Jack Antonoff takes some very used rock ān roll tropes and somehow makes them sound fresh and new. Maybe itās because he seems like heās having so much fun. Or maybe itās the unexpectedly deep lyrics. But whatever. He rocks.
Former House Speaker Paul Ryan: āIf the Conservative cause depends on the populist appeal of one personality, or of second-rate imitations, then weāre not going anywhere.ā pic.twitter.com/5rGmgzTOS1
ā The Hill (@thehill) June 1, 2021
The only things #ChuckWoolery has blocked more than people on Twitter are his lower intestines.
ā Richard Marx (@richardmarx) June 1, 2021
Jerks
House GOP fights back against mask, metal detector fines https://t.co/5AADUiBxKI pic.twitter.com/kyroMkNgkR
ā The Hill (@thehill) June 1, 2021
Youād think a super smart historian like Dinesh would have recognized Lee Harvey Oswald. Weird. https://t.co/qvSidIqTiX
ā El Duderino (@oniredudle) May 31, 2021
Gov Abbot is punishing the TX legislature for their inaction after 200 Texans die in the freezing cold because of inadequate weatherization of their power grid.
Hahaha, had you going. Itās because he canāt get his whites only voting law passed. https://t.co/O29nSJV8aBā Patrick S. Tomlinson (@stealthygeek) May 31, 2021
For Charlesā¦I apologize for not putting LOL at the end of my tweet concerning the showās ending. I wasnāt ticked about knowing whodunnit ahead of seeing it. Iād have seen it somewhere else. By the time I get finished with the series Iāll have forgotten anyway. Honestly.
I remember a few months before The Sixth Sense came out I guessed the twistā¦but then forgot I had when I watched the movie and guessed it again halfway through.
And now, your passive-aggressive Reuters headline of the day. https://t.co/uWF9CmespL
ā Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 1, 2021
Dear gun people of LGF, what the hell is a ācollapsible carbineā? Read onā¦
OK, this is probably way, way, way, way WAY the hell out into the weeds, but one of Driscollās former guys put up a website called deardriscoll.com. (I protest in front of Driscollās church.)
Thereās a lot of strangeness being reported by Chad Freese. One of the things, further down on the page under āChild Safety Concerns and Favoritismā, is allegations of child sexual abuse. But above that, thereās THIS. Keep in mind, Iāve been picketing out there for several weeks:
Driscoll Detail Entourage
During my initial āformalā meeting with Brandon, we discussed organizational vision and guidance for how the security team would be structured. Brandon made it clear I was to be the Director with Marc Stirton falling under me, but Marc would serve as the head of the Driscoll Detail. The detail was formed to provide safety for you and your family, with Marc Stirton running the screening and selection process for those so allowed to be in your āinner circleā as he is a ātrustedā friend of the family. This calculated decision created a lot of strife and division amongst the team because it further isolated you and the detail from the rest of the team and church family. This created a breakdown in communication and team structure. It caused chaos and confusion because your security detail would pull security team members off the team, out of their assigned position, and even took it upon themselves to fire people without my approval or even without me knowing the situation.The environment and culture amongst your detail became very toxic internally and extremely uncomfortable externally. The congregation could tell a change in atmospheric dynamics with the new security detail isolating you from everyone, in and out of the sanctuary. You had an entourage with you everywhere you went. You struggled with balancing the paranoia with your ego, to the point of installing a firearm safe with assault rifles in your office and even having your detail carry collapsible carbines around campus. What sickens me the most is I bought into the hype and was aware of this. I was complicit in my recommendations of a solid security posture because of the dramatic lies were told to me about how many people from Seattle were āout to get you.ā I remember Brandon often telling the team things like,
āthis is what happens when you work for Pastor Mark. Craziness comes. We need our men to be prepared.ā
Having your entourage escort you from the parking lot to your office, to the sanctuary and back to the office, then back to the parking lot, and even driving you to and from your house is a tad dramatic and over the top by any stretch of the imagination. Then again, maybe it is on par with all the people you have caused hurt and heartache over the years. This craziness is certainly self-induced.
I have repented for my behavior in this, and I ask for forgiveness for being a part of this culture and environment. I need Jesus just as much as anyone else.
Yeah, I was sick for a few minutes after reading this. But would this keep me from protesting? Nope. It just made me look for information about how to stream to Facebook Live.
re: #5 Patricia Kayden
Iām certainly no expert on Texas law (obviously), but CAN the Governor just āvetoā something like the Legislatureās operating budget (still less their salaries)?
I would imagine this sort of appropriation wouldnāt be subject to gubernatorial whim, but then again, Texasā¦
re: #8 mmmirele
Iām no gun expert but ācollapsible carbineā seems to be a fancy term used to describe a rifle that can fold in half (or otherwise be quickly disassembled and reassembled) for easier storage (or I suppose easier concealment depending on circumstances).
It has to come from the klan region of Louisiana, otherwise itās just sparkling racism.
ā Edwin (@EdMix13) June 1, 2021
Right wing jagoffs fall for this prank every Memorial Day and Veterans Day.
my god, itās a trifecta pic.twitter.com/yYYJ2psK11
ā beth (@bethbourdon) May 31, 2021
So is Devin going to pay this fine or stiff his attorney?
Devin Nunesās attorney has been sanctioned and ordered to pay CNN $21,000 for filing a āfrivolousā defamation claim. https://t.co/wz2A5gupiT
ā Tomthunkitā¢ (@TomthunkitsMind) June 1, 2021
re: #5 Patricia Kayden
No pay for those who abandon their responsibilities.
So, Governor Abbott, are you thus proposing that all House and Senate Republicans in DC should not get paid? Because I am SO here for it.
re: #13 JOE š„
When are attorneys going to learn not to associate with Republicans?
Test balloon, ultimately a call to violence. I.e., if the military isnāt protecting the country (from the āenemyā) then who will? Theyāre prepping for another insurrection in plain sight
ā Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) June 1, 2021
re: #10 Eclectic Cyborg
Iām no gun expert but ācollapsible carbineā seems to be a fancy term used to describe a rifle that can fold in half (or otherwise be quickly disassembled and reassembled) for easier storage (or I suppose easier concealment depending on circumstances).
More likely they mean a version of the AR based on the M-4 carbine with a stock that can be lengthened or shortened. Like this:
Itās not especially useful unless youāre wearing ceramic plate body armor and have to adjust your length of pull to accommodate it. That said, all the tacticool mall ninjas have to have it.
re: #16 jaunte
Make no mistake about it. Murdoch is working in league with Republicans to attempt another coup.
As an aside, itās nice at 58 to not tie up the phone laughing and giggling for hours like a teenager. Instead you text each other punctuated with laugh emojiās and silly romantic GIFs for hoursā¦ ;)
re: #19 William Lewis
As an aside, itās nice at 58 to not tie up the phone laughing and giggling for hours like a teenager. Instead you text each other punctuated with laugh emojiās and silly romantic GIFs for hoursā¦ ;)
You have no idea how happy seeing your budding romance makes me.
re: #20 Dopamine Fish
You have no idea how happy seeing your budding romance makes me.
Itās been one interesting roller coaster of a week. Havenāt been this happy in a very long time.
Earlier today we were discussing the possibility of driving to someplace in between (St. Louis or Springfield, Il) and having a long weekend. One advantage of hotel work is cheap rates at the other hotels in our system. Employee rate at IHGās (parent co of Holiday Inn & lots of others) Candlewood Suites is $39+tax a night for example. Now the interesting part will be to convince my Dad that he should lend me his Prius for a couple of days so the gas bill is doable āDad, didnāt you say you needed the pickup?ā < whistles innocently >
What it is like to be Old:
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re: #17 William Lewis
Thanks everyone. I tried Google for ācollapsible carbineā and got nothing, so I turned to people I knew who know stuff about gunsāsome Lizards. Appreciate your help.
re: #24 mmmirele
Thanks everyone. I tried Google for ācollapsible carbineā and got nothing, so I turned to people I knew who know stuff about gunsāsome Lizards. Appreciate your help.
One of the great things about LGF is that it is a very deep resource where you can find someone who knows something about just about anything. Weāre a very eclectic bunch.
Chuck Woolery appears to endorse Hitlerās crackdown on academics. pic.twitter.com/jMEiCYpnDY
ā The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow) May 31, 2021
Chuck Woolery high fiving Hitler on Memorial Dayā¦have to admit, didnāt see that one coming š¤¦.
ā Amy Lynn ā”ļøšæļø (@AmyAThatcher) June 1, 2021
Well itās now past Midnight on the East Coast and Crackhead Mikeās insistence that JFK Jr was going to appear today to proclaim the Return of Trump didnāt happen.
Joe is still President.
So whatās the next day Crackhead Mike is going to go withāFlag Day? 4th of July? Labor Day? The 12th Of Never?
re: #27 JOE š„
Well itās now past Midnight on the East Coast and Crackhead Mikeās insistence that JFK Jr was going to appear today to proclaim the Return of Trump didnāt happen.
Joe is still President.
So whatās the next day Crackhead Mike is going to go withāFlag Day? 4th of July? Labor Day? The 12th Of Never?
Iāll go with the twelfth of never.
re: #28 austin_blue
Iāll go with the twelfth of never.
Crackhead Mikeās use by date is rapidly approaching
āPlease, for the love of God and the rest of the occupants in your refrigerator, please throw me in the recycling!ā
re: #26 DodgerFan1988
So when is Chuck going to that hat store to support his fellow anti-Semite?
Chuckās tweets appear to have a general theme to them.
Can you spot the similarities? pic.twitter.com/VyFWlDRm67ā The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow) May 31, 2021
Sigh. Got a 24 hour suspension on Facebook for saying, āIt was entirely the case and if you read the Korematsu court case, youād know it. Youāre not stupid, but donāt pass along lies.ā
Somebody has set up a site (letās call it DumbVAERS) for people to report shedding injuries.
All reports go live immediately.
By all means, R/T the snot out of this and you should definitely report your āshedding injuryāā¦ you know, for research!https://t.co/0yDPXszAah pic.twitter.com/Qx1NV6uMZZā AVK (@VaxxersAnti) May 31, 2021
When they start falling executions will commence
Sides will not matter now matter makes no sense
How did a difference become a disease?
Iām sure you have reasons a rational defense
Weapons and motives bloody fingerprints
But I canāt help thinking itās still all diseaseHere comes the argument
FolderolItās all about strikes now
So hereās whatās striking me
That some punk could argue some moral ABCās
When people are catching what bombers release
Iām on a mission to never agreeHere comes the argument
Here it comes
re: #32 retired cynic
Thatās not hate speech!
Nor is it bullying.
But bullies and racists seem to get passes because Facebook, I think, is inherently a right wing favoring organization (and they are not honest enough in their self assessment to admit it).
re: #35 gwangung
Nor is it bullying.
But bullies and racists seem to get passes because Facebook, I think, is inherently a right wing favoring organization (and they are not honest enough in their self assessment to admit it).
