Seth takes a closer look at Steve Bannon turning himself in to federal authorities after being indicted for defying a congressional subpoena while Trump defended the violent mob from the January 6 insurrection.
Please remember that January 6, 2021 was not just a riot or protest, it was one battlefield in a real life coup attempt, and that coup attempt hasn’t stopped.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 16, 2021
re: #1 Charles Johnson
I have already made plans to leave the country for good if anything like Jan 6 happens again in 2024-25. As far as I’m concerned, the country is already finished.
That feeling when you realize that your codebase uses a database abstraction layer from PHP’s now-antiquated PEAR libraries, and it’s not compatible with PHP 8, the version on the new server you asked for.
I foresee a lot of busywork in my immediate future, converting all the MDB2 code to PDO. It’s just SQL, right? Should be pretty simple? cough
Video from @RobynOnTheRun from the flooding they have been in Surrey B.C.
So…woke up by the rv park manager this morning at 6am….turns out we had a “little” rain😖😅 pic.twitter.com/tB8vvsnlCd
— Robyn Jayne1976 (@RobynOnTheRun) November 15, 2021
That feeling when you realize that your codebase uses a database abstraction layer from PHP’s now-antiquated PEAR libraries, and it’s not compatible with PHP 8, the version on the new server you asked for.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 16, 2021
I foresee a lot of busywork in my immediate future, converting all the MDB2 code to PDO. It’s just SQL, right? Should be pretty simple, right?
[ cough ]— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 16, 2021
PEAR is pining for the fjords.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 16, 2021
With Churchillian eloquence, foreign policy expert Sen Marsha Blackburn succinctly diagnoses the geopolitical ambitions of China, and outlines specific policy solutions to provide guidance to President Biden how to counter the growing threat. pic.twitter.com/5CgfaPPMj5
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) November 16, 2021
re: #7 Dread Pirate Ron
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I gotta push back here a little bit. Churchill was good on paper, but if you ever actually listen to his speeches it’s kind of garbled droning. And Marsha’s got 2AM Nashville chic down, damnit.
re: #1 Charles Johnson
A lot of right wing wackos are operating under an agenda that instigates a violent armed movement against Democratic politicians and liberals in general. They imagine blood running in the streets and lines of armed Oathkeepers and other III%’er nutjobs just mowing down lefties. They don’t seem to pause and think that this agenda will directly result in casualties within their own families and friends.
Or maybe they do. Which makes them all the more evil.
re: #7 Dread Pirate Ron
Have to give her bonus points: she said “Democratic colleagues” not “Democrat colleagues”. Or have Republicans switched their posture on this?
re: #13 Hecuba’s daughter
Have to give her bonus points: she said “Democratic colleagues” not “Democrat colleagues”. Or have Republicans switched their posture on this?
Lapse, probably.
Unvaccinated because he imagined the vaccines were the real danger, and he also waited much too long to be able to benefit from monoclonal antibodies.
I’m lucky that while my brother is a Evangelical Christian Republican, he’s not in the most irresponsible 50% that are dying. Jennifer is not so lucky.
My brother’s condition has worsened. Covid pneumonia and oxygen in 70s (it should be 94). I cannot believe this is happening.
💔💔💔— Jennifer Cohn ✍🏻 📢 (@jennycohn1) November 16, 2021
re: #13 Hecuba’s daughter
Have to give her bonus points: she said “Democratic colleagues” not “Democrat colleagues”. Or have Republicans switched their posture on this?
See if she gets censured tomorrow for that slip
re: #15 Punish Domestic Terrorists
My brother’s condition has worsened. Covid pneumonia and oxygen in 70s (it should be 94). I cannot believe this is happening.
💔💔💔— Jennifer Cohn ✍🏻 📢 (@jennycohn1) November 16, 2021
Totally believable
is that bad? https://t.co/C715naEEB0
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 16, 2021
video completo en youtube!#mtb #enduro #enduromtb #ebikes #ebike #mountain #murcia #bajada pic.twitter.com/oXagComXZl
— Panales Junior (@PanalesEbike) November 15, 2021
The March to the Sea started on November 15, 1864
In the Wake of Sherman’s March (Video: Modern re-enactors commemorate Confederate butthurt)
Is anyone “unretired”?
Steadfast refusal to understand the difference between “needing a paycheck” and “wanting to work” is one reason our politics are so fucked up https://t.co/QcPePrNn1O
— Arthur Chu (@arthur_affect) November 16, 2021
I never thought the signs of the apocalypse would be so stupid https://t.co/YTBHGNVcld
— skullsinthestars - Black lives matter (@drskyskull) November 16, 2021
re: #27 jaunte
Definitely more money than sense.
A medic who was at the Rittenhouse shooting:
I was subpoenaed to testify in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial but I did not… because I moved across the country in fear for my life after “investigators” showed up at my door last year. This is NOT a fair trial. I am not the only person who did not cooperate out of fear.
— Doggo Medic (@doggomedic) November 12, 2021
re: #7 Dread Pirate Ron
Ummm…who else chummed up with North Korea and Russia within the last five years?
In addition, while TFG barked and barked at the PRC, every retail product marketed by Trump Inc. (all flavors) was made in the PRC. I guess that just leaves Iran.
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By the way, I haven’t commented on the contretemps this weekend.
I’ve decided to keep my head down when these things happen. I lurked on this site for quite awhile before a registration window opened up for me.
When I registered and first started posting, the Israeli “Transfer!” forces were getting weaned because Charles realized they were cheek to jowl with some of the worst racists in Europe.
It was also during the whole “Saint Pancake” crap after an American citizen, protesting the destruction of Palestinian homes because a cousin of one the owners was a terrorist, stood in front of an armored D-9 Caterpillar bulldozer and got squashed into a thin layer of blood, guts, eyeballs, and teeth.
Oh how the Lizards at the time laughed! So funny.
I disagreed. I had a negative Karma for the first few months I was posting here.
So just a few suggestions to Lizards here today:
Be nice.
Read Stonekettle’s pinned tweet and remember that this is not Your Site. This Is Charles’ Site. You don’t get the liberty to make broad brush posts slamming people you are mad at because you can refer anyone who you upset to your pinned tweet like Stonekettle can. THIS IS NOT your website, it’s Charles’. You do not have a pinned NOT ALL tweet here that excuses your broad brush posts. They open up Charles to attacks by trolls and longstanding flamers. It’s not fair to Charles or the rest of us to put up with your ad hoc, completely subjective screeds. Do you need to post it, or are you just yelling?
In most cases, it’s the same thing. So, again, be nice.
Just suggestions. If you need to tell me to Fuck Off and Die, so be it. I’ve endured worse.
But again, this used to be a Wingnut Palace. There is absolutely no reason for it to become a Moonbat echo chamber. Think before you post, and respect your fellow Lizards.
re: #29 jaunte
The media should just ignore them and let them sit there until they rot. Or give up.
Re: Jonny Quest
Turns out the whole 1964-65 series is available on Amazon Prime. You have to join their Boomerang Channel to get it but it’s only 4.95/month and has a free trial. It seems to have a lot of other old time cartoons, including Looney Tunes with Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd and other revered American icons.
This is interesting because I have not seen the original Jonny Quest series since it was first broadcast in the 60s. We saw it in black and white then. It was produced, and broadcast, in color but we did not have color TV until about 1968.
Moebius Model Kits has a kit of the Quest family’s futuristic private jet, the Dragonfly. It is apparently a fairly popular item, often found with Moebius’s similar PanAm Space Clipper kit from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
re: #33 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
The front end looks like Glamorous Glennis.
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re: #33 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Sort of amusing that Race Bannon gets to fly a supersonic suborbital jet and also dogfight flying a Spad XIII against a villainous character in an episode as well.
re: #27 jaunte
They’re being told anyone who isn’t enlightened is a “comatose vertical meat suit.” They’re still in the love bombing phase but once they get to chaotic apocalypticism, that’s a recipe for disaster.
— Enoch Endertage - Exposing Negative48 (@XposingXtremism) November 16, 2021
re: #33 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Re: Jonny Quest
Turns out the whole 1964-65 series is available on Amazon Prime. You have to join their Boomerang Channel to get it but it’s only 4.95/month and has a free trial. It seems to have a lot of other old time cartoons, including Looney Tunes with Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd and other revered American icons.
This is interesting because I have not seen the original series since it was first broadcast in the 60s. We saw it in black and white then. It was produced, and broadcast, in color but we did not have color TV until about 1968.Moebius Model Kits has a kit of the Quest family’s futuristic private jet, the Dragonfly. It is apparently a fairly popular item, often found with Moebius’s similar PanAm Space Clipper kit from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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I’ve had the DVD set since its release in 2004. I’m tempted to pull it out and give it a rewatch.
One of my earliest memories as a toddler is being sick with the flu one Saturday when Jonny Quest was on and dad having to pick me up and rush me to the bathroom in time to throw up.
His magnetic personality?
