ZARDOZ PALM SUNDAY NIGHT LINKS

ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. ZARDOZ UNDERSTANDS IT IS A RELIGIOUS HOLIDAY FOR SOME BRUTALS. THEREFORE, HE WILL SHARE A SHORT VERSE FROM A SPIRITUAL SONG IN THEIR HONOR.

ZARDOZ HATES THE BRUTAL CHILDREN
ALL THE BRUTALS OF THE WORLD
BLACK AND YELLOW, RED AND WHITE
THEY ARE A PLAGUE IN HIS SIGHT
ZARDOZ HATES THE BRUTALS OF THE WORLD

WHETHER YOU’RE RICH OR WHETHER YOU’RE POOR
IT MATTERS NOT TO HIM
HE WANTS TO CLEANSE WHERE YOU’RE GOING
ALSO WHERE YOU’VE BEEN

ZARDOZ WILL ALSO SHARE SOME LINKS FOR BRUTALS.

  • UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES…ZARDOZ BELIEVES THERE IS A FERROUS REGULATION ABOUT THIS.
  • ZARDOZ ENJOYS BRUTAL TABLOID PRESS.
  • VENEZUELA CONTINUES TO REMAIN CALM AND PROSPER.
  • BRUTAL EXTERMINATOR GROUP QUITS.

ZARDOZ HAS TO GET BACK TO GUN GIVING AND GRAIN PICKUPS. ONE OF THESE DAYS, ZARDOZ IS GOING TO STRIKE FOR BETTER WORKING CONDITIONS…

Comments

187 responses to “ZARDOZ PALM SUNDAY NIGHT LINKS”

  1. __Warren__

    BRUTAL EXTERMINATOR GROUP QUITS

    So I guess they won’t be basking in their success!

    1. Gilmore

      I just want to let you know that i appreciated this and applauded silently in the middle of a room of people who had no idea what i was reacting to.

  2. __Warren__

    If the only atrocity Hitler and the Nazis did was to kill gypsies I doubt anyone would have cared.

    1. Number.6

      NAGALT. Ahem.

      1. PapayaSF

        Funny, but when I think of racial/ethnic stereotypes, it’s always easy to find exceptions to the stereotypes. But with gypsies, well, are there hard-working, law-abiding gypsy communities around? I never hear of any. I never hear of gypsy authors or scientists or farmers or actors. Maybe some musicians? All you ever hear about are beggars, welfare recipients, scam artists, thieves, pimps, drug dealers, etc. Is this the one negative ethnic stereotype that really is largely true…?

        1. Number.6

          Well, the nomadic Roma find it hard to function in ‘polite’ society because they’re – well – nomadic. So ‘unreformed’ Roma have little opportunity to gain credentials in higher learning. Speaking from a UK-centric perspective, Roma that give up the ‘travelling life’ tend to give up their heritage and aside from the occasional puppy-drowning, horse theft and slam-violin competitions, they’re pretty well assimilated by the second generation. These so-named georgios usually lose connection with the Roma community they were associated with, and end up treated as part of the normal (usually urban) demographic. There’s a steady trickle of such people every generation.

          One of the complications is that there’s a sizable population of ‘travellers’ in the UK who are not ethnic Roma, who get lumped in with gypsies when bad stuff happens, and so the stereotype of gypsies being shifless criminal types is maintained.

          There’s definitely some truth in the stereotyping of the gypsy demographic as shown in the news, because it’s becoming increasingly difficult for young Roma to stay on the road, as the ‘smart ones’ are lured away to become georgios, leaving the ones who benefit from that nomadic existence on the road, such as petty criminality, working ‘cash only’ businesses (sometimes very lucrative) . In some parts of Britain (at least up until the 90’s) you could guarantee that the guys renewing the asphalt on your driveway were (a) gypsies and (b) were using stolen asphalt.

          My branch of the family set down roots in South London in the 1920’s, and within a generation, we managed to get rid of all our polka-dot scarves, scabby bulldog terrier mixes and that cache of lead from the church roof heist, but family legend says that great Grandma’s brother Bob’s scions are still out there, scamming and stealing.

          1. Pomp

            Interesting. Do you have Roma heritage?

