [to] malignantly hurt the dignity of the supreme leadership,” the editorial said.
Let you figure out who just said that.
Hitler?
Dr. Evil?
The New York Times?
North Korea sentences Trump to death for insulting Kim. 😀
Had to google it.
Here’s your prize, Cheater.
When did the Norks go soft? They used to promise to bathe American cities in the cleansing fire of nuclear retribution.
“Should the enemy dare to invade our country, annihilate them to the last man so that none of them will survive to sign the instrument of surrender!”
DNC?
Presumably, if the CEO is even remotely competent, they’ll look at the actual output of the facility to answer that.
If he went to Harvard Business School, he’ll probably just ask, “Why aren’t there more robots? Business Week says everybody uses robots these days. When are you guys going to get me some robots? I’m bored, now. I have to buy my wife a present. Do they have jewelry stores in this godforsaken shithole? Where’s my car?”
If the went to Hah-vahd, he’s not competent.
“Is Zimbabwe about to suffer the inevitable end of State Capitalism?”
Apparently, Venezuela has now ran out of other people’s state capitalism.
Chomsky and Sean Penn have a sad
Socialism is going to work next time, we just don’t have the right people yet! Just give us another hundred years and hundreds of millions of people dead or just living in abject misery, and we’ll get it right!
Um, no, state capitalism was amazing under the great Hugo Chavez, it’s that former bus driver who destroyed the man’s legacy. Go back to your cave!
Mother Jones revealed to be nothing more than a Dem propaganda outfit
I am… aghast.
Next you’re gonna tell me that Breitbart is pro-Trump!
Hehehehe.
That links pic is the result of what happens when you invite me to a child’s birthday party.
I’m terrible.
Venezuela has defaulted on its debt, to nobody’s surprise.
But the best part is the correction at the end:
Editor: “There’s no such thing as State Capitalism.”
Reporter: “Yes there is! Its a state that implements socialism wrong!”
Editor: “Just write socialism”
but not “true” socialism like in Europe.
If all that people need are accusations and allegations to assume that someone in the Republican Party is guilty of being a predator, I wonder why nobody in the liberal media, the US Congress, or National Review is talking very much about groping and harassment allegations against GHWB. Inconsistency much?
I think the GOP is making a huge mistake by playing into the Democrats accusations against Moore. What they are doing is teaching the Democrats that all they need to do from now on is pay some people to say ‘he groped me once 40 years ago!’. So what I’m expecting to see is that every GOP candidate from now on will be accused of sexual harassment. Stupid Party, never changing.
The point that I was making was that the GOPe and the Frum/McMuffin wing does protect their own. They’re deeply afraid of insurgents and “those plebes” taking over their party (see Trump and Moore) and are allowing the Democrats to be their opposition research team.
I do think the good old boys are terrified of their business as usual coming to an end. I mean life used to be easy for them, you get elected, go to DC and live like royalty, you do the opposite of what you promised your constituents and get elected to 20 more terms anyway. Life is getting rougher for our royalty.
Executive authority (without the elite’s permission, of course, which is what Obama got) is very limited in scope, but with what little room he has, Trump has done more for conservatives and libertarians in his little pinky than the GOPe has done in decades. That’s what they’re terrified about: base voters are starting to figure them out. The Rand Paul nu-right wing is ascendant, and they got Roy Moore to push out a GOPe appointee in AL and rallied Corey Stewart to within 1 point to beating a Bush-era squish in the VA Governor’s race. The establishment’s worst nightmare is if there are enough of the kooks in the Senate and House to make Mark Meadows and Rand Paul majority leaders.
This is where I feel so deeply conflicted – I don’t actually like Trump or Moore, but goddamn if I don’t want to see the McMuffin types crash and burn.
I don’t like Trump, but I don’t feel any antipathy towards him.
With Moore, I don’t know enough to judge.
Politics is a bloodsport IMO. Libertarians and the nu-right share a lot of the same goals (just not a lot of the SoCon crap), and it takes a coalition to eat away at the political establishment. Trump, despite the sideshow tendencies, has actually done a pretty good job as president and has been one of the most laissez-faire ones in decades. Libertarians should be encouraged by that.
I put this on the overnight link, but if Moore half of one of Trump’s nuts, he’d put this on his campaign site without comment.
Heads would explode like the end of the Kingsmen.