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 16, 2021
re: #33 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Re: Jonny Quest
Turns out the whole 1964-65 series is available on Amazon Prime. You have to join their Boomerang Channel to get it but it’s only 4.95/month and has a free trial. It seems to have a lot of other old time cartoons, including Looney Tunes with Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd and other revered American icons.
This is interesting because I have not seen the original Jonny Quest series since it was first broadcast in the 60s. We saw it in black and white then. It was produced, and broadcast, in color but we did not have color TV until about 1968.Moebius Model Kits has a kit of the Quest family’s futuristic private jet, the Dragonfly. It is apparently a fairly popular item, often found with Moebius’s similar PanAm Space Clipper kit from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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I think the vertical fin on that Supersonic Plane and the parasite drag it induced to the airframe would rip it to pieces.
Why? Because nothing like it was ever built. Parasite drag was the killer of fuel efficient supersonic flight.
Take a look at the F-102 vs the F-106. The magic words are “area rule design”.
Oh! And look! For those interested, this post is informative, gives those folks a real lead to the go-to of the aerodynamic theory involved, and you get a real-world solution to a real military problem. Also, it doesn’t offend anyone because it isn’t subjective.
I’ll go to sleep now.
Sweet dreams.
re: #18 Charles Johnson
That truck is still on the bridge i believe. Per local news up here in Seattle they can’t move it until the wind dies down. It gusted over 60 mph.
re: #40 Ferdinand
The truck is not dead, it’s just pining over a fjord.
re: #30 Sherlock Hound
A medic who was at the Rittenhouse shooting:
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Just another reminder that this is the closest thing to a “Klan trial” during this century.
re: #42 Orange Impostor
Just another reminder that this is the closest thing to a “Klan trial” during this century.
Yup. We were always in the 1920’s. When the Klan was mostly dead in the 1980’s, we were SO naive!
Ah, my big owls are back, talking up a storm. They must be right outside; I can hear them over the furnace.
re: #44 retired cynic
Definitely Great Horned.
re: #38 Charles Johnson
Chris Christie was on ABC yesterday. He was on CNN and MSNBC tonight. The New York Times just did a big interview with him. And why?
Christie is intelligent, knowledgeable about policy and government, experienced, and articulate; he is also ruthless, without ethics, and a coward. In addition, he is very ambitious with a hope that the Presidency is within his grasp, if only he could move Trump out of the way.
The entire modern GOP consists of two types of members:
>> those who favor the insurrection and ongoing coup; and
>> those who acknowledge Biden’s victory and publicly oppose all that Trump orchestrated following his loss but still favor the state level legislation that will ultimately attain the same goals.
Remember: not a single GOP member of the House voted for any voting rights legislation and only one GOP Senator (Murkowski) voted against the filibuster of this legislation.
re: #46 Hecuba’s daughter
Christie is intelligent, knowledgeable about policy and government, experienced, and articulate; he is also ruthless, without ethics, and a coward. In addition, he is very ambitious with a hope that the Presidency is within his grasp, if only he could move Trump out of the way.
The entire modern GOP consists of two types of members:
>> those who favor the insurrection and ongoing coup; and
>> those who acknowledge Biden’s victory and publicly oppose all that Trump orchestrated following his loss but still favor the state level legislation that will ultimately attain the same goals.Remember: not a single GOP member of the House voted for any voting rights legislation and only one GOP Senator (Murkowski) voted against the filibuster of this legislation.
Meanwhile, the goddamn mainstream media persists in its deliberate ignorance of the 800lb gorilla in US political reporting — the GOP is presently in the process of entrenching its power whenever and however it can, laws and the electorate be damned. Instead of clear-eyed reporting on the GOP as an entity that is fundamentally hostile to liberal democracy, we get an endless succession of fucking Cletus safaris.
The 1/6 coup was literally the tip of this iceberg, and unless the other 90% is yanked out into public view real soon by law enforcement, there’s a real chance that all these criminals will definitively get away with their crimes, politically.
Personally this is why I’m so distressed at the apparent lack of urgency by DOJ. Three weeks to indict Bannon, and no incarceration? Pathetic. Meanwhile the other Trump investigations seem on track to produce results some time shortly after the heat death of the universe.
The legacy media’s nuzzling Christie’s taint right now because he’s probably their best hope (right now) of finding a Trump-lite: All the bullshit, half the baggage. Their previous Great White Hope was DeathSantis, but the pressure to maintain support from the MAGAt voters in the hopes of winning reelection is forcing him to continue to carry water for Cheetolini. And the rest of the (potential) field vary from “plain white toast” to “Who?”
re: #48 Targetpractice
The legacy media’s nuzzling Christie’s taint right now because he’s probably their best hope (right now) of finding a Trump-lite: All the bullshit, half the baggage. Their previous Great White Hope was DeathSantis, but the pressure to maintain support from the MAGAt voters in the hopes of winning reelection is forcing him to continue to carry water for Cheetolini. And the rest of the (potential) field vary from “plain white toast” to “Who?”
This by the media is asinine. If Trump is alive, he is the GOP candidate in 2024. If Trump is dead, the GOP candidate will be the GOP pig-person who most thoroughly captures Trump’s magic as True Voice of the Pig-People.
Either way, Christie and those like him stand no chance, no matter how much plotting they do with their media and dark money backers.
re: #49 EPR-radar
This is asinine. If Trump is alive, he is the GOP candidate in 2024. If Trump is dead, the GOP candidate will be the GOP pig-person who most thoroughly captures Trump’s magic as True Voice of the Pig-People.
Either way, Christie and those like him stand no chance, no matter how much plotting they do with their media and dark money backers.
That’s what has the party’s money men scared shitless, that they might have a repeat of Obama’s first term, falling way short of their hopes in the midterms and then failing to win back the WH. Yeah, they won in VA, but the win here and the loss in NJ were narrow and that doesn’t give a clear direction forward for next year. Meanwhile, there’s an unofficial “Trump primary” currently running where he’s running around and endorsing candidates, further complicating the party’s message going into next year.
re: #50 Targetpractice
That’s what has the party’s money men scared shitless, that they might have a repeat of Obama’s first term, falling way short of their hopes in the midterms and then failing to win back the WH. Yeah, they won in VA, but the win here and the loss in NJ were narrow and that doesn’t give a clear direction forward for next year. Meanwhile, there’s an unofficial “Trump primary” currently running where he’s running around and endorsing candidates, further complicating the party’s message going into next year.
I find that I can bear the misfortunes of the GOP donor class with great fortitude. The only problem with that hostile indifference is that the GOP crashing and burning may ruin the country if the media and the electorate can’t find the good sense to stop voting R as Republicans become ever more deranged.
Honestly, I’m surprised the GOP donor class is putting up with all this crap. Perhaps decades of unchallenged rule has completely rotted out their brains.
re: #51 EPR-radar
I find that I can bear the misfortunes of the GOP donor class with great fortitude. The only problem with that hostile indifference is that the GOP crashing and burning may ruin the country if the media and the electorate can’t find the good sense to stop voting R as Republicans become ever more deranged.
Honestly, I’m surprised the GOP donor class is putting up with all this crap. Perhaps decades of unchallenged rule has completely rotted out their brains.
It’s a bit like how the nobles “put up” with Hitler as chancellor. The reality was that the Nazi Party held such a large portion of the Bundstag that he was exerting power over the government even without holding an elected office. And the worry was if they did not do something to recognize that power, then he could end up destabilizing the house of cards or even pushing the country into a civil war.
Considered the least liberal Democrat in the Texas House:
State Rep. Ryan Guillen switches to GOP in latest blow to South Texas Democrats https://t.co/2mANf1l6v4 via @TexasTribune
— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) November 16, 2021
My brother died of COVID on Monday. I’ve learned he left the hospital early, against doctor’s recommendation. He never told me that part. He let me think he was getting better. For 9 days, I did what I could to help him. In the end, he died alone. I’m on another planet now. https://t.co/sPLMSKTlzW
— Rachel McKibbens (@RachelMcKibbens) November 11, 2021
Doesn’t all that Christian love just give you goosebumps? https://t.co/WUStfsdAjI
— ℂ𝕒𝕟𝕒𝕕𝕚𝕒𝕟 𝔾𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕖𝕣 👙🦄🇨🇦 (@geekyginge) November 15, 2021
re: #54 Belafon
Christ, both those McKibbens threads are so fucking crushingly tragic
A woman in Argentina has become only the second documented person whose own immune system may have cured her of HIV. https://t.co/5GpMPZpzdD
— NBC News (@NBCNews) November 16, 2021
re: #51 EPR-radar
I find that I can bear the misfortunes of the GOP donor class with great fortitude. The only problem with that hostile indifference is that the GOP crashing and burning may ruin the country if the media and the electorate can’t find the good sense to stop voting R as Republicans become ever more deranged.
Honestly, I’m surprised the GOP donor class is putting up with all this crap. Perhaps decades of unchallenged rule has completely rotted out their brains.
