Cory and the Wongnotes: “Crisis” (Feat. Big Wild)

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I set this to start at the song in question, because it’s a party y’all, but do watch the whole thing if you are so inclined because it’s all fun.

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BAND
Cory Wong - guitar/vox
Sonny Thompson - bass/vox
Mark Lettieri - baritone guitar
Kevin Gastonguay - keys
Nêgah Santos - percussion/vox
Petar Janjic - drums
Eddie Barbash - alto sax/soprano sax
Kenni Holmen - tenor sax/flute
Sam Greenfield - bari sax/bass clarinet
Jay Webb - trumpet/flugelhorn
Jon Lampley - trumpet/flugelhorn/vox
Michael Nelson - trombone/horn arranger
Jackson Stell - vocals/keyboard

MUSIC
Produced by Cory Wong
Mixed by John Fields
Engineered by Jake Hartsfield and Caleb Fisher
Mastered by Will Quinnell

VIDEO
Executive Producer - Cory Wong
Director - Ben Kadie
Director of Photography Matt Burke
Producers - Cory Wong, Maggie Phillips, Michael Bowden
1st AD - Micah Johnson, Michael Bowden
Key PA - Drew Arnett
Editors: Cory Wong, Ben Kadie, Michael Bowden
Writers - Cory Wong, Ben Kadie, William Gianetta, Meg Sinick, Luke Moran, Kay Kaanapu
Camera - Matt Burke, Dakota Diel, Trent Millspaugh, Michael Bowden
Lighting Director - Jacob Padgett
1st AC - Eduardo Orozco, Izzy Rael
DIT - Christopher Tawney, Eduardo Orozco, Izzy Rael
Gaffers - Mark Lopez, Ezra Robinson
Key Grip - Hunter Rodgers
Hair/Makeup - Brie Beckman, Darlene Orellana, Janelle Wood
Boom Ops: Sandra Joen Pérez, Zach Bair
Nashville Production Designer - Tricia Robertson and Cory Wong
LA Production Design - Denver Kotian
Set Build - Clint and Sharmon Scenic Fabrication

CAST
Cory Wong
Maresha Robinson - Mom (Compressix)
Addison Kiyomi Au - Daughter (Compressix)
Levi Mynatt - Son (Compressix)

0:00 Eddie Mercury
1:14 Introduction/Monologue
4:00 Compressix
5:18 Power Station
8:53 Crisis (feat. Big Wild)
13:32 Interview with Big Wild
42:33 Outro

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290 comments
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darthstar  Apr 14, 2022 • 5:30:36pm

In honor of the season…

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darthstar  Apr 14, 2022 • 5:35:28pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 14, 2022 • 5:36:11pm
BOISE, Idaho — The Idaho Supreme Court has rejected a request by the Roman Catholic Church in Idaho to intervene in a lawsuit over a new state law banning nearly all abortions.

The court did not explain Wednesday why the church was excluded after the Diocese of Boise on Monday asked to be allowed to to join the lawsuit.

(more)

ktvb.com

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 14, 2022 • 5:36:54pm

re: #1 darthstar

In honor of the season…

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Shouldn’t that be Gandalf the Grey since he then comes back as Gandalf the White?

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EPR-radar  Apr 14, 2022 • 5:41:38pm

re: #4 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Shouldn’t that be Gandalf the Grey since he then comes back as Gandalf the White?

A bigger issue is that Tolkien left a Christ-sized hole in his mythology, which he wisely left blank.

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John Hughes  Apr 14, 2022 • 5:44:07pm

re: #2 darthstar

I’m the very model of a 21st century billionaire…

The rest left for people better at writing song lyrics than me.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 14, 2022 • 5:45:09pm

re: #5 EPR-radar

A bigger issue is that Tolkien left a Christ-sized hole in his mythology, which he wisely left blank.

Was probably leaving extra room for his friend C S Lewis to use.

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John Hughes  Apr 14, 2022 • 5:45:22pm

Yay for electricity!

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Charles Johnson  Apr 14, 2022 • 5:47:02pm
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John Hughes  Apr 14, 2022 • 5:47:22pm

re: #7 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Touch my wounds.

Fuck off mate, you’re a fucking lion.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Apr 14, 2022 • 5:50:57pm

re: #7 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Was probably leaving extra room for his friend C S Lewis to use.

No, Tolkien is writing ancient history and lore, long before Christianty.

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DodgerFan1988  Apr 14, 2022 • 5:52:09pm
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Decatur Deb  Apr 14, 2022 • 5:57:49pm

re: #11 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!

No, Tolkien is writing ancient history and lore, long before Christianty.

During the 1960s Tolkien explosion, Frodo was appreciated as a Christ figure. I once had a pin that said “Frodo Died For Your Sins”.

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darthstar  Apr 14, 2022 • 5:59:35pm
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darthstar  Apr 14, 2022 • 6:03:08pm

re: #4 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Shouldn’t that be Gandalf the Grey since he then comes back as Gandalf the White?

re: #13 Decatur Deb

During the 1960s Tolkien explosion, Frodo was appreciated as a Christ figure. I once had a pin that said “Frodo Died For Your Sins”,.

re: #11 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!

No, Tolkien is writing ancient history and lore, long before Christianty.

I love the fact that you all are a bunch of Tolkien geeks

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EPR-radar  Apr 14, 2022 • 6:05:31pm

re: #7 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Was probably leaving extra room for his friend C S Lewis to use.

Not really. Tolkien is on record as disliking allegory, and I suspect part of that is because he saw what a dog’s dinner Lewis’ fiction became in its allegorical straightjacket.

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EPR-radar  Apr 14, 2022 • 6:06:48pm

re: #13 Decatur Deb

During the 1960s Tolkien explosion, Frodo was appreciated as a Christ figure. I once had a pin that said “Frodo Died For Your Sins”.

Ugh. Frodo didn’t even die.

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John Hughes  Apr 14, 2022 • 6:09:05pm

re: #16 EPR-radar

Lewis is on record as saying that TLTWATW is not allegory.

(The difference is super subtle and only of interest to anglo-Catholic obsessives).

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Decatur Deb  Apr 14, 2022 • 6:09:23pm

re: #17 EPR-radar

Ugh. Frodo didn’t even die.

Pacific University
CommonKnowledge
Humanities Capstone Projects College of Arts and Sciences
5-2015
Frodo Baggins: The Modern Parallel to Christ in
Literature
Haley Bedell
Pacific University

This titles a .pdf

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jaunte  Apr 14, 2022 • 6:09:25pm

re: #17 EPR-radar

“Go West, Young Hobbit.”

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EPR-radar  Apr 14, 2022 • 6:10:41pm

re: #15 darthstar

I love the fact that you all are a bunch of Tolkien geeks

Guilty as charged. The biggest Tolkien geek at my high school covered himself in shame by botching the answer to this question in a trivial contest— “Who was the first hobbit to hold the One Ring?”

Click to Reveal

Correct answer is Deagol, Smeagol/gollum’s brother who was murdered by Smeagol after finding the Ring. He answered Smeagol.

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Belafon  Apr 14, 2022 • 6:11:00pm
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EPR-radar  Apr 14, 2022 • 6:11:38pm

re: #18 John Hughes

Lewis is on record as saying that TLTWATW is not allegory.

(The difference is super subtle and only of interest to anglo-Catholic obsessives).

It’s an allegory by any normal definition of the word.

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John Hughes  Apr 14, 2022 • 6:11:46pm

re: #20 jaunte

Frofo meets up with the monkey king.

I always preferred the water margin.

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Belafon  Apr 14, 2022 • 6:12:45pm
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Charles Johnson  Apr 14, 2022 • 6:13:53pm
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Belafon  Apr 14, 2022 • 6:13:57pm
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John Hughes  Apr 14, 2022 • 6:14:46pm

re: #23 EPR-radar

Like I said, you have to be a nit picking anglo-Catholic to not see it as allegory. All anglo-Catholics are nitpickers, but Lewis was the champion.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Apr 14, 2022 • 6:14:48pm

re: #13 Decatur Deb

During the 1960s Tolkien explosion, Frodo was appreciated as a Christ figure. I once had a pin that said “Frodo Died For Your Sins”.

I’m sure Tolkien would have been (was?) horrified

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EPR-radar  Apr 14, 2022 • 6:15:07pm

re: #26 Charles Johnson

At least she isn’t the Senate Judiciary Chair.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 14, 2022 • 6:15:49pm
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Decatur Deb  Apr 14, 2022 • 6:16:30pm

re: #29 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!

I’m sure Tolkien would have been (was?) horrified

Sill alive then IIRC. It was probably the first time the royalties really kicked-in.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 14, 2022 • 6:17:42pm

re: #32 Decatur Deb

Sill alive then IIRC. It was probably the first time the royalties really kicked-in.

—Just checked—JRR still had another ten years or so in him.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Apr 14, 2022 • 6:18:40pm

re: #32 Decatur Deb

Sill alive then IIRC. It was probably the first time the royalties really kicked-in.

I know, I am uncertain whether anyone told him about it.

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John Hughes  Apr 14, 2022 • 6:29:14pm

re: #21 EPR-radar

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Damned, got it wrong.

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EstebanTornado1963  Apr 14, 2022 • 6:37:26pm

I tire of stupid tweets.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Apr 14, 2022 • 6:37:53pm

re: #35 John Hughes

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Damned, got it wrong.

Particularly since of course you knew that, just didn’t stop to think about the question.

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Belafon  Apr 14, 2022 • 6:39:58pm
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A Cranky One  Apr 14, 2022 • 7:13:02pm

Please don’t hate me.

Click to Reveal
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Rightwingconspirator  Apr 14, 2022 • 7:15:20pm

re: #39 A Cranky One

Just brilliant.

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retired cynic  Apr 14, 2022 • 7:28:15pm

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jaunte  Apr 14, 2022 • 7:30:41pm

They aren’t complete idiots, they just prefer opponents they can gang up on.

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jaunte  Apr 14, 2022 • 7:35:00pm

Although the Kentucky lege vs. one 12 year old is hardly a fair fight.

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 14, 2022 • 7:35:42pm

re: #43 jaunte

Although the Kentucky lege vs. one 12 year old is hardly a fair fight.

Yeah, you gotta feel bad for all those old white guys. Can’t even put up a fight against one 12-year-old trans kid.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 14, 2022 • 7:39:18pm

re: #33 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It’s not like it’s Vanguard’s money anyway. It’s retirees’ money. If they lose it, oh well. (More reason why I stay the hell away from the stock market.)

Fund managers tend to be very conservative (financially), especially those handling retirement money. Any fund manager found to be reckless in their spending of a fund will be in deep trouble. There are laws that require people who manage other’s affairs to do so with proper conduct.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 14, 2022 • 7:40:52pm

I suspect that twitter will find increased use this year due to:

1) the coming US election;
2) possibility of big war news.

Maybe the investors think that Twitter will find itself the go-to site this year, driving up Twitter revenue?

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 14, 2022 • 7:44:42pm

re: #5 EPR-radar

A bigger issue is that Tolkien left a Christ-sized hole in his mythology, which he wisely left blank.

Tolkien’s LOTR has lots of religious elements.

And yes, Frodo can be seen as the suffering servant, pierced for the sins of the world.

Aragorn is the coming King.

Gandalf is technically not a god (Valar) but he represents the gods, thus he is a priest.

So there you have it: servant, king, priest.

Yeah, it’s very Catholic.

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sagehen  Apr 14, 2022 • 7:52:31pm

re: #45 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Fund managers tend to be very conservative (financially), especially those handling retirement money. Any fund manager found to be reckless in their spending of a fund will be in deep trouble. There are laws that require people who manage other’s affairs to do so with proper conduct.

Hedge Funds and Index Funds are very different things.

Index Funds have rigid rules about what to invest in, when, how long to hold it, really a computer could make all the decisions because the flow-chart is so very specific. And there’s a gazillion federal and state laws about what funds a union pension can invest in, or or the state employees retirement fund, or whatevs. The index fund is limited to whatever the DowJones and Nasdaq other exchanges are showing.