I donāt think itās either left or right. Itās sole purpose is to maximize Shareholder Value.
If the algorithms say that the best way to do this is to stifle interesting, intelligent posts from knowledgeable people in favor of Yahoos whose discourse is based on ā!tās t!me to k!ll all the K!kes!ā, theyāll do it until the algorithms say to quit it.
This is one of the dangers of AI. Itās based on initial programming which can often result in GIGO.
re: #1 Patricia Kayden
Paul, your party has been relying upon populism and cults of personality for decades now. You brand yourselves as the āParty of Lincoln,ā you spent the 90s chasing a rebirth of the āReagan Revolution,ā while the Dubya years were all about how friendly and harmless he was compared to ādullā guys like Gore and Kerry. So please, donāt BS us about how your party is not about populism or a singular personality, because youāre always chasing after that next Reagan.
re: #36 austin_blue
I donāt think itās either left or right. Itās sole purpose is to maximize Shareholder Value.
If the algorithms say that the best way to do this is to stifle interesting, intelligent posts from knowledgeable people in favor of Yahoos whose discourse is based on ā!tās t!me to k!ll all the K!kes!ā, theyāll do it until the algorithms say to quit it.
This is one of the dangers of AI. Itās based on initial programming which can often result in GIGO.
Maybe. But the differential impact that Iām seeing suggests to me that there are a whole load of implicit biases in their judgements that are biased towards right wing expressions and values.
re: #37 Targetpractice
Paul, your party has been relying upon populism and cults of personality for decades now. You brand yourselves as the āParty of Lincoln,ā you spent the 90s chasing a rebirth of the āReagan Revolution,ā while the Dubya years were all about how friendly and harmless he was compared to ādullā guys like Gore and Kerry. So please, donāt BS us about how your party is not about populism or a singular personality, because youāre always chasing after that next Reagan.
Reagan killed the old Republican Coalition in 1980. They still think itās possible to put it back together. It isnāt. Theyāve ethnically cleansed the Moderate Wing from the Party.
The Lincoln Project is blowing smoke up its own ass. They will never regain the Base because they have absolutely NOTHING to offer them. They new Base doesnāt want Policy, they want to fight to retain White Privilege.
They are scared of bad shit that might happen to them, that it might result in them losing their shit, their Property, their influence, their preeminence in their local communities, their Counties, their States, to āThose Peopleā.
Scared people are dangerous people. They have a tendency to be stabby and shooty.
re: #39 austin_blue
IMO, you just explained the whole thing, right there.
re: #38 gwangung
Maybe. But the differential impact that Iām seeing suggests to me that there are a whole load of implicit biases in their judgements that are biased towards right wing expressions and values.
Well yes, thatās exactly what I was talking about when I mentioned algorithms and initial programming bias.
If youāre criticizing Kamalaās Tweet after spending four years pretending you didnāt see Trumpās Twitter, I would like to cordially invite you to blow a goat.
ā Angry Staffer (@Angry_Staffer) May 30, 2021
re: #39 austin_blue
Reagan killed the old Republican Coalition in 1980. They still think itās possible to put it back together. It isnāt. Theyāve ethnically cleansed the Moderate Wing from the Party.
The Lincoln Project is blowing smoke up its own ass. They will never regain the Base because they have absolutely NOTHING to offer them. They new Base doesnāt want Policy, they want to fight to retain White Privilege.
They are scared of bad shit that might happen to them, that it might result in them losing their shit, their Property, their influence, their preeminence in their local communities, their Counties, their States, to āThose Peopleā.
Scared people are dangerous people. They have a tendency to be stabby and shooty.
The only way that the leadership kept control over the nutters this long was by putting them on a racism drip-feed. Figures like Atwater and Rove masterminded ways of using race as a weapon against Dem candidates without saying it out loud, so much that Dems ended up having to adopt their language just to remain competitive.
All the Trump era did was convince the party that only way they can win going forward if they ditch the drip-feed and start mainlining that shit. That the culture warfare isnāt working anymore, if you want whites to show up to the polls then you have to make them believe that weāre on the verge of āliving on a black planetā and the only thing that will keep that from happening is keeping Repubs in office.
re: #42 Belafon
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My guess is that Doocey will ask about the tweet during a press conference and Psaki will destroy him (cause she knows the question is coming). Republicans are so fucking predictable.
re: #40 retired cynic
IMO, you just explained the whole thing, right there.
Thanks!
Iāve been cogitating on it in the Year of Lockdown, reading books and shit, generally doing research on the origins of the change in the way the Rās did business and was at first convinced that Nixonās Southern Strategy was the catalyst. I think thatās a bit shallow.
He did indeed appeal to Southern Democrats, saying that their party had abandoned them to the Negro Hordes. It worked. It flipped the South.
He didnāt give a fuck about religion, or about southern crackers. It was a means unto an end.
Nixonās strategy got him *elected* but look how he legislated!
The EPA, the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, and opening up in China.
If a Democrat had done that, he would have been lauded as a Progressive for the Ages.
But it was Nixon, who was a little paranoid worm of a human being, and torpedoed his Presidency because of that. Great on policy, absolutely tone deaf on Governing 101.
Ronnie took it to the second level, actively bringing the Evangelicals in. Nixon appealed to the Peckerwoods, Reagan appealed to the Chosen, which was and is still remarkably ironic because both he and Drumpf were not regular churchgoers, or even strong believers.
But Ronnie put the coalition together that is still threatening our Democracy 41 years later.
This is pretty much a QED argument.
Reagan killed traditional Republicanism and it is as dead as a doornail.
Well, Iām off to the rack. We got maybe a 1/2ā of rain today and 1.5ā over the past three days.
The next five days will be 3ā to 5ā. Itās all the result of a bastard cocksucking low pressure system sitting in southern NM/AZ which is pumping in a shitpot of moisture from the Pacific.
We donāt generally have a monsoon season in Texas, we are generally see a drought and flash-flood kind of weather pattern, but the last few years have beenā¦ odd. We are definitely in a monsoon cycle right now.
Mold levels are off the chart. It sucks.
āWhen I saw QAnon, I knew exactly what it was and what it was doing. It was the gamification of propaganda. QAnon was a game that played people.ā https://t.co/BrwKPAOuJ5
ā Jennifer Mercieca (@jenmercieca) June 1, 2021
Interesting article from a LARP designer: Q as a LARP where they have literally lost the plot.
Thereās a whole lot more relationship to gaming in all sorts of movements and cults. You can see character storylines with revealed knowledge, leveling, experience and resource grinding, and the dopamine high of knocking out achievements. They seriously predate electronic gaming, so the videogame industry didnāt have to invent any of it.
re: #30 JOE š„
So when is Chuck going to that hat store to support his fellow anti-Semite?
Regular vs intellectual anti-Semitism:
Regular. THE JEWS OWN ALL THE MONEY AND MEDIA AND CONTROL GOVERNMENT!!!
Intellectual: āWhile sharing in our proud Judeo-Christian Heritage, the Jewish race has nonetheless historically come to establish a dominance disproportionate to its size over world finance, while exerting a controlling influence over media and politics.ā
re: #48 ericblair
Interesting article from a LARP designer: Q as a LARP where they have literally lost the plot.
I am sure that a lot of people are āonboardā with Q just for the performance-art aspect: they gain genuine delight in getting a rise out of people and seeing just how far their insane theories will carry and be taken seriously.
Add to that the people who cynically manipulate opinions like that to further their own agenda and attack enemies and of course, the poor alienated whack jobs who take it at face value, and you have a real cancer on public discourse.
re: #49 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Regular vs intellectual anti-Semitism:
Regular. THE JEWS OWN ALL THE MONEY AND MEDIA AND CONTROL GOVERNMENT!!!
Intellectual: āWhile sharing in our proud Judeo-Christian Heritage, the Jewish race has nonetheless historically come to establish a dominance disproportionate to its size over world finance, while exerting a controlling influence over media and politics.ā
Mock Intellectual: āNow Iām not saying that the Jews are running everything, but donāt you find it worrying that so many of those in control over the banks and Hollywood are Jewish?ā
re: #48 ericblair
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Interesting article from a LARP designer: Q as a LARP where they have literally lost the plot.
Thereās a whole lot more relationship to gaming in all sorts of movements and cults. You can see character storylines with revealed knowledge, leveling, experience and resource grinding, and the dopamine high of knocking out achievements. They seriously predate electronic gaming, so the videogame industry didnāt have to invent any of it.
Iāve seen the āQAnon as a LARPā theory put out there before, Iām not sure if this is the same author as prior pieces Iāve read but it hits a lot of the same notes. And speaking as a gamer, I can tell you that itās become almost instinctual to look for hidden meanings in everything. A wall pattern that looks like it might be a door? Weāll spend hours looking for hidden latches or puzzles to open it. Light seems to blink in sequence that might spell something? Weāll delve into mathematical equations the likes not even Zod has ever seen trying to decipher them.
Why? Because game creators for generations now have done such things not only to liven up their games, but also to keep people coming back for the experience. Itās actually hurt the reputations of games when there was nothing to solve or hidden items to be found because gamers felt that the experience was ālacking.ā
So the person(s) never had to actually have a storyline set out or an ultimate goal that people were to be lead to, all they had to do was give them a bare bones āstoryā and some ācluesā and the gamers among the pack would fill in the blanks and get those who werenāt looking to do the legwork the gratification of being part of a āteam.ā Because few things appeal to the social creatures that we are more than the idea that you are doing everything as a āteam.ā
re: #13 JOE š„
So is Devin going to pay this fine or stiff his attorney?
Itās actually the attorneyās responsibility to pay when the court sanctions the attorney rather than the client.
re: #43 Targetpractice
The only way that the leadership kept control over the nutters this long was by putting them on a racism drip-feed. Figures like Atwater and Rove masterminded ways of using race as a weapon against Dem candidates without saying it out loud, so much that Dems ended up having to adopt their language just to remain competitive.
All the Trump era did was convince the party that only way they can win going forward if they ditch the drip-feed and start mainlining that shit. That the culture warfare isnāt working anymore, if you want whites to show up to the polls then you have to make them believe that weāre on the verge of āliving on a black planetā and the only thing that will keep that from happening is keeping Repubs in office.
And since even that failed last year, they are now openly trying to suppress the vote, and many of them are plotting another bloody coup attempt.
I will veto Article 10 of the budget passed by the legislature.
Article 10 funds the legislative branch.
No pay for those who abandon their responsibilities.
Stay tuned.ā Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) May 31, 2021
That āfunds the legislative branchā is not only legislators. It also funds low-paid staffers of legislators of both parties who depend on that pay, people who work at the Pink House who do not have anything to do with politics at all, &c.
Gov. Abbott is threatening to suspend everyoneās pay because he did not get his way to be an authoritarian taking away voting rights.
