re: #1 Patricia Kayden
And if you put that on twitter or truth social you would be banned.
From the last thread: Libertarians are having themselves a very dark night of the soul now that Mises has picked Trump to lead the convention, the replies in the thread are a hoot if you’ve followed the parties devolution into the paleo:
I guess this was always the logical conclusion of the LP’s current trajectory. But HOLY SHIT.
— Radley Balko (@radleybalko.bsky.social) 2024-05-01T14:56:21.843Z
It’s really stunning how much police departments across the nation are just OUTRIGHT FUCKING LYING about the campus demonstrations to justify their brutality against peaceful protesters.
— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-05-01T17:44:44.000Z
re: #346 DodgerFan1988
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Go back to Al Capone’s vault and stay there, Geraldo.
It’s always hard to tell if Geraldo is being disingenuous, or is just stupid.
For those that feel sorry for multi-Billionaires who can’t yet realize their dreams of leaving Earth to rot and fester, never fear…
Billionaire Superyacht Submarines are here. Run from the problems of the world, ignore the pathetic masses of plebes that have to live in the world you created and own…. and order yours today.
The wife of an ex-college professor convicted of terrorism-related charges was spotted hanging out at Columbia University’s encampment prior to the dramatic NYPD raid where cops busted 109 people Tuesday night.Mayor Eric Adams on Wednesday blamed “outside agitators” for the campus chaos, saying cops had identified individuals who weren’t Columbia students among the protesters.
While he refused to offer up names, Hizzoner told MSNBC during a media blitz that “one of the individual’s husband was arrested for and convicted for terrorism on a federal level.”“One of them was married to someone that was arrested for terrorism,” he later reiterated during a follow-up interview on CBS.
Sami Al-Arian — who pleaded guilty in 2005 to fundraising and other support for the terrorist group Palestinian Islamic Jihad — had earlier boasted on social media that his wife, Nahla, was among those who joined anti-Israel protesters at the Ivy League campus last week.
re: #14 Shropshire Slasher
This was a blatant lie, and they’ve now admitted it.
the Adams administration lied and the media ran with it
the NYPD now admits there was no “wife of a terrorist” at the Columbia protests after the Mayor used this as cover to assault student protesters last night
— Matt Binder (@mattbinder.bsky.social) 2024-05-01T14:51:36.044Z
re: #14 Shropshire Slasher
If anyone has been at the site of a long-term static protest, they have been thoroughly photographed.
re: #18 Shropshire Slasher
Looks like a clear case of “Hijab with intent to soccer”.
re: #18 Shropshire Slasher
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I see a woman sitting quietly by a tent. Is this supposed to refute what I just posted?
re: #6 Charles Johnson
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The way that the police have practiced narrativizing their actions on fast media formats should be indicative of a systemic problem.
If you have a working script up and ready to explain the violence you just did, then you’re regularly premeditating your violent acts. If time and labor are put into these acts of misdirection because public opinion effects accountability, then you are effectively conspiring to abuse power.
The problem is…this will work because it ties into three existing tropes that Americans will accept as an excuse for retaliation:
[thing] is terrorism and thus justifies anything;
[thing] is sign young people are being so stupid they have to be sharply corrected so they can “understand”;
and
[thing] is disruptive and unaesthetic and therefore cannot have any value.
We’ve spent decades training people to view protesting as a sign of weakness, rudeness as a sign of invalidity, and collective action as sinister. The de jure right to protest cannot stand straight checked by the cultural force of the American desire to not care and never be called out for not caring.
Fascism doesn’t gain ground because people become utterly convinced, but because it’s solutions to complicated problems are attractive to the those that don’t want to think any more and those that think that talking about problems is the real problem.
It’s not just that people don’t want a nuanced understanding, it’s that they’re actively rejected a nuanced understanding: the world is an easier place to be in if the cops are always justified and the protesters are whiny privileged naifs that understand nothing of the world but are also irretrievably evil organized terrorists sympathizers…impossibly strong and pathetically weak at the same time, you might say.
