John Oliver Tackles a Very Important Subject: Chocolate!
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Have to admit, I’m starting to get John Oliver fatigue. He’s more of a journalist than most actual journalists, and is incredibly funny. But goddamn, watching that show anymore is like “Here is a thing you participate in that is, at its core, inherently evil. I’m not implying heavily you’re a piece of shit for participating, but basically you are.”
If this is going to be about Ethical Snickers, it’s too late.
I care about the world and the people in it, but chocolate is one of the few things I may not be able to quit no matter the problems with it.
I have loved chocolate all my life and will continue to do so.
re: #3 Unabogie
I care about the world and the people in it, but chocolate is one of the few things I may not be able to quit no matter the problems with it.
Let s’mores be done though the heavens fall.
re: #1 Mattand
Have to admit, I’m starting to get John Oliver fatigue. He’s more of a journalist than most actual journalists, and is incredibly funny. But goddamn, watching that show anymore is like “Here is a thing you participate in that is, at its core, inherently evil. I’m not implying heavily you’re a piece of shit for participating, but basically you are.”
And I just read that in John Oliver’s voice.
Fuck you… Fuck you all to hell John.
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re: #325 Nerdy Fish
To me, it looks like having a President walk in your picket line has a 100% success rate as far as ensuring a successful strike. Who wants to be the next to call President Biden over? SAG-AFTRA is still on strike, aren’t they?
The studios/producers won’t want to: they are likely afraid of summoning the powers of Dark Brandon….
I’m sure big chocolate is out there fomenting evil, but Baby Ruth, here I come…
re: #4 PhillyPretzel ✅
I have loved chocolate all my life and will continue to do so.
Ethical chocolate and ethical cocaine. Hard to manage with addictive substances.
I almost never eat any chocolate (I’m diabetic).
On the rare occasions that I do eat some, I’ve discovered that only high quality chocolates taste good. Typical chocolate (like on candy bars) just tastes waxy and unpleasant.
Does make it easier to resist eating that stuff.
There are several brands of “ethical chocolate” on the market, some are quite mainstream with celebrity spokespersons and all. My daughter is big into Toni’s Chocolonely, a Dutch brand that is well established in one of the world’s big chocolate markets.
Meanwhile Toblerone is no longer Swiss, having relocated its production to Slovakia.
I’m not diabetic…the commercail stuff at the checkout counter is TOO sweet anymore.
⚠️CW/TW: Graphic description of the state of Shani’s body ⚠️
You probably heard the news regarding Shani Louk.
I do - however - want to explain to you what happened.
This is Shani, by the way, 23 years old. A German-Israeli. She went to Nova music festival for a party.
She’s the one who was filmed on Saturday laying face down on a pickup truck. Naked. Her leg terribly broken and dislocated.
The crowd was seen spitting on her, poking her body. She was proudly paraded through Gaza.
In recent days, the IDF conducted missions in the north part of Gaza and the area surrounding the border.
Parts of Shani’s skull were found. She was partly beheaded.
After lab and DNA tests a panel of experts reached a conclusion that she was murdered and a formal message was delivered to her family.
She could have been your sister, your daughter, she could have been you.
Shani’s body is still being held by Hamas in Gaza along with 228 other hostages. The Red Cross is still not allowed to see them, no information regarding their condition was shared.
You probably heard the news regarding Shani Louk.
I do - however - want to explain to you what happened.
This is Shani, by the way, 23 years old. A German-Israeli. She went to Nova music festival for a party.
She’s the one who was filmed on Saturday laying face down on a… pic.twitter.com/wmVadrSSIx— Elad Simchayoff (@Elad_Si) October 30, 2023
“Manslaughter” is trending because the entire far right propaganda apparatus has ramped up to grift off a tragic accident. The only blame should be placed on a hockey world that so worships toughness that neck and wrist protection isn’t mandatory for adults and nobody wears it. https://t.co/LRlK9cwAlF
— 🌈Kathryn BrightBOO!👻 (@KEBrightbill) October 30, 2023
re: #10 lizardofid
Happy National Candy Corn Day, to all who observe!
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Still got issues with pineapple?
Federal charge says former North Dakota lawmaker traveled to Prague with intent to rape minor
It [the 4-page indictment] accuses the 79-year-old [former Republican state Sen. Ray] Holmberg of traveling from North Dakota to the Czech Republic from about June 2011 to November 2016 with intent to rape a person under age 18 [and also charges him with one count of receiving images depicting child sexual abuse].
Holmberg served over 45 years in the North Dakota Senate until his resignation last year, after local media outlet The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead revealed he exchanged text messages with a person who was jailed on charges related to child sexual abuse images.
Holmberg, a retired school counselor, chaired the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, which writes budgets.
*sigh* Likely other scandals lining up behind the closet door. More background here: inforum.com. Holmberg got caught because he exchanged 72 text messages with a man who was currently being held in jail at the time of the text message exchanges.
re: #14 Teukka
⚠️CW/TW: Graphic description of the state of Shani’s body ⚠️
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If they only recovered small pieces of a skull, how can they know that she was beheaded?
re: #3 Unabogie
I care about the world and the people in it, but chocolate is one of the few things I may not be able to quit no matter the problems with it.
Seconded.
re: #305 Dangerman
a VERY large brown black and orange striped iguana just scared the shit out of me. 4’ easily
he’s got magnificent spikes on his head
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big change from the large green one that used to live here
went for a pic and instead of running he slid into the pond.
im sure there’s three koi right now going, wtf. we didnt have this at home.
now we know whose been messing up our deck
Grab it when it’s in torpor during a cold snap
Stopped eating chocolate when I was 13 over 60 years ago and haven’t indulged since (except for one time).
OT: Some personal anxiety
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1st I’ve heard of this……
Antisemites and far-right grifters have glommed on to the tragic death of Adam Johnson, accusing the player who accidentally collided with him of murder/manslaughter because… he’s Black. pic.twitter.com/LXYLKPRJlh
— Robert Silverman (@BobSaietta) October 30, 2023
re: #18 JC1
If they only recovered small pieces of a skull, how can they know that she was beheaded?
Probably because of what pieces. Like, if you find pieces which add up to a a section of the cranium cleanly lopped off, she might’ve been a victim of one of those guys who tried to decapitate people on the Israeli side with a shovel. And probably enough pieces and grey matter found to exclude there was a way she could’ve survived it.
re: #16 Dangerman
Still got issues with pineapple?
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My candy corn needs it’s salty little friends.
re: #22 Hecuba’s daughter
They’re intermittent. I’m on my way to the doc in a few minutes so he can retrieve the toolkit he left in there from last week’s intervention.
re: #15 DodgerFan1988
In defense of the hockey world, serious injuries from a skate blade at the professional level are extremely rare.
I can think of only a handful of incidents going back 30 years. The worst (well, before this past week) was Malarchuk, who only managed to survive because of some very quick action from one of the trainers. The other ones I know of were players that got their wrists slit. Brutal for sure, but much better recovery chances than taking one in the neck.
Not saying I have any problem with neck guards and what have you, but I doubt making them mandatory is going to be a very high priority for the leagues right now despite what has happened.
re: #1 Mattand
Have to admit, I’m starting to get John Oliver fatigue. He’s more of a journalist than most actual journalists, and is incredibly funny. But goddamn, watching that show anymore is like “Here is a thing you participate in that is, at its core, inherently evil. I’m not implying heavily you’re a piece of shit for participating, but basically you are.”
That’s why people prefer comforting lies.
The truth hurts our feelings.
We’re complicit in a lot of evil shit but want to think of ourselves as good people.
re: #1 Mattand
I’m reading Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States, and it starts early feeling like that as well.
re: #28 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
That’s why people prefer comforting lies.
The truth hurts our feelings.
We’re complicit in a lot of evil shit but want to think of ourselves as good people.
Thing is, there’s no way to know for certain whether the food or whatever else I may be buying is ethically sourced or whatever.