You forget that the donor class is interested only in enhancing their own wealth, improving their bottom-line, and have no concern about the long-term survival of the planet. They definitely do not care about democracy or justice or the Constitution; they are short-term thinkers all. But if they can preserve their wealth and status, they are indifferent if the rest of society crumbles about them.
Went to go mock him, apparently he’s been suspended
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re: #18 Charles Johnson
Sora like the pictures that I’ve seen of Subaru’s crashed against guard rails (says an Outback driver myself)
re: #58 EstebanTornado1963
Went to go mock him, apparently he’s been suspended
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re: #60 Hecuba’s daughter
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Hmmm —- that may not be legitimate after all.
Why is that some of the most stupidest people have Ph. D.’s? @razorgrrl and @anthonyzenkus are proof. And if you don’t believe me, the late Leo Buscaglia, Ed. D. makes the case in his videos and books, for chrissakes!
— Eric The Fruit Bat (@ericfruitbat) November 16, 2021
re: #57 Hecuba’s daughter
You forget that the donor class is interested only in enhancing their own wealth, improving their bottom-line, and have no concern about the long-term survival of the planet. They definitely do not care about democracy or justice or the Constitution; they are short-term thinkers all. But if they can preserve their wealth and status, they are indifferent if the rest of society crumbles about them.
That kind of short term thinking by the ruling class has been tried before. It didn’t work out well for French aristocrats in 1789.
A national leader of the Proud Boys, a far-right group with a history of violence, asked a judge on Monday to release him from the D.C. jail and place him on home confinement, citing what he described as inhumane conditions in the facility,” the Washington Post reports.
…begged every prisoner ever.
Not so proud now, huh?
re: #63 EPR-radar
That kind of short term thinking by the ruling class has been tried before. It didn’t work out well for French aristocrats in 1789.
The French aristocrats in 1789 didn’t have private jets, and helicopters, and super-yachts, and “investment properties” in other world capitals, and Eric Prince mercenaries securing their exit path…
re: #66 Dangerman
Ps rando:
What kind of a ridiculous argument is that? If “inhumane conditions” merit HIS release, wouldn’t it merit everyone’s release?
Or is he saying it’s inhumane ONLY for him?
Fucking babies, these “tough” guys are. Sniveling, snotty little brats.
re: #69 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
After being up only a few hours, the comments on that video indicts Homo sapiens.
re: #3 Ace Rothstein
I have already made plans to leave the country for good if anything like Jan 6 happens again in 2024-25. As far as I’m concerned, the country is already finished.
Myself I’m the opposite, I just recently purchased 300 more round of ammo. If it’s a fight they want it’s a fight they’ll get. I don’t want it to happen, but I will not be caught short if it does.
Steve Bannon was not arrested today. He made an appointment. Before his appointment he held a mini-press conference. He went into a hearing, did NOT have to post bail and walked out. He threatened people on camera and fired up his supporters w/one of Trump’s lawyers beside him.
— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) November 15, 2021
re: #71 Eventual Carrion
Myself I’m the opposite, I just recently purchased 300 more round of ammo. If it’s a fight they want it’s a fight they’ll get. I don’t want it to happen, but I will not be caught short if it does.
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re: #27 jaunte
“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities”.
— Voltaire— Teo 😷🧼↔️🌡🤬💉 (@Teukka1972) November 16, 2021
re: #75 Teukka
That song wasn’t exactly about revolution.
re: #76 darthstar
That song wasn’t exactly about revolution.
And how many who took part in that song support these brain dead morans.
*Hey, spellcheck doesn’t like morans. Wants it to be morass. Could be right, I see more asses in that photo than I have seen in one place for a while.*
Nice guy.
The Liverpool suicide attacker built a ‘Mother of Satan’ ball bearing bomb used by ISIS extremists to ‘cause maximum carnage’ and may have been driven to take revenge after his asylum bids kept being turned down amid confusion about where he was actually from, it was claimed today.
Enzo Almeni, 32, a Muslim who converted to Christianity four years ago, was killed after the homemade device exploded as his taxi pulled up at Liverpool Women’s Hospital just before before the 11am minute’s silence on Remembrance Sunday.
re: #55 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
Christ, both those McKibbens threads are so fucking crushingly tragic
Even more so if you know her. (She’s a well known poet here and my heart is just crushed for her right now.)
Real estate market here in San Diego has gone wonkers.
There are just too few residences up for sale.
And the high end of the market is wild. I presume it is being driven up by rich speculators.
Even in exclusive Ranch Santa Fe, where just three years ago houses in the $2.5M to $3.5M were aplenty, now the asks are $8-$10M and up.
And those are not the top end.
I’m calling this the Great 21st Century Land Rush: desirable properties being bid up by the ultra wealthy, probably for speculation, and dragging up the rest of the market.
While San Diego may an extreme case, I think you’ll discover that in all the major urban areas something similar is happening.
re: #80 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
If I go dark from time to time, this may be why.
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re: #3 Ace Rothstein
I have already made plans to leave the country for good if anything like Jan 6 happens again in 2024-25. As far as I’m concerned, the country is already finished.
sadly for me, i’m learning portuguese, but it’s the brazilian variant, which means I don’t have any good place to flee. I’ve wanted to learn the language so I could go to Lisbon, but sadly nobody likes to offer a full-throated language-learning program for continental portuguese. It’s always Brazilian. The continental programs are always like 30 lessons, which kind of sucks.
re: #81 BigPapa
If I go dark from time to time, this may be why.
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re: #80 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Quite a few wealthy people in America are buying into wealthy enclaves in anticipation of civil unrest or an elevation of crime-related violence in society….in other words Dystopia. Real estate nationwide is indeed bonkers but the richest areas are appreciating fastest.
Lower income units are being bought up as income properties by the wealthy to rent to the proletariat,. This is contributing even more to the problem as the inventory of available houses shrinks even more.
I know personally of one Trumpy older couple that is selling their brand new $2 Million house here in Florida to move 2 miles away into a walled compound of wealthy houses.
Good morning Lizards:
Lol pic.twitter.com/yYoH6Vrc14
— isi baehr-breen (its pronounced ‘izzy’) (@isaiah_bb) November 16, 2021
re: #83 Eventual Carrion
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re: #72 darthstar
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hey, fine by me. he gets a jury trial. when it comes time for sentencing, whether or not he’s shown any remorse for his actions will work into sentencing.
re: #3 Ace Rothstein
I’m Canadian so there’s always that.
re: #80 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Hawaii RE is crazy right now. Kauai has no inventory of luxury properties. COVID has impacted the market significantly. People do want to get away and not just vacation, but live for long periods in ‘vacation’ homes.
re: #84 Florida Panhandler
Many of the more desirable places in San Diego county do have gated communities. But there are also a lot of very expensive properties that are not behind gates.
I think the problem really is one of anticipation not so much of civil war but of financial collapse.
Real estate carries the adjective “real” for a reason.
The masses are going to find out that they can’t afford to live anywhere but out in the boonies.
re: #71 Eventual Carrion
Myself I’m the opposite, I just recently purchased 300 more round of ammo. If it’s a fight they want it’s a fight they’ll get. I don’t want it to happen, but I will not be caught short if it does.
Crossbow pistol and Tazer is what I’m leaning towards.
So, like, Alex Jones is forced to cough up damages to Sandy Hook families. Can’t wait to see how quickly he files bankruptcy.
re: #91 Eric The Fruit Bat
Crossbow pistol and Tazer is what I’m leaning towards.
Good choices. I have silent weapons as well.
re: #93 Eric The Fruit Bat
So, like, Alex Jones is forced to cough up damages to Sandy Hook families. Can’t wait to see how quickly he files bankruptcy.
He has had year’s of notice that this is coming, so I am assuming he has hidden all of his assets by now….
re: #95 b.d. (The war is over)
He has had year’s of notice that this is coming, so I am assuming he has hidden all of his assets by now….
Thinking outside the box literally: Alex Jones joins the growing trickle of right wing wackos headed towards Eastern Europe/Russian umbrella where his money could already be parked.
re: #95 b.d. (The war is over)
He has had year’s of notice that this is coming, so I am assuming he has hidden all of his assets by now….
Discovery can reveal where he hid his assets, and fraudulent conveyances can be reversed. It will take years of litigation though.
Woman whose brother and father died of Covid posted the texts on twitter in which her cousin, a nutritionist who is an anti-vaxxer, effectively murdered them.
Believed, as he himself was dying, that he was right.
My Peter. You are dead. Please, please, please, dear brother, believe me now.— Rachel McKibbens (@RachelMcKibbens) November 15, 2021
Capitalist porn peddlers stoop to necrophilia, but Juche purity restores bodily essences.
— Lord Piltdown (@jimreynolds54) November 16, 2021
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re: #97 BigPapa
Giant Gazelle Bunnies!
Season opens this month. I wonder if there will be covid testing at the check-in stations this year.
“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.” George Orwell, 1984 https://t.co/GMfusnR5nt
— Orin Kerr (@OrinKerr) November 16, 2021
re: #106 Eventual Carrion
And WhoTF are the 2% of Democrats that think that?
