Scary Pockets Ft. Hunter & Joe Bonamassa: "How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore" (Prince Cover)

Scary Pockets Ft. Hunter & Joe Bonamassa: “How Come U Don’t Call Me Anymore” (Prince Cover)

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A funk cover of Prince’s “How Come U Don’t Call Me Anymore” by Scary Pockets & Hunter Elizabeth.

MUSICIAN CREDITS
Lead vocal: Hunter Elizabeth
Drums: Dan Bailey
Bass: Calvin Turner
Guitar: Joe Bonamassa, Ryan Lerman
Keys: Jack Conte

AUDIO CREDITS
Recording Engineer: Caleb Parker
Mixing/Mastering: Caleb Parker

VIDEO CREDITS
Director: Dom Fera
DP: Ricky Chavez
Camera Operators: Jenny Baumert, Isaac Park, Chad Carlstone, Charlie Weinmann
Editor: Adam Kritzberg

Recorded Live at East West in Los Angeles, CA.

#ScaryPockets #Funk #prince #hunterelizabeth

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435 comments

Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 27, 2023 • 3:46:42pm

West Virginia Republicans said they hoped a sweeping abortion ban would shutter the state’s only abortion clinic. The facility ended abortions, but stayed open. Now, its staff is starting another abortion clinic over the Maryland state line. https://t.co/pfScUpt08Z

— The Associated Press (@AP) March 27, 2023

Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 27, 2023 • 3:47:55pm

This is Stanley. He grew these teeth himself. Thinks they came out pretty good for it being his first time. 12/10 pic.twitter.com/kRowQ5PRBS

— WeRateDogs® (@dog_rates) March 27, 2023

Captain Ron Mar 27, 2023 • 3:53:08pm

The “Twitter Files” team has finally found a case of “disinformation” they think is problematic: AI generated images of Trump getting arrested that were clearly AI generated and presented as AI generated but did make Trump look bad and some people seemed to get a kick out of them pic.twitter.com/kzwNVoSSQX

— Nicholas Grossman (@NGrossman81) March 27, 2023

This AI-generated image of Trump praying is less obviously fake than the ones of him running from arrest, and it reinforces something false a bunch of people actually believe (no one believes Trump was arrested last week).
And it’s still not close to a “major deep fake campaign.” https://t.co/aipXKnWTe2

— Nicholas Grossman (@NGrossman81) March 27, 2023

Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 27, 2023 • 3:54:05pm

This dog was spotted politely waiting by a pizza truck. He doesn’t have to say what he wants. They already know his order. It is pizza. 13/10 pic.twitter.com/yxlD2s9HJ9

— WeRateDogs® (@dog_rates) March 27, 2023

Crush White Nationalism Mar 27, 2023 • 3:56:11pm

Is this what people want their kids to look like?

A serial sperm donor who has fathered 550 children is being sued amid accusations his prolific donations increases the risk of accidental incest.

The Netherlands’ Donorkind Foundation is taking Jonathan Jacob Meijer to court to stop him donating sperm and accuses him of lying about the number of children he has fathered.

Dutch sperm clinic guidelines say donors should donate a maximum of 25 children or to 12 women to prevent inbreeding, incest or psychological problems for donor children.

The civil case is being brought by a Dutch mother of one of Mr Meijer’s children, who has been named only as Eva and had the child in 2018.

‘If I had known he had already fathered more than 100 children I would never have chosen him,’ she said.

‘If I think about the consequences this could have for my child I am sick to my stomach.’

Donorkind wants the court to order Mr Meijer to stop donating and to find out which clinics he has donated to.

It also wants all his sperm in storage to be destroyed unless it is reserved for a woman who already has one of his children.

“We are taking action against this man because the government is doing nothing,” Donorkind foundation chairman Ties van der Meer said.

“He has a global reach via the internet and he does business with large, international sperm banks.”

Sperm donor Jonathan Jacob Meijer ‘fathered 500 children’ (times.co.uk)

FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips Mar 27, 2023 • 3:59:07pm

Responding to last post downstairs

re: #200 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Wingnuts are already trying to say the murder is a transwoman (circulating some photograph which probably isn’t her).

Terminology is thoroughly causing massive confusion in regards to this shooting
Police ID’d shooter as female, Police chief referred to shooter as she - “she identified as transgender”
“…Hale reportedly identified as transgender and used the pronouns he / him. …”

Audrey Hale, 28, named as Nashville school shooter as map and manifesto found https://t.co/S2j11e92iW

— The Independent (@Independent) March 27, 2023

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 27, 2023 • 4:01:12pm

Palette cleanse (0:28)

5th wheel used to aid in parallel parking in 1933 pic.twitter.com/RPBto6Hv2w

— Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) March 26, 2023

Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 27, 2023 • 4:01:13pm

More people died today from gun violence than people convicted of voter fraud in last four years. And what is GOP working on these days???

— Matthew Dowd (@matthewjdowd) March 27, 2023

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 27, 2023 • 4:01:55pm

re: #7 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Fixed above link with proper video.

PhillyPretzel Mar 27, 2023 • 4:05:04pm

Another Public Safety Alert: It is safe to drink the water in Philly through to 3:30 PM tomorrow.

jaunte Mar 27, 2023 • 4:05:44pm

re: #10 PhillyPretzel

What happens at 3:30?

Mattand Mar 27, 2023 • 4:05:57pm

re: #10 PhillyPretzel

Another Public Safety Alert: It is safe to drink the water in Philly through to 3:30 PM tomorrow.

I’m heading over to the Delaware tonight with the biggest straw I can find.

PhillyPretzel Mar 27, 2023 • 4:06:58pm

re: #11 jaunte

You get this uncontrollable urge to have an all out celebration when any Philadelphia sport team wins.

Joe Bacon Mar 27, 2023 • 4:06:59pm

Has Alex Jones said that the Nashville Shooting was a false flag?

Gee did he utter the “crisis actors” bullshit again, too?

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 27, 2023 • 4:08:44pm

F*k Lauren Boebert.

…that’s the tweet. #NashvilleCovenantSchool pic.twitter.com/nIQe5NzCDs

— Ryan Shead (@RyanShead) March 27, 2023

Joe Bacon Mar 27, 2023 • 4:09:09pm

WOW!

I found a drone video of the Ambridge PA reservoir named after my Grandpa who oversaw construction.

It’s in Independence Township, Beaver County PA.

facebook.com

Mattand Mar 27, 2023 • 4:09:38pm

There’s a link to a video on CNN’s home page titled “Jon Stewart: This is why Trump became popular in the first place”. I don’t want to click on it, because I have a feeling it’s Jon getting his Merrick Garland on and making an argument we shouldn’t indict Trump on anything, because it’ll just energize the MAGAts.

I could be wrong, but I’m not in a great mood and I don’t want to give potential horseshit like that the clicks.

sagehen Mar 27, 2023 • 4:10:27pm

re: #4 Backwoods_Sleuth

With pineapple. Good boy.

Mattand Mar 27, 2023 • 4:10:50pm

re: #18 sagehen

With pineapple. Good boy.

BAD DOG! BAD!!!

BigPapa Mar 27, 2023 • 4:11:12pm

re: #18 sagehen

With pineapple. Good boy.

(stares in the Ultra Violence)

jaunte Mar 27, 2023 • 4:12:06pm

re: #16 Joe Bacon

Just a stone’s throw from Gringo.
mapcarta.com

Charles Johnson Mar 27, 2023 • 4:12:24pm

iOS 16.4 is out! Time to update.

Crush White Nationalism Mar 27, 2023 • 4:14:00pm

re: #11 jaunte

What happens at 3:30?

I made an appointment to shit in the reservoir.
I think it’s more their fault than mine for accepting the appointment.

austin_blue Mar 27, 2023 • 4:15:09pm

re: #6 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

Responding to last post downstairs

Terminology is thoroughly causing massive confusion in regards to this shooting
Police ID’d shooter as female, Police chief referred to shooter as she - “she identified as transgender”
“…Hale reportedly identified as transgender and used the pronouns he / him. …”

So, born female, self-identified as male, took testosterone for some degree of transitioning, but still called “she” by the cops.

I thought it was odd when the shooter was ID’d as female, which is not anywhere near the norm, is it?

But just add testosterone, a giant dose of bigoted hate, and easy access to guns, and Bingo!

Inevitable, sadly, for all involved.

Joe Bacon Mar 27, 2023 • 4:15:35pm

I just noticed that the iPhone SE I got yesterday already had iOS 16.4 installed and I didn’t notice it until now!

Mattand Mar 27, 2023 • 4:16:23pm

re: #23 Crush White Nationalism

I made an appointment to shit in the reservoir.
I think it’s more their fault than mine for accepting the appointment.

Philly tourism has taken some really weird turns over the last few years.

Actually, 3:30 tomorrow is when Philly is testing the water again, due to a latex spill north of the city. There was a run on bottled water both there and here in South Jersey, because it looked like the water may not be potable for a bit.

So far, so good.

austin_blue Mar 27, 2023 • 4:16:24pm

re: #11 jaunte

What happens at 3:30?

Chemical spill reaches the City of Philly’s water system intakes?

Mattand Mar 27, 2023 • 4:19:03pm

re: #27 austin_blue

Chemical spill reaches the City of Philly’s water system intakes?

See above. About 12,000 gallons of the latex was dumped late Friday from a plant in Bristol about 5-10 miles north of Philly and also sits on the Delaware. There’s a water treatment plant in that stretch and everyone’s been keeping a real close eye on it.

So far, everything’s coming up negative.

austin_blue Mar 27, 2023 • 4:23:47pm

re: #28 Mattand

See above. About 12,000 gallons of the latex was dumped late Friday from a plant in Bristol about 5-10 miles north of Philly and also sits on the Delaware. There’s a water treatment plant in that stretch and everyone’s been keeping a real close eye on it.

So far, everything’s coming up negative.

Sure, I was a State ER coordinator in Texas for 20 years, and dealt with this all the damn time, because, well, it’s Texas and the Texas Chemical Council runs environmental policy.

Patricia Kayden Mar 27, 2023 • 4:24:13pm

PhillyPretzel Mar 27, 2023 • 4:24:13pm

re: #28 Mattand

I hope it continues to run negative. I do not want to run to the local Acme and stand in line for bottled water.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 27, 2023 • 4:25:20pm

From the last thread:
re: #111 Backwoods_Sleuth

already seeing this bullshit:

It looks like a really bad photo alteration of Kyrsten Sinema.

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Mar 27, 2023 • 4:26:47pm

It’s going to rain… again.

Climate update for water year and next Pacific Storm March 29-30

..

teleskiguy Mar 27, 2023 • 4:26:51pm

We have a contender for Best Internet Video Clip. pic.twitter.com/D3PypowyVP

— Elon Musk Blows Goats (@ballfootski) March 27, 2023

FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips Mar 27, 2023 • 4:29:13pm

re: #24 austin_blue

So, born female, self-identified as male, took testosterone for some degree of transitioning, but still called “she” by the cops.

I thought it was odd when the shooter was ID’d as female, which is not anywhere near the norm, is it?

But just add testosterone, a giant dose of bigoted hate, and easy access to guns, and Bingo!

Inevitable, sadly, for all involved.

Honestly there has been no actual reporting that the shooter has ever taken testosterone.
Identifying as transgender and using “he/him” pronouns does not equate to actual transitioning.
I’ll also point out the article I shared also refers to the shooter as “she”
“… She had shot open a side door before opening fire on students and staff with two assault-style rifles and a handgun. …”
several paragraphs prior to stating the chosen pronouns.
Like I said, terminology, along with cultural bias, is going to cause a great deal of confusion for some time.

Crush White Nationalism Mar 27, 2023 • 4:29:36pm

It’s ok if you fall apart sometimes. S’mores fall apart, and we still love them.

— National Park Service (@NatlParkService) March 27, 2023

austin_blue Mar 27, 2023 • 4:31:13pm

re: #35 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

Honestly there has been no actual reporting that the shooter has ever taken testosterone.
Identifying as transgender and using “he/him” pronouns does not equate to actual transitioning.
I’ll also point out the article I shared also refers to the shooter as “she”
“… She had shot open a side door before opening fire on students and staff with two assault-style rifles and a handgun. …”
several paragraphs prior to stating the chosen pronouns.
Like I said, terminology, along with cultural bias, is going to cause a great deal of confusion for some time.

Indeed!

jaunte Mar 27, 2023 • 4:33:37pm

Mastodon

Charles Johnson Mar 27, 2023 • 4:35:26pm

Also out - MacOS Ventura 13.3.

wrenchwench Mar 27, 2023 • 4:41:03pm

re: #38 jaunte

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I had to look at a map. In my mind there was only one Colorado river. Fixt it.

PhillyPretzel Mar 27, 2023 • 4:42:03pm

I just got a phone call from the City of Philadelphia on my landline again telling me the water is safe to drink.

jaunte Mar 27, 2023 • 4:42:11pm

re: #40 wrenchwench

This is the one that flows all the way to the gulf.

William Lewis Mar 27, 2023 • 4:42:26pm

re: #39 Charles Johnson

Also out - MacOS Ventura 13.3.

I’ll have to fire up Basilisk II and bask in the glow of an emulated 68040 running 8.1 ;)

gocart mozart Mar 27, 2023 • 4:42:52pm

Watch the full set here: https://t.co/OOrxYr7mSX

— gianmarco (@GianmarcoSoresi) March 27, 2023

wrenchwench Mar 27, 2023 • 4:44:09pm

re: #42 jaunte

This is the one that flows all the way to the gulf.

The BIG gulf.

Dave In Austin Mar 27, 2023 • 4:47:10pm

The Historic 2019 Battle of Lake Travis was fought on the Colorado River.

FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips Mar 27, 2023 • 4:48:27pm

re: #19 Mattand

BAD DOG! BAD!!!

Down voted

He’s a good dog,
They’re all good dogs

PhillyPretzel Mar 27, 2023 • 4:49:02pm

re: #46 Dave In Austin

Was that the one where they were zipping their boats back and forth creating swells that could submerge another boat for DT?

Dave In Austin Mar 27, 2023 • 4:51:47pm

re: #48 PhillyPretzel

That’s the one. It’s also my home fishing lake.

Dave In Austin Mar 27, 2023 • 4:52:21pm

Home Coffee roaster doing its thing

Mastodon

jaunte Mar 27, 2023 • 4:54:21pm

what kind of bug is this pic.twitter.com/2EfTuXIulK

— Sam 💭 (@samthielman) March 27, 2023

PhillyPretzel Mar 27, 2023 • 4:55:33pm

re: #49 Dave In Austin

To be honest I prefer the orderly procession that was in the movie “Mrs. Miniver” to depict the Dunkirk rescue.

Dave In Austin Mar 27, 2023 • 4:56:50pm

This was LT Sunday Morning. 10 to the boat.

Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie Mar 27, 2023 • 4:58:21pm

re: #46 Dave In Austin

The Historic 2019 Battle of Lake Travis was fought on the Colorado River.

Youtube Video

PhillyPretzel Mar 27, 2023 • 4:58:32pm

re: #51 jaunte

Parrot bug.

Hecuba's daughter Mar 27, 2023 • 4:58:38pm

Already posted about this earlier today on book of faces:

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Jay C Mar 27, 2023 • 4:58:46pm

re: #47 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

Down voted

He’s a good dog,
They’re all good dogs

Though some might have questionable taste in 🍕

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Mar 27, 2023 • 4:59:02pm

re: #38 jaunte

Just to note: “the Colorado River” is not the big one out here in the southwest.

Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie Mar 27, 2023 • 5:04:09pm

This is worse than embarrassing, it is a national disgrace.

Italian art experts astonished by David statue uproar in Florida

The Florence museum that houses Michelangelo’s statue of David has invited teachers and students from a Florida school to visit, after an uproar over an art lesson.

The school’s principal quit after a complaint about a sixth-grade art class that included an image of the statue.

A parent had complained the image was pornographic.

Cecilie Hollberg, director of Galleria dell’Accademia, has now issued the invitation to the class.
She said the principal should be “rewarded, not punished”.

“Talking about the Renaissance without showing the David, an undisputed icon of art and culture and of that historical period, would make no sense,” Ms Hollberg said.

FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips Mar 27, 2023 • 5:07:56pm

re: #57 Jay C

Though some might have questionable taste in 🍕

Dogs delight in the flavor of cat turds.

I’m not sure questioning their taste in any pizza is reasonable

Charles Johnson Mar 27, 2023 • 5:08:18pm

mastodon.social

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 27, 2023 • 5:09:39pm

Lots of this apologia in that thread (the same stuff that comes up when calling out fascists)

Please, delete that picture. We don’t need to traumatize that child for the rest of that child’s life by using that picture.

— David #ProChoice & LGBTQ+ (@DavidDuvall8) March 27, 2023

I think that girl has already crossed that bridge. The photograph isn’t going to traumatise her, the murder of her schoolmates in the name of Conservatism did.

Dave In Austin Mar 27, 2023 • 5:10:33pm

wrenchwench Mar 27, 2023 • 5:10:46pm

re: #56 Hecuba’s daughter

Already posted about this earlier today on book of faces:

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Charles Johnson Mar 27, 2023 • 5:12:50pm

Mastodon

Belafon Mar 27, 2023 • 5:13:12pm

re: #59 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Makes me think of

That Time Squidward Taught SpongeBob Art 🎨 | The Squidward Show Ep. 2

At the 3:15 mark.

Charles Johnson Mar 27, 2023 • 5:13:13pm

I see that Mastodon’s edit feature doesn’t extend to embedded posts.

EPR-radar Mar 27, 2023 • 5:15:05pm

re: #62 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Conservatives want to suppress this photo because there’s a chance of it making a difference.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 27, 2023 • 5:15:14pm

Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem are finally making an album — and we have your first look at ‘Muppets Mayhem,’ the story behind the music. https://t.co/L7uGsMzQqW

— Entertainment Weekly (@EW) March 27, 2023

Grunthos the Flatulent Mar 27, 2023 • 5:16:02pm

Tomorrow’s Wordle has no excuses. None.