The sad reality is that just about everyone who participates in American consumer culture is benefiting from the exploitation of others in some way.
I don’t like it, but it’s not like I can fly to China and clean up all the factories myself.
re: #17 dat_said
Federal charge says former North Dakota lawmaker traveled to Prague with intent to rape minor
*sigh* Likely other scandals lining up behind the closet door. More background here: inforum.com. Holmberg got caught because he exchanged 72 text messages with a man who was currently being held in jail at the time of the text message exchanges.
Again, not a transgender.
re: #29 Belafon
I’m reading Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States, and it starts early feeling like that as well.
Just purchased the book and will be reading it after finishing Raskin’s Unthinkable.
re: #30 Eclectic Cyborg
Thing is, there’s no way to know for certain whether the food or whatever else I may be buying is ethically sourced or whatever.
The sad reality is that just about everyone who participates in American consumer culture is benefiting from the exploitation of others in some way.
I don’t like it, but it’s not like I can fly to China and clean up all the factories myself.
Yes, you have to set ethics aside just to eat here. Some of the abusive food factories are here. The chicken I just ate for lunch almost certainly involved bad conditions for the chickens.
re: #27 Eclectic Cyborg
In defense of the hockey world, serious injuries from a skate blade at the professional level are extremely rare.
I can think of only a handful of incidents going back 30 years. The worst (well, before this past week) was Malarchuk, who only managed to survive because of some very quick action from one of the trainers. The other ones I know of were players that got their wrists slit. Brutal for sure, but much better recovery chances than taking one in the neck.
Not saying I have any problem with neck guards and what have you, but I doubt making them mandatory is going to be a very high priority for the leagues right now despite what has happened.
Not a hockey fan myself: but yeah: AFAICR, this is the first on-ice fatality I can think of: a tragedy for sure, but it seems like a freak accident - certainly not “manslaughter” as those ghoulish wingnuts are posting.
re: #32 Hecuba’s daughter
Unthinkable was a wonderful book. Most of the problems we have with the national government could be solved if the participants in it would only aspire to the compassion and strength of character possessed by Jamie Raskin.
Former state senator Ray Holmberg indicted, arrested on federal child porn charges
kfgo.com
re: #36 jaunte
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Too bad Marge Gunderson was all tied up in Fargo. She would have been on this case decades ago.
That’s the kind of white nationalist sociopath that the owner of Xitter befriends. We’re on a white nationalist website right now, and should make some changes.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) October 30, 2023
Tax paid sex tourist.
Holmberg was one of the Legislature’s most powerful lawmakers for decades, serving as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. He chaired the Legislative Management committee four times. The Republican legislator was first elected to his senate seat, serving Grand Forks’ District 17, in 1976.
He was reimbursed roughly $126,000 for nearly 70 out-of-state trips from 2013 to mid-April 2022 to places that included four dozen U.S. cities, as well as China, Canada, Puerto Rico and several European countries, according to an Associated Press review of his travel records.
re: #26 Decatur Deb
They’re intermittent. I’m on my way to the doc in a few minutes so he can retrieve the toolkit he left in there from last week’s intervention.
That doesn’t sound like fun…good luck.
There is no such thing as ethically produced palm oil, and it’s in just about everything.
Today, Lawfare is launching the Trump Disqualification Tracker—a page created by @hyemin.bsky.social and Caleb Benjamin to track challenges in the states to remove Trump from the 2024 ballot under Sec. 3 of the 14th amendment.
lawfaremedia.org
re: #46 jaunte
We’re at the point where you need trackers to figure out which criminal case or civil fraud case you’re referring to, or which state is seeking to have Trump tossed from the ballot for being incapable of running under the 14th Amendment.
I’ll be surprised if any state court rules that Trump shouldn’t be allowed on the ballot.
re: #27 Eclectic Cyborg
In defense of the hockey world, serious injuries from a skate blade at the professional level are extremely rare.
I was about to say I that I had never heard of such a thing until the other day. Not a big hockey fan but I sometimes follow the Olympic hockey just because it is slightly less brutal and violent than the NHL.
I mean, it would be great if it happened. I just don’t think the courage to do it exists in our court system.
re: #49 Charles Johnson
I’ll be surprised if any state court rules that Trump shouldn’t be allowed on the ballot.
The kicker: if any state does it’s most likely a fully blue state where he will lose anyway.
re: #49 Charles Johnson
I’ll be surprised if any state court rules that Trump shouldn’t be allowed on the ballot.
It’s certainly novel approach to the issue, but all it takes is one state court to rule (all the way to the State Supreme Court), and we’ve got ourselves a split - it goes to SCOTUS.
The fact is no one has ever tried to overthrow the government to stay in the WH and then try to run again. The Constitution wasn’t made to address this scenario, and we’re still grappling with that all over the place - because there are far too many people who think that just because existing laws bent but didn’t break means we’re okay.
We aren’t okay, because the GOP are still intent on ending democracy and installing their chosen candidates in power, regardless of the voting outcome.
re: #52 Thanos
The kicker: if any state does it’s most likely a fully blue state where he will lose anyway.
and as mentioned earlier, it would set a precedent that the GOP would follow up on
re: #54 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and as mentioned earlier, it would set a precedent that the GOP would follow up on
A Republican party that, when it was much saner than today, impeached a Democratic President for being less than truthful about a consensual relationship with an adult woman.
re: #49 Charles Johnson
I’ll be surprised if any state court rules that Trump shouldn’t be allowed on the ballot.
If they do I got a bad feeling that a Republican controlled House would try to throw out that state’s electoral votes.
re: #14 Teukka
⚠️CW/TW: Graphic description of the state of Shani’s body ⚠️
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It utterly sickens me that there are still Hamas-stans on the left who are either
1) denying that Hamas committed atrocities
2) admitting Hamas committed atrocities but that “they were being oppressed so it’s OK”
3) accuse Israel of atrocities & war crimes that were literally committed by Hamas.
4) accuse Israel of genocide & “settler colonialism” (whatever the fuck that even is since everybody in the world lives someplace other than where their ancestors originated)
re: #56 Hecuba’s daughter
A Republican party that, when it was much saner than today, impeached a Democratic President for being less than truthful about a consensual relationship with an adult woman.
Yeah, worrying about Republicans misbehaving is pointless. They’re already in rebellion against our democracy and the concept of rule by law.
re: #26 Decatur Deb
They’re intermittent. I’m on my way to the doc in a few minutes so he can retrieve the toolkit he left in there from last week’s intervention.
and his watch probably too
Bibi continues to reject calls for him to resign over his disastrous handling of govt affairs before and during the Hamas war - it was his intent to end an independent judiciary that led to IDF cohesion and readiness to falter, combined with refusing to listen to all the intel warning of an imminent attack by Hamas, and he’s still undermining Israeli safety.
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Time to see how much energy I have to put up Halloween decorations.
On Monday, employees at X were awarded equity in the company at a valuation of $19 billion, or $45 per share, according to internal documents seen by The Verge. That price is a 55 percent discount to Musk’s original purchase price, per the documents, which note that “the fair market value per share is determined by the Board of Directors based on a number of factors in a manner that complies with applicable tax rules.”
Fidelity has it pegged at a 65% discount (less than $16 billion): theverge.com
Both valuations are likely optimistic. Can’t imagine still working there but I wouldn’t be counting on any restricted stock units being worth much at the end of the four year grant period.
re: #49 Charles Johnson
I’ll be surprised if any state court rules that Trump shouldn’t be allowed on the ballot.
If the Insurrection Clause means anything, he should be. One of the most clear cut attacks on the federal government I can think of.
re: #47 lawhawk
We’re at the point where you need trackers to figure out which criminal case or civil fraud case you’re referring to, or which state is seeking to have Trump tossed from the ballot for being incapable of running under the 14th Amendment.
repeating the obvious: far and away the R’s frontrunner
re: #64 dat_said
Fidelity has it pegged at a 65% discount (less than $16 billion): theverge.com
Both valuations are likely optimistic. Can’t imagine still working there but I wouldn’t be counting on any restricted stock units being worth much at the end of the four year grant period.
