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Susan Gomez, 60, of Hermosa has lived her whole life in Chicago and said she just learned of the Balbo Monument’s existence. She was one of the protesters who came out to rally for its removal.
“Now that I know, I’m like ‘what the hell?’” she said.
That’s some engaged civic-mindedness right there if I’ve ever seen any.
Every time I post I get a 500-level error (usually 504 gateway timeout) but the comment does not appear to land in the moderation queue. (unless you approve mine extra-quick)
This is the greatest article I have read this week.
John Titor
They’re also having to redesign a couple of their combat vehicles because they’re based on when the PLA was half-starved like most of China, so now they’ve grown a couple inches on average and can’t fit anymore.
KibbledKristen
Time for another Cultural Revolution to get these millennials in shape!
Vhyrus
They check testicular vein size as part of the application? What the fuck.
Playa Manhattan
Define “too much”.
Sean
When the other people on the bus start complaining.
Nephilium
Now how am I supposed to blow off work this afternoon?
In other related news (that no one but me cares about), just had an interview that went well, so hopefully I’m only at the terrible job for a brief while longer.
Number.6
Fingers crossed. Hope it pans out.
Nephilium
Thanks, I appreciate it. Spoke to the manager on my lunch break today, have a call scheduled with one of their engineers this afternoon, and the manager said I should get a response from them by early next week. No hesitation at my expected salary range, which means I should have gone higher.
Number.6
Fingers crossed, man. Good luck.
Tundra
So, fingers crossed then?
Thanks for the response to my Lemmy question. I am jealous.
Number.6
The things was that while the Lemmy (not even really an anecdote, because I doubt I registered on his radar) experience was fame-y, I actually got to be on the fringe of a number of other bands, not in a groupie-way, but more like a willing Glibertarian ‘orphan’.
A fair number of my weekends were spent rolling amps and freight boxes in and out of Ford Transit vans for gigs around the south of England. Some bands that became bigger names (and some that never made it into anyone’s consciousness) were so dirt poor that they couldn’t easily support proper roadies, so they relied on a “such-and-such is in that town, give him a call an maybe he’ll help out for a couple of beers and a spliff” network, so I did get to meet some people who’d already had their day in the sun, and some that would later do the same.
To an older, more cynical mind, it was pretty exploitative, but are you being exploited if you wanted to do it? It was a hobby. From 15-18 at weekends, and then for 3 years when I was at college I could put in a few hours’ effort and get beer, drugs, entertainment and on occasion, some pretty enthusiastic sex (from female fans) when all I’d be doing otherwise was fapping off or some such activity. What’s more, when the band moved on, I was still in that town, which is where those freaky females (mostly) still lived.
Antibiotics still worked, feminism was still ‘second stage’ and because computers barely existed, I had plenty of time on my hands. Life was good.
Vhyrus
I’m not able to get on through work anymore. Phone works but is slow.
The Late P Brooks
I was checking out “(anti-)business insider” on my phone and saw a breathless expozay! about how all consumer products offered for sale on this planet are controlled by a tiny cabal of megakkkorporations. All our food choices re controlled by Nestle! A-B Inbev brews all the beer in the universe! We’re totally the pawns of uberrich kkkapitalists who control our every thought and deed.
robc
I have managed to go years without buying an AB Inbev product. Well, maybe not years, I have purchased Hoegaarden more recently than that. But you get the idea.
Helicopter rides are extremely wasteful. I expect Chileans to love that kind of inefficiency, but not libertarians. Our initial plan of woodchippers and using the byproducts for fertilizer, industrial lubricants and orphan chow is clearly superior.
The result: Some sad Englishman locking a HWNDU flag in his house, away from prying eyes on a live stream, and constantly defending it, terrified 4chan will come for it.
When you’ve gone from ‘massive public forum art display’ to ‘cowardly hiding in your house with your flag’ it’s clear who the winners were.
Just Say’n
What happened to the Great Meme War? Is everyone still regrouping in their mom’s basement?
The brief lifespan of memetic imagery resulted in massive causalties that brought the war to a swift and inconclusive resolution.
John Titor
I haven’t been hanging around /pol/ for awhile, but I assume what normally happens, most people get bored and find other goofy shit to do.
Microaggressor
Now they’ve started making memes about punching Nazis.
The joke is that they’re using domestic violence posters as the base imagery.
It’s surprisingly clever. Look for it on the twatters.
F. Stupidity Jr.
I still have yet to find out who won the Great Skeltal War.
Slammer
You’re seeing now a veteran of a thousand memetic wars,
I’ve been living on the edge so long, where the winds of Limbo roar.
And I’m young enough to look at,
And far old to see, all the stars are on the inside.
I’m not sure that’s there’s anything left to me
Just Say’n
My hero
commodious spittoon
DN NUH NUH DN NUH NUH DNF
Chipwooder
You know, I never actually watched the videos from Shia’s stupid livefeed before, but I clicked one of the links from your link and…..it’s one thing to read about a bunch of dolts standing around chanting for hours on end, but actually watching it manages to be repulsive and hilarious at the same time.
ChipsnSalsa
Cycling continuing finding new ways to keep itself as one of the premier racist sports in the world.
Noted confederate general, Christopher Columbus, faces the chopping block in our new era of iconoclasm. Remember certain writers who virtue signaled how they supported taking down confederate statues, but would totally oppose efforts to go farther than that? They were lying the whole time. This will get worse
“Why Not Pay Women to Stay Home and Raise Children”, asks the American Conservative. Showing once again that most conservatives don’t necessarily want to shrink the size and scope of the state, they just want to tinker with what government funds.
They’ve been gunning for Columbus since at least the 80’s.
Just Say’n
True, but I think it’s funny that this has obviously expanded beyond confederate generals (which any sane observer would have predicted). Don’t expect the liars who said they would oppose further iconoclasm to actually follow through on that
Scruffy Nerfherder
I agree.
commodious spittoon
IOW a tolerable wedding-day story for the ages.
commodious spittoon
(psst, what is a line brawl?)
Vhyrus
I assume it’s like line dancing but you punch the people to your left and right.
commodious spittoon
Hah!