Are you sure you didn’t mean this?
The Stray Cats would have a word…
Always a good choice. I just want him to steer into the skid and I don’t give a shit if he did date a 17 year old 30 years ago. Whoever stands up first to this witch hunt is going to get a bigger pay off than they can imagine.
You’d think the GOP would actually learn something from Trump, but no, they really are the stupid party.
I think part of that is that both parties like the swinging pendulum thing. That explains the GOPs desperate need to lose now. That way they can say ‘look, the Democrats are back in and they’re going to do scary stuff! You better get out and vote for me!’. That keeps worthless politicians in both parties in power.
That pendulum system would not be palatable to politicians, BTW, if the “revolving door” between Congress and the bureaucracy/K Street didn’t exist. When you include that cycle, nobody in the GOPe actually loses their job when they are voted out of office. Rather, they get promoted to an even cushier position. That’s why the nu-right terrifies them so much: they know that if they find their way into power, they’ll be in control for decades because they’ll do things that the voters actually want.
Moore certainly could be a giant perv and I don’t care if he gets destroyed. But if people aren’t worried about the precedent being set, they aren’t paying attention.
Love that. Great band.
Massapequa pride!!! hahaha
…or this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2LQMElLoLs
–This story has been updated to characterize Venezuela’s government as socialist.
*outright, prolonged laughter*
Is Zimbabwe about to suffer the inevitable end of State Capitalism? The military is in the streets and the rumors are flying.
You know it’s a sad state of affairs when a military coup d’etat is the best case scenario.
All of which leads me to an issue that bugs me about Zimbabwe. Some months back, I read that even a majority of the country’s black population would, given the chance, vote for a return of an Ian Smith. That, by any measurable standard, most of their lives were better under Smith than they are under Mugabe. What do you say about a situation that is so fucked up that people would prefer a government that was led by a real honest-to-goodness racist who was racist against them? Does it say something meaningful about where racism falls in the hierarchy of human faults and failings? It’s kind of an uncomfortable topic to think about because, on some level, it does feel like I’m excusing racism. But, what’s the reasonable reaction when the ostensibly oppressed (and in this case, we can forego the quotations) come to a plausibly rational conclusion that nevertheless goes against one’s moral sensibilities?
Was it literally an either/or between “Ian Smith” and Mugabe? Because that I would understand.
I can’t say for sure, but that seems like a reasonable assumption. I rather doubt that it was indicative of any actual fondness for Ian Smith.
It’s not excusing racism. The people of Zimbabwe are acknowledging that their lives were better in Rhodesia, even despite the fact that they were the victims of state-enforced discrimination. I can’t think of a more damning indictment of the Mugabe era than that – even the guy who didn’t give a fuck about them because he believed they were inferior beings fostered a better quality of life than Robert Mugabe.
I have always thought that being a racist isn’t the worst thing you can be. Racists are better people than murderers, thieves, communists, socialists, or rapists.
The left wants to paint everyone as a racist amd then make being a racist the ultimate social sin. I beg to differ.
It’s also a power balance thing. The segregationists, and racial Slavers have no influence in this country. I have known some actual racists in my life. They are stupid for it, but mostly they just say shit like blacks or Mexicans are a drain on the country because welfare and broken homes. I have never met any racists who take action based on their racists beliefs beyond not associating with blacks or Mexicans.
The racists I’ve met have been patronizing “White man’s burden” proggie types who didn’t regard the minorities of being as capable of running their own affairs.
Some months back, I read that even a majority of the country’s black population would, given the chance, vote for a return of an Ian Smith. That, by any measurable standard, most of their lives were better under Smith than they are under Mugabe. What do you say about a situation that is so fucked up that people would prefer a government that was led by a real honest-to-goodness racist who was racist against them?
It’s not just Zimbabweans that prefer life under racists, see this Reason.tv video on South Africa.
Its almost like the most recent genocide in Africa wasn’t black-on-clack, and that tribalism can be just as lethal as racism.
Gosh, a racist who keeps me poor but fed and doesn’t try to slaughter me, or a tribalist who starves and butchers me and mine. Who to choose, who to choose . . . .
You forogt the brutal, systemic rape that accompanies the butchery.
