Seth takes a closer look at Republicans and right-wing pundits creating a mythology that is totally unmoored from reality, in which Donald Trump was the one who was tough on Vladimir Putin and would have somehow stopped him from invading Ukraine.
re: #94 Rightwingconspirator
So after the first of the year, my old wireless mouse quit. I really got tired of the wireless limitations and bought a “gamer” mouse from Razer. LOL “DeathAdder” is a pretty over-the-top model name but whatever. Already the trackwheel is acting up. Stiff and it’s noisy.
Yes, folks, I have a mouse that squeaks.
If it starts to roar, I’d worry
Oh no! You’ve got to be kidding!
“Be warmed and filled” came to mind. Looked it up. James 2:15-16
If a brother or sister is w/o clothing and in need of daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed & be filled,” yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that? https://t.co/3zM08CYqj1— Susan A. Kitchens (@susankitchens) March 18, 2022
You better behave, Mikey. You don’t want another ass whoopin’. pic.twitter.com/rkq9BLDzWf
— Edwin (@EdMix13) March 17, 2022
re: #4 gocart mozart
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maybe they can’t give details until his next of kin is officially notified?
re: #4 gocart mozart
Yeah, it’s a mystery why Michael Tracey doesn’t learn all the details before his family does.
re: #3 Patricia Kayden
Oh no! You’ve got to be kidding!
Martin Luther: James is the Epistle of Straw. It does not contain the purity of the Gospel the other books of the New Testament contain.
This is why so many Protestant churches ignore the edict “Faith without works is dead.”
What the actual hell?!
Matt Shea, the far-right former WA Representative has been quiet lately until he turned up last week at a hotel in Poland, surrounded by Ukrainian orphans.https://t.co/UkfQVckHA1
— RANGE (@RANGEMedia4all) March 17, 2022
Wanna see how phony the whole Rittenhouse thing was? https://t.co/NCDOXk3RbV
— Jon “Bowzer” Bauman (@JonBowzerBauman) March 18, 2022
Don’t need a scroll from Jesus to tell me that CA Secretary of State Shirley Weber will cruise to victory. https://t.co/kSZBkTidVC
— Christine Pelosi (@sfpelosi) March 18, 2022
I remember Fox ran 3 stories a day about this guy on their website until he was charged with using her ballot to vote for Trump. They never mentioned him again after that.
— JPBluenote (@JPBlueNote) March 18, 2022
re: #8 Patricia Kayden
What the actual hell?!
Evangelical adoption schemes have a habit of veering into “well, you went and did a child trafficking” on the regular.
The core idea is “get kids to the right kinds of people” where “right kind” is a thin layer of ritual…and cash on hand…this tends to result in things like: not checking the kids don’t still have parents; grabbing kids in disrupted regions opportunistically; handing kids over to very dangerous people; covering up adoptions that don’t work because more material forms of child welfare are less important than spiritual welfare.
And, yes, this is another thing where QAnon imagines buying and selling kids must involve a D&D campaign setting’s worth of baroque conspiracy but is, in fact, happening entirely in the open.
re: #12 The Ghost of a Flea
Though it must be said that most of the global north’s adoption system that reaches into the global south experiences this shit whether they’re into Jesus or not.
re: #11 jaunte
They’re not the party of Law & Order, they’re episodes of Law & Order.
— Hoodlum 🇺🇸 (@NotHoodlum) March 18, 2022
The splinters of Indian schools and Catholic orphanages are shot through modern Western civilization, secular and sacred.
The intersection of “your body is not your own because you are a child” and “your body is not your own because you are ward of a superior race” and “your body is not your own because it belongs to God, who delegates his entitlements to his obudsman Steve” tends to provoke deep discomfort and denial, beyond regular denial of mass crime,
Everybody wants to claim that they live in a civilization where, at minimum, nobody does things to kids unless they’re some kind of Grendel-like outlying monster.
I’m four paragraphs into @ElieNYC’s book.
I’m already blown out of the water. And the “Day One Patch” analogy for the Bill of Rights is simply epic.— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) March 18, 2022
Four chapters in for me. Highly recommended:
Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution
amazon.com
re: #19 The Ghost of a Flea
The splinters of Indian schools and Catholic orphanages are shot through modern Western civilization, secular and sacred.
The intersection of “your body is not your own because you are a child” and “your body is not your own because you are ward of a superior race” and “your body is not your own because it belongs to God, who delegates his entitlements to his obudsman Steve” tends to provoke deep discomfort and denial, beyond regular denial of mass crime,
Everybody wants to claim that they live in a civilization where, at minimum, nobody does things to kids unless they’re some kind of Grendel-like outlying monster.
“Your body is not your own” comes from 1 Cor. 6:19. A few verses later, in 1 Cor 7:4 wives are told they do not have authority over their own bodies. Paul also says the same thing to husbands, but that’s often ignored. Then Paul says that neither should withhold sex except to engage in prayer. I’m going to be utterly blunt here and say that this not just ignores the whole notion of consent, but stomps the hell out of it. And given the patriarchal nature of most of Evangelicalism (and other Christian faiths), wives are told to give it up to their husbands whenever and wherever the husband wants it. Mark Driscoll told wives to basically let husbands perform anal when she’s on her period. Of course, this goes along with the idea that men are so horny that women have to dress so that they don’t tempt men, but have to remain sexy enough so that their husbands don’t stray.
So yeah, just basically stampeding over the rights of children separated from their biological parents during wartime is right in keeping with that.
re: #21 mmmirele
The chiral twin of this is the anti-trans legislation being pushed through. A child’s body is their parents’ until the parent(s) make choices that affirm the child rather than the hegemonic cultural force that wants that kid’s body to serve their purposes.
This might be justified with some version of “your body belongs to God” but in his absence there are many men, at varying levels of prurient, who will tell everyone what their body is for.
#Odesa Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths unite for #Ukraine and against #Russia aggression #StandWithUkraine #PutinWarCrimes #Ukraineinvasionhttps://t.co/j6sBEiRgXj
— OkKoChicPu (@OkKoChicPu) March 18, 2022
“Anyone can get cancelled at anytime,” says Cuomo, who resigned in August rather than fight impeachment over sexual harassment allegations, undercounting Covid deaths and using state resources for his $5M book deal pic.twitter.com/r76DSPv7oL
— Joseph Spector (@JoeSpectorNY) March 17, 2022
My running thesis is that anti-cancel culture rhetoric is primarily powered by people who faced shaming on social media, and wish to take that absolutely-minimal form of accountability and conflate into some kind witch hunt precisely because it covers more elaborate bad behavior…
…while at the same time being kinds of okay with witch hunts that have the right cultural credentials.
All of this happens independent of the actual moral panics and internet mob behavior, because “anti-cancel culture” is always hierarchical…the right kinds of people should not be mocked or criticized.
I’d be in favor of Pete Davidson and Kanye West blasting into space together in a tiny space capsule so they could never escape hearing about each other for the rest of time, because that’s how I feel.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 18, 2022
I don’t know if you’ve really experienced the pinnacle of human creepiness until you meet a 16-year-old kid that got radicalized online, became a skinhead, carved a swastika in his forehead, and chopped up a drug dealer and his girlfriend after a three-day Xanax bender.
— Jenn | זלדה 🏳️🌈✡️🇺🇦 (@JennieTetreault) March 18, 2022
Another classic moment from Breitbart•com history. pic.twitter.com/rx4pAEZuE9
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 18, 2022
Scary to watch a purge of high-ranking officers in this reactionary petro-state following the failed special military operation against a neighboring country. https://t.co/6AdRAf92ef
— Andrew Exum (@ExumAM) March 18, 2022
Just finished a segment with the terrific @biannagolodryga where I described some of the things in the $800M package.
I know weapon systems can be confusing, so here’s a bit of an explanation (plus another “bonus” NFZ comment at the end) 1/17— Mark Hertling (@MarkHertling) March 17, 2022
re: #9 gocart mozart
Make the fucking jury watch that every day for a year.
re: #31 darthstar
That is so outrageous, are we sure he did it, and it isn’t a clip from the trial photoshopped in? It looks real, but I find it hard to believe ANYone could be so stupid as to do it on his own! Maybe I’m not retired enough.
re: #32 retired cynic
That is so outrageous, are we sure he did it, and it isn’t a clip from the trial photoshopped in? It looks real, but I find it hard to believe ANYone could be so stupid as to do it on his own! Maybe I’m not retired enough.
Apparently, this is a meme created using footage from his trial, which Rittenhouse then posted with his comment about Biden and gas prices.
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) March 18, 2022
re: #30 retired cynic
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Hertling is exactly right.
Case in point:
1) Let’s give the Ukes old US jets!
Response: Many of the US jets in the boneyard in Tucson *could* be regenerated, but it would take weeks. Plus, even after getting them into flying condition, the instruments are in English, not Cyrillic, none of the instruments read in Metric, none of the Ukes wrenches would work because all their tools are in metric, etc.
Try flying combat when you are mentally trying to convert speed from KPH to MPH, altitude from Meters to Feet, and fuel usage from Liters to Gallons/minute.
And maintenance support personal working on airplanes they have never seen before?
Impossible.
And I’m going to toddle off to bed.
Sweet dreams and be kind to each other.