            ::checks for wallet::

          2. Number.6

            Yep. Great grandmother was cremated in her caravan along with all her personal effects.

          3. PapayaSF

            Wow!

  3. RBS

    Speaking of tabloids, I just got back from Kroger. Apparently Trump is going to send Seal Team 6 straight into Kim Jong Un’s secret bunker.

    1. __Warren__

      These euphemisms are getting awfully militaristic.

    2. Fatty Bolger

      That calls for a meme.

  4. ZARDOZ HATES THE BRUTAL CHILDREN

    Our children are our future.

    1. Juvenile Bluster

      TEACH THEM WELL AND LET THEM LEAD THE WAY
      SHOW THEM ALL THE BEAUTY THEY POSSESS INSIIIIIIIIDE

      (goddamn it)

      1. Learning to sex yourself,
        It is the greatest sex of all….

      1. BakedPenguin

        If I’m going to listen to hippies, they better make me want to trip.

    2. Hyperion

      This is why we didn’t get links on time this morning, fools.

    3. Juvenile Bluster

      Also, other Simpsons “The Children Are Our Future”

  5. Juvenile Bluster

    It’s time to play everyone’s favorite game, ISIS propaganda video or US police department public statement?

    1. Look at the thugs in the banner image.

    2. DEG

      That’s a tough one.

    3. westernsloper

      Nothing makes me feel safer than heavily armed masked men.

  6. Juvenile Bluster

    After 43 years of struggle, Basque separatist group gives up arsenal

    WENGER OUT!

    1. RBS

      “Peace artisans”

  7. The Late P Brooks

    It’s time to play everyone’s favorite game, ISIS propaganda video or US police department public statement?

    What difference does it make? They hate us for our freedom.

    1. But when you shake your ass, they notice fast.

  8. Warty

    I just endured a Seder with an orange on the plate. Trump is at least 3 or 4 of the plagues, it seems.

    Somehow, I managed to be enough of an adult to resist the temptation to put on an NRA hat and yell WHYCOME AINTED U FAGGOTS VOAT TURMP until they got out of my house. Barely.

    1. Juvenile Bluster

      What on earth was that person doing having a Seder tonight?

      1. Celebrating Passover Eve, I presume.

    2. Aren’t you supposed to eat horseradish and special matzoth for Seder?

      1. Old Man With Candy

        I will have something to say about this on Tuesday.

        1. You’re allowed to do anything on the first day of Passover? 😉

          1. Old Man With Candy

            Remember, besides being a child molester, I’m also a (((Renegade))).

          2. straffinrun

            Doesn’t Easter scare the shit out of (((Renegades)))?

          3. SIV

            *meh*

            “Nail that stands up must be hammered down”

          4. So you’re a Reconstructionist Jew?

          5. Old Man With Candy

            No, I was born like this, it wasn’t plastic surgery.

          6. Nephilium

            So, there’s a chance I’ll have to sit shiva again this year, exactly how offensive can I make my shirt and work shirt?

          7. Amashi

            Actually I seem to recall that “hide the matzoh/find the matzoh” was a game old men played with children at Seder when I was young. The euphemisms…

    3. thrakkorzog

      That would have been a serious faux pas. You should have worn a MAGA hat instead.

      1. A MAGA yarmulke, you mean.

        1. *thunderous ovation*

          1. dbleagle

            In a cammo pattern.

    4. Hyperion

      Don’t worry, I’m working on this. Jared Kushner is now the new favorite for anti-christ. He bought a property at 666 Fifth Ave, no shit. So now Kushner has taken the top spot for anti-Christ from Paul McCartney, because… 666!

      Of course McCain still still holds top spot for Pale Rider, and Hillary…

    5. Old Man With Candy

      Seder is tomorrow night- what kind of terrible Jews are these people?

      1. Warty

        Reforms. Ugh.

        1. Old Man With Candy

          They may be beyond Reform. Can you snap them in half, one by one?

          1. “Can”? Certainly. “Will you, please?” seems to be the proper question.

        2. Chafed

          FFS. Why did they have a seder before Passover started?

    6. straffinrun

      I admit it. I had to google “seder” and then I had to google “jew”.

      1. Warty

        You know. Hooked noses, always rubbing their hands together. Joos.