Gosh, a racist who keeps me poor but fed and doesn’t try to slaughter me…
The stats don’t even suggest the “keeps me poor part”. Black Rhodesians’ incomes and standards of living were increasing faster than anyone else’s in Africa at the time. That’s why the Smith thing (to the extent my understanding is true) is a quandary. Here was a guy who was a racist and utterly unfair to a wide swath of the population. At the same time, he ran a government committed to the rule of law, honest (if brutal and unfair) government and some semblance of non-predation.
I mean, it would be awesome if you had something better on the scene. But, how do you evaluate a terrible choice that is still preferable to many of its victims?
tribalism is racism.
Rhodesia was not South Africa. They had a property/wealth/education qualification for voting, which had the classic “disparate impact” racism. The overwhelming majority of voters were white, but there was no racial test for voting. The Rhodesian guiding principle was that representation should be proportional to tax contributions, not to population. Which meant that the whites held the majority of the political power, because they paid the majority of the taxes.
It’s funny because Ian Smith (what does a native Rhodesian know about Rhodesia?) and company said “We can’t just give millions of illiterate peasants the franchise, because they will vote in a Communist dictator and everyone will suffer as a result.” the enlightened Western governments said that was just a cover for vicious racism, that majority rule would not lead to a Communist dictatorship. Guess who was right? Well it turns out the native African who lived in his country even after it turned into a Communist shithole was right the whole time.
The chattering classes of the West have never apologized to the starving and oppressed people of Zimbabwe for taking away prosperity and law and order, and replacing it with a one time vote for Robert fucking Mugabe. They did what felt right, and caused the deaths of thousands of people.
On the other hand, Rhodesia had (effectively) apartheid laws (1947 Native Urban Areas Accommodation Act, Land Apportionment Act of 1930). So, it’s hard to say it wasn’t a racist setup. But, I get your point.
I just checked out 4 chan /pol/ because they’ve done some funny stuff. They don’t seem to like Jews very much. In fact, they seem even a little more hostile to them than Zerohedge commenters.
/pol/ really, really hates Jews. And despite how some defend them, it isn’t trolling. Maybe it once was, but it isn’t now.
Yes, it’s certainly beyond a having a little fun. I don’t get it all.
Yikes – that’s pretty bad. The Zero Hedge comments routinely feel like a Nuremburg rally.
Worse than TakiMag commenters?
Lindy West has the solution
One of comedy’s defining pathologies, alongside literal pathologies like narcissism and self-loathing, is its swaggering certainty that it is part of the political vanguard, while upholding one of the most rigidly patriarchal hierarchies of any art form. Straight male comedians, bookers and club owners have always been the gatekeepers of upward mobility in stand-up, an industry where “women aren’t funny” was considered conventional wisdom until just a few years ago.
The solution isn’t more solemn acknowledgments from powerful male comedians. We have those. The solution is putting people in positions of power who are not male, not straight, not cisgender, not white. This is not taking something away unfairly — it is restoring opportunities that have been historically withheld. And if we address the power imbalance in comedy, in this art that shapes how people think, what jokes they repeat to their families, who they believe deserves to hold a microphone and talk out loud, other imbalances might follow.
What this country truly needs is a network of egalitarian comedy clubs owned and operated by the Ministry of Gender Equity.
Laugh, Prole, or you will be reported to the Ministry of Love.
Nothing like advice on comedy from a scold who doesn’t have a humorous bone in her plus-sized body
“women aren’t funny”
That’s just wrong. I laugh at women all the time.
Well, she is half-right; women aren’t funny, individuals are funny.
Notable omission: white. Apparently pretending that people are excluded from comedy based on race is too unbelievable a lie even for them.
…did she just admit she wants to be the thought police?
Yup
That’s the part that particularly caught my eye as well.
It’s all top-down, central plan, Top Men with these people, all the time. I think the vast swath of them really never made it past “Teacher makes the rules” level of thinking about anything.
“You Smith, 6079! You’re hardly laughing! Get your gut into it!”
Uh… Moms Mabley, Phyllis Diller, Joan Rivers, LaWanda Page, Shirley Hemphill, Marcia Warfield, Carol Burnette, etc. think that Wast person has been living under a rock.
A pattern with certain categories of collectivists, they conflate “Women” with “Feminists”.
There’s also Tina fey. Also, one of the biggest behind the scene names in stand-up comedy back in the 70s and 80a was Mitzi Shore, owner of the the Comedy Store in LA. Name any big name comic from the 80s, and odds were she helped give them their big break.