Hedge Funds… take on the personality of their CEO. They’re allowed to think of ideas, set whatever investment strategy their member-investors (mostly rich families’ trust funds) will go along with. If their choices are stupid enough, then Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers go bye-bye.

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EstebanTornado1963  Apr 14, 2022 • 7:53:03pm
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Patricia Kayden  Apr 14, 2022 • 8:02:16pm
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sagehen  Apr 14, 2022 • 8:02:27pm

So the article says 70 officers were injured over the course of 5 days; On 1/6 at the capitol, 140 officers were injured over the course of 5 hours.

So who’s really more dangerous?

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jaunte  Apr 14, 2022 • 8:07:20pm

re: #50 Patricia Kayden

500,000 liberal young people moving to West Virginia could turn things around.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 14, 2022 • 8:11:52pm

re: #52 jaunte

500,000 liberal young people moving to West Virginia could turn things around.

Minute that influx was noticed the legislature would modify the residency requirements to get voting rights in the state.

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sagehen  Apr 14, 2022 • 8:13:01pm

re: #52 jaunte

500,000 liberal young people moving to West Virginia could turn things around.

150,000 each to Wyoming, Montana and Alaska. Problem solved.

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Apr 14, 2022 • 8:13:32pm

re: #52 jaunte

500,000 liberal young people moving to West Virginia could turn things around.

Even less could turn Wyoming.

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Apr 14, 2022 • 8:19:17pm

The problem is getting a bunch of people to move to a hellhole is difficult.

The Libertarians tried to do this to New Hampshire, a place much less hell-hole like, even to them, and they got maybe a couple hundred or a thousand to sign up. Don’t know how many actually did.

You wont get 150,000-500,000 young liberals and progressives to move to Jesusland. There’s no jobs for them so they all have to be fucking youtubers or Twitch streamers (and good luck getting internet access there that can support that right now). Or independently wealthy. The only way this would happen is if you literally had “Soros” (lol) sending them a check for a few years to cover no job opportunities and until the wingnut legislature and congressional representatives and senators are rotated out.

So this is a literal pipe dream that’s not worth salivating over.

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Belafon  Apr 14, 2022 • 8:32:08pm

re: #53 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Minute that influx was noticed the legislature would modify the residency requirements to get voting rights in the state.

Because almost all of them would move to the cities if they did, Republicans would gerrymander the state like other states.

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Belafon  Apr 14, 2022 • 8:37:54pm

I just posted this to Facebook:

I am seriously missing something here. I keep hearing that the Republican party thinks government should stay out of people’s lives, and yet they’re on a tear to get between women and their doctors, to get between parents and their children, and to get between children and their teachers.

Multiple states have effectively ended abortion in their states. “Oh, but Christianity says…” Nope, not how it works. If we were going to follow Christianity, we wouldn’t be going after women who have abortions - the Bible is pretty darn clear that before birth the woman is the only person in that arrangement (you get a fine for causing a woman to miscarry, an abortion is used as a sign of adultery, David’s first child was stillborn because of how he acquired his wife) - we would be going after adulterers, thieves, and those who value wealth over taking care of others. But we’re not a Christian nation, no matter how much people might thinks so. The Founding Fathers made it clear not only in the first amendment, but their writings. And there are plenty of Christians, as well as other religions such as Judaism, that will tell you that abortion is a woman’s right.

I’m also seeing states going after trans kids. Kentucky just passed a law banning trans kids from participating in girl’s sports, over one 11 year old. Eleven. 11. That’s not protecting girls, because 11 year old girls are not any smaller than 11 year old boys, that’s targeting a child because they can. Utah passed a similar law for the same reason. But this isn’t the worst one. The worst ones, are those that are being passed in states like South Carolina, that seek to ban children from receiving health care that they, their parents, and their doctors feel is the right thing to do. That truly is a tyrannical government reaching in to take control of families.

And the same people are passing laws to make teachers turn on their students. Imagine being told that you have to out a student who might be gay or might be questioning who they are. What’s the point of this? Fear. Imagine a kid, who might wonder if they are gay, wanting to keep it a secret. And imagine, for any number of reasons, that a teacher figures it out, and is forced to tell it to someone. What if the child thinks the parents won’t be supportive, or worse, the parents have openly bashed gays? What do you think the child is going to do when they are exposed? Do you think that’s going to make them straight? Nope. What it will do is increase the chance that the kid runs away or commits suicide.

You can’t just say that the government should stay out of your life. If you don’t stand up to government interfering in other people’s lives the way these laws interfere, the government will eventually find a way to interfere in yours as well. By then, there won’t be anyone to stand with you.

facebook.com

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jaunte  Apr 14, 2022 • 8:38:29pm

Land doesn’t vote, but it controls the Electoral College. The Electoral College will always retard the advancement of the country if people in the cities are unwilling to take back control of the land.

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jaunte  Apr 14, 2022 • 8:47:59pm
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mmmirele  Apr 14, 2022 • 8:51:42pm

re: #45 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Fund managers tend to be very conservative (financially), especially those handling retirement money. Any fund manager found to be reckless in their spending of a fund will be in deep trouble. There are laws that require people who manage other’s affairs to do so with proper conduct.

There are legal restrictions on what fund managers can spend money on. Blue chip stocks like TWTR are considered responsible and safe investments. Putting money into Bitcoin (for example), not at all due to the lack of regulation and the general illiquidity of Bitcoin.

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Belafon  Apr 14, 2022 • 8:59:06pm

re: #60 jaunte

If Tucker wasn’t saying it for them, they would go on Hannity.

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A Mom Anon  Apr 14, 2022 • 9:01:31pm

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Targetpractice  Apr 14, 2022 • 9:15:48pm

re: #50 Patricia Kayden

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That’s all well and fine, but without many more dems elected to Congress, nothing is going anywhere. What don’t you understand about that?

I think the problem is not that they don’t understand, it’s that they understand perfectly…they just don’t care. Seems the youth vote isn’t that wild about infrastructure and judges.

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DodgerFan1988  Apr 14, 2022 • 9:33:25pm
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EPR-radar  Apr 14, 2022 • 9:37:36pm

re: #64 Targetpractice

I think the problem is not that they don’t understand, it’s that they understand perfectly…they just don’t care. Seems the youth vote isn’t that wild about infrastructure and judges.

The whole country is going to get a pointed reminder on the importance of judges in a few weeks.

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Targetpractice  Apr 14, 2022 • 9:49:52pm

re: #66 EPR-radar

The whole country is going to get a pointed reminder on the importance of judges in a few weeks.

Which will certainly give some folks more incentive to get out there and vote Dem in November. The problem we’re facing the 2010 dilemma all over again: Young folks see no upside to maintaining the Dem majority that outweighs the downside of Repubs winning it. If anything, the situation is worse because at least the ACA was a step in the direction the administration promised on Day One. Nobody really had “infrastructure” or “judges” towards the top of their list of priorities when voting for Biden.

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EPR-radar  Apr 14, 2022 • 9:56:34pm

re: #67 Targetpractice

Which will certainly give some folks more incentive to get out there and vote Dem in November. The problem we’re facing the 2010 dilemma all over again: Young folks see no upside to maintaining the Dem majority that outweighs the downside of Repubs winning it. If anything, the situation is worse because at least the ACA was a step in the direction the administration promised on Day One. Nobody really had “infrastructure” or “judges” towards the top of their list of priorities when voting for Biden.

Keeping the goddamn Republicans from fucking everything up needs to count for a lot more than it does.

Let’s be real here. With all due respect to Stacey Abrams, Democrats getting Senate control in 2020 was a gift from Trump’s clown show that is unlikely to be repeated. Without that, we would have gotten absolutely nothing done 2020-2022, and it still would have been worth it to keep Republicans out.

People need to realize that no matter what their precious issues are, no progress will be made on them unless/until the GOP menace is beaten back. Nothing else matters more than voting D in every general election, at every level. And it isn’t close. Nothing else is even in the same galaxy as simply showing up in the damn general elections.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 14, 2022 • 10:01:19pm

re: #50 Patricia Kayden

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CleverToad  Apr 14, 2022 • 10:04:32pm

re: #63 A MomAnon

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BeachDem  Apr 14, 2022 • 10:05:11pm

re: #68 EPR-radar

Keeping the goddamn Republicans from fucking everything up needs to count for a lot more than it does.

Let’s be real here. With all due respect to Stacey Abrams, Democrats getting Senate control in 2020 was a gift from Trump’s clown show that is unlikely to be repeated. Without that, we would have gotten absolutely nothing done 2020-2022, and it still would have been worth it to keep Republicans out.

People need to realize that no matter what their precious issues are, no progress will be made on them unless/until the GOP menace is beaten back. Nothing else matters more than voting D in every general election, at every level. And it isn’t close. Nothing else is even in the same galaxy as simply showing up in the damn general elections.

Yes to the max.

OK, I’m going to sound like an old fart because, well, I AM an old fart, but this
“you must earn my vote” (and you won’t get it unless you give me everything I demand) crap just gets on my last nerve.

I’ve been voting for 52 years, and more times than not, the candidates were not my ideals, but they were certainly better than the Republican alternatives, and I haven’t missed a single election (you had to be 21 when I started voting, so I really AM OLD!)
Right now, when we’re close to falling apart and becoming a fascist hellhole is NOT the time to be assholes, kiddies. YOU are the ones who are going to have to live in the mess—I’m old, and will be gone before it turns to total shit, hopefully.

These “earn my vote” kiddies never lived in a pre-Roe world…or a women can’t get credit in their own names world…or Freedom Riders and legal segregation and illegal miscegenation and the original Jim Crow laws and voting restrictions (all ready to make a comeback if the Republicans control Congress) and on and on.

We all have our generational issues, and they seem vivid when we’re young, but shit happens, and standing on ceremony and making someone “earn your vote” makes the shit come at you even faster and furiouser. So suck it up and get with the program. Fight for what you want, but don’t lose sight of the forest for the trees, for fuck’s sake.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 14, 2022 • 10:05:16pm

re: #58 Belafon

To make the hamsters happy, you may need to take that long url and make a tiny one.

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Sherlock Hound  Apr 14, 2022 • 10:13:41pm

Matt Taibbi has always been one of the eight assholes on Twitter.

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Targetpractice  Apr 14, 2022 • 10:15:43pm

re: #68 EPR-radar

Keeping the goddamn Republicans from fucking everything up needs to count for a lot more than it does.

Let’s be real here. With all due respect to Stacey Abrams, Democrats getting Senate control in 2020 was a gift from Trump’s clown show that is unlikely to be repeated. Without that, we would have gotten absolutely nothing done 2020-2022, and it still would have been worth it to keep Republicans out.

People need to realize that no matter what their precious issues are, no progress will be made on them unless/until the GOP menace is beaten back. Nothing else matters more than voting D in every general election, at every level. And it isn’t close. Nothing else is even in the same galaxy as simply showing up in the damn general elections.

I’ve been voting since I was 18 and it’s been the same song and dance every 2 years, whether it’s “We need to get Repubs out of power to get things done!” or “We need a bigger majority to get things done!” And it’s always the same mantra: “VOTE HARDER, DAMNIT!” Dems win a majority and then agonize about how they can’t get anything done by playing within the rules, only for Repubs to take power back and immediately begin cornholing the rules to get all their fantasies passed. If they win this November, by February the filibuster will have been nuked from orbit just so Mitch and his goons can pass every bill they want on a party-line vote.

“We can’t get anything done” seems to be the party’s motto, whether it’s when they’re in the minority whining that Repubs won’t work with them or when they’re a majority-in-name-only who allows a handful of conservative Dems to scuttle anything Repubs won’t support.

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Captain Ron  Apr 14, 2022 • 10:17:20pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 14, 2022 • 10:18:44pm

wordling

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Captain Ron  Apr 14, 2022 • 10:26:28pm

for a second I thought they were talking about the dog.