Scruffy Nerfherder
That paying women to to stay home article is almost the dumbest shit I’ve read this week.
Consider, to return back to the “social engineering” objection, the case of the American suburbs. Quite a few of the conservatives who abhor Cass Sunstein-style policymaking as some kind of proto-Communism seem to think there is something new and ominous about it. But, if they live in a suburban house, they are living out a social engineering experiment every day. The GI Bill, the government subsidization of home mortgages, the building of roads and infrastructure further and further outside the cities, were all results of deliberate policy in the postwar era. Without a concerted effort by government to build the American middle class in the 1950s, there would be no suburbs, no strip malls, no sprawl, or at a minimum, they would not have become our country’s defining landscape. The very fabric of American life would be drastically different.
MUH BURBS, WHERE ARE MUH BURBS?
Just Say’n
And the argument isn’t even really true. The suburbs, for the most part, are less a result of rent-seeking than what occurs in cities today. I like the American Conservative, but every now and then they print such a tone deaf article (usually Pat Buchanan’s recent articles)
invisible finger
The suburbs are a result of the rent-seeking going on in the cities. And by rent-seeking I mean taxation.
One could argue that the interstate system was a de facto subsidization of the burbs, but the entire thing was cooked up as part of the red scare. Otherwise, the growth in the suburbs is directly tied to cities changing their tax laws to put a larger burden on businesses (as well as the explosion of zoning laws and their inherent corruption). When the large employer moves to the outlying areas to escape things like a city “head tax” the employees will eventually follow them. The large employers moving back into cities now are only doing it because of subsidization.
Chicago had to drop their head tax AND enact all sort of corrupt Tax Increment Financing districts to get any non-retail and non-residential development. And all that does is ass-fuck the people living in the city and paying taxes. The only people moving into the city are foreigners too stupid to know the ass-raping they’re going to get and college graduates with no mouths to feed other than their own. The instant they actually start families they look to escape the tax hell. And the city s fine with that as it prevents them from having to maintain a school system.
Just Say’n
I like most of this post. I’d only quibble with the immigrant part. Demographics show that suburbs are no more racially and ethnically diverse than most cities. Cities have become playgrounds for rich white liberals and college kids. Immigrants can’t afford to move to them anymore.
Just Say’n
‘suburbs are now more…”
John Titor
Sounds like you need to replace them all with Leif Erikson, the true hero. Now where did he land again? Oh right.
Just Say’n
Yes. There is no negative historical connotation connected with any Vikings
Tundra
Just four SB losses….
Just Say’n
The unbearable pain that must come with being a Vikings fan.
BakedPenguin
I follow the Broncos I feel their pain.
Of course, we also have ’98, ’99, and ’16.
John Titor
Nothing horrible about Leif in the Sagas though. He just showed up, wintered here, and came back to Greenland with some grapes and wood.
Just Say’n
Yeah, but he discovered Canada. That’s a pretty offensive legacy
Vhyrus
Did he say ‘sorey!’ when he bumped into it?
John Titor
Actually he discovered Newfoundland, which only became a part of Canada in 1949 after they bankrupted themselves.
But that’s ok, I know that American maps have everything labeled outside their country as “HERE BE DRAGONS.”
Newfoundland, which only became a part of Canada in 1949
Everything up north is still subservient to the Queen, so as far as I’m concerned it’s all part of the Empire. Canada has like a dozen different dates for important milestones that amount to nothing more than rearranging the chairs in the living room. Wake me up when you finally decide to go outside.
Rufus the Monocled
WE DON’T WANT TO JOIN NO STINKING CONFEDERATION!
/looks down at bank account.
WHAT’S THIS YOU SAY ABOUT EQUALIZATION PAYMENTS?
John Titor
Canada is a Dominion, which means, historically, that’s it’s a self-administered country within the British Empire. The Queen is the head of state but that is the only section of the British political system that has any influence over us, and it’s never really been used in any capacity whatsoever. We make our own decisions, and historically whenever we pushed for more power (demanding an independent seat separate from Britain at the 1919 peace conference, for example) they’ve folded pretty quickly. Also, the Empire is dead, Canada’s part of its successor alliance, the Commonwealth.
A union of independent states being slowly crushed by overwhelming federal authority for the past hundred and fifty years should not be so quick to judge.
Rufus the Monocled
I’m just commenting to increase the work load because I like to bust.
Brendan O’Neill with Spiked has some helpful information for everyone
Just Say’n
I accidentally posted a whole bunch of links that are still in moderation. This is all I wanted to post. Please delete oh great and powerful edit fairy
Rufus the Monocled
And very helpful it is!
Just Say’n
It’s really a public service announcement
Suthenboy
Damn! It’s fixed? I got here too late to flood the queue with dozens of inane comments.
OT: Why did no one conceive of the Free City Project instead, if not in addition to, the Free State Project? There are many cities with similar populations to New Hampshire, many of which are utter shitholes in desperate need of an infusion of liberty.
DOOMco
That would be smart.
The Zenome Project
You have to pick an “ungentrified” city with significant population decline so that liberty-lovers are not outnumbered by food stampers. I think a Rust Belt city in Ohio or Michigan would be a good target, like Youngstown, Flint, or Toledo.
R C Dean
I think people are more likely to move to New Hampshire than some urban rust belt shithole, which are firmly in the grasp of crony prog corruptocrats.
The Zenome Project
NH has its advantages and disadvantages. It apparently has a long history of conservative politics, an anomaly in the NE, and it has a small enough population for libertarians and non-traditional conservatives to make a difference. The problem is that it is boxed in by Progtopias in Vermont and Massachusetts.
Number.6
Well, it’s my understanding that Connecticut too *had* a long history of conservative politics, but look at it now.
DOOMco
that might help. Everyone who wants to leave only has to move 50 miles.
Number.6
Flint would be an excellent choice. You have a population that seems to be rightfully incensed with local bureaucratic malfeasance with the water pollution issue, and then it’s also the spawning ground of noted freedom-hugger, Michael Moore.