Of course, Musk says it’s worth more than it is. They’ve lost so many users, and many others have one foot out the door. What’s the value of a social media site for white nationalists? It should wind up worth just as much as Stormfront is worth.
re: #66 Dangerman
repeating the obvious: far and away the R’s frontrunner
They’re objectively a pro-crime party. They threw all their professed values away for a deranged criminal who pandered to their hate and religious extremism, their true values.
re: #58 Vicious Babushka
It utterly sickens me that there are still Hamas-stans on the left who are either
1) denying that Hamas committed atrocities
2) admitting Hamas committed atrocities but that “they were being oppressed so it’s OK”
3) accuse Israel of atrocities & war crimes that were literally committed by Hamas.
4) accuse Israel of genocide & “settler colonialism” (whatever the fuck that even is since everybody in the world lives someplace other than where their ancestors originated)
Re: 1) Yep, I’ve seen a lot of that. Claims US SpecOps did it, the Israelis did it to themselves, IDF killed most responding, you name it, I read it.
Re: 2) What Hamas/PIJ/DFLP did on 2023-10-07 is what’s known as an “manifestly unlawful act” under international law, i.e. one where the participants are assumed to know or should’ve known the act was unlawful. It also renders it null and void as retaliation under IHL, as even though IHL allows for sidestepping some of the GC and IHL for retaliation, there are strict rules.
Re: 3) Even though Israel could be deemed culpable under international law for not enough trying to avoid civilian casualties, it does not remove one iota of Hamas culpability for for the war crime of using protected persons as shields, nor does it change the fact that most of the guilt for the shields is on them, not IDF.
Re: 4) Yeah, I try to point out that for something to be genocide, three elements need to be present
* Intent to destroy in whole or in part;
* Group targeted being a protected group (ethnic, national, racial, religious);
* Acts being one or more of those listed in CPPCG, Article II, subsections (a)-(e).
And I get called a genocide denier, a Jew, a Zionist, an IDF shill, and when I press them on proving, I get the exact same response when you ask a White Supremo to prove “white genocide”, i.e. “I don’t have to fucking prove anything to you!”
And people wonder why I don’t take them seriously…
Coup attempt continues, joined by antisemites.
Jan. 6 defendant Vitali GossJankowski was tackled to the ground in an altercation inside a D.C. courtroom on Monday. Several federal agents were required to subdue the defendant in a fracas that reportedly toppled tables. CBS News was the first to report the altercation.
The scuffle erupted moments after U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman revoked GossJankowski’s conditional release pending his sentencing. GossJankowski was convicted in March of several misdemeanor and felony offenses related to his participation in the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol, which included pushing, spitting on, and pulling at the protective shields of law enforcement officers.
Prosecutors requested GossJankowski’s pre-sentencing release be rescinded after he allegedly sent intimidating and harassing text messages and posted threats on social media against several law enforcement officials who had testified against him. According to a court filing, the messages included racist and antisemitic language targeting the officers.
rollingstone.com
re: #50 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I was about to say I that I had never heard of such a thing until the other day. Not a big hockey fan but I sometimes follow the Olympic hockey just because it is slightly less brutal and violent than the NHL.
i played a lot of street hockey back when no one wore headgear or eye protection and only the goalie wore a mask (both professional and us)
stopped a puck with my mouth once. lost half a front tooth.
re: #71 Charles Johnson
With a cat, you see a paw for half a second, then it’s gone with the meat.
re: #64 dat_said
Fidelity has it pegged at a 65% discount (less than $16 billion): theverge.com
Both valuations are likely optimistic. Can’t imagine still working there but I wouldn’t be counting on any restricted stock units being worth much at the end of the four year grant period.
elmo needs to get in touch with trump’s appraiser
re: #72 Dangerman
i played a lot of street hockey back when no one wore headgear or eye protection and only the goalie wore a mask (both professional and us)
stopped a puck with my mouth once. lost half a front tooth.
Only half? I question your commitment to the game.
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re: #68 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
They’re objectively a pro-crime party. They threw all their professed values away for a deranged criminal who pandered to their hate and religious extremism, their true values.
we’re at the ‘nothing’s been proved’ stage
after he gets convicted it’ll be “he was railroaded, didnt do anything wrong”
re: #10 lizardofid
Happy National Candy Corn Day, to all who observe!
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Now candy corn, that is some truly evil shit!
re: #75 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
Only half? I question your commitment to the game.
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i had quite a fat lip, but it was a glancing blow to the tooth edge ;-)
re: #71 Charles Johnson
The funniest part of this is that the dog obviously knows it isn’t supposed to do this, and is trying to come at it on the down low.
re: #77 sizzzzlerz
Now candy corn, that is some truly evil shit!
If I had to eat some candy corn or peeps, I’d go with the candy corn.
Also if the choice was some dirt or candy corn.
Appease a fascist dictator with other people’s land in return for an empty promise=Peace In Our Time! pic.twitter.com/1nXcFHmyL0
— Slava Ukrayini! (@aagcobb1) October 30, 2023
re: #81 No Malarkey!
That sounds familiar.
re: #81 No Malarkey!
He’s so weak that he’s talking to Alex Jones to seek the entirely insane vote. That’s even weaker than his rolling over for Putin.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) October 30, 2023
re: #74 Dangerman
elmo needs to get in touch with trump’s appraiser
Judging by his Xitter comments, he already has….
re: #59 Dangerman
thats a miami thing
Out of many many options, this made me laugh. OK, probably not the only laugh in the thresd.
Cop who participated in the fatal raid on Breonna Taylor’s apartment going on trial in federal court this week for violating her civil rights. He was acquitted in a state court trial last year.
from downstairs, trying to catch up after a weekend mostly offline
re: #124 mmmirele
My mother died about 01:15 MST. It rolled to my voicemail-who calls in the middle of the night? I finally struggled awake and called back and was given the news. I’m here with her now at the nursing home and waiting for my brother to get here.
{{{mmmirele and family}}}
sending sympathy and a prayer for strength.
there will be many tasks, tumbled emotions, mixed memories and the unfamiliar feeling of empty hands.
know that you DID do what was in your power to care for her when she needed you.
now take care of yourself, hard as that is too.
breathe.
rest.
vent here when you need to, we’re listening.
love and a hug too for all of the Lizards remembering their losses, when we hear of another and the memories surge.
re: #81 No Malarkey!
In defense of Chamberlain, the British people and the rest of Europe were unwilling to go to war again at that point in time. Chamberlain also was instrumental in rebuilding Britain’s armed forces years before the actual war declaration in 1939. Yes, he gets and deserves the bad rap in terms of the annals of history. But the rationale behind his thinking is much more nuanced.
As for Vivek, he’s just a flipping idiot. Allow Putin to claim Ukraine, then it will be Moldova, Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia.
re: #1 Mattand
Have to admit, I’m starting to get John Oliver fatigue. He’s more of a journalist than most actual journalists, and is incredibly funny. But goddamn, watching that show anymore is like “Here is a thing you participate in that is, at its core, inherently evil. I’m not implying heavily you’re a piece of shit for participating, but basically you are.”
it’s basically the second/third season of The Good Place.
re: #88 TarHellion
In defense of Chamberlain, the British people and the rest of Europe were unwilling to go to war again at that point in time. Chamberlain also was instrumental in rebuilding Britain’s armed forces years before the actual war declaration in 1939. Yes, he gets and deserves the bad rap in terms of the annals of history. But the rationale behind his thinking is much more nuanced.
As for Vivek, he’s just a flipping idiot. Allow Putin to claim Ukraine, then it will be Moldova, Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia.
He’s just voicing Trump’s views on the issue.
let Russia keep all occupied territory, promise never to admit Ukraine to NATO, in exchange for Putin’s promise not to cooperate with China.