Click to Reveal

The ball just rolled back into the bunker behind the green every fucking time.

Wordle 647 X/6

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SibData: 3,4,5,X

Today I am the statue, and the pigeons have gathered.

EPR-radar Mar 27, 2023 • 5:17:05pm

re: #65 Charles Johnson

The essence of Trump’s charisma is that he’s blatantly evil and revels in it.

This has made him God of the Pig People because they too are evil and they want nothing more than to revel in their own evil.

jaunte Mar 27, 2023 • 5:17:13pm

Arkansas where on the same day 6 people died by gun at a school in Nashville we introduce legislation giving students permission to have hand guns at school. #ARPX pic.twitter.com/c8Y27C7ODc

— Judson Scanlon (@scanlon72116) March 27, 2023

Teukka Mar 27, 2023 • 5:19:44pm

re: #72 jaunte

You gotta be shitting me…

No Malarkey! Mar 27, 2023 • 5:20:40pm

re: #68 EPR-radar

Conservatives want to suppress this photo because there’s a chance of it making a difference.

It won’t. This massacre will be long forgotten by the 2024 election due to all of the massacres to come between now and then.

Dave In Austin Mar 27, 2023 • 5:24:33pm

Mastodon

Charles Johnson Mar 27, 2023 • 5:24:33pm

Mastodon

BeenHereAwhile Mar 27, 2023 • 5:26:03pm

re: #22 Charles Johnson

iOS 16.4 is out! Time to update.

I like to wait a ~month after an iOS update and let other folk beta test the release.

EPR-radar Mar 27, 2023 • 5:26:14pm

re: #74 No Malarkey!

It won’t. This massacre will be long forgotten by the 2024 election due to all of the massacres to come between now and then.

True, but conservatives are so full of fear they fear the impossible.

Joe Bacon Mar 27, 2023 • 5:28:15pm

re: #72 jaunte

Arkansas where on the same day 6 people died by gun at a school in Nashville we introduce legislation giving students permission to have hand guns at school.

Now watch what happens when the 9th grade Algebra teacher flunks Joey Jockstrap the star football player. And Joey Jockstrap filled with steroids whips out his handgun and goes on a shooting rampage…

and you thought her dad really fucked up when he let Wayne Dumond and Maurice Clemmons out of jail so they could kill again…you ain’t seen nothing yet but we know that Tree of Liberty is gonna gorge itself on all the new blood thanks to Smokey Eyes!

Charles Johnson Mar 27, 2023 • 5:30:40pm

The secret list of Twitter VIPs getting boosted over everyone else

But Twitter does have a different standard for celebrities - including Musk himself. For months, the platform has maintained a list of around 35 VIP users whose accounts it monitors and offers increased visibility alongside Elon Musk, according to documents obtained by Platformer. The list, which spans the political gamut and also includes several journalists and celebrities, includes:

NBA All-Star LeBron James
Daily Wire founder and conservative commentator Ben Shapiro
Pseudonymous conservative commentator @catturd2
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY
President Joe Biden

Elmu’s attraction to catturd2 has been very obvious.

wrenchwench Mar 27, 2023 • 5:34:31pm

re: #76 Charles Johnson

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Yeah, but you missed out on the full house, 646 4/6.

/there’s always a trade-off

teleskiguy Mar 27, 2023 • 5:35:23pm

Check the voice AI…

NEAS Final Form Ep7: Bethany Mandel, Jesse Singal, and Rudy on VIDEO

Joe Bacon Mar 27, 2023 • 5:39:35pm

??????

Rand Paul staffer stabbed in the head and torso in broad daylight attack

rawstory.com

A Rand Paul staffer suffered life-threatening injuries Saturday afternoon in a stabbing attack in Washington D.C., the Republican senator from Kentucky said in a statement.

Glynn Neal, 42 of Southeast, D.C. was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon in connection with the attack, police said in a statement.

The victim’s status wasn’t immediately known.

“This past weekend a member of my staff was brutally attacked in broad daylight in Washington D.C. I ask you to join Kelley and me in praying for a speedy and complete recovery, and thinking the first responders, hospital staff and police for their diligent actions,” Paul said in a statement obtained by WUSA 9’s Lorenzo Hall.

Crush White Nationalism Mar 27, 2023 • 5:42:32pm

re: #83 Joe Bacon

??????

Rand Paul staffer stabbed in the head and torso in broad daylight attack

rawstory.com

A Rand Paul staffer suffered life-threatening injuries Saturday afternoon in a stabbing attack in Washington D.C., the Republican senator from Kentucky said in a statement.

Glynn Neal, 42 of Southeast, D.C. was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon in connection with the attack, police said in a statement.

The victim’s status wasn’t immediately known.

“This past weekend a member of my staff was brutally attacked in broad daylight in Washington D.C. I ask you to join Kelley and me in praying for a speedy and complete recovery, and thinking the first responders, hospital staff and police for their diligent actions,” Paul said in a statement obtained by WUSA 9’s Lorenzo Hall.

Released prisoner that wanted back in.

Federal Bureau of Prisons records show Neal was released from prison on Friday - the day before the stabbing.

He spent nearly 12 Years behind bars for compelling two North Carolina women to engage in prostitution through the use of threats.

Dangerman Mar 27, 2023 • 5:43:57pm

The House Judiciary Committee is postponing its planned markup of a gun rights resolution in the wake of Monday’s school shooting in Nashville, which left six dead including three children,” Punchbowl News reports.
“House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) accused Democrats of politicizing the tragedy in his decision to delay the hearing, which had been scheduled for Tuesday.”

Too soon I guess //

wrenchwench Mar 27, 2023 • 5:46:28pm

re: #85 Dangerman

Too soon I guess //

His opponents have politicized the tragedy by publishing photos of crying survivors.

teleskiguy Mar 27, 2023 • 5:53:19pm

how can you be so bad at running a company https://t.co/CyLfqF6xM9

— Kat Abu (@abughazalehkat) March 28, 2023

EPR-radar Mar 27, 2023 • 5:57:27pm

re: #87 teleskiguy

AI bot swarms on Twitter would be preferable to the swarm of blue check mark morons Musk is making on Twitter.

And the commenter is mistaken. Musk isn’t trying to run a company — Musk is trying to become the Rush Limbaugh of social media.

Belafon Mar 27, 2023 • 6:01:04pm

re: #87 teleskiguy

No need to insult our intelligence by pretending this is about bots, just say that you need to make money because you’ve done a horrendous job managing the company you bought. https://t.co/PfHiM2xd6v

— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) March 28, 2023

teleskiguy Mar 27, 2023 • 6:01:48pm

My prediction is that this will be the only platform you can trust

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 28, 2023

Giphy

jaunte Mar 27, 2023 • 6:06:04pm

re: #90 teleskiguy

Other Musk predictions:

Almost no new COVID cases in the US by end of April 2020.
1 million Tesla robotaxis on the road by 2020.
Neuralink will be in human skulls by 2020.

Crush White Nationalism Mar 27, 2023 • 6:08:43pm

re: #90 teleskiguy

Amplifying misinformation does not build trust. Twitter is pretty much done now. The CEO is nuts.

— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) March 28, 2023

The Pie Overlord! Mar 27, 2023 • 6:09:38pm

re: #88 EPR-radar

AI bot swarms on Twitter would be preferable to the swarm of blue check mark morons Musk is making on Twitter.

And the commenter is mistaken. Musk isn’t trying to run a company — Musk is trying to become the Rush Limbaugh of social media.

Rush was all about making money. Onle Skum is all about losing money.

Belafon Mar 27, 2023 • 6:10:01pm

re: #90 teleskiguy

Did you predict you would half your company’s value in under a year?

— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) March 28, 2023

The Ghost of a Flea Mar 27, 2023 • 6:14:01pm

re: #89 Belafon

It’s money, but it’s also Mush convincing himself that those polls he did about stepping down could only find against him if they were botted.

It amounts to “democracy did not create the results I want, therefore we must create a ‘democracy’ that creates my result.”

As always, he’s creating a facade rather than addressing problems in a way that would actually solve them. The future is just bots paying for checkmarks, which might be a filter for cheap scammers and admen but no issue at all for a larger operation.

teleskiguy Mar 27, 2023 • 6:15:49pm

OH FUCK!!!

A friend just shared this with me. Avalanche at @SundanceResort. Just now. pic.twitter.com/j2hcCNRdPl

— Chris Harrington (@CCH360) March 27, 2023

jaunte Mar 27, 2023 • 6:17:56pm

re: #96 teleskiguy

Avy report: https://t.co/8Utihxt7Hb

— 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐞𝐞 (@brian_schnee) March 28, 2023

jaunte Mar 27, 2023 • 6:19:18pm

A) you’re a remarkably stupid and hateful creature

B) why don’t you use what little brain power you have, to explain the relevant reality here: this is an ALUM of a Christian school who targeted it?

— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) March 28, 2023

teleskiguy Mar 27, 2023 • 6:22:24pm

re: #97 jaunte

I’ve seen my fair share of avalanches in person, never one that big!

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garzooma Mar 27, 2023 • 6:25:05pm

re: #91 jaunte

Other Musk predictions:

Almost no new COVID cases in the US by end of April 2020.
[…]

The next two can be written off as futurism gibberish, but this one is pretty bad. Do you have a link? Thanks.

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Patricia Kayden Mar 27, 2023 • 6:25:19pm

When do we hold them accountable?

Mastodon

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jaunte Mar 27, 2023 • 6:27:33pm

re: #100 garzooma

No new domestic corona cases in China https://t.co/lGmxRvMyFy

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 19, 2020

Based on current trends, probably close to zero new cases in US too by end of April

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 19, 2020

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Patricia Kayden Mar 27, 2023 • 6:28:12pm

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Dangerman Mar 27, 2023 • 6:31:29pm

Three children and three adults are now dead because they were shot to death AT A SCHOOL with assault rifles and Republicans are currently high fiving one another over the identity of the shooter.

How utterly disgusting is that?

— Jo 🌻 (@JoJoFromJerz) March 27, 2023

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Dangerman Mar 27, 2023 • 6:32:16pm

Picked the wrong day to make this asinine claim

DeSantis on “constitutional carry” and rolling back gun regulations: “I’m for everything, I’ve said that from the beginning.” pic.twitter.com/9dwnEbhkFk

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 27, 2023

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Charles Johnson Mar 27, 2023 • 6:34:02pm

Mastodon

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Dangerman Mar 27, 2023 • 6:34:22pm

It’s unfortunate that our Founders were unable to foresee the wreckage that would occur two centuries later when their inartfully worded amendment met modern technology and a populace infatuated with violence and death.

— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) March 27, 2023

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jaunte Mar 27, 2023 • 6:34:59pm

re: #106 Charles Johnson

Losing his own poll asking if he should step down still stings.

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Dangerman Mar 27, 2023 • 6:36:21pm

God this photo by @NicoleHester90 pic.twitter.com/9hk08BQfKw

— Pete Strzok (@petestrzok) March 27, 2023

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The Pie Overlord! Mar 27, 2023 • 6:37:07pm

Walter Cole, better known as the iconic drag queen who performed for decades as Darcelle XV and a fearless advocate for the LGBTQ community, has died. https://t.co/HYWKgUoMu7

— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) March 28, 2023

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The Pie Overlord! Mar 27, 2023 • 6:39:40pm

Trump says the Presidential Records Act gives him the right to “take stuff” as he sees fit. pic.twitter.com/4Tlro2lsHi

— nikki mccann ramírez (@NikkiMcR) March 28, 2023

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The Ghost of a Flea Mar 27, 2023 • 6:41:41pm

re: #107 Dangerman

Some of the founders couldn’t imagine a slightly more egalitarian society where it wouldn’t be perfectly normal to have a citizen slave patrols, and therefore affirmed an amendment perfectly suitable to their expectations of who would be armed and why.

The founders were not soft-focus super Gandhi out-their-time saints. Some of ‘em were trying but there’s no need to put Vaseline on the lens.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips Mar 27, 2023 • 6:42:42pm

re: #110 The Pie Overlord!

He died last week, and the LA Times is just now getting to publishing his obituary?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 27, 2023 • 6:43:15pm

A modern day witch trial is occuring now in @waukeshaschools. And there is even an “Irish connection” as @JimShannonMP of Loch Cuan introduced a resolution in @HouseofCommons to honor one of those targeted only days earlier. @DevlinMartina pic.twitter.com/cBINekmntQ

— Cumann Uí Chléirigh (@BrooklynGaelic) March 27, 2023

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William Lewis Mar 27, 2023 • 6:47:23pm

re: #107 Dangerman

They hated the idea of a standing army, especially in New England, after the Wars of the Three Kingdoms and Cromwell, hence the fantasy of the white property owners and their adult sons making up a part time militia. This fit well with the slave patrols of the south.

Reading the Militia Acts of 1792 is quite enlightening about what they really thought about the 2nd amendment.

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Captain Ron Mar 27, 2023 • 6:47:31pm

“I would be interchangeably presented by the media as a champion of truth, helping expose US and UK government lies, and as a person who supposedly encouraged the invasion.”

— #AJOpinion by @ialmarashi ⤵️ https://t.co/5oR3uGFfW3

— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) March 28, 2023

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Patricia Kayden Mar 27, 2023 • 6:47:41pm

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BigPapa Mar 27, 2023 • 6:48:08pm

What ‘soul searching’ would ‘the left’ have to do if the shooter is trans? Dude needs to explain that. If he can.

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The Ghost of a Flea Mar 27, 2023 • 6:49:09pm

re: #118 BigPapa

What ‘soul searching’ would ‘the left’ have to do if the shooter is trans? Dude needs to explain that. If he can.

Ask Muslims.

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wrenchwench Mar 27, 2023 • 6:49:23pm

re: #113 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

He died last week, and the LA Times is just now getting to publishing his obituary?

It’s been great radio all weekend, listening to old interviews with him, and fans, and those who have been mentored. It’s sad and happy and effusive.

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teleskiguy Mar 27, 2023 • 6:49:58pm

Last year on March 27th we were breaking temperature records with a high of 79 at the SLC airport. This year we are breaking snowpack records across parts of the #ColoradoRiver basin. It’s pretty incredible to see the difference between the two years. #utwx #cowx #azwx pic.twitter.com/9Ph39KuVKO

— Colorado Basin RFC (@nwscbrfc) March 27, 2023

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The Ghost of a Flea Mar 27, 2023 • 6:50:10pm

re: #119 The Ghost of a Flea

Ask Muslims.

…and Sikhs…

…and South Asians

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EPR-radar Mar 27, 2023 • 6:50:18pm

re: #112 The Ghost of a Flea

Some of the founders couldn’t imagine a slightly more egalitarian society where it wouldn’t be perfectly normal to have a citizen slave patrols, and therefore affirmed an amendment perfectly suitable to their expectations of who would be armed and why.

The founders were not soft-focus super Gandhi out-their-time saints. Some of ‘em were trying but there’s no need to put Vaseline on the lens.

The second amendment is intractably ambiguous. WTF is the militia clause doing there? But the authors of the constitution were competent lawyers, and if a competent lawyer drafts something that’s ambiguous, there’s a reason for that.

Here it’s easy enough to see what is going on — a second amendment that was a pure individual RKBA would not have been acceptable, because of course the founders were against that. So the militia clause was put in there to allow each state to limit the RKBA as it saw fit.

Not so incidentally, this line of reasoning utterly demolishes Scalia’s reasoning in Heller. The only acceptable “originalist” reading of the second amendment is to let the states do at they please with the militia clause as a tool to determine what the RKBA should be in that state.

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jaunte Mar 27, 2023 • 6:50:40pm

re: #118 BigPapa

The magic thinking underpinning that is that the only reason he has to acknowledge trans people is The Left. If The Left searches its soul and arrives at the proper Right conclusion, trans people will no longer exist. Problem solved.

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teleskiguy Mar 27, 2023 • 6:54:01pm

*knife twist*

“Ron came to see me, tears in his eyes … “

Trump shares his story about a desperate DeSantis asking for his endorsement in 2018 pic.twitter.com/xwhgXQJxDg

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 28, 2023

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Belafon Mar 27, 2023 • 6:56:51pm

re: #125 teleskiguy

*knife twist*

[Embedded content]

We need Ron to win the nomination to watch the party burn. Ron himself is too much of a coward to go against Trump if the roles are reversed, but Trump will burn it all.

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teleskiguy Mar 27, 2023 • 6:57:05pm

On the state of things…

Kind of hard to be a “proud American” when we are indeed a regressive shithole run by mediocre half wit inbred white men who revel in cruelty and stupidity.

— Elon Musk Blows Goats (@ballfootski) March 27, 2023

Yes, I can tweet again. But the site is circling the drain a lot faster these days, it seems. TweetDeck still gotdam works!

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Florida Panhandler Mar 27, 2023 • 6:58:07pm

re: #124 jaunte

The magic thinking underpinning that is that the only reason he has to acknowledge trans people is The Left. If The Left searches its soul and arrives at the proper Right conclusion, trans people will no longer exist. Problem solved.

No. Their solution is to deny Trans -people the right to exist by any means possible.

Same with gays in general.

Same with blacks in general.

Same with any minority not deemed “White, Christian” enough. This is their eventuality.

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Patricia Kayden Mar 27, 2023 • 6:58:58pm

Mastodon

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The Ghost of a Flea Mar 27, 2023 • 7:01:45pm

re: #124 jaunte

The magic thinking underpinning that is that the only reason he has to acknowledge trans people is The Left. If The Left searches its soul and arrives at the proper Right conclusion, trans people will no longer exist. Problem solved.