        1. straffinrun

          They always rubbing their hands together so the hammer doesn’t slip?

        2. DEG

          They have good looking women too.

          1. Jimbo

            *barf* Streisand was in in that link.

        3. Juvenile Bluster

          Politico decides to go ahead and go full anti-Jew conspiracy theorist

          This is some Protocols of the Elders of Zion shit.

    7. Pomp

      Wasn’t there a horrible smoked egg available for your ingesting pleasure?

    8. Gilmore

      I just endured a Seder with an orange on the plate.

      I have been to countless seder dinners and i have never once seen this. now i have to look it up?

      Many families and congregations have begun adding an orange to the Seder plate as a way of acknowledging the role of people who feel marginalized within the Jewish community. Professor Susannah Heschel explains that in the 1980’s, feminists at Oberlin College placed a crust of bread on the Seder plate, saying, “There’s as much room for a lesbian in Judaism as there is for a crust of bread on the seder plate.” Heschel adapted this practice, placing an orange on her family’s seder plate and asking each attendee to take a segment of the orange, make the blessing over fruit, and eat it as a gesture of solidarity with LGBTQ Jews and others who are marginalized within the Jewish community. They spit out the orange seeds, which were said to represent homophobia.

      ah. Ok then.

      i’m pretty sure this kind of shit is creating more hatreds ex nihilo than its curing.

  9. Hyperion

    Well, at least ZARDOZ finally admits to hating all of us. Religion… religion never changes…

    1. ZARDOZ

      ZARDOZ PREFERS BRUTALS TO HAVE BLOODTHIRSTY FAITHS. . .KALI, AZTEC OR VIOLENT SECTS OF ISLAM. MAYBE SELF EXTERMINATING ONES LIKE SHAKERS.

    2. DOOMco

      *sobs*

    3. AlmightyJB

      “at least ZARDOZ finally admits to hating all of us”

      I wouldn’t respect him if he didn’t.

      1. ZARDOZ

        ZARDOZ DOES PREFER YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES.

        1. Gustave Lytton

          Yay!

          *basks in attention like puppy dogs*

  10. Rhywun

    Before the fair kicked off its 13-day end-of-summer run last year, state agriculture officials briefly approved the price hike to 50 cents. But when public objections were raised, Cuomo nixed it and promised $90,000 to help with expenses. A fair spokesman confirmed the state provided only about half that amount by putting the dairy building’s employees on the state payroll.

    Everything that is wrong with this state in a nutshell.

    1. You forgot a dysfunctional legislature that never actually meets because it’s closed nine days a week for various religions’ off days.

      Non-New Yorkers may find the 2009 Senate shenanigans amusing.

      1. Rhywun

        All that’s missing is a crony-packed authority or two. Crappy milk service for everyone!

      2. leonadasiv

        That’s amusing stuff.

    2. Drake

      I get NY TV stations. The tax-break and prosperity ads are good for a laugh.

    3. Grumbletarian

      For Cuomo, who’s considered a possible presidential candidate in 2020,

      Talk about scraping the bottom of the barrel.

      1. Gilmore

        right before he runs, there will be a string of people who “used to be close advisors to the Governor” being found in garbage trucks and freezers and floating down the hudson like the “Layla”-sequence in Goodfellas

    4. Jimbo

      Milk is racist, or so I’ve heard.

  11. straffinrun

    Great-grandmother, 66, killed chasing her dog across the M4 was matriarch of millionaire gipsy family who kept homeless drug addicts as slaves

    That’s a headline that starts and ends quite differently.

    1. DOOMco

      What a twist!

      1. straffinrun

        It’s a nutpunch you’ll love.

    2. Rhywun

      Heh yep

    3. Drake

      If you have a crew of bum-slaves, why not assign them to chase dogs on the highway?

    4. Rhywun

      I wonder how the woke British press managed to cover this story – assuming they didn’t ignore it – without using the word “gipsy”.

      1. Jimbo

        Well shit! I thought I knew the English way of spelling, then they do this: Gipsy. Isn’t it Gypsy?

        1. Gilmore

          I thought the origin of the term was a slang term for “From Egypt*”, so the “gyp” version would seem to make more sense to me.