The Last American Hero
Never mind that the current population consists of blacks (vote 95% prog), union members (vote 85% prog) and college students at UM Flint (vote 90% prog).
It’s all prog all the time there, and they love free trade so much, they will slash your tires or key your car if you leave a Honda unattended in the parking lot.
Chipwooder
I could have sworn people talked about this sometime not long ago with Petersburg VA, since it’s a dying shithole.
The Zenome Project
I have a large family in a nearby town. Too many people are tied to or employed by the state government in the area to make much of a difference politically (next door to Richmond).
Chipwooder
I live in Richmond – I don’t think many state workers commute into RVA from Petersburg. It’s kind of far for one thing, and then there’s that dying shithole part.
Number.6
First we take Toledo
Then we take DC
Mad Scientist
We could buy most of Detroit for $20 and a box of doughnuts.
Number.6
The box of donuts being the pay-off to the DPD.
mr simple
Do you really think libertarians want to live in that close of proximity to other libertarians, let alone other people? That would be terrible. Everything you do would be judged to show how not True-libertarian you are.
The Zenome Project
I thought libertarians like to leave each other alone…or so I thought. Who leaves each other alone harder?
Scotticus Finch
I always picture the one guy on every street in Libertopia.
Me: “Whoa, your house is a serious shade of green, Frank. The stripper pole by the mailbox is fun. And is that… is that topiary supposed to be Old Mrs Sanders getting fucked by… oh, that’s you, isn’t it, Frank?”
Frank: “I know! Isn’t it great? And nobuddy can do nuffin about it!”
Scotticus Finch
(And yes, it still beats a power-hungry, vindictive HOA in non-Libertopia.)
Tulip
I would laugh every time I walked past.
Scotticus Finch
Decent odds this is just projection. I’ve always had a thing for Old Mrs Sanders.
Number.6
And if it wasn’t for that damned Old Mr. Sanders, you would have got away with it too!
Raven Nation
There was one libertarian proposal to convert Detroit to a free city. Don’t remember which group but I think there was a vid interview with them over at TOS.
There is a free city in Honduras.
The Last American Hero
And given that the population’s political arguments are over whether Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, or Louis Farrakhan would be the best president, you’d have to import half a million libertarians to swing the city council.
R C Dean
Welp, now Monocle shows every comment as a new comment.
R C Dean
Aaand, now it doesn’t. Never mind.
Dr Mossy Lawn
That is because they edited the typo in the initial link… resetting the cookie cache.
Just Say’n
They have cookies? What kind?
Tundra
Fig Newtons, I hope!
mr simple
That’s not a cookie; it’s fruit and cake!
Tundra
You’re fruit and cake.
/really bad trash-talker
Mad Scientist
Is the cake free? Where can I get some?
Number.6
Dude, it’s cake, and we all know that the cake is a lie,
Nephilium
Oldfield: Hey Glatt, you little fuckin’ dick weed. You try any of that shit you did against Hamilton on me, I’ll light your fuckin’ ass up!
Doug Glatt: Hey! I’ll light your ass… back up… on fire.
Scruffy Nerfherder
Little Debbie’s of course
Dr Mossy Lawn
Thin mints of course:
actually it is URL indexed javascript localstorage.. not cookie based..
ChipsnSalsa
I understand those words but it doesn’t make sense when put in that order.
Dr Mossy Lawn
Looking at the javascript it is cookie data:
last_visit tells the WordPress backend to set the entry to have a “new-comment” attribute attached to it.
localstorage is just used for the long term monocle options storage.
ChipsnSalsa
*eyes glaze over*
Yusef drives a Kia
I had to work and missed it all, But I’m off til Sunday at 9PM when I get to shut down a Restaurant Refrigeration system, fix it, and bring it back online, by 7AM Monday, good times!
Is the DDOS targeted at us or are we just collateral damage? Because right now, the site is acting a lot like its squirrel infested. I had a snappy quip, no links, that timed out over and over, so I gave up.
So it *could* have been someone watching my name server, seeing me me change some entries to point to Dream, and then coming after me.
I’m so glad my paranoia is justified.
OTHO, more seriously, any credible information around regarding some group taking credit for the DDOS? My money is on an FBI botnet
<fx: adjusts tin-foil KKK hood>
Dr Mossy Lawn
That is then out of Glib’s control… and it sucks.. I’m on our corporate DDOS team, building protections and countermeasures is not a simple task.
Number.6
Now there’s a job title that comes straight out of a Neal Stephenson novel.
Of course, being a member of a corporate DDOS team would have you come in one morning and initiate a ‘project’ against Weyand-Yutani.
Then a 1980’s-era Rutger Hauer would pop an alert requesting your presence in Meeting Room 3, where you discover you were working for Weyland-Yutani all along.
… and then the plot gets interesting …
Gray Ghost
#6, can it have ’80s Sean Young in a pencil skirt? Or ’90s Tia Carrere works too.
Number.6
Top marks for wanting chicks in there, but I have a countersuggestion.
I’ll counterpropose Tawny Kitaen (same level of cray-cray, much hotter, but not as good at acting, but hey, who cares?) and for the 90’s, I’ll propose Kari Wuhrer, or maybe Susanna Hoffs.
‘cos really, who the fuck would be watching the chicks for their acting skills?
The Late P Brooks
Wait by the phone for the ransom demand. We’ll tell you how much, and where to drop it. And no cops!
Number.6
TLPB as the Zodiac Killer.
Awed.
Juvenile Bluster
Sure, Brooks. No cops. Bring your dog when you come for the ransom drop. The.. people… I’m sending to make the drop-off just love dogs.
He should get a team working on it now. It would be so easy to get the media to swallow a big one (phrasing) and go absolutely ballistic.
*readys popcorn for next April*
Number.6
“With the inability of Congress to propose any useful legislation, I have today signed an executive order to have all children under the age of 6 drafted to work in one of my international network of plastic Pink Flamingo factories. This directive will come into effect in 5 minutes’ time. Please take the opportunity to spend those few precious moments with your beloved offspring.”