The point is to designate who has collective guilt, and therefore who deserves punishment. The “left” can disavow, comply with transphobic legislation, and they will still be guilty and still deserve harm.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 27, 2023 • 7:04:01pm

re: #56 Hecuba’s daughter

Already posted about this earlier today on book of faces:

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Teukka Mar 27, 2023 • 7:04:03pm

Good lord… 🤦‍♂️ 😢 💔

!

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 27, 2023

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teleskiguy Mar 27, 2023 • 7:05:50pm

re: #127 teleskiguy

Yes, I can tweet again.

Still my first burner account since @teleskiguy was banned.

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Patricia Kayden Mar 27, 2023 • 7:06:12pm

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Mar 27, 2023 • 7:06:51pm

re: #132 Teukka

Good lord… 🤦‍♂️ 😢 💔

I’d think that what might be radicalizing them is the legislative and societal pressures being heaped on them by the Right leading to a sense of desperation.

Of course, they’re also cherry-picking things since most of the mass shootings are not trans people but right-wing nuts. I wonder what had been radicalizing them?

(And I know they’d give a different answer than I would.)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 27, 2023 • 7:09:19pm

re: #68 EPR-radar

Conservatives want to suppress this photo because there’s a chance of it making a difference.

That person’s bio

Independent Voter, Conservative “Centrist” Leaning, Christian, Service-Connected Disabled Veteran of the U.S. Army, Widower & Openly Gay-Husband was Navy Vet.

There’s a lot of mix-up in that bio, aligning with the party which wants you erased, plus the usual “centrism=right wing”

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teleskiguy Mar 27, 2023 • 7:10:46pm

Fuck. Shit is about to get dark.

It’s going to be a very difficult week for my #autistic and #trans friends because of the sheer volume of ableist BS and lies that will be gushing out of the sewer mouths of the @GOP to let @NRA off the hook. Strength to you all. https://t.co/Nn9uJDBR1K pic.twitter.com/ba9lMlrDtC

— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) March 28, 2023

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EPR-radar Mar 27, 2023 • 7:11:40pm

re: #136 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

That person’s bio

Independent Voter, Conservative “Centrist” Leaning, Christian, Service-Connected Disabled Veteran of the U.S. Army, Widower & Openly Gay-Husband was Navy Vet.

There’s a lot of mix-up in that bio, aligning with the party which wants you erased, plus the usual “centrism=right wing”

It is intrinsically disordered for a gay person to be anything but staunchly anti-GOP these days.

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The Ghost of a Flea Mar 27, 2023 • 7:14:09pm

re: #135 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

They don’t care. They’re not saying this in good faith, they’re saying it for the same reason people say Jews run all the banks. For the same reasons that for years they got out ahead of shootings calling the killer a Muslim or “a registered Democrat.”

None of this is about describing what actually is, it’s about pouncing on a new pretext to do something cruel while pretending it’s justice.

They’re cowards and bullies and they’re suddenly frisky because they see a chance to still be bullies but play at being victimized.

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EPR-radar Mar 27, 2023 • 7:15:09pm

re: #139 The Ghost of a Flea

Yeah, I’m seeing some real wingnut filth online elsewhere.

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Teukka Mar 27, 2023 • 7:15:13pm

You can ban all the books you want, but you won’t prevent the terror this little girl experienced. Shame on them for not caring enough to change the laws and shame on the voters who keep electing making excuses or avoiding to address this mass shooting epidemic. pic.twitter.com/TUEYLDADlq

— Staff Sergeant Gonell, Aquilino (@SergeantAqGo) March 28, 2023

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Patricia Kayden Mar 27, 2023 • 7:15:29pm

Mastodon

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teleskiguy Mar 27, 2023 • 7:17:20pm

The Ghost of a Flea, you write so well. With purpose and gusto at times. I read it and am beginning to understand that you have an intimate knowledge of the pathology of abuse.

I just want to give you a hug.

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DodgerFan1988 Mar 27, 2023 • 7:17:55pm

After the Nashville shooting Elon Musk attacks trans people. @elonmusk, you are a horrible human being.#ElonTheTransphobe pic.twitter.com/xw7rTDdsP3

— standforbetter.org (@StandForBetter) March 28, 2023

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austin_blue Mar 27, 2023 • 7:18:41pm

re: #96 teleskiguy

OH FUCK!!!

Oh sweet baby jeebus save our candy asses!

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jaunte Mar 27, 2023 • 7:22:24pm

re: #137 teleskiguy

Fuck. Shit is about to get dark.

Ingraham: We also don’t know the extent to which drug therapy of any sort also might have come into play here pic.twitter.com/YP4owJDhNk

— Acyn (@Acyn) March 28, 2023

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Crush White Nationalism Mar 27, 2023 • 7:22:56pm

Swathes of Twitter’s source code leaked online months ago on GitHub, The New York Times reports, allowing practically anybody to get a detailed glimpse at the Elon Musk-owned company’s underlying code.
It’s still unclear how long the source code was available for download, but according to the NYT, GitHub took it down the day after Twitter sent out a copyright infringement notice.

The news has clearly ruffled some feathers at Twitter. According to a Friday court filing, the social media company is demanding that GitHub singles out the individual responsible for leaking the code.

But given the fact that Musk has repeatedly promised — and failed — to make Twitter “open source,” that rage seems puzzling. More than a month ago, for instance, Musk promised the algorithm would be “made open source next week,” though he never made good on that commitment. After his takeover late last year, Musk also fired the company’s entire team dedicated to making the company’s algorithms more transparent.

Elon Musk Bragged He Was Going to Open Source Twitter’s Code, Now Furious That Someone Leaked It Online (Futurism)

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Florida Panhandler Mar 27, 2023 • 7:23:23pm

The right wing is intent on eliminating gay people.

Full stop.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 27, 2023 • 7:24:29pm

re: #98 jaunte

Agreed. The entire Right has become Christi-fascist, and likes to project their authoritarian desires on everyone else.

Perhaps if the GOP wasn’t pushing so much discrimination, cruelty and ignorance, things could change.

Yet here they are, lying again.

— Trevor Goodrum (@TGoodrumVA) March 28, 2023

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Teukka Mar 27, 2023 • 7:24:50pm

re: #148 Florida Panhandler

The right wing is intent on eliminating gay people.

Full stop.

As were the guys back in 1933-1945.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 27, 2023 • 7:26:56pm

GOP Senator Tuberville is holding up 160 military promotions—because he can’t get his way on blocking women in the military from receiving health care.

I can’t think of a worse time for Republicans to pull a stunt like this as threats against our country continue to grow.

— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) March 27, 2023

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BigPapa Mar 27, 2023 • 7:29:54pm

#WagnerTonight #Maddow
Science break.
Canadian lynx.
This is Max a Canadian lynx. He is an ambassador for conservation and protection of species in Canada and America. He’s not domesticated but he’s only humanized and still has his wild traits. Listen to him purr, & those paws!! pic.twitter.com/NAqb1h7EeP

— Firecaptain and Jack (@Firecaptain16) March 24, 2023

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austin_blue Mar 27, 2023 • 7:31:36pm

re: #148 Florida Panhandler

The right wing is intent on eliminating gay people.

Full stop.

Which gay people?

globeflags.com

Go ahead, pick a color!

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jaunte Mar 27, 2023 • 7:31:45pm

re: #150 Teukka

As were the guys back in 1933-1945.

And they are busy taking over by legal means, as in 1933.

Republicans respond to the imminent threat of a lawless ex-president’s campaign for reelection by working to eliminate the rule of law. https://t.co/fjgO1oOBTv

— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) March 28, 2023

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The Pie Overlord! Mar 27, 2023 • 7:33:16pm

TRUMP: I would absolutely do those crimes!

HANNITY: shut up shut up shut up! https://t.co/FJplXrFSvc

— Evan Hurst (@EvanHurst) March 28, 2023

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Patricia Kayden Mar 27, 2023 • 7:33:18pm

re: #151 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Can the Senate change the rules to stop this foolishness? Democrats need to play rough with these trolls. Just like how McConnell stacked SCOTUS with hardcore rightwing Justices.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 27, 2023 • 7:33:54pm

Mike Cernovich busy lying.

Especially striking when you look at the population stats. No other group, per capita, is committing more terrorism than trans and non-binary. https://t.co/GmGTSwkoMY

— Cernovich (@Cernovich) March 27, 2023

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Joe Bacon Mar 27, 2023 • 7:35:31pm

re: #156 Patricia Kayden

Can the Senate change the rules to stop this foolishness? Democrats need to play rough with these trolls. Just like how McConnell stacked SCOTUS with hardcore rightwing Justices.

Sure they can…but Boris Manchin and Natasha Sinema stand in the way.

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austin_blue Mar 27, 2023 • 7:38:15pm

re: #158 Joe Bacon

Sure they can…but Boris Manchin and Natasha Sinema stand in the way.

No they don’t. If they both vote against a measure, it goes to Kamala to decide. That was the beauty of the last election. Two votes is Nirvana.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Mar 27, 2023 • 7:38:53pm

re: #151 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

“as threats against our country continue to grow.”

That’s acquiescing to the warmonger spirit.

It seems a large fraction of the Democratic Party has been pulled to the right due to the tsunami of right wing bullshit.

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austin_blue Mar 27, 2023 • 7:39:08pm

This Hokies vs. the Buckeyes game is a cracker.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 27, 2023 • 7:39:51pm

re: #156 Patricia Kayden

Can the Senate change the rules to stop this foolishness? Democrats need to play rough with these trolls. Just like how McConnell stacked SCOTUS with hardcore rightwing Justices.

re: #156 Patricia Kayden

Can the Senate change the rules to stop this foolishness? Democrats need to play rough with these trolls. Just like how McConnell stacked SCOTUS with hardcore rightwing Justices.

Actually they can, provided you can get Sinemanchin in on it.

In the United States Senate, the nuclear option is a parliamentary procedure that allows the Senate to override a standing rule by a simple majority, avoiding the two-thirds supermajority normally required to invoke cloture on a resolution to amend Senate rules.

The nuclear option can be invoked by a senator raising a point of order that contravenes a standing rule. The presiding officer would then overrule the point of order based on Senate rules and precedents; this ruling would then be appealed and overturned by a simple majority vote (or a tie vote), establishing a new precedent. The nuclear option is made possible by the principle in Senate procedure that appeals from rulings of the chair on points of order relating to nondebatable questions are themselves nondebatable. Since cloture is a nondebatable question, the appeal is decided without debate. This obviates the usual requirement for a two-thirds majority to invoke cloture on a resolution amending the standing rules

(more)

Nuclear Option (Wikipedia)

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Crush White Nationalism Mar 27, 2023 • 7:41:36pm

re: #157 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Fascists are enjoying this mass killing.

Of course, but you’re so screwed up that you think that people who believe in democracy and rule of law are a threat to America rather than fascists.

— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) March 28, 2023

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jaunte Mar 27, 2023 • 7:48:09pm

David Rothkopf

“…The misinterpretation of the 2d Amendment by the courts suggesting a non-existent inviolable right of all to own guns is one of the costliest most horrific crimes ever perpetrated on the American people.

No one who is not a member of a well regulated militia or who is not issued a weapon by the government has a right to own a gun. The government has an unlimited right to regulate access to guns.

Until we recognize these facts and the corruption that created a society poisoned by the mass possession of guns our streets will flow with the blood of our children…
…and we will continue to be one of the most barbaric societies known to modern history.”

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Crush White Nationalism Mar 27, 2023 • 7:49:59pm

Nvidia has both been the benefactor and victim of cryptocurrencies’ boom/bust cycle. When crypto was soaring in value, so was Nvidia’s share price. When crypto crashed, often Nvidia’s share price dropped with it. The company makes a product that was, for a long while, crucial to the operation of most of the world’s largest cryptocurrencies outside of bitcoin, and that’s been both a blessing and a curse.
Nvidia and crypto is a love/hate relationship. When the going was good, Nvidia would happily create entire product lines for the sole purpose of running algorithms to ‘mine’ cryptocurrency, known as CMP or Cryptocurrency Mining Processor(opens in new tab). However, when crypto crashed, which it has a tendency to do, Nvidia would often be lumped with excess inventory(opens in new tab) of graphics cards and finding new ways to sell them.

Clearly Nvidia is in the hate stage of its relationship right now, as per recent comments to The Guardian(opens in new tab) by Nvidia’s CTO on the value of cryptocurrency to society.

“All this crypto stuff, it needed parallel processing, and [Nvidia] is the best, so people just programmed it to use for this purpose. They bought a lot of stuff, and then eventually it collapsed, because it doesn’t bring anything useful for society. AI does,” Nvidia CTO Michael Kagan said.

It’s no surprise that Nvidia is keen to position itself as the pre-eminent AI company, but I hadn’t expected the company to outright slam cryptocurrency in the process. Kagan’s comments touch on a debate that’s been raging for a while, however, and that’s whether cryptocurrency is a worthy alternative to fiat money or moreso a tool for generating profit. So far, we’ve seen a lot of examples of the latter, and not so many proving the former.

Nvidia kicks crypto to the curb: ‘doesn’t bring anything useful for society. AI does’ (PC Gamer)

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austin_blue Mar 27, 2023 • 7:52:18pm

re: #160 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

That’s acquiescing to the warmonger spirit.

It seems a large fraction of the Democratic Party has been pulled to the right due to the tsunami of right wing bullshit.

I’ll disagree with a level of nuance.

Have the Dems been pulled into a much more anti-Russian stance than we would have preferred? Yes.

Was it their fault? No.

The alternative, if we and NATO had remained passive would have been that the Orcs would have taken Ukraine, Transnistria, and Moldova, and we would have seen direct threats to the Balkans.

The use of Ukraine as a proxy, I will agree, is as cynical as a policy can be. But we have very few other options. Russia, despite having a GDP the size of Texas, is the 2nd largest nuclear power on our planet.

Supporting Ukraine is, given the alternatives, an absolute bargain in containing Russian expansionism, and anyone who says otherwise is not an American Patriot. They are Putin Apologists.

Full. Damn. Stop.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Mar 27, 2023 • 8:02:15pm

re: #165 Crush White Nationalism

I saw that article posted in another forum and essentially made a similar comment to your that Nvidia certainly wasn’t saying much along those lines while they were selling all those cards to be used for crypto-mining.

And I know multiple people who put off purchasing new PCs as long as possible due to the GPU costs.

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Crush White Nationalism Mar 27, 2023 • 8:02:16pm

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Belafon Mar 27, 2023 • 8:04:23pm

re: #149 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Traditional values like caring for the poor, the sick, and children in the tradition of Jesus, or values like money, hate, and genocide?

— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) March 28, 2023

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austin_blue Mar 27, 2023 • 8:04:36pm

re: #168 Crush White Nationalism

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Actual Rocket Scientist enters the convo…

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Crush White Nationalism Mar 27, 2023 • 8:08:48pm

re: #167 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I saw that article posted in another forum and essentially made a similar comment to your that Nvidia certainly wasn’t saying much along those lines while they were selling all those cards to be used for crypto-mining.

And I know multiple people who put off purchasing new PCs as long as possible due to the GPU costs.

They loved the money, and it’s not their electricity that got wasted.

I didn’t get my 3080 ti until last November, more than a year after they were first released, because of the crypto-related shortages.

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William Lewis Mar 27, 2023 • 8:09:38pm

re: #167 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I saw that article posted in another forum and essentially made a similar comment to your that Nvidia certainly wasn’t saying much along those lines while they were selling all those cards to be used for crypto-mining.

And I know multiple people who put off purchasing new PCs as long as possible due to the GPU costs.

And why some of us stuck with AMD ;)

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Hecuba's daughter Mar 27, 2023 • 8:14:05pm

………

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BeenHereAwhile Mar 27, 2023 • 8:14:16pm

re: #166 austin_blue

I’ll disagree with a level of nuance.

Have the Dems been pulled into a much more anti-Russian stance than we would have preferred? Yes.

Was it their fault? No.

The alternative, if we and NATO had remained passive would have been that the Orcs would have taken Ukraine, Transnistria, and Moldova, and we would have seen direct threats to the Balkans.

The use of Ukraine as a proxy, I will agree, is as cynical as a policy can be. But we have very few other options. Russia, despite having a GDP the size of Texas, is the 2nd largest nuclear power on our planet.

Supporting Ukraine is, given the alternatives, an absolute bargain in containing Russian expansionism, and anyone who says otherwise is not an American Patriot. They are Putin Apologists.

Full. Damn. Stop.

As a neutral nation with a developed middle class - if you’re gonna have a proxy war with Russia - Ukraine is the perfect proxy war.

Russia plus a Russian Ukraine is 30%.of the world’s grain production.

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Hecuba's daughter Mar 27, 2023 • 8:14:38pm

……

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The Pie Overlord! Mar 27, 2023 • 8:15:24pm

The January 6th Prisoners Choir Had It Comin’

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teleskiguy Mar 27, 2023 • 8:15:40pm

Anyone who thinks Michaelangelo’s David is porn needs to watch more porn.

— Paul Provenza (@PaulProvenza) March 28, 2023

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Belafon Mar 27, 2023 • 8:16:18pm

re: #157 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The Las Vegas shooter had easy access to guns.

As did the Parkland shooter.

As did the Highland Park shooter.

As did the Denver shooter

As did the Charleston shooter.

As did the Columbine shooter.

As did the Spring church shooter.

— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) March 28, 2023

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Belafon Mar 27, 2023 • 8:17:33pm

re: #157 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I know we don’t want to play their game, but I know at least a couple of those listed didn’t identify as trans, the Right has latched onto a rumor and won’t let go.

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teleskiguy Mar 27, 2023 • 8:17:54pm

re: #176 The Pie Overlord!

What is this?! You can’t make me watch it!!