Slava to Ukraini!
re: #35 austin_blue
Hertling is exactly right.
Case in point:
1) Let’s give the Ukes old US jets!
Response: Many of the US jets in the boneyard in Tucson *could* be regenerated, but it would take weeks. Plus, even after getting them into flying condition, the instruments are in English, not Cyrillic, none of the instruments read in Metric, none of the Ukes wrenches would work because all their tools are in metric, etc.
Try flying combat when you are mentally trying to convert speed from KPH to MPH, altitude from Meters to Feet, and fuel usage from Liters to Gallons/minute.
And maintenance support personal working on airplanes they have never seen before?
Impossible.
Their artificial horizon reads differently than the ones in the west as well. That’s another thing that would need to be changed.
Good answer thread over at Quora on the question of reactivating aircraft from the Boneyard, but the short answer is that most of the aircraft there are spare parts.
The aircraft that would take the shortest time to reactivate are ones that are still in active service but are in temporary storage in order to save hours on the airframes and allow for extensive maintenance/upgrades that otherwise would have to be squeezed in during deployment.
The aircraft that are in there on long-term storage would take months due to the level of preservation done to them and would need extensive upgrades because most of them are way outdated.
Anything past that level is gonna get stripped for parts before either being scrapped or sold off to a foreign military “as-is.”
There really is good no solution from the west other than joining in the conflict.
re: #39 Belafon
There really is good no solution from the west other than joining in the conflict.
The answer is to keep providing spares, ammo, and missiles (at & aa) as well as however many volunteers wish to go. But if he sticks his nose into any NATO country (or Finland if they have started the process to join) the Article 5 hammer has to come down hard and the VVS ceases to exist and those stalled columns learn what the Highway of Death was like.
re: #39 Belafon
There really is good no solution from the west other than joining in the conflict.
Best solution at this time is to keep the Ukrainians fed, armed, and informed. I get that we feel a moral obligation to stop the images we’re seeing on the news and feel that we’re somehow failing if we don’t bring it to an end, but the overall picture is of a country that is holding its own and bleeding its enemy white. Those Russian conscripts are conflicted with fighting and killing Ukrainians, but they will feel no such conflict with killing Americans, Brits, Germans, Czechs, etc.
re: #40 William Lewis
The answer is to keep providing spares, ammo, and missiles (at & aa) as well as however many volunteers wish to go. But if he sticks his nose into any NATO country (or Finland if they have started the process to join) the Article 5 hammer has to come down hard and the VVS ceases to exist and those stalled columns learn what the Highway of Death was like.
re: #41 Targetpractice
Best solution at this time is to keep the Ukrainians fed, armed, and informed. I get that we feel a moral obligation to stop the images we’re seeing on the news and feel that we’re somehow failing if we don’t bring it to an end, but the overall picture is of a country that is holding its own and bleeding its enemy white. Those Russian conscripts are conflicted with fighting and killing Ukrainians, but they will feel no such conflict with killing Americans, Brits, Germans, Czechs, etc.
Agree. I should have included “if we want to provide air support.”
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re: #42 Belafon
Agree. I should have included “if we want to provide air support.”
I think the big issue we face is that we’re not dealing with the WWII-era Lend-Lease idea of aircraft being so similar that you could just ship over some new stock (or, in the case of the Brits, war-weary hand-me-downs) to other nations, hand them a few maintenance manuals, and give the pilots a few hours familiarization training. The West and East went along two different evolutionary paths during the Cold War and so training pilots from one side to fly aircraft from the other is a complicated process. Far easier to just provide them with 1-to-1 replacements because you skip all the retraining business.
Had Trump been in office, I wonder if Putin would have gone after one of the nearby NATO countries first in order to prove that the alliance was no longer viable.
She does academic research on the porn (autocorrect tried to change porn to point) industry:
A porn company is paying me $800 USD to write a 2,000 word non-academic article. In academia I write 10,000 word articles with references throughout without pay. Pretty symbolic of my entire experience of sex work in comparison to academia.
— Sophie Pezzutto (they/she) (@sophiepezzutto) March 17, 2022
re: #10 gocart mozart
California GOP Secretary of State candidate Rachel Hamm said today that she decided to run for office after her son found Jesus inside a closet in their home, and Jesus handed him a scroll telling her to declare her candidacy.
Worst side mission in a game, ever.
Found Jesus in a closet? Did…er…Jesus come out of the closet?
re: #49 Targetpractice
Found Jesus in a closet? Did…er…Jesus come out of the closet?
This is what happens when you run for political office in, let’s say, oh, I dunno, CA for Secretary of State; and you don’t listen to your PR people, who most likely would tell you to put a lid on the cray-cray. Assuming you’re smart enough to have them.
Maybe she meant Jesus the gardener was in the closet.
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re: #46 Belafon
A porn company is paying me $800 USD to write a 2,000 word non-academic article. In academia I write 10,000 word articles with references throughout without pay. Pretty symbolic of my entire experience of sex work in comparison to academia.
A late friend of mine (an aspiring writer) used to earn money by writing filler stories for porn mags. I recall him commenting “I would like to get something published some day that I can show my mom!”
Gas Prices skyrocket - How much $$$ can an ebike save YOU?https://t.co/mELr20wBBa#ebike#ElectricBike pic.twitter.com/RBLs8qmzGK
— Elektric Bikes (@elektricbikes) March 18, 2022
re: #50 Mattand
This is what happens when you run for political office in, let’s say, oh, I dunno, CA for Secretary of State; and you don’t listen to your PR people, who most likely would tell you to put a lid on the cray-cray. Assuming you’re smart enough to have them.
Maybe it was her PR secretary hiding in the closet dressed as Jesus and handing out scrolls…
re: #43 Hecuba’s daughter
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Confirmed: Colonel Sergey Sukharev, Russia’s 331st Airborne Regiment commander, has been eliminated in Ukraine.
He was directly responsible for the Ilovaisk massacre of 2014. pic.twitter.com/3nnY9p8Aup— Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 (@IAPonomarenko) March 18, 2022
A list of accounts to follow on Twitter with regards to the Russian invasion of Ukraine that I curated. If you follow this list and then “Pin to Top” it will be an option on your Twitter homepage at the top next to “Home”https://t.co/CZgH7K6rvE
— Igor Sushko (@igorsushko) March 6, 2022
re: #59 sagehen
What’s “frag” in Russian? We’ll want to know that.
re: #60 Decatur Deb
What’s “frag” in Russian? We’ll want to know that.
убить осколочной гранатой (to kill by means of a fragmentation grenade)
Back to my most typical four.
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re: #45 Belafon
Had Trump been in office, I wonder if Putin would have gone after one of the nearby NATO countries first in order to prove that the alliance was no longer viable.
He would’ve waited until Trump withdrew from NATO, as he planned to do in his second term.
The likelihood of new larger-scale offensive operations by Russian forces in Ukraine appears higher after April 1 (~mid-April) than before that date. Either way, given current attrition levels (if true), an operational pause/slowing down of 🇷🇺mil. ops will need to happen…
— Franz-Stefan Gady (@HoansSolo) March 17, 2022
re: #61 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
убить осколочной гранатой (to kill by means of a fragmentation grenade)
Not a very concise language.
re: #65 Decatur Deb
Not a very concise language.
it can be concise in other ways:
взбзднуть = “to fart upwards in a silent manner”
re: #64 No Malarkey!
Everyone thinks of the US draftee obligation as the 2-year active duty tour. In actuality it was 2 yrs Active, 6 yrs Reserve. Few, if any, were called back or extended in the 60s. It looked kind of dicey when the 6-Day War started.
I’d have to recheck, but I believe the current volunteer Army 3 yr enlistment also includes an extensive Reserve contract. That’s the basis for a “stop-loss” concept that gets kicked around when a flag goes up somewhere in the world.
re: #57 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
About the officer casualty count:
And with Gen. Roman Gavrilov being detained by FSB, its now
- 9 Generals arrested;
- 4 Generals killed; and
- 6 Colonels killed— Nick D-M (@NickDM) March 18, 2022
re: #64 No Malarkey!
On the head count issue:
Consider this random list of wounded Russian soldiers in a hospital in Rostov Oblast (=wounded in Ukraine). Dagestani names comprise about a half of the list. Russian army is quickly becoming the army of minorities pic.twitter.com/JX62zsF5r0
— Kamil Galeev (@kamilkazani) March 17, 2022
re: #70 Ming5000
Scottish and Irish soldiers made up a disproportionate share of the British army in the 1800’s…
“It’s a rich man’s war and a poor man’s fight!”
re: #70 Ming5000
The guy, Kamil Galeev, reads through why he thinks the Russian military is the way it is as evidenced in the invasion performance.
Galeev notes that the poor military performance is not an anomaly but is an extension of cultural and political factors that purposely de-fang the military.
Notwithstanding with its warlike image, boosted by massive PR campaign, Russian military have nearly zero experience of fighting conventional wars against other regular armies. They were quite successful in suppressing civilian riots ofc, in Hungary 1956, Czechoslovakia 1968, etc pic.twitter.com/mgtIi2yJqu
— Kamil Galeev (@kamilkazani) March 12, 2022
re: #72 Ming5000
Russia lost in Afghanistan, but everyone loses in Afghanistan, so that was not seen as a sign of weakness.