Yes, because Vladimir Putin would absolutely act in good faith in such an agreement.
Here’s my counter proposal: Russia gives back all occupied territory, pays Ukraine war reparations of 5% Russian GDP for a decade, any democratic European nation that wants to join NATO can join NATO, and Putin can get fucked with a flaming chainsaw.
Polling from Kansas: kansasreflector.com
“67.2% of respondents supported legalizing recreational marijuana for individuals 21 and older to allow state taxation.”
“69.6% of respondents supported expanding Medicaid in Kansas.”
“63.5% of respondents agreed that women are in a better position than politicians to make their own choices about whether to get an abortion.”
“56.9% of respondents felt climate change is a crisis or major problem in Kansas.”
re: #6 lawhawk
And I just read that in John Oliver’s voice.
Fuck you… Fuck you all to hell John.
/
Yeah, that was not a conscious effort on my part, but when I read it back, I had the same reaction.
re: #88 TarHellion
In defense of Chamberlain, the British people and the rest of Europe were unwilling to go to war again at that point in time. Chamberlain also was instrumental in rebuilding Britain’s armed forces years before the actual war declaration in 1939. Yes, he gets and deserves the bad rap in terms of the annals of history. But the rationale behind his thinking is much more nuanced.
As for Vivek, he’s just a flipping idiot. Allow Putin to claim Ukraine, then it will be Moldova, Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia.
And the notion that a Putin would keep a promise not to cooperate with China is utterly laughable.
re: #83 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
let Russia keep all occupied territory
Vivek advocates for worldwide chaos, multiple border wars.
Minnesota Reformer: MPD cop making big time overtime has been disciplined for manipulating time records
This particular individual was fired in 2007 for “several violations of MPD policy, including manipulating his timecard to get overtime pay.”.
And this (nice job where you can show up to work and then say “nope, I’m taking comp time so I can go drinking”):
Minneapolis Police Lt. Robert Berry was also disciplined for reporting for work in 2004 and then taking comp time to go bar hopping with another cop and failing to report that the other officer got drunk and drove a squad car into a picnic table outside a bar.
Berry got his job back after an arbitrator disagreed with the police chief and ruled that he wasn’t on duty while bar hopping.
re: #92 dat_said
“67.2% of respondents supported legalizing recreational marijuana for individuals 21 and older to allow state taxation.”
“69.6% of respondents supported expanding Medicaid in Kansas.”
“63.5% of respondents agreed that women are in a better position than politicians to make their own choices about whether to get an abortion.”
“56.9% of respondents felt climate change is a crisis or major problem in Kansas.”
Polling from Kansas: kansasreflector.com
Do they vote in elections?
re: #50 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I was about to say I that I had never heard of such a thing until the other day. Not a big hockey fan but I sometimes follow the Olympic hockey just because it is slightly less brutal and violent than the NHL.
Clint Marlarchuk back in 1989 is the famous case. But there are also non life-threatening injuries as well. Defenseman Rod Langway got a 3” long muscle and tendon damaging cut in the 1988 playoffs from a skate blade. (A clip of Langway leaving the ice after that was a thing in Washington Capitols highlight clips for years afterwards since it pretty much ended that year’s playoff run. And the Capitols had a very long period of frustration in the playoffs extending well into the 2000s.)
re: #85 wrenchwench
Out of many many options, this made me laugh. OK, probably not the only laugh in the thresd.
my work here is done…
House GOP playing politics with aid for Israel.
Cuts which would actually increase the deficit, because every dollar spent on the IRS brings in $6 in revenue.
— Slava Ukrayini! (@aagcobb1) October 30, 2023
re: #100 No Malarkey!
House GOP playing politics with aid for Israel.
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They really, really want to get rid of that IRS funding, don’t they. They don’t want to have to pay their fair share.
re: #72 Dangerman
i played a lot of street hockey back when no one wore headgear or eye protection and only the goalie wore a mask (both professional and us)
stopped a puck with my mouth once. lost half a front tooth.
If your parents are poor then you have a crooked half-smile the rest of your life when that happens.
re: #101 Nerdy Fish
Left to their devices they will destroy the country by privatizing it.
re: #96 dat_said
And this (nice job where you can show up to work and then say “nope, I’m taking comp time so I can go drinking”):
Actually, let me rephrase that. Nice job where you can show up to work, check in, take a company vehicle out barhopping, have your buddy crash the company vehicle, and then show up the next day telling your supervisor you want to use your comp time for the day prior.
re: #89 KGxvi
it’s basically the second/third season of The Good Place.
every now and then i say to mrsdm that a choice she’s working on is a Chidi moment. every seemingly ‘right’ move causes more harm elsewhere.
re: #88 TarHellion
In defense of Chamberlain, the British people and the rest of Europe were unwilling to go to war again at that point in time. Chamberlain also was instrumental in rebuilding Britain’s armed forces years before the actual war declaration in 1939. Yes, he gets and deserves the bad rap in terms of the annals of history. But the rationale behind his thinking is much more nuanced.
As for Vivek, he’s just a flipping idiot. Allow Putin to claim Ukraine, then it will be Moldova, Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia.
re: #100 No Malarkey!
House GOP playing politics with aid for Israel.
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i suspect some house R’s would to.
johnson’s gonna quickly learn that it’s not just what he wants (or what god told him to do).
there’s this other house called the senate
and this’ll be DOA there
re: #107 Dangerman
i suspect some house R’s would to.
johnson’s gonna quickly learn that it’s not just what he wants (or what god told him to do).
there’s this other house called the senate
and this’ll be DOA there
Spoiler: It’s the Greek gods that are real, and they love to build a man’s hubris and narcissism, then watch the fall.
I did an appointment this morning, with a Dr., that was made last April. I’m still getting used to it being done. Particularly since nothing changed. Strictly informational.
The Dr. is an ENT who I was referred to by my PAC. He read my history, looked at my MRI, looked in my ears, and told me to schedule the audiologist’s hearing test, which was supposed to precede the ENT, but the audiologist called in sick. There will be more information! It is scheduled less than 2 weeks out. Only the newbies get the 6 month wait. Now I’m on the inside!
He asked me whether I went to the Emergency room or saw anyone (professional) to rule out a stroke when the Bell’s Palsy first happened. I said no, I knew what it was (because I’ve had it before). He gave me a look. I said I had a pretty good idea what it was. He gave me a mild scolding. Strokes are much more common than Bell’s Palsy.
Next, I have to get some vaccinations and a job. And have another appointment.
re: #107 Dangerman
i suspect some house R’s would to.
johnson’s gonna quickly learn that it’s not just what he wants (or what god told him to do).
there’s this other house called the senate
and this’ll be DOA there
There will be a lot of political pressure to approve Israeli aid. However, I am very worried the House is going to block any additional aid to Ukraine.
re: #88 TarHellion
In defense of Chamberlain, the British people and the rest of Europe were unwilling to go to war again at that point in time. Chamberlain also was instrumental in rebuilding Britain’s armed forces years before the actual war declaration in 1939. Yes, he gets and deserves the bad rap in terms of the annals of history. But the rationale behind his thinking is much more nuanced.
As for Vivek, he’s just a flipping idiot. Allow Putin to claim Ukraine, then it will be Moldova, Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia.
Yeah: in Sept., 1938, Neville Chamberlain was Prime Minister of the UK: today, Vivek Ramaswamy is, in political terms, basically a nobody (and even that is a more-prestigious designation than he deserves IMO)…
For once, I would like to see Vivek (or any of the other GOP “Ukraine peaceniks” posed the direct question of: “Why do you support Russian imperialism?”/”Why do you believe Russian imperialism should not be opposed?”
And get immediately challenged on the typical wingnut “response”; which usually comes out along the lines of “…erm, uhhh, well, it’s none of our business???”
re: #58 Vicious Babushka
It utterly sickens me that there are still Hamas-stans on the left who are either
1) denying that Hamas committed atrocities
2) admitting Hamas committed atrocities but that “they were being oppressed so it’s OK”
3) accuse Israel of atrocities & war crimes that were literally committed by Hamas.