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Teukka Mar 27, 2023 • 8:18:24pm

The TikTok Congressional Hearing And The Proposed Ban

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Belafon Mar 27, 2023 • 8:18:27pm

re: #159 austin_blue

No they don’t. If they both vote against a measure, it goes to Kamala to decide. That was the beauty of the last election. Two votes is Nirvana.

If they both vote against it, there are only 49 Democrats.

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The Pie Overlord! Mar 27, 2023 • 8:19:43pm

re: #180 teleskiguy

What is this?! You can’t make me watch it!!

It’s from the Colbert show.

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Belafon Mar 27, 2023 • 8:21:31pm

re: #165 Crush White Nationalism

I hadn’t even heard of a CMP until you posted this and I pay attention to Nvidia’s GPU news.

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Captain Ron Mar 27, 2023 • 8:22:57pm

The amateur prospector made the discovery in regional Victoria’s ‘Golden Triangle’ while armed with just his rookie metal detector.

https://t.co/Q7MQsvXsW0

— news.com.au (@newscomauHQ) March 27, 2023

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Belafon Mar 27, 2023 • 8:24:51pm

re: #172 William Lewis

And why some of us stuck with AMD ;)

Which has beena seriously lagging player in the AI world.

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Sherlock Hound Mar 27, 2023 • 8:26:56pm

re: #138 EPR-radar

It is intrinsically disordered for a gay person to be anything but staunchly anti-GOP these days.

(cough) Andrew Sullivan.
(cough) Glenn Greenwald

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Belafon Mar 27, 2023 • 8:27:19pm

The Wolverine was on, which is one of my favorite X-Men universe movies. Now that Disney owns them, I wish they would do something else with Rila Fukushima and her character.

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jaunte Mar 27, 2023 • 8:31:42pm

re: #177 teleskiguy

Conservatives worry that the David might give their girlfriends an unrealistic size expectation.

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ckkatz Mar 27, 2023 • 8:32:45pm

The Wordle today is batshit.

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) March 27, 2023

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retired cynic Mar 27, 2023 • 8:33:16pm

re: #182 Belafon

If they both vote against it, there are only 49 Democrats.

Sen Fetterman is still out, and I think Sen Feinstein is, too. McConnell is out. So, I think we are tied, if Sinema and Manchin vote yes.

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ckkatz Mar 27, 2023 • 8:35:08pm

SCOOP: I spoke to the guy behind Balenciaga Pope for @BuzzFeedNews, who was (a) tripping on shrooms when he made the image and (b) thinks it means we should regulate AI https://t.co/mnK3gm17iW

— Chris Stokel-Walker ~ @stokel@infosec.exchange (@stokel) March 27, 2023

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Hecuba's daughter Mar 27, 2023 • 8:36:15pm

re: #138 EPR-radar

It is intrinsically disordered for a gay person to be anything but staunchly anti-GOP these days.

Not necessarily, Peter Thiel being a prime example. The GOP racism and anti-democratic outlook and oligarchic support are much more important to him.

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austin_blue Mar 27, 2023 • 8:37:42pm

Oops, shooter in Nashville was a former student.

Shawn Colvin - Sunny Came Home

Not exactly appropriate, but Sonny came home with a vengeance.

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ckkatz Mar 27, 2023 • 8:38:45pm

Do not mess with walleye fisherman-

Two fishermen put weights and flesh of other fish in their fish to cheat a win in the Lake Erie Walleye Trail fishing tournament last fall. They were caught—and chased by others. Today they pleaded guilty in court minutes before their trial was to begin: https://t.co/8ihCarD2CB

— Michael McCann (@McCannSportsLaw) March 27, 2023

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teleskiguy Mar 27, 2023 • 8:41:28pm

re: #189 jaunte

The dick size thing has always made me laugh. It’a been a reliable marker of character for me. This certain dude is obsessed with the size of his wang? I got judgments on character.

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ckkatz Mar 27, 2023 • 8:43:11pm

re: #193 Hecuba’s daughter

Not necessarily, Peter Thiel being a prime example. The GOP racism and anti-democratic outlook and oligarchic support are much more important to him.

I agree with you. I tend to look at someone’s relevant behavior.

People are complicated. And there are other defining factors beyond sexuality.

In fact, isn’t one of the goals to allow people to be defined beyond their sexuality? Or their gender? Or their race? Or the National Origin? Or their creed?

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jaunte Mar 27, 2023 • 8:45:23pm

re: #196 teleskiguy

Recalling Trump’s 30-second attorney general Matthew Whittaker.

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teleskiguy Mar 27, 2023 • 8:47:03pm

Conservative men are so obsessed with the length and girth of their penis. I laugh.

More than a few times in my life women have told me how big my balls are.

I am so sorry for this Internet TMI episode.

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wrenchwench Mar 27, 2023 • 8:47:43pm

re: #190 ckkatz

[The Wordle today is batshit.]

Also, the poop of the birbie, which I didn’t get.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 646 4/6*

⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛🟩⬛🟨
⬛⬛🟩🟩🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 27, 2023 • 8:48:18pm

re: #118 BigPapa

What ‘soul searching’ would ‘the left’ have to do if the shooter is trans? Dude needs to explain that. If he can.

All he needs to do is lie. He isn’t saying that for us.

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TedStriker Mar 27, 2023 • 8:48:19pm

re: #195 ckkatz

Do not mess with walleye fisherman-

From the sounds of the video clip in the story, they were about to get their asses beat when they got found out.

For trying to scam a $28,000 prize, they’ve lost several times that in having their $100,000(!) boat seized (which will no doubt be put up for auction by the state to defray prosecution costs), in addition to their own legal and court costs, to stay out of prison.

Criming while stupid wins stupid prizes.

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austin_blue Mar 27, 2023 • 8:48:48pm

re: #196 teleskiguy

The dick size thing has always made me laugh. It’a been a reliable marker of character for me. This certain dude is obsessed with the size of his wang? I got judgments on character.

Yeah, bit that’s only because you’ve got a tiny dick!

If you had a Roman Pillar of Manhood like my 12” lady pleaser you would understand why I’m a so much a Better Man Than You Are™. I am very popular on the Interwebs so I know this is true.

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TedStriker Mar 27, 2023 • 8:49:22pm

re: #199 teleskiguy

Conservative men are so obsessed with the length and girth of their penis. I laugh.

More than a few times in my life women have told me how big my balls are.

I am so sorry for this Internet TMI episode.

In your honor:

AC/DC - Big Balls (Official Audio)

;-P

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teleskiguy Mar 27, 2023 • 8:49:31pm

re: #198 jaunte

Designer of a toilet for big-dicked fellows who didn’t want their huge schlongs gettiing wet while taking a shit. No. I don’t remember him at all.

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teleskiguy Mar 27, 2023 • 8:52:30pm

re: #204 TedStriker

In your “honor”:

;-P

I have played this song at many a open mic stage!

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ckkatz Mar 27, 2023 • 8:53:24pm

Referring to Musk’s pre-twitter purchase bravado in promising to clear up twitter bots when he took it over.

gotta admit going from “super easy to solve bot problems because I am very smart” to “please give me your credit card number, that’s the only way I can tell who’s real” took less time than expected

— shauna (@goldengateblond) March 28, 2023

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Mar 27, 2023 • 8:53:54pm

re: #185 Captain Ron

Much bigger nuggets have been found! :

Looney Tunes - Gold In Dem Thar Hills

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wrenchwench Mar 27, 2023 • 8:55:01pm

re: #204 TedStriker

In your “honor”:

[Embedded content]

;-P

Big Ball’s In Cowtown

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TedStriker Mar 27, 2023 • 8:56:35pm

re: #209 wrenchwench

[Embedded content]

Video

Can’t go wrong with Bob Wills.

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jaunte Mar 27, 2023 • 8:56:40pm

Some big energy has been unleashed.

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ckkatz Mar 27, 2023 • 8:58:31pm

Newest entry in “AI Category”

AI by the owner of 8chan. https://t.co/ksfswm4M7C

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) March 28, 2023

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Captain Ron Mar 27, 2023 • 8:59:56pm

Eighteen German Leopard 2 tanks, along with two armoured recovery vehicles, ammunition and spare parts, have reached Ukraine https://t.co/fAmxzjZT6Y

— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) March 28, 2023

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Belafon Mar 27, 2023 • 9:01:11pm

re: #212 ckkatz

“Hey, Proto, make me some plans for killing Ron Watkins.”

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ckkatz Mar 27, 2023 • 9:01:22pm

Who?

The country has been rendered paralyzed by Burgumania. https://t.co/FQxy1QSeb4

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) March 27, 2023

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 27, 2023 • 9:03:07pm

re: #137 teleskiguy

Fuck. Shit is about to get dark.

And that’s why Christianity doesn’t get a pass.

Christians will forgive this hate-fueled massacre of innocent children, Steve.

We will forgive the deranged person that did it.

Perhaps you could endeavor to forgive others as well.

— Stumbling to Nineveh (@JerichoFell) March 28, 2023

I’m sure dead children and adults don’t give a flip about your forgiveness. You guys forgave Jeffery Dalhmer too

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Captain Ron Mar 27, 2023 • 9:03:09pm

At least 10 people have been taken to hospital after a house exploded in northeast Calgary, destroying one home and damaging others nearby. https://t.co/bpaoqDsqBe

— CBC News Alerts (@CBCAlerts) March 27, 2023

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ckkatz Mar 27, 2023 • 9:03:18pm

For some reason the phrase “Prairie Oyster” came to mind. Strange.

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jaunte Mar 27, 2023 • 9:04:20pm

re: #212 ckkatz

AIProto will eliminate the need for the original perpetrators of Mcnaughton paintings and Garrison cartoons, and reproduce multiple variants of the single Babylon Bee joke.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 27, 2023 • 9:06:35pm

re: #146 jaunte

Follow me for more pharmaceutical homicides

— Lee Aronsohn (@BennyAce) March 28, 2023

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ckkatz Mar 27, 2023 • 9:08:34pm

re: #219 jaunte

I read your comment above on Trump porn deepfakes and then just saw this tweet. Hmmm…

Here’s my story about how creators like this man are ranked first in Google search results for “deepfake porn,” and are able to profit from websites accepting Visa and Mastercard. https://t.co/Vct5kKbT0B

— Kat Tenbarge (@kattenbarge) March 27, 2023

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jaunte Mar 27, 2023 • 9:09:03pm

re: #220 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Ingraham manages to smear any therapy her deluded audience might find suspect, from vaccines to hormone blockers.

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jaunte Mar 27, 2023 • 9:10:11pm

Fractally stochastic agitation.

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ckkatz Mar 27, 2023 • 9:10:45pm

Trying to remember if this was mentioned upstream -

Never played an encore in drag before but we did just that in Ponte Vedra FL tonight.

Wouldn’t have thought to do it but all the attention from Florida politicians convinced us to try.

Kinda liked it.

Thanks for the idea Ron DeSantis! pic.twitter.com/37Uca4ALhy

— Brian Rosenworcel (@Bowl_of_Worcel) March 27, 2023

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austin_blue Mar 27, 2023 • 9:11:59pm

Three friends of ours, all on the right side, that’s the band, all local Austin musicians:

HOT CLUB OF COWTOWN gets ready to dance ‘cause BIG BALL’S IN COWTOWN!

They are kind of a combination of Bob Wills and Django Reinhardt.

Just Killer Bee.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 27, 2023 • 9:15:00pm

27/550PM: Snow showers ending across SE WY and NE Panhandle this evening with decreasing clouds. Turning mostly cloudy Tuesday. Dry, breezy and warmer. #wywx #newx #wyoroad pic.twitter.com/d2gAJeIZ8c

— NWS Cheyenne (@NWSCheyenne) March 28, 2023

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Teukka Mar 27, 2023 • 9:18:32pm

re: #137 teleskiguy

Fuck. Shit is about to get dark.

Yep. Really dark.

Dear Christians, arm yourselves

— E (@ElijahSchaffer) March 28, 2023

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ckkatz Mar 27, 2023 • 9:20:44pm

re: #213 Captain Ron

Yup, there have been a number of reports of various new armored vehicles appearing in Ukraine recently. There is some question what part is psyops and what part is accurate. And if the vehicles and units receiving them are ready yet.

Btw, just saw this repost -
(Theiner detests German Prime Minister Scholz)

Slowly the armored vehicles Germany’s defense industry has in stock (partially operational, partially as basis for upgraded versions) are finding their way to Ukraine.

Insiders knew this last year, but Scholz lied and lied until the international pressure became to strong. https://t.co/RkLml3zeHu

— Thomas C. Theiner (@noclador) March 27, 2023

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austin_blue Mar 27, 2023 • 9:21:12pm

And I’m out. We are blessed with so many gifted local musicians we can see live.

Austin is a nice town.

Sleep easy, and be sweet to each other.

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Joe Bacon Mar 27, 2023 • 9:21:45pm

re: #159 austin_blue

No they don’t. If they both vote against a measure, it goes to Kamala to decide. That was the beauty of the last election. Two votes is Nirvana.

If they both vote no the Democrats only have 49 in the Senate. Not enough when Boris and Natasha join with the 49 Republicans. That’s why I gave as much as I did to Tim Ryan hoping he would be #52 to defang Boris & Natasha.

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Joe Bacon Mar 27, 2023 • 9:24:13pm

re: #227 Teukka

Yep. Really dark.

[Embedded content]

The Religious Right has been whipping up their marks for years to make their move to force their shit on the rest of us.

And they are coming very dangerously close to getting their way.

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ckkatz Mar 27, 2023 • 9:24:56pm

re: #213 Captain Ron

Also just saw this -

British Challenger II tanks are now in Ukraine, along with German Marder IFVs and American Stryker APCs… pic.twitter.com/kYwc1GxeYB

— Jimmy Rushton (@JimmySecUK) March 27, 2023

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Targetpractice Mar 27, 2023 • 9:27:06pm

re: #228 ckkatz

Yup, there have been a number of reports of various new armored vehicles appearing in Ukraine recently. There is some question what part is psyops and what part is accurate. And if the vehicles and units receiving them are ready yet.

Btw, just saw this repost -
(Theiner detests German Prime Minister Scholz)

[Embedded content]

But hey, I heard that Russia just got some brand new tanks as well:

Russians are Sending T-54 tanks to Ukraine!? Are they out of tanks?

/////////

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Teukka Mar 27, 2023 • 9:28:01pm

re: #231 Joe Bacon

The Religious Right has been whipping up their marks for years to make their move to force their shit on the rest of us.

And they are coming very dangerously close to getting their way.

mastodon.social

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ckkatz Mar 27, 2023 • 9:31:02pm

Looks like the Beaver War in Ukraine is ongoing -

Ukrainian military trying to repel a beaver attack on their positions. 🦫 pic.twitter.com/EcnjAIbz9L

— Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) March 27, 2023

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Teukka Mar 27, 2023 • 9:33:11pm

re: #234 Teukka

mastodon.social

Text: “When they came for the trans people, I stood in support of the trans people even though I’m not trans, because I read the goddamn poem by Martin Neimoller.”

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Belafon Mar 27, 2023 • 9:40:47pm

The most ludicrous, over the top Adam McKay satire would have gone this far. https://t.co/X6rrrMbiTt

— Schooley (@Rschooley) March 28, 2023

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Captain Ron Mar 27, 2023 • 9:41:51pm

The latest ping from Breton’s tracker over the weekend indicated he was just off the eastern coast of North Carolina’s Avon Island. https://t.co/964RYHO3o6

— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) March 28, 2023

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Belafon Mar 27, 2023 • 9:42:04pm

Mastodon

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Belafon Mar 27, 2023 • 9:42:58pm

Mastodon

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The Ghost of a Flea Mar 27, 2023 • 9:44:03pm

Officers in ‘Cop City’ raid shot pepperball gun into activist’s tent first

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Captain Ron Mar 27, 2023 • 9:47:05pm

I didn’t know there was boneless and “bone-in” ground beef. Lol
Ewwww ….

— Amy Cummins (@TakeMe2Scotland) March 28, 2023

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ckkatz Mar 27, 2023 • 9:47:41pm

re: #233 Targetpractice

My only experience with T-54/55’s was in training at Ft. Bragg. We were supposed to get used to the idea that an enemy tank could close assault and overrun our position. So we were told to get into a foxhole and a T-54/55 drove over the foxhole.

What I remember was how small the tank was. How much diesel smoke it put out. And how much it vibrated, rattled, and generally looked utterly decrepit.

As for the exercise, the foxholes were pre-dug and lined with concrete pipe. And the tank path was paved. Further, the treads stayed on the pavement outside the foxholes.

As the foxholes had obviously been used multiple times, I was not worried about being squished. Many armies require their trainees to dig their own foxholes within a certain time limit before the tanks run over them.

As for the deployment of the T-54/55s some analysts think that the Russians are running out of artillery and artillery ammunition and are hoping to use them as a stopgap for artillery replacement. Certainly, in Iraq 30 years ago, T-54/55’s did not last very long or achieve much in combat against the Coalition forces.

If I find some of the analyst comments, I will post the later.

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BeenHereAwhile Mar 27, 2023 • 9:47:58pm

she-checked-her-instagram-she-didnt-expect-a-message-from-the-covenant-school-shooter

newschannel5.com

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Targetpractice Mar 27, 2023 • 9:52:13pm

re: #243 ckkatz

My only experience with T-54/55’s was in training at Ft. Bragg. We were supposed to get used to the idea that an enemy tank could close assault and overrun our position. So we were told to get into a foxhole and a T-54/55 drove over the foxhole.

What I remember was how small the tank was. How much diesel smoke it put out. And how much it vibrated, rattled, and generally looked utterly decrepit.

As for the exercise, the foxholes were pre-dug and lined with concrete pipe. And the tank path was paved. Further, the treads stayed on the pavement outside the foxholes.

As the foxholes had obviously been used multiple times, I was not worried about being squished. Many armies require their trainees to dig their own foxholes within a certain time limit before the tanks run over them.