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Targetpractice  Apr 14, 2022 • 10:33:22pm

re: #75 Dread Pirate Ron

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Years of propaganda “victories,” whether it was bombing and shelling civilians in Chechnya, stomping on Georgia just to “liberate” South Ossetia, or carpet-bombing Syrian cities, has given Russia an overly-inflated image of themselves and their military. Ukraine is finally showing how much of a paper tiger they really are and they have no other way to explain it than “NATO IS BEHIND ALL THIS!!!”

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 14, 2022 • 10:47:11pm

re: #78 Targetpractice

Years of propaganda “victories,” whether it was bombing and shelling civilians in Chechnya, stomping on Georgia just to “liberate” South Ossetia, or carpet-bombing Syrian cities, has given Russia an overly-inflated image of themselves and their military. Ukraine is finally showing how much of a paper tiger they really are and they have no other way to explain it than “NATO IS BEHIND ALL THIS!!!”

They are not quite a paper tiger because they can level most of the nation and kill many of its citizens through weapons fired from a distance. Yes, in conventional warfare against a much smaller foe, they have demonstrated their inadequacy, BUT that is not the “game” they are now playing. What we have learned is that our training techniques are very successful in preparing a military to combat a foe when a nation is led by a charismatic figure who unites his people and inspires them to fight against the enemy. Clearly, the training didn’t take in Afghanistan — but the foe there was internal, not an invading force, and the nation’s leaders did not have the loyalty of the citizenry.

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Targetpractice  Apr 14, 2022 • 10:55:33pm

re: #79 Hecuba’s daughter

They are not quite a paper tiger because they can level most of the nation and kill many of its citizens through weapons fired from a distance. Yes, in conventional warfare against a much smaller foe, they have demonstrated their inadequacy, BUT that is not the “game” they are now playing. What we have learned is that our training techniques are very successful in preparing a military to combat a foe when a nation is led by a charismatic figure who unites his people and inspires them to fight against the enemy. Clearly, the training didn’t take in Afghanistan — but the foe there was internal, not an invading force, and the nation’s leaders did not have the loyalty of the citizenry.

Afghanistan collapsed because it was corrupt to its damned core and the only way it kept the peace was by buying off the rival warlords who each saw themselves in the President’s office. All the Taliban had to do to undermine all of that was find out the price the warlords would need to be paid to either join them or at least stay out of their way as their marched on Kabul.

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Apr 14, 2022 • 11:10:27pm

re: #73 Sherlock Hound

Matt Taibbi has always been one of the eight assholes on Twitter.

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Is there a list of the 8 somewhere?

I’m assuming some of them are

Matt Taibbi
Glenn Greenwald
Michael Tracey
Andy Ngo
Talcum X
?
There’s a few names right on the tip of my tongue but I can’t recall.

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Belafon  Apr 14, 2022 • 11:18:14pm

re: #79 Hecuba’s daughter

They are not quite a paper tiger because they can level most of the nation and kill many of its citizens through weapons fired from a distance. Yes, in conventional warfare against a much smaller foe, they have demonstrated their inadequacy, BUT that is not the “game” they are now playing. What we have learned is that our training techniques are very successful in preparing a military to combat a foe when a nation is led by a charismatic figure who unites his people and inspires them to fight against the enemy. Clearly, the training didn’t take in Afghanistan — but the foe there was internal, not an invading force, and the nation’s leaders did not have the loyalty of the citizenry.

Answer this: if the rest of the world had acted when we invaded Iraq as the world has when Russia invaded Ukraine - a slow roll-out of weapons at first - do you think we would have succeeded in taking over? Don’t confuse our taking over with how we ran the government afterwards, I’m just talking about the invasion.

To me, the answer is yes. We were in far better shape, even with a good chunk of our forces in Afghanistan, than Russia is now. That’s why Russia isn’t living up to what everyone thought they were, that they projected they were.

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Targetpractice  Apr 14, 2022 • 11:18:39pm

re: #73 Sherlock Hound

Matt Taibbi has always been one of the eight assholes on Twitter.

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“Things were so cool when this place was ran like a biker bar, but now they have rules and standards! How’s a guy supposed to have fun if he and his buddies can’t pick a random person to lynch?!”

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A Three Hour Tour  Apr 14, 2022 • 11:25:50pm

re: #81 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion

Is there a list of the 8 somewhere?

I’m assuming some of them are

Matt Taibbi
Glenn Greenwald
Michael Tracey
Andy Ngo
Talcum X
?
There’s a few names right on the tip of my tongue but I can’t recall.

The List of Eight is in the possession of Connie Chung and the Secret Committee of Twelve.

I would say more, but then Dave Letterman would have a couple of goons drag me away faster than you can say “Chris Elliott.”

(Who says I’m not a master of the outdated pop-cultural reference? Boo-Boop-Di-Doo, 23-Skiddoo!)

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Captain Ron  Apr 14, 2022 • 11:31:10pm
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Captain Ron  Apr 14, 2022 • 11:33:43pm
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Targetpractice  Apr 14, 2022 • 11:37:47pm

Some of the comments to Matt’s tweet peg 2016 as the year when things began to change on Twitter and I find myself agreeing, largely because it was having a presidential candidate promoting the worst impulses of his followers that began to wake people up to just how toxic the platform had become. Four years of the TFG using an official Twitter account to incite flame wars, engage in cyber-bullying of his critics, and spewing lies unfiltered while Twitter whimpered that they couldn’t do anything because “He’s the president” did a lot to kill faith in the platform.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 14, 2022 • 11:42:10pm

re: #82 Belafon

Answer this: if the rest of the world had acted when we invaded Iraq as the world has when Russia invaded Ukraine - a slow roll-out of weapons at first - do you think we would have succeeded in taking over? Don’t confuse our taking over with how we ran the government afterwards, I’m just talking about the invasion.

To me, the answer is yes. We were in far better shape, even with a good chunk of our forces in Afghanistan, than Russia is now. That’s why Russia isn’t living up to what everyone thought they were, that they projected they were.

Because we were not a paper tiger — our military was/is the best in the world, as well as the most expensive. We are unmatched in conventional warfare. Russian equipment and Russian military have been shown to be totally inadequate in the post-Soviet world. As has been mentioned before, Russia is a Potemkin nation, with a Potemkin military. In any case, Russia is not a central force of the world economy, so breaking them economically can be done without destroying the rest of the world in the process.

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Captain Ron  Apr 14, 2022 • 11:47:44pm

Lost in the news. Kilauea is erupting again, has been for a while.

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Captain Ron  Apr 14, 2022 • 11:51:42pm

Great! Now we can arm wrestle the Russians in space.

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Targetpractice  Apr 14, 2022 • 11:56:34pm

re: #88 Hecuba’s daughter

Because we were not a paper tiger — our military was/is the best in the world, as well as the most expensive. We are unmatched in conventional warfare. Russian equipment and Russian military have been shown to be totally inadequate in the post-Soviet world. As has been mentioned before, Russia is a Potemkin nation, with a Potemkin military. In any case, Russia is not a central force of the world economy, so breaking them economically can be done without destroying the rest of the world in the process.

What we demonstrated in the last two wars is that we’re amazing when our enemies are so poorly equipped that they’re taking on M1A2 Abrams tanks with T-55s that haven’t seen a proper upgrade since Reagan was in office. And then spent literal decades demonstrating how poorly equipped we are dealing with a low-level insurgency that does not fight us on an open field of battle but instead turns our Humvees into scrap with a few dollars worth of copper sheeting, a clay pot, and a bit of plastic explosive.

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wrenchwench  Apr 15, 2022 • 12:06:52am

Yesterday’s.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 15, 2022 • 12:09:30am

re: #75 Dread Pirate Ron

Speaking of NATO, there was this on Thursday:

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Targetpractice  Apr 15, 2022 • 12:16:46am

re: #93 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Speaking of NATO, there was this on Thursday:

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So the threat is if Finland and Sweden don’t back down from joining NATO, then Russia is going to put a few dozen megatons on their doorsteps to remind them why joining NATO is in their best interest.

Brilliant strategy./////////

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 15, 2022 • 12:19:15am

re: #89 Dread Pirate Ron

Kilauea has been erupting for years. Recently the lava lake at the top has been filling. Perhaps the lake is now emptying into the fissures seen in those images.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 15, 2022 • 12:21:05am

re: #94 Targetpractice

Yeah, it’s all so obvious that only Putin partisans can think it makes any difference.

Indeed, some believe that Russia has at times already had nuclear weapons placed on that little outcrop in the Baltic sea that is their territory.

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JC1  Apr 15, 2022 • 12:22:48am

re: #76 Hecuba’s daughter

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 15, 2022 • 12:34:10am

Recently at a Berkeley seminar a leading scholar (Caroline Hoxby) in education gave a series of lectures on education, specifically on how to enhance advanced cognitive skills, focusing on early adolescence (middle school.)

And as these things go, the importance of said advanced cognitive skills are tied to the well being of the society and that broaches the topic of politics.

One of the commentators responding to the lectures is a well known political scientist (Jan-Werner Müller, professor of politics at Princeton and a bit of a mover and shaker in the coastal elite set). Here is his response to the first lecture give by Hoxby and he touches on topics often raised here:

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It’s all fine and good… he tends to be very academic, which means he’s really into shades of meaning and digressions.

But listening to him and Hoxby (who admits that she is an optimist), I kept feeling that the hour is later than they think.

That is, more water has passed under the bridge than they allow themselves to entertain.

Hoxby talks about strengthening middle school advanced thinking skills, but I perceive that the right-wing in this country now feel confident that they can simply undo public education period.

Outlawing abortion is just the first objective, especially of the religious right. The next step is to go full on with universal charter school funding, specifically private schools, so that public education can be eventually eliminated.

Müller’s own position seems to be a bit more grim than Hoxby’s. He sees (and has popularized) the idea that democracy is in trouble.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 15, 2022 • 1:04:34am

re: #98 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I’m one of those people who think kids today are going to be worse off than me or my parents (neither of who were well off other than living in a rich society.)

But… I’m an anti-populist. I can see why economic hopelessness can cause despair and I can see why those in despair can be manipulated by despots.

As Jan-Werner Müller points out, populist movements just don’t become important just from their own every-day people, but because established party leaders are part of the process.

In our day, it is the Republican machinery who decided they could benefit from Trump and the Trumpers.

The very rich Republican funders think they can benefit by Trump riling up those who are in despair, a condition Hoxby claims often arises because the doors (of opportunity) are closed on those who lack advanced cognitive skills (and thus are unable to adapt to new work opportunities.)

Never mind that populism, especially right-wing populism, brings about bad fruit. The people seem to fall for it over and over.

I don’t share Hoxby’s optimism. I do not believe there can be a reworking of early adolescent education to a degree that will result on many more Americans displaying what she labels “advanced cognitive skills.”

It is not that I believe that humans are incapable of such. I just think it’s too late to close the barn doors.

We now have to ride out an era of political hackery. I think we can draw parallels to the late 19th and early 20th centuries. American politics can get topsy-turvy and I will not be surprised if we see multiple parties rise up when the next energy crisis comes and forces Americans out of their cars.

Also, I noticed that both Hoxby and Müller ignore the role of religion in American education and politics (though I have only watched two of the three lectures.) As is too common with such elites, they are just not connected to how the Americans in the areas that are discussed by Hoxby (the Trump-loving areas) actually live. Religion, by which I mean specifically fundamentalist Christianity, plays a big role.

In the case of Müller, he’s at Princeton and Princeton has a divinity school, so I suppose he rubs shoulders with the divine types who are most certainly not fundamentalists but “liberal” Christians. Still, I think he would have noticed that Trump was successful among the religious right to a degree even other Republicans find envious.

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Captain Ron  Apr 15, 2022 • 1:23:09am

2 full years of folding since Covid-19 started. Rank 1,399 of 2,924,895. I have earned 1,572,090,754 points by contibuting 19,573 work units. I’ve lost places since I last looked. These people and their new fancy Nvidia cards are kicking my ass.