I have never seen the CDC coming out, saying, ‘Oh you’ve got to get your second polio shot, you gotta get your third, you gotta get your fourth.’”
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), on the House floor, apparently not realizing the CDC says polio vaccination is a four dose regimen.
re: #69 Ming5000
About the officer casualty count:
The Chechen leader of the Kadyrov column that was wiped is sometimes referred to as a general. That might be warlord inflation.
re: #73 EPR-radar
One point that Galeev makes is that after successful military operations, or I suppose even unsuccessful, the better generals are purged (he says killed) so that there is no threat of a stronger military against the state.
His thread is looong. So much information. I am taking it in with a grain of salt.
re: #72 Ming5000
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We believed all the parades
re: #77 Dangerman
We believed all the parades
There is an argument about the 48-72 hour Russian win timing. It seemed to be conventional wisdom, but in advance of reality, was there any assessment of the current situation. Curious to know this.
Nothing but show and tell pic.twitter.com/MovzZGZYIt
— ssyoit (@ssyoit1) March 12, 2022
Some days, I am an absolute moron. Today is starting off as one of those days.
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Florida Lt. Governor: They will try to bully us like Disney doing. How dare they. They have no right to criticize legislation by duly elected legislators… Governor DeSantis and I won’t stand for it pic.twitter.com/iIhWtrElZC
— Acyn (@Acyn) March 12, 2022
Florida lt gov clueless how our govt works
Today’s #FAFO.
This one is a bit graphic. Supposedly the end result is a knockout, but who knows.
Meanwhile at Swansea’s Tacobell 😳 pic.twitter.com/YqnEvbK1MJ
— NCH (@To__Legit2Quit) March 16, 2022
War is young men dying and old men talking - FDR
or to paraphrase Dalton Trumbo’s intent that young men necessarily die in the clouded judgment of old men’s wars.
re: #81 Dangerman
They have no right to criticize legislation by duly elected legislators
First Amendment: “That’s not how this works. That’s not how any of this works.”
Dusting off old Soviet jokes.
Time to dust off the old USSR jokes:
A man goes into the gulag library and passes the librarian a note asking, “Do you have this book?” “No,” replies the librarian, “but we have the author.”— Maj. Gen. John F. Reynolds 🇺🇦 #СлаваУкраїні (@MG_JFReynolds) March 17, 2022
Here’s a nice letter OSS officer and future DCI Richard Helms wrote to his son. Helms was serving overseas at the time. pic.twitter.com/cOSNoMeGGt
— SPIES&VESPERS (@SpiesVespers) March 17, 2022
re: #73 EPR-radar
Russia lost in Afghanistan, but everyone loses in Afghanistan, so that was not seen as a sign of weakness.
and it was far away and not covered by live video
re: #78 Ming5000
There is an argument about the 48-72 hour Russian win timing. It seemed to be conventional wisdom, but in advance of reality, was there any assessment of the current situation. Curious to know this.
Again, I was expecting a decapitating strike to paralyze communications, transportation and the power grid, making it nearly impossible to mount any sort of organized resistance.
Did the Russians fail at that or did they simply not think it necessary?
re: #81 Dangerman
“They have no right to criticize legislation…”
Florida lt gov clueless how our govt works
But she know how Russian government work
Godwin’s Second Law https://t.co/03nDA7Jmag
— Akiva Cohen (@AkivaMCohen) March 18, 2022
re: #70 Ming5000
What does this mean?
Dagestani names comprise about a half of the list. Russian army is quickly becoming the army of minorities
re: #91 Dopamine Fish
as with “PC”, the term has become so watered down and subjective that you can basically ignore anyone who is using it for polemic effect.
re: #95 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
IOW, we bought into our own bullshit.
Defense contractors need a bugaboo to scare us into higher military budgets.
re: #93 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
What does this mean?
Reading the thread, it means that Russia has to rely on not only their own poor rural population, which is declining in numbers, but on troops from other “republics” within the RF. The issue was covered in a few other tweets about traditional Russian canno-fodder-because-RU-could-afford-it strategy.
re: #93 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
What does this mean?
Might mean “No Ukrainian ever called me ‘[bigoted word]’.” Dagestan is 83% Islamic per wiki.
Yesterday a major paper (SF Chronicle) finally said what I have been saying for over a year:
One impact of the pandemic appears to be far more metropolitan areas where the real estate market looks increasingly like San Francisco’s.
According to a Chronicle data analysis, there are at least 10 metro areas that could soon become “the next San Francisco” in terms of housing affordability and availability, including San Diego, Raleigh, N.C., and two areas in Montana.
Important to realize too that San Diego County is far larger than San Francisco (the city fills its small County.)
So there are many more residences here.
And yet the prices went crazy shortly after the pandemic started. The prices were already under pressure before the pandemic, but the pandemic collapsed the availability to almost nothing so people with money have been bidding up what becomes available.
re: #98 Decatur Deb
LGF just censored a non-bigoted allusion to the Ali quote, involving head-covering.
re: #98 Decatur Deb
Might mean “No Ukrainian ever called me ‘[bigoted word]’.” Dagestan is 83% Islamic per wiki.
Nearly 20% of the Russian Republic is non-Russian. And it is to be expected that some regional units are going to be predominantly of one ethnic group or another.
re: #101 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Nearly 20% of the Russian Republic is non-Russian. And it is to be expected that some regional units are going to be predominantly of one ethnic group or another.
The way Russia treats its minorities will be reflected in their willingness to die for it.
re: #100 Decatur Deb
LGF just censored a non-bigoted allusion to the Ali quote involving head-covering.
The “bigoted word” was auto installed?
re: #103 Ming5000
The “bigoted word” was auto installed?
Yup. A hangover from the recovery from post-9/11 LGF, I guess.
re: #104 Decatur Deb
Huh. That surprises me. Dang
re: #104 Decatur Deb
Yup. A hangover from the recovery from post-9/11 LGF, I guess.
Republicans: The reason we can’t have nice things.
Those assholes are fucking racist antisemite, Islamophobic, misogynist, fucks who smell of elderberry.
Edit: dang, I didn’t get one redact
re: #108 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
The guy will be lucky if his neck isn’t broken. Yeah, call the police. They’ll see that video and your bud will be, first, in the hospital, and then in jail.
Knock-out’s buddy didn’t help much by flopping his spinal column around.
Example: February data on real estate sales for San Diego County:
Single family residences:
Median price up 18.1% YoY.
Average price up 21.4% YoY.
This has been going on now for over two years, each month.
Average sales price in Feb was $1,262,360.
Compare the slope of the line before the pandemic to after the pandemic:
The Median price is a bit less than the Average price, of course. But also remember that is for the whole County, the 5th largest in the US, and that houses inland will sell for less than those within about 5 miles from the ocean.
I checked Zillow last week and noticed that a new construction in the part of San Diego city that is out on the peninsula (for those familiar with the city, this property was in the middle of the peninsula, not an ocean-front or bay-front property) ask was $3.9M . It was just a normal size house on a small lot (a lot that was from an older one divided in two, clearly, by the developer not long ago.) The County tax collector valued the lot for under $700k, which means the new building is being priced at $3.2M. This for a narrow house of about 2.5k square feet.
The prices are a direct result of this:
Note that while Trump was pushing denial of Covid, the real estate market knew exactly what was going on, and once a whiff of a major event was happening the real estate folk pulled houses off the market pronto.
re: #105 Ming5000
Huh. That surprises me. Dang
When I looked at MasterSpy, the auto-correct didn’t reach into the comment, so it’s leaky.
re: #109 Decatur Deb
Knock-out’s buddy didn’t help much by flopping his spinal column around.
What are ya gonna do? (shrug)
How this real estate price bubble will work out is beyond me.
I do not think our economy can allow prices to go on like this.
But at the same time the forces (read: mortgage holders) cannot allow prices to collapse back 40% to the prices before the pandemic. This is because too many house owners would go upside down, deeply so.
re: #111 Decatur Deb
When I looked at MasterSpy, the auto-correct didn’t reach into the comment, so it’s leaky.
Weird. In Thread Spy mode, it was censored.
re: #114 Dopamine Fish
Weird. In Thread Spy mode, it was censored.
That’s diagnostic. Never been sure there were 2 spy modes.
re: #110 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
This may be a classic housing “bubble”. This time the bubble is fueled by a sudden lack of supply:
What Is a Housing Bubble?
A housing bubble, or real estate bubble, is a run-up in housing prices fueled by demand, speculation, and exuberant spending to the point of collapse. Housing bubbles usually start with an increase in demand, in the face of limited supply, which takes a relatively extended period to replenish and increase. Speculators pour money into the market, further driving up demand. At some point, demand decreases or stagnates at the same time supply increases, resulting in a sharp drop in prices—and the bubble bursts.
Because homeowners stopped selling in the pandemic, the demand outpaced supply. As prices skyrocketed existing homeowners were less likely to sell because they don’t want to miss out on the next 18% gains.
Wife has been off with Daughter2 for a week. She returns tomorrow, so it’s time to hit the floors and kitchen. They don’t need cleaning, they need to be restored.
re: #117 Decatur Deb
Wife has been off with Daughter2 for a week. She returns tomorrow, so it’s time to hit the floors and kitchen. They don’t need cleaning, they need to be restored.
haha. Much like teenagers when the ‘rents come back.
re: #110 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The end of low rates may counter that.