As for the deployment of the T-54/55s some analysts think that the Russians are running out of artillery and artillery ammunition and are hoping to use them as a stopgap for artillery replacement. Certainly, in Iraq 30 years ago, T-54/55’s did not last very long or achieve much in combat against the Coalition forces.

If I find some of the analyst comments, I will post the later.

Yeah, that’s the general consensus I’ve seen as well, though there’s also been suggestions that the Russians may be so desperate that they might be resorting to just bum-rushing AFU infantry operating in absence of armoured support with dozens of otherwise obsolete tanks in the belief that the tanks being immune to small arms fire will allow them to act as mobile bunkers. That even if the main guns are useless due to an absence of sufficient 100mm shells in supply, there should be plentiful ammo for the coax guns to mow down or at least suppress opposing infantry long enough for their own to close the distance and turn it into a close quarters skirmish.

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Belafon Mar 27, 2023 • 9:52:35pm

re: #244 BeenHereAwhile

she-checked-her-instagram-she-didnt-expect-a-message-from-the-covenant-school-shooter

newschannel5.com

In other words, this might have been prevented had the police taken her seriously.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 27, 2023 • 9:54:03pm

re: #221 ckkatz

I read your comment above on Trump porn deepfakes and then just saw this tweet. Hmmm…

From the NBC News article

Discord’s community guidelines prohibit “the coordination, participation, or encouragement of sexual harassment,” including “unwanted sexualization.” NBC News has reviewed other Discord communities devoted to creating sexually explicit deepfake images through an AI development method known as Stable Diffusion, one of which featured nonconsensual imagery of celebrities and was shut down after NBC News asked for comment.

In a statement, Discord said it expressly prohibits “the promotion or sharing of non-consensual deepfakes.”

“Our Safety Team takes action when we become aware of this content, including removing content, banning users, and shutting down servers,” the statement said.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 27, 2023 • 9:59:12pm

Not forgiven, because trans people (along with the rest of the LGBQIA community) are evil, terrible sinners who need to experience the fulness of God’s wrath, and people who think like this guy are just happy to help.

— デーナ *I am completely DONE* ホームズ🐀🇺🇦 (@mmmirele) March 28, 2023

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 27, 2023 • 10:03:31pm

re: #153 austin_blue

Which gay people?

globeflags.com

Go ahead, pick a color!

Better description from Volvo:

LGBTQ+ Pride Flags and What They Stand For (December 12, 2022)

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Targetpractice Mar 27, 2023 • 10:04:32pm

re: #248 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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“God” loves you, but he wants you to suffer if you don’t hate like he hates.

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ckkatz Mar 27, 2023 • 10:07:11pm

re: #247 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Yet another dimension of deepfakes being released to embarrass people and affect processes like elections. Or maybe to provide a sliver of plausible deniability. And maybe to encourage more narcissists and sociopaths like Trump to participate in processes critical to the functioning and survival of our society.

And I have no idea how carriers and places like news organizations, and the courts, are going to dependably handle it. Remember Rather and shrub the lesser.

This is going to be a mess.

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BeenHereAwhile Mar 27, 2023 • 10:12:05pm

re: #246 Belafon

In other words, this might have been prevented had the police taken her seriously.

Dunno.

Don’t know the time line well enough. In a real world sense, I think the MNPD contained the incident better than most public safety agencies have in the past.

Just think there is some deep shit involving the school that happened to the shooter some years ago.

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Targetpractice Mar 27, 2023 • 10:13:15pm

Well, this sucks. Most every other games company would allow you to play their game at 12:01am on the day it’s slated for release, but the game I’ve been waiting for weeks to play won’t be available until noon instead.

Terra Nil - Official Trailer

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ckkatz Mar 27, 2023 • 10:13:40pm

On Trump and his mooks encouraging of violence. Rachel Maddow had Ruth BenGhiat on for one of the show’s segments Monday night. The discussion was about how authoritarians encourage, normalize, desensitize, and sanitize their use of political violence.

Yes and @ruthbenghiat explained it many months ago -https://t.co/lIHtmFPnyk

— roo (@Rooroxx) May 27, 2022

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Joe Bacon Mar 27, 2023 • 10:15:33pm

I’m old enough to remember when I was a kid that all but one church in my home town would say “Jesus Loves You” in public.

There was the Birch Church that did the Jesus Only Loves Us shit and it was isolated.

Sadly the Religious Right infected all the churches and “Jesus Loves You” became at first “Jesus Hates Gays” and then “Jesus Hates Liberals, Colored folks, The Poor, Jews, Muslims and LGBTQs” along with everyone else who wasn’t a Republican. I saw how some churches began to support George Wallace in 1968 and they just accelerated with the hate after that.

Now megachurches reciting Republican propaganda are everywhere.

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Belafon Mar 27, 2023 • 10:15:33pm

re: #252 BeenHereAwhile

Dunno.

Don’t know the time line well enough. In a real world sense, I think the MNPD contained the incident better than most public safety agencies have in the past.

Just think there is some deep shit involving the school that happened to the shooter some years ago.

I blame the shooter first for the shooting, and access to guns as the thing we need to fix. As for the police possible stopping it, it’s more of a “maybe if they had acted on information faster, and hopefully they can fix that” thing. But yeah, at least the cops didn’t stand at the doors. The call stuff seems a failure that needs to be addressed.

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ckkatz Mar 27, 2023 • 10:29:29pm

One important difference from Trump’s authoritarian appeal of 2016 to 2020-2024 is the shift from the “enemy is outside” (and we must protect our borders/need strong leaders/purge the invasion) to the “enemy is within” (they’re just a bus or plane ride away). He’s doing both here

— Jennifer Mercieca (@jenmercieca) March 26, 2023

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teleskiguy Mar 27, 2023 • 10:30:25pm

re: #229 austin_blue

Austin is a nice town.

And this summer will be the venue of the most lurid murder trial since OJ…

Colin Strickland, murderer? | Cycling in the South Bay

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ckkatz Mar 27, 2023 • 10:30:57pm

Trump’s violent rhetoric, combined with his consistent narrative of victimhood, is right out of the authoritarian playbook. His supporters “feel protected by him, but they feel protective OF him,” says @ruthbenghiat, “And that duality has been present since Mussolini.” #velshi pic.twitter.com/QHIL74QLNH

— Velshi on MSNBC (@VelshiMSNBC) March 26, 2023

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ckkatz Mar 27, 2023 • 10:41:22pm

looks like Netanyahu unleashed his right wing gangs to attack the pro-Democracy demonstrators.

(English translation of Hebrew tweet below)

The right-wing protesters attacked two protesters who were standing near Azrieli and the police went in to separate them. The right-wing demonstrators roamed the streets of the area for a long time, chanting traitorous leftists and looking for left-wing demonstrators. The police were unable to control them

מפגיני הימין תקפו שתי מפגינות שעמדו בסמוך לעזריאלי והמשטרה נכנסה להפריד. מפגיני הימין הסתובבו זמן רב ברחובות באזור עם קריאות שמאלנים בוגדים וחיפשו מפגיני שמאל. המשטרה לא הצליחה להשתלט עליהם pic.twitter.com/FIwZAW7pcu

— Bar Peleg (@bar_peleg) March 27, 2023

Background -

“Assad or we burn the country” was the response from pro-regime militia groups to the pro-democracy protests that began the Syrian revolution in 2011. https://t.co/YDbDrPN0o7

— Jimmy Rushton (@JimmySecUK) March 27, 2023

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teleskiguy Mar 27, 2023 • 10:44:19pm

Shit is ugly. But I’m still hopeful.

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ckkatz Mar 27, 2023 • 10:49:38pm

re: #260 ckkatz

Btw, this is a standard authoritarian play. And is one of things that Trump is trying to incite here, if he is able to pull it off.

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ckkatz Mar 27, 2023 • 10:53:17pm

Anyway, off to bed. And to try and revive my desktop computer. (The main harddrive, with the OS on it died. It is at times like this that I truly hate MSWin and it’s frickin registry.)

Dad joke for the night -

Finally my winter fat has gone…
Now, I have spring rolls.

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Captain Ron Mar 27, 2023 • 11:03:00pm

pic.twitter.com/RiXF4NIaRd

— Jane Bucci (@jane_bucci) March 28, 2023

pic.twitter.com/7l22TcCtqS

— Jane Bucci (@jane_bucci) March 28, 2023

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sagehen Mar 27, 2023 • 11:10:13pm

The Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain prize this year went to Adam Sandler. It wasn’t on PBS, it’s not on the Kennedy Center’s website. It aired once on CNN, but it’s also not on their website or on-demand through my cable company.

I’m quite irritated about this. Doesn’t the Kennedy Center get a significant amount of public funding? Isn’t their entire mission statement about making the arts available to the general public? It’s not right. YouTube has some excerpts, but not the entire ceremony and all the speeches.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 27, 2023 • 11:39:45pm

re: #265 sagehen

The Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain prize this year went to Adam Sandler. It wasn’t on PBS, it’s not on the Kennedy Center’s website. It aired once on CNN, but it’s also not on their website or on-demand through my cable company.

I’m quite irritated about this. Doesn’t the Kennedy Center get a significant amount of public funding? Isn’t their entire mission statement about making the arts available to the general public? It’s not right. YouTube has some excerpts, but not the entire ceremony and all the speeches.

It aired in its entirety on CNN with Sling TV, DirectTV Stream, Hulu Live TV, and YouTube TV (all pay services).

usaspending.gov

For FY 2023, the Kennedy Center was budgeted $65.09 MM, and is planning to spend $7.68 MM.

In 2020, Reuters declared as false a Republican claim that $5 MM was given by the Kennedy Center to the Democratic Party then fired employees.

reuters.com

The GOP has always been opposed to the Kennedy Center’s existence (it supports the arts).

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The GOP is a Terrorist Organization Mar 27, 2023 • 11:41:42pm

re: #80 Charles Johnson

The secret list of Twitter VIPs getting boosted over everyone else

Elmu’s attraction to catturd2 has been very obvious.

I block every right wing nutcase that Elon sends along in my “for you” feed.

But they keep coming…and coming…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 27, 2023 • 11:48:04pm

re: #266 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The reason given on the Kennedy Center’s Website for the difference in income versus expenditures is, as a 501(c)3 charity, they are obligated to preserve their resources for their mission. Due to the Coronavirus pandemic which shut down the Center, they were forced to furlough hundreds of people. Nonetheless, they continued to pay all those people and provide for their healthcare insurance.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 27, 2023 • 11:51:15pm

From the Philly residents whinging about I-80 being closed and forcing them off the road in Ogallala yesterday, this is what I-80 looked like here yesterday.

Anybody know where spring went?

This is I-80 just west of Sidney right now, with more snow expected in southwest Nebraska today.

Stay safe if you’re traveling today and drive according to the conditions. pic.twitter.com/66sGm72jR4

— Nebraska State Patrol (@NEStatePatrol) March 27, 2023

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 27, 2023 • 11:52:59pm

The most expensive cosplay ever https://t.co/Z83yzeIebG

— Senator Megan Hunt (@NebraskaMegan) March 28, 2023

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 27, 2023 • 11:58:08pm

@DollyParton has visited the Dingle Gaeltacht and made a bilingual Irish/English recording with @CarraigFinn. She has even has exhibited Irish words surviving in her own native Tennessee English dialect!https://t.co/o4VD15U2fn pic.twitter.com/1NyhuJZ20y

— Cumann Uí Chléirigh (@BrooklynGaelic) March 27, 2023

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 28, 2023 • 12:02:21am

FFRF is dismayed that Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has signed into law, House Bill 547, which will prohibit school districts from punishing employees for pushing personal religious views on children and co-workers. https://t.co/Q5YjPzLCHB (Reddit, r/atheism) #atheism #ateísmo

— Automatismo ateo (@AutomatismoAteo) March 28, 2023

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 28, 2023 • 12:09:51am

Rolling Stone, March 27, 2023

She Escaped Scientology in the Trunk of a Car. Her Nightmare Is Far From Over

Valerie Haney opens up about her years-long battle with the Church of Scientology, and how the court is forcing her into “religious arbitration”

(Welcome to Florida, where courts can rule you are possessed by demons)

“I’m literally shaking right now as I’m talking to you,” Valerie Haney says, speaking by phone from Florida.

Her 22 years in Scientology’s hardcore elite unit, the Sea Organization, has left her with what her therapist has diagnosed as PTSD, she explains. And a court ruling on March 15 had left her trembling as those years of trauma were stirred up again.

“I was like, am I on another planet? Is this really correct? The court is OK with me having to go back to the place where I literally had to escape in the trunk of a car to get out?”

In November 2016, Haney, who worked casting Scientology’s internal films, crawled into the trunk of an actor’s car during a film shoot in order to get away from Scientology’s secretive international management compound “Gold Base” near Hemet, California. Her unusual escape became the subject of the premiere episode of Leah Remini’s third season of Scientology and the Aftermath, which aired on A&E in 2018.

(more)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 28, 2023 • 12:27:10am

re: #273 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I stand corrected. While the victim of Scientology is in Florida, the judge forcing her into arbitration using Scientology’s rules is a Los Angeles judge.

That judge says “a contract’s a contract” (how very libertarian of her), and a literal billion-year contract with an enforced arbitration clause is just too bad for her.

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JC1 Mar 28, 2023 • 12:43:48am

re: #182 Belafon

If they both vote against it, there are only 49 Democrats.

Bit there are a few senators out due to illness. Not sure how many votes make a majority now.

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JC1 Mar 28, 2023 • 12:52:33am

re: #267 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization

I block every right wing nutcase that Elon sends along in my “for you” feed.

But they keep coming…and coming…

I don’t bother with the ‘for you ’ feed, just the tab with the people I follow. But I find myself using the app less and less.

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Barefoot Grin Mar 28, 2023 • 1:16:18am

For some reason the dog just came upstairs to jump on the bed and sit on me. Usually, if it’s this early it means urgent need to go outside, but she just jumped back down and went back to her own bed. Now I’m awake. Out of habit I check FB. “Hmmm, we’re having trouble finding this site. Server not found.”

eta: nevermind, back up now 15 minutes later.

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Teukka Mar 28, 2023 • 1:22:55am

There were 647 mass shootings in 2022 and 690 in 2021. You found 4 NB/Trans mass shooters out of 1337.

For those bad at math 1333 CIS mass shooters is greater than 4 NB/Trans mass shooters.

So let’s go ahead and put a stop to this false narrative the right is trying to push. https://t.co/97LdcMYHif

— Big Red Celt (@BigRedCeltTT) March 28, 2023

That particular tweet notably got amplified by Mike Cer****ch and Emperor Sleazy E himself.
Also, side note, SSRI’s and SNRI’s are blamed as per established GQP deflection protocol, but this time, they’re blaming HRT (SIC(!)) as well.

The stupidity is strong in these ones. pic.twitter.com/RC4qSIHgcG

— Teo 😷🧼↔️🌡🤬💉 (@Teukka1972) March 28, 2023

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Barefoot Grin Mar 28, 2023 • 1:33:34am

Isn’t Darth usually back by now?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 28, 2023 • 2:12:52am

re: #279 Barefoot Grin

Isn’t Darth usually back by now?

darth™
@darth
not the darth you are looking for
@darth@mastodon.xyz
sleepin
Joined March 2007
4,176 Following
225.5K Followers

Mastadon.xyz doesn’t appear to exist.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 28, 2023 • 2:14:59am

Libertarians be lyin’ again.

Canadian politicians tout their healthcare system as morally superior to private medicine. There is nothing moral about relegating thousands of people to death each year for lack of medical care. | Lee Friday https://t.co/4ERfDRupGr

— Mises Institute (@mises) March 27, 2023

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 28, 2023 • 2:20:56am

Republicans who like to smoke weed.

Our thoughts and prayers are with those affected by today’s murder spree in Nashville.

Politicians always exploit tragedies like this one to push for more gun control, but gun control is what enables murderers to commit atrocities like this one.

— Libertarian Party (@LPNational) March 27, 2023

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TarHellion Mar 28, 2023 • 2:23:31am

In the face of a fierce headwind and an annoyingly misty rain, par is more than acceptable. Likely to see scores all over the place.

Took MrsTarH’s vehicle for routine service at a car care center and discovered an issue with the auxiliary battery/alarm system. Upon further deep dive, this seems like a problem with 2010-2018 Volvos. If I lock the doors, the flashing lights come on after about 10 minutes. Thankfully, the alarm itself does not go off. Have an appointment with the local Volvo dealer but not until Wednesday next week. Bleh.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 28, 2023 • 2:33:30am

I’ve seen this lie pop up from both Republicans and Libertarians.

FAKE. NEWS. The ONLY way to manipulate the data to get that “result” is to include 18 & 19 year old ADULTS in your tally of “children” https://t.co/NLN8JnYqzN

— Aidan Johnston (@RealGunLobbyist) March 28, 2023

Kaiser Family Foundation used data from IMHE and the New England Journal of Medicine to compile their statistics. KFF noted in the study that data is not available for 0-17, so the only data they have is 0-19. They then compared the data with other nations’ statistics from 0-19.

The gun pedants are arguing 18 and 19 aren’t children!!!one!!121!!3£eleventy!!1!

Other pedants are arguing they can’t find any of this data at the CDC Website so KFF must be pushing a political agenda. (The CDC was blocked from compiling gun statistics by the Dickey Amendment, which they conveniently leave out as often as they leave out the Southern Strategy when arguing about racism.)

Basically it’s the usual bad-faith sealioning tactic to try to get people to argue about the statistics, because if you’re doing that you’re not talking about their murderous ideology.

Even if it was true “KFF cooked the books by including eighteen and nineteen year olds” so what? It’s still a damn tragedy.