Yusef drives a Kia
This is What I’m talking about, Orphans work free, and as soon as they get old enough to resist,
Into the Woodchipper, Fodder for the next generation, It’s Self Sustaining, environmentally Conscious too
“I have signed papers for the involuntary commitment of Nancy Pelosi”
Number.6
In California-speak, “I 5150’d her”
Mad Scientist
I have a vague memory of Candid Camera pulling a prank on a president who liked to take a walk to get the newspaper every day. They’d have this woman stand on the corner and say, “Good morning, Mr. President” as he walked by. Then she’d hop in a van and they’d run down the street and drop her off at the next corner. “Good morning, Mr. President.” Repeat a few more times and hilarity. Nowadays, that prank would be impossible.
Vhyrus
OOOH I just thought of one. He can hold a press conference declaring the democratic party a terrorist organization.
The Last American Hero
3/31 Tweet:
Headed to Area 51 for a big announcement tomorrow.
Years ago, a local TV station somehow had that Simpsons screenshot as as their oh shit tape. One glorious outage I saw it broadcast live as they were having problems.
Walther updated their P22 (now P22QD) to add a decocker.
California-compliant P22 models remain unchanged.
lol
Vhyrus
They can’t legally change them because it would require them to instantiate firing pin microstamping, which no one is actually capable of doing.
ChipsnSalsa
firing pin microstamping
By those words I’m understanding that a firing pin would have a stamp on it that would mark each shell when fired? Would that have to be unique? How fast would that be ground off by regular gun owner?
Vhyrus
Its supposed to stamp the serial number of the gun into each fired primer. By law it has to be setup so filing the number off makes the gun malfunction. It’s total bullshit on par with smart guns that’s designed to create a de facto gun ban.
Raston Bot
criminals could pick up their casings?
mexican sharpshooter
Exactly, revolvers would make a comeback.
Number.6
“Daddy, why does your gat look like a Gutenberg Press?”
mexican sharpshooter
To my understanding the firing pin leaves a unique mark on the primer already, which is partly how forensic scientists are able to determine if the firearm made the recovered casings at the crime scene.
Number.6
Which is why the prudent criminal will buy a few spare firing pins and barrels, which he can do without breaking the law, even if he can’t legally own a gun.
mexican sharpshooter
Which is why the prudent criminalgunowner will buy a few spare firing pins and barrels, which he can do without breaking the law, even if he can’t legally own a gun.
You should always keep spare parts…
Raston Bot
don’t ever change, california.
R C Dean
When I lived in a dry county, there were liquor stores right over the county line.
Are there gun stores right over the CA state line?
Gustave Lytton
No need for a decocker in California, they cut off your balls automatically in that state.
Comments
281 responses to “It is not you…it is us.”
I leave for four hours and this shit starts happening.
SO IT IS YOUR FAULT?!?!?!
It’s not his fault he can’t trust us not to break shit when he’s away.
LH I just started my Long Weekend, how about you?
I got a gateway timeout…
I am lighting incense at the altar of SP right now.
I’m sacrificing virgins.
… plenty of candidates around here …
These euphemisms…
Glibertarians has gone all GoDaddy on us.
It’s working fine for me, but I don’t live in a log cabin with DSL.
*narrows pipe*
You may want to have that checked out…
*makes note not to approve RBS’ comments so quickly*
*takes notes*
*notices bacon making notes*
Mmmmm, bacon making….
I see the kegel exercises haven’t gone to waste.
“It’s not you, it’s me. I’m sick of you.”
Working fine here. Have you tried turning it off and then back on?
Also…
https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20170824/downtown/no-excuse-for-fascist-balbo-monument-chicago-activists-say
That’s some engaged civic-mindedness right there if I’ve ever seen any.
Damn it, you preempted one of my Afternoon links!!!
BTW – I had to approve this comment, so we can see how painfully honest I am…
Every time I post I get a 500-level error (usually 504 gateway timeout) but the comment does not appear to land in the moderation queue. (unless you approve mine extra-quick)
Ah this time when I posted that I got moderated but no 504 error!
“What the hell, I’ve been in proximity to something that has badthink and nothing bad ever happened because of it?”
Damn it, you preempted one of my Afternoon links!!!
Good news! There’s an “active shooter” in Charlottesville.
A “disgruntled employee” – bad for the Narrative.
A black man – toxic for the Narrative.
So I think you can backfill for the link Michael stole from you.
That says Charleston, bruh. Different city, different state. You got the country right at least.
Eh, they all look alike anyway.
“Your comment is awaiting moderation.”
THA FUK???
PLEASE READ THE ABOVE.
Ah. Thanks!
Also, sorry for bogarting your PM linkage!
Eh…great minds and all that.
The site has gone full-on Nick Gillespie
I reckon’ I didn’t hear you straight, pardner?
*readies cat butt*
I kid. I would never compare someone to Nick Gillespie- that’s just mean
*holsters cat butt, returns to whisky*
Also, your title for this post is grammatically incorrect:
“Its not you…its us”
It should read:
“It’s not you…it’s us”
For ‘it’ the possessive form has no apostrophe. For combining ‘it’ and ‘is’ the apostrophe is employed.
*readies self for a cat butt*
Yore wrong
Im write
I have no idea what you are talking about!?
*shushes edit fairy*
The master link shows your shame
https://glibertarians.com/2017/08/its-not-you-its-us/
look at Mr. 4Chan up here
I think not, Doc!
https://glibertarians.com/2017/08/it-is-not-you-it-is-us/
*shoos away edit fairy*
All because you couldn’t handle a \%27 in the URL… Shame.
https://glibertarians.com/2017/08/it-is-not-you-it%27s-us/
(Lets see how it codes that in-line)
Maybe my tinkering with Dreamhost has broken deh webz.
*glares balefully*
YOUNG COMMIE IS AWAITING MASTURBATION
+1 Cream of Sum Yun Gai.
This is the greatest article I have read this week.
They’re also having to redesign a couple of their combat vehicles because they’re based on when the PLA was half-starved like most of China, so now they’ve grown a couple inches on average and can’t fit anymore.
Time for another Cultural Revolution to get these millennials in shape!
They check testicular vein size as part of the application? What the fuck.