          (*based on a misconceptions about where romani originated from)

          1. thrakkorzog

            I always figured it it just because they would gyp you over faster than a mohel would bill you.

        2. Rhywun

          I got sucked into some “Gypsy Princess” reality show recently. Like the girls marrying at 16 in outrageous girly dresses and the boys all layabout douchebags stuff. I got the impression that they’re “taking back” the word gypsy.

    5. Jimbo

      And guess what? They left out this part: …addicts as slaves, IN ORDER TO MINE THEIR ASTEROIDS IN ORION’S BELT.

  12. The Late P Brooks

    Great-grandmother, 66, killed chasing her dog across the M4 was matriarch of millionaire gipsy family who kept homeless drug addicts as slaves

    What the…?

    “Come on, Granny, that’s right. You can catch me. Keep coming, oooh, you’ve got me now, for sure… aww, too bad. My work here is done.Come on, Sherman. Back to the Wayback Machine.”

    1. ZARDOZ

      YOU HAVE PLEASED ZARDOZ GREATLY WITH YOUR COMMENT. TRULY P. BROOKS IS A CHOSEN ONE.

  13. RothbardsBitch1

    So at my shitty side job at the fun park, I was called a racist today. Racist against white people. I am white btw. I have no idea why, this guy comes up gets in my face and said I was scum, my crew was scum and that I was racist against whites. He then went in and told my boss the same. I still have no idea why. I was shocked at the time. I was going to say dude I don’t even know you but he walked away. This on top of a parent who threatened to sue me because his daughter went on a ride without his permission. We just measure height, and check to see if they have a ticket and she was tall enough and had a ticket that presumably he bought her. We don’t interrogate kids to see if they have parents permission. Horrible day in the customer service world.

    1. DOOMco

      well, you’re a libertarian. you must be racist. QED.
      as for the parents permission, they probably saw to many of those ads on the Disney channel about asking your parents for it before you go on club penguin (RIP!).
      I can’t wait for the day they realize the porn sites don’t verify ages. “oh, yes, of course I’m over 18.” *click*

      1. RothbardsBitch1

        Lol. I should have said it’s impossible to be racist against white people. He would have strangled me with his MAGA hat.

          1. straffinrun

            Get the new hat that pisses everyone off!

          2. leonadasiv

            Trump Supporters: “HOW DARE YOU APPROPRIATE TRUMPS HATE!”
            Illiterate Progs: “HOW DARE YOU SPREAD TRUMPS HATE!”
            Literate Progs: “HOW DARE YOU SAY TAXATION IS THEFT!”
            Humorless Libertarians: “HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT TAXATION WASN’T THEFT!”
            Reason Magazine: “HOW DARE YOU FOCUS ON ANYTHING OTHER THAN HOW BAD TRUMP IS”

            Yup it actually pisses everyone off.

          3. DOOMco

            *adds to cart*

    2. RBS

      Growing up I worked in just about every job you can have in the “fun park/tourist/kids with angry parents” realm. I feel your pain.

        1. RBS

          You really get to see thousands of just miserable fucking people that make everyone around them miserable.

        2. westernsloper

          Wow, that lady is unhinged.

          1. DOOMco

            Maybe he was banging that prostitute in the restaurant, but I doubt it.

          2. westernsloper

            Ya, with a line of people behind him. The angry lady will die alone and angry.

    3. straffinrun

      Maybe that’s his idea of “fun”. Did you ever think of that, Racist?

    4. Hyperion

      “So at my shitty side job at the fun park, I was called a racist today”

      Welcome to Murika, bro, the den of hate.

      Funny, I was approached by an employee of a client (Indian), earlier this week to inquire of my expertise on American pants shitting culture. Apparently, her kid was injured while playing in the yard of a neighbor with other neighborhood children. Like a normal not insane person, she took her kid to the doctor, learned that he was going to live and forgot about it. Couple of months later, kid of same neighbor sprains ankle in her yard and unhinged parent comes over yelling and threatening her.

      Moral of story. I told her, ‘Do you believe me now?’. Tell the fucking cunt to get the fuck off your property and keep your little varmits the fuck off my lawn. Gawd, I fucking hate people.