This is the same as the meme of four trans people allegedly involved in mass shootings. Even if the meme is true (it’s not), that ignores the thousands which were cis.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 28, 2023 • 2:43:46am

HALF-STAFF NOTICE: Tennessee statewide

By order of the Governor, flags over the State Capitol and all State Office buildings shall be flown at half-staff effective immediately and until further notice, in memory of the victims of the tragic shooting at the Covenant Presbyterian School on March 27, 2023, and in honor of the families, students, school faculty and church community impacted by this senseless act of violence.

Please contact the Governor’s Office at [no phone numbers allowed] or at Bill.Lee@tn.gov if you have questions or need more information.

tn.gov

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 28, 2023 • 3:00:48am

Seeing the narrative shifting as the GOP tries another tried-and-true deflection tactic:

No True Christian (tm) would shoot up a Christian school, therefore the shooter is an atheist (they can’t blame it on scary Muslims but we’re always up as a convenient scapegoat too).

I would wager to bet that when all is said and done, we will find out the Nashville shooter was someone who was an atheist or agnostic who wanted her 15 minutes. Please do not give it to her!

— MPC (@mcovey36) March 27, 2023

Oops! Nashville shooter is trans, move it deep into the MSNBC disinformation-cast! Back to prom-star gate…horse face!

We needs weapons to guard against the immoral, crazed atheists!

— John Nelson (@Yukon_Hiker) March 27, 2023

I am just loving how the only way the Media is able to get their mythical “White Male School Shooter” is to report on a troon atheist shooting up christians.
Thanks Nashville.

— EzrealClownguard (@EClownguard) March 27, 2023

I wonder how the Nashville shooting narrative will change if we determine that the shooter was a violent atheist and/or gender fluidity radical.

— Dangerous Liberty (@DangerousLiber1) March 28, 2023

The shooter is some Reddit atheist girl who became FTM called Audrey apparently https://t.co/96j9HRYEoc

— the boof fairy (@saintrizla) March 27, 2023

The list goes on. Then there’s the Christian Persecution Olympics (tm)

What counts as anti-christian bigotry? “Hey don’t force my kid to pray to your god during football practice.” Stuff like that?

— Jakobe HBTFD. (@OriginalJakobe) March 27, 2023

The shooter was a former student at that school. At that, and I cannot emphasize this enough, Christian school. Sooooo, sounds like you need to get your own house in order. What the hell are you Christians teachings kids to turn them out like that?

— Jakobe HBTFD. (@OriginalJakobe) March 28, 2023

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Patricia Kayden Mar 28, 2023 • 3:13:24am

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Mar 28, 2023 • 3:21:59am

It’s that time of year again:

【Cherry and Peach blossoms】 If A Utopia Had Existed? 東京近郊は春にユートピアに変わる。#目黒川

..

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Barefoot Grin Mar 28, 2023 • 3:24:51am

re: #288 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

It’s that time of year again:

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Yep, setting records all over for early blooming. Nonetheless, a friend who teaches at a university in tokyo has been posting some beautiful images on FB from his campus.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 28, 2023 • 3:27:57am

re: #287 Patricia Kayden

I no longer care if conservatives want to die suiciding by a horrible lung-destroying disease.

I did my part at the start of the vaccination programme encouraging everyone in my village to get vaccinated. Everyone who could is now.

After two friggin’ years of idiot small-l libertarians saying “you can’t tell me what to do,” I’m fine with them dying by suicide if that’s what they want to do. Just stay away from me.

But it’s not enough to troll people who are vaccinated while claiming “my body my choice.” If they really believed that, they also wouldn’t harass people who wear masks.

While the outcome of the midterm elections probably didn’t hinge on vaccination rates between Democrats and Republicans, in lots of local races around the country decided by only a few votes they may have; the most prominent being the Arizona governor’s race. That race’s close call is smaller than the number of Republicans versus Democrats who died in Arizona from Covid-19.

In CO-3, Rep. Lauren Bobert was only reëlected by a little over five hundred votes. Republicans are dying at a greater rate on the western slope than Democrats. That district may well flip anyway, but Republican intransigence over vaccines won’t help them.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 28, 2023 • 3:32:56am

Mao Zedong, Joseph Stalin and Pol Pot - can you guess the common between these three personalities Imtiaz?

— . (@PVMCG14) March 27, 2023

Yes. They killed in the name of communism.

Thanks for coming to my TEDx talk on history. /s

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 28, 2023 • 3:40:38am

It in fact does. The only reason you don’t do it now is because secular law constrains you.

I don’t think the Bible says to kill atheists and burn witches. Am I wrong? Anyone who thought otherwise was obviously misinformed. If the Bible does instruct those things, I’m willing to be hear you out.

— Scott Nichols (@palehombre) February 7, 2023

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 28, 2023 • 3:45:10am

Hundreds of Christians in the comments agreeing with this wingnut running for Congress in Florida.

Once they are done killing LGBT+ people, they’re coming for us (or maybe they won’t wait; there are a whole bunch of Catholics on Twitter calling for killing atheists).

The anti-Christian rhetoric in our nation has now resulted in a school shooting in Nashville, Tennessee!

— Lavern Spicer 🇺🇸 (@lavern_spicer) March 27, 2023

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steve_davis Mar 28, 2023 • 3:50:28am

re: #235 ckkatz

Looks like the Beaver War in Ukraine is ongoing -

spoiler alert: the beaver wasn’t taking anybody’s shit.

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steve_davis Mar 28, 2023 • 3:52:09am

re: #242 Captain Ron

bone-in ground beef is hotdogs. it’s what keeps them erect, as otherwise they’d shrink in the cold meat case.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 28, 2023 • 4:02:55am

No arrests after Geauga County church set to host drag performance hit with Molotov cocktail (Cleveland Plain Dealer, yesterday)

CLEVELAND, Ohio - No arrests have been made after someone threw a Molotov cocktail at a church set to host a Drag Queen Story Hour.

Little else is known about the incident at the Community Church of Chesterland or the police response because Chester Township officials, in an apparent violation of Ohio law and a recent Ohio Supreme Court case, refused to release the full police report.

The incident happened about a week before a planned brunch and story hour sponsored by the church. The Proud Boys, an all-male, neo-fascist organization, last week circulated notices encouraging protests at the sold-out drag brunch that’s set for Saturday at Element 41 in Chardon.

FBI spokeswoman Susan Licate would not say if the FBI is investigating the incident, saying in a statement that the agency is “aware of the incident and takes allegations of federal law violations seriously.”

(more)

Church Hosting Drag Show Firebombed, Church w/ Pedophile Pastor Ok (Instinct, yesterday)

Do you bomb the church that has an upcoming drag show or a church in the same county that just had its pastor arrested for sexually abusing minors? It’s ‘Merika. You know the answer.

(more)

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Patricia Kayden Mar 28, 2023 • 4:02:56am

Good morning!!

Mastodon

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Barefoot Grin Mar 28, 2023 • 4:21:15am

I just saw video of the shooter inside the church/school. The shooter is dressed in camo and tactical gear and walking through the halls like someone who is mimicking all the tough-guy videos shooters post on YT.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 28, 2023 • 4:23:05am

A person over at Reddit’s r/ReligiousFruitcake shows photographs that proselytisers are going beyond fake currency with Christian messages on them left as tips for servers.

They got a “jury summons” notice in the mail which had Christian messages inside instead of a jury summons.

I thought I’d seen it all with those fake currency pamphlets they’d leave as a tip. (with photograph of the “summons”)

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Nerdy Fish Mar 28, 2023 • 4:23:49am

Well, looks like another day ending in -y. I guess I’ll be back later.

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Patricia Kayden Mar 28, 2023 • 4:28:55am

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steve_davis Mar 28, 2023 • 4:33:27am

re: #292 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It in fact does. The only reason you don’t do it now is because secular law constrains you.

thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.

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No Malarkey! Mar 28, 2023 • 4:40:05am

re: #98 jaunte

And yet there won’t be a second of soul searching on the extreme right as it works to make it easier for psychopaths to obtain and use weapons of war on our children.

— Slava Ukrayini! (@aagcobb1) March 28, 2023

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 28, 2023 • 4:40:12am

Thread, twelve tweets. They really want a genocide.

Paid blue tick who claims to be a psychiatrist without saying who they are has genocidal thoughts.

Lots of conservalies in this person’s timeline.

THREAD:
“The Trans Will To Power: Or, why the Trans para-species has to convert or kill Christian children to save itself” @Timcast @MattWalshBlog @0x49fa98 @JackPosobiec @TheQuartering

— Skeptical Shrink (@most_real_psymd) March 27, 2023

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lawhawk Mar 28, 2023 • 4:47:53am

re: #301 Patricia Kayden

GOP and NRA don’t care how many are slaughtered.

GOP and NRA don’t care how many kids are murdered.

GOP and NRA don’t care how many moms and teachers are murdered in schools.

They don’t care how many die at music festivals, theaters, schools, or malls.

— lawhawk #vaxxedforfamilyandcommunity (@lawhawk) March 27, 2023

GOP and NRA care only that guns are easily available, including the ones that are used in mass shootings like AR-15s.

They refuse to more stringently regulate gun ownership, because it would reduce gun sales, which they goose after every notable mass shooting.

— lawhawk #vaxxedforfamilyandcommunity (@lawhawk) March 27, 2023

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 28, 2023 • 4:58:21am

Wingnut Christian podcaster Stew Peters has another stupid thought.

Doctors are some of the dumbest and most dangerous individuals in modern society.

— Stew Peters (@realstewpeters) March 26, 2023

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Dangerman Mar 28, 2023 • 5:00:38am

re: #306 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Wingnut Christian podcaster Stew Peters has another stupid thought.

Doctors are some of the dumbest and most dangerous individuals in modern society.

— Stew Peters (@realstewpeters) March 26, 2023

they managed to keep you alive so far

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 28, 2023 • 5:03:03am

#DYK it was Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, a pioneer Computer Programmer and co-inventor of COBOL known as the Grand Lady of Software, Amazing Grace and Grandma COBOL) who was responsible for the now-famous saying, “It’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.”? pic.twitter.com/XRFd2t6qjL

— U.S. Naval History (@USNHistory) March 28, 2023

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 28, 2023 • 5:07:36am

Wingnut full of shyte, news at six.

Sen. Megan Hunt has a conflict of interest because of her trans son, and therefore should resign. She is not in office to serve the people, but her own person interest. @elonmusk @SenTedCruz @RonDeSantisFL @politicalawake https://t.co/SVXXeftyqZ

— The Soul of Japan (@thesoulofjapan) March 28, 2023

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lawhawk Mar 28, 2023 • 5:12:36am

re: #309 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

By that logic, every last motherfucking GOPer that takes money from the NRA should STFU because they’ve all got conflicts of interest on gun violence. They’re bought and paid for shills for gun sales and don’t care how many Americans die.

Wait. That’s what they should do because they’re bought off shills for the gun lobby.

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Belafon Mar 28, 2023 • 5:23:29am

re: #309 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

She has the only trans child in Nebraska and somehow that child isn’t a citizen?

I’m afraid you need an enema you’re so full of bullshit.

— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) March 28, 2023

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 28, 2023 • 5:33:52am

WILC-TV (Richmond, ABC), yesterday

CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — A Chesterfield County judge has set a new deadline for prosecutors in the solicitation of prostitution case against Virginia Beach Pastor John Blanchard.

The Rock Church International pastor was arrested in Oct. 2021 during an undercover sex sting by the Chesterfield County Police Department. Sixteen other men were also arrested on similar charges, after detectives posed as underage prostitutes in online advertisements, and communicated with suspects who responded, setting a place to meet for sexual services.

While the majority of the 16 other cases were prosecuted, in Oct. 2022, the Chesterfield County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office made the decision to nolle pros, or drop, the charges against Pastor Blanchard, citing a “lack of evidence.” Shortly after that decision, however, text messages and other records of Blanchard’s arrest were released, having been obtained by a legal information request filed by Virginia Beach Del. Tim Anderson, an attorney himself.

(more)

Chesterfield judge sets deadline in solicitation case against Virginia Beach pastor

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 28, 2023 • 5:35:42am

re: #311 Belafon

Using that logic, all the Catholics in the Unicameral and the governor must resign because their religion tells them abortion is a mortal sin and therefore they have a conflict of interest.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 28, 2023 • 5:37:06am

re: #311 Belafon

It took zero time for Twitter to flag your response as “offensive content.”

You countered a Christian apologetic. That is not allowed on Twitter.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Mar 28, 2023 • 5:39:46am

re: #1 Backwoods_Sleuth

West Virginia Republicans said they hoped a sweeping abortion ban would shutter the state’s only abortion clinic. The facility ended abortions, but stayed open. Now, its staff is starting another abortion clinic over the Maryland state line.

Which is why these motherfuckers will settle for nothing less than a total national abortion ban (and follow that up with mandatory checks of all childbearing-age women leaving the country)

Gilead’s Island

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Mar 28, 2023 • 5:44:13am

re: #127 teleskiguy

Kind of hard to be a “proud American” when we are indeed a regressive shithole run by mediocre half wit inbred white men who revel in cruelty and stupidity.

Stop making mediocre half-wit inbred white people feel bad about themselves!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 28, 2023 • 5:46:35am

I almost forgot the extremely local news from yesterday.

I WON THE LOTTO!

Click to Reveal

$3 on the Pick 5, three free tickets on the 2x2, three special draw vouchers entering a prize of either $5,000 or $500 from the 2x2 wins.

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Dave In Austin Mar 28, 2023 • 6:01:41am

re: #216 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

And that’s why Christianity doesn’t get a pass.

I’m sure dead children and adults don’t give a flip about your forgiveness. You guys forgave Jeffery Dalhmer too

Someone left the word “Responsibly” out of this conversation. In this person’s view Hitler should have dies in Florida of old age.

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Eclectic Cyborg Mar 28, 2023 • 6:01:51am

re: #306 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Wingnut Christian podcaster Stew Peters has another stupid thought.

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I wonder if he’d be saying that if he was hospitalized and in need of life-saving surgery.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Mar 28, 2023 • 6:06:19am

re: #250 Targetpractice

“God” loves you, but he wants you to suffer if you don’t hate like he hates.

Jesus Loves Me But He Can’t Stand You

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Mar 28, 2023 • 6:08:43am

Just playing around with Adobe’s new toy:

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Mar 28, 2023 • 6:10:17am

re: #321 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The AI is not so good with footballs. First the word “football” means what we Yanks call soccer-balls. But even they are not so good.

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jeffreyw Mar 28, 2023 • 6:10:38am

Good morning!

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Dangerman Mar 28, 2023 • 6:13:45am

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Nerdy Fish Mar 28, 2023 • 6:13:58am

Today has started off really bad for a number of reasons. This was not one of them.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Mar 28, 2023 • 6:15:04am

Well that’s it for LGBTQ rights and gun control, as least as far as public discourse goes for the next week: poor persecuted Christians are now an endangered species, victims of transgender domestic terrorism so we need to throw in the towel and declare America a Christian Country once and for all.

You don’t have to be Christian, just keep your atheism or your non-Jesus religion to yourself and recognize that America is a country of and for Christians.

(we are so fucked)

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Nerdy Fish Mar 28, 2023 • 6:19:44am

I get that the public voices in Christianity are being really shitty people right now (well, they always are, but all the more so now that they have an excuse to pretend to be persecuted); I’m only going to say this once. Just like not all Muslims are terrorists, not all Christians are assholes. You can call it the No True Scotsman or whatever fallacy you like, but at the end of the day, I’d prefer to be left out of the conversation when it comes to being lumped in with the likes of these shitheads. Sorry.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 28, 2023 • 6:21:09am

Christian fakes an article from The Atlantic.

Lying for Jesus from St. Augustine is alive and well.

This article does not exist.

No. Give us the ban on depraved child abuse Democrats call “care.” pic.twitter.com/nbf26Z3EdM

— Augustina 🇻🇦 (@AugustinaJJD) March 28, 2023

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darthstar Mar 28, 2023 • 6:21:16am

First earthquake I’ve felt in this house about 15 minutes ago. Only a 2.6 eight miles away, but it was a nice little jolt to the house.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 28, 2023 • 6:21:47am

re: #321 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Just playing around with Adobe’s new toy:

Needz more pineapple on pizza slices. /s

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darthstar Mar 28, 2023 • 6:22:11am

Oh, and I could have had an eagle but took the unshaved side of the coin flip on 2.
3/6

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lawhawk Mar 28, 2023 • 6:27:15am

The House GOP’s investigations are flopping; they were always destined to be a nothingburger because there was never any substance to them.

It was *always* a distraction/deflection from Trump’s felony conduct in and out of office. https://t.co/LtXFMqrhVa via @voxdotcom

— lawhawk #vaxxedforfamilyandcommunity (@lawhawk) March 28, 2023

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Dangerman Mar 28, 2023 • 6:27:37am

re: #309 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Wingnut full of shyte, news at six.

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She is not in office to serve the people, ….

Well if that’s the standard, most of the Rs and some D’s in congress have got to go

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Scottish Dragon Mar 28, 2023 • 6:29:26am

re: #115 William Lewis

They hated the idea of a standing army, especially in New England, after the Wars of the Three Kingdoms and Cromwell, hence the fantasy of the white property owners and their adult sons making up a part time militia. This fit well with the slave patrols of the south.

Reading the Militia Acts of 1792 is quite enlightening about what they really thought about the 2nd amendment.

They were still enamored with the myth of armed virtuous citizens fending off those ‘engines of despotism’ while ignoring that the Continental Army did 90% of the work.

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gocart mozart Mar 28, 2023 • 6:29:47am

As a native of River City, I’m duty-bound to nominatehttps://t.co/vxFlIMESrr

— Joel Hanes (@hanes_joel) March 28, 2023

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gocart mozart Mar 28, 2023 • 6:30:54am

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darthstar Mar 28, 2023 • 6:32:39am

re: #332 lawhawk

Even a ‘nothingburger’ investigation can be a media leading distraction if properly executed. Trey Gowdy’s Benghazi Boogie dominated the headlines for months. The problem the GOP has is that their investigations are pure crap and there’s a dumpster fire named Trump trying to stay in the headlines.