Define “too much”.
When the other people on the bus start complaining.
Now how am I supposed to blow off work this afternoon?
In other related news (that no one but me cares about), just had an interview that went well, so hopefully I’m only at the terrible job for a brief while longer.
Fingers crossed. Hope it pans out.
Thanks, I appreciate it. Spoke to the manager on my lunch break today, have a call scheduled with one of their engineers this afternoon, and the manager said I should get a response from them by early next week. No hesitation at my expected salary range, which means I should have gone higher.
Fingers crossed, man. Good luck.
So, fingers crossed then?
Thanks for the response to my Lemmy question. I am jealous.
The things was that while the Lemmy (not even really an anecdote, because I doubt I registered on his radar) experience was fame-y, I actually got to be on the fringe of a number of other bands, not in a groupie-way, but more like a willing Glibertarian ‘orphan’.
A fair number of my weekends were spent rolling amps and freight boxes in and out of Ford Transit vans for gigs around the south of England. Some bands that became bigger names (and some that never made it into anyone’s consciousness) were so dirt poor that they couldn’t easily support proper roadies, so they relied on a “such-and-such is in that town, give him a call an maybe he’ll help out for a couple of beers and a spliff” network, so I did get to meet some people who’d already had their day in the sun, and some that would later do the same.
To an older, more cynical mind, it was pretty exploitative, but are you being exploited if you wanted to do it? It was a hobby. From 15-18 at weekends, and then for 3 years when I was at college I could put in a few hours’ effort and get beer, drugs, entertainment and on occasion, some pretty enthusiastic sex (from female fans) when all I’d be doing otherwise was fapping off or some such activity. What’s more, when the band moved on, I was still in that town, which is where those freaky females (mostly) still lived.
Antibiotics still worked, feminism was still ‘second stage’ and because computers barely existed, I had plenty of time on my hands. Life was good.
I’m not able to get on through work anymore. Phone works but is slow.
I was checking out “(anti-)business insider” on my phone and saw a breathless expozay! about how all consumer products offered for sale on this planet are controlled by a tiny cabal of megakkkorporations. All our food choices re controlled by Nestle! A-B Inbev brews all the beer in the universe! We’re totally the pawns of uberrich kkkapitalists who control our every thought and deed.
I have managed to go years without buying an AB Inbev product. Well, maybe not years, I have purchased Hoegaarden more recently than that. But you get the idea.
I’ve managed it too, simply by not drinking beer.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/08/23/im-a-founder-of-the-satanic-temple-dont-blame-satan-for-white-supremacy/?utm_term=.6970cb73072d
Washington Post embraces Satan. These people have lost what small minds they had.
Six months before a major technical issue? Beats TOS’ “vomit and fall over at the slightest increased traffic” disease.
I found our new anthem jt.
https://youtu.be/AeFmxSk2Nt0
Helicopter rides are extremely wasteful. I expect Chileans to love that kind of inefficiency, but not libertarians. Our initial plan of woodchippers and using the byproducts for fertilizer, industrial lubricants and orphan chow is clearly superior.
I wonder if they still have that problem
I CRAVE APPROVAL
Could someone please post a link to a youtube video that is only circus/carnival music? I’m not able to.
Was i not supposed to flip that switch?
Was it the Magic Switch?
*squints suspiciously*
Meh
eh?
Hey! that one got through without error!
Pewps
The great ‘He Will Not Divide Us’ 4chan game of Capture the Flag has pretty much ended.
The result: Some sad Englishman locking a HWNDU flag in his house, away from prying eyes on a live stream, and constantly defending it, terrified 4chan will come for it.
When you’ve gone from ‘massive public forum art display’ to ‘cowardly hiding in your house with your flag’ it’s clear who the winners were.
What happened to the Great Meme War? Is everyone still regrouping in their mom’s basement?
The brief lifespan of memetic imagery resulted in massive causalties that brought the war to a swift and inconclusive resolution.
I haven’t been hanging around /pol/ for awhile, but I assume what normally happens, most people get bored and find other goofy shit to do.
Now they’ve started making memes about punching Nazis.
The joke is that they’re using domestic violence posters as the base imagery.
It’s surprisingly clever. Look for it on the twatters.
I still have yet to find out who won the Great Skeltal War.
You’re seeing now a veteran of a thousand memetic wars,
I’ve been living on the edge so long, where the winds of Limbo roar.
And I’m young enough to look at,
And far old to see, all the stars are on the inside.
I’m not sure that’s there’s anything left to me
My hero
DN NUH NUH DN NUH NUH DNF
You know, I never actually watched the videos from Shia’s stupid livefeed before, but I clicked one of the links from your link and…..it’s one thing to read about a bunch of dolts standing around chanting for hours on end, but actually watching it manages to be repulsive and hilarious at the same time.
Cycling continuing finding new ways to keep itself as one of the premier racist sports in the world.
more teams going to white jerseys.
The Skybots just aren’t the same in white. Boo!
I’d think white jerseys would be too revealing….
Just as long as they don’t wear white shorts. Never wear white shorts.
whoops goofed the link
This site sucks. I want my money back
I think you’re supposed to flip your keyboard and storm off in protest.
What’s $2 in Romanian?
Americans shit on Canadians and Canadians need to shit on someone so….Romanian it is.
Hey get a lot of John Titor here
*get a load of
Not interested in JT’s load.
NTTAWWT
Hey, if we’re going to mock someone, it should be uppity ex-communist countries.
Except Poland, Poland’s cool.
Is Romania uppity tho? Don’t you mean corrupity?
Hungary is finding their groove too and same with the Czechs and I think Slovaks.
What’s $2 in Romanian?
The sovereign wealth fund?
I thought “$2” was the punchline to:
What’s the capital of Romania?
Yours is better.
*instructs minions to locate Number.6’s home address and prepare a molotov cocktail for his car*
6 mil in CeaucescuLand Fun Money.
None of the rides work and lines go around the block.
I promise not to comment until it’s fixed.
Needz moar alt text!