4) accuse Israel of genocide & “settler colonialism” (whatever the fuck that even is since everybody in the world lives someplace other than where their ancestors originated)
I’m sorry but I can’t let this go. You know that settler colonialism refers to the ongoing stealing of land in the West Bank and construction of settlements widely deemed illegal under international law. You can’t have it both ways, publicly hating Netanyahu while whitewashing the central policy of his government, stealing and carving up an occupied West Bank, that exacerbates the conflict and is designed to make peace impossible.
Yes Hamas committed gross atrocities. That doesn’t erase the fact that in the first week of the war Israel, by it’s own admission, dropped four kilotons worth of bombs on Gaza using the same grotesquely incompetent intelligence apparatus to guide those munitions that missed Hamas’ preparations for their assault. In the weeks since there’s been no letting up, only acceleration, adding up to an area the size of Las Vegas now easily being on the receiving end of more explosive yield than the Hiroshima bomb produced. Combined with deliberate, announced policies of cutting off water, fuel, electricity, food and internet there’s no rational way to view this as precision targeted and not a collective punishment of the Gazan population.
It absolutely should sicken you watching the left fall into the cognitive trap of dismissing Hamas’ atrocities. But if you’re wondering why Israel is so badly losing the PR war over this conflict with younger people especially, it’s because they’re watching Israel’s defenders dismiss the atrocities it commits at an overwhelmingly disproportionate scale just because they’re being committed by very serious people at a standoff distance and without the apparent revelry Hamas terrorists take in producing gore.
I like this place, but a lot of the people here are falling into the same trap it fell into after 9/11, viewing a truly fucked up war through a dichotomous cultural lens that filters and only creates contrast favorable to one side.
I honestly think that most of the desire to “defund the IRS” is just that their pride was stung by Biden and the Dems getting the Inflation Reduction Act through against their wishes.
Some might say this is over the top, but you could literally fill a detective’s murderboard with pics of retired Republican legislators who molested minors.
re: #112 Jay C
Yeah: in Sept., 1938, Neville Chamberlain was Prime Minister of the UK: today, Vivek Ramaswamy is, in political terms, basically a nobody (and even that is a more-prestigious designation than he deserves IMO)…
For once, I would like to see Vivek (or any of the other GOP “Ukraine peaceniks” posed the direct question of: “Why do you support Russian imperialism?”/”Why do you believe Russian imperialism should not be opposed?”
And get immediately challenged on the typical wingnut “response”; which usually comes out along the lines of “…erm, uhhh, well, it’s none of our business???”
I’m old enough to remember when liberating Eastern Europe from Soviet domination was a celebrated cause in the GOP. Now the MAGA view is that it’s in the Russian sphere of influence and they should get to do anything they want there.
re: #114 Nerdy Fish
I honestly think that most of the desire to “defund the IRS” is just that their pride was stung by Biden and the Dems getting the Inflation Reduction Act through against their wishes.
Pride might motivate the GOP peons in the House, but the GOP donor class is all about the money, and they still give orders to their minions in Congress.
re: #113 goddamnedfrank
I’m sorry but I can’t let this go. You know that settler colonialism refers to the ongoing stealing of land in the West Bank and construction of settlements widely deemed illegal under international law. You can’t have it both ways, publicly hating Netanyahu while whitewashing the central policy of his government, stealing and carving up an occupied West Bank, that exacerbates the conflict and is designed to make peace impossible.
Yes Hamas committed gross atrocities. That doesn’t erase the fact that in the first week of the war Israel, by it’s own admission dropped four kilotons worth of bombs on Gaza, using the same grotesquely incompetent intelligence apparatus to guide those munitions that missed Hamas’ preparations for their assault. In the weeks since there’s been no letting up, only acceleration, adding up to an area the size of Las Vegas now easily being on the receiving end of more explosive yield than the Hiroshima bomb produced. Combined with deliberate, announced policies of cutting off water, fuel, electricity, food and internet there’s no rational way to view this as precision targeted and not a collective punishment of the Gazan population.
It absolutely should sicken you watching the left fall into the cognitive trap of dismissing Hamas’ atrocities. But if you’re wondering why Israel is so badly losing the PR war over this conflict with younger people especially, it’s because they’re watching Israel’s defenders dismiss the atrocities it commits at an overwhelmingly disproportionate scale just because they’re being committed by very serious people at a standoff distance and without the apparent revelry Hamas terrorists take in producing gore.
I like this place, but a lot of the people here are falling into the same trap it fell into after 9/11, viewing a truly fucked up war through a dichotomous cultural lens that filters and only creates contrast favorable to one side.
I do agree with you, those colonialist/imperialist settler intiatives are not helping peace in the MidEast at all.
I don’t know if I would characterize it as “a lot” I’ve seen most I know here say that there’s a whole lot of war criming going on, both sides. (even though we hate both siderism, Netanyahu & his actions over decades have made it impossible not to if you are being utterly honest.)
re: #113 goddamnedfrank
I like this place, but a lot of the people here are falling into the same trap it fell into after 9/11, viewing a truly fucked up war through a dichotomous cultural lens that filters and only creates contrast favorable to one side.
It’s a pity that we can’t have something appropriate like a cage match battle royale between Hamas leadership and Israeli hard right leadership, to continue until there are no survivors.
But that’s not how things work. In reality, Bibi and his war hawks do all that they can to provoke Palestinian terrorism, in order to “justify” retaliation. And Palestinian leadership happily cooperates.
re: #88 TarHellion
In defense of Chamberlain, the British people and the rest of Europe were unwilling to go to war again at that point in time. Chamberlain also was instrumental in rebuilding Britain’s armed forces years before the actual war declaration in 1939. Yes, he gets and deserves the bad rap in terms of the annals of history. But the rationale behind his thinking is much more nuanced.
As for Vivek, he’s just a flipping idiot. Allow Putin to claim Ukraine, then it will be Moldova, Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia.
Harry Turtledove has examined the alternative, World War II breaking out in 1938 after Munich fails, in The War That Came Early. This is an intricate 6 part series that, among other things, really showcases Harry’s talent for research.
re: #119 A Cranky One
A knitted kitty. Very interesting concept.
re: #120 Charles Johnson
“The great wakening from woke has happened.”
— Super genius Elon Musk
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The world has rewarded him for being a narcissist. He’s entirely lost.
re: #118 Thanos
I don’t know if I would characterize it as “a lot” I’ve seen most I know here say that there’s a whole lot of war criming going on, both sides.
I’ve not written much about this conflict because one of the few things about which I am quite certain is this: I can’t fix it.
Netanyahu is a great example of how poor leadership can make a bad situation worse.
And the outside actors (like Iran and Putin) who agitate for war are not going to stop unless someone comes down on them hard.
And we are the only ones who can do something like that.
And I am confident that the American people are not hankering for a world war with Russia and Iran.
re: #100 No Malarkey!
House GOP playing politics with aid for Israel.
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Then they will blame Dems for torpedoing the bill and being “anti-Israel”.
re: #118 Thanos
I do agree with you, those colonialist/imperialist settler intiatives are not helping peace in the MidEast at all.
I don’t know if I would characterize it as “a lot” I’ve seen most I know here say that there’s a whole lot of war criming going on, both sides. (even though we hate both siderism, Netanyahu & his actions over decades have made it impossible not to if you are being utterly honest.)
How do you know which Jews living in the West Bank are “settler colonialists” and which are indigenous. Are you going to conduct DNA tests on all of them to determine who gets expelled, or just expel all of them?
You do know that there were Jewish communities that existed for centuries, if not millennia in the West Bank until the 1920’s.
re: #89 KGxvi
it’s basically the second/third season of The Good Place.
What is going to move Oliver to season four?
I wonder how much they would have asked for it?