Nobody gave a shit that Portland kicked off because of Patriot Prayer having free reign to assault people because the cops were hands off with the white guys driving in from other regions to attack queer people, they just cared that the protesters looked angry and ugly.
Nobody gave a shit about “hateful rhetoric” when it was Christian white dudes invited to campus; quite the opposite, we were told that openness and civility meant respected the men on stage and the goons that came with them when they discussed whether women were people, LGBTQ were crazy, and Muslims were antithetical to Western Civilization.
A nation’s values are not what they declare them to be, but what they allow happen unremarked.
I was going to look up the New York Post and see what other shrill sensationalism they were offering. I absent-mindedly typed “New York Pest” into the search box, this completed itself as “New York Pesticide,” and I got a list of bug and rodent eradicators in NYC.
I hate autocorndog.
re: #15 Charles Johnson
This was a blatant lie, and they’ve now admitted it.
Which is why I downding NY Post and Daily Mail links on stuff like this. They lie, we know they lie, so why give them the attention or the clicks?
re: #25 ipsos
If we embargo the liars, it’s going to be all cat pictures, all the time.
re: #26 Decatur Deb
That is not a bad thing.
Render. If that’s the same person who used to have an account, he’s a hard right fanatic.
It’s absolutely unfair and incredibly biased to label all the protesters as “pro-Hamas.” Are the Israelis who’ve demonstrated against Netanyahu’s thuggish violence also “pro-Hamas?”
You don’t have to be pro-Hamas to be appalled and disgusted by what the Netanyahu government is doing.
re: #25 ipsos
Which is why I downding NY Post and Daily Mail links on stuff like this. They lie, we know they lie, so why give them the attention or the clicks?
Definitely updinging that comment!
re: #27 PhillyPretzel ✅
It’s not that we have too many feral cats in our neighborhood, it’s that we have too few coyotes.
re: #20 Charles Johnson
I see a woman sitting quietly by a tent. Is this supposed to refute what I just posted?
I’m assuming that photo is supposed to be Sami al Arian’s wife, and Sami was found guilty of donating to a terror group as documented way back here in a few threads iirc.
The real question to ask is…
Is Netanyahu also a terrorist because he supported Hamas all those years?
Are people sending aid to Gaza also terrorists?
It’s convenient for people to forget that Hamas is a devil’s bargain, military wing, and civil wing that runs charities, schools, and libraries. Annnd… Protection racket that they are everything going into Gaza is something they might get. So you want to help the people of Gaza, but you don’t want to help Hamas? Not really possible.
You want to kill Hamas, but want to figure out where to put the demarc on who is the soldier and who is the librarian or school teacher - but you can’t because HAMAS is where they both get their checks & directions.
Does that make it ok to bomb the librarian or send Sami’s wife to Gitmo?
re: #17 Decatur Deb
I remember following the Operation Wall Street protests that were at Liberty Park adjacent to the WTC complex, and camera crews were there almost nonstop. It was impossible not to get photographed if you were encamped there.
It’s all so much bulkshit what the NYPD does regarding protests. They suck at it. Adams is also at fault here (also a former cop).
re: #26 Decatur Deb
If we embargo the liars, it’s going to be all cat pictures, all the time.
Threatening us with a good time I see
re: #31 Randall Gross
You’re forgetting the transitive power of “looks Muslim.”
Re: the NYPost link:
Yes, college students understand how to create barriers without outside agitator advice.
See any teenager’s room.
re: #36 darthstar
Please tell me this isn’t a thing…
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Ukraine needs MTG like Trump needs another indictment.
re: #38 darthstar
She’s crapping herself over Johnson pushing their aid bill through. Very consistent, that.
re: #28 Charles Johnson
Render. If that’s the same person who used to have an account, he’s a hard right fanatic.
It’s absolutely unfair and incredibly biased to label all the protesters as “pro-Hamas.” Are the Israelis who’ve demonstrated against Netanyahu’s thuggish violence also “pro-Hamas?”