I recently binge-watched 30 Rock and Fey is just amazing. She might be the very last self-aware and self-deprecating Leftist around. The show holds up quite well.
Betty White, Gilda Radner, Lucille fucking Ball… ring any bells, honey?
I’m late to the show but, Thanks for Lucy!
*charges rifle*
Now laugh!
Why does the NYT keep publishing this idiot? Are they that desperate for clickbait?
“…restoring opportunities that have been historically withheld.”
I dont even know what to say. There is so much wrong with that it is hard to know where to start.
Y’all are missing one thing: The Patriarchy is code for the enlightened west. That is why all of the gibberish about replacing straight, white men with…whatever. That is why all of the stuff she says about the power structure is inaccurate. Garble barble gibbery gibberish destroy the existing power structure that doesnt exist because reasons that dont exist and replace it with….three guesses what …
Why don’t people ever say WHO is going to put people in power?
/rhetorical question
Because the answer is “whoever is speaking is the arbiter of who should be in power”.
Whoever has thelawyers, guns and money.
“Bravo! The wolves devour each other!”
Vice gets hammered for their toxic work environment.
It’s not something that can be understood unless you read Daily Kos, but the wimmenz wing of the Democratic Party hates the BernieBros. The fact that the feminists are eating Vice is par for the course.
I love watching this shit.
“The New School Invites Linda Sarsour to Lead Panel on Anti-Semitism
Founded in 1919 by progressive New York intellectuals, The New School rose to prominence two decades later, when it took in a small band of Jewish intellectuals fleeing the Nazis. Eminences like Hannah Arednt, Leo Strauss, and Erich Fromm all benefited from the institution’s commitment to taking in the victims of the world’s most ancient and persistent hatred and giving them a place to pursue their ideas in peace.
How things change: Later this month, the university will co-sponsor a panel on anti-Semitism that will feature, among others, Linda Sarsour, who opined that “nothing is creepier than Zionism,” praised Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, and believes one cannot support the right of Jews to a homeland of their own and still be a feminist. Alongside Sarsour will be Rebecca Vilkomerson, who heads the odious Jewish Voice for Peace. The group, as an ADL report aptly put it, “uses its Jewish identity to shield the anti-Israel movement from allegations of anti-Semitism and to provide the movement with a veneer of legitimacy.” Among JVP’s recent achievements are the enthusiastic support of Rasmea Odeh, a Palestinian terrorist convicted of a bombing attack on a Jerusalem supermarket that left two young students dead and who was recently deported from the United States after lying about the incident on her immigration forms. The group is also a frequent supporter, despite its allegations to the contrary, of Alison Weir, an activist robustly promoting modern-day blood libels against Jews.
It goes without saying, sadly, that the event—which is co-sponsored by prominent progressive institutions like the radical magazine Jacobin—features not a single actual scholar of anti-Semitism, nor one voice that doesn’t belong comfortably in the deep left. In supporting this pathetic farce, then, the New School betrays its mission and its heritage twice: First by inviting some of the leading purveyors of anti-Jewish prejudice to discuss anti-Semitism, and second by failing to invite to the panel anyone who might disrupt the torrent of invective with dispassionate facts and real expertise.
“At its founding,” the invitation to the event concludes, “The New School offered a refuge and funding for nearly 200 Jewish scholars during Hitler’s purge of Jews from Germany. The New School Creative Publishing and Critical Journalism program has allowed us to humbly step into a long tradition of combatting antisemitism.” What a sick joke.”
http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/249390/the-new-school-invites-linda-sarsour-to-lead-panel-on-anti-semitism
The organizers thought it was to be a How-to session.
It’s a cookbook!
What, David Duke wasn’t available?
They needed the “Diversity” representatives of the anti-semite community.
Alright. I KNOW you guys say there’s no such think as peak derp, and you’re constantly proven right, but guys..
I think this is peak derp.
Yeah I think I’m calling it too.
They would’ve invited Hitler, but, you know…
He was a straight white male?
In what way is the modern left not straight-up international fascists?
A little something for all the guys who say they think Ana Kasparian is cute, check this out.
Nope, never did. I think she’s a collectivist bitch who characterizes anyone who didn’t vote for Clinton as a racist.
But she thinks she’s better than you.
MUCH better.
I thought TYT encouraged people to vote for Jill Stein, but I could be thinking of the wrong proggies.