Abbottās tweet referred to Article X of the budget, which pays not only lawmakers and staff but also funds legislative agencies, such as the Legislative Budget Board. Under the current budget, the legislative branch is funded through the end of August, and the budget Abbott is referring to covers the fiscal year starting Sept. 1.
Abbott has until June 20 to carry out the veto.
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott vows to defund state Legislature after voting restrictions bill fails, threatening salaries (Texas Tribune)
Conservatives will destroy anything they cannot control, and right now Gov. Abbott is threatening to destroy the entire Texas government.
re: #55 Anymouse š¹š”š·
Another bill which died in the Texas legislative session but didnāt get much attention was a revision to bail laws, which Gov. Abbott says is an āemergency.ā
HB-20, also negotiated by Republicans behind closed doors, would restrict people from being released on personal bond. It would prohibit charities from providing money for cash bail (except churches, because Christianity).
Mental health advocates warned about the bill because frequently when a person in crisis has the cops called on them, that person might lash out at the police (then be charged with assault on a police officer). Basically, they argue that they will turn county jails into psychiatric wards with no mental health attendants.
Gov. Abbott says he will bring that bill into the emergency session he wants to call along with his voter repression bill.
re: #31 gwangung
Sigh. Got a 24 hour suspension on Facebook for saying, āIt was entirely the case and if you read the Korematsu court case, youād know it. Youāre not stupid, but donāt pass along lies.ā
WTH? Thatās so frustrating since you said nothing controversial.
re: #57 Patricia Kayden
WTH? Thatās so frustrating since you said nothing controversial.
Citing Komeratsu implies whoever he was responding to is a bigot. Calling a bigot such and allowing it to stand hurts a conservativeās feelings and cuts into Facebookās profit.
re: #57 Patricia Kayden
WTH? Thatās so frustrating since you said nothing controversial.
It literally doesnāt matter. Facebook, and other social media, are designed to respond to automated reports. If the asshole he was responding to went out and found a few friends to report his post for a reason that could, if true, have legal ramifications for the company, their systems are designed to shoot first and ask questions later. The bigger problem is that I donāt think there is any way to appeal such an automated ruling. TL;DR: Automated content filters make life easier for the content provider by literally handing control of the filters to the biggest group of assholes on the server.
re: #59 Dopamine Fish
Thatās the reason I didnāt sign up for Facebook. Allowing people to gang up on one account to get it shut down is senseless.
re: #60 Patricia Kayden
Thatās the reason I didnāt sign up for Facebook. Allowing people to gang up on one account to get it shut down is senseless.
Itās not just Facebook. Any of the big mainstream social media sites - Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, etc. - do the exact same thing. Itās purely a cost-saving measure; rather than hiring and paying a team of dedicated report review staff, they just have to throw a few extra dollars into the infrastructure budget and add some up-front costs for programmers to build the report response algorithm. Now granted, a report review staff comes with its own problems, basically along the same lines as their content moderation teams, relating to potential or actual bias. But itād still be a step forward from the incredibly draconian āWeāll suspend you because the computer says so, even if you didnāt violate any ToSā they have going on now.
World Health Organization Gives COVID-19 Variants āNon-Stigmatizingā Greek Names (Huffington Post)
The World Health Organization shifted how it will name current and future COVID-19 variants on Monday, choosing to identify them by letters of the Greek alphabet instead of the countries they were first discovered in.
WHO said it hoped the change will help reduce stigma and discrimination after variants that first emerged in countries including the United Kingdom, South Africa, Brazil and India were commonly known as the strains linked to a specific region. Those variants will now be known as the Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta variants, respectively, with new strains being given letters down the line of the Greek alphabet.
Those strains have become the dominant variants of COVID-19 in many regions, and others are currently listed as variants of interest should they become more dangerous.
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And yes, you can be sure there is a clause in the ToS that says, translated from legalese, āYou can be suspended or banned even if you didnāt violate the ToS, and we donāt even owe you an āour badā.ā
re: #3 Patricia Kayden
Jerks
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āitās unconstitutional because congressās salary shall not be changed during a session.ā Oh boy. Did this dummy come up with that on his own? Please tell me a lawyer didnāt think that was going to fly.
Blessed be the fruit: āBiological females are one of our nationās greatest treasuresā according to anti-trans activist (Eclectablog)
Efforts are underway across America to bar transgender women from participating in school and college athletics. Despite the fact that the Republicans introducing these types of odious, discriminatory bills ācannot cite a single instance in their own state or region where such participation has caused problemsā, legislators like my own state senator Lana Theis keep pushing them anyway.
But a quote in a recent article at Michigan Advance really stopped me in my tracks:
Supporters of the bill heavily centered their arguments around athletic differences between cisgender women and cisgender men. Gabriel Higerd, a former adjunct professor of exercise science who researches transgender sports policy, said ābiological females are one of our nationās greatest treasuresā and argued that this bill is necessary because it protects cisgender female athletes from competing against transgender female athletes. The statistics he cited were rooted in cisgender men outperforming cisgender women in sports.
I have never heard any single group of Americans described as āone of our nationās greatest treasuresā as if they were some sort of commodity and not human beings. When I read it, I was gobsmacked. I heard it read in the voice of Aunt Lydia from The Handmaidās Tale. As in, āLadies, you are Gileadās greatest treasures! Blessed be the fruit. May the Lord open!ā
Itās revolting.
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this morning Iāve given Jesse the sad news that she has to eat her way through the current bag of food before different food is showing up, and Iām sorry about it, but daddy aināt playing that game where we go through 60 dollarsā worth of food to find the variety she is happy with at the moment. We already did that with the tins of fancy feast.
re: #65 Anymouse š¹š”š·
Their whole agenda makes a lot more sense when you consider that many of the (relatively) center-right and right-wing sects of Christianity explicitly state that a womanās Biblical place is as her husbandās servant and that menās authority is absolute and God-given. It is a reprehensible and, personally speaking, counter-Biblical take, but itās hard to make that argument when there is a lot of Scripture whose plain reading lines up with that interpretation.
re: #63 Dopamine Fish
And yes, you can be sure there is a clause in the ToS that says, translated from legalese, āYou can be suspended or banned even if you didnāt violate the ToS, and we donāt even owe you an āour badā.ā
If we did it, itās legal/right/justified
Paraphrasing nixon
re: #22 The Pie Overlord!
What it is like to be Old:
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re: #66 steve_davis
this morning Iāve given Jesse the sad news that she has to eat her way through the current bag of food before different food is showing up, and Iām sorry about it, but daddy aināt playing that game where we go through 60 dollarsā worth of food to find the variety she is happy with **at the moment**. We already did that with the tins of fancy feast.
** the operative
Because theyāll turn on a dime
Michael Flynn is trying to take back his apparent endorsement of a violent military coup in the United Statesādespite his comments being caught on video.
Eta: Flynn committed the exact definition of stochastic terrorism. When Imams hiding out in Iraq would send messages like this to their adherents world wide we responded with armed drones.
And Flynn wants to treat this like he flubbed a line in a speech at the Elkās Club
re: #67 Dopamine Fish
Their whole agenda makes a lot more sense when you consider that many of the (relatively) center-right and right-wing sects of Christianity explicitly state that a womanās Biblical place is as her husbandās servant and that menās authority is absolute and God-given. It is a reprehensible and, personally speaking, counter-Biblical take, but itās hard to make that argument when there is a lot of Scripture whose plain reading lines up with that interpretation.
I donāt see how that is counter-Biblical when that is in both the Old and New Testaments. You even note it lines up with that interpretation.
That has been the interpretation of the overwhelming majority of churches since the Roman Catholic Church came into existence. The only differences people outside Christianity see is the degree to which those distinctions between men and women are applied.
Of note, the arguably most liberal denomination (the one which discriminates least), the Metropolitan Community Church, is banned from the World Council of Churches by every other denomination.
re: #52 Targetpractice
Iāve seen the āQAnon as a LARPā theory put out there before, Iām not sure if this is the same author as prior pieces Iāve read but it hits a lot of the same notes. And speaking as a gamer, I can tell you that itās become almost instinctual to look for hidden meanings in everything. A wall pattern that looks like it might be a door? Weāll spend hours looking for hidden latches or puzzles to open it. Light seems to blink in sequence that might spell something? Weāll delve into mathematical equations the likes not even Zod has ever seen trying to decipher them.
Why? Because game creators for generations now have done such things not only to liven up their games, but also to keep people coming back for the experience. Itās actually hurt the reputations of games when there was nothing to solve or hidden items to be found because gamers felt that the experience was ālacking.ā
So the person(s) never had to actually have a storyline set out or an ultimate goal that people were to be lead to, all they had to do was give them a bare bones āstoryā and some ācluesā and the gamers among the pack would fill in the blanks and get those who werenāt looking to do the legwork the gratification of being part of a āteam.ā Because few things appeal to the social creatures that we are more than the idea that you are doing everything as a āteam.ā
sort of along this topic, Iāve been trying for years to remember the game from I would guess the early to mid 90ās, which was a kind of cool dungeon crawl with some time in town. One could throw a coin down a well and there was a really cool animated music video with a catchy damned song sung by a female vocalist. I almost want to say Black Star, but pretty sure thatās CSN song from the mid-70ās. No game titles of the era look quite right when I search title lists from the period, and Iāve never heard the song any place else. (which means Iāve maybe heard the song twice in my life, because I probably threw another coin down the well to hear it again).
re: #62 Anymouse š¹š”š·
The variants of course already have non-stigmatizing nomenclature, composed of usually one Roman letter and then numbers (and a decimal points as needed) to place them on a cladogram of SARS-Cov-2.
But people donāt like complicated things, so here we are making up easier to remember names.
re: #74 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The variants of course already have non-stigmatizing nomenclature, composed of usually one Roman letter and then numbers (and a decimal points as needed) to place them on a cladogram of SARS-Cov-2.
But people donāt like complicated things, so here we are making up easier to remember names.
That was precisely what WHO noted: that the scientific nomenclature, which incorporates the genealogy of a strain (such as B.1.1.7) is both harder to remember and difficult for journalists to get right when reporting.
We do the same with lots of things: hurricanes (Donna rather than āfifth hurricane of 1960ā), &c.
This article should have stayed never-conceived
ā Sin Vega (@withoutaplain) June 1, 2021
re: #77 Patricia Kayden
What the actual bejesusing fuck is this shit? Are they trying to shame people for choosing not to have kids?
re: #78 Dopamine Fish
What the actual bejesusing fuck is this shit? Are they trying to shame people for choosing not to have kids?
āWhy are you not providing us billions of more customers to make our clients richer while they starve to death???ā
re: #74 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The variants of course already have non-stigmatizing nomenclature, composed of usually one Roman letter and then numbers (and a decimal points as needed) to place them on a cladogram of SARS-Cov-2.
But people donāt like complicated things, so here we are making up easier to remember names.