You don’t have to be pro-Hamas to be appalled and disgusted by what the Netanyahu government is doing.
Looking at some of his screeds at substack, they are very similar in their “clash of civilizations” cheer leading.
re: #10 Florida Panhandler
For those that feel sorry for multi-Billionaires who can’t yet realize their dreams of leaving Earth to rot and fester, never fear…
Billionaire Superyacht Submarines are here. Run from the problems of the world, ignore the pathetic masses of plebes that have to live in the world you created and own…. and order yours today.
Let’s hope they go the way of Ocean gate.
Good riddance.
re: #21 The Ghost of a Flea
[thing] is terrorism and thus justifies anything;
[thing] is sign young people are being so stupid they have to be sharply corrected so they can “understand”;and
[thing] is disruptive and unaesthetic and therefore cannot have any value.
It suffices to say that [thing] is “woke”
Of course the Totenkopf with a star of David on its forehead really tells you where he’s at.
re: #19 Decatur Deb
Looks like a clear case of “Hajib with intent to soccer”.
I see the resident troll is doing his thing again.
re: #47 darthstar
All the cray…
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Fuck me… Trump on Ike:
Trump: So if you look back into the 1950s, Dwight Eisenhower, he’s not known for that, you know, you don’t think of him that way. Because you see, Ike, but Dwight Eisenhower was very big on illegal immigration not coming into our country. And he did a massive deportation of people. He was doing it for a long time. He got very proficient at it. He was bringing them just to the other side of the border. And they would be back in the country within a matter of days. And then he started bringing them 3,000 miles away—
No, this never happened.
Goodish news from AZ:
Taniel
@Taniel
*
44mJUST IN: The Arizona Senate will pass the bill to repeal the 1864 ban.
Final numbers of the roll call incoming, but the bill just got the votes it needs.
The bill already passed the House.
The GOP is desperate to get the issue off the ballot/voters minds come November because everywhere the issue has been on voters’ minds, they GOP loses.
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
“Professional agitator” is the term segregationists used to denounce Martin Luther King Jr. during the Birmingham campaign, and it was just as valid a criticism then as it is now.
re: #50 jaunte
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
“outside agitator” was just a nod to the police that they had free reign to crack heads
The real outside agitators have taken over the nervous systems of a number of Republican politicians.
re: #51 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“outside agitator” was just a nod to the police that they had free reign to crack heads
I came here on Union Army orders 40 years ago, and I’m still an outside agitator.
re: #44 Randall Gross
Of course the Totenkopf with a star of David on its forehead really tells you where he’s at.
Getting a JDL vibe here.
The cops are the outside agitators. They don’t go to school there.
re: #28 Charles Johnson
Render. If that’s the same person who used to have an account, he’s a hard right fanatic.
It’s absolutely unfair and incredibly biased to label all the protesters as “pro-Hamas.” Are the Israelis who’ve demonstrated against Netanyahu’s thuggish violence also “pro-Hamas?”
You don’t have to be pro-Hamas to be appalled and disgusted by what the Netanyahu government is doing.
“I have questions”
re: #48 darthstar
He’s thinking of “Operation Wetback” which was a thing in ‘54.
en.wikipedia.org
re: #49 lawhawk
And on the same day Florida intercoursed the canine on abortion restrictions.
re: #18 Shropshire Slasher
Yeah. A woman peacefully protesting. So the fuck what?
re: #58 Dave In Austin
He’s thinking of “Operation Wetback” which was a thing in ‘54.
en.wikipedia.org
The very name of it must appeal to him
A Libertarian’s site talking about what has been going on since the Mises fascists took over. I don’t believe there’s anything worth salvaging there, but it’s nice that someone’s talking about the insanity.
In May of 2022, an organization known as The Mises PAC took over the Libertarian National Committee after multiple takeovers of state affiliates.
Since these takeovers, party leadership has engaged in egregious unethical and corrupt behavior, has maligned libertarians across the world, and misused donor funds.
Here’s an outline of their behavior since the takeover.