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EPR-radar  Apr 15, 2022 • 1:23:38am

I’m a believer in the historical approach to understanding US politics. IMO the root cause of the GOP’s degeneration is the determination made by some rich Republicans in the 1920s that the boom times would last forever, and as a result their taxes would eventually go to zero.

The crash of 1929 followed by the election of FDR in 1932 and the start of the New Deal era was the end of that dream, and senior Republicans settled into a state of eternal and bitter resentment vs. FDR, the New Deal, Democrats and all their works.

This has persisted unchanged to this day. The civil rights realignment enabled Republicans to add resentful racists to their big tent coalition of the resentful, and this was vital for a party determined to seek votes without ever delivering any policy that actually helped the vast majority of their voters.

Everything since then — from Goldwater to Nixon to Reagan to Gingrich to W Bush to Trump — has just been filling in the details of this wretched outline.

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Captain Ron  Apr 15, 2022 • 1:28:29am

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 15, 2022 • 1:45:43am

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JC1  Apr 15, 2022 • 2:46:56am

re: #100 Dread Pirate Ron

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2 full years of folding since Covid-19 started. Rank 1,399 of 2,924,895. I have earned 1,572,090,754 points by contibuting 19,573 work units. I’ve lost places since I last looked. These people and their new fancy Nvidia cards are kicking my ass.

Just think of how much Ether you could have mined with all that processing power. /s

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Dangerman  Apr 15, 2022 • 3:05:57am

re: #52 jaunte

500,000 liberal young people moving to West Virginia could turn things around.

500k liberal young people could buy west virginia

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JC1  Apr 15, 2022 • 3:12:54am

re: #105 Dangerman

500k liberal young people could buy west virginia

Wouldn’t even take half that many moving to Wyoming, which is quite a beautiful place.

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Captain Ron  Apr 15, 2022 • 3:32:53am

re: #105 Dangerman

500k liberal young people could buy west virginia

Wouldn’t you rater invest in something profitable instead?

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 15, 2022 • 3:41:07am

“I’d annex the Sudetenland.”

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William Lewis  Apr 15, 2022 • 3:49:55am

re: #108 Barefoot Grin

“I’d annex the Sudetenland.”

I don’t disagree with the idea of SpaceX but I’d have different ideas of how to go about it. The X-33/Venture Star would be a much better place to start than tail sitters that belong in bad 1950’s SF movies; it adds unnecessary complexity and additional points of failure.

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Captain Ron  Apr 15, 2022 • 3:56:49am

re: #108 Barefoot Grin

I’d buy Virgin Gorda, kick everybody off and make it a private island. I’d spend about 50 billion on defense systems, including drone attack subs, UCAVs, anti-aircraft system, and a bunch of remote control BOFARS.

Then I’d go snorkeling for conch for dinner.

My own conch garden, mmmm.

I’d prefer abalone but the US might object to me taking over Catalina Island.

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 15, 2022 • 3:59:28am

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Shropshire Slasher  Apr 15, 2022 • 4:01:00am

I kinda doubt this story, but I am sure a cursory examination of the wreck for radiation would definitively tell.

Russia’s Black Sea flagship which sank yesterday after an explosion on board may have been carrying nuclear warheads, analysts and experts have warned today, as they called for an emergency investigation into the threat.

The Moskva, a Soviet-era guided missile cruiser, sank near the port of Sevastopol on Thursday after Ukraine said it hit the ship with two cruise missiles, causing it to roll over. Russia has admitted the vessel sank after a fire and explosion on board, but has not said what caused the blaze.

There are now fears that the Moskva could have taken two nuclear warheads into the depths in what could turn into a ‘broken arrow’ incident - American military slang for an accident involving nuclear weapons.

dailymail.co.uk

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jeffreyw  Apr 15, 2022 • 4:01:33am

Good morning!

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Shropshire Slasher  Apr 15, 2022 • 4:06:36am
Israeli security forces entered the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem before dawn on Friday as thousands of Palestinians were gathered for prayers during the holy month of Ramadan, setting off clashes that medics said wounded at least 117 Palestinians.

nypost.com

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Captain Magic  Apr 15, 2022 • 4:15:32am

The Ukrainian conflict is a U.S./NATO Proxy War, but one which Russia is poised to win decisively - Scott Ritter
Scott Ritter is a former U.S. Marine Corps intelligence officer who has gained international respect for his independence and integrity as a commentator on conflicts and foreign relations. This week, he was banned on the Twitter social media platform for challenging Western claims of a massacre in Bucha, Ukraine, allegedly carried out by Russian troops. Moscow denies the claims, as have other independent analysts who point to evidence that the incident was a false-flag provocation perpetrated by NATO-backed Ukrainian Nazi regiments to undermine Russia internationally and bolster Western objectives. It is a foreboding sign of the times that Ritter should be banned for daring to question dubious narratives. (He was later reinstated following a public outcry against censorship.)

In the following interview for Strategic Culture Foundation, he makes the crucial point that Russia’s intervention in Ukraine is exposing the involvement of the U.S. and NATO in the training and weaponizing of that country’s dominant Nazi regiments. That is why Western media have been so vehement in trying to distort the conflict and blame Russia. The truth about Western dirty involvement in Ukraine would be too much to bear for the Western public.

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John Hughes  Apr 15, 2022 • 4:15:56am

re: #114 Shropshire Slasher

Deliberately misleading emphasis?

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 15, 2022 • 4:16:47am

re: #115 Captain Magic

Wow. Where did you dig up that hot take? (I’m assuming you’re just copy/pasting the source, since I highly doubt you actually believe that narrative.)

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Shropshire Slasher  Apr 15, 2022 • 4:18:44am

re: #116 John Hughes

Deliberately misleading emphasis?

I don’t understand, did they not enter? Entering the mosque took me by surprise, I didn’t think Israeli security forces would do that.

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John Hughes  Apr 15, 2022 • 4:20:44am

re: #118 Shropshire Slasher

No source claims they entered the mosque.

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William Lewis  Apr 15, 2022 • 4:21:18am

re: #115 Captain Magic

I really hope you aren’t swallowing anything that Putinista has to say.

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Captain Magic  Apr 15, 2022 • 4:22:44am

re: #117 Dopamine Fish

re: #115 Captain Magic

Wow. Where did you dig up that hot take? (I’m assuming you’re just copy/pasting the source, since I highly doubt you actually believe that narrative.)

Naked Capitalism.

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Shropshire Slasher  Apr 15, 2022 • 4:24:51am

re: #119 John Hughes

No source claims they entered the mosque.

abcnews.go.com
france24.com
theweek.com
news.sky.com

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Captain Magic  Apr 15, 2022 • 4:25:47am

re: #120 William Lewis

re: #115 Captain Magic

I really hope you aren’t swallowing anything that Putinista has to say.

One has to keep track of what the other side is saying and believes.

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William Lewis  Apr 15, 2022 • 4:27:21am

re: #123 Captain Magic

One has to keep track of what the other side is saying and believes.

Just wondering because that’s in a seriously looney left rag.

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 15, 2022 • 4:27:39am

re: #124 William Lewis

Just wondering because that’s in a seriously looney left rag.

Tankies, maybe?

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John Hughes  Apr 15, 2022 • 4:30:22am

re: #115 Captain Magic

The blurb is pretty radically dishonest, vastly exaggerating what Ritter actually says.

E.g.

Blurb:

evidence that the incident was a false-flag provocation perpetrated by NATO-backed Ukrainian Nazi regiments

Ritter:

All claims of war crimes must be thoroughly investigated, including Ukrainian allegations that Russia killed Ukrainian civilians in Bucha. However, the data available about the Bucha incident does not sustain the Ukrainian claims, and as such, the media should refrain from echoing these claims as fact until a proper investigation of the evidence is conducted, either by the media, or unbiased authorities.

The rest is more of the same.

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John Hughes  Apr 15, 2022 • 4:31:35am

re: #123 Captain Magic

One has to keep track of what the other side is saying and believes.

One also has to consider that those are two radically different things.

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William Lewis  Apr 15, 2022 • 4:33:10am

re: #125 Dopamine Fish

Tankies, maybe?

Some. The rest (Ritter forex) are active Russian assets IMO.

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John Hughes  Apr 15, 2022 • 4:33:33am

re: #122 Shropshire Slasher

The thing about links is that we can follow them to read what they say.

No source claims that Israeli forces entered the mosque.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 15, 2022 • 4:34:25am

Romania is benching its remaining MiGs due to their high accident rate and speeding up its purchase of F-16s. I wonder if those Migs can somehow get into the hands of Ukraine?

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Shropshire Slasher  Apr 15, 2022 • 4:34:42am
April 15 marks the 75th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking Major League Baseball’s color barrier, becoming its first Black player, and changing the game forever.

Although Robinson will forever be known for his contributions to the game, he was so much more than a baseball player. The Georgia native was a four-sport star at UCLA, a World War II US Army veteran, and Negro League player. He was also the first African American named a vice president at a Fortune 500 company, a political adviser, a banker, a real estate developer.

blackenterprise.com

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No Malarkey!  Apr 15, 2022 • 4:39:35am

re: #130 No Malarkey!

Romania is benching its remaining MiGs due to their high accident rate and speeding up its purchase of F-16s. I wonder if those Migs can somehow get into the hands of Ukraine?

In related news, Slovakia is working on a deal to provide MiGs to Ukraine.

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Captain Ron  Apr 15, 2022 • 4:42:15am
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No Malarkey!  Apr 15, 2022 • 4:45:07am

re: #133 Dread Pirate Ron

It dances while it shoots! Can you imagine giving Ukraine a bunch of these? The Russians would freak out.

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William Lewis  Apr 15, 2022 • 4:45:34am

re: #130 No Malarkey!

Romania is benching its remaining MiGs due to their high accident rate and speeding up its purchase of F-16s. I wonder if those Migs can somehow get into the hands of Ukraine?

Mig 21’s. They’re the only former WP nation still flying Fishbeds.

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Shropshire Slasher  Apr 15, 2022 • 4:54:30am

re: #129 John Hughes

The thing about links is that we can follow them to read what they say.

No source claims that Israeli forces entered the mosque.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 15, 2022 • 4:55:44am

re: #134 No Malarkey!

It dances while it shoots! Can you imagine giving Ukraine a bunch of these? The Russians would freak out.

This is the dance our new robot overlords will be doing…..on our graves:

Do You Love Me?

Also, seasonally appropriate:

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 15, 2022 • 5:03:38am

re: #57 Belafon

Because almost all of them would move to the cities if they did, Republicans would gerrymander the state like other states.

I know that due to one of the amendments that the districts need to be remapped after every cencus.* So every decade at the very least.

However, I am not certain whether or not a legislature can do it more often if they want to. Presumably they could try in any case.

* - I recall from history reading that pre-Civil War Virginia was very good at not changing their districts in order to keep the Tidewater area in power despite Virginia’s growing population in the more mountainous western part of the state. It was one of the reasons West Virginia so gladly seceded when it got the opportunity.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 15, 2022 • 5:08:10am

re: #69 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The GOP approves of that poster’s approach.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 15, 2022 • 5:08:28am

re: #42 jaunte

Overlooked in the coverage of Kentucky’s trans sports ban is the fact that there’s only one trans student athlete in the whole state: 12-year-old Fischer Wells, who started a girls’ field hockey team at her middle school. All this is over one 7th grader.

Slippery slope and all. And they understand the level of righteous outrage this generates among their knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing fundamentalist constituency.

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TarHellion  Apr 15, 2022 • 5:09:08am

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 15, 2022 • 5:09:34am

re: #54 sagehen

150,000 each to Wyoming, Montana and Alaska. Problem solved.

We have come to assume that rural state = Red state. That was not always the case, nor need it be in future.

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 15, 2022 • 5:10:19am

re: #139 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

The GOP approves of that poster’s approach.