I learned a new word
re: #12 teleskiguy
Grand Hasselhoff Tarkin @TheRyanBaker
* 13h Replying to @bethbourdon and @kenklippenstein
They may not be ignorant of who it is. They may just be pro-Kennedy assassination.
re: #73 steve_davis
sort of along this topic, Iāve been trying for years to remember the game from I would guess the early to mid 90ās, which was a kind of cool dungeon crawl with some time in town. One could throw a coin down a well and there was a really cool animated music video with a catchy damned song sung by a female vocalist. I almost want to say Black Star, but pretty sure thatās CSN song from the mid-70ās. No game titles of the era look quite right when I search title lists from the period, and Iāve never heard the song any place else. (which means Iāve maybe heard the song twice in my life, because I probably threw another coin down the well to hear it again).
CSN is Dark Star
The dead has a dark star too
re: #81 John Hughes
Some towns in Texas celebrated by giving kids a day off from school.
re: #26 DodgerFan1988
Kinda funny how Hitler is the only āleft wing socialistā the white supremacist Republicans seem to constantly idolize. Funny how that happens time and time again.
re: #75 Anymouse š¹š”š·
That was precisely what WHO noted: that the scientific nomenclature, which incorporates the genealogy of a strain (such as B.1.1.7) is both harder to remember and difficult for journalists to get right when reporting.
We do the same with lots of things: hurricanes (Donna rather than āfifth hurricane of 1960ā), &c.
A hurricane pedant would point out āfifth tropical cyclone, third hurricane, and first major hurricaneā
I do not hurricane pedant. // ;-)
re: #52 Targetpractice
And putting little āeaster eggsā into code or other developed stuff is simply fun for the programmers to do.
I do a little bit of scenario/mission design for an Arma 3 group. And I just like to put something odd in that might be found, or have a option in some interaction area that allows access to something āneatā.* Helps keep me interested when some of the work gets tedious or grindy.
* - One of the unit leaders who handles vehicle training asked for a method to damage vehicles so that trainees could be taught how to do repairs and practice doing so. So there was a place to get spare wheels and tracks. And if you parked a vehicle in a particular location you could access a nearby laptop to get an option to damage the parked vehicle. And when you activated the option a sound file of a Dalek yelling āExterminate!ā would play.
re: #77 Patricia Kayden
Because itās Business Week, I think it might be āmore people arenāt having kids; what will we ever do without a mass cheap disposable workforce?ā
ā Mithras Angel (place blue checkmark here) (@mithrasangel) June 1, 2021
re: #60 Patricia Kayden
Thatās the reason I didnāt sign up for Facebook. Allowing people to gang up on one account to get it shut down is senseless.
Itās the main reason that most forums are crap unless there is consistent and meaningful moderation carried out by people.
re: #78 Dopamine Fish
What the actual bejesusing fuck is this shit? Are they trying to shame people for choosing not to have kids?
A thing that literally happens billions of times every single day, hour and minute as people.choose not to have sex this very second.
Plus if on a specific occasion a sperm does fertilize an egg why donāt we lament all the other sperm/ egg combinations (ie potential people) that didnāt happen? Coulda been another Einsteinā¦
re: #30 JOE š„
Vladimir Lenin?
Wasnāt that a Reagan coinage?
Damn, but they even named his Wikipedia page that. The world is full of ignoramuses.
No American should advocate or support the violent overthrow of the United States. https://t.co/dpa20pLG4n
ā Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) May 31, 2021
The Fox News host Sean Hannity was criticised for appearing at a Trump rally in 2018 but according to a new book he was involved again with Trumpās campaign in 2020, helping write an ad that aired on his primetime show.
hannity denies it, badly:
Hannity denied writing the ad, telling Bender: āThe world knows that Sean Hannity supports Donald Trump. But my involvement specifically in the campaign - no. I was not involved that much. Anybody who said that is full of shit.ā.
re: #61 Dopamine Fish
Itās not just Facebook. Any of the big mainstream social media sites - Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, etc. - do the exact same thing. Itās purely a cost-saving measure; rather than hiring and paying a team of dedicated report review staff, they just have to throw a few extra dollars into the infrastructure budget and add some up-front costs for programmers to build the report response algorithm. Now granted, a report review staff comes with its own problems, basically along the same lines as their content moderation teams, relating to potential or actual bias. But itād still be a step forward from the incredibly draconian āWeāll suspend you because the computer says so, even if you didnāt violate any ToSā they have going on now.
Businesses worldwide want to shed employees; this is not limited to social media sites. You want AT&T to send out a human being for technical problems? Hah! They will first do their best to have an AI test your equipment remotely and then make decisions on your behalf. Of course, eventually when the AI fails to get the system working, you will have a human being who will explain that they are mailing you a new receiver.
And when it arrives, then you have to install it on your own, with written instructions that are designed for equipment for a model that you donāt have and that omit some key information. It took several efforts of screaming at the AI to finally get a person on the other end who, reading a script, was able to walk me through steps and get the device working.
But the last thing a company like Facebook with an international customer base wants to do is hire teams of specialists with expertise in every language used by their customers and knowledgeable of the individual nuances by country. The American team, a British team, a Canadian team etc.
re: #94 Hecubaās daughter
When I was having issues with a Windows 10 install here at home, I went through supreme difficulties trying to get it resolved. None of Microsoftās automated tools for fixing those types of issues worked, and there was no clear way to say, āIāve tried literally everything on your list and still need support.ā I had to go through two layers of indirection, one just to find an automated support virtual agent, and then exhausting all its possibilities before it finally coughed up an option to open a support ticket and register for a callback. Once I got an actual live person on the line, it literally took all of five minutes - but hey, all the time wasted on the other support options was MY time, not theirs, so I suppose it doesnāt matter to them one bit.
re: #86 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
And when you activated the option a sound file of a Dalek yelling āExterminate!ā would play.
The Dalek relaxation tape?
re: #95 Dopamine Fish
When I was having issues with a Windows 10 install here at home, I went through supreme difficulties trying to get it resolved. None of Microsoftās automated tools for fixing those types of issues worked, and there was no clear way to say, āIāve tried literally everything on your list and still need support.ā I had to go through two layers of indirection, one just to find an automated support virtual agent, and then exhausting all its possibilities before it finally coughed up an option to open a support ticket and register for a callback. Once I got an actual live person on the line, it literally took all of five minutes - but hey, all the time wasted on the other support options was MY time, not theirs, so I suppose it doesnāt matter to them one bit.
Whenever I get this sort of runaround I take the additional pain to find their feedback site and register the annoyance of having their system waste a great deal of my time. Plus an indication that if I encounter it again I am taking my business elsewhere and will also make sure to slag their support ability on social media among my friends.
re: #94 Hecubaās daughter
Businesses worldwide want to shed employees; this is not limited to social media sites. You want AT&T to send out a human being for technical problems? Hah! They will first do their best to have an AI test your equipment remotely and then make decisions on your behalf. Of course, eventually when the AI fails to get the system working, you will have a human being who will explain that they are mailing you a new receiver.
And when it arrives, then you have to install it on your own, with written instructions that are designed for equipment for a model that you donāt have and that omit some key information. It took several efforts of screaming at the AI to finally get a person on the other end who, reading a script, was able to walk me through steps and get the device working.
But the last thing a company like Facebook with an international customer base wants to do is hire teams of specialists with expertise in every language used by their customers and knowledgeable of the individual nuances by country. The American team, a British team, a Canadian team etc.
Only one team would be necessary because everyone should post in American English only because America, right?
re: #27 JOE š„
Well itās now past Midnight on the East Coast and Crackhead Mikeās insistence that JFK Jr was going to appear today to proclaim the Return of Trump didnāt happen.
Joe is still President.
So whatās the next day Crackhead Mike is going to go withāFlag Day? 4th of July? Labor Day? The 12th Of Never?
Update!
Trumpās #1 asskisser Maggie Haberman right on āQā says that His Ass-Holeyness expects to be returned to the Presidency in August because of the Arizona recountā¦
āHe is not putting out statements about the āauditsā in states just for the sake of it,ā Haberman reports. āHeās been laser focused on them, according to several people whoāve spoken with him.ā
Tish James needs to get that prick indicted ASAP!
re: #96 Dr Lizardo
The Dalek relaxation tape?
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Hehehe. Would love to use something longer, but the size of the mission file is a factor so I needed to keep it to a short wav file.
One of our mission designers like putting anime images into missions. Youāll be clearing an enemy position and find one on a poster on the wall or something like that.
Another of mine is allowing the pilots to spawn a Tu-95 Bear on the airfield runway to play with.
Some of the game mods have non-standard gear. Odd colors, decor, and stuff like a heavily modified foregrip that looks like a plushie. (Which works as a foregrip)
re: #97 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Whenever I get this sort of runaround I take the additional pain to find their feedback site and register the annoyance of having their system waste a great deal of my time. Plus an indication that if I encounter it again I am taking my business elsewhere and will also make sure to slag their support ability on social media among my friends.
I understand, on its face, not making it easy to get to a live person. You donāt want your support lines getting effectively DDoSād by garbage callers, trolls, and the like. And yes, screening systems can help with that, but arenāt 100% proof against it. With that said, your automated support needs a clear and obvious way to say, āOkay, I tried all that and itās still broken, can you put me through to a person now?ā
re: #102 Dopamine Fish
I understand, on its face, not making it easy to get to a live person. You donāt want your support lines getting effectively DDoSād by garbage callers, trolls, and the like. And yes, screening systems can help with that, but arenāt 100% proof against it. With that said, your automated support needs a clear and obvious way to say, āOkay, I tried all that and itās still broken, can you put me through to a person now?ā
Yes. Exactly this.
That the system assumes I am totally incompetent and have to step through multiple things I have already done before giving me an option to go into a queue to talk to a human (and then get walked through their script) is what annoys me. Allowing me to get into that queue right off is what I would want.
And systems like my doctors and others have automated systems - but all of them pretty much have a āif none of these apply please stay on the lineā option.
re: #100 JOE š„
Update!
Trumpās #1 asskisser Maggie Haberman right on āQā says that His Ass-Holeyness expects to be returned to the Presidency in August because of the Arizona recountā¦
āHe is not putting out statements about the āauditsā in states just for the sake of it,ā Haberman reports. āHeās been laser focused on them, according to several people whoāve spoken with him.ā
Tish James needs to get that prick indicted ASAP!
Audit is meaningless and not an audit
Say they found true fraud that would have changed the result
Whats the mechanism?
Impeach Joe, as if he did it himself?
That means kamala
Besides its one state and not enough
Why do I bother?
Because too many people for my.comfort are deep into thinking this shit is real
The head of the French Tennis Federation read a short pre-prepared statement yesterday, saying he was āsorry and sadā for Naomi Osaka ā then refused to take questions from the media. https://t.co/h91LXY0KRg
ā Axios (@axios) June 1, 2021
Mama told me to never invest in crypto with some asshole who randomly spams threads with his miracle strategy. pic.twitter.com/JiMpY3pAo0
ā Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) June 1, 2021
And he delivered. Thanks for the reminder! https://t.co/7IHCBgSKVT
ā AdotSad (@AdotSad) May 28, 2021
Filleted on Friday, marinated until Sunday, now ready for about 12 hours of cool smoke.