This list is not comprehensive, and will continue to be updated as we receive information. You can view our Updates Page for new additions since you last checked in.
You can use the form below to submit recommendations to the site or join the effort to fight back against them.
If you have nothing better to do with your time…
No one is better prepared to declare bankruptcy than these guys.
Minnesota bankruptcy law firm files for bankruptcy after losing fight with another bankruptcy firm
One of Minnesota’s oldest bankruptcy law firms has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after losing a five-year legal spat with another bankruptcy law firm over mutual claims of false advertising and “click fraud.”
St. Cloud-based LifeBack Law Firm, which has eight Minnesota offices, filed for protection from creditors Saturday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Minnesota. The petition notes LifeBack owes $290,000 to Hoglund, Chwialkowski & Mrozik, part of Hoglund Law in Roseville.
LifeBack President Wesley Scott could not be reached for comment.
According to the bankruptcy filing, the money owed to Hoglund stems from a court-approved arbitration award.
The bankruptcy filing is the culmination of a legal wrestling match that dates back five years.
In January 2019, Hoglund first sued LifeBack in Hennepin County District Court alleging false advertising, unfair enrichment, contract interference and deceptive trade practices.
Hoglund mainly contended that LifeBack, formerly Kain & Scott, had engaged in a costly scheme of “click fraud.”
Hoglund accused LifeBack’s President Wesley Scott of “excessively” clicking on trigger words on the Internet in an effort to force Hoglund’s paid advertisements to appear again and again on the screen. The repetitive action was allegedly intended to interrupt Hoglund’s online marketing efforts and to make the law firm quickly spend through its entire Google advertising budget and render its advertisements mute.
re: #49 lawhawk
Goodish news from AZ:
The GOP is desperate to get the issue off the ballot/voters minds come November because everywhere the issue has been on voters’ minds, they GOP loses.
We’ll still have Florida. (et al…)
re: #62 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
Since these takeovers, party leadership has engaged in egregious unethical and corrupt behavior, has maligned libertarians across the world, and misused donor fund.
No wonder these guys love Trump.
re: #65 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS
We’ll still have Florida. (et al…)
And AZ… this just rolls them back to the current abortion restrictions. Full legalization doesn’t happen without the ballot initiative.
re: #49 lawhawk
Goodish news from AZ:
The GOP is desperate to get the issue off the ballot/voters minds come November because everywhere the issue has been on voters’ minds, they GOP loses.
Republican opponents of the repeal delivered their own speeches explaining their votes Wednesday.
State Sen. Anthony Kern called the 1864 law “the best abortion ban in the nation” and likened Bolick and Shope to Nazi officers who sent Jewish citizens to different fates.
”We have two Republicans voting with the Democrats to repeal an abortion ban, while saying, ‘I’m pro-life,’” Kern said. “That’s kind of like Nazi Germany where the Nazis said, ‘Jews, you have something wrong with you, you go to the death chamber. You, Jews, can live and work the fields. It’s wrong.’”
JFC.
re: #64 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
No one is better prepared to declare bankruptcy than these guys.
That’s… Different.
re: #68 teleskiguy
This is funny because they just laid off 10% of their charging station team which shocked other EV manufacturers who are tooling cars for the supercharger network.
Wow!
Here we fucking gooooooo
— Jared Yates Sexton (@jysexton.bsky.social) 2024-05-01T20:37:36.028Z
re: #4 The Ghost of a Flea
I like another definition for Libertarians I read recently.
They’re house cats. Fiercely convinced of their independence while benefitting from a system they can neither comprehend nor appreciate.
If you understand anything, you understand when you buy a Tesla, you are the crash test dummy.
Pinto was recalled, Musk just brags.
Elon Stench Monkey.
League of Women Voters, Southern NM, comes through.
re: #75 wrenchwench
League of Women Voters, Southern NM, comes through.
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That resource works all over the country.
re: #10 Florida Panhandler
That company has been offering those subs for at least eight years now. Still no buyers as far as I know.