Pretty sure they went with they both suck but you gotta vote Hillary.
Sorry, my wokometer must be broke.
What is sexist about looking at women not wearing makeup, again? Isn’t makeup a tool of the patriarchy, and not wearing it liberating?
Only because that’s that woman’s choice to not wear it. Having an app that shows what a woman really looks like that does wear makeup, is sexist. Because then you know she’s actually an ugly hag.
Does the app actually use some identifiable method of determining underlying skin tone, or does it apply a texture filter to make it look like it did?
I don’t know. But it’s pretty amusing. Is this what a lot of people have said about mila Kunis without makeup? Because if that’s accurate, wow, she is awful without it.
From the amount of eye shading left on the “without” image – it’s a filter. There’s no acctual processing going on. The app is nothing but an amusing funhouse mirror. It will probably produce a “without” image for a face that isn’t made up.
You can also see the change in shading on the letter behind her, so yeah, just a filter.
Who?
All you need to know is that she’s fucking better than you!
The only thing I know about Ana or TYT is that the youtube highlight video of their election night meltdown is, hands down, my favorite way to relive the election night schadenfreude. My GOD did those smug retards implode in spectacular fashion, and those masks just got torn to shreds right there on live TV.
Really, if you haven’t watched it, you owe it to yourself.
Thought you might go with this song.
https://youtu.be/xw0EozkBWuI
She’s back
About six years ago, colleges began offering better support and justice for victims, pushed in part by a grass-roots movement among students themselves. But in September, pundits across the political spectrum approved when the Education Department rolled back some Obama-era rules that had broadened protections for college sexual assault victims, ostensibly because they robbed accused students of their right to due process in campus courts. Obama’s rules were already pro forma at some colleges before his 2011 federal guidance, so I believe the backlash isn’t truly about government policy, but discomfort about the change in how students approach the problem of sexual assault today.
The number of students who have come forward publicly with stories of sexual assault has skyrocketed, but the number of students who are willing to report sexual assault to their administrators is still relatively tiny. In 2014, 20.2 million students attended college in the United States, but they reported only about 6,700 sexual assault incidents to their universities compared with 2,200 reports in 2001. The increased visibility of victims in college may seem alarming, but it almost certainly does not reflect a spike in the number of sexual assaults. It reflects a much more positive trend: Like today’s actresses, college students are casting off the shame of victimhood to tell their stories.
What a giant steaming pile of bullshit and innuendo.
Let’s see; out of 20 million students, 6700 reported some sort of discomforting sexual event. But that artificially inflated number is encouraging, because she gets to run around shrieking about “sexual violence” in places like the opinion section of the NYT. We need to define rape down. Down, down, down. Let a million victims bloom.
Let a million victims bloom.
*Feels like there must be a “deflowering” joke out there somewhere, can’t quite come up with it*
Robby did NOT make the list this year in his final year of eligibility
The transgender guy (actually, he, uh, xe is non-binary) went to my HS and we graduated the same year. Nice guy, but above Lauren Southern in most influential? Not a chance.
Good stuff. As he says, we expect more from Forbes. Well, we used to expect more from Forbes.
When I look these up-and-comers under 30 type lists (local newspaper does it to) I think to myself; these are self promoting idiots who don’t know their elbow from their asshole.
To be sure, all these other people probably deserve to get more recognition.
“Science proves kids are bad for Earth. Morality suggests we stop having them.
A startling and honestly distressing view is beginning to receive serious consideration in both academic and popular discussions of climate change ethics. According to this view, having a child is a major contributor to climate change. The logical takeaway here is that everyone on Earth ought to consider having fewer children.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/science-proves-kids-are-bad-earth-morality-suggests-we-stop-ncna820781
Malthusians are a perrenial fungus.
More like a perineal fungus.
It’s always funny to me how these suggestions come from people and think tanks that haven’t put their money where their mouths are and killed themselves already.
something something Nikki
Hmm, I bet a bio-ethicist is involved, * clicks article, confirms suspicion*. Wow is there any more contemptible field of studies than bio-ethics?
Paper mache Trump and rage-inducing signage. Just go ahead and tell me how these people aren’t sanctioned bandits? Fuck.