Iāll pull the belly strips in a few hours and finish them warm smoke style on the grill. pic.twitter.com/SjoMBDGb0Xā Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) June 1, 2021
re: #107 Dangerman
Wtf is ātrade accuracyā?
Iād expect 100%
Whereās my money? Well, thereās a 5% chance it got lost in my wallet.
re: #96 Dr Lizardo
The Dalek relaxation tape?
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Re texas gov Abbott saying he will veto funding for legislatorsā salaries
Line-item veto, so he can
Wouldnāt take effect till next budget in September
And theyāre out of session so itās $600 a month loss, Rs too. No per diem.
Wonāt break anyone
Performance governing
re: #110 darthstar
Whereās my money? Well, thereās a 5% chance it got lost in my wallet.
I replied to that asshole and got three more crypto-sales tweets almost immediately. Reported it as a spam-bot.
re: #93 Dangerman
I was not involved āthat muchā.
Alrighty then. Fair and balanced and just a tad involved in a highly partisan political campaign. Nothing to see here folks. Moving right along.
re: #108 Belafon
Iāll be meeting some good friends at the MGM to hang out for the first time since the pandemic. Itās because weāre all vaccinated. Thank you, President Biden!!
You may want to take a peak at the video Maggie is quote tweeting.
Way out there
Trump has been telling a number of people heās in contact with that he expects he will get reinstated by August (no that isnāt how it works but simply sharing the information). https://t.co/kaXSXKnpF0
ā Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 1, 2021
But he is not putting out statements about the āauditsā in states just for the sake of it. Heās been laser focused on them, according to several people whoāve spoken with him (as well as WaPo reporting a few weeks ago).
ā Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 1, 2021
New NRCC checkbox just dropped: āIf you UNCHECK this box, Iāll be forced to tell them youāve deserted Trump for Socialism.ā pic.twitter.com/WC4sZfdTc3
ā Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) May 31, 2021
re: #12 teleskiguy
Right wing jagoffs fall for this prank every Memorial Day and Veterans Day.
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What should Donald Trumpās prison nickname be?
ā Jon Cooper šŗšø (@joncoopertweets) June 1, 2021
Trump reportedly echoing what lawyer Sidney Powell said over weekend. (See below.) Short answer: Reinstatement cannot and will not happen. If Trump brings this up in public, will likely increase number of Republicans who say they are ready to move on. https://t.co/UVwK3fl5KE https://t.co/rFTee7P2ux pic.twitter.com/AwNR9ZamB0
ā Byron York (@ByronYork) June 1, 2021
re: #119 The Pie Overlord!
President Trump.
re: #102 Dopamine Fish
I understand, on its face, not making it easy to get to a live person. You donāt want your support lines getting effectively DDoSād by garbage callers, trolls, and the like. And yes, screening systems can help with that, but arenāt 100% proof against it. With that said, your automated support needs a clear and obvious way to say, āOkay, I tried all that and itās still broken, can you put me through to a person now?ā
typically, Iāve found if you simply say ācustomer serviceā over and over again, the system will often finally put you through to a live one. Unless itās AT&T, in which case it will hang up on you.
re: #105 HRH Stanley Sea
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re: #107 Dangerman
Wtf is ātrade accuracyā?
Iād expect 100%
seriously. Yeah, we executed 95 of your trades correctly. The other five unfortunately make you the majority owner of Daveās Doggie Dildo Palace, which has only sold 2 dildos to doggies over the last 3 years, and weāre not entirely sure those actually were used by the doggies. May have been owner birthday gifts.
re: #121 Patricia Kayden
President Trump.
I want that to be his epitaph.
ā Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) June 1, 2021
re: #123 steve_davis
typically, Iāve found if you simply say ācustomer serviceā over and over again, the system will often finally put you through to a live one. Unless itās AT&T, in which case it will hang up on you.
Thatās the thing: With Microsoft, you werenāt even talking to anything. No phone number to call, you couldnāt even talk to a chatbot. They gave you a script to walk through, and then if it failed, they basically went ĀÆ\_(ć)_/ĀÆ
re: #119 The Pie Overlord!
Tangerine Starfish
ā šš½ šš¤šŖš£š ššš· (@FormerDirtDart) June 1, 2021
re: #129 Dopamine Fish
Thatās the thing: With Microsoft, you werenāt even talking to anything. No phone number to call, you couldnāt even talk to a chatbot. They gave you a script to walk through, and then if it failed, they basically went ĀÆ\_(ć)_/ĀÆ
Sounds like the battle I had getting a refund out of Amazon recently. USPS mangled a package and returned it to Amazon. Ok, that happens, whereās my money? Took two weeks and several āChatsā with their joke of customer service. Come on Bezos, is the interest on $50 really worth that?
re: #116 FormerDirtDart šš No Captānš·Trips
If Trump really believes thatās gonna happen, heās fucking delusional.
re: #120 Dangerman
York quoting Gateway Pundit.
The worms are eating into everyoneās brains on the right wing. Fascists are going full Nazi. They canāt help themselves but show their true colors at every turn. Insisting on a coup to install Trump, some incomprehensible word salad insisting Trump regains power in August (they keep moving that timeline back as every Q-related theory keeps failing to come to pass).
Flynn calls for a coup. Trump says heās regaining power in August. Maggie amplifying/regurgitating whatever Trump says.
Bad crazy is getting worse. And if youāre trying to parse what I just wrote, youād think that youāre in some dystopian alternative reality where up is down.
Heck, Iām beginning to wonder if Rick Sanchez (Rick and Morty) was right, and all multiverses bend towards fascism. The GOP is certainly making their play towards fascism with gutting civil and voting rights, trying to overthrow elections, and ignoring vote counts to certify the candidates they want to win. Theyāve made it clear that they no longer accept elections where GOPers do not win.
Meanwhile, the feds are going to get plea deals from Oath Keeper domestic terrorists over the next 2 months - which means that theyāll be rolling on those above them. All of these people deserve lengthy prison sentences.
!!! ALERT: Feds say theyāre hoping āover next month or twoā to make plea offers to accused Oath keepers in Jan 6 prosecution
ā Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) June 1, 2021
re: #132 Dr Lizardo
The worms are eating his brains. Thereās precisely zero way that he resumes being president. Thereās no mechanism short of a coup for that to happen, and that ends democracy. Flynn was pushing the coup route. GOPers are falling in lockstep behind this too - as they continue to show that they donāt accept election results that GOPers donāt win.
The GOP have made it explicitly clear that they no longer seek to participate in a representative democracy and that they care only about authoritarian rule where they can impose their theocratic mumbo jumbo to control women and push wealth to the rich and the burdens to everyone else.
He can be a dumbshit in prison for a few years. Maybe come out less of a dumbshit.
ā Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) June 1, 2021
re: #134 lawhawk
The worms are eating his brains. Thereās precisely zero way that he resumes being president. Thereās no mechanism short of a coup for that to happen, and that ends democracy. Flynn was pushing the coup route. GOPers are falling in lockstep behind this too - as they continue to show that they donāt accept election results that GOPers donāt win.
The GOP have made it explicitly clear that they no longer seek to participate in a representative democracy and that they care only about authoritarian rule where they can impose their theocratic mumbo jumbo to control women and push wealth to the rich and the burdens to everyone else.
The GOP has thrown off the mask and gone full Benito Mussolini. You never go full Benito Mussolini.
re: #132 Dr Lizardo
If Trump really believes thatās gonna happen, heās fucking delusional.
Heās delusional then because we all know that he believes he will be reinstated. He made it pretty clear that if he lost, it was only because he was cheated.
re: #135 darthstar
Oh yes his attorney DID call him a dumbshit!
Capitol Rioterās Attorney Calls Him āDumb***ā Who Believed āWhat He Heard on Fox Newsā
re: #137 Patricia Kayden
Heās delusional then because we all know that he believes he will be reinstated. He made it pretty clear that if he lost, it was only because he was cheated.
Iām beginning to believe that rather than being the originator of the dangerous bullshit that the rabid right wing has been peddling for months now, heās the first and biggest victim of it. I think that his absolute desperation to find something, anything, to cling to that protects his ego and insulates him from reality - and the fact that he surrounded himself with fawning sycophants who were similarly desperate to cling to whatever tenuous power and favor they had - basically led him and his cronies to seek out the craziest motherfuckers they could find to spin ever-more-fanciful tales. And once the President** and his retinue believed and disseminated them, well, why wouldnāt the rank and file, who already worshiped him as god-emperor, believe and disseminate them as well?
Grade school friend posted a pic of herself outside Target saying she just went in and shopped without a mask.
I replied, āFeels good to be vaccinated.ā
She replied, āIām not vaccinated.ā
She works in a hospital. Around babies and their nursing mothers. Rural California foothills near Yosemite. I remember seeing her husband with a MAGA hat in a pic a while back, but I assumed she wasnāt an anti-vaxxer because of her job.
re: #140 darthstar
Grade school friend posted a pic of herself outside Target saying she just went in and shopped without a mask.
I replied, āFeels good to be vaccinated.ā
She replied, āIām not vaccinated.ā
For way too many people, it feels good to be an asshole. And to be proud of it and ready to share that attitude (and whatever pathogens you are carrying)
re: #140 darthstar
A close friend of mine recently lost her former pastor/mentor to Covid and was posting on social media how broken up she was about it. He was 25 years old.
She still refuses to get vaccinated.
re: #140 darthstar
I called my parents and let them know MNās mask mandate had expired. My mom said something along the lines of, āI know itās supposed to be for vaccinated people, but even if they ask, Iām not going to tell them.ā Of note: My parents definitely got me my shots as a kid, and I called them while I was driving to my appointment and told them Mrs. Fish and I were getting our shots, so Iāve done what I can for them. Theyāre convinced their natural immunity will see them through, but Iām worried the only thing it will see them through to is an early grave.
I get a Facebook message from the 50th High School Reunion planning committee. Coming up in 2023. Picture of the committee shows all of the assholes wearing MAGA caps.
Nope. Not interested.
re: #141 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
For way too many people, it feels good to be an asshole. And to be proud of it and ready to share that attitude (and whatever pathogens you are carrying)
My Republican brother and sister-in-law are vaccinated. Theyāre Evangelical Christians, but they donāt want to die to stick it to sane Americans.
re: #124 steve_davis
Neil Peart did not do interviews with the group for I think the entire time since his daughter died, which I think was sometime in the mid 1990ās (I think that corrsponds to when they took a tour hiatus). Somehow the world went on for journalists covering the band.
neither āaccessā nor āresponsivenessā are requirements for a free press
Yeah
Noā šš½ šš¤šŖš£š ššš· (@FormerDirtDart) June 1, 2021
re: #146 Dangerman
neither āaccessā nor āresponsivenessā are requirements for a free press
Led Zeppelin gained quite a mysterious and imposing reputation for not giving interviews.