Police: Live cluster bomblet, ammunition found with donation at southeastern Wisconsin thrift store
re: #121 EPR-radar
It’s a pity that we can’t have something appropriate like a cage match battle royale between Hamas leadership and Israeli hard right leadership, to continue until there are no survivors.
But that’s not how things work. In reality, Bibi and his war hawks do all that they can to provoke Palestinian terrorism, in order to “justify” retaliation. And Palestinian leadership happily cooperates.
They feed off each other. And Bibi pretty much said as much a few years ago about needing to support Hamas since it was going to prevent the Palestinian side from ever effectively opting for peace.
I’m not sure what end game Bibi sees since eternal war is not a long-term solution. Trying to set up some sort of apartheid state with a non-Jewish underclass is not going to work long-term as well. (In addition to it becoming a demographic trap.) Which seems to leave a two-state solution as the only way forward in the long-term. And the hard-right leadership in Israel seems to be doubling down on trying to ensure that will never happen.
Don’t let your kids play basketball with Governor Newsom.
How do you know which Jews living in the West Bank are “settler colonialists” and which are indigenous. Are you going to conduct DNA tests on all of them to determine who gets expelled, or just expel all of them?You do know that there were Jewish communities that existed for centuries, if not millennia in the West Bank until the 1920’s.
I can’t, can you? Which settlers exacted price tag attacks, which didn’t? Which Israelis bull-dozed homes, which did not? Which Palestinians are fence sitters, which are actively involved in the armed wing of HAMAS?
VB:
You do know that there were Jewish communities that existed for centuries, if not millennia in the West Bank until the 1920’s.
e.g. There used to be a thriving black community and business district in OKC, but there was a massacre. Do their grandchildren have rights to bomb apartment building in downtown Oklahoma City?
I don’t know, that’s the horror of it all. I do know what a war crime is. I posted a PDF here the other day that’s pretty explicit about it.
re: #129 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
Police: Live cluster bomblet, ammunition found with donation at southeastern Wisconsin thrift store
Fuck.
re: #129 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
I wonder how much they would have asked for it?
Police: Live cluster bomblet, ammunition found with donation at southeastern Wisconsin thrift store
“Hey, I found this box in grandpas room.”
“I have no idea what all that stuff is. Just donate it to Goodwill.”
re: #130 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
I’m not sure what end game Bibi sees since eternal war is not a long-term solution.
It’s Palestine, the eighty-seven sides have been fighting each other for two three four thousand years and when one side wins the other vows eternal opposition — “Next year in Jerusalem”, “From the river to the sea!”. The losers get called terrorists by the winners and so the cycle goes.
Samuel said to Saul, “I am the one the LORD sent to anoint you king over his people Israel; so listen now to the message from the LORD.
This is what the LORD Almighty says: `I will punish the Amalekites for what they did to Israel when they waylaid them as they came up from Egypt.
Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy everything that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”
So Saul summoned the men and mustered them at Telaim—two hundred thousand foot soldiers and ten thousand men from Judah.
Saul went to the city of Amalek and set an ambush in the ravine.
Then he said to the Kenites, “Go away, leave the Amalekites so that I do not destroy you along with them; for you showed kindness to all the Israelites when they came up out of Egypt.” So the Kenites moved away from the Amalekites.
Then Saul attacked the Amalekites all the way from Havilah to Shur, to the east of Egypt.
He took Agag king of the Amalekites alive, and all his people he totally destroyed with the sword.
Just got back from the dentist. Got a temporary crown. Had to argue with him about not using anesthesia. Pointed our he did my last crown without anesthesia, so he relented and agreed.
He was amazed that I never even flinched. But I’m hyper sensitive to the anesthesia and remain numb for 8-10 hours even with the “geriatric” formula.
Some temporary pain versus drooling more than normal for half a day. A win.
Cleaning an air filter with a fire cracker
[📹 aaronwitt]pic.twitter.com/33fJwasgC6— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) October 30, 2023
re: #137 A Cranky One
Just got back from the dentist. Got a temporary crown. Had to argue with him about not using anesthesia. Pointed our he did my last crown without anesthesia, so he relented and agreed.
He was amazed that I never even flinched. But I’m hyper sensitive to the anesthesia and remain numb for 8-10 hours even with the “geriatric” formula.
Some temporary pain versus drooling more than normal for half a day. A win.
Cannot deal with that temporary pain. Have enough issues with the dentist working in mouth so drooling for awhile is a reasonable exchange for me. But then in my case, the while is probably no more than about an hour.
re: #138 gocart mozart
That is one way of doing it; it is not how I would do it.
re: #136 Vicious Babushka
Love and support you and the people of Israel to death, but I can’t find it in my heart to unwaveringly support everything Israel’s hard right leadership does anymore. Take it or leave it.
re: #141 Charles Johnson
Gee, I thought that freak would have been hiding in a Peter Paul MOUNDS instead of an Almond Joy! 😏
I keep going back to the Israeli intelligence that has failed so badly.. All these years & they still know nothing about this small area next to them. Bunch of buildings, bunch of people, bunch of hiding terrorists. Should have been their focus for decades at this point.
Maybe I have a naive interpretation of intelligence & how good it is.
re: #88 TarHellion
In defense of Chamberlain, the British people and the rest of Europe were unwilling to go to war again at that point in time. Chamberlain also was instrumental in rebuilding Britain’s armed forces years before the actual war declaration in 1939.
Britain was entirely unprepared to go to war in 1938, heck it was barely prepared in 1940. He knew that and had to buy time.
His little “peace in our time” note from Hitler was just a matter of getting written proof that Hitler was nobody to negotiate with.
re: #142 Thanos
Love and support you and the people of Israel to death, but I can’t find it in my heart to unwaveringly support everything Israel’s hard right leadership does anymore. Take it or leave it.
55% of Israeli Jews don’t support it either, that’s what those huge protests have been about for the last six months.
This account posts great shots of California all day long.
re: #142 Thanos
Love and support you and the people of Israel to death, but I can’t find it in my heart to unwaveringly support everything Israel’s hard right leadership does anymore. Take it or leave it.
I get it, but you can hate Hamas for killing babies while also hating Netanyahu for being an authoritarian dickbag.
re: #150 Eclectic Cyborg
… that is also killing babies. They can both fuck right off.
re: #142 Thanos
Love and support you and the people of Israel to death, but I can’t find it in my heart to unwaveringly support everything Israel’s hard right leadership does anymore. Take it or leave it.
There is a distinction between Jews, Judaism and the Government of the State of Israel.
And yes, I have serious disagreements with the latter.
re: #149 wrenchwench
My house is a dot in this shot. Beautiful photo but DOD electronics preclude an in person visit
re: #145 HRH Stanley Sea
Counter-insurgency intelligence operations involve making friends with your enemies, not making more enemies. People who hate your guts don’t tell you stuff you want to know. People from different ethnicities and/or religions in a dominant-submissive relationship don’t become friends easily, it takes a lot of work and being nice to them.
re: #150 Eclectic Cyborg
I get it, but you can hate Hamas for killing babies while also hating Netanyahu for being an authoritarian dickbag.
Are you trying to imply that I do not hate HAMAS? Not hating HAMAS is impossible because I’ve known them and their actions too long.
re: #145 HRH Stanley Sea
Maybe I have a naive interpretation of intelligence & how good it is.
It’s only as good as the people who use it to make decisions.
BTW, I feel like I need to state, I’m fucking terrified at the left wing rhetoric & scary pogrom actions/talk. It’s despicable & we need to be ready to fight it.
re: #111 No Malarkey!