Mortgage rates have risen above 4% for the first time since May 2019.
The 30-year fixed-rate home loan averaged 4.16% in the week ending on Thursday, up from 3.85% the previous week, according to Freddie Mac.
A year ago, the long-term rate was 3.05%.
The data was released just a day after the Federal Reserve boosted interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point in an effort to tame rapidly rising inflation.
The decision marks a reversal of the stimulus policy adopted by the central bank to prop up the economy when it was hampered by the coronavirus pandemic.
Mortgage rates rise and fall independently of the federal funds rate. Instead, they correspond to the yield on 10-year Treasury bonds.
re: #116 Ming5000
The problem is, people still need a place to live.
While price changes over the past few years on a graph look like a “bubble”, in practice the buyers of housing have been more than willing to pay the price.
Because the people buying are those who have money.
The others - normal people - do not have the money.
So this is not a broad-based bubble, but one that reflects the distribution of wealth in society.
IOW, the wealthy are starting to hoard the land, even more so than before.
What is going on is land-banking on a grand scale.
Both wealthy individuals and real estate companies are picking up whatever they can.
For some companies the problem is now they’ve overreached. See what happened to Zillow recently.
Finally a 3!!
Maybe too much coffee has been the problem. I’m only on cup 1.
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re: #119 Shropshire Slasher
Maybe.
Or maybe not.
For here in San Diego County, and this will be true of other major urban hot markets, many mortgages where the owners needs to borrow a decent share of the price are mortgages in the “jumbo” category.
Big mortgages are awkward. The bigger they are the farther they are from government guarantees.
I think all of this spells disaster for anyone other than those who have held real estate since 2008 and decided to sell in the last few months. Those folk are raking in the money.
Blue icing works the same way. Eat two days before St. Patricks day for the full effect.
If you ever wanted an excuse to bake a bunch of muffins, you’re in luck… just make sure they’re blue.
Experts believe eating the specially-coloured treats may provide a warning sign of poor gut health.
If the coloured muffin passes through your system too quickly, it could potentially indicate inflammatory bowel disease.
Or it could be a warning sign that you’re at risk of type 2 diabetes, if it takes your body takes longer than 60 hours to digest it.
Studies show that 20 hours between eating and expelling a meal is the ‘sweet-spot’ for gut health.
But the time it takes for your body to digest food can vary from between as little as a couple of hours to three entire days.
Dr Sarah Berry, a nutritionist at King’s College London who helped design the muffin test, says the ‘blue poo challenge’ can give medics an ‘early warning’ sign something is not right.
re: #3 Patricia Kayden
At the Ukraine/Poland border. Tired women and children leaving their country. They’re being pestered by American preachers telling them they all need to accept Jesus as their saviour and their lives will be better. Receiving a lot of eye rolls in response.
America exports shitty fast food, shitty reality TV, and shitty “Christianity”. Those poor people have been through enough already.
Interesting thread with ideas on how to induce Russian soldiers to destroy the Russian army themselves.
Tourist industry of Turkey, Egypt, etc is now suffering for the lack of Russian tourists. Thus:
1. Rent cheap hostels, cheap hotels, whatever
2. Ship their those who surrendered till the end of the war. Give them bed + food
3. Take photos with them there, distribute in Telegram pic.twitter.com/a66N5bc2xi— Kamil Galeev (@kamilkazani) March 17, 2022
re: #115 Decatur Deb
That’s diagnostic. Never been sure there were 2 spy modes.
Spy vs Spy
Also, all who write need an editor:
Thank you @RussiaUN for your letter dated March 16.
Please see our suggested edits below. #StandWithUkraine #RespectTheCharter pic.twitter.com/0M663R0tUW— Canada Mission UN #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦 (@CanadaUN) March 17, 2022
Douglas McGregor, a frequent guest on Fox News, and who was a senior advisor to the Secretary of Defense during the Trump Administration, is both a Putin fanboy and a massive anti-semite. slate.com
Have we reached the point in the story arc where the maga Nazis start claiming it was the Left that supported Putin all along?
re: #130 Dr. Matt
Have we reached the point in the story arc where the maga Nazis start claiming it was the Left that supported Putin all along?
They have really painted themselves into separate corners here. There are those, like MTG, who say that Ukraine is a Nazi state.
So Nazis would have trouble being opposed - except that their leader is Jewish.
And Trump called Putin a genius for getting a whole country in exchange for sanctions that “only cost him a few collars”.
So these people really don’t know which way to turn.
re: #28 Charles Johnson
I’m somewhat surprised they didn’t go with “New Evidence Shows Hitler Would Have Voted For Hillary!”
— Edwin (@EdMix13) March 18, 2022
re: #130 Dr. Matt
Have we reached the point in the story arc where the maga Nazis start claiming it was the Left that supported Putin all along?
Maria Bartiromo already complained on her show that Biden sees Putin more as a “strategic partner” than a threat.
Bolt action rifles are about as safe as they come. No chance of having the trigger stick and accidentally shooting up everything around you.
📷 Russian checkpoint on the outskirts of #Mariupol #Ukraine #UkraineRussiaWar pic.twitter.com/nji9LT0fcF
re: #133 No Malarkey!
Maria Bartiromo already complained on her show that Biden sees Putin more as a “strategic partner” than a threat.
CNN anchor Erin Burnett appeared on the Thursday edition of The Axe Files with host David Axelrod. Burnett discussed her time at CNBC and admitted that she believes her former colleague and current Fox News host Maria Bartiromo, “has lost her way” when it comes to politics.
Burnett was shocked to see just how partisan Bartiromo has become over the years.
“I always thought her greatest strength was that she was a hard worker and I feel that she lost her way. Clearly, she’s lost her way,” she said. “I’m obviously not personally close to her, but I think it’s sad what has happened to be honest because she was a very hard worker.”
re: #132 gocart mozart
So does this mean that
a) all gays are closet Nazis
or
b) all Nazis are closet gays?
re: #134 darthstar
Bolt action rifles are about as safe as they come. No chance of having the trigger stick and accidentally shooting up everything around you.
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In the 90’s, I lived in Langen, home to Michael Kühnen, one of Germany’s leading gay Neo-Nazis:
Michael Kühnen (21 June 1955 - 25 April 1991) was a leader in the German neo-Nazi movement. He was one of the first post-World War II Germans to openly embrace Nazism and call for the formation of a Fourth Reich. He enacted a policy of setting up several differently named groups in an effort to confuse German authorities, who were attempting to shut down neo-Nazi groups. Kühnen’s homosexuality was made public in 1986, and he died of HIV-related complications in 1991.
re: #43 Hecuba’s daughter
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re: #131 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They have really painted themselves into separate corners here. There are those, like MTG, who say that Ukraine is a Nazi state.
So Nazis would have trouble being opposed - except that their leader is Jewish.
And Trump called Putin a genius for getting a whole country in exchange for sanctions that “only cost him a few collars”.
So these people really don’t know which way to turn.
But has it really mattered? GOP base is supporting these extremist know nothings, liars, hypocrites, corrupt thugs, autocrat wannabes, fascists, etc. They keep electing these people to Congress, and actually seek to put even more extreme people into Congress.
They revel in their know nothing worldview.
I made a handy Venn diagram explainer: pic.twitter.com/17BNzeOTCl
— Jo 🌻 (@JoJoFromJerz) March 18, 2022
I’m not saying this has gone too far at this point, but…
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re: #141 lawhawk
But has it really mattered? GOP base is supporting these extremist know nothings, liars, hypocrites, corrupt thugs, autocrat wannabes, fascists, etc.
They know they can say whatever occurs to them at the moment and get away with it, so they put very little thought into beyond criticizing Biden, the Dems and the “woke”.
I’m okay with Russians wasting ammo. Get some videos of them pretending to attack Ukraine and humiliate Putin further.
WHY are Russian “advanced” helos just lobbing rockets off into space? Bc they’re terrified of STINGERS missiles. Also Putin can be told they fire 30-50 rockets per helicopter never mind they literally hit nothing. These pilots are afraid of both Ukrainians & Putin…very afraid. https://t.co/dpuXj05872
— Malcolm Nance (@MalcolmNance) March 18, 2022
re: #145 darthstar
I’m okay with Russians wasting ammo. Get some videos of them pretending to attack Ukraine and humiliate Putin further.
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And here it is - had to drill down a few tweets to the article.
re: #66 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
it can be concise in other ways:
взбзднуть = “to fart upwards in a silent manner”
SBD is still shorter
re: #145 darthstar
Indiscriminate firing that will lead to still more civilian casualties. It also seems to suggest lack of training, lack of air superiority over Ukrainian airspace, and inability to conduct proper attacks against military targets because Ukrainians are well defended, have the means to shoot these aircraft down, etc.
It’s almost equivalent to say a US military unit in Vietnam cataloging a mission into the jungle where they claimed success based on how many rounds of ammo fired, and guestimating how many VC were killed.
We fired 40 zunis, 2000 rounds of 50 cal, at suspected enemy locations, and we estimate we killed 20 enemy troops.
Reality: we fired weapons indiscriminately, have no idea what we hit, or if civilians were caught in the fire, and returned to base thinking ourselves successful.