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Patricia Kayden Mar 28, 2023 • 6:33:27am

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darthstar Mar 28, 2023 • 6:34:45am

Mastodon

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Dangerman Mar 28, 2023 • 6:35:48am

re: #326 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Well that’s it for LGBTQ rights and gun control, as least as far as public discourse goes for the next week: poor persecuted Christians are now an endangered species, victims of transgender domestic terrorism so we need to throw in the towel and declare America a Christian Country once and for all.

You don’t have to be Christian, just keep your atheism or your non-Jesus religion to yourself and recognize that America is a country of and for Christians.

(we are so fucked)

If that’s the conclusion because of *this* shooting, how do they explain the targets of ALL the previous ones? //

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Patricia Kayden Mar 28, 2023 • 6:36:37am

Excellent thread on Mastodon

Mastodon

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Dangerman Mar 28, 2023 • 6:42:36am

A Florida school district banned the showing of a film about Ruby Bridges — the young girl who became a civil rights icon by wading through a White mob to integrate an elementary school in the South in 1960, the Weekly Challenger reports.

Reports indicate that, once again, a single parent provoked the district’s action toward censorship, and the district failed to follow the process when petitioned.

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A Three Hour Tour Mar 28, 2023 • 6:44:28am

re: #327 Nerdy Fish

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 28, 2023 • 6:44:51am

re: #327 Nerdy Fish

I get that the public voices in Christianity are being really shitty people right now (well, they always are, but all the more so now that they have an excuse to pretend to be persecuted); I’m only going to say this once. Just like not all Muslims are terrorists, not all Christians are assholes. You can call it the No True Scotsman or whatever fallacy you like, but at the end of the day, I’d prefer to be left out of the conversation when it comes to being lumped in with the likes of these shitheads. Sorry.

Just as:

Women must be always on guard because “not all men” are rapist shithead, but they can’t tell which ones are, and the #MeToo movement was endlessly trolled on Twitter by “not all men are shitheads.” All of this is sea lioning.

Black people must always be on guard because police/white people “aren’t all racists,” but they can’t tell which ones are …

LGBT+ people/atheists/Jews/Muslims must always be on guard because Christians “aren’t all paedophiles/rapists/murderers” but they can’t tell which ones are …

It is not up to the oppressed to police the majority.
That is the majority’s job. An ally calls out the bigots every time they bigot.

“Straight Pride” is a thing (they even have a flag of black and white stripes, very much in keeping with how conservative thinking works, see that Volvo post above on Pride flags).

Whether they are loud or not, Christians, Muslims, and Hindus routinely call for murdering LGBT+ and atheist people.

My beef isn’t against police, Christians, &c. My beef is against bigots. Christianity is politics in our nation, so when it strays into racism, misogyny, hate, murder, bombing women’s clinics in the name of God, child rape, &c I will point it out. It is not my job to fix their ideology of rape and murder.

I noted above that a Christian church was firebombed by Christians for hosting a Drag Queen Story Hour by other Christians (while in the same county the paedophilic pastor of another church is still in the pulpit after being charged with child rape). That is not the problem of non-Christians.

That got no upvotes here. As Stonekettle says, “Don’t look away.” Christianity claims its moral high ground comes directly from God. Yet they cover up, lie, misdirect, and defend criminals and bigots within their ranks, either directly or “not all ~~men~~ Christians.”

All people deserve respect, unless they show themselves unworthy of it. No ideology deserves respect, unless it is shown to be true (or at least not hypocritical).

Don’t just call them out as “not true Christians (tm).” Quit supporting them (cough money in baskets). Call them out, every time they bigot or crime. Do not accept others defining your faith for you, because we will listen to those who put themselves as the representatives of their faith.

Hey, where did the sun come from? I thought I stuffed it in a closet last night. I probably should get to bed.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Mar 28, 2023 • 6:44:53am

re: #327 Nerdy Fish

I get that the public voices in Christianity are being really shitty people right now (well, they always are, but all the more so now that they have an excuse to pretend to be persecuted); I’m only going to say this once. Just like not all Muslims are terrorists, not all Christians are assholes…

The vocal assholes among them are coming out of their corner swinging, glad to be able to portray themselves as victims and trans people as terrorists.

It took me a long time to discover Christians who just quietly live their faith for the very reason that they were not in my face about it like the Campus Crusade for Christ yahoos I used to slam doors on in college.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Mar 28, 2023 • 6:46:19am

re: #340 Dangerman

If that’s the conclusion because of *this* shooting, how do they explain the targets of ALL the previous ones? //

we ignore them and count on the media to go along

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Eclectic Cyborg Mar 28, 2023 • 6:48:20am

re: #340 Dangerman

If that’s the conclusion because of *this* shooting, how do they explain the targets of ALL the previous ones? //

All those heathens dying was God’s will.

/ half

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Mar 28, 2023 • 6:49:48am

Moar:

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The rest behind spoiler tag to save bandwidth for some people:

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie Mar 28, 2023 • 6:50:01am

re: #243 ckkatz

My only experience with T-54/55’s was in training at Ft. Bragg. We were supposed to get used to the idea that an enemy tank could close assault and overrun our position. So we were told to get into a foxhole and a T-54/55 drove over the foxhole.

What I remember was how small the tank was. How much diesel smoke it put out. And how much it vibrated, rattled, and generally looked utterly decrepit.

As for the exercise, the foxholes were pre-dug and lined with concrete pipe. And the tank path was paved. Further, the treads stayed on the pavement outside the foxholes.

As the foxholes had obviously been used multiple times, I was not worried about being squished. Many armies require their trainees to dig their own foxholes within a certain time limit before the tanks run over them.

As for the deployment of the T-54/55s some analysts think that the Russians are running out of artillery and artillery ammunition and are hoping to use them as a stopgap for artillery replacement. Certainly, in Iraq 30 years ago, T-54/55’s did not last very long or achieve much in combat against the Coalition forces.

If I find some of the analyst comments, I will post the later.

My experience with the T-54/55, LGF 4-3-2011

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Mar 28, 2023 • 6:56:12am

re: #349 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

My experience with the T-54/55, LGF 4-3-2011

Or simply as an artillery supplement if they have stocks of 100mm HE ammo and not much other use for them.

Plenty of footage from WW2 of the Allies using Sherman tanks for artillery support. Including building ramps for them so that they could get more elevation (and range) for the 75mm gun.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Mar 28, 2023 • 6:58:42am

re: #350 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Or simply as an artillery supplement if they have stocks of 100mm HE ammo and not much other use for them.

Plenty of footage from WW2 of the Allies using Sherman tanks for artillery support. Including building ramps for them so that they could get more elevation (and range) for the 75mm gun.

Just like the French used WW1-vintage Renault tanks in WW2 simply as mobile pillboxes/machine-gun emplacements.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Mar 28, 2023 • 7:02:39am

Our whatabout media are going to ignore all the other shootings and concentrate on this latest one just like they ignore Trump’s kids’ shady business dealings and fixate on Hunter Biden.

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Scottish Dragon Mar 28, 2023 • 7:04:17am

re: #349 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

My experience with the T-54/55, LGF 4-3-2011

Seen a number of “brew ups” on T-62 tanks in Ukraine now a lot like what you describe, with fire shooting out the hatches and sometimes out the gun muzzle as well. The early Soviet tanks don’t do the turret toss because there wasn’t an automatic loader carousel in the turret, but they also didn’t have blow out protections like modern NATO tanks to keep ammo cook offs away from the crew. One particularly disturbing video a couple weeks ago showed a Russian T-62 getting smacked by a Javelin while advancing across a field. Total ammo cook off, fire shooting out every hatch etc. Crew incinerated. The engine compartment was still intact though, and the tank kept trundling along as a grim Flying Dutchman with a crew of charred corpses.

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Barefoot Grin Mar 28, 2023 • 7:05:22am

I stumbled across a tweet claiming that IRS agents had paid a visit to Matt Taibbi recently, but when I googled the only sources were far-right sites. I’ll wait.

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lawhawk Mar 28, 2023 • 7:07:51am

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) on school shootings:

“We’re not gonna fix it.” pic.twitter.com/yZZCbJleUA

— Brennan Murphy (@brenonade) March 28, 2023

No. They are fine with endless murder and mayhem, because they can claim that there’s a crime wave (of their own doing), and have no intent to fix the reason crime has surged, which is easier availability of guns due to a packed SCOTUS gutting longstanding laws that regulate gun ownership in strong gun law states like NY.

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Eventual Carrion Mar 28, 2023 • 7:09:10am

re: #70 Grunthos the Flatulent

Tomorrow’s Wordle has no excuses. None.

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3/6 this morning

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Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 28, 2023 • 7:10:56am

sigh

Just in: House Bill 153 to make Kentucky a “Second Amendment sanctuary state” has become law without the signature of Gov. Andy Beshear. Background on the bill: https://t.co/r2VLytyGum #kyga23

— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) March 28, 2023

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Mar 28, 2023 • 7:11:52am

hamster with little green football

The AI does ok, but only ok, but at least Adobe does give animals anatomies that are closer to reality than does Stable Diffusion.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 28, 2023 • 7:13:14am

re: #321 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Just playing around with Adobe’s new toy:

Where does one access this toy?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Mar 28, 2023 • 7:14:08am

re: #357 Backwoods_Sleuth

Does this mean that if immigrants and asylum seekers cross the border bearing weapons, KY will take them in?

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Nerdy Fish Mar 28, 2023 • 7:14:40am

re: #360 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Does this mean that if immigrants and asylum seekers cross the border bearing weapons, KY will take them in?

I take it to mean that if your gun commits a crime, you can ship it to the State of Kentucky and they will ensure that it can’t be used as evidence.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 28, 2023 • 7:15:04am

Saying “you’re a moran.”

What are you saying?

— The Soul of Japan (@thesoulofjapan) March 28, 2023

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Eclectic Cyborg Mar 28, 2023 • 7:15:06am

re: #357 Backwoods_Sleuth

Why the hell wouldn’t Beshear Veto it? Because he knew the GOP would just override anyway?

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The Pie Overlord! Mar 28, 2023 • 7:16:33am

re: #304 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Thread, twelve tweets. They really want a genocide.

Paid blue tick who claims to be a psychiatrist without saying who they are has genocidal thoughts.

Lots of conservalies in this person’s timeline.

kill Christian children to save itself

Gee where has that meme been used before? And just before Passover?

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A Three Hour Tour Mar 28, 2023 • 7:18:46am

re: #360 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Does this mean that if immigrants and asylum seekers cross the border bearing weapons, KY will take them in?

Only the guns. The immigrants and asylum seekers will receive no sanctuary.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 28, 2023 • 7:19:50am

re: #360 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Does this mean that if immigrants and asylum seekers cross the border bearing weapons, KY will take them in?

Why didn’t Gov. Beshear veto the bill? He didn’t veto HB547 either, which allows teachers and government workers to proselytise (and be real, that only applies to Christians) to captive audiences and co-workers without repercussions.

I’m beginning to wonder if Mr. Beshear is paying attention to what’s going on here.

Even if those vetoes could be overriden in the state legislature, make them own that. Put them on record saying its okay for a teacher to proselytise to your children, regardless of your own faith. Stand in line paying your water bill whilst the clerk decides you need “moar Jesus” to get a break on a delayed payment.

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wrenchwench Mar 28, 2023 • 7:22:59am

re: #357 Backwoods_Sleuth

sigh

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Five weeks ago:

An Oregon court dealt a blow to the state’s “second amendment sanctuary” movement, deciding on Wednesday that local governments cannot ban police from enforcing certain gun laws in a ruling that could hold national ramifications for anti-gun control efforts.

At the center of the lawsuit was a 2020 measure passed in Columbia county, a conservative area in the Democratic state, that argued state and federal gun laws did not apply in the county and banned local officials from enforcing the regulations. The rural region was one of some 1,200 in the US, from Virginia to New Mexico to Florida, to pass a second amendment sanctuary resolution.

The Oregon state court of appeals ruled the law, which included fines for officials who enforce most federal and state gun laws, violated a law granting the state the authority to regulate firearms. The ordinance would effectively “create a ‘patchwork quilt’ of firearms laws in Oregon”, the court found.

[…]

I hope it has national ramifications.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Mar 28, 2023 • 7:24:21am

re: #367 wrenchwench

Five weeks ago:

I hope it has national ramifications.

The Fugitive Assault Gun Act?

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darthstar Mar 28, 2023 • 7:25:12am

re: #355 lawhawk

No. They are fine with endless murder and mayhem, because they can claim that there’s a crime wave (of their own doing), and have no intent to fix the reason crime has surged, which is easier availability of guns due to a packed SCOTUS gutting longstanding laws that regulate gun ownership in strong gun law states like NY.

Every reporter should respond to Republicans with “No you won’t. You just want the story to go away.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 28, 2023 • 7:26:49am

#Marines with @3d_Marine_Div conduct the culminating event of a rope rescue technician certification course at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, March 23.

Taught by @usairforce firefighters, the course helps prepare the #JointForce to execute disaster relief response missions. pic.twitter.com/Ytwl4d52qy

— U.S. Marines (@USMC) March 27, 2023

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Eclectic Cyborg Mar 28, 2023 • 7:33:48am

re: #367 wrenchwench

Hold up.

You’re telling me some podunk Conservative county can pass some kind of ordinance to exempt itself from State and Federal laws?

WTAF?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Mar 28, 2023 • 7:35:23am

re: #371 Eclectic Cyborg

Hold up.

You’re telling me some podunk Conservative county can pass some kind of ordinance to exempt itself from State and Federal laws?

WTAF?

Every man his own Republic

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 28, 2023 • 7:36:40am

re: #369 darthstar

Every reporter should respond to Republicans with “No you won’t. You just want the story to go away.”

One of the benefits of the filibuster of the two anti-LGBT+ bills in my state right now is that the Rethugs don’t get to work on the bills they really want. Those would be the six-week abortion ban bill, and the “guns everywhere,, no permits required” bill (even in your house from some gun nut who wants to carry conceded or openly in front of your children).

Zero bills have been passed here since the start of the ninety-day legislative session. It is two-thirds over. They’re going to have to decide if they want their Christian culture-war anti-LGBT+/drag bills, or their real goals soon.

While the anti-abortion movement by Protestants started as a backlash to desegregation of schools, that is two generations ago. Today’s Protestants truly believe their anti-abortion stance is God’s will (and be real, there is no non-religious case for such bills).

While there are churches which support women’s healthcare decisions they are in the distinct minority. Republicans can count votes in their base too, and know that regardless of whatever shitty position they take which directly hurts one of their own voters, that voter is programmed to pull the lever for (R).

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Nerdy Fish Mar 28, 2023 • 7:38:17am

re: #371 Eclectic Cyborg

Hold up.

You’re telling me some podunk Conservative county can pass some kind of ordinance to exempt itself from State and Federal laws?

WTAF?

That’s the theory. They’re all in favor of local control, except in places where Democrats have local control. To that end, the “constitutional sheriff” movement - and others like it - seek to place the ultimate authority of the law in the hands of local officials as much as possible, supposedly to pre-empt any attempts by federal or state governments to enforce the Supremacy Clause. The anti-democratic partisans on the right want to return us to the days of the Articles of Confederation.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 28, 2023 • 7:43:06am

re: #367 wrenchwench

My county was the first in Nebraska to adopt a “II Amendment Sanctuary” resolution, which Governor (now Senator) Ricketts praised.

At the time, I was unaware the county commission put the item on its emergency agenda, or I would have been all over that meeting protesting.

It’s not like this is already an open-carry state.

Here the county resolution was a bunch of wanking for the masses; it didn’t change anything about our laws. Our sheriff actually opposed the resolution, but it is non-binding so the county commission can’t force the sheriff to enforce it against a legitimate federal or state investigation. (On a side note the sheriff is the only Republican I’ve ever voted for. He is a good person, and since no Democrat ran against him it didn’t matter that much.)

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wrenchwench Mar 28, 2023 • 7:43:22am

re: #371 Eclectic Cyborg

Hold up.

You’re telling me some podunk Conservative county can pass some kind of ordinance to exempt itself from State and Federal laws?

WTAF?

The judge in Oregon tried to fix that. We’ll see if it takes.

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wrenchwench Mar 28, 2023 • 7:47:01am

re: #375 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

(On a side note the sheriff is the only Republican I’ve ever voted for. He is a good person, and since no Democrat ran against him it didn’t matter that much.

Good to see an example of you not lumping a person into a group.

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wrenchwench Mar 28, 2023 • 8:01:29am

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Hecuba's daughter Mar 28, 2023 • 8:07:54am

re: #378 wrenchwench

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 28, 2023 • 8:08:12am

re: #377 wrenchwench

Good to see an example of you not lumping a person into a group.

I usually turn in blank ballots except for federal office. I didn’t vote for any of the Republicans in the midterms for village board, county commission, or school board. (On a side note, our school board is now Democrats 4-1 Republicans, after the former Republican members were outed by the regional newspaper for diverting school funding for private projects or outright theft.) Next county over (Banner), the county clerk was outed using a court room for a sexual tryst with a county commissioner. She and the commissioner were reëlected because they have the magic R beside their name. The assistant clerk was fired though (hired position) because she discovered it and went to the regional newspaper. They were both forgiven for their “peccadillo” by a local pastor testifying at their county commission meeting.

Ever since my first election in 1980, I have lumped Republicans into the same group. My county sheriff is in fact the only Republican I’ve ever voted for.