There will be a lot of political pressure to approve Israeli aid. However, I am very worried the House is going to block any additional aid to Ukraine.
electoral-vote.com said it pretty good this AM
Guess what? An “Israel only” bill could probably not pass the House since every Democrat and many Republicans would vote against it and it probably wouldn’t even be brought up for a vote in the Senate. Johnson has no experience trying to get consensus on contentious subjects, and he may be in for a rude shock. Pursuing the goals of at most a quarter of the House and only a very small fraction of the Senate just isn’t going to fly. Dropping the bill isn’t going to fly either because most Republicans strongly support Israel and don’t want to see it destroyed. Supporters of Ukraine are never going to accept: “Let’s pass aid to Israel now and then we can talk about Ukraine later” because they know there will never be a “later.” Insisting that the two aid packages are in one bill holds the Israel aid hostage to the Ukraine aid. Supporters of Ukraine fully understand that, even if Johnson doesn’t. But he’ll learn.
re: #154 Nojay UK
Counter-insurgency intelligence operations involve making friends with your enemies, not making more enemies. People who hate your guts don’t tell you stuff you want to know. People from different ethnicities and/or religions in a dominant-submissive relationship don’t become friends easily, it takes a lot of work and being nice to them.
But the $$$ to Hamas obviously didn’t make friends.
DAVIS, CALIFORNIA, FACES BOMB THREATS, HARASSMENT FROM ANTI-TRANS EXTREMISTS
from SPLC Hatewatch
splcenter.org
re: #155 Thanos
Are you trying to imply that I do not hate HAMAS? Not hating HAMAS is impossible because I’ve known them and their actions too long.
No, I was not implying that at all. Just saying that being against Hamas does not mean someone is also inherently 100% supportive of Israeli leadership.
re: #138 gocart mozart
Cleaning an air filter with a fire cracker
Good way to degrade the filter’s effectiveness.
re: #124 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
The world has rewarded him for being a narcissist. He’s entirely lost.
The reality that TSLA has peaked is starting to set in, and he’s spiraling.
re: #158 Dangerman
electoral-vote.com said it pretty good this AM
THIS.
I think this scenario is extremely likely, and just more potential evidence (as if more is needed: except for our blinkered “Mainstream Media”, who will probably *never* get - or acknowledge - the picture) that it is actually the Republicans, especially those in Congress, who are “in disarray” and disconnected from the political realities of the country at large. However, this analysis, no matter how cogent, still manages to posit a potential serious political impasse without (AFAICT) giving much, if any agency, to either
A) Congressional Democrats (House OR Senate)
B) The Executive Branch
both of whom just may, possibly, have something to contribute to the discussion….
re: #159 HRH Stanley Sea
But the $$$ to Hamas obviously didn’t make friends.
Neither did the $$$ the US government put into the Afghanistan economy over the period of the Second Elphinstone Expedition which recently ended.
Is it an American thing, that money makes everything better, everything right? “Oh sorry, we waterboarded your cousin and sent him to Guantanamo prison camp forever but we’ll build a school for your village and maybe dig a well too. Now tell me about the IED factory your uncle is operating in the city…”
The “being nice” thing means doing shit that will get you excoriated in the hometown press for “negotiating with terrorists”. It will get you tossed out of office in the next election (something Netanyahu is keenly aware of hence his abject kowtowing to the Ultra-Orthodox Zionists in Israel), in the worst case you’ll eat a bullet like Rabin did. It takes time to build up trust even while the folks you are talking to are setting IEDs and sending Your Boys back to Dover in closed caskets.
re: #163 BeenHereAwhile
Good way to degrade the filter’s effectiveness.
And release a lot of crap that could have been bagged back into the atmosphere. It looks cool though, so gets clicks.
Hit post by accident on an incomplete thought.
Never will enough time have passed to be able to crack wise about the Holocaust. Fuck this guy.
abc7.com
re: #164 JC1
The reality that TSLA has peaked is starting to set in, and he’s spiraling.
We’ll see how the Cybertruck does. His new fans may not go for electric.
I haven’t done any analysis of Elon’s companies, but it feels like SpaceX would be the big dollars.
re: #170 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
I haven’t done any analysis of Elon’s companies, but it feels like SpaceX would be the big dollars.
Government contracts
Anne Goldberg
Tweeting while Jewish
“…A few things happened after my “prayer in school” tweets. The ones I could see immediately were comments and quote tweets. Sometimes the quote tweet just wrote, “Goldberg, LOL.” Sometimes they had nose emojis. Sometimes they used antisemitic memes and coded speech that white supremacists use about Jewish people. I’ve gotten quite an education on that language, unfortunately. Some people objected to my opinion, believing that Christian prayer belongs in schools, but others attacked me for my Jewish last name. So many I have lost count. In so many ways, in such hateful speech, they attacked.
I learned of another event later. A local aspiring politician made a graphic with my face and the two tweets, writing:
If I ever run for Governor, a key point on my platform will be mass deportation of ghouls like this from my State. This goblin currently locates its lair in Conway. Few things are worse than rootless Carpetbaggers coming down South and treating natives like vermin.
……………….As a society, much of our political and public conversation takes place on social media. Allowing anonymous attacks on the people who choose to identify themselves silences discourse in those spaces. Asking people to develop a “thick skin” is unreasonable when the responses are threats of rape and death, even when veiled as suggestions of what should happen to “people like you.”
medium.com
re: #171 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Government contracts
Which seems like more money than the cars, but Tesla may make up for the lower fees in volume.
re: #170 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
We’ll see how the Cybertruck does. His new fans may not go for electric.
I haven’t done any analysis of Elon’s companies, but it feels like SpaceX would be the big dollars.
Battery suppliers are scaling back production on falling demand…
re: #150 Eclectic Cyborg
I get it, but you can hate Hamas for killing babies while also hating Netanyahu for being an authoritarian dickbag.
re: #151 GlutenFreeJesus
… that is also killing babies. They can both fuck right off.
it is not bothsiderism (imo) to dispassionately recognize and accept that a lot of things can all be true at the same time.
that some actions are vile, evil, terroristic. some purely vindictive. some is just nasty self serving politics masquerading as something necessary and justifiable.
you can choose your own specifics.
would israel’s best response have been to do nothing?
unthinkable, impossible, i know.
sadly, there seem to be two immutable truths about the middle east:
- far too many are willing to use civilians as pawns. this has never worked successfully and won’t here
- no matter what agreement, solution or settlement is ever reached, there will always be someone not happy with it and willing to blow it all up (figuratively and/or literally)
re: #10 lizardofid
Happy National Candy Corn Day, to all who observe!
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Do people actually eat that ear wax like substance?
OMG, the new South Park movie is fantastic.
Can’t recommend it highly enough.
re: #168 The Ghost of a Flea
Hit post by accident on an incomplete thought.
Don’t worry, we’ve all done that bef
I’m hearing that this is the most popular Halloween costume this year in Arkansas: pic.twitter.com/O2EpnwEtQ8
— Lauren Windsor (@lawindsor) October 30, 2023
re: #170 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
We’ll see how the Cybertruck does. His new fans may not go for electric.
I haven’t done any analysis of Elon’s companies, but it feels like SpaceX would be the big dollars.
SpaceX is privately held. More difficult to monetize its future potential. Elon can’t sell shares in it at the absurd valuations Tesla is still commanding.
re: #169 Thanos
Never will enough time have passed to be able to crack wise about the Holocaust. Fuck this guy.
abc7.com
I had a VERY DISTASTEFUL ENCOUNTER with Androsky when he endlessly harassed me because I was a Warren supporter in the 2020 California Primary. For him it was Bernie or Bust. He sent me several nasty phone messages. He pushed to purge non-Berniebots out of DSA which is why I have withdrawn from participating with them.
#athiest
Freedumb is never free, but gullibility is.
If the Bible Had a Movie Trailer https://t.co/YOjSmy4k80 via @YouTube— Shotout Phila Engineer 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇵🇱 (@RepFhg) October 30, 2023
re: #176 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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Do people actually eat that ear wax like substance?