Another band, the Knack, tried that approach and it backfired on them.
re: #119 The Pie Overlord!
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ā Jon Cooper šŗšø (@joncoopertweets) June 1, 2021
#1899456
(example only)
re: #132 Dr Lizardo
If Trump really believes thatās gonna happen, heās fucking delusional.
itās sure gonna make continued vocal support from the rest of the Rās interesting
re: #144 JOE š„
I get a Facebook message from the 50th High School Reunion planning committee. Coming up in 2023. Picture of the committee shows all of the assholes wearing MAGA caps.
I remember looking up an old HS buddy on Facebook. We were not close friends but hung out a bit for the summer after we graduated.
His FB page was full of anti-Hillary, anti-Obama posts and other RW memes & talking points, I decided not to bother contacting him directly.
re: #135 darthstar
People spend decades in prison for less.
This fucker was part of an armed insurrection to overthrow the government. He believed it. Thatās what matters. He knew the difference between right and wrong, and chose *poorly*. He chose of his own free will and he made a decision that should result in a lifetime stay in a federal prison. If he spends less time due to a plea deal, it should only be to turn on those ranking above him in the fascist/terrorist supply chain.
re: #132 Dr Lizardo
If Trump really believes thatās gonna happen, heās fucking delusional.
Of course heās delusional. His obvious NPD has him living in a self-serving inner-world, and seeking out unreliable people who are willing to prop up that inner-world.
āpersecutionā https://t.co/fM0zb4xbiU
ā Brooke Binkowski (@brooklynmarie) June 1, 2021
re: #140 darthstar
Grade school friend posted a pic of herself outside Target saying she just went in and shopped without a mask.
I replied, āFeels good to be vaccinated.ā
She replied, āIām not vaccinated.ā
She works in a hospital. Around babies and their nursing mothers. Rural California foothills near Yosemite. I remember seeing her husband with a MAGA hat in a pic a while back, but I assumed she wasnāt an anti-vaxxer because of her job.
i read this last week and i think itās likely:
SARS-CoV-2 is a very infectious virus. If you are not vaccinated and congregate in groups, you are going to get it. I suspect that almost everyone (or at least enough to get to herd immunity) will either get vaccinated or they will get COVID in the next few months
re: #148 FormerDirtDart šš No Captānš·Trips
Just because you can build something cool doesnāt mean that you should.
By the way why hasnāt Ali Alexander been arrested?
re: #148 FormerDirtDart šš No Captānš·Trips
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nope here too:
architects build amazing Sky Pool - the worldās first transparent pool built between two skyscrapers.
in their planning, architects neglected to account for helicopter blasts
re: #154 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Of course heās delusional. His obvious NPD has him living in a self-serving inner-world, and seeking out unreliable people who are willing to prop up that inner-world.
Itās gotta be driving him nuts, knowing he lost to Biden, and he simply cannot believe it. His colossal ego wonāt let him admit heās a loser.
re: #153 lawhawk
People spend decades in prison for less.
This fucker was part of an armed insurrection to overthrow the government. He believed it. Thatās what matters. He knew the difference between right and wrong, and chose *poorly*. He chose of his own free will and he made a decision that should result in a lifetime stay in a federal prison. If he spends less time due to a plea deal, it should only be to turn on those ranking above him in the fascist/terrorist supply chain.
offs
āi was an idiotā could be almost every criminalās defense
re: #160 Dr Lizardo
Itās gotta be driving him nuts, knowing he lost to Biden, and he simply cannot believe it. His colossal ego wonāt let him admit heās a loser.
Itās not ego. Itās not just ego.
Heās a fucking fascist who stated outright in 2017 that he would not accept the results of any election he lost. The rest of the GOP has fallen in lockstep behind this view - and theyāre going all in on voter suppression and seeking to invalidate elections where they lose. Questioning election results they lost regardless of the circumstances and with no evidence of any wrongdoing, malfeasance, or anything other than conspiracy crap is only increasing with each passing day.
The GOP is amplifying this worldview, because theyāre desperate to remain in power by any means necessary.
re: #152 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I pretty much avoid anyone from my school days.
One guy who was at one time a friend from school tried to friend my on Facebook a while back. I just let the invite lay there.
re: #155 FormerDirtDart šš No Captānš·Trips
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russian pronounces āprosecutionā wrong.
true story
when i was very young mom was driving us somewhere
i read a sign, āspeed limit 30, violators will be prosecutedā
i asked why would speeders be āpersecutedā?
re: #163 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I pretty much avoid anyone from my school days.
One guy who was at one time a friend from school tried to friend my on Facebook a while back. I just let the invite lay there.
I am in regular touch with exactly one person I knew from high school.
This is crazy af omg pic.twitter.com/Sh14yVD9Eu
ā Bria Celest (@55mmbae) June 1, 2021
re: #166 FormerDirtDart šš No Captānš·Trips
This happens when human settlement encroaches on bear habitats
re: #165 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I am in regular touch with exactly one person I knew from high school.
I am now up to four for some funny reasonā¦ ;)
re: #118 steve_davis
Portrait of the artist as a young man.
re: #168 William Lewis
I am now up to four for some funny reasonā¦ ;)
there are a couple more I hear from sporadically and a couple more I would like to hear from but cannot find or they do not respond.
re: #165 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I am in regular touch with exactly one person I knew from high school.
i am luck to have three
one is my bff since around ā71. she was my best man at our wedding.
two others i lost touch with and reconnected at our 25th HS reunion
we stay in touch regular but not often
i think i wouldnt go to another reunion
re: #134 lawhawk
The worms are eating his brains. Thereās precisely zero way that he resumes being president. Thereās no mechanism short of a coup for that to happen, and that ends democracy. Flynn was pushing the coup route. GOPers are falling in lockstep behind this too - as they continue to show that they donāt accept election results that GOPers donāt win.
The GOP have made it explicitly clear that they no longer seek to participate in a representative democracy and that they care only about authoritarian rule where they can impose their theocratic mumbo jumbo to control women and push wealth to the rich and the burdens to everyone else.
But can we convince all 50 Democratic Senators of this so that they will agree to some kind of filibuster reform and protect voting rights? Itās not promising.
Iād try that sky pool once.
And probably never again after that.
re: #172 Dangerman
i am luck to have three
one is my bff since around ā71. she was my best man at our wedding.two others i lost touch with and reconnected at our 25th HS reunion
we stay in touch regular but not ofteni think i wouldnt go to another reunion
I havenāt and have no intention to. I am now in contact with all but one of the people Iād want to be.
re: #173 No Malarkey!
But can we convince all 50 Democratic Senators of this so that they will agree to some kind of filibuster reform and protect voting rights? Itās not promising.
three op-ed arguments that ābipartisanshipā is not all that, and never was
Bipartisanship, Huh, YeahāWhat Is it Good For? (Absolutely Nothingā¦)
When your insanity is destroying your business, and youāre a right-wing asshole, itās obviously time to double-down.
re: #152 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I remember looking up an old HS buddy on Facebook. We were not close friends but hung out a bit for the summer after we graduated.
His FB page was full of anti-Hillary, anti-Obama posts and other RW memes & talking points, I decided not to bother contacting him directly.
Facebook allowed us to reconnect with old friends, and find out that theyāre crazy assholes now.
re: #177 Punish Domestic Terrorists
When your insanity is destroying your business, and youāre a right-wing asshole, itās obviously time to double-down.
Because theyāre no longer capable of delivering goods and services to all potential customers. Theyāre fixated on only providing to their own cult/tribe of fucking fascists.
re: #178 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Facebook allowed us to reconnect with old friends, and find out that theyāre crazy assholes now.
The fellow moved to Arkansas, so I can imagine that he could even be one of the more relatively sane onesā¦
re: #166 FormerDirtDart šš No Captānš·Trips
The best way to scare away a bear is to yell at it in Finnish:
On the other hand, donāt be like this young lady:
re: #175 William Lewis
I havenāt and have no intention to. I am now in contact with all but one of the people Iād want to be.
I was talking to a friend at church about this last week. My parents both had a wonderful high school experience (they went to school with each other, after all), and are still friends with many of their classmates and correspond/meet up regularly. My sister was a decently popular person in her class, and sheās still friends with several of her classmates, and I think she went to her 10-year reunion (where her classmates mostly reminisced about how many of their number were currently, as of the time of said reunion, in jail). I, on the other hand, would like to entirely forget almost everything that happened from the time we moved to Indiana to the day I left for college, and everyone associated with such time. I did not have a happy time in my teenage years (I nearly killed myself twice), and not even my family really knows how bad it got. Itās not that I wish any of them ill, even the ones who were actively awful to me; in fact, I wish them well. I justā¦ never want to think about any of that stuff ever again, or at least, as little as possible.
re: #182 Dopamine Fish
Amen.
I was the school newspaper editor my senior year. In my final issue editorial I closed with a Springsteen quote:
āItās a town full of losers and Iām pulling out of here to win.ā
re: #177 Punish Domestic Terrorists
When your insanity is destroying your business, and youāre a right-wing asshole, itās obviously time to double-down.
She wouldnāt vaccinate, coopted Jewish history, and is going after BLM. Definitely not going with the logic.
re: #155 FormerDirtDart šš No Captānš·Trips
Troll
re: #140 darthstar
Grade school friend posted a pic of herself outside Target saying she just went in and shopped without a mask.
I replied, āFeels good to be vaccinated.ā
She replied, āIām not vaccinated.ā
She works in a hospital. Around babies and their nursing mothers. Rural California foothills near Yosemite. I remember seeing her husband with a MAGA hat in a pic a while back, but I assumed she wasnāt an anti-vaxxer because of her job.
Report the post to her hospital. Other nurses have been fired for such social media posts. There is not such a nursing shortage that a hospital needs to keep a genocidaire.
re: #184 William Lewis
Amen.
I was the school newspaper editor my senior year. In my final issue editorial I closed with a Springsteen quote:
In many ways, that damage also negatively impacted my ability to relax and enjoy my college experience. If I could do college over, I totally would, because that was the one time where I could enjoy at least some of the privileges of being an adult without having the full responsibilities, but my traumatic past in my teenage years prevented that. Itās also true that my relocation to Minnesota provided the opportunity for a good clean break where I could establish myself in a place with no history, and that has worked out well for me.
re: #135 darthstar
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re: #166 FormerDirtDart šš No Captānš·Trips
iām sorry to my dogs but.. they better boss up cuz iām not pushing no grizzly bears
ā jada š¤š¦ (@jadanowada) June 1, 2021
re: #139 Dopamine Fish
Iām beginning to believe that rather than being the originator of the dangerous bullshit that the rabid right wing has been peddling for months now, heās the first and biggest victim of it. I think that his absolute desperation to find something, anything, to cling to that protects his ego and insulates him from reality - and the fact that he surrounded himself with fawning sycophants who were similarly desperate to cling to whatever tenuous power and favor they had - basically led him and his cronies to seek out the craziest motherfuckers they could find to spin ever-more-fanciful tales. And once the President** and his retinue believed and disseminated them, well, why wouldnāt the rank and file, who already worshiped him as god-emperor, believe and disseminate them as well?