It isn’t just the politicians though: Every person who looks at someone like former president Donald Trump, Rep. Jim Jordan, Sen. Mitch McConnell, &c and says “that’s the person who should represent me” deserves scorn. The voters are the ones who elect these trash politicians: If the voters demanded Republicans hold any moral standard at all, their policitians would move more to the centre. They attack veterans, cops, and the FBI. The voters want this. Thus I hold the entire group of GOP voters in scorn.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 28, 2023 • 8:12:20am

Breaking: Why am I still awake drinking rum and Kool-Aid?

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Hecuba's daughter Mar 28, 2023 • 8:17:25am

re: #380 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

……

It isn’t just the politicians though: Every person who looks at someone like former president Donald Trump, Rep. Jim Jordan, Sen. Mitch McConnell, &c and says “that’s the person who should represent me” deserves scorn. The voters are the ones who elect these trash politicians: If the voters demanded Republicans hold any moral standard at all, their policitians would move more to the centre. They attack veterans, cops, and the FBI. The voters want this. Thus I hold the entire group of GOP voters in scorn.

Politicians tailor their policies to reflect the views of their base; the GOP base is bigoted, racist, Christian nationalist and fascist. The base creates the politician and then the politician changes the rules to exclude voters who don’t share these views — it’s a vicious toxic cycle.

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wrenchwench Mar 28, 2023 • 8:18:28am

re: #380 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I was trying not to refer to your lumping of all christians together. I find that humans are so varied, that it is generally a mistake to take a group that is formed using one element of their identity to make generalizations about all in the group.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Mar 28, 2023 • 8:19:44am

re: #376 wrenchwench

The judge in Oregon tried to fix that. We’ll see if it takes.

It’s a constant friction between states and counties or cities when one is more liberal or conservative than the other.

The smaller entity tries to undo or prevent the enforcement of a law made by the larger by either declaring it void (which generally doesn’t get far in the courts) or by stating that their local officials and law enforcement are not to cooperative in enforcing said laws (which I think has generally gotten farther.)

And the “2nd Amendment Sanctuary” bills are a direct riff on the “Sanctuary City” bills some cities have to protect immigrants, etc.

And then it also starts to abut the “sovereign citizen” BS as mentioned in other comments.

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Crush White Nationalism Mar 28, 2023 • 8:20:13am

Human hands are considered by many artists as among the trickiest things to draw, and early AI image makers from Midjourney, Stable Diffusion and OpenAI’s Dall-E showed that generative artificial intelligence also struggled.
It meant that otherwise convincing images of poltical figures like Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron could be recognised as fake just by looking at the hands.

“Just a headsup - Midjourney’s AI can now do hands correctly,” said video game artist Del Walker.

“Be extra critical of any political imagery, especially photography, you see online that is trying to incite a reaction.”

AI has finally figured out how to draw hands - removing the one easy way to identify deepfake images (The Independent)

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Hecuba's daughter Mar 28, 2023 • 8:21:25am

re: #383 wrenchwench

I was trying not to refer to your lumping of all christians together. I find that humans are so varied, that it is generally a mistake to take a group that is formed using one element of their identity to make generalizations about all in the group.

Though I think it is safe to lump all Republicans together, given how rare it is to find one who is not a racist, misogynist and/or oligarch-loving ideologue who wants to shift the entire tax burden to the poorest among us.

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William Lewis Mar 28, 2023 • 8:21:33am

re: #381 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Breaking: Why am I still awake drinking rum and Kool-Aid?

Sounds like me at 2:30 AM with a beer and a shot of rum after getting done with work at 11:00 PM ;)

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Nerdy Fish Mar 28, 2023 • 8:24:18am

re: #386 Hecuba’s daughter

Though I think it is safe to lump all Republicans together, given how rare it is to find one who is not a racist, misogynist and/or oligarch-loving ideologue who wants to shift the entire tax burden to the poorest among us.

While rare, I realize I am too hasty to lump them all together sometimes as well. Something for me to work on in myself, I suppose.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Mar 28, 2023 • 8:24:49am

More playing with #AdobeFirefly - the current state of #Twitter : pic.twitter.com/jDT7dcJzGM

— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) March 28, 2023

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wrenchwench Mar 28, 2023 • 8:25:58am

re: #386 Hecuba’s daughter

Though I think it is safe to lump all Republicans together, given how rare it is to find one who is not a racist, misogynist and/or oligarch-loving ideologue who wants to shift the entire tax burden to the poorest among us.

As soon as you do it, though, an exception pops up. In fact, Anymouse had just posted his ‘exception’.

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Dr. Matt Mar 28, 2023 • 8:26:01am

I [barely] tied my longest streak (15)

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gocart mozart Mar 28, 2023 • 8:27:07am

In 2021

It appears Catturd was arrested for firing a hunting rifle at Walmart employees 😳 pic.twitter.com/BnA51nKD6A

— LeGate🤠 (@williamlegate) March 28, 2023

This one paints a clearer picture:https://t.co/HxVewTZjCa

— Frank Galpin TL;DR 💤 🌻 (@artkincell) March 28, 2023

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Dr. Matt Mar 28, 2023 • 8:28:47am

I just found out that this vile Nazi skank was finally sentenced to “Federal pound me in the ass Prison”*.

Oh yeah. THREE YEARS for far-right extremist Riley June Williams. Hope she enjoys her time in the slammer! pic.twitter.com/qHb44t7MMw

— Jon Cooper (@joncoopertweets) March 24, 2023

*Quote borrowed without permission from Office Space

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Mar 28, 2023 • 8:29:29am

re: #383 wrenchwench

I was trying not to refer to your lumping of all christians together. I find that humans are so varied, that it is generally a mistake to take a group that is formed using one element of their identity to make generalizations about all in the group.

I think he sees what I see. Little or nil pushback from within the Christian communities getting published stating that these things are wrong.

Which might be the media - but the media loves publishing conflict and dirty laundry being aired.

Which leads to one starting to question what the rank-and-file really think? They care but have been trained or conditioned to not question their leaders? They agree with their leaders? They think the debate should be held solely within the Christian community and everyone else should butt out?

You can deal with people on an individual basis. And many of them are fine people with a good sense of empathy. However, identity with a community or group carries with it a dual responsibility of where your actions (or inactions) and words reflect on the group. And the group’s actions and words reflect upon you since you’ve have voluntarily joined and maintained membership in said group as a adult.

And I’d say religions should be held to higher standards since they also are generally claiming higher moral ground* based upon their religious dogma.

* - Not going to go deep into this, but “We’re better because our holy text says we are.” is a pretty damn circular argument.

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William Lewis Mar 28, 2023 • 8:30:12am

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William Lewis Mar 28, 2023 • 8:30:30am

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Dr. Matt Mar 28, 2023 • 8:31:51am

re: #392 gocart mozart

In 2021

A right-wing/Nazi grifter with a criminal past?! i.am.SHOCKED! 😐😐

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 28, 2023 • 8:32:03am

Many young people arrested for Chicago carjackings have been exposed to violence daily, lawyer and pastor says (American Bar Association Journal, podcast audio, 32:10)

“We see ourselves as a violence prevention agency. This is core to public safety,” says an attorney and pastor who founded a Christian legal center.

He came to his conclusion to found a Christian legal centre during a bicycle ride from Denver to San Diego. After that, he attended a seminary to bring apolgeitcs into the criminal justice system.

Lawndale Community Church on Twitter. They run a legal centre and a health centre (a separate 501c3 to provide “mental health” services in a model called “holistic community-based defence”)

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Dr. Matt Mar 28, 2023 • 8:33:54am

He’s exactly what everyone expected:

Company Name: CATTURD, LLCStatus: ACTIVECompany Type: Florida Limited Liability CompanyPrincipal Address4245 S HWY 71 WEWAHITCHKA, FL 32465Registered Agent Name:BUCHANAN, PHILLIP L @catturd2 apparently also has some domestic abuse charges in his record. Seems Nice. pic.twitter.com/g2IoQWGpP8

— Sylvester Tweetycat (@STweetycat) March 27, 2023

Wow, look at this! @Catturd2 (real name: Phillip L Buchanan) is a walking feline felon who was arrested for using a hunting rifle to shoot at an unloading Walmart truck, back in 2021. You’ve been a very naughty #Catpoop. pic.twitter.com/uJALoADnvK

— Andrew Hsieh 🇺🇦 (@AndrewOnSeeAIR) March 28, 2023

Catturd is exactly who we thought he is while he scoops out his well thought political opinions. Phillip L Buchanan; and the L is for Loser in 2020 and coming soon in 2024. pic.twitter.com/zxFZGOyKVM

— Trump Interpreter (@trumpinterprtr) March 28, 2023

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Eclectic Cyborg Mar 28, 2023 • 8:37:03am

re: #398 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

He came to his conclusion to found a Christian legal centre during a bicycle ride from Denver to San Diego. After that, he attended a seminary to bring apolgeitcs into the criminal justice system.

Damn. That’s a bit of a trip.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Mar 28, 2023 • 8:42:19am

Okay I’m out. I need some sleep sometimes.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 28, 2023 • 8:42:52am

Let’s say this douchebag had an actual point. They don’t, but let’s say they did.

So? So what?

EVERY MASS SHOOTER HAS SOME SORT OF GRUDGE

The problem isn’t trans people, or CRT, or socialism, or wind turbines or whatever dumb thing you’re mad about today.

IT’S GUNS pic.twitter.com/PNaHWMH60k

— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) March 28, 2023

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William Lewis Mar 28, 2023 • 8:43:17am

Can you drop that Anvil a little harder with the messaging here Pixar? :D

Elemental | Official Trailer

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BeenHereAwhile Mar 28, 2023 • 8:43:46am

re: #381 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Breaking: Why am I still awake drinking rum and Kool-Aid?

Youtube Video

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Eclectic Cyborg Mar 28, 2023 • 8:44:17am

Marge accuses Canada of participating in Mexico’s alleged “invasion” of the United States. #BlameCanada pic.twitter.com/UgUg70I5S9

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 28, 2023

You can kiss my red and white ass, you witch.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Mar 28, 2023 • 8:44:55am

They are still whining about Rings of Power:

How it started:

As if the entire history of human creativity does not depend on building on those who went before.

Do you call out JRRT for his “plagiarism” of other creatives?

— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) March 25, 2023

(she’s hiding her original tweet now - it was one of those vague complaints about RoP not be true LOTR)

How it’s going:

“where race and gender are fluid” - yeah, I figured it was too much melanin in some of the actors that triggered you.

I don’t know why you’re going on about “gender fluid” as that’s not part of RoP. It must be another trigger point for you.

— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) March 28, 2023

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Crush White Nationalism Mar 28, 2023 • 8:47:15am

re: #405 Eclectic Cyborg

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You can kiss my red and white ass, you witch.

You should have a doctor look at that.

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wrenchwench Mar 28, 2023 • 8:47:54am

re: #394 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

[…]

You can deal with people on an individual basis. And many of them are fine people with a good sense of empathy. However, identity with a community or group carries with it a dual responsibility of where your actions (or inactions) and words reflect on the group. And the group’s actions and words reflect upon you since you’ve have voluntarily joined and maintained membership in said group as a adult.

[…]

The bolded bit is not always true. Being born into that is possible, happens thousands of times each day, and maintenance of it into adulthood is where the individual responsibility starts. Individual, as in, they each do it differently. If lumping is to be done, it can be sub-groups.

It’s a cultural problem.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Mar 28, 2023 • 8:48:50am

re: #390 wrenchwench

As soon as you do it, though, an exception pops up. In fact, Anymouse had just posted his ‘exception’.

My nephew, for example, is a principled conservative. One who has by his own admission, however, never supported or voted for Trump.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Mar 28, 2023 • 8:51:34am

re: #402 Backwoods_Sleuth

“Trans people are dangerous terrorists whose agenda is to force sex-change surgery on our children at gunpoint!”

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jeffreyw Mar 28, 2023 • 8:53:00am

re: #406 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

They are still whining about Rings of Power:

How it started:

YouTube

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Crush White Nationalism Mar 28, 2023 • 8:53:31am

re: #406 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

You sound like a stupid reactionary. That’s a terrible approach to life that will make you miserable.

— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) March 28, 2023

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Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 28, 2023 • 8:53:48am

THEY DON’T SAY THIS ABOUT ANY OTHER TYPE OF CRIME. But when it comes to the ability to use weapons of war against civilians, they say nothing can and should be done, because people who want to shoot up schools are going to shoot up schools, so let the chips fall where they may. https://t.co/Y9FY4ZppNa

— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) March 28, 2023

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Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 28, 2023 • 8:55:50am

If gun nuts refuse to accept any definition of assault weapons, then the only solution is to ban ALL guns. Ban them all, then we don’t have to argue about the fucking names. pic.twitter.com/DX1HCK3jIh

— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) March 28, 2023

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Crush White Nationalism Mar 28, 2023 • 8:56:37am

re: #413 Backwoods_Sleuth

Right-wing dipshits get kids killed. They’re not mature enough to help with real-world problems.

— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) March 28, 2023

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Mar 28, 2023 • 8:59:16am

re: #415 Crush White Nationalism

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) on school shootings:

“We’re not gonna fix it.”

Give him some credit for being honest

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Mar 28, 2023 • 9:01:28am

re: #414 Backwoods_Sleuth

“You don’t know the difference between a magazine and a clip so your opinion in invalid!”

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Nerdy Fish Mar 28, 2023 • 9:01:50am

re: #416 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Give him some credit for being honest

I mean, yes, but also no. Honesty is refreshing, but that’s a shitty truth to tell.

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Scottish Dragon Mar 28, 2023 • 9:04:53am

re: #406 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

They are still whining about Rings of Power:

How it started:

JRRT completely plagiarized “Where is the horse and the rider?” from Norse verse.

Broke my heart when I saw that.

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The Pie Overlord! Mar 28, 2023 • 9:07:16am

re: #419 Scottish Dragon

JRRT completely plagiarized “Where is the horse and the rider?” from Norse verse.

Broke my heart when I saw that.

He claimed to be completely not influenced by “Der Ring des Nibelungen”

Ja, richtig.

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William Lewis Mar 28, 2023 • 9:07:19am

re: #413 Backwoods_Sleuth

Of course they don’t say that - they WANT this. They want people scared. They want public education destroyed and if, occasionally, some of their own get killed, well, friendly fire happens in war.

No, to them destroying peoples lives for power and indoctrination is the purpose and mass shootings are just one of the GOFP’s tools to do that.

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Jay C Mar 28, 2023 • 9:08:48am

re: #406 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

They are still whining about Rings of Power:

TBH, to even a minor-league Tolkienophile (like yrs. truly), there is enough in Amazon’s RoP to complain about without tossing in those gratuitous whines about “race” and “gender”. To anyone who has even a passing familiarity with the Hobbit/LOTR/Silmarillion canon, Amazon’s series has enough narrative flaws to make the inclusion of a Puerto Rican Elf in the cast a minor issue indeed.

That said, I will have to admit I DID like the RoP series. It may not have been proper Tolkien, but it was good TV….

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wrenchwench Mar 28, 2023 • 9:10:54am

re: #421 William Lewis

Of course they don’t say that - they WANT this. They want people scared. They want public education destroyed and if, occasionally, some of their own get killed, well, friendly fire happens in war.

No, to them destroying peoples lives for power and indoctrination is the purpose and mass shootings are just one of the GOFP’s tools to do that.

That’s why they’ll have to destroy this shooter—it was not a public school. Big, though, public in a sense.

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Teukka Mar 28, 2023 • 9:12:13am

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darthstar Mar 28, 2023 • 9:18:16am

re: #413 Backwoods_Sleuth

I just realized I misread this before. He actually said, “We’re NOT going to fix it.” - Jesus.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Mar 28, 2023 • 9:21:11am

re: #424 Teukka

your arms start flappin’
an’ your legs start kickin’
and that’s how you do
THE ADULT HUMAN CHICKEN

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Nerdy Fish Mar 28, 2023 • 9:21:49am

re: #425 darthstar

I just realized I misread this before. He actually said, “We’re NOT going to fix it.” - Jesus.

The party of “for the children, except when they’re getting shot, then we’re for the guns.”

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Mattand Mar 28, 2023 • 9:26:53am

re: #380 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It isn’t just the politicians though: Every person who looks at someone like former president Donald Trump, Rep. Jim Jordan, Sen. Mitch McConnell, &c and says “that’s the person who should represent me” deserves scorn. The voters are the ones who elect these trash politicians: If the voters demanded Republicans hold any moral standard at all, their policitians would move more to the centre. They attack veterans, cops, and the FBI. The voters want this. Thus I hold the entire group of GOP voters in scorn.

That’s where I’m at these days. I get yelled at a lot when the subject comes up with friends and family because despite generally voting Democratic, they’re hopelessly conditioned to go “Both sides”.

Forget even trying to get through to the few never-Trumpers I know. It’s all “I’m voting for his business smarts, not his bigotry. I don’t support that.” Literally “I’m responsible for putting the bigot in office, therefore you cannot hold me responsible for any bigotry Trump engages in.”

I’m probably in the DGAF old man phase of my life, but I’m tired of getting yelled at for not tolerating intolerance.

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Scottish Dragon Mar 28, 2023 • 9:27:15am

re: #427 Nerdy Fish

I’m seeing serious conjecture that conservatives may move to ban trans ppl from owing firearms as “mentally deficient”.

But they will reserve the right to armed pogroms as needed, natch.

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jaunte Mar 28, 2023 • 9:27:49am

re: #406 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

A true defense of Tolkien begins with spelling his name.

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Nerdy Fish Mar 28, 2023 • 9:27:54am

re: #429 Scottish Dragon

I’m seeing serious conjecture that conservatives may move to ban trans ppl from owing firearms as “mentally deficient”.

But they will reserve the right to armed pogroms as needed, natch.

Oh, so they’re in favor of limiting gun ownership for mentally ill individuals? Well, this is quite a development.

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