I’m curious what the poster would do to pass all of those things when the filibuster is still very much a thing and Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema are determined to keep their current stranglehold on the Senate by not allowing it to be abolished.

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Captain Magic  Apr 15, 2022 • 5:11:44am

re: #133 Dread Pirate Ron

As Lambert Strether would say over at Naked Capitalism: “Kill them with fire.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 15, 2022 • 5:12:53am

re: #93 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, said that should Sweden and Finland join NATO then Russia would deploy nuclear weapons and hypersonic missiles in an exclave in the heart of Europe

An exclave that has less historical justification to be called a part of Russia than any Russian claim they might make against Ukraine.

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 15, 2022 • 5:13:05am
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b.d  Apr 15, 2022 • 5:13:20am

Good morning Lizards:

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 15, 2022 • 5:16:00am
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Captain Magic  Apr 15, 2022 • 5:17:09am

WaPo: Russia warns U.S. to stop arming Ukraine
The formal diplomatic note from Moscow, a copy of which was reviewed by The Washington Post, came as President Biden approved a dramatic expansion in the scope of weapons being provided to the government in Kyiv

The diplomatic démarche, a copy of which was reviewed by The Washington Post, came as President Biden approved a dramatic expansion in the scope of weapons being provided to Ukraine, an $800 million package including 155 mm howitzers — a serious upgrade in long-range artillery to match Russian systems — coastal defense drones and armored vehicles, as well as additional portable antiaircraft and antitank weapons and millions of rounds of ammunition.

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 15, 2022 • 5:19:15am

re: #149 Captain Magic

WaPo: Russia warns U.S. to stop arming Ukraine
The formal diplomatic note from Moscow, a copy of which was reviewed by The Washington Post, came as President Biden approved a dramatic expansion in the scope of weapons being provided to the government in Kyiv

“To the Russian ambassador: I refer you to the reply given by the Ukrainians on Snake Island near the start of your illegal war of occupation. Signed, the American ambassador.”

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Florida Panhandler  Apr 15, 2022 • 5:21:39am

re: #149 Captain Magic

WaPo: Russia warns U.S. to stop arming Ukraine
The formal diplomatic note from Moscow, a copy of which was reviewed by The Washington Post, came as President Biden approved a dramatic expansion in the scope of weapons being provided to the government in Kyiv

Immediately DOUBLE our shipments to Ukraine, along with a big FU plastered on the sides of all cargo boxes.

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John Hughes  Apr 15, 2022 • 5:21:43am

re: #135 William Lewis

Mig 21’s. They’re the only former WP nation still flying Fishbeds.

I saw a Romanian Mig21 fly over my house (Bastille day 2008 — mig-21.de )

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 15, 2022 • 5:22:43am

re: #149 Captain Magic

WaPo: Russia warns U.S. to stop arming Ukraine

“Older brother, sitting on younger brother’s chest and holding his wrists, urges younger brother to stop hitting himself.”

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William Lewis  Apr 15, 2022 • 5:22:52am

re: #152 John Hughes

I saw a Romanian Mig21 fly over my house (Bastille day 2008 — mig-21.de )

They were a very interesting aircraft but with some significant limitations. Rather like the F-104 in many ways, a missile with a man in it.

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JC1  Apr 15, 2022 • 5:23:39am

re: #108 Barefoot Grin

“I’d annex the Sudetenland.”

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It’s actually quite remarkable what he’s done. I’ve been baffled why someone like Gates didn’t do this 20 years ago.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 15, 2022 • 5:23:59am

The other day I saw three C-130’s flying over low in close formation. They like to practice flying under the radar here in the Rhine valley.

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Florida Panhandler  Apr 15, 2022 • 5:25:22am

re: #154 William Lewis

They were a very interesting aircraft but with some significant limitations. Rather like the F-104 in many ways, a missile with a man in it.

the first Testers model I ever put together in the 70’s was a Mig-21. I was so young I didn’t really know anything about Cold War politics or any of that.. the only thing I knew putting it together in my bedroom in Texas was that plane looked really cool.

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John Hughes  Apr 15, 2022 • 5:27:31am

re: #136 Shropshire Slasher

Source?

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JC1  Apr 15, 2022 • 5:27:55am

re: #142 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

We have come to assume that rural state = Red state. That was not always the case, nor need it be in future.

It’s not the case today. Vermont is very rural.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 15, 2022 • 5:29:22am

re: #150 Dopamine Fish

To the Russian Ambassador:

laugh harder

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 15, 2022 • 5:30:01am

re: #159 JC1

It’s not the case today. Vermont is very rural.

Vermont is blue state with red characteristics.

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Sherlock Hound  Apr 15, 2022 • 5:30:53am

re: #81 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion

Is there a list of the 8 somewhere?

I’m assuming some of them are

Matt Taibbi
Glenn Greenwald
Michael Tracey
Andy Ngo
Talcum X
?
There’s a few names right on the tip of my tongue but I can’t recall.

That was probably a figure of speech, but it’s a good start for a list.

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Shropshire Slasher  Apr 15, 2022 • 5:34:06am

re: #158 John Hughes

Source?

middleeasteye.net

By Tuesday night, Israeli security forces had raided the holy site four times in five days.

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Belafon  Apr 15, 2022 • 5:34:59am

re: #130 No Malarkey!

Romania is benching its remaining MiGs due to their high accident rate and speeding up its purchase of F-16s. I wonder if those Migs can somehow get into the hands of Ukraine?

From what I’ve read, Ukraine doesn’t really want them.

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darthstar  Apr 15, 2022 • 5:36:05am

re: #148 Dopamine Fish

Russian Disciplinary Scale:
1. Arrested - minor offenses like holding a Putin quote on a sign in public, being gay, or losing a flagship
2. Hospital Window Fall - being a journalist, everything else

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Belafon  Apr 15, 2022 • 5:36:57am

re: #138 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I know that due to one of the amendments that the districts need to be remapped after every cencus.* So every decade at the very least.

However, I am not certain whether or not a legislature can do it more often if they want to. Presumably they could try in any case.

* - I recall from history reading that pre-Civil War Virginia was very good at not changing their districts in order to keep the Tidewater area in power despite Virginia’s growing population in the more mountainous western part of the state. It was one of the reasons West Virginia so gladly seceded when it got the opportunity.

The Supreme Court ruled that states can when Texas did it back during Clinton’s term.

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darthstar  Apr 15, 2022 • 5:38:09am

re: #162 Sherlock Hound

That was probably a figure of speech, but it’s a good start for a list.

I always find the Talcum X nickname funny. But that asshole played the GoFundMe game well for a while there…

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John Hughes  Apr 15, 2022 • 5:38:23am

re: #136 Shropshire Slasher

hurriyetdailynews.com

May 08 2021 09:02:00

More than 200 injured in Israeli attacks across east Jerusalem

Israeli police attempted to disperse worshippers inside the Haram al-Sharif area of Al-Aqsa Mosque on Friday, using stun grenades and gas bombs.

So, not the same incident, also not inside the mosque that time either.

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Belafon  Apr 15, 2022 • 5:43:14am
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Targetpractice  Apr 15, 2022 • 5:43:54am

re: #154 William Lewis

They were a very interesting aircraft but with some significant limitations. Rather like the F-104 in many ways, a missile with a man in it.

They work well as interceptors and point-defense fighters, but that’s about it. Even with modern engines they still have short legs.

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Belafon  Apr 15, 2022 • 5:44:56am
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John Hughes  Apr 15, 2022 • 5:45:23am

re: #154 William Lewis

They were a very interesting aircraft but with some significant limitations. Rather like the F-104 in many ways, a missile with a man in it.

I know a man who married the woman of his dreams. Because her husband was a Belgian starfighter pilot.

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(((Archangel1)))  Apr 15, 2022 • 5:46:46am

Couldn’t resist. /SorryNotSorry

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Shropshire Slasher  Apr 15, 2022 • 5:48:34am

re: #168 John Hughes

france24.com

Watch some videos, shows them clearly walking out of the green doors.

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John Hughes  Apr 15, 2022 • 5:49:00am

re: #163 Shropshire Slasher

middleeasteye.net

By Frank Andrews
Published date: 12 May 2021 08:56 UTC | Last update: 11 months 1 week ago

Also, nowhere claims the Israelis entered the mosque.

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Shropshire Slasher  Apr 15, 2022 • 5:50:05am

re: #176 John Hughes

Also, nowhere claims the Israelis entered the mosque.

Links?

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No Malarkey!  Apr 15, 2022 • 5:57:16am

re: #174 (((Archangel1)))

Couldn’t resist. /SorryNotSorry

A 60 Minutes story from 2016 about Russia’s intervention in Syria which includes a visit to the Moskva, which had been sent to Syria to provide AA support against Turkey, which had recently shot down a Russian jet.

Youtube Video

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Targetpractice  Apr 15, 2022 • 5:58:47am

re: #172 Belafon

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Repubs get away with it because they keep taking office in the midst of an economic boom, run the country into the ground, and then use the reality that recessions don’t just end “overnight” to attack Dems. They’re always “fiscal conservatives” when Dems work to tackle the deficits that were ran up fighting the recession, then drunken sailors as soon as they’re back in power.

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darthstar  Apr 15, 2022 • 5:59:15am

re: #174 (((Archangel1)))

Couldn’t resist. /SorryNotSorry

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So it was a missile strike. If a fire broke out below decks the captain wouldn’t be anywhere near it.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Apr 15, 2022 • 6:01:14am

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John Hughes  Apr 15, 2022 • 6:06:46am

re: #177 Shropshire Slasher

Links?

It’s your link. Nowhere in your link, describing the incidents in 2021 does it say that Israeli forces entered the mosque.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 15, 2022 • 6:10:24am

re: #143 Dopamine Fish

I’m curious what the poster would do to pass all of those things when the filibuster is still very much a thing and Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema are determined to keep their current stranglehold on the Senate by not allowing it to be abolished.

I suspect that the poster is just tossing out their list of unobtainable demands as a justification for sitting back and doing nothing politically active at all beyond their “protest vote” in November.

I do need to talk to my one friend who is border-line Bernie Bro (not the noxious kind but was pro-Bernie in 2020 and I never nailed down what it was he was looking for.) Curious to see how he views the current political balance* and how he is going to react to things going into this election cycle with what energy he has left after dealing with the day-to-day life issues.

* - Both of us in PA so there is the Toomey-replacement thing in this state as well.

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BlueSpotinAL  Apr 15, 2022 • 6:11:14am

Is there a difference between a mosque and a mosque compound?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 15, 2022 • 6:11:52am

More Crypto crashing:

Sina Estavi is a “crypto entrepreneur,” who last year bought a digital token representing Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s first ever tweet. He paid $2.9 million for it, and this month sought to make good on his “investment,” putting it up for auction with an expectation it could net him $48 million. It did not.

As CoinDesk reports, Estavi put the NFT up for sale on April 9, hoping to get around $50 million for it, and then donate “at least $25 million” of that sum to charity. That’s an ambitious figure for something we can all see, screencap, download, and enjoy for the cost of just a few seconds of our time.

An auction for the NFT was held, and of the handful of bidders taking part, the highest offer was for…$277. A subsequent offer has since come in for $3,600, but that is still a colossal way off $2.9 million, let alone $48 million.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 15, 2022 • 6:12:27am

re: #145 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

An exclave that has less historical justification to be called a part of Russia than any Russian claim they might make against Ukraine.

This seems to fall into that hole of “yadda yadda yadda” since essentially Russia will do this sort of thing anyways. A lot of the Russian posturing seems very similar to the PLO promising revenge and further actions against Israel after they lose some of their fighters. I’m thinking ‘Well, this is pretty meaningless since you were just going to continue trying to attack Israel anyways. It’s what you do.’

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 15, 2022 • 6:12:39am

re: #184 BlueSpotinAL

Is there a difference between a mosque and a mosque compound?