You may be right. It was Cleta Mitchell, the attorney on the Raffensperger call, who originally appeared on Fox News shortly after the election to claim that Trump hadnāt lost. Sheās part of the ALEC crime family that is working to destroy our democracy. She said what he wanted to hear and so he believed her.
re: #188 Dopamine Fish
I enjoyed college because it was the first time I didnāt have to deal with anti-Semites who loved to harass me like they did in high school. Also, there were a lot of professors who actually encouraged me unlike the hack teachers who only cared about a winning football and basketball team.
But the big minus were the assholes in the Campus Crusade For Christ who reserved every possible room for their religious bullshit. Really pissed off the chess, bridge and Go clubsā¦
The āAntifaā symbols were Anarchist symbols actually.
So, Nancy Mace doesnāt appear to be very smartā šš½ šš¤šŖš£š ššš· (@FormerDirtDart) June 1, 2021
In the early morning hours of Memorial Day, my home, where Iām raising my two children, was vandalized with Antifa symbols and profanity.
Although my kids and I are thankfully fine, these criminal acts are unacceptable no matter your politics. pic.twitter.com/OIN5byPp0Iā Nancy Mace (@NancyMace) June 1, 2021
re: #188 Dopamine Fish
If I could do college over, I totally would, because that was the one time where I could enjoy at least some of the privileges of being an adult without having the full responsibilities, but my traumatic past in my teenage years prevented that. Itās also true that my relocation to Minnesota provided the opportunity for a good clean break where I could establish myself in a place with no history, and that has worked out well for me.
I skipped the second grade, which was a big mistake. For starters, I got behind in math and never caught up, and when I hit junior high, I was a slow pubertizer to begin with with classmates all a year older than myself.
And I had no business going off to university when I was 17. I realized in retrospect that a lot of what happens in college is not just to decide what to study or what career to pursue, but to decide what kind of person you wanted to be, and what you were willing to sacrifice or work hard on to achieve.
I saw people struggling with that and felt frustrated because I was simply not emotionally or socially advanced enough to do that yet.
I also changed universities and relocated after my sophomore year, which helped a bit, and by grad school had finally started to hit my stride.
re: #105 HRH Stanley Sea
Did a quick painting of a seagull pic.twitter.com/LR7X5eyq9P
ā Brandon (@Guccitarantin0) June 1, 2021
re: #192 JOE š„
But the big minus were the assholes in the Campus Crusade For Christ who reserved every possible room for their religious bullshit. Really pissed off the chess, bridge and Go clubsā¦
Yes, even our floor RA was a fucking Campus Crusader. Between my Catholic upbringing and the CCfC yahoos, I had no use for Christianity for a very long time.
I did finally run into some decent people who practice Christianity and are not assholes about it. Not enough to change my convictions but enough to convince that it is at least possible.
re: #140 darthstar
Well, Iām having a fun day helping fill out forms for the funeral of my next door neighbour who wasnāt vaccinated, caught COVID-19, and died within a week ā leaving his wife widowed and completely helpless.
So I hope that āunvaccinatedā thing works out for your friend.
re: #86 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
And putting little āeaster eggsā into code or other developed stuff is simply fun for the programmers to do.
I do a little bit of scenario/mission design for an Arma 3 group. And I just like to put something odd in that might be found, or have a option in some interaction area that allows access to something āneatā.* Helps keep me interested when some of the work gets tedious or grindy.
* - One of the unit leaders who handles vehicle training asked for a method to damage vehicles so that trainees could be taught how to do repairs and practice doing so. So there was a place to get spare wheels and tracks. And if you parked a vehicle in a particular location you could access a nearby laptop to get an option to damage the parked vehicle. And when you activated the option a sound file of a Dalek yelling āExterminate!ā would play.
Simulators can have Easter eggs.
I play Euro Truck Simulator 2. They released an expansion DLC of the Iberian peninsula. In the city of Valencia, Spain thereās a hidden short cut through a freight yard near the port. The sign reads, āEl Shortcut, through La Gateā. Elsewhere in the game, āDistricto Poligonoā (Polygon District) signs are all over Spain.
re: #196 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Yes, even our floor RA was a fucking Campus Crusader. Between my Catholic upbringing and the CCfC yahoos, I had no use for Christianity for a very long time.
I did finally run into some decent people who practice Christianity and are not assholes about it. Not enough to change my convictions but enough to convince that it is at least possible.
They are few and far between. And when Rev. Barber speaks, the Corporate Controlled Conservative Press smacks him down as a Communist.
Itās a shame that Nancy did that. Itās worse that a failed former politician who sucked up to the failed President who attempted a coup is giving her attention. Was irrationally blaming anti-fascists what got your attention?
ā Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) June 1, 2021
re: #140 darthstar
Grade school friend posted a pic of herself outside Target saying she just went in and shopped without a mask.
I replied, āFeels good to be vaccinated.ā
She replied, āIām not vaccinated.ā
She works in a hospital. Around babies and their nursing mothers. Rural California foothills near Yosemite. I remember seeing her husband with a MAGA hat in a pic a while back, but I assumed she wasnāt an anti-vaxxer because of her job.
I am fully vaccinated, but my niece was unhappy because I posted a picture on FB of me maskless in the lobby of a local art center. I had to explain that the mask was removed briefly for the picture ā and the only other person in the room was my girl friend, who took the picture and is also fully vaccinated.
ā Possum Every Hour (@PossumEveryHour) June 1, 2021
More love for Pulpit Pimp Mark Driscoll
If this letter is true, then Marl and Grace Driscoll, I believe that they should never, ever be church leaders. This stuff is beyond crazy, in my opinion. https://t.co/ubzBVOrUwO
ā Dee Parsons (@wartwatch) June 1, 2021
Wow. I had never seen this as an actual thought expressed out loud. (Posted as a screenshotted retweet from Bad Voting Takes.)
h/t @RightWingCope pic.twitter.com/6IlgXz2Ijp
ā Bad Voting Takes (@badvotingtakes) March 24, 2021
Awwwwww Rick the anti-Semite has Covid.
Anti-Vax COVID-19 Conspiracy Theorist Rick Wiles Hospitalized With COVID-19
Iām sure Rickās pal Trump will get that special treatment authorized for himā¦bwahahahahahahahahaha
re: #204 Dopamine Fish
Wow. I had never seen this as an actual thought expressed out loud. (Posted as a screenshotted retweet from Bad Voting Takes.)
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Yeah, just curious why he thinks gun owning is a human right, since they didnāt exist until a few hundred years ago. Voting has been around a lot longer.
re: #187 Anymouse š¹š”š·
Report the post to her hospital. Other nurses have been fired for such social media posts. There is not such a nursing shortage that a hospital needs to keep a genocidaire.
A good friend died a week ago. He was battling pancreatic cancer but his death was undoubtedly hastened by the Covid he picked up in April when an unvaccinated staff member at his nursing home infected him (That was the story I heard at the time he was initially infected). She is a danger to the patients and their families.
re: #193 FormerDirtDart šš No Captānš·Trips
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right after we deal with 1/6 because everyone that day is not āthankfully fineā.
In the morning hours of 1/6/20, The Peopleās House, where Congress legislates, was vandalized with anti-American symbols and profanity.
Police, there to protect The House were attacked and killed. Legislators were threatened with death. These criminal acts are unacceptable no matter your politics
In the early morning hours of Memorial Day, my home, where Iām raising my two children, was vandalized with Antifa symbols and profanity.
Although my kids and I are thankfully fine, these criminal acts are unacceptable no matter your politics. pic.twitter.com/OIN5byPp0Iā Nancy Mace (@NancyMace) June 1, 2021
re: #204 Dopamine Fish
Wow. I had never seen this as an actual thought expressed out loud. (Posted as a screenshotted retweet from Bad Voting Takes.)
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re: #195 wrenchwench
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grr: fixed!
Did a quick painting of a seagull pic.twitter.com/LR7X5eyq9P
ā Brandon (@Guccitarantin0) June 1, 2021
re: #105 HRH Stanley Sea
āThen refused to take questions from the media.ā Isnāt that a problem?
re: #201 Hecubaās daughter
I am fully vaccinated, but my niece was unhappy because I posted a picture on FB of me maskless in the lobby of a local art center. I had to explain that the mask was removed briefly for the picture ā and the only other person in the room was my girl friend, who took the picture and is also fully vaccinated.
in a more general sense, this is why different rules for different people will get complicated, and misunderstood
re: #201 Hecubaās daughter
I am fully vaccinated, but my niece was unhappy because I posted a picture on FB of me maskless in the lobby of a local art center. I had to explain that the mask was removed briefly for the picture ā and the only other person in the room was my girl friend, who took the picture and is also fully vaccinated.
Your nieceās reaction is as irrational as that of anti vaxxers; less dangerous for sure, but just as irrational.
Soā¦happy June 1stā¦also known as the day many of the Jan 6 assholes begin appearing in court - like those Oathkeepers who have congress membersā numbers in their phones. Yes, a court trial could reveal evidence the GOP was trying to hide by killing the Jan 6 commission.
re: #207 Hecubaās daughter
A good friend died a week ago. He was battling pancreatic cancer but his death was undoubtedly hastened by the Covid he picked up in April when an unvaccinated staff member at his nursing home infected him (That was the story I heard at the time he was initially infected). She is a danger to the patients and their families.
tangentially, if an un/anti-vax goes to a doctor, or really anywhere else, do they think they have to right to ask whether the staff treating/waiting on them is vaccinated?
or do they even care at all?
re: #204 Dopamine Fish
Works for me. āOne Bullet, One Vote. Vote Early, Vote Often.ā
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re: #216 Dangerman
tangentially, if an un/anti-vax goes to a doctor, or really anywhere else, do they think they have to right to ask whether the staff treating/waiting on them is vaccinated?
or do they even care at all?
I hope they ask, and insist on seeing a ādoctorā who rejects vaccines. Maybe Trumpās ātormented spiritsā / āAlien DNAā doctor can help.
re: #209 Mike Lamb
Holy shit.
I mean, I vaguely understand the concept that self-defense/self-preservation isnāt something that is granted by the government, but self-defense is not coextensive with gun ownership. One could, moreover, make a very compelling case that voting is also a form of self-defense/self-preservation. Lastly, if he wants to go the self-defense route, it certainly opens the door for limiting the number and kinds of guns available. You donāt need 100 guns to protect 4 people. You donāt need high capacity magazines and semi-auto rifles to defend yourself.