Does it seem the Twitter feeds out of UA are more openly showing corpses and noting that occupants did not survive when showing blown out armor?
It is jarring to me. But I think it is real and true. Russians in particular should see these.
Woman begging in San Antonio, 1894. The way she’s shown here ——- gaunt, faceless, hand extended, reaching out not only to those around her but to us across the decades ——- could be an eternal metaphor for poverty everywhere. She could be anyone’s great grandmother. pic.twitter.com/7Cu0K3J10n
— Traces of Texas (@TracesofTexas) March 17, 2022
Local man tripped in front of Russian Embassy in Prague, Czech Republic - while carrying a bucket of red paint. pic.twitter.com/BQncONlihS
— Anonymous (@YourAnonNews) March 18, 2022
re: #145 darthstar
I’m okay with Russians wasting ammo. Get some videos of them pretending to attack Ukraine and humiliate Putin further.
The article says that this is an actual tactic and not an example of Russians just wasting missiles. They may be attacking civilian targets, so accuracy isn’t necessary.
re: #62 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Back to my most typical four.
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Likewise.
Bigots have the right to express their bigotry without being made to feel shame or to be shunned.
If I still worked at the NYT, I would seriously think about quitting today.
— Adam Davidson (@adamdavidson) March 18, 2022
— Adam Davidson (@adamdavidson) March 18, 2022
re: #154 No Malarkey!
The article says that this is an actual tactic and not an example of Russians just wasting missiles. They may be attacking civilian targets, so accuracy isn’t necessary.
Yeah, I read that after posting…there’s some debate - it appears to be an experimental tactic but it’s never been used. That said, the 80mms can carry various warheads, including 200 metal darts - so child killers.
re: #112 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
What are ya gonna do? (shrug)
Yep, the other guy stood his ground while attacked. Some people are not wimpy little cowards that have to have guns to protect themselves. Fuck the attacker FAFO
re: #68 Decatur Deb
I’d have to recheck, but I believe the current volunteer Army 3 yr enlistment also includes an extensive Reserve contract. That’s the basis for a “stop-loss” concept that gets kicked around when a flag goes up somewhere in the world.
Told this story here before: Years ago, my “libertarian” (aren’t they all?) investment advisor told me that he had a cousin who joined the military in the early 90’s to finance his medical degree, despite warnings from his family. He joins a medical practice, doing well, and then Iraq war comes along and suddenly he’s treating patients there.
re: #107 Ming5000
Those assholes are fucking racist antisemite, Islamophobic, misogynist, fucks who smell of elderberry.
Edit: dang, I didn’t get one redact
Not even for elderberry? I’m shocked.
India, which has remained neutral toward the war, gets cheap oil, and Russia gets badly needed hard currency. Of course Europe is also still buying oil and gas from Russia.
WTF?! “India, the world’s biggest oil importer behind China and the United States, has agreed to purchase 3 million barrels of Russian oil at a heavy discount, an Indian official said Thursday.”
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) March 18, 2022
re: #159 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!
Western good morning!
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re: #162 No Malarkey!
India, which has remained neutral toward the war, gets cheap oil, and Russia gets badly needed hard currency. Of course Europe is also still buying oil and gas from Russia.
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One of the smarter randos I see on disqus/politicalwire.com
Also, one of the things that is happening is that Russia is now seeking to sell their oil at bargain prices to make up for the loss of key western exports.
For example, India has just agreed to import an additional 15 million barrels of Russian oil at below global market rates. They’ve indicated they plan to take advantage of the price cuts to buy more Russian oil going forward.
Additionally, Russia is trying to cut a similar deal with China.
The impact of that on global prices may be interesting - right now India gets their oil from Iraq, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and the US. China is dependent on the Saudis and UAE as well.
If clearance price Russian oil sales to India and China ends up supplanting the supply from the more traditional Middle Eastern suppliers, suddenly those countries will be seeking to sell additional oil on the global market.
There is a reason that the global price of a barrel of oil was approaching $130 almost 2 weeks ago, but has now come back down to c $100. Iranian (and Venezuelan) supply entering the market would probably keep downward pressure on world prices.
I regret that I could only cancel my NYT subscription once.
The NYTimes editorial board has just made up a new stipulation to define “free” speech, one that actually stifles speech.
Criticisms and their implications, including shaming and shunning, ARE speech.
This is an expression of the same motivation for banning the #1619Project. pic.twitter.com/ET2oBNZwb4— SIVA VAIDHYANATHAN 🗽🤘🏽 (@sivavaid) March 18, 2022
Went to read an op-ed in Newsweek: Trump Was Right About Everything
I figured snark or something.
In fact it was written by DTJunior.
big nope
Closed the tab
Didnt scan past the byline
re: #166 Dangerman
Went to read an op-ed in Newsweek: Trump Was Right About Everything
I figured snark or something.
In fact it was written by DTJunior.
big nope
Closed the tab
Didnt scan past the byline
I saw that headline and wondered where in the hell it came from. Of course it was written by one of the idiots.
OK Ted…… https://t.co/7x6uUegSdr pic.twitter.com/lZi51PfUtk
— Ivanka’s Handcuffs (@DaveoutofAustin) March 18, 2022
re: #165 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I regret that I could only cancel my NYT subscription once.
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The “news” media should get out of the editorial business altogether. They suck at it and it only gets them in trouble. Twitter, podcasts, blogs and substack replaced any need for that.
Not going to cancel my subscription, their actual news reporting is really good.
He’s suffering from CTE and you know it. No right-wing jackass is too impaired for the Republicans to endorse. The whole party has become worse than useless.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) March 18, 2022
re: #156 No Malarkey!
It is worth noting here the important distinction between what the First Amendment protects — freedom from government restrictions on expression — and the popular conception of free speech — the affirmative right to speak your mind in public, on which the law is silent.
What part of “Congress shall make no law…” do you not understand?
There have always been consequences for “free” speech, just think of McCarthyism and blacklisting , the Scopes trial of the 20’s and Lady Chatterly’s Lover on trial…
Americans are upset because they cannot have consequence-free speech.
re: #170 Punish Domestic Terrorists
If soccer exists, why is there still football?
re: #171 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
What part of “Congress shall make no law…” do you not understand?
There have always been consequences for “free” speech, just think of McCarthyism and blacklisting , the Scopes trial of the 20’s and Lady Chatterly’s Lover on trial…
Americans are upset because they cannot have consequence-free speech.
Specifically, white Americans are upset because speech that used to be consequence-free now has consequences. It used to be okay to drop the N-word, or to call gay people “faggots”, or any number of other racial, ethnic, or gender slurs. It’s not okay anymore (and never should have been, but that’s neither here nor there), and people who still hold those feelings are mad that they can’t let them out in public without consequences anymore.
We’ll see if China provides military aid to Russia.
China wants this message to be getting out at least to Europe and North America. Makes it rather difficult to turn around and give Putin a huge amount of direct military aid. https://t.co/yL3F5ofW8V
— Phillips P. OBrien (@PhillipsPOBrien) March 18, 2022
re: #173 Dopamine Fish
Specifically, white Americans are upset because speech that used to be consequence-free now has consequences. It used to be okay to drop the N-word, or to call gay people “faggots”, or any number of other racial, ethnic, or gender slurs. It’s not okay anymore (and never should have been, but that’s neither here nor there), and people who still hold those feelings are mad that they can’t let them out in public without consequences anymore.
Also, the entire culture and infrastructure of discourse has changed: where one’s opinions might not make it beyond the circle of friends at the bar or the bowling team/locker room, etc., now there is an opportunity to broadcast them across the world instantaneously, while cameras and recorders erase the distinction between the public and private sphere.
I have a lot of jokes that I only tell to people who understand my sense of humor and where it is coming from, and fully understand how some people could find them offensive if they were to hear them outside of that context.
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re: #174 No Malarkey!
We’ll see if China provides military aid to Russia.
They are not likely to sanction Russia, but they have their own plans to “repatriate” lost territories at some point and would like to keep Russia at least neutral on it.
re: #172 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If soccer exists, why is there still football?
Mindy was playing soccer with a piece of crunchy cat food this morning. It was very impressive. My kittens are now adolescent cats that can move extremely quickly.
re: #156 No Malarkey!
More bullshit from the NYT:
People in the U.S. who identify as “very liberal” increasingly look like outliers on Covid, a new poll found.@DLeonhardt looks at the survey’s results in The Morning newsletter. https://t.co/sXQTVz6Gug
— The New York Times (@nytimes) March 18, 2022
#Russia The Russian bank Tinkoff said it can’t issue new cards because it has run out of plastic. This is not a joke
— Hanna Liubakova (@HannaLiubakova) March 17, 2022
re: #180 darthstar
Then make the bank cards out of 9mm rolled sheet metal…
re: #180 darthstar
Well looks like Russia just found itself in a cash-only economy.
re: #182 Eclectic Cyborg
Well looks like Russia just found itself in a cash-only economy.
If only they had access to petroleum with which to make plastic…
re: #143 ipsos
I’m not saying this has gone too far at this point, but…
Daily Duotrigordle #16
Guesses: 35/37
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I will venture to say that is impossible to do on my phone.
re: #183 darthstar
If only they had access to petroleum with which to make plastic…
They have raw materials. That is what sustains their economy. Nobody wants to invest in manufacturing because the country is so chaotic and corrupt.