    5. Rhywun

      Horrible day in the customer service world.

      Customer service requires a certain temperament that I have never had. I almost feel sorry for the people that had to deal with me in all those kinds of jobs I’ve had.

      1. I don’t deal well with stupid people, either.

        1. RBS

          Burn!

          /fist bumps Ted.

        2. Rhywun

          A new IT help desk person was put in the next cube-quad over recently. (So I get to hear him yakking all day on the phone as I’m trying to think and code and shit – thanks for that.) But he’s good at it. I sure could not do that. Yeah, I talk to my “customers” which are business folks about the various projects I’m working on and of course do support for my projects but not all day, every day.

          1. DOOMco

            “Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. Just a moment.”
            “Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. Just a moment.”
            “Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. Just a moment.”

          2. Rhywun

            That movie is my life.

      2. Francisco d’Anconia

        Customer service requires a certain temperament that I have never had.

        I had several jobs waiting tables. Oddly, I loved it despite my general hatred of humanity. It was simple. Give the customer a great experience…make more money. Talk about incentive.

    6. Gilmore

      You (and everyone else) really need to read this book

      I think all the stories surround ‘shitty jobs people have at amusement parks‘ as the key theme

      1. Rhywun

        Never heard of him but

        cows with Plexiglas windows in their sides

        oh my

        1. Gilmore

          Everyone i respect hates saunders because he became a very loud and annoying uber-prog during the rein of Secret Hitler The First (booosh) and is pretty much a big soppy douche

          but that book is/was unbelievably good.

          1. Rhywun

            Enh, I like Stephen King so nothing new there.

            Bought it because I’ve missed short stories – I normally read door-stop trilogies.

        2. Gilmore

          Here’s the title-story

    7. Rufus the Monocled

      You’re a carni, huh.

    8. Amashi

      Umm- some people are lunatics, maybe? This is one of the (many) reasons “Carnie” is not a particularly wise long-term career choice, IMHO. My feeling on the subject is that if a job requires me to put up with people I expect to be paid handsomely for having to do so.

    9. Amashi

      So what do y’all think of the more recent EUIV DLC? I’ve been working a lot lately, so I haven’t really played in quite a long time. I refuse to buy Paradox DLC at retail, so I’m always one or two behind, but I went ahead and got Mare Nostrum and Rights of Man this weekend. Too late to return them now anyway, but.. worth?

      I also picked up Stellaris, but none of its DLC. I really ought to stop buying games I don’t have time to play, but.. the sales tempt me.

  14. westernsloper

    Some were mystified anyone would stand in line for milk.

    Count me as one of those people. New Yorkers be weird.

    1. You don’t want to suckle at thicc [sic] women’s breasts?

    2. Rhywun

      My family did the state fair sometime in the late 70s I think. I don’t remember standing in line for milk. Or anything else whatsoever about it.

    1. DEG

      I think a trip to Switzerland is in order.

      1. Always, DEG, always…

  15. straffinrun

    Rebellious Prostitutes Hit the Streets of Paris Demanding ‘More Clients’

    Soooo, basically the same thing they do every day.

    1. Just find a National Crisis and really hype it…oh, wait, you mean *literal* prostitutes, not politicians and journalists.

    2. westernsloper

      My browser won’t even open that page, and it has opened some pretty shady stuff.

      1. You’re on glibertarians.com, aren’t you?

    3. thrakkorzog

      Looking at those pics, I think I see the cause of the problems. Those aresome fugly ladies.

      1. westernsloper

        Now I am glad I couldn’t open it.

      2. Jimbo

        My wife and I are laughing. Wow, no wonder business is down, although based upon the pics I doubt it’s only down 25%. More like 100%.

      3. Amashi

        Yeah, a bunch of hard wouldn’ts. Also, what’s with the Chinese banner?

        1. thrakkorzog

          Maybe they’re good looking by Chinese standards? Maybe the Chinese have looser standards when it comes to banging gweilos.

          I’m guessing most of our woulds, are wouldn’ts around Asia.

    4. Vhyrus

      Holy fucking shit did you see the second pic? It’s looks like a goddamn Halloween costume!

      1. Rhywun

        I was a bit confused by the word “female” in the article and the pics which mostly look like men.