I would guess a Mosque compound includes other buildings aside from a Mosque itself.

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 15, 2022 • 6:13:21am

re: #183 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

These stupid progressive “I want my purity ponies or nothing matters and I won’t vote” are going to get us all killed when the Republicans take back the Senate in November. Fuck.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 15, 2022 • 6:14:29am

re: #157 Florida Panhandler

the first Testers model I ever put together in the 70’s was a Mig-21. I was so young I didn’t really know anything about Cold War politics or any of that.. the only thing I knew putting it together in my bedroom in Texas was that plane looked really cool.

Udvar-Hazy has one
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No Malarkey!  Apr 15, 2022 • 6:17:52am

re: #188 Dopamine Fish

These stupid progressive “I want my purity ponies or nothing matters and I won’t vote” are going to get us all killed when the Republicans take back the Senate in November. Fuck.

We’ll see how much that stuff matters when abortion becomes illegal in over half of the country in a few weeks. The GOP platform in November will be making abortion illegal in the other half of the country, and the only way to stop them is voting Democrat.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Apr 15, 2022 • 6:18:07am

Morning Lizards. Woke up with a hell of a case of covid arm. Came wide awake when I rolled over on it. Other than that, no other side effects from the booster. Highly disappointed that the 5G nano-chips have failed to activate.

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John Hughes  Apr 15, 2022 • 6:20:28am

re: #184 BlueSpotinAL

Is there a difference between a mosque and a mosque compound?

It’s the difference between a church and a churchyard.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 15, 2022 • 6:28:21am

…We followed the Moskva
down to the Black Sea floor
just listening to Tucker Carlson…

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Florida Panhandler  Apr 15, 2022 • 6:33:31am

re: #190 No Malarkey!

We’ll see how much that stuff matters when abortion becomes illegal in over half of the country in a few weeks. The GOP platform in November will be making abortion illegal in the other half of the country, and the only way to stop them is voting Democrat.

the truth is only a small percentage are concerned with anything at all about Abortion. It is a simple wedge issue cynically played by Republicans that affects really only 5% of the US population to whip up emotional hand-wringing.. It directly affects typically young women who either cannot financially support a child, suffer from drug abuse or because of serious medical reasons… a demographic with little to no political clout. For most men it is not a daily concern or any concern at all.

The list of daily concerns amongst most of the population centers on low hanging fruit like the price of gas, employment, and food prices. Republicans successfully time and time again frame these issues as caused by Democratic policies and politicians and never suffer any questioning or pushback from their followers about logic, actual evidence and statistics or ideological failings. Republican voters will gladly give away the farm for one cheap meal, then blame liberals for starving them later.

As a country we are on the cusp of finding out what happens when libertarians take over a Republican Party and literally start throwing grandma to the wolves while the population hangs Trump banners and praises Jesus for some more. The most cynical part of it is when the Republican Party in firm control with no more fair elections starts forcefully taking assets from the large liberal cities and” liberal” corporations to pay for supporting the Trump faithful in the boonies and resort towns. National Socialism will be achieved.

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 15, 2022 • 6:37:53am

re: #63 A Mom Anon

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Belafon  Apr 15, 2022 • 6:40:44am

re: #174 (((Archangel1)))

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No Malarkey!  Apr 15, 2022 • 6:41:37am

re: #194 Florida Panhandler

the truth is only a small percentage are concerned with anything at all about Abortion. It is a simple wedge issue cynically played by Republicans that affects really only 5% of the US population to whip up emotional hand-wringing.. It directly affects typically young women who either cannot financially support a child, suffer from drug abuse or because of serious medical reasons… a demographic with little to no political clout. For most men it is not a daily concern or any concern at all.

The list of daily concerns amongst most of the population centers on low hanging fruit like the price of gas, employment, and food prices. Republicans successfully time and time again frame these issues as caused by Democratic policies and politicians and never suffer any questioning or pushback from their followers about logic, actual evidence and statistics or ideological failings. Republican voters will gladly give away the farm for one cheap meal, then blame liberals for starving them later.

As a country we are on the cusp of finding out what happens when libertarians take over a Republican Party and literally start throwing grandma to the wolves while the population and praises Jesus for some more. The most cynical part of it is when the Republican Party in firm control with no more fair elections starts forcefully taking assets from the large liberal cities and” liberal” corporations to pay for supporting the Trump faithful in the boonies and resort towns. National Socialism will be achieved.

That is because Roe has been there to lift abortion out of the realm of politics for those who aren’t obsessively focused on ending it. That changes in a few weeks when abortion becomes illegal in over half the country, and the GOP focuses on making abortion illegal in the other half of the country. Women, who make up over half of all voters, will no longer be able to take for granted that the courts will protect their reproductive rights. If that doesn’t compel them to the polls, I guess we are doomed to a fascist future.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 15, 2022 • 6:45:54am

Someone found a short path to purchase of the Ukrainian GFY stamp. Could we have the link again? Asking for a friend (really).

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Apr 15, 2022 • 6:48:47am

re: #198 Decatur Deb

Someone found a short path to purchase of the Ukrainian GFY stamp. Could we have the link again? Asking for a friend (really).

BWS provided a link, but when I checked, they were already sold out.

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 15, 2022 • 6:50:35am

Youtube Video

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 15, 2022 • 6:53:43am

Well that sucked.
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darthstar  Apr 15, 2022 • 7:01:30am

re: #201 The Pie Overlord!

Well that sucked.
Wordle 300 5/6

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Ha! You had the same pattern I did.

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darthstar  Apr 15, 2022 • 7:02:06am

Russia’s version of a MAGA convoy…

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 15, 2022 • 7:03:41am

re: #189 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

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This was me trying to make a model when I was a kid in the ’60s:

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 15, 2022 • 7:04:26am

re: #203 darthstar

I understand that the Katyn massacre was a big issue during WW2 and the Cold War, but in retrospect it is like two crackheads who broke into a house and murdered the entire family and are now arguing about which one of them strangled grandma.

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Dangerman  Apr 15, 2022 • 7:05:03am
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Dangerman  Apr 15, 2022 • 7:08:19am
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HRH Stanley Sea  Apr 15, 2022 • 7:13:23am

re: #201 The Pie Overlord!

Well that sucked.
Wordle 300 5/6

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I’ve got 3 letters on my 1st guess. IM SCARED.

Just sitting here…..

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Dangerman  Apr 15, 2022 • 7:14:30am

re: #206 Dangerman

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 15, 2022 • 7:14:33am

re: #207 Dangerman

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That’s it.

The “all you need to know is that Jesus is my lord and savior and has forgiven my sins” crowd nearly destroyed my parents’ church before leaving to build a mega-church on the prairie. They are not to be bound by concepts such as service to others.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 15, 2022 • 7:16:27am

re: #207 Dangerman

It is a view among Fundamentalists that humans are innately sinful and unable to judge Right and Wrong without a strict moral corset based on guilt, fear and shame.

Problem with such a ethos is that the second you get into a state where you no longer feel afraid, guilty or ashamed (alcohol, drugs, mass hysteria, high-stress situations, etc.) you have means or methods to keep you from simply giving into all those “sinful urges”

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 15, 2022 • 7:17:53am

That was a bit frustrating.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Apr 15, 2022 • 7:22:31am

re: #208 HRH Stanley Sea

I’ve got 3 letters on my 1st guess. IM SCARED.

Just sitting here…..

Whew

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Dangerman  Apr 15, 2022 • 7:24:16am

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 15, 2022 • 7:24:49am

Crazy. Toyama Prefecture’s “Great valley of snow” route in video: 18 meters tall.

www3.nhk.or.jp

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 15, 2022 • 7:29:00am

re: #214 Dangerman

We started to take all the gains we made in personal freedoms, women’s, minority and LGBTQ rights for granted and assumed that once won, they were enshrined in law for good.

But the Fundamentalists have been spearheading a major counter-offensive in the Culture Wars we thought we had won and right now they seem to have the initiative and advantage.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Apr 15, 2022 • 7:33:29am

re: #113 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Western good morning!

Aand I’m off to cruise the Atlantic, ending in Southampton, then visits to various parts of Britain and Ireland. We’ve been warned that internet access crossing the Atlantic might be poor (or nonexistent) so I might not be around much. Try not to blow up the place while I’m gone, and let’s hope no-one blows up the world.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 15, 2022 • 7:33:57am

re: #92 wrenchwench

Yesterday’s.

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That’s all I got.

re: #97 JC1

Got a twofer today.

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 15, 2022 • 7:35:25am

The cover by Kim Carnes is a lot better.

Youtube Video

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No Malarkey!  Apr 15, 2022 • 7:39:32am

re: #216 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

We started to take all the gains we made in personal freedoms, women’s, minority and LGBTQ rights for granted and assumed that once won, they were enshrined in law for good.

But the Fundamentalists have been spearheading a major counter-offensive in the Culture Wars we thought we had won and right now they seem to have the initiative and advantage.

Only because they are single mindedly focused on those culture issues and the majority of citizens are not. When abortion becomes illegal in over half the country, that may wake the majority up that their rights are under siege.

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Targetpractice  Apr 15, 2022 • 7:39:57am

re: #216 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

We started to take all the gains we made in personal freedoms, women’s, minority and LGBTQ rights for granted and assumed that once won, they were enshrined in law for good.

But the Fundamentalists have been spearheading a major counter-offensive in the Culture Wars we thought we had won and right now they seem to have the initiative and advantage.

Roe being overturned is going to be a major shock to a lot of people, mostly because it has been treated as effectively law by generations of Americans. And that’s assuming that Roe is the only victim, when the temptation to strike Griswold is also strong in this court. Contraceptives being banned is gonna be a big deal to more than just “loose women” that suburban women fool themselves into believing are the only ones who will be effected by abortion being banned.

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mmmirele  Apr 15, 2022 • 7:40:07am

If you’re wondering why some of us Olds got a teensy bit freaked out about discussions of nuclear warheads flying about, here’s Doonesbury from 40 years ago. Here we are reminded about a previous Commander in Chief who had some characteristics (but not all, not all) similar to TFG. (For the record, the movie War Games came out in 1983.) (Thread)

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Ming5000  Apr 15, 2022 • 7:41:40am
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No Malarkey!  Apr 15, 2022 • 7:42:21am

Not that abortion is currently available in Kentucky anyway, but under the new law, children who want a judge to approve their right to abortion without parental consent have a high burden to prove they aren’t too immature to get an abortion; otherwise the child is considered mature enough to care for a new born baby.

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A Cranky One  Apr 15, 2022 • 7:43:33am

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JC1  Apr 15, 2022 • 7:47:31am

re: #218 Hecuba’s daughter

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Decatur Deb  Apr 15, 2022 • 7:49:36am

re: #223 Ming5000

Best use ever of the “Wandering Eye” meme.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Apr 15, 2022 • 7:50:38am

re: #171 darthstar

How’s this for a fucked up wordle pattern? I almost went six but didn’t need the last possible letter after all.
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I did go six. And I agree.

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Targetpractice  Apr 15, 2022 • 7:52:20am

re: #223 Ming5000

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Give the corruption and rank stupidity we’ve seen so far in the Russian ranks, alongside losses like the Kursk to piss-poor maintenance and safety training of weapons that are dangerous even when properly maintained, I would not be surprised if the Black Sea Fleet’s flagship was lost due to a fire that got out of control to the point that weapons began cooking off. Though I’m not sure why the Russian govt thinks this is a better look than admitting the ship got smacked by two anti-ship missiles and the damage was so serious that the crew simply could not save the ship before the weather finished the job.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 15, 2022 • 7:55:13am

re: #229 Targetpractice

Give the corruption and rank stupidity we’ve seen so far in the Russian ranks, alongside losses like the Kursk to piss-poor maintenance and safety training of weapons that are dangerous even when properly maintained, I would not be surprised if the Black Sea Fleet’s flagship was lost due to a fire that got out of control to the point that weapons began cooking off. Though I’m not sure why the Russian govt thinks this is a better look than admitting the ship got smacked by two anti-ship missiles and the damage was so serious that the crew simply could not save the ship before the weather finished the job.