I wonder how the various systems they have to track Soviet subs are going to react to these things if one does get in the water?
Will insurance cover being hit by a Mark 46 torpedo?
re: #72 goddamnedfrank
Last night, UCLA-employed police stood down and allowed a fascist mob to beat students at the protest encampment for hours.
My union, UAW 4811, representing 48,000 academic workers across UC, has initiated a strike authorization vote in response.
We will protect our students and communities.
— Alex Wenzel (@alexwenzel.bsky.social) 2024-05-01T19:54:44.527Z
re: #62 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
Since these takeovers, party leadership has engaged in egregious unethical and corrupt behavior, has maligned libertarians across the world, and misused donor fund.
AKA Austrian school economics.
Has anyone seen hard boiled eggs where the yolk is almost white?
re: #71 darthstar
This is funny because they just laid off 10% of their charging station team which shocked other EV manufacturers who are tooling cars for the supercharger network.
It’s 100% of their charging station team. Random speculation is that they are going to outsource to BYD or someone else.
The nation of Colombia saw its moment to do the funniest thing possible
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) 2024-05-01T20:54:26.608Z
re: #79 BeenHereAwhile
AKA Austrian school economics.
Economics where reality is irrelevant and what they want to believe as all that matters. I’ve run into those freaks more than once and the best description I can come up with is that they make LaRouchies seem sane. 😱
re: #80 PhillyPretzel ✅
I just checked google and they are safe to eat. They do not look appetizing.
re: #72 goddamnedfrank
Wow!
And those clubs of armed public employees free to exercise violence with no accountability?
Stop calling them unions.
re: #71 darthstar
Skum fired Tesla’s Head of HR. You know some really dumb shit is about to go down. We might be witnessing an Enron-type collapse.
re: #80 PhillyPretzel ✅
Has anyone seen hard boiled eggs where the yolk is almost white?
Outside the yoke or through and through? I’ve seen it grayish white outside but never all the way through.
re: #77 Romantic Heretic
That company has been offering those subs for at least eight years now. Still no buyers as far as I know.
I wonder how the various systems they have to track Soviet subs are going to react to these things if one does get in the water?
Will insurance cover being hit by a Mark 46 torpedo?
Or even just an oil barrel filled with TNT.
re: #88 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Please look at my #87.
The Mises Institute is a regular pseudo intellectual campus in Auburn Alabama.
It will claim it has nothing to do with the nazi-adjacent nutburgers who have taken over the libertarian party but, as with the radical right and “moderate” conservatives, they are actually one and the same.
The Mises Institute was founded in 1982 by Lew Rockwell, who was chief of staff to Texas Republican Congressman Ron Paul; previously Rockwell had been editor for the conservative Arlington House Publishers and had worked for the radical-right John Birch Society and the traditionalist Hillsdale College.
re: #61 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The very name of it must appeal to him
If it had been named “Operation Immigrant Detour” he never would’ve mentioned it.
re: #87 PhillyPretzel ✅
I see those often.
re: #87 PhillyPretzel ✅
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Pale Eggs
Those chickens never see the light of day, and the chicken farm doesn’t even put marigold seeds into their feed.
re: #64 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
Where’s the laugh react? 😹😹😹
re: #94 Vicious Babushka
Ahh. That is what does it.
re: #91 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
The Mises Institute is a regular pseudo intellectual campus in Auburn Alabama.
It will claim it has nothing to do with the nazi-adjacent nutburgers who have taken over the libertarian party but, as with the radical right and “moderate” conservatives, they are actually one and the same.
The paleo putsch of the libertarian party is complete
What does this say about the action that the university took yesterday? If the massive police action was not to permit the resumption of normal campus life, what was it for?
Columbia effectively closes its main campus for the rest of the school year.