The common clay of the New West. You know, morons.
re: #106 Eventual Carrion
And WhoTF are the 2% of Democrats that think that?
Democrats who always vote Republican.
I don’t know what it is about left-wing cartoonists who crawl up their own asshole, but I hate it. Matt Bors used to be funny.
If a lunch place is serving delicious beans and another is serving $#*!, I know which one I’m going to. You? https://t.co/lELU7cyJ90
— Spandan @ Reclaim the Fight 🇺🇸 🏳️🌈 🇮🇱 (@reclaimthefight) November 16, 2021
This pattern happens over and over again. Migrant caravans, racial justice run amok, communism creeping to America… they are election games. The people running the show don’t believe a damn word of it. They just know how to sell. https://t.co/n5GfxEyqao
— Jared Holt (@jaredlholt) November 16, 2021
I continue to be accosted by a shiftless beggar with a criminal background. Obviously unemployable or afraid of work.
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re: #111 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
I continue to be accosted by a shiftless beggar with a criminal background. Obviously unemployable or afraid of work.
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I wonder why
re: #110 Patricia Kayden
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In August 1963, the right-wing cartoonist Jack Knox drew a series of cartoons on the civil rights movement and the March on Washington. Like many on the right, Knox painted the movement red and depicted it as violent and dangerous. These appeared in the Nashville Banner. pic.twitter.com/30khreImGu
— Randall Stephens (@Randall_Stps) November 16, 2021
re: #111 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
I continue to be accosted by a shiftless beggar with a criminal background. Obviously unemployable or afraid of work.
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He’s still pretending that he is America, rather than a symptom of what threatens our nation.
re: #82 steve_davis
sadly for me, i’m learning portuguese, but it’s the brazilian variant, which means I don’t have any good place to flee. I’ve wanted to learn the language so I could go to Lisbon, but sadly nobody likes to offer a full-throated language-learning program for continental portuguese. It’s always Brazilian. The continental programs are always like 30 lessons, which kind of sucks.
This page lists various European Portuguese courses, a few go through B2, and one lists levels up to C2.
re: #114 Punish Domestic Terrorists
He’s still pretending that he is America, rather than a symptom of what threatens our nation.
Unfortunately, a widely-shared delusion…
DoD vaccine mandate for troops survives legal challenge
A legal challenge to the military’s vaccine mandate didn’t come close to meeting the high bar for winning a preliminary injunction, a Florida judge ruled.https://t.co/QH8BOi7itZ— Travis Akers (@travisakers) November 15, 2021
re: #82 steve_davis
sadly for me, i’m learning portuguese, but it’s the brazilian variant, which means I don’t have any good place to flee. I’ve wanted to learn the language so I could go to Lisbon, but sadly nobody likes to offer a full-throated language-learning program for continental portuguese. It’s always Brazilian. The continental programs are always like 30 lessons, which kind of sucks.
Are the two variants of Portuguese that different that you would have difficulty communicating?
Not that I know jack about the language, but I thought it was more an issue of “accent” (and the inevitable colloquialisms) - rather like, say, American vs. British vs. Australian English.
Any doubt that public health messaging in 🇬🇧 has gone completely mad? If you still have faith in it read this. Incredible
So sorry you experience this nonsense @HelenOLeslie https://t.co/thsOFLH3L9— Martin McKee (@martinmckee) November 15, 2021
A scene from the end of WWZ:
Over the dense forests and cocoa farms of central Ghana, drones operated by Zipline Inc. carry precious cargo to remote villages: Pfizer and BioNTech’s Covid vaccine.
ICYMI, my latest on overcoming the ‘Last Mile’ of vaccine distribution: https://t.co/K0UqtNKXpt via @business— Riley Ray Griffin (@rileyraygriffin) November 15, 2021
re: #103 No Malarkey!
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Texas doctor suspended for spreading COVID-19 misinformation and refusing to treat vaccinated patients, hospital says https://t.co/mvhz1ieu6n
— CBS News (@CBSNews) November 15, 2021
Perspective: “Cops who don’t get vaccinated betray our oath to protect” https://t.co/EKe7TkNEn4
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 13, 2021
Dozens of New York City sanitation workers were suspended because of fake vaccine cards. City officials are investigating how extensive the fraud might be. A vaccination mandate took effect Nov. 1 & roughly 9k unvaxxed workers were placed on unpaid leave https://t.co/tOrSbsrEBl
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) November 15, 2021
If we’d named it the Trump vaccine:
I did a story last week about how Michigan quietly flowed money to the Small Business Association to try to convince conservatives to get vaccinated. https://t.co/0jzBuWygpR
Today, I received some additional information. Here’s one of the mailers. pic.twitter.com/JYepADaL4w— Craig Mauger (@CraigDMauger) November 15, 2021
re: #121 Belafon
People all over the world are clamoring for a vaccine, and we’ve got fucknuts here who claim the vaccine doesn’t work, causes covid19, makes you magnetic, allows Microsoft to track you, and all other kinds of bulkshit.
Covid19 is a window into what would happen during the zombie apocalypse. The GOP would be lining up to get bit by the zombie hoards all while claiming that they’re getting herd immunity. The GOP would be the ones pushing Phalanx and ignoring that masks and social distancing save lives. The GOP are the ones who would ignore an actual working vaccine that saves lives.
After the January 6 insurrection, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin spoke with other Cabinet members about attempting to remove Donald Trump from office through the 25th Amendment, MSNBC reports.But the idea was “quickly jettisoned” once Mnuchin recognized how difficult the path would be, especially since Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao were resigning.
Woulda been difficult so we didn’t try
Y’all bitch about DA’s and judges but you don’t vote locally.
The judge running the clown show apparently ran unopposed. 🙄
And if there are great people y’all don’t vote.
The same thing about voting for your city council. 🗳️— Leaundra Ross 💙💚🏈 (@LeaundraRoss) November 16, 2021
re: #119 Jay C
Are the two variants of Portuguese that different that you would have difficulty communicating?
Not that I know jack about the language, but I thought it was more an issue of “accent” (and the inevitable colloquialisms) - rather like, say American vs. British vs. Australian English.
It’s more than that, I understand. There are grammatical differences too. Also “a slightly different vocabulary” often means the first thousand or so words — the ones everyone uses every day — are the ones that are different.
For those who enjoy McMansion Hell, here is a more global perspective. That’s It, I’m Architecture Shaming
No word yet on how much Alexandra charges, or whether she accepts walk-ins or requires an appointment.
Christopher Miller, who became acting secretary of defense following the firing of Mark Esper, sought to dissuade former President Donald Trump from attacking Iran by acting like a ‘fucking madman’ and walking Trump through just how destructive such an attack would be,” Insider reports.Said Miller: “I would play the fucking Madman. And everybody else would be like, ‘All right, he’s the new guy. He’s fucking insane. Don’t listen to him.’ I was like, ‘Hey, if we are going to do this shit, let’s do it.’”
” only the best”
re: #128 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!
It’s more than that, I understand. There are grammatical differences too. Also “a slightly different vocabulary” often means the first thousand or so words — the ones everyone uses every day — are the ones that are different.
The Spanish i am learning is Mexican Spanish. Castilian Spanish, spoken in Spain, only has a few of the main words that are truly different, and, according to what I have read, I would be understood there.
re: #122 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!
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re: #129 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
For those who enjoy McMansion Hell, here is a more global perspective. That’s It, I’m Architecture Shaming
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No word yet on how much Alexandra charges, or whether she accepts walk-ins or requires an appointment.
El Bordello, indeed.
Looking online, Portuguese is the same language in both places, the Brazilian version just sounds more lyrical.
A lot of the people replying to this Tweet think the Russians are trying to destroy the ISS and keep more successful nations from putting up spy satellites.
Seriously, what the fuck is Russia doing shooting down its own satellite in low-Earth orbit; creating a cloud of 1,500 trackable pieces of debris, and knowingly threating its own asset—the International Space Station. What a catastrophe.
— Eric Berger (@SciGuySpace) November 15, 2021
re: #132 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Its the *idea* of being stuck at all and the irrational buildup that goes through people’s minds
re: #131 Belafon
The Spanish i am learning is Mexican Spanish. Castilian Spanish, spoken in Spain, only has a few of the main words that are truly different, and, according to what I have read, I would be understood there.
True. As a non-native speaker of Spanish, you’d struggle more than a native speaker with “little things” like pronunciation, also make sure anywhere in Spanish that you know the current local use of 2nd person pronouns, but they’re largely the same.
The two variants of Portuguese have diverged more.
re: #106 Eventual Carrion
And WhoTF are the 2% of Democrats that think that?
Tulsi Gabbard and her family?
re: #3 Ace Rothstein
I have already made plans to leave the country for good if anything like Jan 6 happens again in 2024-25. As far as I’m concerned, the country is already finished.
The USA is well on its way to becoming an ungovernable, failed state and it will take serious efforts to correct that situation.
Ugh…looks like our refrigerator/freezer gave up the ghost last night. Light’s on, but the motherboard must have fried as the temp controls are toast.