I beg your pardon. That’s high-fructose corn syrup and ear wax.
re: #185 wrenchwench
lol. He has to ask when it is so obvious?
re: #187 jaunte
Is he so positive he has the correct mummy?
re: #185 wrenchwench
Kitty think’s he’s…MUMMY DEAREST! 😏
re: #180 JC1
SpaceX is privately held. More difficult to monetize its future potential. Elon can’t sell shares in it at the absurd valuations Tesla is still commanding.
One thing to note about SpaceX is that it’s carrying out a lot of launches but something like half of them are for Starlink, Musk’s other space endeavour whose profitability model is questionable. Meanwhile he has poured billions of dollars into the Starship Heavy project with, as yet, no success.
How chirpy Ivanka Trump, the apple of her father’s eye, helped him lie about the value of his properties
re: #182 Joe Bacon ✅
I had a VERY DISTASTEFUL ENCOUNTER with Androsky when he endlessly harassed me because I was a Warren supporter in the 2020 California Primary. For him it was Bernie or Bust. He sent me several nasty phone messages. He pushed to purge non-Berniebots out of DSA which is why I have withdrawn from participating with them.
Another Bernie Bro fuckhead.
re: #120 Charles Johnson
“The great wakening from woke has happened.”
— Super genius Elon Musk
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Says the guy who destroyed the value of his most recent multi-dollar purchase by at least 65 percent.
re: #194 mmmirele
Says the guy who destroyed the value of his most recent multi-dollar purchase by at least 65 percent.
One of my favorite theories about Musk going off the rails like he is doing is the “greatest divorced jackass energy of all time” theory.
I hope they got the nasty chemicals all out.
re: #143 Joe Bacon ✅
Gee, I thought that freak would have been hiding in a Peter Paul MOUNDS instead of an Almond Joy! 😏
🎶 Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don’t. Peter Paul’s Almond Joy has nuts, Mounds don’t. 🎶
I just want to note that this is not an ancient form of Christian counseling
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re: #193 wrenchwench
Get ‘em while they’re small.
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I was just discussing with a friend, the lack of wildfires here in Cali this summer. Maybe luck, maybe this year’s wet winter, maybe it’s due to the raking of our forests. I hope I didn’t jinx it.
Getting ready for the fire sale?
X, the company formerly known as Twitter, handed out stock grants to employees on Monday that showed it was worth about $19 billion, down about 55 percent from the $44 billion that Elon Musk paid to buy the firm a year ago, according to internal documents seen by The New York Times.
[…]
In his year of owning Twitter, Mr. Musk has overhauled the company and the social media platform. More than 80 percent of its 7,500 employees have either quit or been laid off. He has changed the service’s verification process, as well as content-moderation rules. Advertising, the company’s main source of revenue, was down in the United States by almost 60 percent this summer. Mr. Musk also loaded the company with billions of dollars in debt to help pay for the acquisition.
(no paywall)
FWIW Per Statista: As of December 2022, X/Twitter’s audience (Internet users who access their X/Twitter account via any device at least once per month) accounted for over 368 million monthly active users worldwide. This figure was projected to decrease to approximately 335 million by 2024, a decline of around five percent compared to 2022.
re: #199 HRH Stanley Sea
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re: #164 JC1
Cybertruck will be an embarrassment for him. No way they’re going to get assembled properly. Not a knock at the workers, but at Elon’s stupid idea. It’s going to be the least functional pickup on the market. Ever.
Finally some of the threatening phone call people are finding out.
“…A federal grand jury in Atlanta charged Arthur Ray Hanson II of Huntsville with two counts of transmitting interstate threats to injure Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and Sheriff Patrick Labat. According to an indictment issued last Wednesday, Hanson called the county’s customer service line on Aug. 6 - a week before Trump was indicted - and first left a threatening and expletive-filled voicemail for Labat.
……
Authorities said Hanson, 59, later that day called the customer service line again and targeted Willis. The voicemail advised her to “watch it when you’re going to the car at night, when you’re going into your house, watch everywhere that you’re going.”
But he’s out on bond.
re: #204 wrenchwench
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re: #205 GlutenFreeJesus
Cybertruck will be an embarrassment for him. No way they’re going to get assembled properly. Not a knock at the workers, but at Elon’s stupid idea. It’s going to be the least functional pickup on the market. Ever.
Tesla Cybertrucks being tested off-road at Hollister Hill RSVA ! 🏜️ pic.twitter.com/abKyBRLLLZ
— Dima Zeniuk (@DimaZeniuk) October 23, 2023
re: #198 jaunte
I’m super confused how you make humor theory…a thing developed heavily by Greeks largely disengaged from religion, let alone a specific one…pegged as Christian.
re: #205 GlutenFreeJesus
Cybertruck will be an embarrassment for him. No way they’re going to get assembled properly. Not a knock at the workers, but at Elon’s stupid idea. It’s going to be the least functional pickup on the market. Ever.
Reminds me of this Peanuts cartoon:
How can a truck be cyber?
MJ: “What is God’s Design for Society: God… created things to work in a certain way. the Bible is our owner’s manual as I refer to it. It teaches us and tells us through the instruction of the Holy Spirit how things are supposed to operate. pic.twitter.com/fMSF1icCvi
— Receipt Maven (@receiptmaven) October 30, 2023
Here’s Mrs. Speaker Johnson if anyone has the intestinal fortitude to listen to 3 hours of this.
Here is the link to the nearly 3 hour “Answer for our Times” counseling session with Speaker Mike Johnson and his “Teacher/Wife” Kelly.
The internet is forever, as are my receipts.
Watch “Mike & Kelly Johnson - Answers For Our Times” https://t.co/bFMZtq0jJv— Receipt Maven (@receiptmaven) October 30, 2023
Combining this with handing over your financial details is gonna work out great. I thought for sure he’d be gone by now but this just keeps getting better.
Elon Musk Declares ‘X’ Will Be a ‘Fully-Fledged’ Dating Site Within The Year: Report https://t.co/5AuMdteZnM via @mediaite— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) October 30, 2023
re: #206 jaunte
Finally some of the threatening phone call people are finding out.
(A federal grand jury in Atlanta charged Arthur Ray Hanson II of Huntsville)
But he’s out on bond.
Nothing complicates your life like a federal indictment.
Especially one issued by a federal district in another state.
re: #210 The Ghost of a Flea
I’m super confused how you make humor theory…a thing developed heavily by Greeks largely disengaged from religion, let alone a specific one…pegged as Christian.
It’s probably something simple and stupid like someone that likes the idea of phlegmatic etc. personality types who is also a devout Christian blithely assimilating that into what Christianity means for them (i.e., the fallacy of “all good/interesting things are Christian, X is good/interesting, therefore X is specifically Christian”.)
Sure, I’d trust my personal dating communications with one of the world’s least trust-worthy persons. Why not?
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re: #205 GlutenFreeJesus
Cybertruck will be an embarrassment for him. No way they’re going to get assembled properly. Not a knock at the workers, but at Elon’s stupid idea. It’s going to be the least functional pickup on the market. Ever.
Worse than the Chevy Avalanche? Or the SSR?
re: #212 gocart mozart
It really is a shame that Constantine survived Battle of the Milvian Bridge
re: #215 EPR-radar
It’s probably something simple and stupid like someone that likes the idea of phlegmatic etc. personality types who is also a devout Christian blithely assimilating that into what Christianity means for them (i.e., the fallacy of “all good/interesting things are Christian, X is good/interesting, therefore X is specifically Christian”.)
(shaking fist at sky)
AQUINASSSSSS
re: #212 gocart mozart
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Where does the Bible — The Torah or the New Testament — say that the stranger must assimilate? That is what Mike Johnson claims but I have not seen the text that supports that assertion. Any scholars here know what he’s talking about?
re: #1 Mattand
Have to admit, I’m starting to get John Oliver fatigue. He’s more of a journalist than most actual journalists, and is incredibly funny. But goddamn, watching that show anymore is like “Here is a thing you participate in that is, at its core, inherently evil. I’m not implying heavily you’re a piece of shit for participating, but basically you are.”
Ron DeSantis completely agrees with you.
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