All final exams, ‘academic activities’ on Morningside campus will be remote for rest of semester
re: #58 Dave In Austin
He’s thinking of “Operation Wetback” which was a thing in ‘54.
en.wikipedia.org
One very important difference between Operation Wetback and current border policy is that the former was carried out with the cooperation, and participation, of the Mexican government. The latter was concerned about a severe labor shortage on large Mexican farms, which affected the landed aristocracy by forcing them to either compete with American wages or let their crops rot.
re: #87 PhillyPretzel ✅
I like the orange yolks I get… despite the occasional fertile egg.
re: #101 darthstar
Yellow is what I usually see when I cut open my hard boiled eggs. Not the color I posted in #87.
FFS
House passes Antisemitism Awareness Act, a vote that comes as pro-Palestinian protests spring up on college campuses across the country.
re: #96 PhillyPretzel ✅
Ahh. That is what does it.
Chickens are omnivores. They eat everything. The more diverse the diet, the darker the yolk.
I should make deviled eggs tonight.. and eat 30 of them.
re: #28 Charles Johnson
Render. If that’s the same person who used to have an account, he’s a hard right fanatic.
It’s absolutely unfair and incredibly biased to label all the protesters as “pro-Hamas.” Are the Israelis who’ve demonstrated against Netanyahu’s thuggish violence also “pro-Hamas?”
You don’t have to be pro-Hamas to be appalled and disgusted by what the Netanyahu government is doing.
I’m fascinated by the distinction of how collective guilt is attributed.
All protesters are culpable for what some protesters say…but more deeply, what people say when they’re angry and keyed up in a crowd is them revealing their true ugliness such that they can be discounted.
Government officials with a knowable track record of words and deeds, like Smotrich and Ben Gvir, though, can say whatever they want from a podium and it is somehow impolitic to suggest that their stated ideological positions might be reflected in choices made in the war they’re directing.
It’s 2003 all over again: the government are crooks and reactionaries working in tandem but if you point out that this is meaningful context for their choices, that it is in fact valid to question their actions given their history, then you’re failing to understand that the emergency is so large and the bad-feelings so intense that any cost
as long as it is paid mostly by people that do not matter, who in the mind of the rhetorician are…not a loss
must be borne because the enemy is too malefic for conventional questions about collateral harm and human dignity to be relevant.
The same people that were pounding the table then are pounding the table now because, they argue, the crime was so heinous that the response must be held outside of systems of criticism and accountability.
And just as back then, they are not arguing this in exclusion, but as part of a larger worldview in which spillage of human life is simply a thing that must occur along the path to creating a world order that rewards the good kinds of people. This is passively accepted by Americans—it is acceptable that our lives are putatively “protected” by a constant flow of civilian casualties overseas because there is no alternative—but in our domestic politics more and more variants of “what if these deaths are just unremarkable, the cost of doing business” are cropping up: it’s built into homelessness discourse, into the prison-labor complex, etc. The definition of “terrorism” has been getting broader since BLM and Portland, and what is trying to categorized how is demonstrative of how this is all reaction posing as self-defense.
At the bottom of it all, the distinction is the point. No one that argues the utilitarian efficacy of killing one Hamas member with a bomb that levels a whole occupied building would accept that logic being applied to their loved ones, or even their nation. But the world is now burning enough that normies smell the smoke, and the fastest way to feel safe is to imagine that the suffering over there has no relevance to what might happen over here…and if you could inflict just the correct kind of harm to the right people
obviously no one you have community or connection with, other kinds of people that you feel are quite different
then you might be able to avoid suffering.
went to get the mail
put my hand in the box and mused - hmm it’s been a while since something tried to build a nest there in the back
cause i dont always look all the way in
and i dont usually have that thought
i started walking away and my hand got stung
then my other hand
wtf?
well there were wasps
not in the mailbox
under the box in the space between the wood frame
they were not particularly large. it’s been a half hour and i cant even find the spots on my hands anymore
so now im wondering did my eye catch it and pass it to my subconscious which decided not to tell me?
or was it just one of those ordinary every day coincidences?
probably
re: #91 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
The Mises Institute is a regular pseudo intellectual campus in Auburn Alabama.