Fortunately we have a back up fridge/freezer in the garage (used mostly for wine/beer) so we can save a lot. The freezer’s pretty full though…we have been trying to make space the last few weeks and just cooked a 5lb corned beef on Sunday (gave full platters to two neighbors and still have leftovers).
Still. Time to buy a new appliance…pain in the ass.
re: #90 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The masses are going to find out that they can’t afford to live anywhere but out in the boonies.
And when the transportation system collapses, in stacks outside the city gates.
(Ready Player One)
Is it possible for both a company and the individuals working for said company to be filled with more s@%t than even the sum of their parts? Fox News has time and time again defied all constructs of decency, intelligence, and morality. On Friday, Fox News sent out invites to raise themselves some money at what is being called an “award show.” The network that has turned its audience into the biggest believers in public health misinformation want everyone to meet up!The event is Fox Nation’s Patriot Awards 2021! Wowsers! It will be held on Wednesday, Nov. 17, in Hollywood, Florida! (GET IT?!?!?!?!?!) Tickets range from $125 for a plain old Patriot ticket up to $500 for a Patriot Gold ticket. “Special guests” will include all kinds of Fox Nation favorites like Tucker Carlson. Barf! Patriots are about freedom and Trump and the freedom to be you and me. No, it means the freedom to just be them everyone else be damned!
Probably unrelated fine print from the event: “IMPORTANT: In order to attend The Patriot Awards, all attendees must show either (A) COVID vaccine card OR (B) a negative COVID test taken 72 hours prior to the event. Before entering the venue, your vaccine card or negative test will be verified by a Fox Nation team member in front of Hard Rock Live. Once confirmed, a colored wristband corresponding to the package you purchased will be provided and you can proceed into the venue.”
By popular request… pic.twitter.com/WMBDBJr7Oj
— Tory Bruno (@torybruno) November 16, 2021
re: #145 Sherlock Hound
What level does the ISS orbit and where was the satellite?
re: #146 Belafon
What level does the ISS orbit and where was the satellite?
The ISS orbits at just above 400 km (418-422 km).
re: #138 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!
True. As a non-native speaker of Spanish, you’d struggle more than a native speaker with “little things” like pronunciation, also make sure anywhere in Spanish that you know the current local use of 2nd person pronouns, but they’re largely the same.
The two variants of Portuguese have diverged more.
Portuguese parents are concerned that their kids are learning too much Brazilian from the Internet:
Portuguese newspaper denounces that children in the country “only speak Brazilian”
Nobody likes a quitter https://t.co/BjNG4CnLcX
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) November 16, 2021
re: #148 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Portuguese parents are concerned that their kids are learning too much Brazilian from the Internet:
Portuguese newspaper denounces that children in the country “only speak Brazilian”
I wonder if English parents have similar concerns.
This database, containing nearly 60,000 Jewish tombstones from across Turkey, is the largest academic tombstone database of its kind in the world. https://t.co/yYgFj2FZda pic.twitter.com/RNlrUrhpvS
— Ticia Verveer (@ticiaverveer) November 16, 2021
re: #141 darthstar
Still. Time to buy a new appliance…pain in the ass.
We went through that a couple of weeks ago. Selection is limited but backlogs are easing. We replaced with a similar fridge.
Is this a coup? https://t.co/djF8yt2pKO
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) November 16, 2021
Yes. It continues to be a coup.
re: #150 Belafon
I wonder if English parents have similar concerns.
Real English parents teach their children only Received Pronunciation.
re: #153 jaunte
Flynn called DoD official Ezra Cohen and pressured him to help seize ballots and take extraordinary measures to overturn the election
This fits the heading of inciting an illegal act, and one against the US government at that.
In a rant against women in the workplace and schools, Madison Cawthorn claimed, “America is the greatest force for good to happen since Jesus Christ died on the cross.” pic.twitter.com/FyoKjYbZ0x
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) November 16, 2021
re: #92 steve_davis
JFK Jr. returning:
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Mitch McConnell is really struggling to speak on the Senate floor pic.twitter.com/W4dLVyMQjk
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 16, 2021
re: #156 The Pie Overlord!
Well, until he came along. // (The sarc is that he’s not the first.)
This is obscene.
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re: #161 jaunte
This is obscene.
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I had to reload to re-hide that because it was honestly upsetting me. These people are fucking disgusting.
Will we get a verdict on Rittenhouse today?
re: #163 Eclectic Cyborg
Brings up an interesting question–what is the difference in the amount of time a jury deliberates if they are sequestered as opposed to if they are not sequestered?
I, personally, had no idea that murder trials are held without the jury being sequestered (apparently as a budget saving measure).
re: #166 Eclectic Cyborg
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re: #163 Eclectic Cyborg
Will we get a verdict on Rittenhouse today?
I already have one. Oh, wait you mean the court. ///
Rittenhouse trial becomes system trial.
re: #161 jaunte
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This really strains the meaning of “critic.” Christie has acknowledged the election wasn’t stolen, which is akin to granting that the sky is blue. But he hasn’t closed the door on supporting Trump in 2024 and he mostly has good things to say about him. https://t.co/tNqXXE67j7
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 16, 2021
re: #146 Belafon
What level does the ISS orbit and where was the satellite?
The Russian satellite was approximately 450 kilometers up. The ISS is well within range of the debris cloud.
re: #161 jaunte
This is obscene.
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re: #161 jaunte
This is obscene.
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wait just one fucking minute…
NEW: The jury began deliberating at the murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse.
Rittenhouse, in a highly unusual move, was allowed by the judge to draw the slips of paper from a raffle drum to determine the members of the jury from a pool of 18. https://t.co/4tJZORFCtG— Star Tribune (@StarTribune) November 16, 2021
WALMART CEO on @CNBC this am:
“We’re up 11% on inventory. .. We’re in good shape for the holiday.” https://t.co/Ot2g3ueT6X— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla) November 16, 2021
It is amusing to watch Mike Pence and Chris Christie run around the country acting under the delusion that they have a political future.
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) November 16, 2021
For those that wish to…
marvel.com
INFRINGEMENT CLAIMS
If you are aware or suspect any persons infringing on the intellectual property of Marvel, please contact infringements@marvel.com and describe the suspected infringement. Please be as detailed as possible so that the claim can be investigated properly. Please also provide as much information as possible on the suspected infringer (ex. name, address, website, e-mail, phone number).
Such examples of intellectual property infringement are:
Unlicensed merchandise using Marvel’s characters or names
Unapproved commercial use of Marvel characters or trademarks
Counterfeit products
Illegal copies of Marvel material being sold or distributed.
re: #177 Rightwingconspirator
The problem is, that image might not be infringement. It’s not merchandise or commercial; in fact, the argument could be made for it to be fair use, as a fan art work. Copyright law in the US is so fucked up that it’s entirely plausible, and in fact somewhat likely, that this image is completely legal - but it would cost Marvel a lot of money to find that out, and they’d probably rather sweep it under the rug.
re: #175 Backwoods_Sleuth
I was helping a nephew collect for the Salvation Army outside a Wal-Mart in Indiana. We sat out there all day and noticed a semi truck pulling up nearly once an hour. We later went and asked: the store clerk said that they usually get one or two trucks per day, but during Christmas season, they are moving a truckload of goods out the front door of their store every hour, every day, all day…
So, how did the Repug terror lobby get to the Rottenhouse judge? Threats? Bribes? Kompromat? Or maybe he’s just a craven fascist asshole to start with.
re: #178 Dopamine Fish
The problem is, that image might not be infringement. It’s not merchandise or commercial; in fact, the argument could be made for it to be fair use, as a fan art work. Copyright law in the US is so fucked up that it’s entirely plausible, and in fact somewhat likely, that this image is completely legal - but it would cost Marvel a lot of money to find that out, and they’d probably rather sweep it under the rug.
Is it a commercial site?
re: #178 Dopamine Fish
I reported it anyway.
re: #180 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
So, how did the Repug terror lobby get to the Rottenhouse judge? Threats? Bribes? Kompromat? Or maybe he’s just a craven fascist asshole to start with.
How the fuck did Rittenhouse get the weapons claim dismissed? That one was a slam dunk and now it has been taken off the table.
re: #182 Rightwingconspirator
I reported it anyway.
There’s no reason not to, but I’m just saying that it’s not absolutely clear-cut copyright infringement. In fact, my post is more saying, “We need to fix our copyright laws, because the system we have in the US is absolutely broken in the Digital Age.”
re: #183 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
How the fuck did Rittenhouse get the weapons claim dismissed? That one was a slam dunk and now it has been taken off the table.
The Judge is his #1 fan.
re: #183 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
How the fuck did Rittenhouse get the weapons claim dismissed? That one was a slam dunk and now it has been taken off the table.