And besides, that money is parked overseas in the form of yachts, real estate, race horses, soccer teams, art works and jewelry…
re: #181 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Then make the bank cards out of 9mm rolled sheet metal…
If that metal is steel, you may be able to write the magnetic strip right to it.
re: #184 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I will venture to say that is impossible to do on my phone.
There’s an Octordle as well - not interested. Quordle is enough challenge. This just seems obsessive.
re: #179 Eclectic Cyborg
More bullshit from the NYT:
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Between this and the editorial talked about above, the NYT’s message to liberals is clear: “SHUT THE FUCK UP, you aren’t ‘Real America’, you aren’t even America so shut the fuck up, you have no right to speak, ever!”
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re: #142 lawhawk
Not completely right. Romney voted to convict Trump AND he voted against the aid to Ukraine.
re: #136 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
So does this mean that
a) all gays are closet Nazis
or
b) all Nazis are closet gays?
b) had been a proposition for quite a while; maybe not all, but many ;-)
re: #134 darthstar
Bolt action rifles are about as safe as they come. No chance of having the trigger stick and accidentally shooting up everything around you.
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Mosin Nagant rifles. Fine shooting irons. Equivalent to our 1903 Springfields.
Five round internal mag, 7.62 x 54mm cartridge. It’s my deer gun and I paid $100 for it. Accurate to 500 yds over iron sights.
re: #191 Colère Tueur de Lapin
b) had been a proposition for quite a while; maybe not all, but many ;-)
I mentioned that one of Germany’s leading Neo-Nazis in the 1980’s was openly gay and stated that it was Hitler’s biggest mistake to purge Ernst Röhm…(one cannot make this stuff up)
Yeah—Black people and women could totally speak their minds in the 1950s. Like when my mom, working at Woolworth’s, wasn’t allowed to try on the clothes cause she was Black. Totally spoke her mind about that! https://t.co/KrZFvSFh1m
— Soledad O’Brien (@soledadobrien) March 18, 2022
Note, the thread that follows the QT is a little more reasonable, but the poll is still nice to put into perspective the ‘people are terrified to speak their mind because of cancel culture!’ bullshit.
re: #192 austin_blue
Mosin Nagant rifles. Fine shooting irons. Equivalent to our 1903 Springfields.
Five round internal mag, 7.62 x 54mm cartridge. It’s my deer gun and I paid $100 for it. Accurate to 500 yds over iron sights.
Very popular among collectors. If I were into guns I would look into owning one.
Even a Murdoch rag admits that Ivermectin for COVID is nonsense.
Ivermectin Didn’t Reduce Covid-19 Hospitalizations in Largest Trial to Date (WSJ)
The “criticism is validation” framework makes learning very difficult.
— Seth Masket (@smotus) March 18, 2022
Again, note how they never pull this shit with criticism from the right.
EDIT: Somehow, I’m not surprised at this response, considering who it’s from.
Do you believe that people have a right to voice opinions while remaining totally insulated from “harsh criticism”? That’s the language that the NYT uses in its poll, treating “harsh criticism” as something that’s inherently problematic.
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) March 18, 2022
re: #190 Hecuba’s daughter
Not completely right. Romney voted to convict Trump AND he voted against the aid to Ukraine.
So, one out of 31 decided to vote for Trump’s conviction, and then voted against aid to Ukraine - complaining about the hasty way that aid was marked up into a bill. IOW, he actually was complaining about how fast Biden acted.
re: #172 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If soccer exists, why is there still football?
Because the rest of the world plays it?
My Scottish BIL laughs when I call it soccer.
“It’s football. Ya canna use your hands except for the goalie. In American football, only two chappies use their feet, and even then, rarely. It’s just armored rugby.
re: #197 Citizen K
Yaaas! Liberal opposition to lies and bigotry is the exact same as conservatives opposition to history and science! Both sides baby, both sides!
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) March 18, 2022
re: #192 austin_blue
Mosin Nagant rifles. Fine shooting irons. Equivalent to our 1903 Springfields.
Five round internal mag, 7.62 x 54mm cartridge. It’s my deer gun and I paid $100 for it. Accurate to 500 yds over iron sights.
You use a Mosin-Nagant for a deer rifle? Cool.
What vintage is it? Nagants were produced over something like a 50-year timeframe, or so I read.
re: #192 austin_blue
Mosin Nagant rifles. Fine shooting irons. Equivalent to our 1903 Springfields.
Five round internal mag, 7.62 x 54mm cartridge. It’s my deer gun and I paid $100 for it. Accurate to 500 yds over iron sights.
That’s what I grew up with - 1943 Springfield .30-06 - dad had a patient who was an old gunsmith and the guy took me out to his shop, asked me to pick an old Model-T axle, and machined me a new barrel for it. Lyman peep sights - didn’t want a scope as I hunted in brush anyway. Great deer rifle.
Should have seen that guy’s house. Freakin’ museum. 50 years of guns he made lining the walls from floor to ceiling. Everything from a rifle he built to go after Elephants in the 50s (gorgeous, small, but large caliber - says he bruised his shoulder with it) to a 4 barrel 16 gauge shotgun he welded together in his teens for poaching ducks - all four barrels fired at once.
re: #204 darthstar
Should have seen that guy’s house. Freakin’ museum. 50 years of guns he made lining the walls from floor to ceiling. Everything from a rifle he built to go after Elephants in the 50s (gorgeous, small, but large caliber - says he bruised his shoulder with it) to a 4 barrel 16 gauge shotgun he welded together in his teens for poaching ducks - all four barrels fired at once.
There is no “overkill”, there is only “open fire” and “I need to reload”.
re: #189 The Pie Overlord!
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I’m just recycling your comment. Very efficient.
How long until Tucker goes to Moscow to receive his Hero of Russia award?
JUST IN: Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov just praised Fox News for being the “only” American media outlet that is aiding their Kremlin propaganda. “Only Fox News is trying to represent some alternative [pro-Russian] points of view.”
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) March 18, 2022
Dopey, you’re so fast, you can upding a comment before it shows up in the Master Spy.
re: #143 ipsos
I’m not saying this has gone too far at this point, but…
Daily Duotrigordle #16
Guesses: 35/37
0️⃣5️⃣ 2️⃣0️⃣ 2️⃣1️⃣ 0️⃣6️⃣
0️⃣2️⃣ 2️⃣2️⃣ 2️⃣3️⃣ 2️⃣4️⃣
0️⃣8️⃣ 0️⃣7️⃣ 2️⃣5️⃣ 2️⃣6️⃣
0️⃣9️⃣ 2️⃣7️⃣ 1️⃣0️⃣ 1️⃣1️⃣
1️⃣2️⃣ 1️⃣3️⃣ 2️⃣8️⃣ 2️⃣9️⃣
0️⃣4️⃣ 3️⃣0️⃣ 1️⃣4️⃣ 1️⃣5️⃣
3️⃣1️⃣ 1️⃣7️⃣ 3️⃣2️⃣ 3️⃣5️⃣
3️⃣3️⃣ 3️⃣4️⃣ 1️⃣8️⃣ 1️⃣9️⃣
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It’s gone way too far!! It took me all 37. But never again!
re: #203 Jay C
You use a Mosin-Nagant for a deer rifle? Cool.
What vintage is it? Nagants were produced over something like a 50-year timeframe, or so I read.
Mine is stamped 1937 and was apparently a ceremonial gun, as the barrel was in excellent shape. The pre-war guns also used better steel than those those made during the Great Patriotic War.
re: #207 No Malarkey!
How long until Tucker goes to Moscow to receive his Hero of Russia award?
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re: #208 wrenchwench
Dopey, you’re so fast, you can upding a comment before it shows up in the Master Spy.
Reflexes like a cat! [Slides off my chair onto the floor, looks around quickly, and stands up like I meant to do that.]
re: #202 No Malarkey!
Yaaas! Liberal opposition to lies and bigotry is the exact same as conservatives opposition to history and science! Both sides baby, both sides!
Remember how conservatives had no problem at all with with Obama’s “Lipstick on a Pig” comments, Michelle Wolf’s “Smokey-Eye Look”, Maxine Waters’ “Push Back” or Ilhan Omar’s “Follow the Benjamins”?
Because they loves them some free speach!!
re: #187 darthstar
There’s an Octordle as well - not interested. Quordle is enough challenge. This just seems obsessive.
It’s interesting to see how the game changes as the number grows. I love Quordle, but I also enjoy trying to watch everything sort itself out as the number of rows and boards grow. Sedecordle (16) seems to work really well for that. I agree that 32 is overkill!
India is going to buy Russian oil at a “discount”. WP had no detail on the discount.
I had the thought a while ago that Russia was going to have to sell oil at a discount to some countries who need to or are not on team UA, which sucks for Russia.
And, if India gets cheaper oil from RU they won’t be buying as much of all the rest of the world’s oil, which doesn’t suck for India or us.
I am no mathematician so I am sure I will be given the correct answer.
re: #212 Dopamine Fish
Reflexes like a cat! [Slides off my chair onto the floor, looks around quickly, and stands up like I meant to do that.]