        1. Jimbo

          Don’t other them! They feel feminine – that’s what counts.

          1. thrakkorzog

            Well male prostitutes are a thing.

            But damn, seeing the female prostitutes, my hand is a hell of a of a lot prettier, cheaper, and less likely to give me an STD.

  16. commodious spittoon

    Further adventures in Hululand:

    National Treasure: Fantastic. Intense. Judi Dench is of course terrific, in many senses of the word. Robbie Coltrane’s lead is enigmatic to the end. Riveting character drama.

    The Detour: Surprisingly good so far. Where The Mick tries too hard to capitalize on Kaitlin Olson’s cringe comedy cred, this one actually manages to be irreverent and funny by throwing authentically good actors into sincere roles and letting the weirdness develop organically. I’m only two episodes in, but I’m pretty entertained.

    Dimension 404: Checked out ten minutes into the pilot. Unsure what they’re going for, but it’s not for me.

    1. I looked for Dimension 404 but I couldn’t find it.

      1. leonadasiv

        [Applause not Found]

      2. commodious spittoon

        That’s kinda the gimmick. Dimension 404 is supposed to be some sort of alternative reality accessible by internet, which… fucking ugh.

    2. leonadasiv

      National Treasure:

      I don’t remember Judi Dench co-staring with Nicholas Cage in that film. Or else they owe their makeup design team a ton for turning her into Diane Kruger…

      1. commodious spittoon

        Yeh, yeh. It’s more appropriately named than the Nic Cage movies. Think Bill Cosby.

        1. Judi Dench accused of drugging and raping women?

  17. Warty

    Jesus, H&R has to have hit rock bottom. When will they bite the bullet and turn off comments?

    1. DOOMco

      what happened now?

      1. Warty

        The comments on the wall thread. Just… boring.

        1. Rufus the Monocled

          WELL DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. MAKE IT FUN AGAIN!

          1. The Elite Elite

            #MakeReasonGreatAgain?

          2. Jimbo

            Ha!

    2. commodious spittoon

      When Warty’s surprised by bottoming out…

    3. Pan Zagloba

      Come on, they broke 50, and on a Sunday, without resorting to Dalmia!

  18. Juvenile Bluster

    Since I suck at threading, repeating…

    Politico goes full-on anti-Jew conspiracy theorist

    Seriously, this is some Protocols of the Elders of Zion shit.

    1. commodious spittoon

      gc:dm

      (got clicks; doesn’t matter)

      1. Rhywun

        TL;DR but I did glean enough to realize these are the guys who come up to me all the time and ask me if I’m Jewish. Whew – dodged that bullet.

    2. straffinrun

      I thought for sure that wouldn’t have the blue “verified” check mark, but there it is. Wow.

    3. leonadasiv

      Makes me think about a saying. Something, Something, When you find yourself in a hole, something, something, Stop digging…

    4. westernsloper

      I only skimmed it, and it confirms my suspicions that really rich people the world over know each other and at times may have done business. I am missing the part where elections were rigged/hacked, and why I should give a shit. It does mention Kushner and Ivanka, both of which I am not fans of, but that is because they are progressive douches. I couldn’t care less about their religion or how many shady business deals they have done with evil (((Russians))). None of what they did in the past had anything to do with being in a government position, unlike others who have done business with the Russians.

      1. Number.6

        The dumbass thing is that the people I work with, in a New York Hedge Fund of all places, are also confused by the idea that all the rich people know each other, despite the fact that our conference every year is expressly run in order for rich people to meet and hang out with other rich people so they can tell each other how great our Hedge Fund is.

        I despair of these people, I really do.

    5. leonadasiv

      Some of those Replies… makes me want to take a bath with a toaster.

      1. Rhywun

        #Putin pulls the strings

        LOL

    6. one true athena

      Barf. I’m tempted to report them for hate speech or whatever the TOS violation is.

    7. Amashi

      “Chabad adherents differ from other Hasidic Jews on numerous small points of custom, including the tendency of Chabad men to wear fedoras…”

      The blood-libel lives on, I see.

    1. leonadasiv

      A little High and Mighty coming from Illinois

    2. But Enough About Me

      Huh. Reminds me of the “In a World” voice-over guy.