The judge said that only weapons under a certain length applied to the statute, made some vague noises about the law being a terribly written law, and tossed the charge. It happened at the last minute because, apparently, criminal law generally doesn’t have the concept of a “motion to dismiss” like we see all the time in civil law.
re: #184 Dopamine Fish
There’s no reason not to, but I’m just saying that it’s not absolutely clear-cut copyright infringement. In fact, my post is more saying, “We need to fix our copyright laws, because the system we have in the US is absolutely broken in the Digital Age.”
True. However, sometimes it’s not about the letter of the law. “Never screw with The Mouse” is how locals say don’t mess with Disney characters. Their lawyers seemingly always win. In any case, it’s in Marvel’s hands to act or ignore.
re: #169 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Pains me to say this, but it’s a derivative work making a statement.
A massively offensive statement, since the guys who created Capt. America would adamantly be 9238% opposed to what Kyle Rittenhouse has done and represents.
But unfortunately, this is one of those “The 1st Amendment protects unpopular speech” cases.
You ban this, you have to ban the Rockwell parody that followed it up.
re: #188 Mattand
These were my thoughts too.
re: #187 Rightwingconspirator
True. However, sometimes it’s not about the letter of the law. “Never screw with The Mouse” is how locals say don’t mess with Disney characters. Their lawyers seemingly always win. In any case, it’s in Marvel’s hands to act or ignore.
Other than a cease and desist order, what else can they do?
Pie Overload sent a Tweet that Charles banned Teleskiguy.
I am sorry he had to do that.
Michelle and Justafarmer sent me Twitter DMS asking me to come back.
However others agreed with Teleskiguy that I shouldn’t be here.
I shut off my Twitter DMs
I wanted to acknowledge those who reached out to me but for now I will not be participating here due to the number of DMs telling me to go.
re: #165 Acemarilllion
Brings up an interesting question–what is the difference in the amount of time a jury deliberates if they are sequestered as opposed to if they are not sequestered?
I, personally, had no idea that murder trials are held without the jury being sequestered (apparently as a budget saving measure).
Read somewhere that the jury consultant that who advised Rittenhouse attorneys was the same one that helped in the OJ Simpson case. So don’t expect anything except a fast acquittal.
re: #169 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Maybe they are just celebrating America’s gun culture?
Just sayin!
re: #190 Shropshire Slasher
Other than a cease and desist order, what else can they do?
Drown someone in paperwork until the creator of the parody art withdraws the piece from public.
If memory serves, Mattel came down like a ton of bricks on an artist who created derivative works using actual Barbies, or something similar.
Totally legal for the artist and absolutely covered by the 1st Amendment, but they didn’t have the legal and financial firepower to fight Mattel.
re: #191 Joe Bacon
Pie Overload sent a Tweet that Charles banned Teleskiguy.
I am sorry he had to do that.
Michelle and Justafarmer sent me Twitter DMS asking me to come back.
However others agreed with Teleskiguy that I shouldn’t be here.
I shut off my Twitter DMs
I wanted to acknowledge those who reached out to me but for now I will not be participating here due to the number of DMs telling me to go.
Frankly, that is stupid. The people who want you here vastly outnumber and are a hell of a lot better than the people who don’t want you here (if they actually exist). Screw them.
I bid you peace Joe….
re: #183 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
How the fuck did Rittenhouse get the weapons claim dismissed? That one was a slam dunk and now it has been taken off the table.
He was “hunting.” If so, it is an admission of intent to kill, and invalidates self-defense.
We have to face the fact that we are dealing with honest-to-god fascist murderers and will eventually have to take appropriate measures. Shaming them has no effect, argument has no effect (since they know they are lying and actually take pride in it). You cannot call them bullies, since they think a bully is a good thing to be.
I think we are all beginning to understand what it will take. It speaks well of us; the rational, progressive majority; that we recoil from it. That will not change the facts, or the hard realities of self preservation.
re: #191 Joe Bacon
Pie Overload sent a Tweet that Charles banned Teleskiguy.
I am sorry he had to do that.
Michelle and Justafarmer sent me Twitter DMS asking me to come back.
However others agreed with Teleskiguy that I shouldn’t be here.
I shut off my Twitter DMs
I wanted to acknowledge those who reached out to me but for now I will not be participating here due to the number of DMs telling me to go.
For what it’s worth, sorry to see you go and hope you reconsider.
re: #191 Joe Bacon
Dude, never had a problem with you, and don’t see how others could have a problem.
But do what you have to do for your own peace of mind and go with grace.
re: #191 Joe Bacon
I missed the kefuffle, but have never had any issues with anything you post.
Geweldig! Eerste woord is vgl mij Zion. Ik ga het even uitprinten Corien
— Ticia Verveer (@ticiaverveer) November 16, 2021
Terrific! First word is cf. me Zion. I’m going to print it out Corien
re: #186 Dopamine Fish
The judge said that only weapons under a certain length applied to the statute, made some vague noises about the law being a terribly written law, and tossed the charge. It happened at the last minute because, apparently, criminal law generally doesn’t have the concept of a “motion to dismiss” like we see all the time in civil law.
The more I look at that the more it stinks. That was no hunting expedition, there is contrary precedent, and to me, it’s just another indicator that the judge made up his mind when he woke up on day 1.
Best part of this tweet was the responses where people were like, “REALLY?!??!
”
Because you literally can’t tell if it was a joke or not. That’s the America we’re living in. https://t.co/Uo8pyJpXMU— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) November 16, 2021
re: #174 Backwoods_Sleuth
wait just one fucking minute…
And don’t you just love that the article refers to him as
The former police youth cadet
re: #191 Joe Bacon
Hi Joe,
I hope you find your way back to LGF. My online life has a Joe-sized hole in it. I will miss the stories of your labor activist parents and grandparents.
For now, take care.
Teddy’s Person
re: #122 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!
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re: #82 steve_davis
sadly for me, i’m learning portuguese, but it’s the brazilian variant, which means I don’t have any good place to flee. I’ve wanted to learn the language so I could go to Lisbon, but sadly nobody likes to offer a full-throated language-learning program for continental portuguese. It’s always Brazilian. The continental programs are always like 30 lessons, which kind of sucks.
Try DuoLingo. Online.
re: #171 Sherlock Hound
The Russian satellite was approximately 450 kilometers up. The ISS is well within range of the debris cloud.
The ISS astronauts, including three (I think) Russians, had to take shelter in the escape pods because of the risk.
The whole thing seems to be a clusterfuck. It appears that the Russian space agency didn’t know what was going on at all, and then this morning Lavrov the foreign minister denied that Russia had anything to do with any so-called anti-satellite weapon and how dare you accuse us of this, about fifteen minutes before the Russian Ministry of Defense announced a, you guessed it, successful anti-satellite missile test.
Apparently the Chinese space station is at risk, too, which is probably not what Russia wants right now.
re: #137 Dangerman
Wrt the Covid vax its not the needle stick
Its the *idea* of being stuck at all and the irrational buildup that goes through people’s minds
Bingo.
re: #137 Dangerman
Wrt the Covid vax its not the needle stick
Its the *idea* of being stuck at all and the irrational buildup that goes through people’s minds
I don’t have a problem with injections, but I have not been able to talk myself into donating blood for ages because I do not at all like the notion of having a needle in me for an extended period of time…
re: #183 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
How the fuck did Rittenhouse get the weapons claim dismissed? That one was a slam dunk and now it has been taken off the table.
His gun was too long to qualify under the Wisconsin statute.
re: #210 No Malarkey!
His gun was too long to qualify under the Wisconsin statute.
So size does matter to someone like Kyle…
re: #183 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
How the fuck did Rittenhouse get the weapons claim dismissed? That one was a slam dunk and now it has been taken off the table.
I saw a tweet (I think from Elizabeth De La Vega) saying that she wasn’t disturbed by the elimination of the weapons claim because the jury now had no ‘compromise’ position to take for a lighter sentence.
I keep going back to after 9/11 when news coverage of OBL and his “philosophy” were being discussed. One thing I remember well is his belief that the 9/11 attacks would divide this country so deeply there would be no need to further attack from the outside because we would do a great job of hating each other and destroying the country from within. And god damn it we did a great job with a lot of help from republicans. I can remember almost exactly when I saw the shift here locally and it wasn’t subtle. About 3 weeks after that awful fucking day the bullshit about liberals being supporters of terrorism(because we didn’t begin just publicly executing Muslim people in the streets, even if they only “looked Muslim”. It escalated from there. And IMHO, that’s where we could have salvaged something and put a stop to it, but the fear in the American public had already taken a firm hold and we had/have a news media that fed that fear.
Families are broken and not fixable. Friendships, even lifelong ones, are irretrievably broken. We are fighting each other about affordable healthcare, housing, education and living wages, there are actual working class people who don’t want these things for anyone, not even themselves because it wasn’t “worked for”.