It will claim it has nothing to do with the nazi-adjacent nutburgers who have taken over the libertarian party but, as with the radical right and “moderate” conservatives, they are actually one and the same.
Nice last name for a follower of the Austrian school of economics, but no relation to Lincoln Rockwell of the American Nazi Party.
re: #107 Dangerman
Good thing you only stuck your hand in the mailbox.
re: #105 IngisKahn
I should make deviled eggs tonight.. and eat 30 of them.
Sometimes nothing is a very cool hand.
re: #86 teleskiguy
Skum fired Tesla’s Head of HR. You know some really dumb shit is about to go down. We might be witnessing an Enron-type collapse.
Honestly, this being Tesla, I’d enjoy it.
re: #103 Randall Gross
Say it with me, people: You can think the Israeli leadership are evil, corrupt assholes and NOT be antisemitic.
I really hope the Tesla BoD finds the resolve to kick Elon out, or at least spin off his AI shenanigans. Time is running out to save the company.
re: #110 Decatur Deb
Sometimes nothing is a very cool hand.
30 (50)
and for the record, that’s the scene where this pic comes from that i use here all the time:
I believe you’ve got it all, Dragline. Every cent in camp is riding.
re: #113 Eclectic Cyborg
Say it with me, people: You can think the Israeli leadership are evil, corrupt assholes and NOT be antisemitic.
You can also think that the Palestinians have a lot to be pissed off about right now and not be pro-Hamas.
re: #106 The Ghost of a Flea
The same people that were pounding the table then are pounding the table now because, they argue, the crime was so heinous that the response must be held outside of systems of criticism and accountability.
I’m seeing very many of the same crowd that duped me back when; for some things never change. Personally I’ll be working on atonement for being one of the voices that got American into the longest war in our history for the rest of my life, and yet still never make up for it.
Meanwhile, Sam thinks he’s making Jarvis…
Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, describes the killer app for AI as a “super competent colleague that knows absolutely everything about my whole life, every email, every conversation I’ve ever had, but doesn’t feel like an extension.”
— MIT Technology Review (@technologyreview.com) 2024-05-01T20:34:15.299Z
re: #84 PhillyPretzel ✅
I just checked google and they are safe to eat. They do not look appetizing.
Butter is white in winter, unless something is done to color it. This is more of the same. (I haven’t seen a blind test to compare the flavors, and I wouldn’t trust anything else.)
re: #118 Randall Gross
That sounds terrifying.
re: #119 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS
I know. I asked Mom and Dad about that years ago.
re: #58 Dave In Austin
He’s thinking of “Operation Wetback” which was a thing in ‘54.
en.wikipedia.org
One of my favorite parts of the article is businesses along the border continuing to use illegal immigrants during the whole operation. Same as it ever was.
re: #103 Randall Gross
FFS
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FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA PALESTINE WILL BE FREE!!!
THE JEWS WILL NOT REPLACE US!!!!
These are both the same.
re: #50 jaunte
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
We didn’t know said the congregation,
Singing a hymn in a church of white.
The Press was full of lies about us,
Preacher told us we were right.
The outside agitators came.
They burned some churches and put the blame,
On decent southern people’s names,
To set our colored people aflame.
And maybe some of our boys got hot,
And a couple of ni***rs and reds got shot,
They should have stayed where they belong,
And preacher would’ve told us if we’d done wrong.
re: #62 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
A Libertarian’s site talking about what has been going on since the Mises fascists took over. I don’t believe there’s anything worth salvaging there, but it’s nice that someone’s talking about the insanity.
Since these takeovers, party leadership has engaged in egregious unethical and corrupt behavior, has maligned libertarians across the world, and misused donor funds.
One year E.P. and Dorothy Thompson were visiting professors at Pitt. They taught several classes about British History. Memories of the head of the Young Libertarian Alliance challenging E.P. about his Marxist views. E.P. knew the guy was the head of the YLA.
E.P. delivered an immortal response that American Libertarians were the Cole Porter Party because with them “Anything Goes”.
We got a good belly laugh from that!