    3. Rufus the Monocled

      /face palm.

      1. But Enough About Me

        /face palm Sunday?

    4. The Elite Elite

      As is typical of these kinds of garbage videos, comments are disabled. Can’t have someone talking about how stupid the video is. I’m surprised the thumbs up/down voting isn’t hidden.

  19. Derpetologist

    Random thought:

    The other day I was debating during Pig Latin speaking club. The topic was why black Americans do not go to national parks at the same rate as white Americans.

    The first guy says that it’s because they are more likely to be poorer and live far away from such places.

    My counter was that to make an analogy to Islam. Pork consumption among Muslims is very low, but it isn’t because they can’t afford pork. It’s because they as a a group, have different preferences and not eating pork is one of them. So I say it’s a similar to that.

    That really got things cooking. The guy says “that’s like saying people choose not to rape!”

    But most people *do* choose not to rape. That’s why it’s a crime. If being a rapist was like being blind, we wouldn’t put rapists in prison.

    I tried to explain that people of every religion choose as individuals how closely to follow the rules of their religion to no avail,

    In conclusion, some people are extra retarded.

    1. Gilmore

      The topic was why black Americans do not go to national parks at the same rate as white Americans.

      The correct answer to this is “I have no idea i need to use the bathroom” then go hide until people stop looking for you.

      1. Derpetologist

        That’s a no-go. I signed up for speaking club that day and I was going to practice come hell or high water.

        Plus there’s always the mild amusement I feel when some dipshit 20 something accuses me of racism, which is now basically a synonym for “noticing obvious differences between groups of people”.

        1. Gilmore

          Oh, you had to have your debate IN pig-latin?

          …. Ok yeah, that’s probably the most politically-neutral answer you could give.

          when some dipshit 20 something accuses me of racism

          I don’t mind that. I can usually turn it back on them and just point out that they don’t know anything about racism and wouldn’t know it if they saw it. basically mock them for being juvenile and inexperienced, and screaming “racist” all the time because they’re terrified of being called it themselves.

          what bothers me is when they try that “you need to educate yourself” shit with me. Because 90% of the time they haven’t even read the bullshit social-theory writers that their own po-mo gibberish is based on, and i have. Or, another example = one guy trying to get signatures to “ban fracking” in NY … i asked him what was so bad about fracking, and he was like, “oh shit you need to look it up” and i was like no, i have, YOU explain why… and watching them crumble when they realize that they don’t really know fuck-all about how it works. I just can’t stand when people pretend to wield “certainty” but can’t actually articulate why they are certain.

          1. Amashi

            Yeah, actually one of the things I find really funny is watching Intelligent Design folks just school the shit out of people who believe in Darwinian evolution for purely social reasons. Of course the ID people are full of it, and the Darwinians are broadly correct, but if you heard the debate without any prior knowledge of the subject you’d think the ID people had very much the best of it.

            On more than one occasion I’ve heard the evolution side propose something more like Lamarckianism than Darwinism, and while I think there might actually be a bit more to Lamarckianism than it is generally credited with, that’s a pretty sophisticated argument that I’m pretty sure wasn’t being made in these cases.

            An awful lot of people are certain that they are educated and enlightened because they are affiliated with a tribe that they think educated and enlightened. This works out in some cases- they wind up being broadly correct about Darwinian evolution, even if they haven’t the foggiest as to what that actually means. But in other cases….

          2. thrakkorzog

            That’s why I enjoy reading Camille Paglia articles. I generally disagree with her, but she comes off as someone who has put some thoughts into her positions, and isn’t just parroting talking points. OK fine, she’s a commie but what she has to say is a hell of a lot more interesting than what the editorial board of Salon puts out.

      2. Derpetologist

        I also tried to compare the situation to the gender composition of the military. That is, the reason it’s skewed heavily male is because the number of men who want to join is a lot higher than the number of women- not because women can’t join or are discouraged from joining.

        1. Gilmore

          BUT EQUALITY GOOD, DERP. WHY NO YOU BELIEVE EQUALITY

          1. Derpetologist

            I can never remember to cite it, but there’s a great Sowell quote about how the next time you hear some dingdong college student braying about diversity, ask how many Republicans are in the sociology dept.