I saw a funny tweet that went like this:
Ukraine: We sunk your battleship!
Russia: No, we sunk it ourselves due to rank incompetence!

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Apr 15, 2022 • 7:59:35am

re: #188 Dopamine Fish

These stupid progressive “I want my purity ponies or nothing matters and I won’t vote” are going to get us all killed when the Republicans take back the Senate in November. Fuck.

Twitter is still not a good gauge of anything — in the real world, younger demographics have been increasing their participation in elections for a while now (of course there are still a few purity ponies around — most of them on twitter).

We need to keep reminding them that we need more than 48 democratic senators if w want to achieve the things they want. Also more in the House.

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Jay C  Apr 15, 2022 • 8:00:59am

re: #229 Targetpractice

Give the corruption and rank stupidity we’ve seen so far in the Russian ranks, alongside losses like the Kursk to piss-poor maintenance and safety training of weapons that are dangerous even when properly maintained, I would not be surprised if the Black Sea Fleet’s flagship was lost due to a fire that got out of control to the point that weapons began cooking off. Though I’m not sure why the Russian govt thinks this is a better look than admitting the ship got smacked by two anti-ship missiles and the damage was so serious that the crew simply could not save the ship before the weather finished the job.

Can’t help but remind me of a story I once read about a disaster on a Soviet nuclear submarine: the vessel was (?partially/totally?) destroyed by the ship’s cook: he wanted to steam-clean some pots from the galley, so he took them down to the reactor room, and inadvertently opened the wrong steam valve…..

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 15, 2022 • 8:05:35am

re: #230 No Malarkey!

I saw a funny tweet that went like this:
Ukraine: We sunk your battleship!
Russia: No, we sunk it ourselves due to rank incompetence!

Not unlike how we sank the Japanese carrier Taiho: a US submarine torpedoed it, but not fatally, although the hit fractured the aviation fuel tanks.

An under-trained young officer activated the ventilation system, which spread the volatile fumes throughout the ship, whereupon they exploded and finished off the ship.

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Targetpractice  Apr 15, 2022 • 8:08:40am

re: #233 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Not unlike how we sank the Japanese carrier Taiho: a US submarine torpedoed it, but not fatally, but the hit fractured the aviation fuel tanks. An under-trained young officer activated the ventilation system, which spread the volatile fumes throughout the ship, whereupon they exploded and finished off the ship.

Japanese damage control left a lot to be desired. It’s the same reason why the Shinano never even made it to dock to be fitted out, because she got torpedoed enroute and the crew were such raw rookies that they couldn’t properly handle the flooding before it overwhelmed the ship.

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 15, 2022 • 8:09:18am

re: #233 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Not unlike how we sank the Japanese carrier Taiho: a US submarine torpedoed it, but not fatally, but the hit fractured the aviation fuel tanks. An under-trained young officer activated the ventilation system, which spread the volatile fumes throughout the ship, whereupon they exploded and finished off the ship.

Contrast the Americans on the Yorktown, who almost saved the ship with their damage-control efforts before a Japanese sub showed up and sank the destroyer carrying the repair crew, further damaging the carrier and causing her to eventually sink.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 15, 2022 • 8:16:28am

re: #235 Dopamine Fish

Contrast the Americans on the Yorktown, who almost saved the ship with their damage-control efforts before a Japanese sub showed up and sank the destroyer carrying the repair crew, further damaging the carrier and causing her to eventually sink.

USN learned a lot from the loss of USS Lexington at the battle of Coral Sea shortly before. Damaged from attacks and aviation fuel vapors eventually reached an electric motor that had been left running. Internal explosion and eventual fires that could not be controlled leading to the loss of the ship.

By the battle of Midway a month later the USN carriers were already instituting a practice of draining the aviation fuel lines and filling them with carbon dioxide gas when expected an attack. Plus also flooding the compartments around the aviation fuel storage with carbon dioxide as well. There are specific books out about the development of USN damage control during the war and how they fairly quickly analyzed damage to ships and loss of ships to see what could be done to prevent further losses.

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 15, 2022 • 8:18:26am

re: #236 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

When reading through a history of the war in the Pacific, it is striking how quickly the US Navy developed highly effective damage control techniques. They kept their ships in the war as long as they could manage, making the Japanese work very hard and expend a lot of munitions (and lose a lot of lives) only to take one ship out of action for a week.

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Targetpractice  Apr 15, 2022 • 8:18:51am

re: #235 Dopamine Fish

Contrast the Americans on the Yorktown, who almost saved the ship with their damage-control efforts before a Japanese sub showed up and sank the destroyer carrying the repair crew, further damaging the carrier and causing her to eventually sink.

Hell, the fact that Yorktown was not only repaired well enough to limp back home after the Battle of the Coral Sea, but put back to sea in only 72 hours was a damned miracle. The reason that the Japanese believed they’d sunk her the first time? They were convinced that if their own sailors could not have saved a ship that badly damaged, there was no way the Americans could have done it and got her back to sea so quickly. When their pilots reported seeing her during Midway, their commanders were sure that it had to be either a totally unknown ship or that their pilots were mistaken.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 15, 2022 • 8:19:01am

re: #101 EPR-radar

I’m a believer in the historical approach to understanding US politics. IMO the root cause of the GOP’s degeneration is the determination made by some rich Republicans in the 1920s that the boom times would last forever, and as a result their taxes would eventually go to zero.

The crash of 1929 followed by the election of FDR in 1932 and the start of the New Deal era was the end of that dream, and senior Republicans settled into a state of eternal and bitter resentment vs. FDR, the New Deal, Democrats and all their works.

This has persisted unchanged to this day. The civil rights realignment enabled Republicans to add resentful racists to their big tent coalition of the resentful, and this was vital for a party determined to seek votes without ever delivering any policy that actually helped the vast majority of their voters.

Everything since then — from Goldwater to Nixon to Reagan to Gingrich to W Bush to Trump — has just been filling in the details of this wretched outline.

And they’ve added the anti-abortion crowd to that base; all of which gives them a large enough coalition, given the structure of our Constitution, to potentially get power and hold it indefinitely, especially with the widespread voter disenfranchisement and suppression they’ve instituted everywhere they are in power.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 15, 2022 • 8:21:59am

re: #101 EPR-radar

This has persisted unchanged to this day. The civil rights realignment enabled Republicans to add resentful racists to their big tent coalition of the resentful, and this was vital for a party determined to seek votes without ever delivering any policy that actually helped the vast majority of their voters.

An old college buddy of mine who is now a staunch Log Cabin Republican has told me repeatedly that his entire political agenda is about overturning the New Deal.

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 15, 2022 • 8:22:56am

re: #238 Targetpractice

Hell, the fact that Yorktown was not only repaired well enough to limp back home after the Battle of the Coral Sea, but put back to see in only 72 hours was a damned miracle. The reason that the Japanese believed they’d sunk her the first time? They were convinced that if their own sailors could not have saved a ship that badly damaged, there was no way the Americans could have done it and got her back to sea so quickly. When their pilots reported seeing her during Midway, their commanders were sure that it had to be either a totally unknown ship or that their pilots were mistaken.

And indeed, the repairs performed during the Battle of Midway were so effective that the Japanese hit her twice, believing they had sunk her during the first engagement, and the second strike believed they were hitting the Enterprise.

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Jay C  Apr 15, 2022 • 8:23:15am

Wordle 300 5/6

🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩
🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩
🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I will admit I relied on Lizards’ clues today for my initial guess: but of course, given the number of words which might fit, I feel lucky to have gotten it in five.

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Targetpractice  Apr 15, 2022 • 8:25:53am

re: #241 Dopamine Fish

And indeed, the repairs performed during the Battle of Midway were so effective that the Japanese hit her twice, believing they had sunk her during the first engagement, and the second strike believed they were hitting the Enterprise.

“The Grey Ghost,” the ship that the Japanese reported having sunk three times before war’s end. The fact that she got turned into razor blades is a fuckin’ tragedy, she deserved better than that.

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 15, 2022 • 8:27:02am

re: #76 Hecuba’s daughter

wordling

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4/6. Too many possibilities, too many wrong guesses.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 15, 2022 • 8:28:46am

re: #238 Targetpractice

Hell, the fact that Yorktown was not only repaired well enough to limp back home after the Battle of the Coral Sea, but put back to sea in only 72 hours was a damned miracle. The reason that the Japanese believed they’d sunk her the first time? They were convinced that if their own sailors could not have saved a ship that badly damaged, there was no way the Americans could have done it and got her back to sea so quickly. When their pilots reported seeing her during Midway, their commanders were sure that it had to be either a totally unknown ship or that their pilots were mistaken.

Japanese thought that they’d sunk/crippled at least two USN carriers with their two strikes off of Hiryu (after losing three carriers). In fact they hit the Yorktown with both strikes - the first inflicting bomb hits and the second with two torpedoes. That the fires were out and the Yorktown was steaming at 20kts made them think the second strike was hitting a different carrier.

The early part of the Pacific war (Dec 41 to early 43) the Japanese and Allies were to a large degree trading off ships 1-to-1. The Allies losing more battleships and cruisers while the Japanese were losing more destroyers. However, the Japanese thought they were winning the war of attrition since they thought they’d sunk 3-4 times as many Allied ships as they’d thought.* And then, in mid-1943 the naval construction started by the United States in 1940-41 starts to finish working up and appear in operations. The Essex-class carriers and also all the needed supporting cruisers, destroyers, and logistics ships to support the upcoming drive across the Pacific. Plus lots more good submarines (Gato- and soon Balao-class) with now working torpedoes to make life miserable for the Japanese merchant fleet.

* - There is a remark made by a Japanese admiral (Ugaki’s diary maybe) about how the USN keeps reusing ship names in an attempt to hide their losses.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 15, 2022 • 8:31:08am

The history stuff above is pretty fresh in my memory since I am currently reading Lundstrom’s _Black Shoe Carrier Admiral_ about Adm Fletcher during the time he was commanding carrier task forces (Coral Sea, Midway, part of the Solomon’s Campaign).

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steve_davis  Apr 15, 2022 • 8:36:51am

re: #200 Punish Domestic Terrorists

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Video

people in cars cutting other people off, even in 1906.

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A Cranky One  Apr 15, 2022 • 8:37:26am

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steve_davis  Apr 15, 2022 • 8:39:33am

re: #200 Punish Domestic Terrorists

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Video

i know it’s clicheic, but just the realization that every single person in that film is now dead, from oldest to youngest, is a little sobering to me.

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wrenchwench  Apr 15, 2022 • 8:40:11am

re: #248 A Cranky One

Are the pezes consecrated?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 15, 2022 • 8:46:30am

re: #250 wrenchwench

Are the pezes consecrated?

Pez-us Christ!

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 15, 2022 • 8:46:34am

re: #248 A Cranky One

That’s an…interesting way to take communion.

/

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Jay C  Apr 15, 2022 • 8:51:55am

re: #252 Eclectic Cyborg

That’s an…interesting way to take communion.

/

The wood-grain on the body of the dispenser is a nice touch..

😵

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darthstar  Apr 15, 2022 • 8:53:00am

re: #223 Ming5000

I’m guessing the crew members who were rescued by Turkey are asking that they be reported as missing at sea and given a shot at moving to a warm climate somewhere to reinvent themselves.

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A Cranky One  Apr 15, 2022 • 8:53:05am

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 15, 2022 • 8:56:21am

re: #240 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

An old college buddy of mine who is now a staunch Log Cabin Republican has told me repeatedly that his entire political agenda is about overturning the New Deal.

“Buddy we could use a man like Hoiboit Hoover again…those were the days!”