You may have noticed, I never leave a pencil or a glass of water on the table near you.
re: #215 Ming5000
I seem to remember that there were currency issues between the two countries as well.
re: #210 austin_blue
Mine is stamped 1937 and was apparently a ceremonial gun, as the barrel was in excellent shape. The pre-war guns also used better steel than those those made during the Great Patriotic War.
Yeah, there just may have been a few quality-control issues in the manufacturing of those later models…. ///
re: #217 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I seem to remember that there were currency issues between the two countries as well.
The Wash Post mentioned a Soviet era Rupees for Rubles program
Aside from the oil deal, the Indian government is also exploring ways to maintain trade with Russia by reviving a Cold War-era arrangement called the rupee-ruble trade
re: #219 Ming5000
The Wash Post mentioned a Soviet era Rupees for Rubles program
Hang on, Rupee, Rupee hang on! (yeah! yeah! yeah!)
re: #219 Ming5000
The Wash Post mentioned a Soviet era Rupees for Rubles program
More like “Lakh Rubles per Rupee” deal.
Poor Russia, literally.
/12 In other words, it’s nonsensical to say that an audience’s response should be evaluated for decency, proportionality, fairness, kindness, and “speech encouragement,” but the initial speaker’s speech shouldn’t be.
— StandWithUkraineHat (@Popehat) March 18, 2022
re: #187 darthstar
There’s an Octordle as well - not interested. Quordle is enough challenge. This just seems obsessive.
I am extremely pleased to report that I was able to complete Quordle today with the same number of tries (7) as it took my 15-year-old daughter. This is the first time I tied this week - every other day she’s done better than me. What kills me is how quickly she does it - six minutes today for her.
you know who says they curate their reviews? Amazon.
I wrote
Bought this for a spare so I shelved it on arrival.
Today I replaced an 1100gph pump with this 1500gph.
It puts out maybe 400gph.
The return window closed three weeks ago
they’ll review it and let me know in 3 days whether they’ll post it or not
re: #224 Dangerman
you know who says they curate their reviews? Amazon.
I wrote
they’ll review it and let me know in 3 days whether they’ll post it or not
They only post my positive reviews. Never trust curated reviews.
Racism plays a big factor too. I didn’t see them whining about Inside Out which was also about a teenage girl’s struggles growing up.
— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) March 13, 2022
re: #226 Punish Domestic Terrorists
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I dunno: just as an unsolicited review: I saw “Turning Red” on Disney+ last week, and thought it was cute. Not something I would have gone out of my way to view, but “relatable” enough: even without robots…..
thank you yes this is precisely what i imagined the prince of crypto would look like https://t.co/TT9FRs0HNa
— Brandy Jensen (@BrandyLJensen) March 18, 2022
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re: #227 Jay C
I dunno: just as an unsolicited review: I saw “Turning Red” on Disney+ last week, and thought it was cute. Not something I would have gone out of my way to view, but “relatable” enough: even without robots…..
Mrs. Fish watched it with our young daughter. It’s great.
My eyes are bigger than my stomach today for lunch…
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#Russia’s Foreign Minister #Lavrov threatens that all transporters that may bring weapons to #Ukraine will be declared military targets. pic.twitter.com/DDP8AkT8OD
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) March 18, 2022
re: #232 Eclectic Cyborg
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Unsurprising, and not just on partisan grounds.
McCarthy and all Republicans understand that he was simply reading the wrong script.
The vast majority of them actually made the same mistake, but no one noticed because they weren’t reading the R-rated version, so to speak. https://t.co/xxTpDQ2S1u— David Waldman-1, of Yorktown LLC™ (@KagroX) March 18, 2022
It feels like work to him, to read the memo about switching allegiances.
But reading and repeating partisan attack lines doesn’t feel like work to him, and he’s all too happy to participate. And maybe a little harder to stop once he’s rolling than most Republicans.— David Waldman-1, of Yorktown LLC™ (@KagroX) March 18, 2022
Cawthorn has been very open about how he views his role in Congress, though. He’s been clear that he’s not there to legislate, but to do messaging.
So getting caught out on messaging seems like a pretty critical error for him.
If facts mattered, it would cost him.— David Waldman-1, of Yorktown LLC™ (@KagroX) March 18, 2022
re: #235 Backwoods_Sleuth
Unfortunately facts have not mattered to the GOP in a long time now.
re: #54 Dread Pirate Ron
I appreciate the promotions of e-bikes, but some of us live in areas where e-bikes are essentially unusable for three months out of the year except MAYBE at 4 am when the temp drops to a low of 89F.
And in other news, the hoods have slipped off the heads of the remaining trucker “convoy” participants:
So they’re finally coming clean on what their “protest” is really all about.
— Erin Palmer 🇨🇦 (@Nireremlap) March 18, 2022
From Germany to Moldova to Israel, refugees from Ukraine join local Purim celebrations amid the Russian assault on their country. https://t.co/hSKfRsFd4g pic.twitter.com/cHRH9FcIPM
— ABC News (@ABC) March 18, 2022
re: #237 mmmirele
Never saw that coming /////////////////////////////////////////
re: #237 mmmirele
I appreciate the promotions of e-bikes, but some of us live in areas where e-bikes are essentially unusable for three months out of the year except MAYBE at 4 am when the temp drops to a low of 89F.
Or, vice-versa, places where the temperature may not clear 0 °F for days, and stays below freezing for 3-4 months of the year.
re: #240 Dopamine Fish
Or, vice-versa, places where the temperature may not clear 0 °F for days, and stays below freezing for 3-4 months of the year.
Back when I was a kid, and there was a ‘gas crisis’, our bikes didn’t have no motors! Stop riding on my lawn!
re: #122 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I think all of this spells disaster for anyone other than those who have held real estate since 2008 and decided to sell in the last few months. Those folk are raking in the money.
I live in a townhome community and have been here since 2007. So yeah, I bought at the height of the last bubble. It’s only been within the last 18 months that housing prices first caught up with my mortgage on the townhome and has then zoomed up to 3.5 times the current balance on my mortgage. My mother’s house (paid for) has nearly doubled in the same period. It’s insane. People can’t afford to buy homes, but they’re being bought up by speculators. I don’t know if this means a crash for these people or continued penury for families who are just trying to make ends meet.
re: #240 Dopamine Fish
Or, vice-versa, places where the temperature may not clear 0 °F for days, and stays below freezing for 3-4 months of the year.
And roads have ice and snow!
re: #192 austin_blue
Mosin Nagant rifles. Fine shooting irons. Equivalent to our 1903 Springfields.
Five round internal mag, 7.62 x 54mm cartridge. It’s my deer gun and I paid $100 for it. Accurate to 500 yds over iron sights.
A far better rifle than too many give it credit for. The Finns took them by the thousands from the Russian, mod-ed them only slightly and used them to kick Soviet butt. I had one but sold it to finance my Kraig-Jorgensen carbine, which is my deer rifle.
re: #55 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Maybe it was her PR secretary hiding in the closet dressed as Jesus and handing out scrolls…
Next thing you know Ted Cruz will be talking about some lady in a pond lobbing a scimitar at him and telling him he was this POTUS.
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re: #246 William Lewis
A far better rifle than too many give it credit for. The Finns took them by the thousands from the Russian, mod-ed them only slightly and used them to kick Soviet butt. I had one but sold it to finance my Kraig-Jorgensen carbine, which is my deer rifle.
It is a fine weapon; the M1 Garand outclassed it not because of its superior shooting qualities, but because it altered the name of the warfare game. A rapid-fire semiautomatic rifle in the hands of competently trained soldiers gave a US platoon the firepower equivalent to a European battalion.
The family of Halyna Hutchins, the late cinematographer who was killed on the Alec Baldwin movie Rust last year, is currently trapped in Ukraine amid Russia’s invasion, her husband says.Halyna Hutchins’ widower, Matt, told TMZ on Friday the late cinematographer’s family members have been trapped in Ukrainian capital Kyiv in the wake of Russia’s invasion of the country. “Halyna’s mother knows she cannot leave safely and is instead continuing to work in the same hospital where she’s been a nurse for more than a decade, and Halyna’s father is hunkering down too,” the report says.
Family of cinematographer killed on Alec Baldwin movie is trapped in Ukraine, her widower says (The Week US via MSN)
re: #248 Dopamine Fish
It is a fine weapon; the M1 Garand outclassed it not because of its superior shooting qualities, but because it altered the name of the warfare game. A rapid-fire semiautomatic rifle in the hands of competently trained soldiers gave a US platoon the firepower equivalent to a European battalion.
Yep, then Kalashnikov took the concept of a submachine gun and lots of ideas from the Garand and the M-1 carbine to make the Avtomat Kalashnikov giving a single soldier the firepower of an American platoon.
re: #251 A Cranky One
They worked fine. We’re still here.
re: #187 darthstar
There’s an Octordle as well - not interested. Quordle is enough challenge. This just seems obsessive.
I do both of those daily. Usually do pretty well, but have needed an extra guess or two now and again.
I like both of them and I think they make my Wordle play better.
re: #237 mmmirele
I live where you live, and I put 3000 miles on my e-bike last year. Only bad time Jun-Jul before the monsoons hit.