Since 9/11 I have lost my parents and siblings to hatred of liberals and judgement for not being extra special Jesus-y enough. It was a slow process, but it worked. All my IRL friends are now mean and hateful right wing jerks that hate damned near everyone and refuse to vax or wear masks. Imagine hating on your own daughter so much you won’t include her or her family(including their only grandson)in your plans for holidays or vacations. Instead they spend all that time with a cousin and her husband, who have no kids and who in turn ignore my widowed aunt. Over god and right wing politics. We never hurt these people, in fact, my husband has done countless home repairs for them over the years and never once asked for a dime because it’s family. Only to be discarded like trash for not being good enough.
Multiply that by a few million and I would bet my tiny piggy bank that my story isn’t even close to unique and a lot more common than we realize. Where are all the fucking media interviews of people like us?
My point? We can’t fix what’s broken if this continues. There are too many of us who are either consumed with a need to hate and many others who are just broken hearted, which leads to another kind of anger that smolders and hurts and never goes away. I mean, I’ve been dealing with birth family rejection my entire life, but it doesn’t make it hurt any less.
I just do not see how we can heal without confronting this and trying to somehow create our own supportive family, by birth or not. The holidays and all the stupid pressure to have some perfect family gatherings does not help at ALL. There’s going to be a lot of hurting people out there, this time of year amplifies this for many of us. I just don’t know what to do or where to go anymore. It’s going to be tough to sort out, for me at least. Thanks for listening/reading.
re: #212 jaunte
I saw a tweet (I think from Elizabeth De La Vega) saying that she wasn’t disturbed by the elimination of the weapons claim because the jury now had no ‘compromise’ position to take for a lighter sentence.
I still think it means he’s gonna walk and the Judge was making sure it was all-or-nothing for the Jury and already has enough intelligence (in the sense of information, not smarts) that the Jury will not convict on the more serious charges.
This is all a lot of sick-ass performance theater.
re: #119 Jay C
Are the two variants of Portuguese that different that you would have difficulty communicating?
Not that I know jack about the language, but I thought it was more an issue of “accent” (and the inevitable colloquialisms) - rather like, say, American vs. British vs. Australian English.
mutually intelligible, I’m sure, but very much fear the continentals would think I sounded like a redneck. I guess that would probably get better over time, but once you’ve committed stuff to muscle memory, it’s hard to undo. Hard to know whether “mueentue ahbrigadue” makes one sound like a complete ponce in Lisbon.
re: #215 steve_davis
mutually intelligible, I’m sure, but very much fear the continentals would think I sounded like a redneck. I guess that would probably get better over time, but once you’ve committed stuff to muscle memory, it’s hard to undo. Hard to know whether “mueentue ahbrigadue” makes one sound like a complete ponce in Lisbon.
there are 10 million Portuguese and 210 million Brazilians
it would be like learning the Liechtenstein variant of German over Hochdeutsch
re: #212 jaunte
My first reaction was really to disagree. But I went to her Twitter page and saw her credentials. I’m impressed. I just hope she is right. I worry this guy is gonna be acquitted across the board.
@Delavegalaw
21yr Fed Pros (Org Crime, Chief SJ Branch), Past Stanford Law Pro Bono Dir/Lecturer & US Dist Ct. Clerk. Pub.
re: #176 Backwoods_Sleuth
“Delusional disorder, previously called paranoid disorder,is a type of serious mental illness — in which a person cannot tell what is real from how they want it to be.The main feature of this disorder is the presence of delusions,which are unshakable beliefs in something untrue.”
— QuoteDigger (@QuoteDigging) November 16, 2021
In an era of Great Powell Competition https://t.co/Qraw74YFmN
— Dave Brown (@dave_brown24) November 16, 2021
It’s not at all new that people would find, and believe, wild conspiracy theories on the internet. But usually those people don’t have the capacity to call up top government officials to try to get the armed forces to act on them. In Nov./Dec. 2020, it seems they did.
— Brad Heath (@bradheath) November 16, 2021
re: #209 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I don’t have a problem with injections, but I have not been able to talk myself into donating blood for ages because I do not at all like the notion of having a needle in me for an extended period of time…
understandable
i give blood regularly because i’m CMV negative so my blood is preferred for low birth weight babies
the staff where i go is very good and gentle, and i tell them every time “that was great’
the needles are a bit larger than the vax though in my experience after the initial stick, i dont feel anything else.
re: #190 Shropshire Slasher
Nothing wrong with that step happening.
re: #219 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
The failed former President sought out people who would tell him that his beliefs, caused by his personality disorder, were grounded in reality. He wound up surrounded by absolute lunatics. This is just one reason you can’t make a person with NPD a leader.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) November 16, 2021
re: #174 Backwoods_Sleuth
wait just one fucking minute…
18 jurors have sat through the Kyle Rittenhouse trial in Kenosha, but only 12 will decide the case.
A longstanding tradition here: The defendant (Mr. Rittenhouse) randomly chooses those 12 jurors by drawing slips of paper from a spinning contraption. https://t.co/Cekf9CEhUp pic.twitter.com/c3pka2QaHu— Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs (@NickAtNews) November 16, 2021
re: #223 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
A longstanding tradition here: The defendant (Mr. Rittenhouse) randomly chooses those 12 jurors by drawing slips of paper from a spinning contraption.
So totally normal, and outrage was based on a misunderstanding.
re: #224 Punish Domestic Terrorists
So totally normal, and outrage was based on a misunderstanding.
So it appears
re: #225 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
So it appears
The 6 jurors who weren’t selected are now alternates who could, theoretically, swap in if one of the 12 jurors is dismissed over illness or a concern about their integrity or some such.
Here’s our wrap-up from closing arguments: https://t.co/FzzdQJOykz— Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs (@NickAtNews) November 16, 2021
Follow @MrOlmos for more from outside the Kenosha courthouse as jurors weigh the five charges against Kyle Rittenhouse inside. https://t.co/pGT7CNClOS
— Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs (@NickAtNews) November 16, 2021
re: #152 jeffreyw
We went through that a couple of weeks ago. Selection is limited but backlogs are easing. We replaced with a similar fridge.
I have three criteria for a new refrigerator.
1. Wife likes it
2. Fits in the slot
3. ~$1500 - no need to spend more. Figure 150 for delivery and a 100 dollar tip.
re: #227 darthstar
I have three criteria for a new refrigerator.
1. Wife likes it
2. Fits in the slot
3. ~$1500 - no need to spend more. Figure 150 for delivery and a 100 dollar tip.
How will you surf the web from your fridge if you settle for that?
A $1,500 fridge is going to be a nice unit. When I had a house, mine was about $1,200 and was pretty nice.
Occurred on Nov. 10. at South Lakes Elementary in Gaithersburg, Md., doses were over diluted
Nearly 100 children near DC receive incorrect dose of vaccine at clinic https://t.co/jAG0dAnULx pic.twitter.com/b6bwaGEVfA
— The Hill (@thehill) November 16, 2021
Saw this cloud yesterday from the Livingston side of the hill. Can #mtwx explain it to me? Seems to be losing its unique shape by third pic. pic.twitter.com/txQVRJ6Fd0
— Sarah Tabor (@tabor_sarah) November 16, 2021
It isn’t as close to the ground as the picture makes it seam. It was over the rise. It was windy enough that the main Livingston on ramp was closed and many semis were waiting at the gas station at the west end I-90 ramp.
— Sarah Tabor (@tabor_sarah) November 16, 2021
re: #224 Punish Domestic Terrorists
So totally normal, and outrage was based on a misunderstanding.
so, kinda like the condemned choosing the rope.
re: #13 Hecuba’s daughter
Have to give her bonus points: she said “Democratic colleagues” not “Democrat colleagues”. Or have Republicans switched their posture on this?
Sen Marsha better hope the WY GPO don’t hear about this.
“I was taken aback by how fondly Trump remembers a day [January 6] I will always remember as one of the darkest I have ever witnessed,” [Karl] writes, adding that Trump seemed to justify the death threats made against his own vice president. “It boggled my mind,” Karl says.
It did? The author’s expressions of surprise are so frequent and over-the-top that they are perhaps the most surprising parts of this book. “Betrayal” is less insightful about the Trump White House and more revealing of Karl’s own gradual, extremely belated awareness that something in the White House might in fact be awry.
It probably speaks to Karl’s decency as a person that he didn’t want to contemplate anything so terrible, but for all the high-minded talk in his books about the journalistic pursuit of accuracy, he gives little indication that he had the imagination to handle the truth.
There is an absolutely infuriating tendency amongst the Beltway press to refuse to recognize just how truly evil the Trumpites are, how they are engaged in a concerted effort to destroy America so they can then get about their real goal of exterminating black, latino, gay, college-educated, etc.
What will it take?
re: #233 Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)
There is an absolutely infuriating tendency amongst the Beltway press to refuse to recognize just how truly evil the Trumpites are, how they are engaged in a concerted effort to destroy America so they can then get about their real goal of exterminating black, latino, gay, college-educated, etc.
What will it take?
These people can get asylum easy-peasy.
Many of us can’t.
re: #197 Mattand
For what it’s worth, sorry to see you go and hope you reconsider.