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darthstar  Apr 15, 2022 • 8:56:57am

Friday

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 15, 2022 • 8:58:03am

I was a Presbyterian, so our Communion consisted of squares of Wonder Bread and thimbles of Welch’s Grape Juice. Jesus on the cheap and bland.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 15, 2022 • 8:59:26am

re: #249 steve_davis

i know it’s clicheic, but just the realization that every single person in that film is now dead, from oldest to youngest, is a little sobering to me.

Most of the voices you hear on TV laugh tracks were recorded in the 1950’s, so whenever you tune in a sitcom, you are listening to dead people laughing

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 15, 2022 • 9:00:32am

re: #256 Barefoot Grin

“Buddy we could use a man like Hoiboit Hoover again…those were the days!”

My buddy was the son of liberal 1960’s college psychology and sociology professors, so I guess going full-on Republican was his form of rebellion.

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 15, 2022 • 9:02:04am
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danarchy  Apr 15, 2022 • 9:03:25am

re: #255 A Cranky One

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I was told that making a big deal of leaving can actually raise your dogs anxiety level, so it is best to just leave without fanfare.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 15, 2022 • 9:14:25am

re: #262 danarchy

I was told that making a big deal of leaving can actually raise your dogs anxiety level, so it is best to just leave without fanfare.

Dogs are not kids, and for all those who want to treat them that way, you are making a mistake.

As much as you love them, recall that they are not family; they are members of your pack, and you have to be the Alpha. And act like alpha.

You initiate contact, you determine who is the first out the door. You determine when and where they may eat, sit and sleep and where they may not.

If you fail to fulfill the role of Alpha, then your dogs feel psychologically compelled to assume it, and that can lead to all sorts of problems.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 15, 2022 • 9:28:12am

re: #259 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Most of the voices you hear on TV laugh tracks were recorded in the 1950’s, so whenever you tune in a sitcom, you are listening to dead people laughing

You just had to ruin my Friday, didn’t you?

/

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 15, 2022 • 9:30:04am

re: #264 Eclectic Cyborg

You just had to ruin my Friday, didn’t you?

/

I hear dead people every day…

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 15, 2022 • 9:30:08am

re: #263 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Dogs are not kids, and for all those who want to treat them that way, you are making a mistake.

As much as you love them, recall that they are not family; they are members of your pack, and you have to be the Alpha. And act like alpha.

You initiate contact, you determine who is the first out the door. You determine when and where they may eat, sit and sleep and where they may not.

If you fail to fulfill the role of Alpha, then your dogs feel psychologically compelled to assume it, and that is what leads to all sorts of problems.

I’ll stick with cats, where there’s never any doubt about who is in charge.

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 15, 2022 • 9:30:22am

I’m going to miss tomorrow’s Wordle because of Passover. Does this mean I lose all my stats?

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Dangerman  Apr 15, 2022 • 9:31:40am

follow up on pineapple (and onion) pizza

it was…interesting.
not objectionable or offensive
a lot like that scene from Stripes when the lid on the chest at the foot of the bed opens:
“Well that was interesting”

for me, it is not the kind of flavor i look for when i eat pizza

no battle lines drawn. we are all still talking to each other.

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 15, 2022 • 9:32:38am

re: #156 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The other day I saw three C-130’s flying over low in close formation. They like to practice flying under the radar here in the Rhine valley.

They do that around here in my hometown. Come in loud and low over the corn/soybean fields outside of town, turn around and head back over the reservoir and back into Ohio to their base at Youngstown Air Reserve Station.

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Dangerman  Apr 15, 2022 • 9:32:53am

re: #267 The Pie Overlord!

I’m going to miss tomorrow’s Wordle because of Passover. Does this mean I lose all my stats?

think of it as cleaning out another cabinet

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 15, 2022 • 9:33:18am

Sure, Jan.

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 15, 2022 • 9:36:36am

re: #271 Eclectic Cyborg

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Sure, Jan.

Still feels like there’s still some blood to be wrung from the Truth Social stone and doesn’t want to scare away any remaining marks.

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 15, 2022 • 9:36:57am

re: #267 The Pie Overlord!

I’m going to miss tomorrow’s Wordle because of Passover. Does this mean I lose all my stats?

It means you lose your streak. I retired at 100% success when I broke my streak on a fun Saturday about a month ago when I didn’t even think about Wordle.

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Jay C  Apr 15, 2022 • 9:37:07am

re: #267 The Pie Overlord!

I’m going to miss tomorrow’s Wordle because of Passover. Does this mean I lose all my stats?

If it’s through the NYT, I think not: though you will lose your “streak”

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A Cranky One  Apr 15, 2022 • 9:44:17am

Was there a time anomaly? We’re discussing streaking?

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 15, 2022 • 9:47:27am
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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Apr 15, 2022 • 9:55:52am

re: #267 The Pie Overlord!

I’m going to miss tomorrow’s Wordle because of Passover. Does this mean I lose all my stats?

I copied all of mine, just in case.

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 15, 2022 • 10:00:35am

Vaxed and boosted, but with lungs ruined from military burn pits.

Daddy’s ‘in the Clouds’ as COVID Stole Marine’s Family Dreams (The Daily Beast)

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Captain Magic  Apr 15, 2022 • 10:02:15am

re: #266 Punish Domestic Terrorists

I’ll stick with cats, where there’s never any doubt about who is in charge.

Dogs have masters, cats have staff.

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jaunte  Apr 15, 2022 • 10:03:04am

A wild turkey just walked up the driveway. My phone was inside charging or I could have shot a close-up.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 15, 2022 • 10:06:45am

re: #276 Dopamine Fish

It bothers me when I hear young employees talk about work/life balance at an early stage of their lives. Work your butt off at the beginning, make money, save it and then later in life aim for work/life balance as you will need it with kids and partners etc. this is my POV.

Because fuck single people. Those selfish assholes don’t need work / life balance.

Admittedly, I did follow the track he mentions, but it wasn’t really by choice. Coming out of college I wasn’t able to get a job in my field and so I ended up working a variety of jobs (most that paid less than a living wage). When I finally got jobs that earned a little more money, I worked odd hours because I just couldn’t find a 9 - 5 that paid what I needed it to.

In addition to the odd hours, I worked a shit ton of overtime to help keep my bills paid and my family looked after. As a result, I went years missing out on birthdays, anniversaries, cookouts, day trips, visits with friends, etc. because I was at work all the time.

It wasn’t until just before my 37th birthday that I landed a good job that paid well AND gave me weekends and holidays off. It’s been a very welcome change, I just wish it hadn’t taken me so long to get here.

The problem is not young employees wanting a work/life balance, it’s companies who think young employees do not deserve a work/life balance by default and it is something that has to be earned by putting up with years of bullshit first.

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 15, 2022 • 10:14:03am

re: #281 Eclectic Cyborg

The problem is not young employees wanting a work/life balance, it’s companies who think young employees do not deserve a work/life balance by default and it is something that has to be earned by putting up with years of bullshit first.

Yes, exactly. The one thing we do a very poor job of teaching our young people - something I intend on teaching both my kids as they get older - is that they are never obligated to do anything for free. If your job is asking you to work unpaid overtime as a salaried employee, tell them to fuck off, you’re paid for 40 hours and you will work 40 hours. It sounds harsh and self-centered to say that, and a lot of young employees shy away from that because they are eager to please and don’t want to be seen as demanding, but your job isn’t worth your life. No job is. The company doesn’t care about you; your boss might, but the company, as an entity, can replace you - and will in a heartbeat, if they so choose.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 15, 2022 • 10:16:11am

re: #281 Eclectic Cyborg

The problem is not young employees wanting a work/life balance, it’s companies who think young employees do not deserve a work/life balance by default and it is something that has to be earned by putting up with years of bullshit first.

If you are single and want to improve your savings or position by working hard, then that is an admirable option, but the point is, an option.

Somebody pointed out that during the Industrial Revolution fathers did not complain about working their asses off for their families, because if they did not, then everybody would go homeless and probably starve.

Because our society still believes that poor people don’t deserve any better.

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Dangerman  Apr 15, 2022 • 10:17:37am

re: #281 Eclectic Cyborg

…

The problem is not young employees wanting a work/life balance, it’s companies who think young employees do not deserve a work/life balance by default and it is something that has to be earned by putting up with years of bullshit first.

this right here

it’s another way of saying you should be a slave and be happy about it.
that some company deigned to give you a job is reward enough.
that they’re not willing to pay you what you’re worth (salary, perks, hours and limits on your non-company time access).
and yet you should still give more to the company than you’re getting.

go into business for yourself, work as hard as you want / need to.
work for somebody else you work the deal you negotiated and agreed to. no more.
if you don’t like the deal they offer, don’t take the job.

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 15, 2022 • 10:24:13am

We were fools to doubt the Jewish space laser.

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Dangerman  Apr 15, 2022 • 10:31:51am

re: #285 Punish Domestic Terrorists

We were fools to doubt the Jewish space laser.

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Wait for it:
If anyone could get the cost down…..

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danarchy  Apr 15, 2022 • 10:32:34am

re: #282 Dopamine Fish

Yes, exactly. The one thing we do a very poor job of teaching our young people - something I intend on teaching both my kids as they get older - is that they are never obligated to do anything for free. If your job is asking you to work unpaid overtime as a salaried employee, tell them to fuck off, you’re paid for 40 hours and you will work 40 hours. It sounds harsh and self-centered to say that, and a lot of young employees shy away from that because they are eager to please and don’t want to be seen as demanding, but your job isn’t worth your life. No job is. The company doesn’t care about you; your boss might, but the company, as an entity, can replace you - and will in a heartbeat, if they so choose.

When I was a salaried employee I never thought of it as I was being paid to work 40 hours and then they could fuck off. I was being paid to get a job done. If that job took more than 40 hours then so be it, but also if it only took 30 hours then I was perfectly fine claiming the other 10 hours as my own and if the company didn’t like it we could change the job description and renegotiate my salary.

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 15, 2022 • 10:39:15am

Sunflower

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 15, 2022 • 10:43:20am

re: #282 Dopamine Fish

Yes, exactly. The one thing we do a very poor job of teaching our young people - something I intend on teaching both my kids as they get older - is that they are never obligated to do anything for free. If your job is asking you to work unpaid overtime as a salaried employee, tell them to fuck off, you’re paid for 40 hours and you will work 40 hours. It sounds harsh and self-centered to say that, and a lot of young employees shy away from that because they are eager to please and don’t want to be seen as demanding, but your job isn’t worth your life. No job is. The company doesn’t care about you; your boss might, but the company, as an entity, can replace you - and will in a heartbeat, if they so choose.

Most of us didn’t have the financial independence to say good-bye to an existing job that provides health insurance, sick time, vacations, and perhaps the opportunity for advancement. Try getting a new job when your previous employer won’t give you a good reference. Many of us don’t enjoy a new job search. It certainly went with the territory to expect longer than 40 hours per week on a routine basis in my profession — but, of course, much of that depends on your career.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 15, 2022 • 10:51:44am

re: #287 danarchy

When I was a salaried employee I never thought of it as I was being paid to work 40 hours and then they could fuck off. I was being paid to get a job done. If that job took more than 40 hours then so be it, but also if it only took 30 hours then I was perfectly fine claiming the other 10 hours as my own and if the company didn’t like it we could change the job description and renegotiate my salary.

When working as a government contractor (and paid a salary by the contracting firm) there was a manager who railed at the contractors once or twice about not taking lunch only from 12 to 1, not being at their desks at 8am promptly and essentially having a stick up his ass about us being on the clock (semi-surprised he didn’t start using punch cards… j/k). What he got in response was an informal equivalent of a union work slow-down. We were there from 8 to 5. We did lunch from 12 to 1. However, if we were there before 8 we did not do any work until 8. At 5pm we put down whatever we were doing, regarding of the completeness of the task and went home. If the manager wanted work drones, he got work drones.

I don’t know how the guy ended up since I relocated out of D.C. back to western PA before he was gone. Though I expect he wasn’t going to last very long either since the government employees (Civil Service, and some with a pretty high GS-level) were treated the same way and had pretty much reacted the way we had as well.


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