Thanks for the alt text
It was a bit difficult whilst the crisis was ongoing.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/450734/christopher-columbus-statues-new-york-monument-iconoclasts-attack?utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_content=599e56fe04d301232c118f87&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
Noted confederate general, Christopher Columbus, faces the chopping block in our new era of iconoclasm. Remember certain writers who virtue signaled how they supported taking down confederate statues, but would totally oppose efforts to go farther than that? They were lying the whole time. This will get worse
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/why-not-pay-women-to-stay-home-raise-children/
“Why Not Pay Women to Stay Home and Raise Children”, asks the American Conservative. Showing once again that most conservatives don’t necessarily want to shrink the size and scope of the state, they just want to tinker with what government funds.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DH_QJ0SVoAAHFpb.jpg:large
Brendan O’Neill with Spiked has some helpful information for everyone
http://www.barstoolsports.com/philadelphia/canadian-couple-spends-their-wedding-night-in-jail-after-getting-into-a-bar-brawl
But, they’re “sawry”
They’ve been gunning for Columbus since at least the 80’s.
True, but I think it’s funny that this has obviously expanded beyond confederate generals (which any sane observer would have predicted). Don’t expect the liars who said they would oppose further iconoclasm to actually follow through on that
I agree.
IOW a tolerable wedding-day story for the ages.
(psst, what is a line brawl?)
I assume it’s like line dancing but you punch the people to your left and right.
Hah!
That paying women to to stay home article is almost the dumbest shit I’ve read this week.
MUH BURBS, WHERE ARE MUH BURBS?
And the argument isn’t even really true. The suburbs, for the most part, are less a result of rent-seeking than what occurs in cities today. I like the American Conservative, but every now and then they print such a tone deaf article (usually Pat Buchanan’s recent articles)
The suburbs are a result of the rent-seeking going on in the cities. And by rent-seeking I mean taxation.
One could argue that the interstate system was a de facto subsidization of the burbs, but the entire thing was cooked up as part of the red scare. Otherwise, the growth in the suburbs is directly tied to cities changing their tax laws to put a larger burden on businesses (as well as the explosion of zoning laws and their inherent corruption). When the large employer moves to the outlying areas to escape things like a city “head tax” the employees will eventually follow them. The large employers moving back into cities now are only doing it because of subsidization.
Chicago had to drop their head tax AND enact all sort of corrupt Tax Increment Financing districts to get any non-retail and non-residential development. And all that does is ass-fuck the people living in the city and paying taxes. The only people moving into the city are foreigners too stupid to know the ass-raping they’re going to get and college graduates with no mouths to feed other than their own. The instant they actually start families they look to escape the tax hell. And the city s fine with that as it prevents them from having to maintain a school system.
I like most of this post. I’d only quibble with the immigrant part. Demographics show that suburbs are no more racially and ethnically diverse than most cities. Cities have become playgrounds for rich white liberals and college kids. Immigrants can’t afford to move to them anymore.
‘suburbs are now more…”
Sounds like you need to replace them all with Leif Erikson, the true hero. Now where did he land again? Oh right.
Yes. There is no negative historical connotation connected with any Vikings
Just four SB losses….
The unbearable pain that must come with being a Vikings fan.
I follow the Broncos I feel their pain.
Of course, we also have ’98, ’99, and ’16.
Nothing horrible about Leif in the Sagas though. He just showed up, wintered here, and came back to Greenland with some grapes and wood.
Yeah, but he discovered Canada. That’s a pretty offensive legacy
Did he say ‘sorey!’ when he bumped into it?
Actually he discovered Newfoundland, which only became a part of Canada in 1949 after they bankrupted themselves.
But that’s ok, I know that American maps have everything labeled outside their country as “HERE BE DRAGONS.”
Don’t be silly, Canada is labelled as “HERE BE ICE”
Terra Maple Syrupia
We haven’t used the Dragon maps in years, we’ve moved past our old superstitious ways.
Canada is now labeled with an angry moose.
Our maps show America and then the rest is labeled “Not Important”
An angry moose’ll fuck you day up right quick.
I thought this was the map your betters in government worked off of.
Wow, liberals finally co opted a meme from the other side. Well played.
Here’s the original:
https://ih0.redbubble.net/image.284401724.6218/fc,550×550,black.u3.jpg
I think you mean this set of maps.
https://www.amazon.com/War-Plan-Red-United-Canadas/dp/1616893524
How did you get an IRS map?!
Christ, you people still haven’t gotten over that pig have you?
Dr. F: 54′ 40″ or fight!
It just had to be an Irishmen with a pig that was eating potatoes. You know nothing John Titor.
signed,
Potato Nigger
I think it was first on a shirt.
Newfoundland, which only became a part of Canada in 1949
Everything up north is still subservient to the Queen, so as far as I’m concerned it’s all part of the Empire. Canada has like a dozen different dates for important milestones that amount to nothing more than rearranging the chairs in the living room. Wake me up when you finally decide to go outside.
WE DON’T WANT TO JOIN NO STINKING CONFEDERATION!
/looks down at bank account.
WHAT’S THIS YOU SAY ABOUT EQUALIZATION PAYMENTS?
Canada is a Dominion, which means, historically, that’s it’s a self-administered country within the British Empire. The Queen is the head of state but that is the only section of the British political system that has any influence over us, and it’s never really been used in any capacity whatsoever. We make our own decisions, and historically whenever we pushed for more power (demanding an independent seat separate from Britain at the 1919 peace conference, for example) they’ve folded pretty quickly. Also, the Empire is dead, Canada’s part of its successor alliance, the Commonwealth.
A union of independent states being slowly crushed by overwhelming federal authority for the past hundred and fifty years should not be so quick to judge.
I’m just commenting to increase the work load because I like to bust.
/self narrow gaze.
My mind was drifting in that direction to.
WERE BACK!! YYAAAAAYYYY!!!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DH_QJ0SVoAAHFpb.jpg:large
Brendan O’Neill with Spiked has some helpful information for everyone
I accidentally posted a whole bunch of links that are still in moderation. This is all I wanted to post. Please delete oh great and powerful edit fairy
And very helpful it is!
It’s really a public service announcement
Damn! It’s fixed? I got here too late to flood the queue with dozens of inane comments.