The other insane part is he says voting should be reserved to those who can use it responsibly (which of course is code for only GOP votes are legitimate), but doesnāt make any suggestion of gun ownership having any mechanism to ensure responsible use.
re: #212 Belafon
āThen refused to take questions from the media.ā Isnāt that a problem?
It is enormously hypocritical because the lead up to Osakaās withdrawal was a fine and threat of further penalties because Osaka didnāt participate in her post-match press conference.
I can remember a time when we used to chuckle a bit when the FBI asked us during background checks of our colleagues whether they had ever advocated for the overthrow of the United States because it seemed so absurd. No one is laughing now. https://t.co/AGvlABTz5Y
ā Barb McQuade (@BarbMcQuade) June 1, 2021
re: #221 jaunte
I got asked that at my Citizenship interview about a month ago.
re: #222 Eclectic Cyborg
I got asked that at my Citizenship interview about a month ago.
Are you plotting to overthrow the government?
re: #223 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Are you plotting to overthrow the government?
Ask me again if Trump gets re-elected.
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re: #219 Mike Lamb
I mean, I vaguely understand the concept that self-defense/self-preservation isnāt something that is granted by the government, but self-defense is not coextensive with gun ownership. One could, moreover, make a very compelling case that voting is also a form of self-defense/self-preservation. Lastly, if he wants to go the self-defense route, it certainly opens the door for limiting the number and kinds of guns available. You donāt need 100 guns to protect 4 people. You donāt need high capacity magazines and semi-auto rifles to defend yourself.
The other insane part is he says voting should be reserved to those who can use it responsibly (which of course is code for only GOP votes are legitimate), but doesnāt make any suggestion of gun ownership having any mechanism to ensure responsible use.
its meaningless word salad
itās not meant to make sense or stand up to any sort of scrutiny
or be serious or subject to true debate and analysis
itās just a thing until they jumble the words again to say something else asinine
re: #223 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Are you plotting to overthrow the government?
Itās funny how natural-born citizens arenāt asked if they will overthrow the government or take up arms against the government.
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41 years of this shit.
āTurner threw a cocktail party to celebrate the start of cable news on the air. He said it wonāt stop until the end of the world.ā
The 24-hour TV news era began 41 years ago today with the launch of the Cable News Network: pic.twitter.com/zHqwUqTnv2ā Steve Kornacki (@SteveKornacki) June 1, 2021
re: #216 Dangerman
tangentially, if an un/anti-vax goes to a doctor, or really anywhere else, do they think they have to right to ask whether the staff treating/waiting on them is vaccinated?
or do they even care at all?
Some of them may be worried that they will get infected by dangerous vaccines being shed by the vaccinated.
re: #226 Sherlock Hound
Itās funny how natural-born citizens arenāt asked if they will overthrow the government or take up arms against the government.
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Weāre not allowed to deport natural-born insurgents.
re: #225 Dangerman
its meaningless word salad
itās not meant to make sense or stand up to any sort of scrutiny
or be serious or subject to true debate and analysisitās just a thing until they jumble the words again to say something else asinine
I differ in that I think it doesnāt make logical sense, but itās message reflects itās audienceās emotional state.
The core two ideasā¦they the in-group are entitled to their weapons because itās their entitlement to both declare others deserving of violence and snap-decide the legitimacy of the law and the government, but other peopleāthe out-groupāarenāt entitled to vote but must earn franchise through complianceā¦are axioms of reactionaries.
re: #228 Belafon
Up until Fox, it was ok.
No it wasnāt. Turner was a biased Republican. I remember when he tried to launch a hostile takeover of CBS in 1984 citing itās āliberal bias.ā
Time and time again FAIR documented the right wing bias of CNN and I still will not give CNN a pass when Bernie Shaw torpedoed Dukakis in 1988 with the Kitty Rape question which was provided to him by Roger Ailes.
Pajamas Media article trying to āboth sidesā the Tulsa Massacre. Disgusting.
re: #226 Sherlock Hound
Itās funny how natural-born citizens arenāt asked if they will* overthrow the government or take up arms against the government.
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* or did
(At least so far)
re: #233 DodgerFan1988
Pajamas Media article trying to āboth sidesā the Tulsa Massacre. Disgusting.
Failed citizen-journalist project is still a failure.
re: #229 No Malarkey!
Some of them may be worried that they will get infected by dangerous vaccines being shed by the vaccinated.
Sometimes my head just hurts from all this pretzel logic
re: #228 Belafon
Up until Fox, it was ok.
Iād have to say that even before FoxNews came, CNNās constant āBreaking Stories/Breaking Eventsā made the news cycle 24 hours, and changed the emotional impact of the news cycle (Roller coaster, constant drum beat, and then alternately numbing to the constant escalation of events) that led to Foxās success.
re: #233 DodgerFan1988
Pajamas Media article trying to āboth sidesā the Tulsa Massacre. Disgusting.
Did āboth sidesā have an air force?
re: #205 JOE š„
Awwwwww Rick the anti-Semite has Covid.
Anti-Vax COVID-19 Conspiracy Theorist Rick Wiles Hospitalized With COVID-19
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Iām sure Rickās pal Trump will get that special treatment authorized for himā¦bwahahahahahahahahaha
Tots and pears. And womp womp
re: #227 darthstar
41 years of this shit.
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I remember the first day of CNN 6/1/81 and it went 24/7 covering the shooting of Vernon Jordan. Over and over again sensationalizing it. When they alleged that Jordan was in a motel with a white woman thatās when we went back to CBS.
This morning bratwurstās mom was to have her surgery. I hope it turned out well. Concerned for them both.
re: #225 Dangerman
its meaningless word salad
itās not meant to make sense or stand up to any sort of scrutiny
or be serious or subject to true debate and analysisitās just a thing until they jumble the words again to say something else asinine
Word salad? Sure. Meaningless? I donāt think so. Heās vocalizing the practical impact, if not the unstated intent, of the voter suppression laws in combination with the constant push toward relaxing every barrier to owning a gun.
During his Tuesday coronavirus briefing, West Virginia Governor Jim Justice (R) gave full details of West Virginiaās new vaccine incentive program, WTRF reports.Among the prizes included in the first lottery held in June: a million dollars, education scholarships, trucks, hunting rifles, and shotguns
Inevitable right?
re: #222 Eclectic Cyborg
I got asked that at my Citizenship interview about a month ago.
I had to affirm that both in the military, and in my elected position on the village board (and sign papers to that effect).
re: #251 Anymouse š¹š”š·
I had to affirm that both in the military, and in my elected position on the village board (and sign papers to that effect).
I also got asked if I would be willing to take up arms to defend the country.
re: #251 Anymouse š¹š”š·
I had to affirm that both in the military, and in my elected position on the village board (and sign papers to that effect).
I got asked that in my application to join the state bar.
re: #250 Dangerman
Inevitable right?
At the risk of supporting guns, Iād say that auctioning away a hunting rifle or a shotgun for getting many more people vaccinated is _probably_ a worthwhile tradeoff amongst a Covid-19 āskepticalā (Iām being nice here) population.
A virus spread by one person can kill many more people than a person with a gun. Shooting someone wonāt lead to everyone being shot suddenly shooting others, but a virulent Covid-19 denier living amongst other covid-19 deniers will infect others and turn them into infecters.
re: #183 William Lewis
Loaded up the truck, drive to the Salvation Army store. āOh we only take clothing on Thursday.ā Sigh.
re: #250 Dangerman
Inevitable right?
If I thought my younger coworkers were being lazy about getting the shot - theyāre not, itās the older right wing types that are idiots - Iād suggest an nVidia 3090 raffle.
re: #250 Dangerman
Inevitable right?
Those are more useful to a dumbass who doesnāt get vaccinated on their own than an education is.
re: #207 Hecubaās daughter
If I was a new mom and found out this idiot was near me or my child in the hospital, I would raise 12 levels of hell with hospital management and perhaps end up in jail for assault. This is someone with an education who fucking knows better and is ignoring science and medicine. She needs to be fired, yesterday. The shots cost nothing and are available all over the place, thereās no excuse. Except being a selfish asshole and being proud of it.
re: #255 aatharuv
At the risk of supporting guns, Iād say that auctioning away a hunting rifle or a shotgun for getting many more people vaccinated is _probably_ a worthwhile tradeoff amongst a Covid-19 āskepticalā (Iām being nice here) population.
A virus spread by one person can kill many more people than a person with a gun. Shooting someone wonāt lead to everyone being shot suddenly shooting others, but a virulent Covid-19 denier living amongst other covid-19 deniers will infect others and turn them into infecters.
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Interesting list of worthless people that will have a crazy asshole on their shows.
Comedian Owen Benjamin once had a moderately successful Hollywood career, landing roles in movies and TV shows and briefly becoming engaged to actress Christina Ricci. After moving to the right, he appeared on podcasts hosted by Joe Rogan, Steven Crowder, and Ben Shapiroās Daily Wire.
Neighbors Fear Bear-Themed Compound Will Be Next Ruby Ridge (The Daily Beast)
wow! you found that rare group of anarchists that are super into government and passing legislation thoughts and prayers at this obviously difficult time and i hope you get all that spray paint from under your finger nails https://t.co/qTkcGL2nzp
ā Imani Gandy (@AngryBlackLady) June 1, 2021
Some lady is now talking about āvaccine totalitarianism.ā She cray cray. https://t.co/nFWeKFbOZC
ā Lamar White, Jr. (@LamarWhiteJr) June 1, 2021
āThis is in violation of the Nuremberg Codes,ā the woman on the left just claimed before taking an absurdly audible gulp of water.
ā Lamar White, Jr. (@LamarWhiteJr) June 1, 2021
And another pair. pic.twitter.com/hyfWVBf770
ā Lamar White, Jr. (@LamarWhiteJr) June 1, 2021
āWe recently found [the virus] was leaked out of China. And now, weāre putting it in our arm,ā the woman on the left claimed, falsely.
ā Lamar White, Jr. (@LamarWhiteJr) June 1, 2021
jeebus
I wonder if the Joint Chiefs have any opinion on Michael Flynnās calling for a coup.
re: #262 Backwoods_Sleuth
I like how the bicycle is parked right there and those crazy anarchists/Antifa/BLM criminals left it alone. That anyone believes any of this shit without skepticism by now is astonishing.
Great news for fairer redistricting: A 6th Circuit Court of Appeals panel unanimously upheld the constitutionality of Michiganās new independent redistricting commission, rejecting a GOP challenge. GOP plaintiffs have yet to say if they will further appeal https://t.co/xSGYjlOrlB
ā Stephen Wolf (@PoliticsWolf) June 1, 2021
Happy Pride!
Pride represents so much for the LGBTQ+ community, for our nation, and for the world. It is a time to recall the trials of the LGBTQ+ community and to rejoice in the triumphs of trailblazing individuals who have bravely fought for full equality.
We have your back.ā The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 1, 2021
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