My sister and her husband own an e-bike store in Scottsdale, trust me, people are buying and using them in the Phoenix metro area!
re: #252 Punish Domestic Terrorists
They worked fine. We’re still here.
Maybe they should have gotten more use as a studying implement.
re: #189 The Pie Overlord!
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re: #251 A Cranky One
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They would have us go to the gym locker rooms. Boys and girls in each respectively. We would crouch next to the inner wall with our heads between our knees. Oh the good old days.
re: #251 A Cranky One
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Boomers did a lot of ducking and covering too.
Full disclosure: I’m either at the tail end of the boomers or the beginning of gen x depending on the dates ascribed to the generation. Started kindergarten in 1968. We never had a duck and cover drill in school.
re: #257 Eventual Carrion
They would have us go to the gym locker rooms. Boys and girls in each respectively. We would crouch next to the inner wall with our heads between our knees. Oh the good old days.
Our indoor track was a fallout shelter with survival supplies, but any kind of blast wave would have dropped the school on top of us.
re: #258 Teddy’s Person
Boomers did a lot of ducking and covering too.
Full disclosure: I’m either at the tail end of the boomers or the beginning of gen x depending on the dates ascribed to the generation. Started kindergarten in 1968. We never had a duck and cover drill in school.
I use ‘46 to ‘66 as boomer born-years. You’re a late boomer. I started in 63. We had duck and cover, but I don’t remember any before 2nd grade.
She thought she was being cool and cutting edge, but people really hate the NFT grift.
Brie Larson has attracted fresh criticism from Marvel fans for promoting NFTs.
The Captain Marvel actor recently faced a backlash for revealing on social media that she had bought her own non-fungible token from the “Flower Girls” collection.
Designed by Varvara Alay, the collection in question reportedly donates a portion of all their sales to “a range of children’s charities”.
Now, Larson has posted a tweet of an NFT, writing: “Welcome to my lil corner of the @some_place metaverse. Can’t wait to welcome you all in soon.”
Her fans expressed their disappointment with Larson’s post on social media.
Brie Larson branded ‘corporate nightmare’ for promoting NFT in ‘weird’ new post (The Independent via MSN)
re: #260 wrenchwench
I use ‘46 to ‘66 as boomer born-years. You’re a late boomer. I started in 63. We had duck and cover, but I don’t remember any before 2nd grade.
66 is Gen X. I will not tolerate anyone trying to change me into a Boomer. That’s my father’s generation.
re: #262 Punish Domestic Terrorists
66 is Gen X. I will not tolerate anyone trying to change me into a Boomer. That’s my father’s generation.
Uh oh. Lines are being drawn.
You may identify yourself however you wish.
re: #263 wrenchwench
Uh oh. Lines are being drawn.
You may identify yourself however you wish.
Google tells me the Boomers ended in ‘64 in results from many websites.
I was born in 63 but always felt more in common with X rather than boomers. My parents were born in 35 & 42 but had very much more “boomer” attitudes. This may have had more to do with being in north central Wisconsin in those years.
re: #265 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Google tells me the Boomers ended in ‘64 in results from many websites.
Oh yeah. 46 to 64. I forget my own mnemonics. Teddy’s Person is still a boomer. You’re out.
re: #260 wrenchwench
I use ‘46 to ‘66 as boomer born-years. You’re a late boomer. I started in 63. We had duck and cover, but I don’t remember any before 2nd grade.
I think the boiler room in my elementary school (Mary A. Wilson - good old Mary A) had a fallout shelter sign on the door. I guess they were planning on herding us all in there? I don’t remember any talk of nuclear war when I was a kid. My younger brother (10 years younger) was in school in the 1980s and was anxious about the bomb. Was duck and cover more prevalent in the 80s than the 70s?
re: #168 Dave In Austin
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How’s he gonna do all that ted?
I’m proud to endorse @HerschelWalker for U.S. Senate in Georgia.
Herschel is a fighter who will work to protect our Constitution, secure our borders, and fight to make America energy independent again.
Join me in supporting Herschel: https://t.co/ka5Sqv8OQM— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) March 18, 2022
re: #266 William Lewis
I was born in 63 but always felt more in common with X rather than boomers. My parents were born in 35 & 42 but had very much more “boomer” attitudes. This may have had more to do with being in north central Wisconsin in those years.
I take it they were not silent.
The Silent Generation is the demographic cohort following the Greatest Generation and preceding the Baby Boomers. The Silent Generation is generally defined as people born from 1928 to 1945.[1] By this definition and U.S. Census data, there were 23 million Silents in the United States as of 2019.[2]
re: #267 wrenchwench
Oh yeah. 46 to 64. I forget my own mnemonics. Teddy’s Person is still a boomer. You’re out.
Whew! Close one.
re: #266 William Lewis
I was born in 63 but always felt more in common with X rather than boomers. My parents were born in 35 & 42 but had very much more “boomer” attitudes. This may have had more to do with being in north central Wisconsin in those years.
Boomx. It could take off, like Latinx. Which is still on the runway…
re: #270 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I take it they were not silent.
Not particularly. Not hippies either though both went back to college once they worked on campus and that kept their attitudes open and liberal. Good democratic voters and every election & dad still is. He despises Trump & Faux :D
Looks like Putin’s rally was more like a Trump rally than everyone thought.
Here’s why- Russian state employees were required to go. Other people paid with Rubels and food. Once their tickets were stamped they were free to go. https://t.co/T09QOtwa6t
— just thinking (@isawthesethings) March 18, 2022
re: #271 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Whew! Close one.
I’m happy to be an okay boomer. Just made it. ‘64 FTW!
re: #266 William Lewis
I was born in 63 but always felt more in common with X rather than boomers. My parents were born in 35 & 42 but had very much more “boomer” attitudes. This may have had more to do with being in north central Wisconsin in those years.
I was born in ‘61 and also feel more X than boomer. My parents are close to your parents birth years, ‘37 and ‘41.
re: #179 Eclectic Cyborg
More bullshit from the NYT:
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saw this earlier
Correlation, maybe
Causation not a chance
Idiotic poll and take
People in the U.S. who identify as “very liberal” increasingly look like outliers on Covid, a new poll found.@DLeonhardt looks at the survey’s results in The Morning newsletter. https://t.co/sXQTVz6Gug
— The New York Times (@nytimes) March 18, 2022
re: #194 Citizen K
Note, the thread that follows the QT is a little more reasonable, but the poll is still nice to put into perspective the ‘people are terrified to speak their mind because of cancel culture!’ bullshit.
The polls throughout our country’s history should have been more to the point:
“do you feel comfortable in today’s society hurling racist insults, sexist cat-calls, gay bashing and calling to oppress or remove minorities from the country?”
That is the “speaking their mind” they worry about.
re: #273 William Lewis
Not particularly. Not hippies either though both went back to college once they worked on campus and that kept their attitudes open and liberal. Good democratic voters and every election & dad still is. He despises Trump & Faux :D
My mom is long gone, but she would have hated Trump as much as my father does or I do. My brother is unfortunately in a cult that brainwashed the kids that are the future of my family.
re: #263 wrenchwench
Uh oh. Lines are being drawn.
You may identify yourself however you wish.
Warbaby.
re: #276 Eventual Carrion
I was born in ‘61 and also feel more X than boomer. My parents are close to your parents birth years, ‘37 and ‘41.
I have personally felt the definition for Boomer birth years is way too broad. Some marketing folks have felt so too, claiming that there are really two co-horts comprising the Boomers - the Early Boomers and Generation Jones.
The Generation Jones folks didn’t grow up with Howdy Dowdy, too young for Woodstock, heard MLK’s “I Have A Dream” years after spoken, and only a few barely old enough to understand what was going on with the JFK assassination.
We had duck and cover when I was kid. Of course, my dad was in the military and so we always lived near or in air force bases, which were potential targets.
I have this hanging in my man cave. These were ubiquitous when I was a kid.
Scariest memory of that time was when we were living in Germany at the edge of the 5K zone. We could see the fences at the border with East Germany in the distance and occasionally see it get lit up at night along with hearing explosions and gunfire when a crossing was attempted.
Kennedy was assassinated while we were there and we knew if a war started we were on the front line. A scary time.
re: #282 dat_said
I have personally felt the definition for Boomer birth years is way too broad. Some marketing folks have felt so too, claiming that there are really two co-horts comprising the Boomers - the Early Boomers and Generation Jones.
The Generation Jones folks didn’t grow up with Howdy Dowdy, too young for Woodstock, heard MLK’s “I Have A Dream” years after spoken, and only a few barely old enough to understand what was going on with the JFK assassination.
That’s me. First real big event I was aware of was the moon landing.
re: #282 dat_said
I have personally felt the definition for Boomer birth years is way too broad. Some marketing folks have felt so too, claiming that there are really two co-horts comprising the Boomers - the Early Boomers and Generation Jones.
The Generation Jones folks didn’t grow up with Howdy Dowdy, too young for Woodstock, heard MLK’s “I Have A Dream” years after spoken, and only a few barely old enough to understand what was going on with the JFK assassination.
I’m 1956, I agree with dividing the Boom into two cohorts — the description seems reasonable, and I’ve seen plenty of references to Early and Late Boomers. But ‘Generation Jones’? Where on earth did they come up with that weird designation, and wottheck is it supposed to mean? Has anyone else heard it before?
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