His last comment gives me hope that he will return — “but for now I will not be participating here”. I’ve lost too many IRL friends over the past few years (none directly to Covid) and too many online friends who have enriched my experience (especially CL). Losing Joe is another blow.
re: #233 Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)
There is an absolutely infuriating tendency amongst the Beltway press to refuse to recognize just how truly evil the Trumpites are, how they are engaged in a concerted effort to destroy America so they can then get about their real goal of exterminating black, latino, gay, college-educated, etc.
What will it take?
They might get a clue when they get lined up along a wall by Trump’s militia.
re: #180 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
So, how did the Repug terror lobby get to the Rottenhouse judge? Threats? Bribes? Kompromat? Or maybe he’s just a craven fascist asshole to start with.
I’d go with Door #4.
Eight people are dead and just shy of 100 more have become infected with COVID-19 after an outbreak at a Connecticut nursing home.The outbreak at the Geer Village Senior Community, a nursing home and rehabilitation center in Canaan, started around the beginning of October when the nursing home was reporting three positive COVID-19 cases.
Now, eight residents have died, and 67 residents and 22 staff members caught COVID-19 sometime in the past month and a half. Nursing home officials said 48 residents and 21 staff members have recovered from the virus.
Of the 89 total infections, 87 people were fully vaccinated, the nursing home said.
re: #237 austin_blue
I’d go with Door #4.
Yes #4. But I wouldn’t apply the term “craven”; “craven” is a McCarthy who doesn’t share Trump’s beliefs, but goes along to retain his power. The Rittenhouse judge is an outright willful fascist.
re: #238 Shropshire Slasher
They probably were among the very first vaccinated. Wonder if they’d had a booster?
re: #233 Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)
What it will take is a ban on publishing books where key information is withheld to publish and sell books. So never. Another bunch of shit that points to how entirely shitty our incompetent news media is. In a sane country no one would buy these books or have these already rich assholes on TV.
re: #240 retired cynic
They probably were among the very first vaccinated. Wonder if they’d had a booster?
at the end of the article:
Residents and staff will become eligible for the booster shot when the community has gone two full weeks without any new COVID-19 cases, they said.
re: #233 Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)
There is an absolutely infuriating tendency amongst the Beltway press to refuse to recognize just how truly evil the Trumpites are, how they are engaged in a concerted effort to destroy America so they can then get about their real goal of exterminating black, latino, gay, college-educated, etc.
What will it take?
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re: #242 Backwoods_Sleuth
That’s the problem.
So he didnt see it? Or it was a joke? Or maybe he “didnt see” the “joke” he was making? https://t.co/0QS1g6ddei
— Brandi Buchman (@Brandi_Buchman) November 16, 2021
sure, jan…
re: #245 Backwoods_Sleuth
sure, jan…
McCarthy also defended Gosar, telling reporters what he relayed to his conference: “He didn’t see it before it posted… It was not his intent to show any harm. What I said to conference was, cannot accept any action or showing of violence to another member.”
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) November 16, 2021
Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever! /
‘MAGA Mo’ Brooks says the ‘Build Back Better’ plan is a socialist plot by Democrats to destroy the suburbs by moving “inner city” people out into the “nice neighborhoods” by building more affordable housing. pic.twitter.com/yevTSugU4r
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) November 16, 2021
re: #245 Backwoods_Sleuth
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sure, jan…
So he didnt see it? Or it was a joke? Or maybe he “didnt see” the “joke” he was making? https://t.co/0QS1g6ddei
— Brandi Buchman (@Brandi_Buchman) November 16, 2021
any/all of the above is why he had no business posting something he didnt understand
re: #248 No Malarkey!
Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever! /
It’s 2021, and our awful right-wing authoritarians haven’t improved a bit in the last 70 years. They’re still openly racist shitbags.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) November 16, 2021
My latest piece tackles an old question: Why are social media platforms so bad at moderating antisemitic content? Today in Deep Shtetl, I offer three reasons you probably haven’t heard, but explain a lot: https://t.co/BMaXf9QF1P
— Yair Rosenberg (@Yair_Rosenberg) November 16, 2021
re: #248 No Malarkey!
‘MAGA Mo’ Brooks says the ‘Build Back Better’ plan is a socialist plot by Democrats to destroy the suburbs by moving “inner city” people out into the “nice neighborhoods” by building more affordable housing./
The whole point of expensive housing is to keep those people out of our neighborhoods…
Proving forever two things:
1. You don’t have to be smart to get elected to Congress.
2. Her mask fines amount to more than most of her constituents make annually - and she obviously doesn’t care. https://t.co/6hbaBSJ78j— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) November 16, 2021
All of this has implications for the coup attempts on American soil, as well as for the national security situation between November 2020 & January 2021. The military was apparently under pressure from Trump allies. Not just to overturn the election, but also to undermine the CIA
— Magdi Semrau (@magi_jay) November 16, 2021
When the verdict comes in the Judge has instructed the jury to place it in a piñata and let Kyle have a whack at it. Light refreshments will be served. https://t.co/Pit0Wv1mag
— NoelCaslerComedy (@caslernoel) November 16, 2021
People are free to remain unvaccinated. They are also free to face the consequences of remaining unvaccinated.
re: #255 Backwoods_Sleuth
When the verdict comes in the Judge has instructed the jury to place it in a piñata and let Kyle have a whack at it. Light refreshments will be served.
If he is convicted, then sentencing will consist of Kyle throwing a dart blindfolded at a target that contains all possible sentences ranging from suspended to maximum
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💉The vaccine trains the immune system to fight a type of sticky amyloid beta protein in the brain.
It accumulates in people with dementia, preventing communication between neurons— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) November 16, 2021
re: #180 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
So, how did the Repug terror lobby get to the Rottenhouse judge? Threats? Bribes? Kompromat? Or maybe he’s just a craven fascist asshole to start with.
His ringtone the other day showed it was that last one.
As we wait forthe jury to return a verdict I received this email. It says it’s from #KyleRittenhouse’s mother and it is asking for donations.
It is written like many political emails I get from the GOP. Never seen anything like this during jury deliberations. pic.twitter.com/Bokb7To61p— Sara Sidner (@sarasidnerCNN) November 16, 2021
Sponsored by…. pic.twitter.com/i1wF8L0wU0
— Sara Sidner (@sarasidnerCNN) November 16, 2021
re: #251 The Pie Overlord!
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My latest piece tackles an old question: Why are social media platforms so bad at moderating antisemitic content? Today in Deep Shtetl, I offer three reasons you probably haven’t heard, but explain a lot: https://t.co/BMaXf9QF1P
— Yair Rosenberg (@Yair_Rosenberg) November 16, 2021
bad at it?
who owns these companies?
who do they hire to run them?
this is what they want
re: #256 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
People are free to remain unvaccinated. They are also free to face the consequences of remaining unvaccinated.
But if they also refuse to wear a mask, they are potentially and deliberately assaulting anyone who comes into contact with them. At least Bret Weinstein, anti-vaxxer that he is, also expressed strong support for masks as a way to protect people from getting ill.
Laura Ingraham: “Wait wait wait, when did I mention measles?”
Raymond Arroyo: “It was on ‘You’.”
Laura Ingraham: “What was on me?”
Arroyo and Ingraham just did a modern day “Who’s on First?”pic.twitter.com/dgAaI4XYn9— Gabe Sanchez (@iamgabesanchez) November 16, 2021
“I thought you said, I was alright Spider.”
re: #253 Backwoods_Sleuth
It would be a real shame if she contracted covid and ended up on a ventilator. Just sayin.
re: #196 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
He was “hunting.” If so, it is an admission of intent to kill, and invalidates self-defense.
We have to face the fact that we are dealing with honest-to-god fascist murderers and will eventually have to take appropriate measures. Shaming them has no effect, argument has no effect (since they know they are lying and actually take pride in it). You cannot call them bullies, since they think a bully is a good thing to be.
I think we are all beginning to understand what it will take. It speaks well of us; the rational, progressive majority; that we recoil from it. That will not change the facts, or the hard realities of self preservation.
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re: #265 Eclectic Cyborg
It’s not that they’re bad at it.
They just don’t care to do it.
Looking forward to hearing what Michael Flynn’s solution is to the problem of millions of Americans not belonging to his one true religion will be. Let’s call it the Jewish Problem, just for example.
re: #264 No Malarkey!
It would be a real shame if she contracted covid and ended up on a ventilator. Just sayin.
Not going to lie, I wouldn’t wish that even on people who are this unimaginably evil. It’s a horrifying way to die.
re: #268 Dopamine Fish
Not going to lie, I wouldn’t wish that even on people who are this unimaginably evil. It’s a horrifying way to die.
And yet she doesn’t mind hundreds of thousands of Americans dying that way. If it happens, she brought it on herself, but it wouldn’t surprise me in the least if she is lying and is fully vaccinated.
re: #268 Dopamine Fish
Not going to lie, I wouldn’t wish that even on people who are this unimaginably evil. It’s a horrifying way to die.
I wouldn’t wish it on random dopes, but this dope thought that she should be a leader, and is really a panderer that is getting random dopes killed in a horrible way.
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