All of my comments are ane.
^ This right here is why I come to this site.
OT: Why did no one conceive of the Free City Project instead, if not in addition to, the Free State Project? There are many cities with similar populations to New Hampshire, many of which are utter shitholes in desperate need of an infusion of liberty.
That would be smart.
You have to pick an “ungentrified” city with significant population decline so that liberty-lovers are not outnumbered by food stampers. I think a Rust Belt city in Ohio or Michigan would be a good target, like Youngstown, Flint, or Toledo.
I think people are more likely to move to New Hampshire than some urban rust belt shithole, which are firmly in the grasp of crony prog corruptocrats.
NH has its advantages and disadvantages. It apparently has a long history of conservative politics, an anomaly in the NE, and it has a small enough population for libertarians and non-traditional conservatives to make a difference. The problem is that it is boxed in by Progtopias in Vermont and Massachusetts.
Well, it’s my understanding that Connecticut too *had* a long history of conservative politics, but look at it now.
that might help. Everyone who wants to leave only has to move 50 miles.
Flint would be an excellent choice. You have a population that seems to be rightfully incensed with local bureaucratic malfeasance with the water pollution issue, and then it’s also the spawning ground of noted freedom-hugger, Michael Moore.
Never mind that the current population consists of blacks (vote 95% prog), union members (vote 85% prog) and college students at UM Flint (vote 90% prog).
It’s all prog all the time there, and they love free trade so much, they will slash your tires or key your car if you leave a Honda unattended in the parking lot.
I could have sworn people talked about this sometime not long ago with Petersburg VA, since it’s a dying shithole.
I have a large family in a nearby town. Too many people are tied to or employed by the state government in the area to make much of a difference politically (next door to Richmond).
I live in Richmond – I don’t think many state workers commute into RVA from Petersburg. It’s kind of far for one thing, and then there’s that dying shithole part.
We could buy most of Detroit for $20 and a box of doughnuts.
The box of donuts being the pay-off to the DPD.
Do you really think libertarians want to live in that close of proximity to other libertarians, let alone other people? That would be terrible. Everything you do would be judged to show how not True-libertarian you are.
I thought libertarians like to leave each other alone…or so I thought. Who leaves each other alone harder?
I always picture the one guy on every street in Libertopia.
Me: “Whoa, your house is a serious shade of green, Frank. The stripper pole by the mailbox is fun. And is that… is that topiary supposed to be Old Mrs Sanders getting fucked by… oh, that’s you, isn’t it, Frank?”
Frank: “I know! Isn’t it great? And nobuddy can do nuffin about it!”
(And yes, it still beats a power-hungry, vindictive HOA in non-Libertopia.)
I would laugh every time I walked past.
Decent odds this is just projection. I’ve always had a thing for Old Mrs Sanders.
And if it wasn’t for that damned Old Mr. Sanders, you would have got away with it too!
There was one libertarian proposal to convert Detroit to a free city. Don’t remember which group but I think there was a vid interview with them over at TOS.
There is a free city in Honduras.
And given that the population’s political arguments are over whether Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, or Louis Farrakhan would be the best president, you’d have to import half a million libertarians to swing the city council.
Welp, now Monocle shows every comment as a new comment.
Aaand, now it doesn’t. Never mind.
That is because they edited the typo in the initial link… resetting the cookie cache.
They have cookies? What kind?
Fig Newtons, I hope!
That’s not a cookie; it’s fruit and cake!
You’re fruit and cake.
/really bad trash-talker
Is the cake free? Where can I get some?
Dude, it’s cake, and we all know that the cake is a lie,
Oldfield: Hey Glatt, you little fuckin’ dick weed. You try any of that shit you did against Hamilton on me, I’ll light your fuckin’ ass up!
Doug Glatt: Hey! I’ll light your ass… back up… on fire.
Little Debbie’s of course
Thin mints of course:
actually it is URL indexed javascript localstorage.. not cookie based..
I understand those words but it doesn’t make sense when put in that order.
Looking at the javascript it is cookie data:
last_visit tells the WordPress backend to set the entry to have a “new-comment” attribute attached to it.
set-cookie:last_visit=%7B%2213410%22%3A1503582776%7D; expires=Wed, 22-Nov-2017 18:52:56 GMT; Max-Age=7776000
localstorage is just used for the long term monocle options storage.
*eyes glaze over*
I had to work and missed it all, But I’m off til Sunday at 9PM when I get to shut down a Restaurant Refrigeration system, fix it, and bring it back online, by 7AM Monday, good times!
will they expect it to still keep the food cold while you’re working on it?
No, they store it elsewhere, or they lose thousands in product, that’s why the Late night work,
Restaurant refridgeration repair sounds like a cool job
It’s very lucrative but it actually sucks equipment wise
Chill, Slammer.
Larf 😉
I posted #30 at 1:12 local, right after #27 Suthen, so maybe not so fixed?
Not fixed, comments still dropping into the moderation queue.
Looks like the moderation bug is still hanging around though…..
*thinks for a second, gets out whip*
DANCE MONKEY! *Whips Swiss some more*
I AM DANCING AS FAST AS I CAN!!!
*furiously soft shoes*
Is the DDOS targeted at us or are we just collateral damage? Because right now, the site is acting a lot like its squirrel infested. I had a snappy quip, no links, that timed out over and over, so I gave up.
All of the host service, not just us.
I’d be impressed if we were the target of a DDOS. I thought our little band of miscreants were pretty well under the radar.
Not under Preet’s radar. 🙁
It’s Eddie
Lel. God’s wrath be upon us.
*fiercely narrows gaze*
Mary Stack got a copy of Low Orbit ion Canon
http://ijr.com/the-declaration/2017/08/955618-man-gets-suspended-twitter-sexually-harassing-tony-tiger/
Twitter finally stands up to the scourge of sexual harassment in the Furry community.
Right in the pussy?
They’re Grrrrrreeat!
Don’t you guys think Swiss has enough work right now?
About Democrats no longer being the Racist Party: seems like the legacy of Byrd and Wallace still lives strong on CNN.