      3. Amashi

        Yeah, it’s kind of like asking “Why is it that so many African-Americans can’t swim?” I mean, that’s a more important question than whether or not African-Americans go to amusement parks (the answer to which might just be that in this regard black Americans have a bit more sense than white Americans.) But it’s not a particularly safe question to ask, because… well, because.

        1. Derpetologist

          What find more annoying is people who jump up and down about one disparity and studiously ignore all the others. If you cite disproportionate imprisonment, you’re a woke cool kid. If you cit disproportionate homicide, you’re a terrible racist.

          1. Gilmore

            Hence my point about “avoiding stupid debate if possible”

          2. Amashi

            Yeah, well, it’s a bit like how some white people started saying “I don’t see race” for about a minute. This was always manifest bullshit, as the very first thing any of us notice about someone else is almost certainly race, But they thought, for a minute that that was what they were supposed to say, until they found out otherwise.

            Honestly, I’m pretty sympathetic to the idea that black Americans have a much rougher time of it than pretty much anyone else. But, tbh, since anything I might say on the subject is certain to be willfully misconstrued I think it far safer to avoid the subject entirely, in my day-to-day life.

    2. __Warren__

      Maybe it’s a genetic memory. At some point in the past at least one of their ancestors was just chillin’ out, relaxin in the neighborhood wilderness, when they were grabbed up by some guys that were up to no good, and that’s how they ended up with their life flipped upside down and how they came to be slaves in a town called Balmer!

      So this memory lurks in their mind and keeps them, unconsciously, from wanting to visit wilderness areas.

      1. Derpetologist

        Everyday Stupidity is on the case:

        Like a lot of white people, I learned to ignore the whiteness of myself and other outdoor enthusiasts around me. I didn’t hear backpackers saying overtly racist things or see jerks physically blocking people of color from the trails, so I paid the homogeneity no mind.

        It’s easy to overlook inequality when it’s systemic. It’s even easier when we benefit.

        Ambreen Tariq runs Brown People Camping, an Instagram account that promotes diversity in public lands. She says she can feel like an outsider hiking and camping as a Muslim woman of color and immigrant.

        One of the Black professors was questioned about her college degrees, the title of her research project, and her university affiliation, and was asked to provide a faculty ID. The agents appeared incapable of imagining that a Black woman could hold a PhD and visit a research station for a scholarly event…This is heartbreaking, not least because Buffalo Soldiers, members of all-African-American regiments of the US Army, were among the nation’s first park rangers and built the first marked trail at Yosemite. Today only one percent of the park’s visitors are Black.”

        Things that didn’t happen for $800, Alex.

  20. Gilmore

    Here’s some Razorfist

    re: the first few seconds of that video = i do not understand why the interviewers gasped and said, “wow” to the first answer,

    i also do not understand why anyone would ask, “Hey, white person = how do all white people feel about X”? and expect anything except, “I’m sorry but I’m not actually the spokesperson for a non-existent race of people”

    1. Derpetologist

      In the words of Dale Gribble, he is the feces that results when shame eats too much stupidity.

  21. cyto

    Speaking of the secret cabal that connects Trump with Putin, did anyone see the joint statement released by Iran and Russia?

    : “What America waged in an aggression on Syria is a crossing of red lines. From now on we will respond with force to any aggressor or any breach of red lines from whoever it is and America knows our ability to respond well.”

    So…. there is that, I suppose.

    It sounds a little too unhinged for even a middle eastern dictator. That was in The Sun.

    ABC news has it as well. Here’s their version:

    “The United States crossed red lines by attacking Syria, from now on we will respond to anyone, including America if it attacks Syria and crosses the red lines,” the statement read. “America knows very well our ability and capabilities to respond well to them, [and] we will respond without taking into consideration any reaction and consequences.”

    But Trump is Putin’s puppet, so don’t worry about it, I suppose.

    1. Gilmore

      Obama must find all of this very embarrassing

      1. Gustave Lytton

        I’m pretty sure Obama was born without that particular feeling.

        1. thrakkorzog

          Obama got his start unsealing divorce records that both sides wanted to keep sealed. I think it’s safe to say that shame is not an emotion Obama feels.