“Sweden lists milk as a hate symbol
n a new report on “the white hatred” in Sweden, by the Total Defense Research Institute (Foi) commissioned by the government to map comments written on sites on the internet, milk is listed as a hate symbol and a symbol of “white power,” along with the okay-symbol much used by Donald Trump.
The stated purpose of the report is to “provide an insight into some digital environments whose common denominator is that they are all xenophobic”.
Expressing threats or profanity is considered to be an example of hatred, but expressions of anxiety or fear are also considered to be hatred, according to the report.
The report is of course the first step to change the constitution, which the Swedish government wants to do to prohibit certain websites that reveal the ethnicity of convicted criminals, and to silence free speech.”
speisa.com/modules/articles/index.php/item.3997/sweden-lists-milk-as-a-hate-symbol.html
Oh for fuck’s sake. That’s it’ Sweden, you are officially no longer capable of governing yourselves.
“‘Problematic’ Makeup Removing App ‘MakeApp’ Causes Mass Triggering
A new makeup removing app named “MakeApp” from Russian developer Ashot Gabrelyanov is causing a triggering on levels never before seen.”
http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=57634
Malthusians are a perrenial fungus.
A few days ago, there was a letter in the Bozeman paper from some idiot (I think he’s a former mayor or city council member) about how “unrestricted growth” is destroying the Gallatin valley in particular, and the earth in general. It may be different than it was 25 or 50 years ago, but Montana is not “full” by any conceivable interpretation of the word, and these people just make themselves look stupid by bleating about it.
The wheels on the bus go round and round
Bill Clinton should have resigned
TW: Vox
Translation: Now that he can’t help the cause anymore, it’s time to hold Bill accountable.
Now that Bill has served his purpose, we can throw him under the bus so we don’t look like raging hypocrites when we attack Moore as a sexual predator with no proof.
They do know that Bill was elected twice and that Hillary lost, right?
That’s a pretty frank and literal admission of exactly what everyone is accusing them of, looking the other way until it didn’t matter.
No kidding.
now that Hillary is out of electoral politics and has emerged as a bigger draw and more potent political force than her husband
SRSLY?
Why does the NYT keep publishing this idiot? Are they that desperate for clickbait?
Peruse, if you dare, the comments on Lindy West’s NYT articles. They are chock full of slavering adoration for her literary style and extraordinary insight.
I shit you not.
There are several well-liked comments that disagree with her on the identity politics aspect. I was happy and surprised to see a few comments disagreeing with her on this with 100+ likes.
This was the most jaw dropping one I found:
Insisting that everyone be held to the same standard is insisting on special white male privileges.
Apparently every white dude in California is George Wallace.
1) Big Jet TV’s live show was at a reasonable hour today, so I actually got to watch it live;
2) Just as the show started, I got a call from the guy that recruited me for my last job. He was calling about the USAID position I had been speaking to my former boss already. 99% sure the job is mine.
3) JUSTICE WILLETT TWEETED!!!!
Was the content anything of note, or just confirmation that Willett was alive?
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2017/11/15/i-cannot-dem-sen-patrick-leahy-seriously-called-out-justice-willett-over-this/ Bacon Magic hardest hit.
Just a Calvin Coolidge quote, but hope this is a sign of things to come. His confirmation hearing is today
ah, okay.
I just strained my eyes rolling them.
I haven’t seen a transcript or quote yet, but apparently Al Franken “lectured” him about his tweets.
Is it too late to chellenge the ballots he “found” in his trunk and get him thrown out?
It is impossible to take him seriously as a Senator.
https://twitter.com/Living4Winter/status/930858279919607808
What a coincidence
And further down
What really struck me though were bits like:
“After years of imbalance, a shift in economic power towards workers is to be welcomed”
Has The Economist always been this commie?
The Economist has been full blown Keynesian for as long as i have seen it.
Finally we are getting that Obama recovery going on!
99% sure the job is mine.
Fingers crossed.
“If it wasn’t for the .ru, you’d totally believe this was a Scot”
No way, that is totally a Slav squat.
I really love that feel-good story of the Texas prosecutor getting canned. If that driver hadnt have recorded her he would likely be still sitting in jail protesting his innocence.
Me too. I just listened to the source audio. Pulling felony/kidnapping threat charges out of her ass. Fucking delicious how her creepy sociopathic dream to be an ADA vapourised.
She should have been charged with a crime or two – civil rights violations, at a minimum.
Hey, it’s not too late…