Can’t let those negroes off the plantation for one second, I tell you.
Well, the “Blacks for Trump” guy is crazy.
Moooore than a little bit racist there with the comments about Ben Carson and Alveda King, but progs are gonna prog.
And never get called out on it
So Trump brought out Ben Carson, token right-wing black woman Alveda King, and the crazy “Blacks for Trump” cult guy to Arizona
What’s the punchline?
tets
TW for Vietnam Vets, plz.
‘tets’
that can be quite offensive.
Swiss… isn’t that a little Offensive?
tits
yes, please.
We should start a petition to boycott Egypt and Italy
The Pyramids were built by slaves. And so was the Colosseum
These monuments to slavery must be removed. All of them. And if you disagree, you support slavery.
Swiss: Give me mod powers and I can approve comments for you.
OH THIS ONE GOES RIGHT THROUGH DOES IT!
Certainly, Here I will… HEY, WAIT JUST ONE MINUTE?!?!
Nice try, Mr. Vhyrus!
It’s my name isn’t it? I knew I should have gone with ‘Totallynotaspammer’.
“youcantrustmewithyourpassword”
It’s a trap!
Glibs has been DDOS’ed? Holy shit! We’ve arrived!
The whole service is getting DDoS’d.
So it *could* have been someone watching my name server, seeing me me change some entries to point to Dream, and then coming after me.
I’m so glad my paranoia is justified.
OTHO, more seriously, any credible information around regarding some group taking credit for the DDOS? My money is on an FBI botnet
<fx: adjusts tin-foil KKK hood>
That is then out of Glib’s control… and it sucks.. I’m on our corporate DDOS team, building protections and countermeasures is not a simple task.
Now there’s a job title that comes straight out of a Neal Stephenson novel.
Of course, being a member of a corporate DDOS team would have you come in one morning and initiate a ‘project’ against Weyand-Yutani.
Then a 1980’s-era Rutger Hauer would pop an alert requesting your presence in Meeting Room 3, where you discover you were working for Weyland-Yutani all along.
… and then the plot gets interesting …
#6, can it have ’80s Sean Young in a pencil skirt? Or ’90s Tia Carrere works too.
Top marks for wanting chicks in there, but I have a countersuggestion.
I’ll counterpropose Tawny Kitaen (same level of cray-cray, much hotter, but not as good at acting, but hey, who cares?) and for the 90’s, I’ll propose Kari Wuhrer, or maybe Susanna Hoffs.
‘cos really, who the fuck would be watching the chicks for their acting skills?
Wait by the phone for the ransom demand. We’ll tell you how much, and where to drop it. And no cops!
TLPB as the Zodiac Killer.
Awed.
Sure, Brooks. No cops. Bring your dog when you come for the ransom drop. The.. people… I’m sending to make the drop-off just love dogs.
PETA?
Okay, so there is one group that kills more dogs than police officers do.
My dirty undies. Laundry, Dude. The whites.
Buncha fucking amateurs.
Pass me the Uzi!
-UZI?!?
You didn’t think I was rolling outta here naked, did you?
Would it be appropriate for the POTUS to pull an april fools prank? If so, what would be a good one?
There is precedent:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_begin_bombing_in_five_minutes
He should get a team working on it now. It would be so easy to get the media to swallow a big one (phrasing) and go absolutely ballistic.
*readys popcorn for next April*
“With the inability of Congress to propose any useful legislation, I have today signed an executive order to have all children under the age of 6 drafted to work in one of my international network of plastic Pink Flamingo factories. This directive will come into effect in 5 minutes’ time. Please take the opportunity to spend those few precious moments with your beloved offspring.”
This is What I’m talking about, Orphans work free, and as soon as they get old enough to resist,
Into the Woodchipper, Fodder for the next generation, It’s Self Sustaining, environmentally Conscious too
Best of all, kids love Carousel.
“I have signed papers for the involuntary commitment of Nancy Pelosi”
In California-speak, “I 5150’d her”
I have a vague memory of Candid Camera pulling a prank on a president who liked to take a walk to get the newspaper every day. They’d have this woman stand on the corner and say, “Good morning, Mr. President” as he walked by. Then she’d hop in a van and they’d run down the street and drop her off at the next corner. “Good morning, Mr. President.” Repeat a few more times and hilarity. Nowadays, that prank would be impossible.
OOOH I just thought of one. He can hold a press conference declaring the democratic party a terrorist organization.
3/31 Tweet:
Headed to Area 51 for a big announcement tomorrow.
#makethegalaxygreatagain
Oh my zod, that would be riotously funny.
YES!
*squints*
*changes screen resolution*
Years ago, a local TV station somehow had that Simpsons screenshot as as their oh shit tape. One glorious outage I saw it broadcast live as they were having problems.
https://www.shootingillustrated.com/articles/2017/8/24/first-look-walther-arms-p22qd-pistol/
Walther updated their P22 (now P22QD) to add a decocker.
California-compliant P22 models remain unchanged.
lol
They can’t legally change them because it would require them to instantiate firing pin microstamping, which no one is actually capable of doing.
By those words I’m understanding that a firing pin would have a stamp on it that would mark each shell when fired? Would that have to be unique? How fast would that be ground off by regular gun owner?
Its supposed to stamp the serial number of the gun into each fired primer. By law it has to be setup so filing the number off makes the gun malfunction. It’s total bullshit on par with smart guns that’s designed to create a de facto gun ban.
criminals could pick up their casings?
Exactly, revolvers would make a comeback.
“Daddy, why does your gat look like a Gutenberg Press?”
To my understanding the firing pin leaves a unique mark on the primer already, which is partly how forensic scientists are able to determine if the firearm made the recovered casings at the crime scene.
Which is why the prudent criminal will buy a few spare firing pins and barrels, which he can do without breaking the law, even if he can’t legally own a gun.
You should always keep spare parts…
don’t ever change, california.
When I lived in a dry county, there were liquor stores right over the county line.
Are there gun stores right over the CA state line?
No need for a decocker in California, they cut off your balls automatically in that state.
Big fight in the Yankees/Tigers game